I'm just not fully internet-enabled. Still camping out on public computers at the library and, like today, taking advantage of Starbucks wi-fi on breaks and before work ( Read more... )

That's all it's been, though. I got here on the 8th, and life went into whirlwind mode. To wit: staying with a friend at her apartment in Manhattan, relearning public transit systems and subway navigation, taking up the reins of my new position with its attendant increase in speed (and yet I have had many compliments, so maybe I'm competent, after ( Read more... )

Reading: Gabaldon (yep: still), Saturn Apartments by Hisae Iwaoka, Mika Falls by Mark Crilley, anime (non-slashy canon) fanfiction, the worst translation of a Dengeki Daisy chapter EVER, InuYasha manga (re-read).

Watching: The Big Bang Theory, Rachel Maddow, The Walking Dead, InuYasha.

Listening: "The Kids from Yesterday" (acoustic), Mew, ( Read more... )

Reading: Gabaldon (it’s a l-o-n-g series),

Watching: The Lovely Bones, downloaded MCR interviews, Grey Gardens, The Big Bang Theory, The Walking Dead, District 9, Rachel Maddow, Conan.

Listening: Matt & Kim, MCR.

Googling: loyalty, NJ Transit, Self-Sufficiency Standard, banks, bare-bones budgets, microliving, tiny ass apartment blogs, the ( Read more... )

Reading: Gabaldon (my annual Claire & Jamie jag).

Watching: Date Night, The Last Airbender (meh), Taking Woodstock, Last Chance Harvey, Ever After, Up, Clash of the Titans, The Remains of the Day, Howard’s End, A Room With a View, The Deceivers, The Village, The Others, The Big Bang Theory, After the Thin Man.

Listening: shuffle, All-American ( Read more... )

Reading: YOTSUBA&!, anime fanfic, high school shoujo manga.

Watching: Sailor Moon (YES: Sailor Moon), Tenchi Forever, Prétear, Jimmy Fallon, Cowboy BeBop, Sucker Punch, Escaflowne, Fallon performance vids, Son of Ranbow, Tangled, Stranger Than Fiction, Kekkaishi, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 ( Read more... )

Reading: Dengeki Daisy, Full Metal Panic, The Sea Peoples, Oxford Illustrated Prehistory of Europe, S.M. Stirling, Hot Gimmick, Red River.

Watching: How to Train Your Dragon, Full Metal Panic (again), Bright Star, Howl’s Moving Castle (again), Toy Story 3, Prince of Persia, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Tales from Earthsea, The International, The Last ( Read more... )

Reading: Charles de Lint, Red River, Robert Holdstock.

Watching: Conan the Barbarian, The Karate Kid ("wax on, wax off"), Gran Turino, Dodsworth, Little Nemo, Up in the Air, The United States of Tara, Green Zone, A Single Man.

Listening: old cds & shuffled mp3s.

Googling: Shinto, Microsoft downloads, Microsoft assistance, error message codes, ( Read more... )

Reading: The New Yorker, The Adventures of Tintin (The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Shooting Star, The Secret of the Unicorn).

Watching: Robert De Niro double feature (The Recruit, 88 Minutes), Whip It!, Departures (Okuribito), Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Romeo x Juliet (the anime).

Listening: Bouncing Souls indoctrination & acoustic MCR.

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Reading: Mercedes Lackey, Hana Kimi, a smidge of Jim Butcher. (But mostly Hana Kimi.)

Watching: Scrapped Princess, The Informant!, Ponyo, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Last Exile, Tsubasa Chronicles OVAs, LotR Super Special Nerd Girl Extended DVD Collection.

Listening: L'Arc~en~Ciel, TMG&MK, anime themes, shuffle.

Googling: manga2u, iron in magic ( Read more... )