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First off, what's the point of adding people from a friending meme and then cutting them a couple weeks later?

This week has been terrible. Terrible. One more time, TERRIBLE. I haven't stressed about it too much, aside from the first day everything started happening, which makes me kinda realize I'm over this job. It's a good job to have and I make pretty good money but I'm coming to the point of not giving a shit anymore. I want to do my job well but beyond the direct communication and duties I have with customers I'm pretty over trying to bend over and let the company fuck me up the ass.

I'm not going to get into explaining what exactly happened but I'll just say that there were expectations put upon us that caught my whole department off guard and we're going to fail their goal that we're supposed to achieve by Wednesday. And I. Don't. Care. Because no matter what I do or say we're going to get in trouble. Because shit rolls downhill, as we were told, literally, this week. By someone from management, might I add.

I finally have gone back to a massage place. My first massage therapist has kinda fallen off the face of the earth and I don't know if she's even doing massage anymore so I found someone new. She was nice enough, hard to tell how we'll gel after one appointment, but my shoulder and lower back muscles are rebelling right now. They HURT. I liked my original massage therapist because she would tell me what was happening as she worked on me, what was doing what and why this or that hurt, etc. With this new one we just shot the shit about everything and anything else happening. Which was kinda cool.

Anyway, on to other things. ( Like a review of last night's Project Runway )

I'm downloading stuff like CRAZY these past few days. I was trying to get all the episodes for The Vampire Diaries so I can re-watch the eps I didn't pay attention to or missed, ran out of free download whatever with Megaupload so I bought an account. I've dled the Kevin Smith talks and the Ellen comedy specials, Primeval s1 & 2, Secret Diary of a Call Girl s1 & s2, some movies, going to get whatever there is of Robin Hood, perhaps I'll dl Merlin S1 and s2 to give it another go, etc, etc. I'm burning them all, though, because I never watch the shit I dl onto the computer. I'm too easily distracted.

I just did a small friends list clean up. Nothing personal, just people who, when I checked, I couldn't remember the last time we'd talked and a bunch of comms that I was no longer interested in or were dead in the water. My flist is becoming a bit unwieldy so I'm trying to get it under control a bit.

I can't wait for the damn basement to be done. Right now the Blu Ray player is in the living room, which is pretty much under my room (and the RIGHT UNDER my bed) so I can FEEL everything as the fam watches it because of the surround sound.

Just because you CAN watch something like you're in a theatre, doesn't mean you SHOULD.

I bought fixings to make mini tortilla pizzas. OM NOM NOM.

It's quarter to four in the morning right now and I have to be up in less than 5 hours so I can finish packing, shower and have breakfast before the fam comes to move me.

So hi to all the new people I've friended tonight from the friending meme! Welcome, enjoy yourselves, etc.

If you have AIM feel free to leave your SN in the comments so I can IM you randomly and possibly invite you to a chat with other weirdos.

I'll be afk, at least on IM for the majority of the day tomorrow since my own internet doesn't get hooked up until Monday, but I'm seeing that as a good thing since my Big Bang hasn't moved in word count since the last update and it's due Thursday. I CAN DO IT! It's less than 8k. Totally doable. In one day, even.

So, yeah. Welcome and whatnot.

Oh, and just as an added warning, I'm TOTALLY spoiler free for SPN. I don't even watch the next week's previews or know the ep titles until the day before/of. Everyone on my flist is generally really good about cutting spoilers and things but I just wanted to give a heads up to anyone who might not know. Now that we're down to the last 3 episodes people are getting excited and spoiler warnings have been flying so I'm trying to protect myself any way possible. :D

I did what turned out to be a fairly substantial friend/comm cut. It's seriously nothing personal on anyone but I was noticing there were a lot of people I felt I knew nothing about even though we've been friends for awhile. Some people weren't posting at all or very often and to be totally honest, this journal has become all SPN and pretty much all fandom. If you really aren't into fandom, SPN or something along those lines I defriended as well.

My friend's list was getting a little messy so I cleaned it up some, basically. Feel free to defriend back, anyone at all. I doubt this bears repeating if you've been around here for any length of time but every day is Defriending Amnesty Day so fill yer boots, eh?

All fandom stuff will, as always, remain open and most of my posts are fandom-related anyway so there's not much to miss. And who knows? Maybe we'll drift into each other's paths again in the future, depending on what happens with fandoms and whatnot.

You know what would be really, really, really fun? If y'all could go vote over here for challenge #5 at spn_iconathon. Really, it'll be fun! I promise!

I broke 16,000 on my BigBang last night with no end in sight. I'm trying to come up with some sort of soundtrack right now so I can throw myself into the rest of it in the right frame of mind. I think part of the problem is that I don't feel I know the characters. I had the plot all laid out before I started writing so I figured it would be easy-peasy to get it all down and said like I planned but BECAUSE I know what's going to happen I don't have to get to know the characters. Does that make sense? So I'm hoping that if I can come up with some songs to loop while I write it might help me make everything gel better.

There's an SPN Friending Meme happening right now. Go sign up, eh? I have to respond to comments from there. *makes note*

iconofilth posted 300 caps here and as soon as I get a few minutes when my computer's resources aren't being eaten by uploading/dling/capping/PS I'm going to dl them and stare at them. Just staaaaaaare. Eventually I might icon some. But first- staaaaaaaring.

Sugar twin? Is made of devil piss.

Before the season ended I wanted to start some sort of friending meme when it was over that would revisit the season and possibly open things up for discussion with fans. So this isn't just a friending meme. If you want friends, great, but if not it would be great if people could just jump in and fill this out about s1 and what you think now that we're into the long, four-month hiatus. I hope it'll also be a good place for people to stop by and find links to new fic/icons/vids/meta/etc that they didn't know about before when people link their favourite fandom contributions. :)

So fill out the form in the text box (it's kinda long), check out the post for friends, start discussions, share in your fannish love and PIMP this thing out to everyone! Bring potential SPN fans over to show them how great this fandom is!

And: super_summer super_summer super_summer super_summer

<b>Name:</b> <b>Age:</b> <b>Non-<I>Supernatural</I> stuff (RL stuff you think is important for others to know/fandom):</b> <b>Favourite episode:</b> <b>Favourite fandom creation by others (fic/icons/vid/meta/etc):</b> <b>Favourite song from the season:</b> <b>Most memorable quote:</b> <b>Best wibble:</b> <b>Best SPN hang-out spot (community/journal):</b> <b>Best show of superhero-like powers (not necessarily Sam's visions):</b> <b>Best 'could-have-been' couple (any guest star):</b> <b>Scariest/Best MotW (Monster of the Week):</b> <b>MotW you'd like to see next season:</b> <b>Extra-cirriculars (your fannish activities/contributions):</b> <b>Other s1 thoughts/opinions:</b> <b>Favourite picture/image related to SPN:</b> <b>Friending policy:</b>

I just did a pretty big defriending of people and communities. I've been friending people on memes who I really don't know that well and I'm stepping into new fandoms, away from people who I didn't have much in common with in the first place. I'm finding it hard to keep up with everything as it is, as I'm sure everyone else knows as I also defriended a few journals of people who haven't updated in awhile.

I know it's not that big a deal to defriend people on LJ and all but I just wanted to let people know, if they were oddly curious, that I'm just cleaning the friends list, nothing personal. Either we didn't comment at all on each other's journals (and I'm one of the first to admit that I suck with commenting, which is another reason to trim the flist- to increase that) or we really didn't have anything in common or we just drifted out of the same interests or something. Most of the posts I make lately are unlocked and fandom-related so it's not that big a deal anyway.

I feel cheesy for even having written one of these posts but I always feel bad when I defriend people.

So I was talking with quackaddict about friending memes and she mentioned that she wanted to friend new people, but didn't want to sign up for a fandom-specific meme, as she's involved in more than one fandom. Then I got thinking about how I'm always late to the party and end up around page 10. So, I thought I'd try and start one, see what happens. Also, as quackaddict said: You'd be my heeeeerooooo. ooooo.

Name: Mari
Age: 23
About yourself: Canadian, agnostic, liberal. Umpteenth year in university, studying human rights this time around. Intending to go to grad school to get my MA in HR next year, then on to law school for advocacy and humanitarian law. Theatre employee and dvd whore.
Fandoms: Queer as Folk, Veronica Mars, Lost, Firefly/Serenity, Prison Break, HP (fringes).
Fandom Contributions: Icons, fic, have made (bad) vids in the past, mod/co-mod of a number of communities.
Likes: sleeping in, cows, summer, a new dvd or boxed set, pineapple juice, finishing a fic, Damien Rice, Death Cab for Cutie, Stars, The Breakfast Club, zombies.
Dislikes: public service, stupid people, early mornings, winter, when good shows go bad (*cough*postseason2ofalias*cough*), writing papers.
Your favourite guilty pleasure (fandom or otherwise): Degrassi both new and old school, buying a small chocolate cake or trifle and eating it with one of my shows.
Random fact about yourself: I can touch my nose with my tongue.
Journal Restictions (Friends only, age restrictions, etc): Fandom-related items unlocked, everything else locked. 16+ preferable, although maturity is more the key.
Anything else: Everyone must go see Jarhead, opening November 4th.

Format code for your own information:
<b>Name:</b> <b>Age:</b> <b>About yourself:</b> <b>Fandoms:</b> <b>Fandom Contributions:</b> <b>Likes:</b> <b>Dislikes:</b> <b>Your favourite guilty pleasure (fandom or otherwise):</b> <b>Random fact about yourself:</b> <b>Journal Restictions (Friends only, age restrictions, etc):</b> <b>Anything else:</b>

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