the journal of a fangirly insect

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My journal used to be all friends-only, but then I thought that was silly because it's not like I'm posting nuclear secrets here. So, as of April 2, 2008, some of my entries are friends-only and some of them are not.

( some stuff you should know before friending me )

So, if you want to be added to my friends list, read the stuff below the cut, comment on this thread (all comments are screened, so feel free to say anything incriminating you want!), and I'll probably add you. :)

Oh man, just when I was thinking that this season wasn't that great, this episode knocked my socks off. :D

( spoilers for Sunday's episode and next week's episode )

It is the weekend, and that means I have survived another week. Hooray!

I bought this yesterday. I may not be into Phantom right now, but I could not pass this up, especially since it was listed at $79.99 and I snagged it for $24.99 (not including tax). Plus Halloween is my favorite holiday, and one can really not have too many Halloween things.

I woke up this morning, stumbled into the bathroom, and found one of these waiting for me on the bathmat. It looked more scared of me than I was of it, and I quickly squashed him (her?) with a shampoo bottle. To give you some perspective, the spider was about an inch and a half long, including the legs. Eww.

Did I mention how happy I am that it's the weekend? ;) Only seven more weeks to go before finals!

I love it when DCBS updates their site at the beginning of each month. It's like Christmas every time, sorting through all of the goodies and wondering what I'm going to order. I don't have as much money to blow on comics as I used to, but I still set aside a bit each month.

And while browsing through the specials, I found a title called "Jesus Hates Zombies." Intrigued, I clicked, and got this description:

No one knows for certain what caused it, but in only six days a zombie plague swept across the Earth, consuming three quarters of the world's population. Disgusted by the sight of the walking dead devouring His precious creation, God has sent back His only Son to once again set right the wrongs of the world. But this time, there's no room to turn the other cheek. This time, the message isn't one of love and compassion. This time, the J-Man is looking to unleash some Wrath of God, because this time Jesus hates zombies!

So I had to click on the picture, of course. And I didn't think it was possible, but it got even better.



Oh my god. With that description and that cover? I needed to have this thirty-five minutes ago. :D

I've done this before, but I've had a huge icon turnover since then, so why not. :D

MAH ICONS.

default	oldest	newest
saddest	happiest	angriest
cutest	sexiest	funniest
fave ship	fave fandom	fave animated
best quote	best textless	best stolen idea
use the most	favorite

HOW MANY ICONS DO YOU HAVE: 110
OUT OF HOW MANY AVAILABLE ICONS SPACES: 110
IF YOU COULD BUY SPACE FOR MORE, WOULD YOU: nah, that seems to be enough
DO YOUR ICONS MAKE A STATEMENT: Ummm...I like comics and Dexter?
WHAT FANDOM DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: Marvel Comics (if you let me count that as one fandom; otherwise, Watchmen)
AND THE SECOND MOST: Watchmen (or Deadpool, if Marvel Comics doesn't count as one fandom)
WHAT SHIP DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: PIETRO/WANDA FOR THE MOTHERTWINFUCKING WIN :D :D :D
ARE YOUR ICONS MADE MOSTLY BY OTHER PEOPLE: yeah, although I have several that I made in there too
DO YOU MAKE ICONS: yep
ARE THEY ANY GOOD: not really; I just make them because I can't find ones I like of particular characters
ANIMATED ICONS ARE: shiny

DO THE MEME.
Coding can be found here

Haha, I just got an email from the FBI Team!

( Hello everybody, this is the F.B.I TEAM speaking!. )

This is probably the funniest spam email I've received all week. XD

I had one of the most epic, crackstastic, crossover dreams last night. XD I guess this is what I get for reading The Welsh Girl, listening to the Eagles, squeeing over Dexter, and reading Marvel Zombies all before going to bed. Basically, Nazis were trying to covertly take over the world, and it was going to happen at an Eagles concert (which cost $1000 a ticket) when they played the song "Desperado." I was Dexter and Rita wanted to go, but I ended up sending her to go with Deb instead, for I was a Nazi in a previous life and was like a secret agent for them. But then Deadpool showed up and cut off my head, but since I was also secretly a zombie, that didn't matter, and I managed to bite him, turning him into Zombiepool. And then he crashed the Eagles concert and made everyone there zombies, including the Nazis. And then Silver Surfer showed up to herald the coming of Galactus to devour our world, but we killed him and peeled off his shiny metal skin, and beneath that was chocolate! And it was delicious chocolate.

I don't even know what to say about that one, except LOL.

"The Sound of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkel

No surprise, considering that is my favorite song ever. I love this version, without the drums and electric guitars.

Also, I totally want Art's hair. HAIR ENVY. I mean, my hair looks similar on some days, but usually not. And it never looks as awesome as his.

Okay. So if I move my bed so it's flush against the wall, get rid of the nightstand, push the armoire-turned-bookshelf about six inches to the right, and take down the Phantom of the Opera poster on the wall (which I've been meaning to do anyway), I *think* I can fit one more bookshelf in here. By god, I will do it.

Looking at Neil Gaiman's oh-my-god-look-at-those-shelves-I-just-jizzed-in-my-pants library has inspired me. No more boxes of books stacked to the ceiling because I don't have room for them! Maybe the stacks will only be waist-high now!

I wonder where the nearest IKEA-like store is...

It's the first day of my three-and-a-half week vacation. If that wasn't awesome enough, I got a package in the mail. :D



These are issues that I really, really wanted, and yet they cost way too much for me to seriously think about buying them: Team-Up with Widdle Wade, the Encyclopedia Deadpoolica, Deadpool/Death annual 1998, Deadpool #44, Black Panther #23, New Mutants #98, Baby's First Deadpool Book (okay, I already have a copy of this, now that I think about it, but it was part of the lot), and Deadpool #66-69. All of them are in NM condition. And I got them for an average of a dollar apiece, including shipping.

*huge comic book geekgasm*

I know no one is likely to care but me, but...dude. This is incredibly awesome.

Maybe it's the lack of sleep, but I think this "secret" is AWESOMESAUCE. XD (You'll need to have watched True Blood to get it.)

Showtime has apparently put up the first episode of the new season of Dexter on their site. I'm not sure if I'm going to watch it now or wait until they actually start airing the shows in September. I'll probably cave, provided it's still up on the site when I decide to give in. ;)

I got about three hours of sleep total last night, so I feel like death warmed over. Blargh. I am really looking forward to vacation, which is so tantalizingly close. Three relatively stress-free weeks! It sounds like heaven, if I believed in such a place.

I should be getting my Quicksilver bust tomorrow (I got the green one instead of the blue one, since he looks more like the arrogant bastard he is in the green one, and the green one is definitely the better sculpt), and I got several comics today in the mail.

Life is pretty good. :D

Why is it so hard for me to quit you? Even though you package my books poorly and they end up all mangled, I still can't stay away. Sigh.

I checked my "spam" email account tonight (the email address I use to sign up for sites and the like) and saw that someone who actually seemed like a real person and not a robot replied to my latest complaint. Not only are they going to refund my account once they get the books back, but they gave me a $15 gift card. If there is one thing I cannot resist, it is the lure of free books. Even if those books will probably arrive damaged like every other book I buy from the damned site. They're still free, right?

It is 2:30 am and I cannot sleep. (Not because of Amazon...I don't know why I can't sleep.)

I've felt grumpy all day, and I don't even know why. :| Hormones? I don't know. I suppose that's as good of a guess as any.

1) Math was almost always my favorite subject in school.

2) I believe that there must be intelligent life somewhere else in the universe besides Earth.

3) I feel short if I'm not wearing shoes with at least two inch heels, even though I'm 5'7".

So...which one's a lie? ;)

As a book lover, this about makes me cry.

Once again, I bought a book from Amazon because it was a couple of bucks cheaper there. And, once again, they just slopped it in a box with no protection and it arrived damaged. I should have taken a picture of the first book; the entire back cover was creased down the middle, as well as about fifty pages of the book. So, they say that they'll send me a replacement. The book above is actually the replacement book. I think it's in worse shape than the first book, because at least the first book wasn't torn.

In comparison, when I buy books from In Stock Trades, they wrap the books in plastic, then put these foam things around the books so they don't get jostled in transit, and then put them in a box that fits. So I get the books looking and smelling like they just came from the distributor. Sure, it might take a week for the books to get here, but they get here in excellent condition. I get the books from Amazon in two days, but when the pages are torn and ripped and creased, why does it matter how quickly they get here? They just have to go back.

ARGH. Why do I bother ordering books from Amazon?

Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, answer these questions.You can't use the band that I used. Try not to repeat a song title. It's a lot harder than you think! Repost as "my life according to (band name)"

( nicked from sassysailorgirl )

I think that I update my journal on Thursdays to complain how tired I am. XD Well, today is no different. I'm exhausted, and I will probably be asleep by eight tonight, because I am that tired. And I have so much to do! I still need to write my fic for masked_ball, which was due a few days ago. I've started it, but alas, real life and I are not getting along right now. And answer some emails and messages and OH GOD, I AM SORRY, I'VE KIND OF DROPPED OFF THE PLANET. Tomorrow I'll catch up, I hope.

I did manage to find room to read Deadpool #12 (the newest issue), and what. This just makes me cling to my almost-complete Joe Kelly run all the harder. I love Deadpool. He is my favorite comic book character. I also have more than a touch of OCD when it comes to being a completist. And yet if Daniel Way doesn't get better in the next few issues, I'm dropping this solo. :P

Umm...nothing else to say, except sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

I had two interesting dreams last night.

The first was about Taskmaster, which I guess isn't a surprise since I wrote fic about him before I went to bed. He took his girlfriend, Sandi, to see The Proposal in the theater so he might learn how to express his romantic feelings better (the dude has photographic reflexes, so he almost-instantly learns how to do things by watching others do them). And he was all pissed because Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) was in the movie. XD It was funny.

The second was about Phantom! :O I dreamed that the Phantom tour was coming to Detroit in September (which I believe to be true?) and that Thomas Schulze was the new principal Phantom. That was enough to get me to buy tickets to Detroit...haha. Even though I don't care about the musical much anymore, if I had the chance to see Thomas Schulze live, I'd still take it in a heartbeat. Mmm.

EPIC DO NOT WANT when it comes to going to work today. Bah.

Fandom meme: Comment and I'll find (up to) THREE FANDOMS you apparently love. And then you answer these questions about them!

01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?

( Beaver gave me Cable & Deadpool, Watchmen, and The X Files )

[If you want to play, be sure to tell me that you want to in the comment - otherwise I may forget to give you fandom(s). XD]

I know, I'm like the last person in the United States, or at least on LJ, to see the movie. :P My verdict? It is the best movie I've seen in a lonnnnnng time. It had just about anything I could want in it. I loved it, and I haven't laughed that much in a theater since I saw the second Austin Powers movie. And I really like how they handled the material ( the lone spoiler underneath here )

Also, SPOCK. I love him. Love love love love him. Still waters run deep and all that stuff.

But, that said, I have no urge at all to participate in the fandom or write fic or see the Star Trek TV series or...anything. That is so weird. D: (I am, however, going to buy this on DVD as soon as it comes out, because this movie was great.)

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