[Stolen mercilessly from Hayley G. Hoover's blog.]

1. What author do you own the most books by?
Upon inspecting my bookcases, I think it's Lemony Snicket. Yep. I was expecting something actually embarrassing, though.

2. What book do you own the most copies of?
I have British and American versions of the first four Harry Potter books, but that's about it.

3. Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Not really. Surveys could, and have, done worse than messing up grammar.

4. What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
I...don't think I have one? I'm boring and weird.

5. What book have you read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children; i.e., Goodnight Moon does not count)?
Probably the Diary of Anne Frank. I must have read it three or four times when I was a lass. I don't really re-read books a lot; I've only re-read most of my favorites once.

6. What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Oh jeez. Something by Ann M. Martin? Or Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. One or both of those.

7. What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Dune. (I still feel like I need to apologize about this, mainly because I know people who are HUGE fans and would have a seizure if I told them.) The writing style just really, really wasn't my cup of tea. The plot, sure, because it was actually interesting and well-thought out, but the story just seemed to take forever to get on with itself. (Ha, I read Breaking Dawn SLIGHTLY over a year ago, so I'm not counting it.)

8. What is the best book you've read in the past year?
Paper Towns, White Apples was a re-read, The Eyes of the Dragon, Lying...actually I've read a lot of good books this year. If I HAD to pick one it would probably be Paper Towns by John Green. Both quite fun and quite good.

9. If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
WHITE APPLES BY JONATHAN CARROLL. For the most part I really love how it's written, plus the story is trippy as hell and kind of romantic with really flawed protagonists. It's pretty much my quintessential book.

10. What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
While Breaking Dawn as a movie would be ridiculously hilarious, I'd totally be behind another adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Even if it's absolutely horrible I would probably still watch it.

11. What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Most of them...? Catcher in the Rye obviously. Anything by Jacqueline Carey or Storm Constantine. Wait, now that I think about it, those last two would actually make for epically terrible adaptations.

12. Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I had one where fictional characters were more like actors, they still had all the same characteristics but with different personalities. The real Edward was sick of acting like a douche all the time and was dating Hermione.

13. What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Daughters of the Moon books are pretty redorkulous. It's like reading a novelization of an episode of Charmed, except the characters are sixteen years old and sometimes slip into Spanglish.

14. What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Strange and/or slow pacing drives me really crazy in books, because I like everything to flow nicely into each other. If a book marches along with no major development it will probably drive me crazy. (I guess I'm an impatient reader or something.) So with all of that said I'm going to say Orlando by Virginia Woolf.

15. What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
I actually don't even think I've seen a Shakespeare play. D: One time I almost saw a rock opera version of Hamlet, but that's about it.

16. Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
I'm going with Russians, but off the top of my head I don't think I've read a ton of either.

17. Roth or Updike?
I don't think I've read a full book of either. :/

18. David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
DAMMIT SAME TO THIS. I need to get around to both or either.

19. Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare, but really I'm not too familiar with the latter two. I really need to stop reading weirdass books I hear about on LJ and read some classics sometime...

20. Austen or Eliot?
If the Eliot in question is T.S., then yes, him. If otherwise, I guess I have to go with Austen.

21. What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Classic books that everyone apparently read in high school/middle school except me. QQ.

22. What is your favorite novel?
Auuuuugh. Really close tie between American Gods and The Amber Spyglass.

23. Play?
I quite rather like Much Ado About Nothing.

24. Poem?
I'm really not a poetry person. Probably "Warning" by Jenny Joseph.

25. Essay?
"Love" by Lauren Slater. It's pretty great. I think I'm becoming more and more a fan of hers.

26. Work of nonfiction?
Lying by Lauren Slater. Yep.

27. Who is your favorite writer?
Mr. Neil Gaiman.

28. Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
I want to say Stephenie Meyer, but really it seems like her books have more fame and are therefore more "rated" then she is. In any case, I don't really tend to read popular books.

29. What is your desert island book?
Uhhhh White Apples. I don't really see myself getting tired of it any time soon.

30. And... what are you reading right now?
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami. I'm not sure how I feel about it.

So I've gotten new contacts and stuff (YAY BETTER VISION) but now my laptop isn't starting up. It is quite saddening. In the meantime I've been either using the desktop computer when it isn't under Dylan's clutches and my DSi for just quickly checking things. FUN. :|

Anyways I've had a pretty eventful-ish week. Last Friday I went to Alameda for a somewhat-grad party for my stepbrother Isaac. It was a pretty good time, although Dylan and I ended up taking both BART and three bus rides in total.

Last Sunday I went to Berkeley with Megan and Marie for some thriftstore shoppan. :D All of us were aiming to get things for various costumes; I bought a denim jacket for Robin Sparkles ridiculousness (to be made more 80s later today...I'm gonna acid wash it >D ) and some fucking crazy pants that Megan could not believe I was actually willing to buy. I would include a picture, but I'm on the computer at the library soo....I'll save that for a later time.

THIS WEEK I FINALLY GOT MY SCHOOL SHIT IN GEAR. Or something. In any case I lucjked out and there was ONE SPOT in an English clas I need. I start tomorrow, it's two days a week but the actual class is four hours long. And at night. Whatever, I'll survive. Sidenote: DVC has a really...special campus.

Wednesday was Sean and my six-month anniversary...yeah. :D We didn't do anything on the actual day though, but I did journey down to Cupertino for like, 24 hours. We went to go see The Proposal because...Sean's movie tastes are rubbing off on me (What? IT WAS AMUSING.) and then went to eat a huge delicious dinner at an incredibly awesome restaurant, Buca di Beppo. Since then we have come up with many reasons to take many people there. (They serve everything family style. No really. Everything.)

Aside from all that, I have been playing a ton of video games in the past few weeks. Mostly Pokemon Platinum, but various other things too.

I think I have topped myself in odd ocular conditions. A week or so ago I put on my contacts, and after a while I noticed my left eye seemed kind of blurry and focusing on different depths of things was weird. It felt like there was something irritating it so I went to the mirror and saw that my left eye had become really dilated. 0.0 More than slightly freaky. I took them out, and the next day tried again but both felt REALLY irritated so I checked and the right eye had dilated. I still have no idea, so I've been sticking to wearing my glasses again. :/ Hopefully I can order some new contacts soon.

Anyways I saw Up in its opening weekend...twice. XD I ended up going to the midnight premiere with various Adventure Team members and IT WAS SO WORTH IT. First of all I hadn't seen anyone in a while, secondly the movie is fantastic. However if you are at all prone to crying during films you will cry manly tears multiple times. JUST SAYING.

I spent like, three days in Cupertino hanging out with Sean and his family. Most of which was just spent relaxing/watching movies/playing silly video games, but I also went to a pool party and ate chocolate enchiladas. :D

Today I woke up to my family and Mom's boyfriendy-type Adam rearranging and cleaning the living room. I...don't even know. Their intentions were good, but really only the armchairs were switched around, stuff moved slightly, some pictures switched, and all of our random clutter/...my belongings put in piles and bags in various other rooms. Not really a huge difference, but really I am neutral on the subject. :|

..AH YES there was an actual reason for cleaning: Stacey and Solomon (who's now like, one and a half) are visiting for three or four days this weekend. 8D

I RARELY answer Writer's Blocks, but...EIGHT. 8D Favorite was probably either where I am now (Lafayette) or the duplex I lived in for most of elementary school in Oakland. Least favorite...ugh. Most likely my dorm at HNU, but just barely.

So, anyway, stuff I've been up to...is not incredibly interesting. Not at Holy Names anymore for many, various reasons, trying to transfer somewhere else that I'll hopefully be much happier at, and in the meanwhile at home and doing stuff at DVC. On a better note it's summertime, and even though the sun and I are not the best of friends it will probably be much easier to hang out with friends and what not. (I. Should really plan a Disney Party.) The key word here is 'probably' 8D

I went to Fanime last weekend with Sean for a day, and I had QUITE a bit of fun. I really want to go for all days of cons more (ha, if it's feasible that is) because I hear about stuff going on the days I WASN'T there and am like WHY AM I LAME. THAT SOUNDS FUN. D:

ANYWAY. I also threw this...eye-catching ensemble together...because Sailor Moon casual clothing amuses me. XD I really didn't expect anyone to recognize it. And no one did. JUST AS PLANNED~

Other Random News:
• I could get my driver's permit/license soon. YAY?
• Therapist Quest v2.5 seems to be going swimmingly.
• Still fully obsessed with PaperBackSwap. I AM THE PAGEMASTER~ ...goddammit now I want to watch that.
• At some point I became a public transportation wizard.
• Uhhh I turned 19? 8D Yeah. 'Cause the last time I really updated my journal was in December...
• SDCC is a go, I'm booking the hotel in the next 12 hours (Yeesh, kinda late, I know -_x ) so anyone involved and reading this, expect some sort of notification. AND. IF ALL GOES AS PLANNED. I will have some ridiculously awesome fucking costumes.

So I was just about to go to sleep when I decided that I couldn't resist stealing this meme from tangvampire.

( Animation Meme )

I know I haven't updated LJ since like, December, and a lot has transpired in such a time...but after this weekend I plan to blogginate more regularly. And/or let you know what I've been up to in the last four months.

I AM SORT OF BEHIND ON LIFE IN GENERAL...and I don't really care. ^_^

I like how I started to get good about updating LJ regularly and then, um. SUDDEN DISTRACTIONS. Ha, I've never really thought about how easily distracted I am until Ms. dinolich pointed it out on my Stalker Meme. 8F

So yeah, remember how vaguely at the beginning of the month I said something about becoming really close friends with someone really fast? Yeah. Um. I..have a boyfriend?! 8D I had secretly really liked him for a while, and it turns out it was mutual, and we get along ridiculously well and everything's awesome. <3 It's funny 'cause apparently most people forget I swing both ways (when I told Justin I had started seeing someone he has like 'See? I told you you'd find a nice girl somewhere!' XD) but luckily people closest to me didn't seem too weirded out. Also Sean's a pretty girly guy.

Additionally, I'm going with him and his family to a cabin somewhere Tahoe-y tomorrow, soooo slight vacation. I'm coming back early during the day on New Year's Eve, and then GAZELLE'S NEW YEAR'S SHINDIG YAAAAY.

...oh yeah, that Christmas holiday that just happened. XD It didn't really seem like too big of a deal to me this year, like my family didn't get a tree or anything, none of my presents were really ZOMGAMAZINGG (I do really really want to play Animal Crossing City Folk though, and Megan's art of the Comic Con Clan definitely brightened by days~) Whatevers. My grandparents, Dylan, and I stayed over at my dad's house last night and it was, luckily, a really fun time for the most part with minimal bitchiness from my stepmom. (Again, my sister is THE CUTEST KID EVER I SWEAR. She would give me random hugs and gave me a present addressed with 'To: Lily From: Annabel. I like you.' SO CUUUUUUUUUUTE) Isaac is always a delight. XD....I don't know what else I can say. Also Oskar looks a hell of a lot like Dylan when he was super little.

Additionally there was much cribbage to be played. o.o

Past events that I don't think I really covered were the amazing random feast at Erin's house the week of my finals (tasty as hell. My friends have the best get-togethers ever.) and the day when I woke up at 4:30PM this week to Megan calling me with "ADVENTURE!"..XD It was a good time. We should wander around Berkeley when most stuff is closed more often.

OH YEAH. If you're getting a Christmas/holiday present you will get it EVENTUALLY but hopefully soon, and I am still fucking sending out Christmas cards because I bought a bunch. They can be winter cards. I don't even know, but it's still happening.

Stalker Meme time 'cause why the hell not.

(1 Points, +2 points for my legal name spelled correctly) What's my first name:
(1 Point) My last name:
(5 Points) My middle name:
(2 Points) Where do I live:
(2 Points) What color are my eyes:
(3 Points) Who am I in love with:
(2 Points) Where did we meet:
(3 Points) What am I afraid of:
(4 Points) Describe my taste in the opposite and/or same sex:
(2 Points) Do I smoke:
(3 Points) Do I drink/What do I drink:
(2 Points, +1 point for each name) How many siblings do I have:
(2 Points, +1 point for each name) How many pets do I have:
(4 Points) What's one of my favorite things to do:
(3 Points) Who is/are my favorite person/people:
(3 Points) What's my favorite type of music:
(3 Points) What do I eat on pizza:
(3 Points) Name something I hate:
(3 Points) Name someone I hate:
(5 Points) What are my parents' names:
(4 Points) Name a talent I have:
(5 Points) What are my vices:
(5 Points for creativity) If I were stranded on a desert island, what would I bring:

Winner gets a special prize.

I keep thinking it's Wednesday already. D: Baughjabdlafra. I've been in a kind of I-hate-my-school mood all day. Wait, yesterday too. DD:

Anyways Saturday I met up with Megan and Bennett to go to the San Francisco Academy of Science (Megan had to for her art class, and who wants to go to a museum alone?) and I got there WAAAY before they did so I killed time in the Huge Sf Mall and ate Jamba Juice and a fondant. QUITE A WINNING COMBINATION. We found each other eventually despite Sf's crazy traffic rules and got over there. Turned out it was the museum with the Planetarium but the Planetarium was CLOSED so we entertained ourselves with an aquarium and taxidermied African animals for like, two hours. Not the science adventure that we had hoped for, but at least I saw a giant sea bass.

You know what's weird? Becoming pretty close friends with someone really fast. Well, both weird and cool. :D

Yesterday I had my first final (Math) which wasn't terrible per se but I forgot that we could have a page of notes. :F Ah well. Today I didn't have any so I just kind of hung out in the cafe and read my hilariously crappy YA fantasy novel (Daughters of the Moon: The Secret Scroll, FYI). At some point my friend Edrian showed up, so we were chatting along when this sort-of-kind-of mutual friend Alicia flies out of nowhere...and proceeded to make the conversation 86000x more awkward. I...it...was bad. Terrible conversationalist all around. I sent out an SOS call via text and had Erin call me so I could pretend it was important and leave. That is the only time I have done this IN MY LIFE. More on this later in vlog form.

I realized I get out for Christmouse brick waaayyy before everyone else. (This Friday) I think I may just actually, finally, legitimately clean my room after wanting to for two years. It's not even so much of a cleaning as a brave exploration. :o I may need a sherpa.

(FYI the last time I explored my room on a somewhat lesser scale I found the Powerpuff Girl postcards, what has now become The Awesome Notebook, and $50.)

Got replacement contacts! :D

Somehow I've ended up only being in my dorm for like, 2 hours this week. I don't really know how it happened, but I've been residing in my actual house all week. 8F

Anyways I realized I never actually posted my holiday wishlist-thing here (partially because I lurk around holiday_wishes a lot) soooo yeah here is a copypasta if you're in a gifty sort of mood.

1. Anything from my Amazon wish list (might as well get it out of the way) which…really shows off my weird taste. XD I have a bizarre love of terrible movies, as you may have noticed. (Well, and quirky, good movies too)And musicals…and comics.. Second-hand is TOTALLY FINE, I don’t even care, as long as it is still functional.
2. Dark green nail polish, or, really, any unusual color of nail polish. When I say unusual I mean it, for example I have a bright teal color that I LOVE.
3. I really like mood rings, so those would be rad. I used to have a really cool heart-shaped mood ring that lasted for years, but then during finals my sophomore year in high school it literally fell apart. Ha, guess I must have really been stressing out. ;] I wear rings size 6-8.
4. If you read a lot, love books, and have a lot of them just lying around, join PaperBackSwap.com! I actually joined because I heard about it from this community last year, and it was definitely an awesome decision because I’ve gotten a ton of cool books. It’s like a used book store with over two million books, except you only have to pay for shipping. If you do happen to join, please use me as a referrer by my username (Eudial) so that I can additionally get credit, because that would most likely make my day.
5. European candy would be awesome, types of stuff I like are chocolate oranges, Milka bars, English toffee, Baci, Wine Gums, and Dutch black licorice. Not fond of coconut and mint, but aside from that I’ll totally try anything.
6. A ring or necklace with an octopus. I like octopi, I like jewelry, what can I say.
7. This is my friend’s DeviantArt account, I would love it if she got more people to commission her for stuff. As you can see she’s a really talented cartoonist and artist in general, and a lot of the time I don’t really think she gets her due. She’s also selling some originals which look even more amazing in person.
8. Go support your local or high school theatre! Not only will they definitely appreciate your support, but performing for a full house is much more gratifying than for a handful of people in an otherwise empty theatre. If you don’t think going to plays are your thing, you may be pleasantly surprised.
9. Blank notebooks/notepads. I write a lot, and I’m always using like six at a time for different reasons. Even if they’re totally ugly or boring, I will still write in it.
10. Disney princess stuff, especially Mulan. My friend got me sparkly Disney princess pens from the dollar store once and they seriously made my week.

My email is claudiavice (at) centralpets (dot) com, and my address is:
Lily Jones
P.O. Box 1774
Lafayette, CA 94549

Yesterday...was an experience. Let's begin with a meme (taken from the amazing Saucekat) and I'll further explain from there.
( We do what we like and we like what we do )

Speaking of why I'm wearing glasses....YEAH. A week ago today I woke up to find that one of my contacts had mysteriously ripped, and as I'm out of replacements I'm basically fucked and have to wear my broken glasses everywhere. I HATE MY GLASSES. When I realized I had to wear them I seriously considered not leaving my room all day so that no one would see them/comment on them/draw attention to them.

I'm fine wearing glasses for the most part, it's not that I DESPISE how I look in them or whatever, but they're fucking broken and it's really annoying. (FYI they're broken because they're missing an arm. YEAH.) I called in to order a replacement contact until I can get an appointment to get new ones, and so far the replacement is not there and the next appointment they have is December 10. D<

I think most people don't realize this unless they know me really well, but I tend to compulsively lie about how I feel/how situations are a lot. Like someone will ask how I am and most of the time I'll say something like, "Oh, I'm okay," or whatever, when I'm really not in fact okay, and am the opposite. If it's a really close friend I might say something a little less positive-sounding. Bah, anyway the reason I bring this up is that I've been kind of in a mostly not-good mood for the past...few weeks or so, and because no one at school knows me that well...they don't pick up on it. :/ Which then just kind of cascades into a vicious cycle of doooooom and emo aaaand yeah.

In other news, Dylan is 17 as of...holy crap, an hour and 43 minutes ago. XD Oh nighttime, you pass by so quickly.

Ha, I like how I have legitimate LJ posts like, once a month. I should get better at that.

I'm going to sum up things that happened longer ago quickly:
• Russell Brand show? WAS AWESOME. Um...we sat in one of the first few rows and got autographs and pictures later because the club was super small.
• Repo the Genetic Opera IS AWESOME and continues to be badass at theaters that are still playing it. Both of the theaters around here that were stopped for some reason in the middle of last week. :[
• My mom got laid off from her job she had had for about a month. :/ She's been doing a lot of individual work for people and it looks like there's a shop...in Rockridge? that sounded interested in hiring her.
• I told my grandmother I had conflicted feelings about my school, and she wanted to know -- I am DIRECTLY quoting -- if people were "picking on me". What. The fuck. Um. No. I have not been 'picked on' since I was ten years old, and I fought back.
• NaNoWriMo is now over...I did not completely finish it, partially due to being a crazy jet-setting fool (I realized the other day that since school has started I have not resided in one place for more than 4 days.) but also because BLARGH I have issues. Which is not old news, but still is something that I have not been able to remedy successfully. Anyway, I am still definitely finishing this particular story. I bought an official shirt for this year and I'm not letting myself wear it until I get to 50K.

I saw Twilight on the opening day with Justin and his boyfriendy-type, David. JACOB AND SONS. SODOM AND GOMMORAH. It was so, so terrible. If it was not based on popular books it would have fucking bombed. It is possibly the most awkward film I have ever seen (I swear the direction for the two leads was probably something like 'Be as awkward as you can. ALL THE TIME.') and it made it even more obvious that Bella and Edward do not have any chemistry as characters. It certainly had its laughable moments though, so that was fun.

Thanksgiving was...typical? I guess. XD I'm not really a huge fan, and it's not even that big of a deal in my family. We go to my grandma's house and eat, and then probably watch movies or something. Additionally there's only like, six of us, and my grandmother is an extremely awkward creature, so Dylan, Mom, and I are all practically having seizures trying to come up with something to do.

Friday I went to go see Bolt with a bunch of people which was SO CUTE. D: After that we went to Maggie Moo's to harass people we knew who work there/eat ice cream, and later meandered to Sarah Guzzaldo's house to watch Hey Arnold! the Movie. Eventually we decided to go on a nighttime adventure and wound up walking to Best Buy. XD ...we're cool. There was fog and everything.

Today I ventured to the Westfield Mall in Sf (Pronounced like 'sif'. It's how the cool kids say it.) to go shopping with Jesse. Mall is large, and very stereotypical of the city it resides in. On the plus side, Beard Papa's is the best chain store-thing ever. (THEY SELL CHOCOLATE FONDANTS. AND ECLAIRS.) Later I visited her dorm which is definitely the most pathetic excuse for a collegiate residence I have seen so far, and then left for home via BART. Not before stopping by the HUEG Union Square Borders and leaving notes in copies of Paper Towns, though. (NERDFIGHTERS *hand symbol spasm*)

Oh. My God. kurafufu posted about this recockulously awesome poll earlier, and the comments are HILARIOUS.

To: Edward Cullen

I know I was an angsty emo stalker for Buffy, but at least I don't f**king sparkle.

Bite me, disco boy.
Posted by: Angel


( Moar. )

THERE ARE WAY MORE.

A real LJ entry later. Probably. Maybe. 'Cause I've been up to a lot but at the same time BAAAAHH I need to read 100 pages and NaNo for like, a year. 8F

Well, first of all OBAMA GOT ELECTED. Oh. My God. Wow. 8D

Additionally I am totally checking the Prop 8 tally until I go to bed, and although it looks retardedly grim all I have to say is we may lose this battle, but that doesn't mean we'll stop fighting. Also...

Can you tell I like making bizarre faces?
</politics>

Anywayyy. The Paper Towns signing was pretty much amazing. John Green...I don't even know. As well as being an awesome writer he's just so articulate and witty and AWESOME. At one point he ended up calling Edward Cullen an "empty vessel unto which people project their hopes and dreams". Yes. Aaaand I got my book signed. 8D Yeah. Everyone should read Paper Towns. Seriously.

Halloween was spent with Megan, Erin, and Thurston hanging out in the Sunvalley Mall and eating Cinnabons. :o It was nifty. Saturday was my Halloween party, which was overall a super rad time: I saw a bunch of people I hadn't seen in a while...like Gazelle...and had fun watching crazy movies and wandering around in the damp night. ALTHOUGH we forgot to have a Costume Contest. I don't know how the hell that happened. Ah well, it'll be remedied.

Today as well as voting I bought tickets to go see Repo! the Genetic Opera on Friday FUCK YESSSSSS. It took me about thirty minutes too long to do so, and the people working there were more than slightly befuddled that I was buying eight tickets for it, but I emerged from the ordeal VICTORIOUS. I am so fucking excited.

Additionally, in a mere 41 hours, I am seeing Russell Brand OHMIGAWWD. Umm my friends and I kind of are obsessed with Russell Brand. If you weren't aware of this. YEAH.

For some reason my phone decided it hates Twitter. :[ It's very sad. I feel disconnected from the wooooorld~ bah. XD (Also yeah, I am obsessed with Twitter.)

My NaNo progress is also making me D: I need to step up my game or something. 8F

The next three days are going to be kind of insane, but only in the I-hope-I-can-go-everywhere-and-get-everything-in-time way because otherwise it's looking to be pretty badass. :D Basically I'm leaving IMMEDIATELY after class tomorrow to go to my high school, go to a JAG meeting, and visit kids, and then Friday apparently going to JAG's rival's meeting, picking Megan up at some time, and hanging out around Company. Saturday will be a city trip of hopefully rad proportions...and maybe multiple people sleeping over? XD Still unsure on that front.

Anyways...I am stealing this meme from Saaski because I want to see what some of you come up with.

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now,(even if we don't speak often or ever) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me.

It can be anything you want - good or bad - BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE.

When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your LJ and see what your friends come up with.

...I can already bet what one of these responses will be. XD Don't disappoint me.

I've had a pretty rad last few days. Basically, the short story is that I went with Erin to San Jose to visit Megan at her school and met her school compadres. Sufficient to say we had a very jolly good time wandering around San Jose, chilling at Vampire HQ (a.k.a. City Hall) before we got yelled at by a security guard, being generally ridiculous, getting admonished by some random chick for loudly imitating rainicorns, eating at IHOP, and listening to even more ridiculous music. (..I've had the whale song and Highly Suspicious stuck in my head all day...)

ADDITIONALLY. Somehow we realized that using odd Biblical phrases as exclamations is really, really funny. I wrote them down.

( These should always be in allcaps )

Some of you may be aware I have kind of a mail/Post Office obsession. Now that I've FINALLY got my mail box all set up at school (there was a weird, confusing mix-up initially) I want to send people a bunch of mail, and maybe get some back.

Anyway, I would LOVE to have your address. Even if we don't really talk that much; you'd still definitely get a Christmas/various winter holiday card. Some other things you may get are postcards/random trinkets/pieces of rainbows/letters/candy/ridiculously formal invitations.

If you have a box at school or whatever that's cool, if you know you're going to be home around December I guess give that to me as well. I don't know. Just give me at least some address of somewhere that you check fairly often.

Me at school:
Lily Jones
3500 Mountain Blvd.
Box #13
Oakland, CA 94619

At home:
Lily Jones
PO Box 1774
Lafayette, CA 94549

I check both of them fairly often. (Ha, as you may have noticed, my school is only 15 minutes away from Lafayette.)

[posted on LiveJournal, DeviantArt, AND Facebook because I'm crazy and bored.]

Edit Okay, now comments really ARE screened because apparently I am a moron.

* Take a picture of yourself right now.
* Don’t change your clothes.
* Don’t fix your hair
* Just take a picture.
* Post that picture with no editing. (Except maybe to get the image size down to something reasonable. Don’t go posting an eight megapixel image.)
* Include these instructions.


CAMERA FLASH OF INTENSITY. I look like an albino Eskimo. Apparently I can set the flash settings to Less Intense, but I don't know how. Ah well.

Hey there LJ, I seem to have accidentally neglected you. D: Sorry 'bout that.

I'VE BEEN HAVING AN INTERESTING PAST FEW DAYS. Well, not really that interesting. Just like, I feel like I'm on the cusp of a new chapter or something. I don't know. Emotional tremors lead to interesting thoughts. Additionally I've been feeling a bit polar lately (uh, not in the emotional disorder way..) because I've been in a pretty good mood generally that is peppered with missing people/things.

I really need to write moarrr...actually, I have been. XD (Who does laundry at 1 AM and writes while waiting for it to finish? That would be me.) I know NaNoWriMo's coming up and on one hand I kind of want to do it, but on the other am kind of critically unsure because I don't write like that. I need to think/ponder/plot out everything typically before I write things of substance, and I don't know if that would mesh with it. I don't knowww. (Saaski...advice? XD )

I'm definitely having a Halloween party at my house this year, like the weekend before. (I'm sure I've mentioned this to most of my IRL friends reading this.)

Vlogging Project of Much Awesome is looking almost fully-formed. YAAAY.

Additionally, if I haven't made you watch the trailer for Repo! the Genetic Opera yet, you're watching it now. It's a horror musical with Anthony Stewart Head and Sarah Brightman, among others. It looks RAD, and is apparently getting limited release on November 7.

Watching the VMAs mainly because of Russell Brand, and I figure I may as well do as many mindless activities as I can at one time so I'm grabbing this bizarrely mundane meme from saaski_moql
( I like how offended people seem to be getting by Mr. Brand.. )

- I kind of accidentally came out to my friend Kayla...Kayla is from a town with a population of roughly 3000 people, has never really known any gay people, was a cheerleader, pretty sheltered, is very girly, generally a pretty straight-laced person. I say "kind of accidentally" because I said something about lesbians and she was like "Oh...are you gay?" so ah...it wasn't really..the best way to tell someone that. 8F I'd say she was somewhere between shocked and alarmed, but not really a BAD reaction because she said "I've never had any gay friends before". And then she said she needed to take in this information. Or something.

- My sparrow died on Monday. :( Totally random, too; he was TOTALLY FINE the day before. Oddly enough though I kind of saw it coming, but I don't know why.

- Justin, Momo, and I went to San Francisco to try to see Emo the Musical again on Friday, but just baaaarely missed getting tickets so we went back to my house and watched Power Rangers: The Movie. 8D

- uhhh I talk about one of the craziest books ever and Top Model. AAAAND

SO, FELLOW AWESOME VLOGGERS OF A FORCE....when aren't you available in the next five days? Past events have led me to conclude that it is physically impossible for all of us to be online at the same time; perhaps this is a fallacy? Oh yeah I'm gonna assume we're all busy with school stuff until around 5ish on weekdays, sooo don't count that.