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So you want to get in touch with me but I don't have anything listed on my profile, huh? And you want something faster than a pm? Problem solved.

AIM: metalbender pwns (alternatively: hackerchroma, mybffharo)
MSN: motoko.kusanagi@hotmail.com

Or you can leave a message here if I'm offline. Same if you just happen to be skipping through LJ, go ahead and comment asking for a friend add. Saying why you think we should be friends saves me from snooping around your profile and stuff when I have a friend add I don't know where the hell it came from. All comments initially screened. :)b

Yeah. I seriously had an adventure today. I got a phone call a bit before two from my cousin Phylicia, who lives up in Vermont. She and her friend had come down to Massachusetts to go to Six Flags and somewhere around Chicopee, their car broke down. So after some internal debating and calling work to tell them I might be late, I got my brother to get some directions to the gas station they were at off of google and off we went. I mean, I couldn't just leave her there. My mom was at school, my dad was at work, our aunts and uncles are either out of state or farther east, and since my grandmother has Alzheimers, my grandfather can't exactly take her out with him in the event she wanders off or something and she can't be left home alone either. Besides, I'd feel like a total piece of shit if I abandoned family like that.

It went smoothly enough at first until we got closer to the Granby/Chickopee/Springfield area. We got lost and turned around several times until we stopped at some convenience store. The clerk wasn't much help but some guy with a tan and a really baggy shirt managed to point us in the right direction. We soon found it, as well as my cousin and her friend. So from there we tried to find our way to I-91 and got a little lost in the process, but after stopping for directions twice, we found it. Then once we got off, they decided they were going to wait for the friend's dad to pick them up at the Holyoke Mall. So then we got lost looking for that and stopped once more in Springdale (I think) and got directions, only to almost get lost on the way there courtesy of a wrong turn, but we found it by continuing a little down the road. So after we let them out at the mall, they gave us the simple instructions to get back home. Luckily, we managed not to get lost on the way back to Route 2. However, at this point I was already late for work and I still had to drop off my brother at his friend's house. So I did that before turning around for work, ending up there about an hour late. I had a decent shift, luckily it was slow, so I didn't have too much fitting room work. At 9:20 the store was decently clean so me and my coworker got to head off early. So I spent that time to go fill up my recently drained tank and drop off my coworker at home.

I finally got home at 10, and its amazing that eating a slim jim while you pump gas will remind you of how hungry you are, if you failed to eat anything from when your brother wakes you up at 12:30 in the afternoon to that point in time. >_>;;; So I had dinner when I got home.

EDIT: Now including this handy map I color-coded to illustrate where I've been. Green is the start point (2pm), red is the 'end point' (6:30pm), purple is the route there, blue is the one going back, and orange is my return trip home.

On the upside, friend's and family night is tomorrow so I've got a couple things on hold and totally looking forward to shopping while I work. :3 Also making note, if I have some extra money, I need at least one new shirt for work.

And for some random entertainment, a video I found whilst hunting around youtube:

Inventory sucks. I wasn't even there when they were doing it, but oh my fuck. The store was a fucking pit, like a tornado had gone through it. It's not even this bad during the holidays, and that's saying something. And they somehow thought I could clean up the floor afterward. Alone.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. No. :| That's not happening after you tell me to spend about two hours folding up shirts when I still need to take my half, do the fitting rooms, cover the half for the only girl in shoes, and did I mention the customer assist calls too? Those take a while sometimes. You got the fitting rooms all nice and sparkly clean out of me though, so have fun with coming in to that when you all come in for inventory again. I just feel bad for whoever has the store after inventory tomorrow, but if they did it right, I think my coworker has a bit of company for the end of the night.

Oh, but you know, that was really nice of you to try calling someone in to help me from 5ish-9:30 though. You probably should've checked the schedule first before calling because then you would've realized I was already coming in before calling me. Fail....

So hopefully, I'll have er... today to myself and lappy before I go back for my 12:30-9:30 murder shift on Friday. Not looking forward to that at all.


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More pointless news from Tophie:

I got a 2 am fireworks show. Some of my neighbors on the other side of the hill were setting off a bunch of them (illegally) and I found that by sticking the upper half of my body out the window, I could enjoy the show. Very, very pretty. It was a short show, which is understandable since 1) it was around 2 in the morning, and 2) they're illegal to set off unless you've got a permit or some shit to set them off (which no one really ever does).

And I have a pointless picture show, courtesy of Pandemic 2.

Earlier, I was getting frustrated in that I could not, yet again, infect Madagascar in any way shape or form, NO MATTER HOW MUCH NINJA STEALTH MY SYMPTOMS HAD it would always shut its sole shipyard before I could get to it. And then, lo and behold, I was spamming Miri with updates, asking for random advice , etc. when she gave me an idea to call it DYLANDY RAGE. That shit was so powerful, I ended up infecting Madagascar right after the shipyard closed. Unfortunately, they made a vaccine to stop me from infecting more people, so I started fresh. This time, I added five more a's to RAGE and I started in Madagascar. The next round featured 'DEADLANDY RAGE' (don't feel bad, I lol'd), which showed up at number 7 on the high score list. :3

But moving on, my final round was quite epic. I started in Japan, set a few things before leaving the game to fend for itself for... I don't know how long. When I looked back, every single last region had been infected by my disease, whose only symptom was a fever. Yes... this included Madagascar. So I tossed on a bunch more symptoms in order to whittle down the world's population. And it worked. Wonderfully. In fact, it worked so well, I won for the first time ever. And because it was still so close to after midnight.... I landed on the high score list again.

Oh, and when I was walking in to work on Saturday, some bitch in a white Dodge Neon almost hit me as I was crossing the parking lot. I didn't have time to memorize her license plate number or copy it down, so I contented myself by flipping her off.

After work Sunday, I felt like baking again, so now I still have about a dozen oatmeal raisin cookies that I made at 10 o'clock. Before I get the sudden urge to make any more though... I need more stick margarine, brown sugar, and vanilla extract.

So I survived. It definitely wasn't as bad as last year, but I'm not looking forward to my shift tomorrow/later today since I'll be alone on the floor, and those shifts tend to make me miserable. Or at the very least, tired for a while. Maybe I can grab up some of the Chinese my mom brought home for late lunch/early dinner to bring with me. And some of the oatmeal raisin cookies I made. Yum....

Now I'm off to eliminate the world with a strange bacteria of my concoction to classical music. Fucking Madagascar, I'll get you yet....

For anyone looking for me, I'm up in Vermont for the rest of today and coming home tomorrow. Working 1:30 to 7 so I doubt I'll be online until close to 8pm EST.

Totally gonna take a nap on the ride up since I haven't really slept yet....

Wow, imagine that. I'm posting again already! *gasp* What a surprise!

But yeah, I've got something awesome to share for anyone who has firefox. For anyone who's had to deal with Veoh's 5 minute thing, Megavideo's 72 minute video limit, etc. and is sick of it, I have found a wonderful plugin to ease your frustration.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11037

It's an experimental plugin and the page has a description of everything it does and... *_______*



Now for those who care about what's going on in the life of Tophie, I have Monday through Thursday off from work which while I'm happy with having time to bum around, that's just that much less money I have for school and whatnot. With luck, I've also managed to pull myself from my financial hole, which I would rather not go into detail about.

I also ended up with a 12-6:30 shift on the Fourth of July. Again. I am praying to every deity and higher power out there to save my sorry ass in that my sole coworker that afternoon does not call out for fear of another incident like last year. Not good and not pretty.

Weather forecast is... scattered thunderstorms. So no trip to York Beach tomorrow... er, later today. ): Oh well, I forgot to shave my legs anyway. rofl

Oh yeah, and as if I can't say it enough, my wireless is a sack of cocks. It keeps fizzing out every once in a while at some really bad times, especially when I'm in the middle of something.

To-Do List:

1. Continue paying my bills and stuff on time.
2. Send out owed Christmas cards... >___>;;;
3. Stop being such a slacker on school work.
4. ???
5. profit Learn to keep some things for myself instead of blabbing.
6. Finish Code Geass
7. Use plurk more
8. Keep on practicing manga coloring
9. Renew registration for van before end of July
10. Put more money in paypal

So I realize I haven't posted on this thing in a while.

I can only think of a couple things to update for recent stuff.

-I need to remember that split shifts at work are evil and I must not automatically say "yes" every time work calls me to come in. ...But it means I get paid a bit more. Decisions, decisions.

-I should probably stop staying up until it gets light outside. Yes I realize 7:40 in the morning is an absolutely insane time to stay up to. 5:50 is no better... and neither is 5.

-Doing markdowns at work was the kind of mindless labor I needed for a shift starting at 7 am. Yes, I'm grateful for the extra hours. Yes, I'm glad I had the rest of the day for whatever. No, I do not like mornings at all. Particularly, anything before 10 am. :| Lazy, yes. Do I care, not really. I like my night shifts better because I'm more awake at night. Whether or not it's because I stay up so late has yet to be decided since I could be staying up late because I'm more of a night person.

-I might make some brownies before work if there's time. Or pudding if my dad got some. I need sugar. XD;;;

-I should probably make an icon post at some point. I've probably accumulated a metric fuck ton since my last one... in January.

-Need to renew the registration on the Green Monster before the end of next month or I'm in deep shit.

-...Pretty sure a headache means I should get sleep.

-Oh right, my inbox magically fixed itself the other day. Good thing too, I was going nuts without it. :/

Questions? Comments? Bueller? Night.

Day three of laptoplessness. Between my mom's graduation and work yesterday, there wasn't much time for the internet anyway.

I did get to spend three hours out in the sun though. It was alright, until I realized I had a sunburn on my arms, forehead, nose, and the top of my head when I was at work a few hours later.

The graduation, I sort of liked because they didn't list off the names of the 4000+ students who were graduating or else I wouldn't have been able to get to work on time. It was kinda funny to see all the students down there tossing around beach balls once in a while. And the crowd got a good laugh when the lady making the opening announcements and such referred to the Senior Provost (I think that was his title) as the Senior Pervert.

Texting with Lisie and Tia was pretty awesome after the ceremony, so I'm hoping they have lots of pictures to share. Hopefully AmyJack'll have some pictures too.

Now off to work I go. I doubt I'll get any computer time, so I might end up going back to playing through Pokemon Gold some more as I just started a new file a couple days ago.

This is just to inform you all that the power supply on my shitty laptop has some exposed/frayed wires and now lappy won't turn on. So I won't be around the net much, if at all. If I'm lucky I'll be able to hijack the family desktop, but the most you'll see of me might be on AIM. So for now, I'll be trying to get a new one off of ebay.

Good luck trying to catch me on my piece of shit phone. If it doesn't decide to screw me over too, my number is 978-846-8808. Best chance is to text me since it's been know to shut itself off in the middle of calls sometimes.

Later days, guys. Maybe I'll be back fully in about a week.

...To advertise myself on a meme. XD

THE ANONYMOUS WRITING FEEDBACK MEME

If you want to find what I've written, tophieworks is the place to go. I don't even remember all the shit on my ff.net account anymore.


Not really much to say, but if anyone wants to catch up on anything, go ahead and ask here or im me: metalbender pwns on AIM, motoko.kusanagi@hotmail.com on MSN. Cool? Cool.

I am turning twenty in exactly one month.

...

Fuck I feel old.



Sorry for those of you already older than twenty, but this is so fucking weird for me. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah @_________@

So as it would seem, some habits are a little hard to break. For example, getting a bag of Starburst and staying up past 4:30 in the morning just to do whatever since there is no more Gundam 00 to watch.

Work was... weird last night. Sure I was there for four hours, but a note on the task sheet informed my coworker and I that no other MCA's had been around since 3. And we both got in at 5. Meaning the fitting rooms had been left to their own devices for two hours. Luckily, I only had kids, home fashions, and mens, my three favorite areas. And as my fitting rooms weren't horrible, I helped out Shauna with the one in misses that had gotten trashed. Then, I spent the next two hours working on my fitting rooms and customer assist calls. Then I had more fitting room work when I got back. All in all, I had about an hour and a half to clean up my areas as best I could. Thankfully, they weren't in absolutely terrible condition and I got kids and home fashions looking fairly decent. Bill, the lead in mens, had been keeping an eye on the area (more or less, between other things he needed to do) and I did what I could there towards the end of the night.

High point of the night: I got to make the closing announcements. Something I've only done once before, and it's never not amusing to inform customers (nicely) to gtfo the store and come back tomorrow.

Low point of the night: About ten minutes before I went on my break, I was putting away the rolling rack I pulled from the boys fitting room (which is almost always empty) only to have a customer inform me that someone left a dirty diaper in one of the two stalls. Gotta love people. ♥

I had this massive entry that I wrote up over the past hour and LJ ate it. I will share about my life later or in the comments. Pick a category (based on what I had been planning on rambling about in traditional teal deer format) and I'll talk about it. Each category has a different amount of details that I'll share about.

1. Work
2. Graphic Novel class
3. LJ/DDD anniversary
4. The advantages of silent dropping
5. My fucked up dream from Thursday
6. Fandom-related stuff (sub-categories: Deadman Wonderland, Gundam 00, Static)
7. April Fools Day

One thing I will mention is that I finally got my cell phone topped up. Now I just have to charge it. :X Sleeping now, will return to f-list stalking eventually.

I still think snow kind of sucks, I'm getting sick of it. Not helped by the foot or so I pushed off my van yesterday. :/ Also, slipped on an icy patch as I was heading to this class. Weird how it didn't hurt much though.

Wireless randomly died around 3 in the morning and after half an hour of trying to get it to work again, I gave up and went to bed.

So currently, I'm sitting in applied stats, where I'd normally have no computer, but we swapped rooms with the class who's normally in this computer lab so the professor could teach us how to use some math program called 'minitab'. I can totally hear her and I'm listening (sort of, but then I'm sort of listening on a daily basis and I'm pretty sure I'm still passing, so hush. >_>;;;) Also confused as to why the school computers keep firefox under 'math programs'. Ah well, the more you know.

Be back online (hopefully) once I get home. If I'm not on at all when I get home between 2 and 3 (yes, EST), my wireless is still being a slut and you can bet money that I will be fuming at my laptop, the wireless, or both.



AND BEFORE I FORGET


HAPPY 18TH FEL!

(I've got a couple icons for you that I need to fix up when I get home. :3)

☢THE GODDAMN ____ MEME



I don't have much to share right now. My aunt and cousins came down from Vermont and them, me, and my parents went out for dinner, which was nice. My mom and I should be going to visit them at my grandparents a bit later tonight. I'm also vaguely interested in meeting my cousin's boyfriend who took a train into Worcester (and I'm guessing they'll be bringing him back up.) Maybe it's the part of me that sees her as the younger sister I never had but always wished I did, seeing as I was throwing a bunch of questions at her last night.

It's also kind of weird not having my brother around too. I don't mind that he's gone (because a little break from him using up the bandwidth for torrenting is nice), but I almost miss him calling me at random to show me something, whether it's part of a conversation he was having or a part of a show he's watching. Ah well, he'll be back Saturday night.

Uh... obligatory meebo is a sack of cocks that was just fine before they moved around their page set-up, the weather is absolutely beautiful today so I drove home with my window down (without freezing half my face, thank you very much), and... a to-do list!

( To-Do List under here )

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As I type, /m/ is slowly killing their livers.

Maybe I'll cry like a baby when I watch the sub....

Good ep... all things considered, I kind of liked it.

Oh right, gfg crew, if you see this, I probably won't be on much tomorrow to catch most of you so go ahead and watch the raw without me. A-and have a tissue box ready just in case. ;_;

Dear Sunrise,

If at all possible, I would like a refund on my brain. You seem to have exploded it with epic. And the ED was just fucking gorgeous.

Much love for now, Tophie ♥~

Also, Laney was actually awake so I had someone to babble with while watching the raw stream~! \o/

( Log from during episode 15, VERY SPOILER HEAVY, TREAD WITH CAUTION )

...So it's almost been a week since I last posted. S'up f-list? For the incredibly curious for anyone who wants to know what's been up with Tophie... here you go.

Roleplay
1. I finally dragged my lazy ass to apping at crucible_rpg, because I love playing with Fel's Lyle, and I was accepted. \o/
2. Epic thread at 8_dressing is currently at 983 and still going.
3. Still debating whether I should app Feldt at digital_dive so I don't feel bad when I get unlazy and drop Mimi officially.
4. I really really want to take a prompt set from ddd_prompts but whenever I sign up for something like that, I tend to just flop on them and shove them to some dark corner of my brain and I can't bring myself to write or anything. Plus, I dunno if I'd use Motoko or Feldt.
5. New first person sample for Eris. Need that done asap, either today or tomorrow. orz I'm so lazy.

Fandomish stuff
1. Praying I can kick sleep to the curb for a bit and stay up for the raw stream and that it will be as good quality as last week.
2. I've got a fill I need to finish on the Gundam 00 kinkmeme, and then a quick cracky piece I thought of about a week ago and haven't acted on.

Real life shit
1. It took me three months, but I finally went to get an inspection sticker for my van. Slightly leaky exhaust and some bad spots of rust on the rear wheel rims of the body got me a rejection sticker. So I have another 60 days to get a new sticker! Better than risking getting caught with an expired one and fined though. And before you start going "Well shit Tophie, how can you still drive that thing if it failed?" I'll have you know that it is still very driveable.
2. Work is being shit about giving me hours. I had none all last week. I had none all this past week. I have none scheduled for next week either. However, I went in and bitched about my lack of hours to my managers (I HAVE BILLS TO PAY DAMMIT) and I talked to the cashier lead to see if I could swap over temporarily as a cashier (something I'm not all too happy about given that I'll be pressured to get credit apps) but I am very desperate for hours and all the MCA hours are going to the full-timers. :|
2.b. I got a call around 4:15 from work to see if I could cover for the girl in shoes who was sick, so I went in for 5 and stayed till close at 9. Lucky night for me, since I have an idea of what I'm doing there now (as compared to April when I was kind of clueless). So yay for four hours of pay.
3. Last Saturday, I went with my mom to visit my grandmother, the one with Alzheimer's. I dunno what happened to me, but I was pretty quiet and it was so weird for me. I mean, I've been in nursing homes before, when we went to visit my great-grandmothers before they died, but besides not remembering who any of us were... it just hurts. It fucking hurts seeing her like this. My mom said she was going back to visit, but I can't being myself to.
4. You know those Christmas cards I promised? Totally sending them out this Tuesday, I swear. (I'd do it Monday, but it's sort of a holiday. :D;;;)

School stuff
1. Got all my books but one. Ouch.
2. Nerdiest class in the history of forever. I can has it. It's on the graphic novel and one of the books that was on our list was Watchmen, so I'm looking forward to the class-assigned reading for once. XD

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*dies*



Now someone make me go do tags....