There must be something wrong with me

From 5pm to 3:40am, I slept.

I WENT TO BED at 5!!!!!

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH ME!?

Okay, admittedly, today I've been feeling less than stellar-- backaches, headaches, neck aches-- I swear I can feel the tendons in my neck, all swollen and icky. It's a gross feeling, and being able to feel my lymph nodes like that gets me all paranoid that I might have leukemia.

Or appendicitis. That's what my mom said when I told her my right lower side hurt. But pain in my body MIGRATES really fast, and now the underside of my ribs (on the left) are hurting. Heating pad and ibuprofen are NOT DOING ANYTHING. ;_; OWIE!

And the even sadder part is, I'm becoming an "accidental anorexic." You know I hate that kind of person (who starves themselves to look "good"), but today I just. was. not. hungry. I had TWO waffles earlier in the day-- something like 11am? Okay, so that means it was yesterday, and today is Friday, and hopefully I'm off to a demi-good start by having juice and toast. But that usual feeling of "I'm hungry" when your stomach growls or your mouth waters-- I didn't get it. I just slept. And slept. And slept.

Ooh, and I dreamed, too! Freaky thing, that I mentioned Limited TOO in my previous post-- I had a weird dream and decided to write it in my Dream Diary, which I've had since 7th grade-ish. Which I got at Limited TOO! So there's a bunch of entries all the way back from 1998... only 21 or so total entries, since I only wrote really significant dreams in there (and I'm sure for the longest time, I forgot where I put the damn book), and some of them were pretty FREAKAY.

Tonight's dream was weird. Something about washing my face with this egg-texture yellow soap, and then threatening to stab this guy in the thigh with a pair of scissors (that didn't have handles). It was bizarre.

>_< *dies of laughter* Snapdragon-chan is funny. Latest chapter of "That's Not What I Heard" is out. Sorry, but sometimes, you gotta admit, Seto acts SO gay. And this is coming from a girl who lives in San Francisco and has SEEN IT ALL, not to mention has gay guy friends of many varieties. So... yeah. That's pretty freaky. Go SD-chan!

And speaking of attempts at humor, I got "Family" back from Mamono. I'm going to make a few changes to it, and then re-send it to any of the other betas that wanted it. TRC will take a bit longer (edits and all), but on the bright side, I DID just finish the layout for that, so once I get the JavaScript for the scrolling and the CSS for the text and links written, it'll go live on Darkness Rising! :DDDD

I'm slowly but surely learning what my weaknesses are-- and I blame 4th and 5th Grade. See, back then, we had this page on the wall of "words to use instead of said," and that whole concept has been stuck in my head ever since. So that's why much of my dialogue will probably read like "Speech goes here," she murmured, or "I'm talking to you!" Seto yelled.

Harlequine was the first one to point this out to me, and I'm trying to have the dialogue itself "speak for the action" so that such tags aren't necessary. But the thing that still gets me is WHEN I use those tags, what about the ending things-- for example "Well, this is a sentence." She said. Now, the words being spoken WERE a complete sentence, thus, you end them in a period. And anything followed by a period has to be capitalized, so... o_O But still, the capital S looks out of place. But you're only supposed to use a comma at the end of a quote if they're going to CONTINUE speaking, right? For example, "Well, this is a sentence," he began, "but this is not." And in such an example, the pronoun/name (he, in this case) is lowercase! And if you have an exclamation or question mark, you should still capitalize the pronoun/name, since ! and ? both count as "sentence-end" tags.

o_O I think. I'm going to get my Style Guide just to check. Okay, it says:
When a quotation is followed by an attributive phrase, the comma is enclosed within the quotation marks.
"I can't attend," she said.

HMM! I've always known that commas and other such punctuation must ALWAYS be enclosed in quotes (it's one of those little things that annoys me when I read fanfiction, and I see this: ...'? But even if the 'she' in the previous example doesn't keep on speaking (to say WHY she can't attend), it's still a complete sentence, apparently, and the usage of the comma is okay? >_o I hate it when my grammar rules go against things I was taught. Makes me feel like I was being brainwashed.

Anywho, I'm printing out all the various beta notes that I've been sent (it's standard for me... I now have a folder reserved for Fanfiction Type Stuff, and it's already busting at the seams)-- that way when I do my pre-posting revisions, I can look them over and type at the same time. The one thing I'm going to need when I'm down in LA is those things that attach to the side of your monitor-- so you can clip paperwork to it and look at it while you type. Sorry, but those speak-and-type things take forever to set up, and they often don't work. And I need to have something attached to the monitor rather than on a stand-up clip-board. I'm just picky that way, I guess.

Tasukete! Does anyone know what the specific scripting is for using MOUSE OVERS on an image to have a page SCROLL UP or DOWN? For example, you over over an image and it scrolls the text on the page up. You let your cursor wander away from the image, and scrolling stops. Go to another image, and the text scrolls down. What is this script!?!? I thought I had it, but there's an error that says MOVEUPVAR is undefined. >_<

Okay, this was long. I think since I'm awake, I should try eating more, and maybe I'll level up going through the cloisters starting at 0. Man, I really wish I got the Lady Luck Dressphere. Stupid Shinra.

Is it a Meme or a survey? Aren't Memes made with Memegen?

Bold the things you agree with. How much do we have in common?

1.) Eating animal products such as meat and milk is A-OK by me.
2.) Religion is people coming together as a community with shared morals.
3.) Religion is people coming together to worship their shared deity.
4.) All religions are equally valid.
5.) Marriage is not an aspect of religion, but an aspect of State.!!!!!
6.) Guns aren't the problem - attitude towards guns and fear is.
7.) Every person should own a gun.
8.) Late at night, it's safer to walk than to take the subway.
9.) Porn is okay.
10.) All romance novels are porn.

B) Your Stats
1.) Race: Caucasian (who the hell came up with this word?)
2.) Favorite Food: Uhm... right now? Pizza.
3.) Favorite Magazine: YM. I wanna work there. :DDD
4.) Favorite wall color in a house: o_O If I could paint my walls any color, they would be a nice VIOLET.
5.) Most annoying personality trait in someone of the opposite sex: Spitting. I HATE GUYS WHO SPIT LIKE IT'S COOL!
6.) Most annoying personality trait in you: Uhm... bossiness. ^^;?
7.) Favorite genre of book: Romances, maybe? Or ones like "The DaVinci Code," which I suppose are Mystery/Suspense/Historicals. o_O
8.) Favorite genre of movie: ACTION!!! BANG BANG BANG!!!
9.) Last movie you saw in theatres: o_O... Uhm. Something at the Metreon. I forgot what.
10.) Last movie you downloaded: I don't download movies.

C) Word Association
1.) Death: Stick.
2.) Spy: Game.
3.) Action: Packed.
4.) Slash: EEW!
5.) Parasol: An umbrella?
6.) Dairy: Farm.
7.) Stars: Sky.
8.) Carbon: Dated.
9.) Wish: CLAMP.
10.) Travel: Far.

D) Computer S|<1||z0rz
1.) Current GB Capacity (max): 28.4GB Capacity.
2.) RAM: 128MB
3.) Type of mouse: The kind that gets clogged up with dust all the time. A MICRO$0ft mouse!
4.) Partition? Noooope.
5.) Can you use DOS? o_O If there was anything to do in DOS, I would. But MTEZ and DOOM died in '95. Man, I miss MTEZ.
6.) Did you ever play games like "Mixed-Up Mother Goose" or "Magic" that had to be run from DOS? Princess Maker 2? Back when DOOM II was DOS-based, I always played it there. I still have the command line memorized. That... is sad.
7.) Monitor size in inches: I think 17.
8.) Do you install your own hardware? Most recent hardware installation: Hardware? ME!? Hah. I wish. Does a Scanner or CD-RW count? If yes, then those.
9.) Feature most in need of upgrading: MY HARD DRIVE. I need a new one. Or my DVD-ROM. Needs to be replaced.
10.) Number of computers currently owned: 1, technically, since my laptop is broken/old as hell, and the other computer I chopped up and now need to install the old HD from there into THIS comp.

E) Childhood
1.) Fell down a lot: Yeah. I'm (present tense) a very scrape kind of girl.
2.) Ate and Grew and Ate and Grew a lot: A lot? No. But the eating part was mostly true, I guess. Food was so much cooler when I was a kid.
3.) Went fishing/hunting/fixing things with Dad: Fixing, yes. Dad was a woodworker, so I did a lot of that stuff myself. ^_^ I still love the smell of sawdust and freshly cut lumber. :)
4.) Learned to "make" cookies with Mom (She did all the work.): Are you kidding? My mom can't cook to save her life (compared to me). I learned on my own.
5.) Had your mittens stolen by a dog/cat/giraffe: o_O What kind of zoo did YOU go to?
6.) Had a major problem in school: (Teacher's thought you didn't interact well with others because you stuffed a turtle down someone's pants?) I was the lonely little outcast dweeb girl. That was my major problem.
7.) Traveled to the following places: Uhm... never very far. SoCal for family occasions. That was about it.
8.) Had to participate in embarrassing after-school-activities such as: Anything involved with the YMCA inevitably turned into something embarrassing. A few things at Claire Lillienthal were, too.
9.) Dreamed of growing up to become the following: I wanted to be a writer, an artist, a fashion designer, a teacher... I was weird.
10.) Age you most wish you could be again and why: ... Any age before my sister died. 'Nuff said.

--stolen from mklutz

I'm going to make Steph and Eva icons if they don't make them themselves.

BOOKISH! --stolen from schmollieollie.

Directions:
1. Take five books off your bookshelf.
2. Book #1 -- first sentence
3. Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty
4. Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred
5. Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
6. Book #5 -- final sentence of the book
7. Make the five sentences into a paragraph

Cheyenne Mountain sits on the eastern slope of Colorado's Front Range, rising steeply from the prairie and overlooking the city of Colorado Springs. "I'm Nancy Drew," she whispered. "The Miss Boonton you're entertaining is an impostor." Every weekend, no matter the weather, dedicated anglers set off for their favorite spots, joined by curious first-timers in their pursuit of the day's catch. It's Luke Brandon. Read and respond to someone else's work as you would like them to read and respond to yours.

...Up until the last sentence, it was kind of cool. My five books were:
(1) Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
(2) Nancy Drew #55: Mystery of Crocodile Island - Carolyn Keene
(3) Kokology: The Game of Self-Discovery - Tadahiko Nagao and Isamu Saito
(4) Confessions of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
(5) A Writer's Workbook - Caroline Sharp

WHAT THE FUDGE IS OTP!?!?!?!

*bawls* People are leaving the Sockdom. The people that RP Buffy/Angel characters, that is. It's sad. And you know what-- there's someone who replied to xander__harris with an icon from an episode that I totally forgot, and it makes me miss Wesley and Cordelia insanely much. When Wesley was mocking Angel and Cordy was mocking Buffy... "I love you so much I almost forgot to BROOD!" ;_; I miss Wesley.

What I find so cool about the community in Sockdom is how they coordinate their icons. Leastwise in the Angelverse. I like the line "I Will Not Fade Away." Very ficcy-feel to it. And I wanna make YGO icons like that. :O

Still looking for that MouseOver script. And since Kysra seems to like humor (I believe she said she liked TJOY), I'm going to torture her with my newest attempt at comedy... "You and Me." *grin* TOP SECRET!