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Name: AJ
Interests: drawing, horseback riding, website design, website development, website maintenance, reading (bookworm), writing, role playing, roll playing, astronomy (but not astrology), geology, astrogeology
Expertise: HTML, drawing, writing, webpage design
Occupation: Student
Industry: Science - Geology
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Member Since:
12/31/2003
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| I set up a new layout so that it would match the new layout of my main site. I was thinking of doing a random, changing banner, but I haven't collected together enough random images for it yet, so for now it will remain Withnail & I. No title. My personal website doesn't have a title anyways, so I suppose it doesn't matter particularly. Besides, it matches my icon. My default one at any rate. Hmm.
Recently realised that xanga gives you the option of changing your username. A wonderful thing, that--I thought I could finally change my username to something I'd actually be able to remember. This one now I only chose because I was new to blogs and my sister had gone through several accounts with different usernames already, as she felt the need to change them so often. I decided that usernames must be an important thing in the "blogging" community. Not that I dislike the username I chose--"Lost in the Wind" sounds nice, but I should have followed her example of adding ten bloody Xs in there.
I'd much rather have 'supermoon10'. That's what I use on ninety percent of the websites I go on. Jeez.
Watching something instead of reading this time around. I've been very absently working on the Due South series. I vaguely remember it in my early years (frankly, I only remember the compass in the opening credits and the Mounty with a White Wolf image), and it has me somewhat interested. Fraser's mannerisms (the way in which he holds himself, less so the way he speaks) remind me quite a bit of how Murdoch's portrayed in the Murdoch Mysteries series. And of course, in that, Jasper was meant to be portrayed as quite similar in mannerisms to Murdoch (to show their shared blood) and thus Fraser reminds me of Jasper and it makes me chuckle.
Other new things I've watched lately was the whole of the Hornblower miniseries (all eight movies), in which I discovered that Aaric is an impossible fanboy and owns a boxset. Other than that, I'm still about as obsessed as ever with Doctor Who. Jon goddamn Pertwee.
Still majoring in geology--taking archaeology, climatology and precalculus this semester. Much fun to be had. So many term projects and papers to be written. | | |
| Since my last post a few things have happened.
My macintosh laptop broke the very next day that I got it/posted about it. I was assured that it wasn't anything I did (and I was very sad to lose the iTunes full of classical music), and the laptop was returned to my grandparents. I don't know if they are attempting to fix it (I have since lost hope in that) or are/have simply tossed it. However, about three days ago I bought a new laptop--PC, as I went to pick one out with my father and thus I would have only been able to buy a macintosh over his dead body. Which was all right, as they are very pricey.
I have a VAIO NW(?) laptop--fifteen inch HD screen, I believe, in a dusty grey pink red colour. I am liking it thus far, although Vista took some getting used to. There also seems to be something wrong with the spellchecker, as it has failed to spellcheck in any browser I use, and will not spell check automatically in Word.
I read a bit over my short break between my summer and fall semester (although I didn't read much), however I have put the book down in favour of my textbooks. Archaeology I have been reading on off because my teacher threatened to test on material not covered in lectures and only in the book. To which I protest--why am I attending your class if you are not going to teach the information? The book should be a supplement.
It's an all right read. There was a whole section on Feminist Archaeology that just dragged on and on though.
Hmm... Not much other than that. It's only ten fourty at night, but I'm incredibly tired because of all these early morning classes. On top of that, I have been suffering from crippling insomnia. I cannot fall asleep, and when I finally do, I an unable to stay asleep.
Good night for now. | | |
| Well, I sure haven't posted in HERE for a while. And this isn't going to be much of an update, because I have a class to get to soon anyways.
But I got a laptop. Granted, it's a macintosh, and I'm very much a PC kind of person, but that's not to say I don't have any experience with macintoshes. My grandparents own ONLY macs, and so that's what I use whenever I visit them. In fact, this mac was a present from them. It's their old mac laptop, because I'm assuming they got a new one. And by 'old' I mean, 'two years old'. Oh no, that's a lot in Computer Years, folks.
This reminds me of the days in elementary school, where we lived off of those old black and white macs. Those were the days. I miss those macs. They were a hoot.
Anyways, I guess that's it. I haven't been reading any of my books lately, because every time I pick one up, I feel guilty that I'm reading a novel instead of my textbooks. I don't want to fall behind in class--I already am, a bit; I haven't been working on my term lab project in marine geology. I need to scan a whole lot of bathymetry maps. And a few hundred pages of sources I'm going to use. The teacher makes us photocopy every page we use from a source. It's a little insane if you don't keep track of every exact word you use, because then you have to photocopy a hundred plus pages because you're sure you used a few words from each.
So I'm still working on Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, as well as the LibraryThing Early Reviewers book that I FINALLY GOT. But I haven't been too worried about finishing that one, because by the time I got it, it was way past the due date anyways. So I can take my sweet, sweet time now.
But the book I've been reading the MOST lately, is a little book of poetry by Oscar Wilde. Just when I'm bored, I tend to carry it around with me. | | |
| I've finished it! A Student of Weather. Huzzah! No more school-related-readings for me! ...At least until next semester. So once I finished it, I started to like it again. I read the last sentence, and tilted my head slightly to one side, gaining a thoughtfully pensive expression, staring skyward. And now, I can tuck the book away in my bookcase, never to be seen again. ...At least until I need it for a class discussion. I still, for some crazy reason, haven't gotten the book I won as a Early Reviewer on LibraryThing. It's long since past the day I was supposed to review it by, so I'm a little upset, because if you don't do it by the deadline, it hurts you chances of getting books in the future. I'm really looking forward to reading this book. I seriously hope I get it soon. I should probably deposit that Climate Action bursery I got. What can I fix up and make more green with a hundred bucks? Hm... Could switch my room's light to an LED. Maybe fix my broken window to keep hot/cold airfrom getting in. Decisions, decisions... The readin' of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is still currently on hold. Somewhat. It's seriously too hot to exist outside right now. This is Canadaaaa. I don't like summeerrr. I don't want to work todaaaay. | | |
|  So me and my friend, Luke, have been hanging out quite a lot recently. Mostly because he's moved over to the island. But, since they're still moving their things over, he's visiting almost all the time. I can't get rid of him, god damnit. Naw, just kidding. Anyways, we've been hanging out on this bench near this kiddy park built for this new townhouse complex built right beside my townhouse complex. Long story short, the first or... second time we sat there, around four in the morning, we spotted a teenager in teh top window of one of the houses, on the phone. I guess we were talking too loudly, because he came to the window to look at us. Nonetheless, we waved cheerfully at him. A few days later, or maybe a week, when we were on the bench again, we saw him again (we'd been on the bench a few other times since then, but he hadn't been in the window). Actually, what really happened, was we had been walking over to sit down, and I looked up to see a girl putting her shirt on in the window. THen he walked over, shirtless. So I nudged Luke, and he waved, and I gave him the thumbs up for apparently making out with his girlfriend. Or, who I'm assuming was his girlfriend. He started to point at us and talk to her. Probably saying something along the lines of, "see! These are the weirdos I was telling you about!". They left the window, I think to watch a movie, and didn't return. We were hoping at some point, he would just get curious enough to come down and see who the hell were were/what we wanted. Didn't happen. Ahwell. I wanted to name him Bob, but Luke decided on Steve. Yesterday (actually, the day before yesterday... June 22nd), we decided to sit there with a white board saying "we <3 U". But he wasn't there to see it. So we wandered the streets with it, holding it up to cars. We got honks from a truck, a bus, and many cars, and some grins from the policemen at the policestation we passed. We returned, and he still wasn't in his window, so I got some poster paper and made the sign you see above. It reminded me of why I hate drawing anime so much. We left it there, and the next day, it was gone. In its place? A single pinecone. That he either left, or just so happened fall from a tree after he took the sign. It now resides on top of my monitor. Where it shall stay. A gift, from Steve. | | |
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