A meme from Goddessdster's livejournal

1. What are your nicknames?

My best friend started calling me Linz (like lens) in high school which stuck. I still will sign short notes or emails as "Linz."

My dad's mom use to always call me Lin for short when I was little.

2. How do you style your hair?

Not big with styling my hair. I'm a wash, dry and go sort of girl. Simplicity is best for me when it comes to hair because i try to style, but it never works the way I want and therefore I end up in a bad mood.

3. What's new in your life right now?

Not much. I have lost 40 pound in the last six months so I guess that's new. My life's pretty boring, actually.

4. How many colors are you wearing now?

two.

5. Are you an introvert or extrovert?

Introvert.

6. What was the last book you read?

"Lucky" by Alice Sebold was the last thing that I read straight through. It's a beautiful book, though the subject matter is tough to get through. Right now I'm reading "Watchmen" and becoming more and more curious as to how they are going to pull off a film version.

7. Do you nap a lot?

No. Unless I'm really really sick I can't fall asleep durring the day.

8. If the person you secretly like is already taken, what would you do?

I don't know...get over it.

9. Is there anything that has made you unhappy these days?

Fruastrations at work. Old issues/hang-ups that I can't completely get past

10. What was the last thing you ate today?

Special K, the one with dried strawberries.

11. How long does it take you to get ready in the morning?

About 30 - 40 minutes

12. What websites do you visit daily?

I'm going to do weekly because there are regular sites that I visit but nessicarily everyday: Blogger, Liveournal, Major Case, various blogs

13. what classes are you taking right now? and if you're not in school anymore, what's your job?

I'm a returns supervisor at a cell phone retailer.

14. Do you like to clean?

No, but every now and then I'll get a wild hair where I go on a cleaning frenzy

15. What's the last song that got stuck in your head?

"Jessie's Girl." by Rick Springfield. There's a girl I work with named Jessie and one of my bosses spontaneously sings that to tease her.

16. If the world were to end tomorrow, what one thing would you do today?

See my friends and family. Have talks with people that I've been avoiding because I know there needed but are going to be hard.

17. What's better: eternal love or memorable love?

I don't really know. I think the best love I've witnessed was between my mom's parents. When I was in middle school my grandmother had a cyst on her spine and she had to have spinal surgery. Her whole torso was in a cast and she had to go to a rehibiltation center after being in the hospitial. They finally let her come home with a hospitial bed that we put in the living room and my grandfather basically was her nurse for several months. There was a nurse that came once a week to check on her, but other wise my grandfather took care of her and the house -- that's real love to me.

18. What would you do if you see $100 lying on the ground?

See is someone around me dropped it, but I'd probably leave it on the ground...really.

19. Best time of your life?

My first couple of years of college.

20. Tell me something good.

Thanksgiving is Thursday and it's my favorite holiday.

"Score one for the little wooden boy."

Well it's been awhile. I really haven't had much to talk about. I guess I'm in one of my complacent phases where things aren't getting to me as much as they usually do and there fore I don't have much to gripe about. Of course at the same time there's nothing exciting going on either, so nothing much to report. I am exploring other job options still, but I'll probably wait till after Christmas to aggressively look to see what I might be able to find.

So until I have something interesting to talk about I figured I'd just offer some recommendations.

First off, I finally saw the second season of "Dexter" and it did not disappoint. I can't recomend this series enough. Micheal C. Hall is wonderful as Dexter and a far cry from the neurotic David of "Six Feet Under."

We see him continue to figure out who he is and exactly how evil or how good he really is. All while coming to terms with the fact that Harry, his dead foster-father (no, Dexter didn't kill him) and lone confidant, who shaped him into who he is, was not exactly the man Dexter thought he was.

It's interesting because we see the struggle between good and evil within one person, who desperatley wants to be normal, but yet is a psychopath with little to no emotions about anything. The first season I comapred to a twisted take on "Piccnochio," while in the second he does seem closer to being a "real boy." He has more personal challenges and relationships that he is trying to juggle and we see him as part hero and part villian.

Not to mention the fact that his own squad (he works foresenics for Miami Metro) along with the FBI are hunting him, or rather the Bayside Butcher, down. So while he covers his tracks, he is also enlisted to help in the investigation that should ultimately lead to him.

Needless to say I'm ready for season three to wrap up and come out on DVD, so that I can watch. Oh, and just a note: the title of this post is a quote from a "Dexter" episode.

Also, I was reminded the other day of this novel by one of my former professors, Tom DeHaven, called It's Superman! It's part noir mystery and part origin story set in the 1940s.

It takes classic Superman characters and puts them in a believable "real world" setting, with a young Clark Kent trying to figure out who he is, who he wants to be, and the extent of his mysterious powers. This book made me like Superman. I'm generally a Batman sort of girl and, honestly, Tom Welling ("Smallville") kind of ruined Superman for me -- the man only has one facial expression (See: reasons why one should not cast out of an Abracrombe catalogue).

Plus Tom DeHaven is a great writer and is a true student of the history of comics and graphic novels. I actually took a class on the graphic novel that he taught and it really made me see comics as a valid and highly overlooked or looked down upon medium. I still have a bit of a crush on him.

Well, I'm off. Hope all is well with everyone.

Sunday Laziness

Well, i really have had much to talk about this week. I got a lot of work done this weekend on a story that I started six months ago, but that my computer destroyed (25 pages disappeared). I now have 20 pages done and granted (crossing fingers and sending up hail Mary's) my computer cooperates hopefully the new version will be done soon. But other than that I got nothing, so I was exploring youtube and found a couple videos I wanted to share of Hoots & Hellmouth.

They're a band from Philly, that I can't recomend enough. One of my friends has become good friends with the mandolin player and they all are pretty good guys and very talented musicians.

Posted by MiloSwerve

Song -- Home in a Boxcar

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Song -- This Hand

Posted by janeanger

Song -- Forks and Knives

Well Hope everyone had a nice weekend. I'm off to write some more and relax before heading back to work.

The landscape is changing

Well I have to say I regret going to bed early last night, but I just couldn't keep my eyes open so I missed the Obama victory speech. Though I was very happy to wake up this morning and discover that it was in fact a victory speech.

I wished I had see the reaction of the crowd in Illinois and the reaction right here in Richmond. I heard this morning that they actualy had to close off a section of Broad street (a major road here that basically runs through the hole area) near downtown with people celebrating.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that Virginia went to Obama. I was watching the numbers as they were coming in early last night and initially it looked like McCain would probably take it from what they were showing us through the local NBC station, but then just before I went to bed I saw that Obama had actually crept up in front, but only by one point.

As a Virginian, this is very exciting to me because it means that the landscape here is changing because not only did we add to Obama's win, but also for the first time in history we have two democrats in the senate with the election of Mark Warner, who won in a landside.

The voting turn out here was amazing...the two and half hours I had to stand in line to vote wasn't too amazing, but seeing all these different people coming out like they did and I gather (at least in the district where I live) most to support one man was pretty awesome and reassuring.

I think alot of people here, myself included, fall into what Tom Brokow said about it being the end of apathy with this election. There was a big push in my neighborhood, which isn't the best area, but one the city is trying to rebuild and rejuvinate, to get people signed up to vote and out to the polls.

In line at the polls I was behind this older white couple who had lived in the neighborhood for years (I say older...I guess they were in their late 50s or early 60s) and the wife was telling me about this neigbor they had -- and elderly black woman who passed a year or two ago at the age of 93. Before her death they would always help her get to the polls and she told me that as it got harder for the woman to get out and about that they offered to help her with an absentee ballot, but that she refused, saying something to the effect of, "For as long as I can I'm going to come out and vote because of all the years I wasn't allowed to."

People my age I don't think really understand that concept and we take it for granted. This is actually the first time I voted in a presidential election. In 2000 I was a month shy of being old enough and in 2004 for I was lazy and didn't think about getting an absentee ballot until it was too late (I was still registered at my mom's address -- an hour and a half away -- I know, I know, it's no excuse).

And I have to say alot of my interest this time around is because of Barack Obama and I hope he really takes this country in a new direction. I hope he doesn't lose sight of the people he wants to help now or the places/people he comes from. I think this sense of him being still so connected to his roots despite his success is one thing that makes him so relatable and likable, and I hope he is able to maintain that. He is not going to have an easy presidency -- he has a bit of a mess to clean up and, unfortunately because he is a "first" he will probably be more closely watched and scrutinized. Of course, coming in right after Bush has to make him look pretty good despite whatever policies he may put into place.

But right now I'm very pleased and looked forward to see how the next four years play out.

I'm a bit behind on all of the blogs I read, so hopefully I will catch up soon, but right now dinner's ready and I'm ready to relax.