Tragic breakup of long-time couple shakes world

It's equivalent to when Di and Charles broke up, except Charles was never as hot as Ken. Thanks to MK, I know now that *sniff* my longtime favorite couple of Toydom has broken up-- officially. Barbie and Ken are splits! CNN.com took the article report quite seriously. *grin* You know, I might have seen this coming, since the number of "sets" with Ken in them was decreasing, and with the new Mattel 1 Modern Circle line, there *was* no Ken! Same goes for a lot of Mattel's new lines...

Man, I really need to start subscribing to the Barbie magazine again. ^_^ Those things were bliss for a wannabe fashion designer such as myself (way back in the day).

I think I need to check out this Blaine character before I give him my approval, though. :P

So yesterday I was in the middle of typing an LJ entry at 10:05 am, just before I was about to leave to go to UGH! Wash to get my GPA Verification form... and it wasn't even raining out, but lightning must have struck somewhere, because the power snapped out. And came back on, two minutes later. -.- It was so frustrating losing everything I'd written and having to dash around the house turning all the clocks to the right time.

I was angsting over going to Wash, worrying about who I'd run into, what I'd get snagged into doing... turned out the whole thing was a breeze, up until I left. :P The bell had to ring right as I got upstairs to the College Center wing; I neglected to look at the paper before leaving the school, so now I have to go back later today with a transcript and get Huddleston to verify everything. And then I dash to the post office, get it postmarked and certified... and I'm done! Bank trip to get $40, and then it's manicure time! My fingers and hands really hurt (the latter because I was playing an air guitar and smashed the pinky finger of my right hand into the table...) though...

Yesterday at work I "caught" a guy trying to pass off a counterfeit $100. I mean, you could totally tell it was fake. Go ahead, grab a dollar bill or whatever, and look at it. It's not really GREEN, it's kind of a celery-white, you know what I mean? And the new 20s have that whole "pastel barf" schema going on... anyway, this guy's 100 was like, food coloring green. Grass green. BRIGHT FRICKIN' GREEN. But the counterfeit pen didn't detect anything... anyway, I just lied majorly again (;_; I'M SORRY!) and said I was out of change, and a manager would come down.

And who was the manager but the head honcho himself, Tom! And I'd never seen him so ANGRY! He's usually like a Grandpa or whatever, very nice and pleasant, but he just gave this guy a MEAN look and said "This is a counterfeit bill, Sir, and it's a Federal Offense..." and he just WENT OFF on this guy! I'd never seen him so cold and... wow. It was pretty freaky. He didn't give the guy the bill back, and I just went on with business. The guy never did come back. Later on, I found out the bill was real-- a real $5! Someone faded and erased it, but the strip was still in there... that and the lousy cutting/coloring job made it all the more obvious that it was "Monopoly money." All the managers were thanking me, it was pretty freaky. I wonder if Jen was serious in saying I'd get a reward. o_O

As for yesterday's ditched posts, well...
* My VCR crapped out on me. I thought my tape had over 5 hours of recording time, but it only had 2 and a half. So I have the stupid preshow and... I haven't watched the rest. Does anyone have the full show-- and can I borrow it? Pleeeease?

* Speaking of shows, the aftershow party made me want to shoot the so-called journalists manning it. Ugh. Bad hair, bad dress, bad attitude! And the camerawork was VERY shoddy, as well as the transitioning. They did bad "cover-up" too, quick to say things like "Uh, back to you, Joel!" -.-;; This is why I want to be in Print Journalism... less room for such obvious mess-ups.

* I hate bitchy customers-- one actually had the gall to call ME a bitch (not-so-under-his-breath) because I couldn't give him a student discount. PUH-LEASE, the guy was in his 30s and was a friggin' Frenchman! :P I don't make the rules, I just follow them! Why do people give me attitude for that? Hear me say it HERE AND NOW:

I am not a student. I look like one, but I'm not! So guess what, I DO NOT get a discount! And if I don't get one because I don't have a student ID, then YOU DON'T EITHER! TOUGH $#!T!

* People also seem to be under the impression that there are "hidden shows" that do not appear on the Marquees. Uh... NO! If it's not up there, we don't have it! This includes PASSION OF THE CHRIST! Do not blame the helpless filmcrew members because YOU didn't read the frickin' newspaper right!

* Speaking of "The Passion" that movie has gotten more title SNAFUs than any other, I'd venture to say. Some of them include... "Return of the Lord" (people think "Lord: Return" is the Christ flick, and not Lord of the Rings: Return of the King), " ... LOL, the funniest one I heard was "The Jesus Show." >_< I was cracking up so hard after the guy said that. People also seem to think "Confess of" (Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen) is "Confessions of Christ." LOL, Lindsey Lohan as Christ! That's a good one!

BTW, Jesus is *not* Jesus Christ. Christ has something to do with the word 'crucifixion' doesn't it? That's why 'Christ' can be substituted with an X (which resembles a cross on its side), right? So the word 'Christ' is more an addendum than a surname. He was always Jesus of Nazareth, right?

* Oh, and on Oscar night, I made up two of my own awards... Best (new) Picture went to "Twisted" for the most sales for a New Release. "Best Picture" for an Oscar Nominee (regardless of whether it was a nominee for that award) was Cold Mountain, with the most sales for a nominee. Har har.

I should bring back the Mooncademy Awards for the new Mare Serenitatis, yah?

Last night I went to bed at 7 because of a stomachache... I was so glad everyone let me go home early. :P I woke up at 11:40 to take the trash out, and promptly went back to sleep again, waking up sporadically around 6:30 and then 7:30. And then 8:45 (when I set my alarm) ... and then 9:45 (and I've been sitting here ever since then). My stomach still feels kinda icky, but I have too much to do to just sit around all day.

Damn, I have a lot to do. Better get moving.

I'm glad to see the columnists back on their feet

Well, I've procrastinated long enough... it's a wonder how so much time can go by doing so little. I haven't yet done the dishes nor gone to Wash, but I aim to do the latter soon; I just have to finish getting ready and type this little number.

Reality Check, a column at FFnet, was just recently updated-- and yay to that! FFnet should really archive the people that don't write anymore, and maybe even provide some incentive or ideas for people that would make good columnists. I'm considering writing the first two "issues" of "From Reader to Writer" soon, and sending them to Xing for review; it would be nice to get "published" somewhere (w/o the automatic acceptance rule). Suggestions and other thoughts on the column will be greatly appreciated.

Mer's To Do List for 3/2/04
* Go to Wash and get a counselor to sign my GPA Verification Form
* Go to the Post Office and get everything postmarked and certified
* Manicure!
* Vote!
* Do the dishes... eventually
* WDKY9

I joined a few more fic-related communities, including braintrauma and fanficrants. They both look like amusing, helpful communities, and I'm glad to see the fanfic fandom (haha) expand.

REMINDER: Later this month, pick up Peach Girl 18, Betsufure April, and Shounen Jump (Eng) Apr. And any other graphic novels to add to my collection.

I wonder who will be on the next cover of PGSM Shinsoban? I'm guessing... Pluto. Or Saturn. What do you think?