alright, so i'm bored...like...every single day. so if anybody else out there has AIM (and is willing to waste ridiculous amounts of conversation on me), let me know. my screenname is ficklevillain. friend me up, or let me know your screenname and i'll friend you, yeah? also, if you don't have AIM, but utilize some other badass messaging program and would be willing to keep me entertained, let me know. maybe i'll just have to download it.  :o)

rock on. that is all.

ganked from the divine countessmary-san, who always has the best memes...

(but let's please keep in mind that i am an ipod newbie. i thank you.)

ipod music meme

how many songs total: 1685
how many hours or days of music: 4 days
most recently added: "juno" soundtrack

most recently played: "second to last" by new found glory

most played (in itunes, which i don't use much, not on my ipod):
1. "delayed reaction" by bryan ellis (my little brother! woot!): 26
2. "hide and seek" by imogen heap: 13
3. "song for a winter's night" by sarah mclachlan: 11
4. "hate (i really don't like you)" by plain white t's: 10
5. "coin-operated boy" by the dresden dolls: 9

sort by song title:
first song: "above ground" by norah jones
last song: "19911" by passage

sort by time:
shortest song: "kuasehfgaiurgh" - film dialogue from "snatch" (0:05)
longest song: "end game" by anthony stewart head and george sarah (12:56)

sort by album:
first album: "across the universe" soundtrack
last album: "20th century masters: the millennium collection: best of oingo boingo"
first song that comes up on shuffle: "saturn" by stevie wonder

search the following and state how many songs come up:
death: 31
life: 37
love: 96
hate: 23
you: 149
sex: 1

i'm feeling a bit: lazy

my boyfriend of nearly four years...the only guy i've ever dated (and a guy who has only ever dated me)...broke up with me today.

nobody cheated. nobody was angry. nobody was abusive.
we were giggling over frosties and fries yesterday afternoon.

he just doesn't want to date me anymore.

and since neither of us can afford our apartment individually, we are stuck living together in the same apartment.
which has only a kitchen, a bathroom, and a bedroom.
no living room.
no couch.
so we're stuck in the same bed together as well.

awkward. party of two.

also, while i am a walking zombie with a puffy-paint face, devastated and torn in a manner i have only ever imagined in nightmares...
he seems fine.
he's out in the backyard right now, with all of his friends (who live in the same building as us), bbq-ing and drinking beer.

broken-hearted. party of one.

i feel like i'm drowning.

i could use some cheering up, if anyone's around.

can't take calls, since i'm at work. but i'm on yim right now. ficklevillain. ping me?

thanks.

i'm feeling a bit: sad

comment with your answers.
1. do you have a tattoo?
2. how old are you?
3. are you single or taken?
4. do you eat with your hands or utensils?
5. do you dream in color?
6. have you ever seen a corpse?
7. hipsters or hillbillies?
8. how did we meet?
9. what's your philosophy on life and death?
10. if you could do anything with me, and have no one know, what would it be?
11. do you trust the police?
12. do you like musicals?
13. what is your fondest memory of me?
14. if you could change anything about yourself, what would it be?
15. would you cheat?
16. what are you wearing?
17. have you ever peed in a pool?
18. would you hide evidence for me if i asked you to?
19. if i only had one day to live, what would we do together?
20. which do you prefer - short or long hair?
21. what's your favorite day of the week?
22. what's your favorite color?
23. if you could bring back anyone that has passed, who would it be?
24. tell me one interesting/odd fact about you?
25. what was your first impression of me?
26. have you ever done drugs?
27. will you post this so I can fill it out for you?

i couldn't help myself. i was curious. ganked from countessmary.

1. go to career cruising.
2. put in username: nycareers, password: landmark.
3. answer their "career matchmaker" questions.
4. post the top fifteen results.

1. special effects technician
2. actor
3. film and tv crew
4. comedian
5. critic
6. casting director
7. print journalist
8. musician
9. composer
10. market research analyst
11. translator
12. communications specialist
13. writer
14. magician
15. dancer

Result #3

Albus Dumbledore tries to like you, but doesn't trust something about you. Lord Voldemort wishes you were on his side. Minerva McGonagall thinks you are very talented. Severus Snape is secretly in love with you. Rubeus Hagrid tries to like you but doesn't really understand you. Horace Slughorn thinks you are all right. Sirius Black hates you and doesn't understand why Remus likes you. Remus Lupin worships the ground you walk on and would do anything to get you to love him back. Bill Weasley thinks of you as a best friend. Lucius Malfoy doesn't understand why Voldemort likes you. Bellatrix Lestrange wants to have you killed. Peter Pettigrew avoids you at all costs.

Take this quiz!

i'm feeling a bit: amused

okay. if you are a giant potternerd like myself (which most of my friends are), then i believe you may find this link of interest.

http://www.universalorlando.com/harrypotter/

a harry potter theme park in universal orlando! SWEET! i'm gonna start saving up now, because i'm SO there when it opens.

i'm feeling a bit: ecstatic

(appropriately ganked from mary-san.)

( ooh, who could i be??? )

i'm feeling a bit: cheerful

once again, i have no cool banners or pictures or icons or fancy scrolling words, but happy birthday anyway. you rock socks off. you are absolutely one of my favorite people in the entire world, and i hardly ever manage to stop talking about you. you'd better hang out with a bunch of your friends tonight, get just ridiculously drunk, possibly even sing karaoke, and enjoy yourself to illogical standards. happy birthday, dahling.

LOVE FOR MARY!

i'm feeling a bit: happy

alright, so i created a community about a million years ago called salem_institute. it's sort of an RPG thing. it's supposed to be based at the Salem Witches' Institute in (duh) Salem, so all of the characters will be original. but instead of writing short fics or drabbles describing actions and reactions, the idea is just to post the way you normally would, diary-style, but in character. you get what i mean? anyways, i never really got it up and running, but now that i'm all unemployed, i figured this would be the best time to do it!

it looks like crap right now, which sucks. i'm going to upgrade it to a paid account either tomorrow or the day after, but i don't know how to fancypants up a journal, or even how to create pictures or banners or icons or anything like that. so i was wondering if someone would be able (and possibly even willing) to help me out with that.

AND, i want to know if anyone wants to sign up? once i get it all fancied up and nice-looking, i'm going to work out class schedules and shit like that, and then i'm going to post invites all over lj. but i wanted to ask you guys first. i know that cee_m and accio_malfoy signed up way back when, but i don't want to assume that they're still in. so clean slate! anyone want to join? student or staff, whatever you want! even better, does anyone know of anyone else who might want to join?

let me know! thanks, guys.

i'm feeling a bit: hopeful

The Salem Witches' Institute is an RPF community. Role-playing fiction. You register as a student (or as a staff member, but you have to contact the Headmistress about joining the faculty) and are Sorted into houses. The houses are Morgenel, Dyronzian, Pendelor, and Baylroon. Once the term starts, general information (quidditch sign-ups and tryouts, dorm placements, class schedules, etc.) will be posted.

The general idea is that, here in the states, witches and wizards are just as technologically savvy as muggles. In keeping with the times, the Institute has created an online forum for students and faculty in interact with each other. So, rather than writing fics or drabbles detailing actions and reactions, you will simply post online in character. Sort of like a magical journal or diary, but online. It's the same thing you do every day, but in character. As such, all students and faculty will be able to converse with each other by commenting, responding, friending, and *not* friending.

To keep momentum up, we will randomly inform you of events that are coming up (dances, exams, quidditch matches, field trips, etc.), so that you can all respond accordingly. The faculty will also post random extra credit assignments that you may, or may not, respond to for house points.

House points will be awarded by staff *only*. If a staff member feels that a post has been written particularly well, or if they think a line is funny, or compelling, or intelligent, if they like a character, or if they're just in a good mood, you may receive points.

House points will be taken away if you piss us off. OT posts that have not been cleared, flaming, and just plain bastardism will be deleted, and points will be deducted accordingly.

Profanity, sexual situations, etc. are fine (and generally encouraged, lol). We understand that such things are part of life, and we will not criticize you for realism, but we expect you to keep it all in character. If you're a first-year, you'd damn well better not be having gratuitous sex already. We also ask that you note if a post has an R or NC-17 rating before the cut-away.

Unless a post is very short (less than five or six lines), please remember to post behind a cut-away. It will only take up space otherwise.

This is *not* Hogwarts! Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, Severus Snape, Oliver Wood, Hermione Granger, Ginny Weasley, and Albus Dumbledore are not at this school, nor have they ever been here. You are not related to any of them, you are not friends with them, they have nothing to do with this school, except a very distant relation through common industry. Voldemort is not even a problem for us. Therefore, you have free reign to do as you like with the Potterverse, so long as you leave Potter out of it. Eventually, once the community is well under way, we will consider working them into the community (as sort of a penpals crossover), but it simply depends on how things pick up.

Also, please keep in mind that Mary Sues will be killed off. Don't test us on this.

If you have a question for Headmistress Dollis, or any of the other staff, simply post to their attention and they will respond as soon as possible.

As soon as we get a dozen or so students to kick off with, the first term will begin. So register quickly and tell all of your friends! Have fun, kids.

i'm feeling a bit: optimistic

i don't have any clever little videos, or scrolling text, or cute pictures. but i love you a million. you're one of the most awesome people i've ever met in my life, and there's so much about you that i admire, it's actually become moderately ridiculous. have an awesome birthday, sweets. you totally deserve it.

LOVE FOR FEEN!

i'm feeling a bit: happy

ruthlessly ganked from my beloved mary. woot!

http://www.goldencompassmovie.com/?77942

i'm feeling a bit: geeky

alright. so, a few updates. i shall cut to them, so that you may skip what bores you, and read only what interests you. that's how much i love you guys.

( unemployment )

( snow white room )

( the illusionist vs the prestige )

alright. and, last but not least, if anyone can tell me what the subject line of this post means, i will give you a present. so think hard.

i'm feeling a bit: tired

ganked from cee_m, like all good things are.

if you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don't speak often, please post a comment with a memory of you and me. it can be anything you want - good or bad. when you're finished, post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or mortified) about what people remember about you.

i'm feeling a bit: nostalgic

easily the single most ridiculous thing i have ever seen. today. starts out kinda slow, but you really do have to watch it all the way through to get the full effect. just some good old-fashioned, harry potter-based, bro-tastically funny shit. enjoy.



thank you for giving me the opportunity to completely waste a good five minutes of your life. alas, you will never get it back. just forgive me and move on. that is all.

i'm feeling a bit: silly

so i've finally decided to take mary's brilliant advice. i've wanted to do one of these damn tables for a while, but i'm gonna start off on my own to begin with. i just don't have the time to devote to it that i'd like, and i don't want to get off track and fall behind. once i've got it well under way, and i've really worked out how to get through it, i'll join up with a community. i'll link to each drabble separately as i write them, but for now, here's the table. i've decided to write for andromeda (black) tonks. here's hoping it doesn't completely suck.

( andromeda tonks...reservation for one hundred...your table is ready. )

so i finally get all caught up on all of my bills, i set a budget schedule for myself for the next YEAR, and what happens? i lose my job. i have been completely jobless since last friday. i've already received my last paycheck, which i need for next month's rent, and that's it. nothing else. in the last four days, i have sent out upwards of thirty to forty resumes, and i haven't heard back from a single fucking person. my temp services (three...i have THREE) have nothing for me, and i don't know what to do. i'm THIS close to applying for a bartending trainee position, which is ridiculous, because it pays minimum wage, and i don't even DRINK. not to mention the fact that there's no guarantee i'll even get it. i'm SO about to lose it, it's not even funny. i'd send out a mass email asking for help, but i don't know that many people, and i'm pretty sure none of my friends have any secret connections down here in san diego, so i'm just screwed. and not in the good way. i don't know what to do anymore. dammit.