Twitter Killed the Blogosphere
Or at least Thereafterish is dying because of Twitter.
I promise I will be back after this wedding frenzy mandatory hiatus. It’s been a crazy month!
Filed under .occurences | Comment (0)Degreed!
Check it out! I am officially a University Graduate, Mofos! I’m so happy! (sort of–tonight’s the insurance exam. hopefully outfit posts after that).
Hello, Cleveland!
I’ve been missing because I’ve been training for a new job.
Last week I was in Columbus, OH. This week I’m attending Life/Health Insurance License classes at Kaplan Professional Schools in Detroit. It’s for the week.
Monday I face the daunting Life/Health Insurance Licensing exam: two and a half hours and 150 questions with a pass/fail percentage at 70%. I have to get 105 correct in order to pass the exam and get my license.
Tuesday I head back down to Columbus for yet MORE training.
On the 29th I head to Chicago for our team kick-off for the new Fiscal Year which began in June.
It’s been a very expensive and very busy month so far. (I have to float all expenses up front and then I get reimbursed at the end of the month via check.)
But I’ve missed you all, and I wonder if you missed me? I’ve been taking some pictures here and there, documenting outfits and landscapes and experiences and hopefully I can start to post some of them which I owe you–Like MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND and my WEDDING SHOWER–but not until after this exam Monday.
Love,
Mae K (soon to be Mae L)
life on the road
Is lonely!!
Here are some thoughts from the road…
Backwater town Dunkirk… The gastation won’t allow one in if she is wearing a bathing suit or halter top. Pop. 100; churches 4. Hicks 100.
–Dunkirk OH, 6/2/09 6PM
No wireless access in Kenton… Decent sized town, most fun thing in town to do seems the local MacDonalds, local eateries and driving like an asshole.
–Kenton, OH 630PM
OMG: I just saw my first Amish person! Authentic in a horse drawn white carriage. He had a wonderful camel coloured hat on, a full beard, paperbag pants with old-fashioned suspender braces, a horse whose coat had been proudly brushed to a silky sheen and a buggy so white and clean you could probably see your self in the paint reflection.
Between Kenton and nowheresville, OH 6 something PM.
Deer was chillin’ on the freeway. It only ran back across my lane and into the woods when it saw me coming (as slowly as I safely could…)
–Outside Marysville, OH 710PM
At hotel now. Realise GoogleMaps likes to think back country roads are the most direct route somewhere just because they “look” that way on a map. Uh, no, Google–you’re quite mistaken. Long road trip. About the same time it would take me to drive up to LA when I lived in San Diego, but only there was WAY less traffic. 3.5 hours, give or take.
Ugh. Hotel smells funny–forgot my pillow. I’m going to sleep on a T-shirt.
–Dublin, OH 754PM
Dinner time! What’s around here?
Went to Macaroni Grill next door–just called in an order. She asked what car to lookout for, and I told her to look out for the little Asian on foot in green, and she sounded puzzled. Sounds like the people who frequent the hotels around here fucking drive the block or two from their hotel to the various restaurants nearby. Ghetto, and very Guzzle. Not cool, children!
Now I have a conundrum since I finished my very late dindin–do I throw away the metal + plastic cartons with the leftovers, or do I let them sit overnight, look for a garbage bin to throw the food into tomorrow and take them home to recycle Friday? Option 2 is obvz the right thing to do…but seriously? Dairy salad dressing + fish sitting in a non-air-tight carton in my car is seriously unappealing. I got eco-guilt fro$ even thinking about throwing away perfectly recyclable items, but alas, this is the life on the road!
I’ve already started a bag for all other items I CAN recycle. It’s a sickness I tell you. But imagine if everyone we as dedicated as I? The world would be cleaner with lower electricity bills to boot!
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I really dug my outfit today–plain and simple–but I have no decent shots uploaded. My camera died as soon as I finished taking a few globber (blogger) shots.
Filed under .occurences | Comments (3)again and again
The Wolf got me again. I’m all kinds of swollen and my joints feel terribly stiff and achy whenever I try to move.
Am so damn sick and tired of canker sores and fingers like sausages, pain in my mouth so bad I speak with a lisp. Got five sores on my tongue and inner bottom lip. No, aspirin and Ibuprofen don’t help so much. Alcohol does a bit. Can’t sit still for too long without pain shooting through a limb when I stretch… But all I want to do is lie down.
When does it end? I think I need new meds–these ones ain’t workin’ so hot.
Sorry for the emo-whining, I am just tired of it.
Filed under .inward | Comment (1)Friday Confessional: Lazy, Busy, same difference!
Same difference, guys. Same difference.
Dumb phrase, but oh so pertinent.
I had a great holiday in San Diego with my family and best friends (I grew up there). Saturday night was my bachelorette party and Sunday was my Wedding Shower. It was insane!
Filed under .occurences | Comment (1)Friday Confessional: Confused?
Yesterday, Nate and I went to lunch at a Middle-Eastern restaurant, and the owner’s son (our server) told me I looked exactly like his 4 month comatose ex-girlfriend of 9 years, and I ruined his day for that.
Then he took it back and said I made his day, and he didn’t mean to say I ruined his day. But I look exactly like her, and he felt like he was looking at her when I walked in and he wanted to cry. She was beautiful, apparently…
Uh, sorry?
Uh, thank you?
Uh, excuse me?
How does one react to such a thing?
Filed under .occurences | Comments (2)Bullets and Lists: Introversion
Bullet thoughts. Mid March
PC. Elinkan, Childhood Flames, The Clothes Horse, The New Black, Niotillfem, Fashiontoast.
More lists after the *jump. Continue reading »
Filed under Lists, .on fashion | Comments (7)Friday Confessional: I have a new girlfriend (Steez Post)
I think it’s no secret that I’m a geek… nerd…
You know… someone who enjoys comics, animé, sci-fi, videogames, graphic novels and action figures and what not. Revels in the joy that is technology. Pulsates with thrill whenever she gets a new electronic gadget, listens to the reviews of CES every year…
I felt slightly empty when Battlestar Galactica aired it’s final episode. Fearing there was nothing else worthwhile watching, I frantically looked for another show to immerse myself in… (and only realised later, that Hello! LOST is still around for another year)…
And I found Firefly on DVD, and then Dollhouse.
I’m a bi-polar obsessive (heavy, heavy, but in spurts) when it comes to Joss Whedon TV shows.
First there was Buffy, the ass-kicking dramady series that delighted feminists and comic book geeks the world round, of which I was a devotee from Episode 1… Any show that combined fashion and a girl all of 5′2″ kicking monster ass, well, it was high up on my book. Esp because it had such great writing… Most of my slang-age is ripped somewhere or another from some Buffy episode. Yes, I know. I’m so not original.
Well… Dollhouse has been on since Jan on Fox as a mid-season replacement show. Leave it to Fox to fuck with Joss Whedon’s genius by putting such a great TV show on a Friday night when all the cool people who make TV ratings soar are probably out enjoying a social life. Seriously, TV-Suits? If you want the demographic you are aiming for to watch your fucking shows, don’t air the shows on a night they are likely to be out gallivanting around town and enjoying their youth. Air them on a night when there are no free-drinks or ladies night specials and they are likely to be ready to zone out in front of the boob tube before the next day of work. Like, Tuesday at 9…!
So… Again, another nightmare threatens yet another brilliant Whedon show. Imagine my horror when I found out about it on Twitter. The leagues of Whedon fans need to join together yet again to support the great cause of saving Dollhouse!
Here’s how:
1. Visit: Save Dollhouse, create an account, and leave a comment about exactly what it is that you love about Dollhouse. BuddyTV will consolidate and send it as a “petition” to the Suits at Fox to let them know it is a well-loved show and why they’d be fucktards to pull it.
Here’s what I love about it:
One of the most intelligently written, and intricate shows on TV right now. Since other Whedon shows left TV, there’s been a hole for good, well-written shows with good action, razor-sharp wit, and great production value. Dollhouse fills that void. If it’s taken off the air, seriously clever, brilliant viewers will be aching for another intelligent show. There’s nothing else really worth watching lately with all the drivel people have been writing for TV (with the exception of LOST). This show is imperative to smart people’s entertainment pleasure. If Fox pulls it, it will prove yet again that the network is run by a bunch of stupid douchebag Suits who have no respect for clever people or their viewers, or an inkling of what makes a great TV show.
(oh, and Tamoh Penikett who played Lt. Karl “Helo” Agathon on Battlestar Galactica is one of the main characters, too….)
2.Spread the word ON TWITTER and on BLOGS NEAR YOU. Log on to your twitter account and tweet out this message (exactly as it appears):
Support Joss: Save Dollhouse. Fans get their voices heard @BuddyTV http://tinyurl.com/SaveDollhouse Please ReTweet and join the cause.
3. Add BuddyTV on Twitter and follow the progress of the campaign to save the show.
Oh, I forgot to mention…
In the style of the Steel Closet Crew’s “My New Girlfriend” article series: Eliza Dushku is my new-old girlfriend. We’ve got a rekindled flame here. (Who did not seriously love her as the rogue Slayer in Season 3 of Buffy?) She’s the show’s producer and main star. And as Echo, she is brutally hot… And versatile. Playing a different character (or two) in each episode not only showcases her talent, but her understanding of the demands of different roles, and her own willingness to delve into various souls and spheres in order to perform those roles. She’s incredible.
And did I mention how hot she is? Yeah, I know. Yeah.
Filed under steez, Seriously Important, .occurences | Comments (3)Steez Post: Blue Skies, Wide-Open Spaces (What I Wore)
The miserable weather that are mornings in May in Michigan… (whew!)
… make me wish for blue skies, wide-open, grassy fields, vibrant sprinklings of wild flowers and the fragrance of the sea somewhere beyond the horizon.
Instead, I have hills dotted with McMansions, bumper to bumper traffic on sidestreets as there is construction on every major freeway in spitting distance, and endless grey above my head.
I’ve planted a little container garden on my patio and moved our little table over to a corner of it. I have little green things peeping at me from the rich soil of their little contained, ceramic or wood world, whenever I feel an itching for brilliant green in my dark apartment.
Now that I’m done with school, I have these hankerings to do things again, but bad habits have replaced what little dedication I had to studying, and I find myself endlessly in front of the TV, watching shows or playing video games. I think I should exercise or run, but I’m predisposed to laze about, or nap. Much to my own detriment.
I’ve taken to wearing blue and green in my outfits just to inspire myself… that’s about as far as the inspiration goes, though: clothes.
Stripey Shirt: F21, Scarf: Old Navy, Cumberbund skirt: Mango, Tote: Koko (it’s actually a lunch tote), Patent Mary-Janes: Bakers
Necklace: Vintage from France.
Organic shrug, Shop Ruche. Sheer tank, F21. Stripey tanky thingy, H & M. Jeans, Fire (Kohl’s). Necklace: French vintage. Shoes, Jeffrey Campbell.
