Blue Roses

I'm very sad. Last night I was hanging out with Jennie and Biz when the internet died. Obviously, it's back now, but that's not why I'm sad. Well, it added to my sadness, because I didn't have anyone to be sad with, and I needed my friends.

Shortly after the internet broke, my mom called. After a great deal of pussy-footing around it, giving me details that were making me nervous and upset more than anything, she told me Liesl had been put to sleep. She had told me earlier yesterday in an e-mail that Lee had had an episode on Monday and wasn't doing great, but that was it. Lee has had them before, and bounced back. But this time mom called the vet, who said it didn't sound good, and to bring her in last night. This she neglected to tell me until after the appt. She said Liesl didn't know where she was anymore, and the vet was very kind, but she had to go. And now my baby is gone. I didn't even get to say good bye. I was coming home less that 24 hours later, and I didn't even know she so bad. I miss her so much already.

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Season 6 promo shots are out and Willow is BLONDE! <.sob> See? Willow
But here's all of them and UPN's as well.

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Heh. They are so cute, and so slashy! C'mon, Lance and Joey in the shower, JC and Chris(?) drinking, JC and Justin nearly kissing, Lance and..uh, JC? Joey? in bed together, Joey in JC's lap, it's all fun!

And yeah, it's fleas not bed bugs, and I did something bad to my ligaments and my patella. Woo-hoo. I refuse to get up for class tomorrow at 10. I'm sad and pathetic, but I'm also exhausted and not wanting to walk. So there.

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It's been so long since I've been able to check out my referrers. They always make me laugh! Blue Roses and BDSM, cartographers for social equality, snape/ginny, hermione ginny lesbians, Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver characters. They are all so varied. LOL Oh, and hi to the person searching for gangster babe galleries. Either you *are a GB, or there are other GBs I don't want to know about. LOL

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So. The toilet is backed up. We appear to have bed bugs. We have mosquitos. And our phones aren't working right.

I'm itchy, and crabby, and my knee hurts. And I'm tired. But I watched Clueless, and now it's SO close to Sports Night, it'd be silly to not watch. Right? And until then, I'll keep reading Casey/Dan stories, because they belong together. But I'm cranky. And scared to get into my bed. So, when I look at the next four weekends and I realize I'll be home for three of them, I'm less worried about classwork and more glad I'll be out of this dump.

Stupid apartment.

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Okay. As many of you know, I know sign language. Josh uses it moderately to communicate, I taught at least 3 signs per day for the last 3 months, I know my alphabet perfectly. My mom always tells me to put it on my applications when I try and get a job. I am by no means fluent, and I never say that I am. But tonight at the group interview for Assembly Hall, I mentioned that I knew some sign language. Kate said she knew right then that I would be hired, because that's a very necessary skill. So now I feel guilty! Would I have gotten the job if I hadn't said that? I didn't lie - I do know sign. And if someone wants to know if they can eat ice cream cones by the campfire with a walrus, I am so your gal. But I wasn't completely truthful. Is this bad?

I suppose I shall be boning up on signs this weekend. <.g>

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Okay. Now, "Some Dreams" might actually be "Sundreams." No one really has a clue, it's all conjencture. The lyrics I found intermix the two, so feel free to make up your own mind. LOL

Artist: N'Sync
Album: Unknown
Title: Some Dreams

Oh oh ooh oh ooh...

She stood out just like a diamond baby
Amongst the tourists in a crowded room
I took a walk along the sandy beaches
Under a silver carribean moon
That's when she...

She promised that (I promised this)
And I promised this
And 'til this day I can still picture it
She took my hand (I took her kiss)
And I took her kiss
So temporary these moments of bliss

Some dreams just fade away
Like yesterday's sunset
Sundreams are made to stay
She's one dream I'll never forget

Oh oh ooh oh ooh...

Everyday just seemed to go too quickly
And every night just passed us in a blur
I never noticed the blue skies and water
Because I only had eyes for her
And so when...

She promised that (I promised this)
And I promised this
And 'til this day I can still picture it
She took my hand (I took her kiss)
And I took her kiss
So temporary these moments of bliss

Some dreams just fade away
Like yesterday's sunset
Sundreams are made to stay
She's one dream I'll never forget
Those crazy summer days (Oh yeah)
Stroll back
I'll find you through the haze
Some dreams just fade away
Like yesterday's sunset
Sundreams are made to stay (Sundreams will stay)
She's one dream I'll never forget

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I have internet! Ethernet internet! YEAH!!! Took the (cute) guys two hours, but we're all set up! I actually had some nice conversations with the two guys who were mainly in my room. One of them used to watch XF, so I caught him up. <.g> He was a total sweetie.

Oh!! And I got a job!!!! I actually just interviewed today, and got the call not an hour later! I'll be an usher at Assembly Hall, where the concerts/musicals/sports games are all held! So I get to see everything for free! Wheeee! It's hysterical, because Kate and Aarti, my roommates, also got the job! So we're all going to work the same events. <.giggle>

I'm very bouncy tonight. LOL Not literally, though. I did something to my knee. It's weird - it's doesn't quite hurt, but it feels wrong. And it does kinda hurt to bend and stand up. And it doesn't quite lean back all the way. I don't know. OKay, NOW we're in the pain. I went downstairs, knelt to look for food, and almost burst into tears. OWIE!!!

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What a day, what a day, what a day. I joined Jazzercise and downloaded 40MB of Nsync songs onto my MP3 player. <.groan> Can you believe that? Either! LOL

So, yeah, Jazzercise. LOL Kate was going, and dragged me with. Which, really, I needed. Dragging me was good, or else I'd never go anywhere. We ended up really having a good time. We're the youngest by so much, but that's fine. So
many of my friends are in their 30s-40s, it doesn't bother me a whit. I have no talent, but I do have enthusiasm. <.giggle> We'll be going on Mondays and Wednesdays, and maybe Saturday mornings. We'll see!

And N*sync. <.groan> Kate's obsessed, okay? So every time we go out in her car, she's playing one of the CDs. And damn it, I like them. So now I have these songs:

Bye Bye Bye (Reminds me of camp last summer.)
Some Dreams (My FAVORITE!!! I'll have to find lyrics.)
Space Cowboy (Shut up. They ride bulls during it.)
More Than a Feeling (It's pretty, that's all I know about it.)
It's Gonna Be Me (Guilty pleasure.)
Tearin' Up My Heart (My first n*sync song.)
The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Great remake! JC is SO soprano.)
God Must Have Spent A Little More Time on You (Old favorite)
I Want You Back (It's catchy, damn it!)
Sailing (Remake of Christopher Cross' song. You know, the guy who sang "Laura.")
Everything I Own (Another remake of a song I love.)
I Drive Myself Crazy (It's fun. <.sigh>)
This I Promise You (I'm a sucker for a ballad, all right?!)

So, them's my stories and I'm sticking to them. LOL If you want one, let me know and I'll try to send. Especially "Some Dreams," which no one has *ever heard of. Fabulous song.

I also ran into Damien walking to class, and he promised to call me. So that's good, even though I have NO weekends free. Home this weekend, home next weekend, dad coming the following weekend for dad's weekend. (I so have
to remember to buy tickets for the football game!!)

Okay, State of Grace's finale is on, and I'm totally dizzy from excersizing. Hope this gets posted soon. LOL T-24 hours to ethernet....

(originally written at 7:52pm, being posted this late because I'm an idiot who wants to watch Sports Night. That was my other big thing today - I saw my first episode! That was Aaron Sorkin and Tommy Schlamme's first network show. It was great. And on Monday, they start again with the whole run! So for once, I have perfect timing. Yay for Comedy Central!)

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I SO don't feel like doing any work today. LOL I have a lot to get done, though. If I can finish my EPS summary (which I did) and my stats problems, I can be done for today. I woke up at 10:30, watched a lovely episode of Avonlea (I am so excited to watch that again! It's been years since I've been able to), then an episode of Christy (Hallmark channel once again. LOL I'm a sap...), before starting on EPS at 1. 2.5 hours later, I finished the damn summary, because I also played (AND WON!!!) a game of computer solitaire during it. And spied on the hot boys acorss the way who, hysterically enough, drive an old blue minivan. <.giggle>

I also just joined 4 new WW lists- ClaudiaJean, CJ_Sam_fanfic (I've been searching for that list since day 1! Wheee!), WWfemslash (I just see something between CJ and Abbey, okay? LOL), and Jed-AbbeyBartlet (so I like her with her husband, too. LOL). I also unsubbed from a number of lists I've been ignorning. My big steps of the day - I unsubbed from HP4GrownUps and WillTara!! Yay me! I've been ignoring those lists for months, esp WT. I set that to nomail over a year ago. <.giggle> So I'm down to 36 lists total, not much of which give me mail. Oh, did I mention I joined a Moulin Rouge fic list called Red Windmill? LOL Super fun! I found a story that crosses over with Titanic - what if Christian's last name was Calvert, and that's who Rose married? He's a writer, she's an actress, they both lost their true love in a tragic way, and he'd only be in his mid-30s or so when she was 18. That was more than acceptable then! I love finding stories like that, which make perfect logisical sense. LOL It's called Just To Love by Sarah French on that site above.

Maybe I can play Sims for an hour or so before Stats. Megan, Kate and I are going to the movies tonight, though. We're gonna see Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Really, if it wasn't for Eliza Dushku in it, I'd probably not want to see it, but I did love Chasing Amy, which Kevin Smith did. So maybe it'll be fun. : )

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Taking the 6:07 from ISR and getting there at 6:34 is probably comperable to that, though. If I can get the 6:07 from ISR without killing myself. I did bring my inhalor, but geez, it's not a miracle worker. Hmmm. I can't be the only one with this problem. The class before is a SPSHS class, too, so there has to be other people heading to the same class with me! The major is way tiny, and there are only two options for this lab. So I can ask around at class on Thursday, I guess. See what other people are doing.

Now I better sign off before I spend too much money!!

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Okay, make that 20-25 minutes late. I can take the 22, getting on at 3rd and Daniels (my class is at 5th and Daniels) at 5:56 or at the Library at 6:04, get to PAR at 6:12, and run the several blocks where I've never been to before in maybe 10 minutes.

Maybe mom's cab idea wasn't so bad after all. <.g> Standing cab and all that, can't be more than $2 or $3, since it's $4 to go to the train station, which is way farther. At this point, I'd consider anything.

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If I'm reading this correctly, I'm screwed.

Vet Med is served by two early morning 22 Illini trips and then is served by the 25 Loop every twenty minutes until 5:05 P.M. Beginning at 5:07 P.M., and thereafter at :37 & :07 after each hour at Illinois Street-ISR side (Engineering to FAR-PAR) these trips serve Vet-Med at :34 & :04 and depart at :36 & :06 with the first bus arriving at 5:34 P.M.

I need to leave the Psych building at 5:50 and get to the Vet Med building at 6. I don't think I can get to ISR from the Psych building at 6!! AHHHHH!!!!! But I seriously can't have a 8-10 class. I just plain won't go. But how can I be 45 minutes late to class every week? Unless I can try and hit the regular 22 to PAR and run the few blocks. Might get there only 15 minutes late.

Someone wanna see if I'm just plain reading it wrong, and there's another way for me to get there? Thank God this class is only once a week. That's going to be more than enough, for more than enough reasons.

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Last night sucked! Anna and Tara couldn't make it, and I was SO BORED. The cable came on downstairs at 6 last night, but Kate and I can't figure out how to get it up in our rooms. <.sigh> I called this morning to ask, but she wasn't there. We stopped after Quad Day, but she wasn't there. Running theme with this place. grrrrr. I also called because my stupid desk chair broke when I was sitting on it - not fun. I also have to ask how the internet works here, and where packages are delivered. This place is making me be full of questions!

So, yeah, went to Quad Day. I signed up for NSSHLA, and a medieval times history reconsturction thing. It sounds like a LOT of fun. I didn't find the swing dancing or democtatic students groups, but I can search online for those, I guess. I stopped at the theater booth, and I think I'm going to get a job as an usher. Could be a lot of fun, since I'd get to see the shows for free! I also want to sign up for the broadway series - Rent, Titanic, Ragtime, Annie Get Your Gun and My Fair Lady. I'd LOVE to see those musicals!!! I've already seen Titanic (my 18th birthday present from my parents. Listening to the CD right now, actually...), but I'd love to see it again. It was just amazing.

I have nothing to do for the rest of the afternoon. <.sigh> I guess I can watch soaps downstairs now. But I want to be in my ROOM watching! Ugh. The phone rings off the hook constantly, but it's never for me. Quite depressing! I feel so isolated from al my friends. Even my friends who are in town, I talk to online. I'm almost anxious for classes to start tomorrow. It'll be something to do.

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8/19, 1:50 pm
See this? What I'm doing? Way expensive. Why? No internet until Aug. 28. I'm dialing up through AOL right now, on my phone line. BLAH! Bad bad bad. Anyway, I'm all moved in, and mostly unpacked. I'm taking a break before beginning to decorate my walls.

Yesterday was an adventure, moving in - two tornados in the area. So we're at Sears, they tell us to go to the Shoe dept, the safest place in the store. They close the store, shut registers, we're locked in. For 35 minutes. We leave and go to Bergner's, where they tell us to go to the junior dept because that's the safest place in THEIR store, and there has been another one spotter. ARGH. Only 20 minutes there, though. Well, at least we know that stores have good safety precautions. LOL

8/20, 1:04pm
I hate this no internet thing. GRRRRR! 8 more days. <.sigh>

So, my friends Tara and Anna from HS are coming over tonight. This is their first year here, since they both transfered from community colleges, so it's exciting. I'm a little nervous though. Both of them are very strict, conservative Christians and I'm...not. And my room reflects that, with it's Harry Potter theme and Buffy sub-theme, you know? Let's face it, I have pictures of Mulder and Scully in bed on my door, and lesbian witches on my wall. And of course magick potions being brewed right over my bed (Harry, Hermione, Ron and Snape). Well, if they can't deal with it, it's their loss. I suppose it could be worse - I could have actually brought my Wicca books with me. I didn't think I'd have room, but I was wrong, so I'll probably be bringing them and other books from home later.

So my room is all decorated now. Possibly even over-decorated. I might end up taking stuff down soon. LOL It's just one wall, really. Maybe even half a wall that's too much. We'll see, I guess. I still have lights to put up - I think XMas ones around my patio door, pink ropes around my door, and the hearts around the HP poster. Or maybe I'll wait on those and put them up around the Hogwarts poster when I get it framed. That could work...

OH! Kate and I saw American Pie 2 last night!! I adored it. Sure, it wasn't high on plot, but Aly Hannigan had a much bigger role, and she was awesome. I was half right on the ending - got Jim's, didn't get Finch's. <.g> Oz didn't have much of a story, though. I gathered that he *did, but all the girls except Michelle ended up getting most of their scenes cut, so there went his storyline, too. It was really cute, though, lots of fun, and I can't wait for it to come out on DVD.

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c/o Kristine:

1. Open up your CD player, what's inside? Nothing, I cleared it out to move. <.g> But it had been Yo-Yo Ma's Simply Baroque, Moulin Rouge, Return to Me, Beatles 1963, and Alfred Hitchcock radio broadcasts.
2.Look in your VCR, is there a movie? Yes, thank you for reminding me! I would have left them behind. Deck one: Bring it On, Deck two: Valmont. It's Dangerous Liasons with Colin Firth and Annette Benning. I LOVE Colin. Yum.
3. If there happens to be music playing right now, what is it? Drops of Jupiter, by Train. Everytime I hear this song, I'm reminded of A from camp. : )
4. What are you wearing? Grey t-shirt with Elmo and Grover and red shorts.
5. Look down, what's the first thing that catches your eye? My copy of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
6. Turn on your TV if it's not on already, what network is it? The Learning Channel - I watched Trading Spaces this afternoon while I packed my CDs.
7. Look out the window, what's the weather like? Sunsety.
8. If you were to hit redial on your phone right now, where would it call? Western View restaurant - I ordered dinner.
9. Say "hello?" out loud, did anyone answer? Nope, my voice is scracthy and doesn't carry far. LOL Besides, mom and Josh are downstairs in his room and dad's out shopping.
10. What are you planning on doing next as soon as you get offline? Snuggle with mom and Josh.

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I can't believe my summer is over. I'm moving to my apartment tomorrow. <.sob> I'm so sad. I want to spend more time with my mom! We hardly got any time together this summer. Although we did watch ER just about every day. <.giggle> But still, I want more summer, please. Don't wanna go back to school.

Work ended up nicely. When I skipped on Tuesday, Janet, Jane and Kim had a talk. Whoops. <.g> Oh, well, Jane knew exactly what was going on. Apparently Janet totally came down on our side, and Kim's attitude improved muchly for the rest of the week. So that was good. But now I'm rid of her. : ) : )

I know I had things to say, but I just can't remember! So sad. I'm totally sick. I got my period yesterday, a very bad one, which just contributed to it all. Bad bad allergies - I'm hoarse, my voice is scratchy, my nose is stuffed, I'm dizzy, have a headache, and am moving tomorrow morning. Yippee freaking skippy.

Grammy and Po came over for lunch on Wednesday. I'm getting a scanner/copier/printer for school, so I'll scan in pictures. He looks so bad, and it's breaking my heart. He's down to 112 pounds (from the 132 he was at the end of July), and he's not quite himself much anymore. I wasn't able to make him laugh as much as I normally can, and that makes me sad. He had to go throw up four times in the two hours he was here, and three of them were before he had his half sip of wine. They were headed to the hospital to hook him up to an IV after they left. It breaks my heart to think of it. He's such a good man, an amazing man, and he's starving to death right in front of my eyes. It's just not fair. <.sigh>

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Wheeeee! My lovely advisor fixed the boo-boo that put me in the 8-10pm lab on Thursdays. Everyone knows that I don't go to night classes. <.g> I'm back in the 6-8, where I belong. Yay for Kathi!!

I didn't go to work today. I know, I'm horrible. But I just couldn't do it. Kim pissed me off so many times on Monday, I don't think I could have faced her without bursting into tears, ripping into her, or screaming. None of which would have been good in front of my babies. Okay, first, I'm writing up the note for the parents. I ask a simple question. "Kim, what are you doing for closing today?" Blank look. "I didn't know I was doing closing this session." My turn for a blank look. "This session? This is the same session as last week. Remeber how for the first 2 sessions, Jane did opening and I did closing? Now for the last two sessions, I do opening and you do closing." Dumb look. "Oh. Well, I guess I'll read your book and review the day." Which, BTW, turned into her reading the book and doing nothing, leaving me to do closing, too.

Then, in opening, A was leaning towards S's DynaVox. He has an impulse problem that generally means he tries to talk with the device. We ask who's voice it is, ask who uses it, he usually stops. Kim actually reached over and yanked him back to sitting by pulling on the back of his shirt. A almost burst into tears. "Don't pull my shirt," he wailed. "You don't do that!" Jane and I were horrified - she could have hurt him, any number of things could have happened. That was such a bad thing to do. i felt so bad for him.

Then the kicker. During the art project, R spaced out. I mean a full 20 seconds, staring out without blinking, unresponsive space out. I'm, of course, afraid it was a seizure - 20 seconds is unacceptable. it was terrifying. So I asked Janet if R had a history of seizures, she said not to her knowledge. He kind of did the same thing in the ball pit later, but for much shorter times. So at the end of the day, I walk over to where Kim is standing with R and his mom. Kim, who wasn't in the room when it happened, was trying to explain and bungled it horribly. I asked his mom if he'd ever had a history of seizures, she said no. I explained what happened, and that I had been concnered and curious. She said he'd had Benedryl the night before, I agreed that was liekly the cause, but I wanted her aware of the situation, and then headed off to M's mom who was asking me questions, so I didn't quite get to close with R's mom, which I regret. The kids leave, and Kim, Jane and I are walking down the hall back to our room. Kim was like, "You know, I don't think you should have said that word, seizure, to the mom. I talked to Janet about it, and she said we shouldn't because we're not doctors. So you shouldn't have said the s-word." The S-WORD! Since when is seizure a swear word?!?! I explained, as calmly as I could, that I had asked if he had a history, because that's something I need to know. Janet hadn't been aware of one, but she never treated him. His mom would know. Jane backed me up. I never once tried to diagnose him, I just asked if he had a history! She then had the audacity to say that "Seizure kids" would tell you if something was wrong. SEIZURE KIDS! My, wasn't I surprised to find out Josh was a SEIZURE KID. I was incensed. No one deserves to be labeled as a disability. Good God in heaven, I almost smacked there and then. Voice quavering with fury, I told her not to call them seizure kids. She's like, "Kids with seizures, whatever." BITCH! AUGH!!! Janie drove me home and we shrieked about her stupidity the whole time.

So, yeah, I couldn't do it. I don't know how I'm going to last three more days. My mom backed me up fully on the R situation - if it was Josh, she'd want to know if something was up. Yeah, it probably was the Benedryl. It can totally knock a kid out. But wouldn't you rather be safe than sorry? This is a kid's health and safety we're talking about!

Okay, I have to calm down. I have to see her again in 12 hours, and it'll take me that long to steel myself to it. She just drives me crazy. One summer at LADSE and a secondary ed teaching degree makes her an expert? I've been Josh's sister for 13 years, but I don't claim to be an expert, even with him. On R's first day, I didn't know how to handle the situations. I'm not always sure of what to do, and I don't pretend that I do. I'm still learning, even with all of my experiences. But if you ask Kim, she knows how to do everything. Because every kid with special needs is the same, obviously.

Bitch.

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How obnoxious. I can't post the Tara fic to the Kitten board. <.pout> And I got in trouble for asking! They need a FAQ for the creative board like they do the main board.

This story is fast becoming not worth the trouble. I can't decide if she's Scully or Dana, I don't like the way it's written, and I have limited places to post it. UGH.

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Jax had his first line on Friday - he is so ugly. <.shudder> Bad hair color, bad hair style. It's that awful Caesar cut that even George Clooney couldn't really carry off. :(

This is much more interesting, and I know it's true:
"According to backstage sources, Maurice Benard was having a discussion with Executive Producer Jill Faren Phelps (probably the most disliked exec in daytime tv right now) recently about the upcoming direction of the Sonny-Carly-Angel storyline.

The way it was proposed, Sonny would develop feelings for Angel and right at that time, he would find out that Carly is late on her period not because she is pregnant, but because she has cancer.

The shakier rumor is (no validation on this one) that this was to provide an exit for Tamara Braun, complete with deathbed professions of love a-la Love Story, and Sonny battling AJ for custody of Michael.

As the rumors go, MB heard the plan, he told JFP that he wouldn't play it. She told him that if he didn't like it, he could leave and so he did. No big hoopla, no yelling, no tantrum. It was all very civilized. He went out and called Felicia Minei Behr, Senior Vice President of ABC Daytime Programming, who is based in New York and gave her the story. Jackie Zeman (Bobbie) was supposedly already threatening to not return to work unless things got better. FMB flew out to LA, and set up office there until the whole mess is straightened out. There was reportedly a meeting yesterday amongst those concerned.

Unfortunately, big changes on the GH set did not happen as a result of this confab. The story goes that all the tensions were glossed over at the meeting, MB worked yesterday and today with no problem. JFP is on "double secret probation" until January and ratings have to stay at a certain level or she's history.

This isn't what the JFP-haters on the internet wanted to hear, but it is certainly a bad sign when someone like MB tells TIIC that a storyline sucks so bad he won't do it. Add to that the snarky, sarcastic remarks made by cast members about the storylines--Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis) and Wally Kurth (Ned) for example--and GH appears to be a show teetering on the edge."

The show has been SO bad lately. Even Tony Geary can't make his stuff good. Total shame. So apparently JFP can't get fired until January, but she's most likely going to be a figurehead until then. Some rumors say that Bob Guza has already taken over. Time will tell. Meanwhile, MB has an out in his contract for January, and if his storyline stays so bad, I'm sure he'll leave. He does have contracted that he okays all storylines, and he already okayed one that will get him and Carly back together this fall. I hope so - I adore them together. Angel can't act a bit, but Tammy has talent. I hope ABC fixes GH soon.

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Big hugs and smoochies to kristine for fixing that post!!! Woo-hoo!!!

Anyway, I keep saying I don't want to watch XF S9, but they're pulling out the damn stops.

**SPOILERS AHOY**

I love that CC said straight out William is 100% human and 100% Mulder and Scully's. I don't love that we have to keep an eye on him, something to do with a Sixth Sense type of storyline.

I hate that David is gone forever. I love that Lucy Lawless is joining the cast. I more than completely love that Cary Elwes is joining the cast.

Cary Elwes!!!! On XFiles!!!! I so adore him. Have ever since I saw Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Great actor.

I'm so torn.

**END SPOILERS**

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<.sigh> I have no clue how to fix it. Sorry.

Anyway, what got cut off is me wishing Gillian Anderson, who is now a very yummy 33 year old, a very happy belated birthday. And being the (dare I try to link?) very bad president that I am, I did NOTHING for it. Not even a post down the list. <.sigh> Bad me. I hope everyone is still collecting poptabs for Piper, because that is actually still on. I've got a good 10,000 all by myself, and one other girl had 40,000 back in February. Next year, if there is a next year, we don't count, we weigh. Much easier. LOL

And now that I found this 911 Gillian site, I'm going to create a Gill folder and download a great deal of them. Bad me.

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Uh-oh....I did such a bad, tired job on my links in that last post, I can't even seem to edit it! I click on edit and go to Krissy's error page. LOL Wow, it takes talent to screw up that greatly. Wish me luck that Blogger lets me fix it. Somehow.

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As I said at Krissy's journal, I took the test from findyourspot.com and they told me a bazillion Maryland cities. LOL Actually, my top six were:

Baltimore, Maryland: The Sparkling Harbor City
Providence, Rhode Island: New England's Best Kept Secret
Gaithersburg, Maryland: The Park City
New Haven, Connecticut: Home of Yale University
Charleston, West Virginia: The Home of Hospitality
Portland, Oregon: City of Roses

Other MD cities included Annapolis (#7), Frederick (#9), Easton (#13), Salisbury (#15), Hagerstown (#19). Okay, so only 7. LOL I also had a large number of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Oregon cities. Actually, everything was east coast except about 4 or 5 Oregon ones. LOL

You know, I totally love TNT. Mom and I watch ER every afternoon at 5, and she gets to watch at 8 and 9 in the mornings, too. But today at 5 was "All in the Family," where Lucy died. My God, what an episode. We're still shellshocked. It's such a fantastic show. I'm also enjoying the Lois and Clark reruns at 7 am. I've been watching all summer, but they were later episodes when L&C were engaged and married. The show had lost it's spark by then, and while I enjoyed watching them every morning, it wasn't anything special. But now - now they've started over again. What UST! Wow! It's electric. I remember why I fell so much in love with the show! Of course, the innuendos don't sail over my head anymore. LOL I remember being my very naive 12 year old self, and asking mom why Lois was mad at Clark for saying she liked to be on top. <.g> Poor mom. LOL But I get so giggly and excited watching these episodes now. I remember them SO clearly, and I still love the shippy stuff. L&C pretending to be married, kissing on the bed, amnesiac Clark asking if they were more than friends. <.happy sigh> I can't WAIT until the episode where they go undercover in Smallville. I adore Lois' long brown country-style dress, and seeing them be all lovey-dovey. Yes, some 8 years after the fact, I can still picture her dress, him in the denim doing the hammer thing at the fair, and the two of them line dancing. <.giggle>

I don't think this is AOL only, but fair warning. It's an American Pie 2 quiz on which character your most like. I'm most like Michelle. LOL Maybe, but gee, I never had that much fun at my band camp! <.g> Which I heard we get to visit in this movie - most fun! Also, the site has snips of dialogue to download. Aly seriously cracks me up!! I love the turkey line, "You’ve got to preheat the oven before you stick in the turkey." Of course, the Potatoes line is cute, too. LOL I have this total sudden desire to pull out my AP DVD. LOL

And because I'm such a horrible president, happy belated birthday to Gillian Anderson, now a very yummy 33 years old. Can you believe I did NOTHING for this? I hope people are still collecting poptabs for Piper, because that ends soon. I have, at least, been doing that.

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LOLOL!!!! Stavros walked into Luke and Helena kissing. He was as disgusted as I.

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EWWWWWW!!!! Luke and helena are making out. <.whimper> My eyes! My eyes! And ick, I thought Tava had been fired?!?! Why is Chloe on my screen! Be gone, before someone drops a house on you! Like, me. I'll drop it. Just say the word.

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Jax is on my screen, and he's a brunette. Uh, is there a male version of brunette, or does that go for both sexes? Eh, it suits him either way. <.eg> He looks so yucky. He used to be cute. His character used to be interesting. His fan club used to be fun. All these used to bes - why is he back again? I heard a rumor (NOT spoiler) that he'd be with Angel, which works for me. I already FF her.

Like Kristine, I'm so sad that Belle is gone. : ( Best of luck to you, dearie. I'll miss your posts, sporadic as they occasionally were.

Still reading Son of a Small Fry. LOL I'm on chapter 18 of 27. Jennie and I storied each other last night. I think Cookies and Quizzes is done now. Except for Scully. I can't decide whether to call her Dana or Scully! It's now jarring both ways. See, it's two years in the future, meaning 3 years after the only person to call her Scully disappeared forever. In 3 years, I imagine that she's already thinking of herself as Dana again, if she ever completely stopped. But I'm not quite past calling her Scully, yet. LOL Any thoughts on this? Please e-mail me or post if you do. If you were reading a fic set in the future, with no Mulder or Mulder mention whatsoever, would you think it bad to read about Dana instead of Scully? It's driving me nuts.

Awesome West Wing tonight, and I'm Josh's snuggle buddy. That means sleeping early! yay! I need that. I'm super sleepy, and the little kids sap my energy a lot. We have little little kids, like 3-4 y/o, and they spent most of Tuesday crying for mommy. : ( They are darling, though, and so I still look forward to them. Just have to be rested first. LOL

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Woo-hoo! James and Abby wrote the sequel to Small Fry! Now Wes, Willow, Tara and Giles are four year olds. <.giggle> I'll link when it comes onto their site. I adored the first one, and this is way bigger! First one was 11 parts, this is 27. I'll be sitting at my computer forever and ever. LOL

Today, Shari, the director at the clinic, told me I could have a job there next summer! : ) I'm excited. I'm also going to ask Janet if they're planning on a winter camp over break. I'm dead set on going to the Scullyfic spring training (I've got a ride and everything!), so having money is helpful. <.g> It's about $100 for the registration, shirts, swaps, etc. Plus raffle money, and gas money, since I'd be joining a caravan. So I'd need about $300 to pay for the entire weekend, which is a two week paycheck with money left over.

I was telling mom's friend Carol at work today about our big news. I, of course, start with mom's, which is still mindboggling. <.g> Janet, who was listening, was like, "No! Tell her your news first!" I said, "No, no! Mom's is better," which Janet tried to refute. But Carol's right, I guess I am my mom's daughter. <.g> I'm just so excited for her! But Carol was like, "So you know what you need now? A license." I pointed out that I was going to live in NYC for 4 years. No one drives in NYC! It's the perfect city for me. LOL

Oooh, Philadelphia just started on TBS! I adore this movie. And now I know to look for Brad Whitford as Jamie. <.g> Oh, and I think I finally finished my Scully/Tara story! I just don't like the title. Once I come up with a name for the Cosmo quiz they take on how well they know each other, I think I'll steal/modify that title and use it. I originally had "Ladies Night," and Lana suggested "Cookies and Quizzes," which I like better, but still doesn't capture the story. I'll be excited to get a story posted - I haven't finished one since May! Plus, this will be my first ever Scullyfic story post, and I'm quite curious to see how it's recieved. I'm going into it not expecting much, if any, feedback, since this group has the best writers in the fandom and they're a bit snobby, and this story is definitly not up to their standards. I didn't really write it to be - it's funny fluff. Nothing more. I had oodles of fun, though, and the people I've shown it to so far have really enjoyed it. So I'm pleased with just that, honest.

HEY! I can post it to UCSL! I just realized that. <.g> It has Tara, duh. I think I'll try posting to Kitten board, too. Maybe I'll post to AXTC, but maybe just upload to Ephemeral. How odd to have options. <.giggle>

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Wow, I slept for 12.5 hours last night! Freaky. I'm kinda moving slow today now. <.g>

I love Mary Minter Miles still, but I can't wait to get a new design up. I need a sidebar. <.g> I just don't update as much when I don't have a sidebar. I'm considering using a Krissy-design for a few weeks until I can make my own. She has such cute stuff up these days! I probably won't make changes until I move back to school. In less than two weeks. <.whimper> I'm horrified. Where did my summer go?

I'm typing out a recap of my USSAAC experiences to post, but I have to talk about this first. <.g> A lot of people complimented me on my website, which I thought was cool. I, of course, figured they meant my Disabilities Advocacy pages. Well, they did. But then they were talking to mom and talked about my writing! They were so impressed that I "included a realistic portrayal of a secondary character who uses AAC" in one of my stories. I gave a strangled gasp. They're freaking reading my Buffy stories! More specifically, Coming Home. GAH! LOL I think I want to finish that story now. <.giggle>

While we were gone, I also wrote another paragraph in my WENN/XF crossover story For All Times. I've let it sit long enough after super bitch plagerised and tried to blame me for it. Hell with her, I loved that story and I am going to finish it. So there!

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I'm ba-ack! Of course, I came home to AOL 6.0 corrupted AGAIN, after less than two weeks. <.sigh> Very distressing. But USSAAC was a huge success. Highlights: the current president asked my mom to be the next president elect. That means that she'd serve as VP for two years starting Jan. 1, and then be president for two years. Of a NATIONAL group!!!!! First non professional EVER. Isn't that amazing?!?!?!? As for me, I seem to have the chance to go to Columbia in NYC for grad school on full tuition if I agree to work in the NY public school system for two years after I graduate. How awesome is that??

I'm super tired and mad at AOL, but I see that Krissy finally moved back into her first HR home. Yay! : )

I'm going to curl up on bed, watch "The Truth About Cats and Dogs," and be very very mad at AOL.

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