Feeling :  awakeawake  Listening :  Ramble Tamble - CCR  Reading :  Sex with the Queen by Eleanor Herman

I added a ton of new wallpapers to Moonchild, my photography portfolio, which I’ve moved to a separate subdomain and gave it a name. Some of them aren’t credited with my URL, and that’s because they were originally ljsecrets that I had saved and made into wallpaper size.

I usually save ljsecrets because they mean something to me in some way at that particular time. But I had much too many saved. So I printed some out, and put them in a huge plastic frame from Target that originally had the Killers in it, so that if ppl really want to know me, they can read the secrets, and say, “Yeah, that was her.” The rest I made into wallpapers, and the others, I deleted because a lot of them were when I was feeling really emo and I just don’t want that cloud hanging over me anymore.

Speaking of subdomains, I moved my writing portfolio to a separate one as well, and named it One Touch. Having it a part of WordPress was easy for awhile there, but the script is generally meant to power a blog, and it seemed silly to have everything all in one place. I think it looks neater now that it’s not altogether actually. Plus it gives me an excuse to make more layouts, rofl.

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My birthday was amazing, thanks for asking. At least I think so. I got phone calls from my mom, Kat, and 2 of my brothers. I got emails/texts from my eldest brother, Corinne, my cousin T, and my friend D. I got greetings from nearly everybody else in comments here on Memento mori, MySpace, and TKO.

I’m not big on presents. In my family, we rarely wait for holidays to buy gifts for each other. So my whole thing is, just remember me. A phone call, email, text, whatever. I don’t care. I just want to know that someone out there cares about me enough on my special day to say “Happy birthday.”

So thanks to everyone for that. Every greeting made my day a little brighter, it really did.

I couldn’t fall asleep Tuesday morning because I had closed at work the night before, and I was so excited about turning 24. So when my alarm went off 4 hours later, I wasn’t feeling it AT ALL. I dragged myself to my morning classes, and fell asleep during Pop Culture because the movie we were watching (”Metropolis”) I had seen a long time ago. If I wasn’t so tired, I would’ve stayed up to watch it. Luckily, my professor shut the lights off, so I was cool. It’s one of my favourite films though. I’m going to buy it eventually. I messed around online for a bit, went to Literature of the American West, then decided to skip on Bible as Lit that night in favour of picking up my pancit and a shot of Captain Morgan’s.

Let me tell you: I honestly took forever to pick up my pancit. I arrived just in time, but stupid me, thinking I could avoid traffic on the way home, took Blue Diamond. Durf! Everyone’s trying to get home around that time, and I had to sit through that godawful afternoon valley traffic with my iPod playing all the damn slow songs I had on the playlist I was listening to. Eurgh. I had eaten a light lunch as well, so smelling the pancit in the car was KILLING me. I was like, “Do I have a fork? Can I balance the party tray on my lap and eat it in between slamming on my brakes?” rofl.

My dad complained that I didn’t pick up anything else. Lumpia, kaldereta, fried fish, BBQ sticks, etc. I was like, “I don’t have any money!” I didn’t. I had just enough for the tray.

He goes, “Why didn’t you ask? I had money!”

*headdesk*

That’s how it works in my family. If you don’t tell whoever is shopping to get something, we don’t get it. Then you have to field complaints from everyone else in the house that we don’t have such and such. I love my family. We’re so crazy. haha.

I had never tasted rum before, and of course, when I took the first shot, I was practically drinking on an empty stomach. The pancit hadn’t hit my stomach just yet. So full of birthday cake, pancit, and rum, I slept for a couple of hours on my couch, rofl.

I’m pretty much going to keep the craziest part of my 24th birthday celebrations for Sunday, seeing as how it’s my Academy Is… gig, and my mom will be here. I will definitely let you know what happens then. Yay!

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Taken from pretty much everyone on my flist at LJ, and I wouldn’t have bothered posting the results if they weren’t so hilarious/depressing.

1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com/.
2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.
3. Take their “Career Matchmaker” questions.
4. Post the top ten fifteen results

1. Curator
2. Director of Photography
3. Set Designer
4. Costume Designer
5. Director
6. Special Effects Technician
7. Website Designer
8. Desktop Publisher
9. Sign Maker
10. Animator
11. Fashion Designer
12. Cartoonist / Comic Illustrator
13. Gunsmith
14. Sports Official
15. Pet Groomer

Lorraine and I pretty much agree that for questions that were pretty ambiguous, the results hit the nail on the head for both of us.

History has always been a favourite subject of mine. Always, always, always. As I take more upper division English classes, I sometimes wish I had majored in History instead. I don’t want to change now, because I’m almost done with the classes required for my Bachelor’s in English. If I could, I would definitely work as a museum curator somewhere if I could.

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What’s Your Spiritual Type?

You scored 80, on a scale of 25 to 100. Here’s how to interpret your score:

25 - 29 Hardcore Skeptic — but interested or you wouldn’t be here!
30 - 39 Spiritual Dabbler — Open to spiritual matters but far from impressed
40 - 49 Active Spiritual Seeker – Spiritual but turned off by organized religion
50 - 59 Spiritual Straddler – One foot in traditional religion, one foot in free-form spirituality
60 - 69 Old-fashioned Seeker — Happy with my religion but searching for the right expression of it
70 - 79 Questioning Believer – You have doubts about the particulars but not the Big Stuff
80 - 89 Confident Believer – You have little doubt you’ve found the right path
90 - 100 Candidate for Clergy

My friends back in Cali were posting quizzes they found on BeliefNet, and this is another one on that site. I’m pleased with the results.

?: “Have you ever taken a quiz and thought to yourself, ‘Wow that’s really accurate?’”