Evangeline

09:28 pm: ..they popped out of the ground...like daisies!
...http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4331057/1/Sucked_Into_a_Movie_Must_Be_Dreaming

...makes me ashamed to call myself an mk fangirl.

It has all the makes of a bad 'self insert', and it's just the first chapter. If they have any of the male characters ( this goes doubly for Shang Tsung and Liu Kang)...I'm gonna have to invest in some barf bags.

gah....once I get my schedule for my job at the country club, I'm gonna go back to writing fanfiction that would make mortal kombat proud. not curl up and die by 'sparkly poo fangirls.'

02:00 am: trial: day 1
First 'non' official day of internship:

first off...ok so it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be...

anyone with any 'I told you so's'..reconsider.

The worst of it was when I finally got to the place because it was all 'hi, new worker here...awkward'. So I find that for today they have me working as food prep. that's fine, I can deal with that, no problem.

first task: chop up different sorts of berries ( or 'squash' as far as the raspberries are concerned- that was a fun task), mix in parsley and honey and blend together. What wasn't so easy was slicing up julienning strawberries with a sharp knife and trying to not laugh when one of the guys is laughing over something on family guy.

second: slicing and peeling ( and in some cases 'deseeding') a hotel pan full of roasted and marinated vegetables...the slipperiness doesn't make it any easier-whole, marinated and roasted eggplant's a bitch to de-seed, not to mention peel.

I still have fire roasted red pepper skin under my finger nails

third: taking a large can of mussels, removing the 'muscle ( this little tough muscle they use to attach to the shells) and setting them on a roasting pan.

and for those concerned: I was wearing rubber gloves

fourth: scrubbing sand off of five pounds of clams
I did get a little carried away with the scrubbing, so this took a tad longer than it should have.

after that I just cleaned up the station before I was given permission to leave.

tomorrow:  3PM, helping make the actual orders for customers...and on a Friday evening..eek.

All and all, I did actually enjoy working there. the two guys that manage the place did tell me thanks for helping out and they hope to see me tomorrow, So I think it went well, I just hope they actually say that again tomorrow.

Tags: internship

06:46 pm: the hell is wrong with this picture?
ok, so I finally got the internship at the spanish restaurant after two weeks of scheduling..well, it's not a solid deal. they want me to come back Thursday and Friday during the dinner shifts so we can all see just what I'm capable of...
but I'm about 90% close to having the internship finalized and having a summer job.

So why do I feel like complete blah, instead of being all green and fluffy.

could be the heat...there aren't any breezes going in my direction.

04:08 pm: Danger Will Robinson..Danger
Watch the Moon
"ScorpionSubZero After both fighters had defeated Onaga, the two decided to go on another new journey. They both had decided to become teachers, at HOGWARTS! HPxMK! oh my...warning: OOCness but we always see that on fan fictions right?"

Yuu22, thank you very much for the warning.

In normal situations, a summary for fanfiction is a supposed to be a hook, something that would make me want to read your story.
...However, there are several things wrong with your summary. I say summary because I don't want to have to put soap in my eyes in the risk of reading your fic

wrongness #1: ...ScorpionSubZero...why why why must I see this "pairing"...Seriously, fangirls, just because they're rivals and maybe not enemies anymore, that does not mean their going to be lovers. They could be allies, or they could just call it a truce: meaning they don't really like eachother, but they agree to not kill eachother.

There are other 'rival relationships' besides 'enemies' and lovers...please feel free to explore either-for the sake of my poor brain.

Wrongness #2: ( goes with #1) the 'romance' factor...from the reviews, you've made SubZero the 'uke' ( is that how it's spelled). Why..why why why...is Sub Zero always the more 'submissive'? Is it because Scorpion's the tough 'bad ass? Think for a moment, if it's not too headache inducing. Sub Zero has been a paid assassin his entire life, he spent the Outworld invasion hiding from cybornetic ninjas ( including his best friend) bent on either exterminating him or capturing him while at the same time avoiding the extermination squads bent on killing his as well. When that's all said and done, he goes to help defeat Shinnok and reform the Lin Kuei..

So tell me, how the fuck does all of that translate to Sub Zero being 'submissive'?

wrongness #3: Howarts crossover...come on, why would Sub Zero become a teacher to a British wizarding school. He's already leader of his own clan, he'd be too busy teaching in another continent.  Besides, there's already a 'freezing charm' why would his skills be required.
Scorpion, I could sort of see...but only if it's explained clearly enough, not because it would 'look badass'.

Wrongness #4: ..atleast you admit to OOCness. what you loose points on though, is that unless it's a parody or just deliberate, fanfiction is no excuse for oocnes, it's not. Putting a character in a different situation doesn't make them ooc, because they'll still 'act' like their character.

Take Sub Zero: (this goes to #2)..just because the guy has a lot of crap thrown at him, that doesn't mean he's suddenly going to burst into tears and cry on someone's shoulder. Why? because that's not him. He might talk to a close friend ( note I said 'friend' not 'lover') about it in private, but he's not going to cry/weep/sob about it, instead he's going to toughen up, solve whatever problem's at hand and go on with life
that is 'in  character' folks.

Class over fangirls. There will be a test next time.

Tags: what the freakin hell

10:25 am: need..black..tea
woot!..I have Nyquil, no more struggling to breath at night

boo...cough and throat are a pain in the ass
head won't behave..and I can't find any (black) tea bags.
Screw iced tea, I want hot tea...with honey, honey's good.

02:09 am: *incoherrant ramblings*
there..are..no..words....

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4080286/1/Mortal_Kombat_A_different_Story

*blinks*...please..please someone tell me this is a parody..really...no...why...why...why why why...

It's official...it can be set in writing that I'm a Mortal Kombat Fanfiction masochist

Tags: what the freakin hell

05:47 pm: Reply to this post, and I will list three things I love about you. Maybe more than three. Then repost to your own journal and spread the love. 

08:34 pm: what..in the name of all that's good in mk?
Taking a page from Jheti's book ( if I may that is)...

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3665058/1/Legend_of_The_Lost_Ninja

....ok, the script format, I can deal with-it's not allowed on ff.net but I can deal...However!-

1. Stop having the ninjas talk like 18-20 guys. There is no way that the Eldest Sub Zero would say 'Fuck' as a means of expression..'Damn' maybe but not because he's waiting for someone-he's a  ninja, patience and waiting is the name of the game. on that not...Reptile would never, never, never use the word 'okay'. why? because it's an american word that's only been around for 70-80 years..Reptile's not even from Earth Realm, why is he using a word like that. What's wrong with 'well, or  'all right'.

2.  Sub Zero and Reptile, both are cunning warriors who use silence and stealth as weapons. so 'Writer' please stop having them shout out at each other and throw tantrums like immature brats.

3. Liu Kang and Kung Lao...I'm not going to go there

4. so the characters just appear out of thin air on Shang's boat?...right..*slowly nods head*

This isn't a comedy, folks. It's labeled adventure/hurt/comfort. Had it been, all of this would've been excusable-to an extent. Or at least it's not labeled as 'comedy' and really is, because I can not take this next part seriously...

"Suddenly, a ninja in a red mask, blue body piece, black left arm piece, purple right arm piece, yellow and green pants, a black left shoe and purple right shoe came out of the bushes.

Reptile: Ah, Tono, I was wondering if you'd show."

Tono #1: a ninja from Outworld who has the ability to send his opponents into frighteningly bad acid trips.

Tono #2: Rainbow Brite's older brother who's obsessed with ninjas.

..really, how else can he explain that 'costume'?

All of this is can be overlooked...what isn't acceptable to any mk fan worth their stripes...spelling his name out as 'Tsang Tsung'...not once ( because hey, we all have a dyslexic moment now and then) but every time 'Shang Tsung's' name is spelled out.

...No, sorry author, you fail. Now go back to the back of the class and no more Mortal Kombat Fanfiction stories until you can spell out every single mortal kombat character name-correctly. 

Oye Vey

12:50 am: so now the pain killers kick in..
ok, today was the day I spend the afternoon with Liz..

eat a kick ass lunch, see some shops, stuff like that.

but no, because as soon as I pay the tab, the monthies kick in..with a fricken vengence.

so the rest of the day I'm in pain and the smells of the food court (with all it's salty goodness) makes me wanna throw up.

I did get some American Girl books..
yes, I admit it, I'm 22 and still read American girl books-it's one of my many guilty pleasures

but I had to ask Liz if we could go home early..at that point I just wanted to curl up and die.

For those that don't know, I changed positions at work. Instead of  working at the window making sandwhichs, I'm now working in the actual kitchen as a food prep..that is I prepare foods to be used for later..making garnishes, slicing cheese, making pizza ingrediants and making different types of salads are the more common assignments for the day, also get to slice cookies and chop up chocolate.

It's just as busy as working the window, but it's consitant, I know what to do, and it's much easier now that I've been using my own knives and not the crap ones that belong to the kitchen.

on Saturday I accidently cut myself on my finger when I was placing my chef's knive back in it's 'safety cover'...there's irorny for ya. I keep having to get bandaides for it since they keep sliding off. but then I'm jucing lemons and limes for bloody mary mix and forget to wear gloves-yeah..you can imagine what happens next.

and to think I forgot why I hate blood tests.

Good news. I practically have the week off. The cafe's closed on Monday's and because off the holiday Wednsday, both Tuesdays and Thursdays are for the bakers only. Apparently we sell a lot of pies on July 4th

03:25 pm: Happy 22nd to me *blows noisemaker*

...22, that's like 'the Terrible 2s' squared..yet I really don't feel old. I still feel....maybe 19ish.

Mom sent me some flowers and a card, which was nice of course.

Most exciting thing that's happened so far...it was a non hectic day at work-yay for working on your birthday.

Going out for dinner tonight, then it's cake..

Liz and her mom helped make a chocolate fudge cake with raspberry preserves and white chocolate icing.

that's about all that's happened to day...that and I'm tired from standing for 6 hours straight-I feel sorry for Liz who has to stand longer.

03:38 pm: ok, today was the first day at work, not much to tell because it was really me just learning the ropes.

I don't actually work in the bakery, but to the restuarant attached to the bakery.
my job's basically to set up/make/heat up most of the orders that come through including but not limited to..
sandwhiches
salads
tarts ( both savory and sweet)
dessert type plates
soup ( also have to make soup garnishs)
appetizer platters of various kinds
any entree of the day

if this sounds easy...take that and add several orders of them plus the ones where the customer doesn't want such and such on their sandwhich, salad, whatever.

plus side/s: i get to eat whatever I mess up ^_^, and I get discounts on drinks over there...

thankfully, it's not just me in that part of the kitchen ( there's an accident waiting to happen) but also these two other women Rebecca and Sonia...which is a good thing because I did mess up a few orders before Rebecca showed me her method of doing several orders at once.

but hey, it's only the first day-I'll get the hange of it eventually.

so far though, I work Sunday mornings at 8 and pay rate's 7 an hour-that's just for starts since this June several people are leaving so I'll have more work days.

12:42 am: I must be anemic or something

I got back home last Friday night...how I got there is a story in of itself

night before the trip: up until 4 in the morning packing and cleaning because they're really anal about how the rooms are when everyone leaves for break, than pack up and take much needed shower. Next morning, wake up at 8 to find out that there was a missunderstanding between me and my roommate and that she can't take me to my friend's house in the neighboring state. I'm tired, eyes hurt and I've a sleep plus caffiene deprived induced headache, but I still try to call a cab but neither sound reliable. I try calling my friends, but they're either busy or already gone...finally I reach one of my floor mates who's willing to drive me atleast part of the way where my friend meet us. I pack my bags in her car and at this point my eyes are killing me with tiredness.

*pant pant pant..takes a deep breath and continues*

I ride to her house, take a much needed half hour nap before her mom takes me to the airport ( said friend pulled an alnighter too and needed sleep more than me). Arrive at airport to find that my flight's delayed and there's the fear that I might miss the connecting flight while waiting for this one. I do though manage to make it to the next flight, with only enough time to spare to get a much needed caffiene fix ( even though it's now 7:30 in the evening) because it's fifteen feet away. I finally arrive home at 10 at night-not counting the 2 hour drive home. Ok so officially I didn't get home till Saturday morning but close enough.

Today I got a mole on my shoulder removed because it showed the three signs that it could turn cancerous (uneven diameter, darker center and larger than a pencil eraser). The removal didn't hurt that much, even though both my mom and I were pretty freaked about the whole thing. what really hurt was the shot they gave me for the anesthesia ( it felt almost like a hot coal on my skin) and then she took something and just scraped it off ( now that part I didn't feel), she put a band aid on it and told me to wait 24 hours before I  can remove it and to clean it daily. However, I get home later this evening...to find out that my bra strap (maybe my shirt too, I'm not sure), rubbed against the band aide and it bled through the cloth. even after a second band aide what put on it. 

what is it about ones own blood that's nastry @_@.

did some baking last night, some meringues and some flourless chocolate brownies. might do some more baking tommorow since (with the exception of a few) that's gonna be mostly everyone's christmas presents.

Speaking of which,  Jaz..I got the stuff for your present and a little something (or two) extra. I can honestly say though that it might come after christmas. I know you keep saying that I don't need to send you anything, but I want to so I will :).

....why can't this damn wound stop bleeding...it's not even that deep.


 

03:07 pm: mentally drained...trying to recover
1. Your Middle Name:

2. Age:

3. Single or Taken:

4. Favorite Movie:

5. Favorite Song:

6. Favorite Band/Artist:

7. Dirty or Clean:

8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:

HERE COMES THE FUN ... ... ...

1. Do we know each other outside of LJ?

2. What is your philosophy on life?

3. Would you have my back in a fight?

4. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?

5. What is your favorite memory of us?

6. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:

7. Can we get together and make a cake?

8. Do you think I'm a good person?

9. Would you drive across country with me?

10. If you could change anything about me, would you?

11. What do you wear to sleep?

12. Would you come over for no reason just to hang out?

13. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together?

14. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?

10:24 am: Yesterday, the first thing I was aware of when I woke up was that I was sick. Not a little sick with just a headache that usually comes from oversleeping, but sick sick.

Spent almost the whole day in my PJs, and maybe it was just me but the room seemed a lot colder than it usually is-though that's not saying much.

Did not get any work done-dammit...I think my mom's the only person I know who can do work when her head feels like a zombie.

Maybe it was just because I had nothing but soup and crackers yesterday-but I found myself craving red meat last night, or something spicy.

Will say though...green tea with lemon kicks ass.

*knocks on wood* the semester is nearly over and so far I've no major bouts of depression-hope it stays that way.

I'm just one big ass ray of sunshine am I *headdesk*...

I'm tired.

01:49 am: Day after
Last night was the party...
Nothing much happened, got some pictures though.
Got there a little early, but it seemed that only a handful of people really bothered to dress up.

Picture taken in the cafeteria:

Hey Jaz...I got a live one for you!

Melissa as 'Corpse Bride'

I love that wig.

Erin, Angelica ( with the black face paint), Melissa and Amanda



One of the school's alumnea....she was in the haunted house. I personally didn't see it because I heard it wasn't that great.



Today wasn't really my day. Was up all last night working on a geography presentation, and tried but failed to find time for some studying for today's math class. I was just thankful that I knew how to do most've the work (presentation went well atleast).  come math class, my nerves are shot and there's a storm out ( we lost power twice).

Ok, so it wasn't that bad of a day-just wasn't fun either.

How messed up is this? Only the day after Halloween and already there are Christmas themed commericial and stuff. That's not supposed to happen, at the earliest they're supposed to wait till the week of Thanksgiving. Soon it's gonna get to the point where there'll be pumkins next to the christmas tree.

04:24 pm: Halloween
Happy Halloween!

Or Samhain-depending what beliefs you have.

Right now though, I'm mostly stuck with tricks (and not the good kind). Several projects I need to finish up and there's something wrong with my school accounts so until then I can't register for next semester.

There's a campus halloween party tonight as well as a haunted house being build near the basement ( least i think so).
Bring out the Daria costume :P

Next  year though...it's gonna be the Zombie school girl costume. I have enough school uniforms to spare....and who wants to be a boring old school girl-the Zombie factor would be a nice change.
And last month, I found a nice 'slashed throat' scar that would.'ve worked. And I have a lot of old tea bags that if you were to soak white fabric in it for awhile it'll give it a nice dingy look.

hopefully I can get more pictures...love taking halloween pictures.

01:02 am: yea party
well, I'm back from the halloween party...actually left an hour early. Started getting a little dizzy and needing to use the bathroom, and I didn't trust the bathrooms over there, so I had my roommate drive me back to the dorm.

I did drink at the party, but it wasn't much and as my bravado didn't increase or decrease over there...I think it's safe to say that I didn't get that tipsy. That and I can remember what happened.

There were a lot of interesting costumes....off the top of my head: a nun, sorceress, beer can, girls dressing as male frat pledges and vice versa, woman dead from heroine overdose, politian devil, a lot of fairies, an office nerd, and two trick-or-treaters dressed as ghosts



Me as Daria. I loved the boots I got...too bad you can't see them that well in the picture.


Some 'trick-or-treaters'


call the press!-a picture with me smiling


Heather and Matt as Pulp Fiction characters ( can't remember the characters' names though >.<)


Kaila and Jessica ( my roommate), the blue/green stuff on her face is eyeshadow ( she's supposedly dressed as a sorcerous-but really she just threw a few things together).

Before the party, I went to see the play Amy was in 'House of Bernarda Alba', but I was late and only managed to see the last 40 minutes of the play. It was really well done and very emotional. The main character, a widow named Bernarda with five daughters, she was scary, like 'opposing-threatening-to-thwack -you-with-her-walking-stick' scary. But the ending was sad and I almost cried-but not quite- at the end.
I'm gonna see the whole thing tommorow evening.

06:20 pm: Well, Amy's not gonna be able to go to the Halloween party. Her costume hasn't arrived from the mail yet.
She ordered a green  vintage dress-she was going as The Green Fairy from Moulin Rouge....and use an old Listerine bottle but relabel it 'Absinthe'.
I told her I'll take pictures.

There's also a halloween party Monday ( on halloween)...but I've got a class that night >.<

I am going to go see the play she's in-my roomie's in the play to. It ends just before the halloween party so i can go to both.

.....I'm thinking that some of us should have a costume party instead of a straight up christmas party...any excuse to dress up in costume.

12:18 am: Everybody: Let's do the Time Warp Again
They had a showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show on campus. It was actually my dvd that they used.

It was an interesting story. Last month, it was a fairly warm day and I decided to wear my Rocky Horror T-shirt (well not so much as decide as it was the first shirt I grabbed from the draw....I need some more shirts). During lunch, I was eating with one of my friends Amy...cafeteria was crowded and the back was more calm. Anyway, Amy says that someone behind us was trying to get my attention. Apparently some of the people in charge of Student Life wanted to show a viewing of Rocky Horror Picture show but couldn't find anyone who had the dvd. Well who was I to refuse?

There weren't a lot of people there since the local theater has a viewing of it the weekend of Halloween-but I wasn't gonna say no. Still, it wasn't that fun when almost everyone doesn't know about/how to interact with the movie. Well there's always the viewing of it in the theater ^_^

For Halloween, I'm gonna be the character Daria ( from the only mtv series that didn't suck). I have the costume ready, but I still need to get the boots-April said she knew someone with the same shoe size as me ( who knew) who had a pair of boots that would work. Now if only my last pair of glasses hadn't been broken beyound repair, the costume would've been perfect-they were these big, black metal rimmed glasses that would've been perfect. Well the glasses I have now would have to work-they're also dark metal rimmed but not as big.

I made my schedule for next semester. I'll be talking:
General Chemistry
Food Preparation w/ Lab 2
Nutrition for Culinary Proffessionals
Writing for the Media
Food Science

that's about 17 credit hours, but I'm gonna see if I can add a few more hours so I can get my grade classification up. I'm gonna take another art class either-water color painting 1, web design or possibly a creative writing class. just something that won't be so stressful but I can get my credits hours.

Speaking of art class. I've got full marks on the major art projects assigned in Design class..















project 1: side one
Type your cut contents here


















Same project: other side. And Jaz, I didn't forget my promise to make you a similar piece-using razor bladed instead of stained glass of course. I just hope I'll be able to mail it.
And for my next trick.

















Don't know if anyone can see it, but the thin lines are red/brown paint made to look like blood and painted to look like the piece was bleeding where the glass was. You know you did your job with such work when half of the class is wearing a shocked expression.

I wasn't depressed when I made that project-I've had several people ask me if I was-I just wanted to do something for shock value.

10:39 am:

I need to get some more coffee....

but sadly, the kind I like is only sold in the southern part of the US and it's three weeks before I'm going back there. So it's just another list of reasons why these three weeks aren't going by fast enough.

(in no especial order)
Friends...
cable/fast acess internet
my favorite kind of coffee
dinner at Little Tokyo

The sad thing is that I can no longer drink just straight up coffee-it has to be weakened with milk or something otherwise my stomach starts hating me for it. Should I be worried about that?

I started writing fanfics again: mk of course. It's been hard because for the past few weeks I've been hit with boredom and depression that was so strong it almost caused me to go insane. It was the sort of boredom where you can no longer enjoy the things that used to keep you occupied. Thankfully it's gone and I've slowly started writing again. 

Presently, I've just finished my half of an mk2 fic and sent it to the other guy to look over before either of us posts the first chapter-most to check grammer as it's not one of my strong suits. The story is the mk2 game ( sans Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks) from Sonya's point of view. 

My dad took my laptop to fix it and I've been without it for almost a month. I can't wait to get it back as it had all of my other WIP stories and such. 

Maybe it comes with not having typed anything-but I've been getting attacked by the plot bunnies for the past week or so.

For the past three weeks, we've had a minor flea infestation. I say minor because we've only seen mostly dead fleas, three live fleas that I managed to squash and one flea that was on its death bed. I put flea collars on the cats sometime ealier so it must've also helped.
Apparently, a good way to check for fleas is to set a few saucers with soapy water around were your pets like to lay around. The fleas go in for a drink but the soapy water weighs them down so the little buggers drown.
It's been a week and we've had no real sightings of fleas and in the past two weeks the cats and I  were the only ones to get biten ( I've recieved three bites-relatively small amount).

Atleast it's better than last year when the house was attacked by fleas. We sprayed and bombed the house several times before calling the bug man. That the week before I had to leave for school...not how I wanted to spend my last week of summer vacation, but it was a great feeling of relief to be able to sleep in a bed and not wake up with new flea bites. At the end of the whole thing one would've thought my sister and I had another on set of chickenpox-my sister had it worse than me actually because she let the cats sleep in her bed.