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| Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 | | 4:27 pm |
Help me get a better tablet!
Hi, I've posted on here quite a few times- some of you might know of me because of that. I draw the pirate comic Grog. I entered a contest a bit ago, and turns out I'm one of the three finalists. If I get the most votes before midnight PST tonight, I will win a $2500 best buy card. I would LOVE to buy some art-related electronics. Plans include a digital SLR, a new, better tablet for me to draw my comics on... maybe even a new laptop! I'm currently in the lead, but one of the others is catching up, so that might not last for long. If you have a minute to spare, PLEASE help a fellow Comicker and poor college student out. :) To vote:1. Log in to Twitter 2. Go here: http://twitter.com/NetBackup and FOLLOW this user. 3. Tweet this: @NetBackup Finalist 2 #SymcContest  | | Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 | | 3:12 pm |
If any Twitter users (or non-users) want to do me a HUUUUGE favor...
I entered a caption contest a bit ago and the winner gets a $2500 best buy card. Lots of you know how badly I want a Digital SLR camera, and Ben could do with a new laptop to write his thesis on. BUT I have ...until tomorrow night to get the most votes. I am one of three finalists, so my chances are GOOD. Here is how to vote for me: 1. If you are not on Twitter, sign up. It takes like 5 minutes, and everyone is doing it these days, anyway. :) 2. Go here: http://twitter.com/NetBackup and FOLLOW this user. 3. Tweet this: @NetBackup Finalist 2 #SymcContest | | Saturday, February 7th, 2009 | | 4:11 am |
| | Friday, January 16th, 2009 | | 12:21 pm |
| | Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 | | 2:45 am |
America Has a New President.
It’s hard to express, exactly, what that means to me. America is my home. I moved here for Ben, and only for him, and at first I felt somewhat like I’d been dragged to this crazy place kicking and screaming. I missed my country, my family, and all the things and ideas and systems I was used to. Now, though, while I still love and miss my family and my country more than I can say, America is the home I choose. This is not because of Barack Obama. It is not because of politics at all. It is because people here have made me feel welcome, and the sense of personal and national potential one gets just from living here is infectious. In America, I feel like I can be someone. I have become an adult here, and more than just that, I have become a far better adult than I would have been if I had stayed in one small place for my whole life. This experience has opened my eyes far beyond what I would have expected. I love my home, my town, my state, my country. Come 2012, I will be a citizen, all going to plan, and it then will truly be my country. All that aside, this was the first election in America I have been truly invested in. I was here for Election Day in 2004, but I was not here for the bulk of the campaigning, and besides, there was a general sense that it was going back to Bush and I didn’t want to get my hopes up. This time, it was all hope. I followed this election from the very start of the primaries, devouring information, learning whom I did and did not support, and watching with great interest the system of government in this foreign country as the people here prepared to select a new president. It all came down to today. There was a tangible buzz in the air. At school, everyone was talking about it. I saw Obama t-shirts, pins, stickers. I heard snippets of conversations- “Obama”, “voting”, “lines”, “turnout”… it seemed like everyone was going to the polls. I felt somewhat left out, of course, but energized by the possibility of witnessing this piece of history. I watched the results come in with my little brother. We may be in different countries, but we can still connect very easily. I love Tom so much. He is smart, politically aware, creative, and we share a sense of humor. I appreciated the chance to talk with him as the polls tipped towards Obama, and delight in our shared excitement over the results. Ben was busily calling HIS family, too. He called his parents, his brother, his half brother and sister-in-law, and I talked to my mother and brother-in-law as well. Ben’s family is very special to me. They are quite different from my own family, but I have a close relationship with them. I enjoy the affection that comes from my MIL; her warm, loving nature makes me feel good. I like the sarcastic, teasing humor that comes out when my brother-in-law and I talk. We spend a lot of time teasing Ben. ;) I’m glad for my friends, as well, with whom I could share this moment. The ones who worked tirelessly to make this happen, like Badger. The ones for whom this election might make a real difference in their lives, such as Heidi and KC, our wonderful neighbors. This was a truly special, magical day for me, as I’m sure it was for many of you, but in a slightly different way. I had tears in my eyes as I watched Obama’s speech, realizing that he will be president when I gain citizenship of the United States, and how that will make me all the more proud to be able to call myself an American citizen. | | Sunday, September 16th, 2007 | | 11:56 pm |
Career meme
1. Child and Youth Worker2. Adoption Counselor 3. Addictions Counselor 4. Psychologist5. Art / Music Therapist 6. Sport Psychology Consultant 7. Actor 8. Desktop Publisher 9. Gerontologist 10.Cartoonist / Comic Illustrator---------- 1. Go to Career Cruising, www.careercruising.com 2. Put in Username: nycareers and Password: landmark. 3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions. 4. Post the top twenty results 5. Put the careers you have seriously considered in bold I got a LOT of therapist/counselor suggestions in there. Maybe I'm just that kind of person. ^_^ Still don't really know what I want to do. Today it's photographer/marine biologist. Tomorrow it will be tattoo artist or rock star, I expect. ;) My mum just left today. She'd been visiting since Wednesday. It was a lot of fun. :) | | Saturday, July 28th, 2007 | | 9:34 pm |
The streets are lit by fairy lights in the trees. Every little cafe and bar has tables out in the street, packed with people out enjoying the warm night. All the roads are closed, and bands play in the middle of the street, with all the people outside the cafes on either side turning round to watch them. People dance. Everywhere. Couples hold hands and kiss, and people carry their children on their shoulders. Everywhere you go you can smell a different kind of food and hear a different kind of music. There are six main stages throughout the town, aside from the street performances, and countless food stalls. One moment you'll be faced with Lao food and Brazillian music, the next minute Greek food and Gospel singers. There are "cooling stations" all over town. These are hosepipes supported up in the air on a wooden frame, with holes poked in the top of them so that they shower cold water up in the air and down again like rain. Very refreshing when you've been out in the sun for a while, and it makes me happy to watch children playing in them once it starts to get quieter. Today I ate a greek kebab for lunch, and for dinner I had a cajun chicken sandwich and fresh cut fries from a stall that still had potatoes out on the counter, and even vinegar in a spray bottle! They were the best fries I've ever had. We had a drink outside the mambo grill under the fairy lights and watched the sun go down while a latin band played. We danced together to a cheesy singer doing old Italian and 50s songs. Ben lifted me up and spun me around. I took photos of the couple, apparent strangers, dancing with each other in the middle of a circle of people. The lady in the cowboy hat was belly dancing, and the young man with no shoes was ballet dancing, and yet they were still dancing together. It was hilarious, and fun. Mid-afternoon we'd gone home to cool down for a little while. We can do that, because all this stuff is right outside our apartment. We watched it on TV. We saw our friend Darcy dancing to the Brazillian drum group. :) This town is full of small, local businesses. We're on friendly terms with many of the owners, especially the ones who were involved in our wedding last year, like Charo at the bakery and the staff of the museum we had it at. These businesses probably do better during the festival than any other time of the year. It must be a godsend for the local cafes, especially. Everyone is friendly. Everyone is helpful. I saw lots and lots of people wearing the beads which meant they'd donated to the festival. This is the 21st one, one for every year I've been alive. It's the second one I've been here for, though, and I love it. I love this town. It's very, very special. I know it has a bad (and outdated) reputation, but this is my adopted home, and I've never been more glad. | | Thursday, April 26th, 2007 | | 1:16 pm |
| | Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 | | 1:11 pm |
| | Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 | | 11:38 pm |
| | Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 | | 11:43 pm |
Ignore, people.
Just putting this somewhere I know I'll see it. ;) IMPORTANTTo do tomorrow: - PASSPORT INFO TO AIRLINE - INSURANCE Or else. Current Mood:  busy | | Monday, August 14th, 2006 | | 1:32 am |
| | Friday, August 11th, 2006 | | 11:47 pm |
Best night of my life, I swear...
And the wedding isn't even until tomorrow. I had a great day. I'm exhausted, my throat is killing me, my cheeks hurt from smiling, my feet are covered in blisters and my painful heat rash has come back with a vengance. but I'm fucking HAPPY! :D :D :D :D :D What an amazing night. | | Wednesday, July 19th, 2006 | | 2:15 pm |
My God, It's Huge!
( Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)
| ✓ I miss somebody right now. |
× I don't watch much TV these days. |
✓ I own lots of books. |
| ✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses. |
✓ I love to play video games. |
× I've tried marijuana. |
| × I've watched porn movies. |
× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship. |
✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy. |
| ✓ I curse sometimes. |
✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year. |
× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me. |
( it goes on... ) | | Saturday, July 15th, 2006 | | 7:58 pm |
I feel sick.
I just baked a whole bunch of cakes to take to Z's with me. They came out really dry and hard feleing. I tried a tiny fairy cake to see, and yeah. Really dry. The bigger star shaped ones felt better, so I put icing on them, and I had to try one of those, too, to see if they were okay. Barely. Still pretty dry. Way too much cake. And I am sad that they didn't come out so well. I think it might be the flour. The last ones I made with it turned out like that, too, and I'm just making them the same as always. | | Saturday, May 27th, 2006 | | 8:29 am |
I've cheered up remarkably about the visa stuff. I've given up on getting it before the wedding is booked for, and I've settled on having the wedding party and legal marriage separate. That means I can go back to see Ben early. Just having made a final decision is a big big help. I don't care now if my interview date comes through the day after I leave. There's no way I could have known, and whatever decision I made could be the wrong one. So I get to go back at the beginning on July. I'll probably book my flight today. That makes me full of happy. Ben makes me full of happy too. He's wonderful. Seriously. None of you have any idea just how wonderful he is. ^_^ | | Saturday, May 20th, 2006 | | 6:08 pm |
I hate immigration stuffs. And they hate me. So much, in fact, that they cange the rules entirely when I think it's all sorted, causing our case which was with the embassy in London awaiting my interview to be sent back to the US, because they suddenly decided they need Ben's police record. Yes, wonderful that you make these lovely new laws, BUT I'VE FUCKING GOT MY WEDDING SORTED. I HAVE TO BOOK PLANE TICKETS. Fuckers. In other news, Eurovision was hilarious. As always. | | Friday, April 14th, 2006 | | 4:16 pm |
I love PuPPy! I'd have replied to his post with that, but he turned replies off. So instead, I make a thead of PuPPylove! ;) | | Thursday, April 6th, 2006 | | 4:07 pm |
It's my last day of being 19! Crazy! | | Saturday, March 18th, 2006 | | 5:21 pm |
Dear Attention Whore
No, fuck YOU. This is not over, because you didn't give me a chance to defend or explain what I did. So it was me. You might have known that already. But I didn't just skip off on my own and call the police for a fucking laugh. Let's have a look at that post, shall we? " I haven't killed myself yet, no, but I really just... " "There's nothing. No hope whatsoever. Not even the remotest posibility of things changing for me" And in particular: "This is it. I tried everything, and I fucking failed, and I have nothing left. I'm sorry. I'm really so fucking sorry, but I just can't go on. It's entirely, completely, not even possible for me to go on. I feel bad for Sarah, but she'll be fine. I was more enamored with her than she with me, anyway. That's how it always is. I'm used to it. I'm sorry, everybody. I really am. But I have NOTHING. NOTHING. NOT A GODDAMNED THING. So... There's no hope whatsoever. It's done. It's all done. I lose, God wins. Whatever. I'm fucked, I'm dead in the water, maybe literally dead, but I have no money and not even the remotest chance of money in my future, so I just can't live anymore. I love you all, but this is the end of the line for me." Now in its own, that wouldn't have overly concerned me, but when you follow it up with "Game Over It's done. I'm done. It's over. " Then you cannot possibly have not realised what people would think. If you make out you're going to kill yourself, then you don't get to complain when people panic and try to find out whether you did or not. I did NOT rush into anything. Myself and maybe 6 other people who won't be named unless they choose to, discussed it for maybe 2 hours while we tried to find someone who had your address. We called Maj, we tried to find Spidey's number, and eventually we found someone who had your address. You weren't answering your phone, and this wasn't at 3am, it was maybe half an hour, 45 minutes after you made the post. After a while, it was decided we shouldn't call the police/paramedics. So what we decided to do, and what I did, being the one in the same state, was call a suicide prevention helpline, to simply get some advice on the best course of action. I outlined the situation to the man on the phone, and he tried to call you and got no response. At that point, he told me he'd call me back and hung up. The next thing I knew, the police were on their way. Seriously, I was up half the night convinced that if I did nothing it could have really bad consequences. And there is no way you could read those two posts and not see how I, and the other people who saw it, came to that conclusion. I was agonising over what to do, and if the people I was in the chat room with say something, they'll tell you that's true. I was terrified that I'd have everyone mad at me, be wasting police time or whatever, but the driving thought was that if I did nothing THINGS MIGHT BE WORSE. Read your post again the way someone who didn't write it might, and stop getting pissed off at people for taking the only options open to them at the time. |
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