I don't sleep well at all.*
Sickle's "Oh dears gods, where did the time go?!?" Post-Points:
Life and Times:
- Italian class picking up a bit. We've actually used the books a few times, and there's been a few minutes of conversation. Useful learnings, we can has!
- I had a job interview yesterday. It was at 9:30 and I was on the train at 8 (although the damn thing was then delayed fifteen minutes). I arrived half an hour early, so I took a coffee and quietly freaked out in the bar's bathroom. Then off to small, one room office and entirety of the company.
I met three employees and the two owners - husband and wife couple - and there's another employee who's being added to the group. So yeah, small. The interview lasted one hour, in which I learned about the company, its history, its latest projects and so forth. I even spoke to two of the employees about what they did. But as for what I was supposed to do, it was pretty vague, basically coming down to literature research (although they hadn't quite thought the literature-is-not-free-access-and-you-need-lots-of-it-to-do-anything aspect) and then modeling everything together so that you could do risk assessment. (Yeah, I didn't quite get it either.)
Anyway, I really don't think that's the road I want to take. I mean, I has learnings! In other thingies! Blargh.
Anyway, the interview took an hour, ending at 10:30, then I waited for the (goddamn son-of-a-tin-can) bus for half an hour, then waited for the train some fifteen or twenty minutes, then took the train for half an hour, then got on the bus and waited for the driver to decide to start his route, then walked some five or six blocks to get to where I usually get off the bus and walked a while from there then snuck into class at 12:20, figured out what we were doing, then during break caught up on correcting the homework and the notes I'd missed. Needless to say, I was dead to the world that afternoon.
- I've been having incredibly anxious dreams - my version of nightmares, in that if I freak out or actively feel fear, it's a nightmare - this past week. I've had dreams where:
a) I was packing my room away and had just finished with books when I realized a had a whole bookshelf full (but how?!? I'd just emptied it!) to pack and there was no way to do so
b) the train to Holandspoor was completely gone and I had no way of getting home
c) on an airplane, writing on the window, then getting off the plane directly onto a bus (the dream's version of an airport) and then riding through the city - Chicago - but I can't find the damn airport because it doesn't exist anymore and I'm going to miss my plane, so I finally go to where the airport used to be and instead find a whole line of people sitting on a bench overlooking a massive lake at night, and my brother is waiting for me because he knew I was flying (even if there's no airport)
d) I've rented a lovely studio and am ready to slump into bed to enjoy my first night there despite it being the early afternoon because I'd been up all night and all day doing things and was exhausted, when in bursts a whole crowd of people who make themselves at home in my room as if it were a cafe, smoking (to which I forcefully declare that there is no goddamn smoking in there) and drinking and eating my food and making a mess. And it turns out that they had a right to be there, or at least claim to - I make a mental note to check the lease, because that shit can't be real, I couldn't have signed knowing that - and they say that since the bar next door doesn't open until later, I am obligated to let them in and use my place as a bar everyday from 3 to 6, that I even have to be home every day to let them in, that my home is basically public property. I felt about as wonderful as you can imagine. And then, to make matters, worse, I then explore and realize that my studio isn't really a studio, but the entrance to - and living room of - a student residence, and those students aren't obligated to host bar patrons, and gah. I was really exceptionally upset with this dream.
The Fandom Life:
- There is a reason I never really got around to watching The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and that reason is that this movie's ending will frickin' rip your heart out after chewing on it thoroughly for over an hour. One review says merely, "Utterly devastating," and damn, that's it in a nutshell.
- I haven't even watched Doctor Who, much less Lost (which, omg, so looking forward to that). Happy (or utterly soul-destroying, whichever) Supernatural finale, y'all!
Links of the Day:
Supernatural:
caffienekitty's Review and Picspam Two Minutes to Midnight
sylvia_bond's Review Two Minutes to Midnight
blackcat333_99's Review and Meta Two Minutes to Midnight
bowtrunkle's Meta Sadism (a.k.a. "Upping the Stakes"): The Heart of Every Drama ; Meta Tension, Conflict, Motivation, and Plot: Why the Story is About Dean and We Do Know Sam
zimshan's Fanvid Kill a Man
devymel12's Fanvid Dean Winchester; Remember the Name
betty_mraz's Icons
e0wyn's Misha and Castiel Icons
highdreams' Icons
iwantpie's Icons
talulababy's Icons
kajmere's Fanmix Letters From the Sky (Sam/Dean) ; Picspam Season 5 Recap
elizah_jane's SPN Cuddle Comment Fic Meme
leonidaslion's Fic Fumbling in the Dark: Piqued (Faith) ; Fic Fumbling in the Dark: Scurrilous (Scarecrow)
haruslex's House Crossover Fic However Improbable (House, Castiel)
TV Guide's Mark Pellegrino (SPOILERY) Interview
Toronto Sun's Jensen Ackles Interview
Lost:
ack_attack's Across the Sea Afterparty, Mini-Recap and Discussion Post ; Finale Party Ideas ; Threadless has a Lost shirt
henrygalelovers' Across the Sea Discussion Post
cleolinda's Across the Sea Discussion Post
lulinha_k's Icons
icequeen3101's Picspam Juliet Burke, In Raibows
meemee_me's Picspams Sayid Jarrah (S1-S6) & Sun and Jin (S1 - S6)
shmyshmy's Picspam Further Instructions
dizzyknee's Pilot Icons ; Picspam Five Reasons to Love Kate Austen
Benry Knows Best: Three Men and a Little Lady
Ashes to Ashes / Life On Mars:
qthewetsprocket's That clip, I do not think it means what we think it means (3x07) ; D'awwww! - Photo of Philip Glenister, Keeley Hawes and John Simm being adorable, and others. ; Finale Theory ; If you're jonesing for a 'depressing as hell' fic, you've come to the right place ; Meta The Secret Life of Gene Hunt ; Squee on Spoiler via Radio 4 ; Random Squee
True Blood:
zimona's Icons
trueblood_lj's flocked Season 3 Promo Poster
Minisode #3: Sookie, Lafayette, Tara
Promo: The Hunt Begins
Human Target:
wptjeh's Episode 20: Victoria and Christopher Chance (a.k.a. Crouching Chance, Hidden Carmine) ; Unofficial Series Renewal
Multifandom:
spittingfish's Icons - Torchwood, Doctor Who, Harry Potter, John Simm, Paul Bettany, Being Human, Other Celebrities
imaginary_lives' Icons - BtVS, Legend of the Seeker
exp0se's Icons - SPN, Leverage, Veronica Mars
ohgollygeedamn's Icons - SPN, Doctor Who, Amazing Grace, Atonement, Moulin Rouge, Becoming Jane, Lord of the Rings
kahesha's Fanvid Ghost Love Score - Supernatural, Battelstar Galactica, Farscape, Dark Angel, NCIS, Jericho, Stargate SG-1
Random:
shutter_island
cleolinda's So basically, if you're a writer, the question you need to sit down and ask yourself is: what are you going to do with your glass of water? - With hilarious examples from different fandoms.
42number's Fanmix Fullmetal Alchemist
theweaselking's Portal Game Now Free ; The Big Picture goes to the mouth of the Mississippi River
lolaangieblack's Dollhouse Icons
queenanthai's boyfriend Karl's healthier Double-Down recipe
wptjeh's Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) Interview
News.BBC's Rare purple frog caught on film - It clucks like a chicken!
Wondermark's Remembering Frank Frazetta
Microsoft's Make music with basic software
Terry Pratchett's Going Postal Film Trailer
ZOMGitsCriss' Are we flucked? On overpopulation
Neromon's The Hung Parliament In 3 Minutes ; Alex Reads Twilight, Chap. 14
* Hello Saferide, "I Don't Sleep Well"
Life and Times:
- Italian class picking up a bit. We've actually used the books a few times, and there's been a few minutes of conversation. Useful learnings, we can has!
- I had a job interview yesterday. It was at 9:30 and I was on the train at 8 (although the damn thing was then delayed fifteen minutes). I arrived half an hour early, so I took a coffee and quietly freaked out in the bar's bathroom. Then off to small, one room office and entirety of the company.
I met three employees and the two owners - husband and wife couple - and there's another employee who's being added to the group. So yeah, small. The interview lasted one hour, in which I learned about the company, its history, its latest projects and so forth. I even spoke to two of the employees about what they did. But as for what I was supposed to do, it was pretty vague, basically coming down to literature research (although they hadn't quite thought the literature-is-not-free-access-and-you-need-lots-of-it-to-do-anything aspect) and then modeling everything together so that you could do risk assessment. (Yeah, I didn't quite get it either.)
Anyway, I really don't think that's the road I want to take. I mean, I has learnings! In other thingies! Blargh.
Anyway, the interview took an hour, ending at 10:30, then I waited for the (goddamn son-of-a-tin-can) bus for half an hour, then waited for the train some fifteen or twenty minutes, then took the train for half an hour, then got on the bus and waited for the driver to decide to start his route, then walked some five or six blocks to get to where I usually get off the bus and walked a while from there then snuck into class at 12:20, figured out what we were doing, then during break caught up on correcting the homework and the notes I'd missed. Needless to say, I was dead to the world that afternoon.
- I've been having incredibly anxious dreams - my version of nightmares, in that if I freak out or actively feel fear, it's a nightmare - this past week. I've had dreams where:
a) I was packing my room away and had just finished with books when I realized a had a whole bookshelf full (but how?!? I'd just emptied it!) to pack and there was no way to do so
b) the train to Holandspoor was completely gone and I had no way of getting home
c) on an airplane, writing on the window, then getting off the plane directly onto a bus (the dream's version of an airport) and then riding through the city - Chicago - but I can't find the damn airport because it doesn't exist anymore and I'm going to miss my plane, so I finally go to where the airport used to be and instead find a whole line of people sitting on a bench overlooking a massive lake at night, and my brother is waiting for me because he knew I was flying (even if there's no airport)
d) I've rented a lovely studio and am ready to slump into bed to enjoy my first night there despite it being the early afternoon because I'd been up all night and all day doing things and was exhausted, when in bursts a whole crowd of people who make themselves at home in my room as if it were a cafe, smoking (to which I forcefully declare that there is no goddamn smoking in there) and drinking and eating my food and making a mess. And it turns out that they had a right to be there, or at least claim to - I make a mental note to check the lease, because that shit can't be real, I couldn't have signed knowing that - and they say that since the bar next door doesn't open until later, I am obligated to let them in and use my place as a bar everyday from 3 to 6, that I even have to be home every day to let them in, that my home is basically public property. I felt about as wonderful as you can imagine. And then, to make matters, worse, I then explore and realize that my studio isn't really a studio, but the entrance to - and living room of - a student residence, and those students aren't obligated to host bar patrons, and gah. I was really exceptionally upset with this dream.
The Fandom Life:
- There is a reason I never really got around to watching The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and that reason is that this movie's ending will frickin' rip your heart out after chewing on it thoroughly for over an hour. One review says merely, "Utterly devastating," and damn, that's it in a nutshell.
- I haven't even watched Doctor Who, much less Lost (which, omg, so looking forward to that). Happy (or utterly soul-destroying, whichever) Supernatural finale, y'all!
Links of the Day:
Supernatural:
caffienekitty's Review and Picspam Two Minutes to Midnight
sylvia_bond's Review Two Minutes to Midnight
blackcat333_99's Review and Meta Two Minutes to Midnight
bowtrunkle's Meta Sadism (a.k.a. "Upping the Stakes"): The Heart of Every Drama ; Meta Tension, Conflict, Motivation, and Plot: Why the Story is About Dean and We Do Know Sam
zimshan's Fanvid Kill a Man
devymel12's Fanvid Dean Winchester; Remember the Name
betty_mraz's Icons
e0wyn's Misha and Castiel Icons
highdreams' Icons
iwantpie's Icons
talulababy's Icons
kajmere's Fanmix Letters From the Sky (Sam/Dean) ; Picspam Season 5 Recap
elizah_jane's SPN Cuddle Comment Fic Meme
leonidaslion's Fic Fumbling in the Dark: Piqued (Faith) ; Fic Fumbling in the Dark: Scurrilous (Scarecrow)
haruslex's House Crossover Fic However Improbable (House, Castiel)
TV Guide's Mark Pellegrino (SPOILERY) Interview
Toronto Sun's Jensen Ackles Interview
Lost:
ack_attack's Across the Sea Afterparty, Mini-Recap and Discussion Post ; Finale Party Ideas ; Threadless has a Lost shirt
henrygalelovers' Across the Sea Discussion Post
cleolinda's Across the Sea Discussion Post
lulinha_k's Icons
icequeen3101's Picspam Juliet Burke, In Raibows
meemee_me's Picspams Sayid Jarrah (S1-S6) & Sun and Jin (S1 - S6)
shmyshmy's Picspam Further Instructions
dizzyknee's Pilot Icons ; Picspam Five Reasons to Love Kate Austen
Benry Knows Best: Three Men and a Little Lady
Ashes to Ashes / Life On Mars:
qthewetsprocket's That clip, I do not think it means what we think it means (3x07) ; D'awwww! - Photo of Philip Glenister, Keeley Hawes and John Simm being adorable, and others. ; Finale Theory ; If you're jonesing for a 'depressing as hell' fic, you've come to the right place ; Meta The Secret Life of Gene Hunt ; Squee on Spoiler via Radio 4 ; Random Squee
True Blood:
zimona's Icons
trueblood_lj's flocked Season 3 Promo Poster
Minisode #3: Sookie, Lafayette, Tara
Promo: The Hunt Begins
Human Target:
wptjeh's Episode 20: Victoria and Christopher Chance (a.k.a. Crouching Chance, Hidden Carmine) ; Unofficial Series Renewal
Multifandom:
spittingfish's Icons - Torchwood, Doctor Who, Harry Potter, John Simm, Paul Bettany, Being Human, Other Celebrities
imaginary_lives' Icons - BtVS, Legend of the Seeker
exp0se's Icons - SPN, Leverage, Veronica Mars
ohgollygeedamn's Icons - SPN, Doctor Who, Amazing Grace, Atonement, Moulin Rouge, Becoming Jane, Lord of the Rings
kahesha's Fanvid Ghost Love Score - Supernatural, Battelstar Galactica, Farscape, Dark Angel, NCIS, Jericho, Stargate SG-1
Random:
shutter_island
cleolinda's So basically, if you're a writer, the question you need to sit down and ask yourself is: what are you going to do with your glass of water? - With hilarious examples from different fandoms.
42number's Fanmix Fullmetal Alchemist
theweaselking's Portal Game Now Free ; The Big Picture goes to the mouth of the Mississippi River
lolaangieblack's Dollhouse Icons
queenanthai's boyfriend Karl's healthier Double-Down recipe
wptjeh's Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) Interview
News.BBC's Rare purple frog caught on film - It clucks like a chicken!
Wondermark's Remembering Frank Frazetta
Microsoft's Make music with basic software
Terry Pratchett's Going Postal Film Trailer
ZOMGitsCriss' Are we flucked? On overpopulation
Neromon's The Hung Parliament In 3 Minutes ; Alex Reads Twilight, Chap. 14
* Hello Saferide, "I Don't Sleep Well"