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David Tennant is the next Dr Who!

Speaking of which, Who Is Doctor Who is a fictional website run by the BBC. This website was introduced in the first episode of the new Dr Who series as the project of a conspiracy nut who notices the Doctor's appearances in photographs and images throughout history. (Their photoshop jobs are pretty crap, though. Glad the rest of the show's effects surpass!)

The site continues, and "issues" of the site are released tying into whatever happened in the most recenbtly aired episode. "Sightings" are submitted by fans who would like to play along. I had to get in on this action, so in the bottom link of the issue pertaining to the first epsiode (alien menace: living plastic creatures) you can find my reference to my other loves of prank calls and my new mobile phone.

I brag!

I've been having lots of fun with the camera phone, and although they aren't great quality I wanted to throw some of the photos somewhere, so I started a Flickr account.

Check out the Pope!

Swiped from Ann

Your Linguistic Profile:

50% General American English

40% Yankee

10% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Swiped from Jenn

Galadriel

Possessing a rare combination of wisdom and humility, while serenely dominating your environment you selflessly use your powers to care for others.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

I'm going for a long walk on May 15th. Want to sponsor me?

!!!

I recently started itemizing my jobs, functions, and projects. Looking at this its really no wonder I needed to get kidnapped and spirited away by the Scorpio Squad yesterday.

In no particular order, my current obligations are...

• My "nine-to-five," which is a standard paperwork-flogging, data-entering, folder-filing job for a big corporation. It's not a bad job, but it's not a good one. This pays the bills and keeps the wolves from the door, but is not a secure job for many reasons. Needs replacing.
• Job-hunting for a new nine-to-five.
• My side gig as everyone's token "geek friend," doing PC repair (usually a round of spyware and virus scanning) as well as upgrades. This is mostly for friends and friends-of.
• My web designing and hosting stuff. Technically it's on hiatus while I work some logistics out, but I still keep hella busy with it regardless. If it keeps this active when I finally start it up I'll be happy, but I can''t do that until I find someplace to live.
• Looking for a place to live - That Guy Matt, Netta, and I are looking to rent a 3br house or apartment somewhere on LI. Somewhere the landlord doesn't feel the need to assume we're all having sex in a big pile would be nice.
• Saving money. Being skint broke is not conducive to house-hunting.
• My Tarot readings, which I'm doing for free until I get enough field experience to go pro. I enjoy doing this immensely, and will be doing more of it now that the weather supports setting up at a table in the park.
• Figuring out a way to get to Vegas this Summer. Shooting for Defcon, but that looks less likely to happen by the day. If not the con, I still want to get out there to visit a friend I really miss.
• My music, which at present includes a mashup disc, a cover album, and an original album.
• A movie-related project for Grey-Fire, which is in the late writing stage but really needs to get recording soon or all is lost.
• WTH, my beloved zine.
• Putting together a possible standup act to try out.
• Pod-Six, which I really suck at maintaining lately, and am seriously considering looking for volunteer help with.
• My coven has a huge new beginning to look forward to, and I'm helping all I can with that.
• Trying to get my shit together for a yard sale, which will hopefully turn some of my useless crap into money more efficiently than eBay.
• Getting things in motion to start teaching a class I have in mind.
• Trying to get back into my artwork. I draw and sculpt regularly, but I'm having the urge to paint for the first time in ten years or so. This brings up the further possibility of doing the starving-artist thing on eBay or somesuch.

So, World, this is why I suck at keeping in touch just now. Doesn't mean I don't love ya!

I-CON is off, Diane has more important matters to attend to. Send good thoughts her way.

In other news, I've just been given a big job, one I'll be proud to do and have some world-class help with. Woo! More later.

Hitting I-CON this weekend with my dear friend Diane (of Salem trip fame.)

Party time fun time yeah yeah yeah!

I might have to bring Tom Servo.

Just had dinner with my dad, who I hadn't contacted much in the past decade or so.

It went very well.

Among other things, I came out of the "broom closet" for the last time, and revealed myself as a Pagan Witch to my father, the Anglican Reverend.

That seems to have gone well so far.

Yanked from RageFury...

10 REALLY RANDOM THINGS ABOUT ME
1. I'm almost 27 and-a-half.
2. Favorite color is bright green.
3. Sun in Scorpio, Moon in Sagittarius, Libra rising.
4. I'll eat nearly anything if it's got hot sauce on.
5. I don't drive, and don't really plan on learning any time soon.
6. I only feel completely dressed if my socks don't match.
7. Male pattern baldness since I was 16, but not really noticeable until age 20 or so. It's all buzzed off nowadays.
8. I'm a spell-casting, card-reading, staff-swinging, incense-burning, coven-meeting, astral-projecting, Goddess-worshipping Witch.
9. I have a knack for fixing things, even if I don't know how they work to begin with.
10. In my bed now is a big fuzzy plush eyeball, and a beanie cow.

9 WAYS TO WIN MY HEART
1. Be honest with me, and with yourself.
2. Celebrate your own uniqueness and diversity, rather than trying to force yourself to some outside model.
3. Don't have any chemical addictions.
4. Be able to laugh, both with and at the world.
5. Be able to enjoy a dinner cooked for you that doesn't involve anything canned or instant.
6. If you seem bothered by something and I ask you what's wrong, please consider giving an answer other than "Ohhhh nothinggg..." with a heavy sigh.
7. Enjoy art in its many forms.
8. Don't give up.
9. Heckle bad movies with me.

8 THINGS I CARRY/WEAR EVERYDAY
1. A pentacle. Usually a ring, but sometimes a necklace.
2. A joker's card I found on New Year's.
3. Scrap paper and a pen.
4. If outerwear such as a coat or vest is seasonable, it's got some sort of pin or badge on.
5. Black footwear. All my shoes, sneakers, and boots are black.
6. The aforementioned mismatched socks.
7. If in season, a hat. It's been mainly a fedora for a long time, but I've recently grown fond of an odd golf-cap-looking thing I found cheap somewhere.
8. My new mobile phone.

7 THINGS THAT ANNOY ME
1. Corporate radio playlists.
2. Being a literally starving artist.
3. Job hunting.
4. My new mobile phone.
5. Bullies, bigots, and fundamentalists in all their forms.
6. Drugs.
7. "Reality" television.

6 PLACES I'VE VISITED
1. Four of New York City's five boroughs. Sorry Staten!
2. Salem, Massachusetts. Occasionally cheesy touristy fun.
3. Austin, Texas. I learned a lot there. Wonder whatever became of her.
4. Pennsylvania. Hershey, Amish country, and such. Interesting family vacation.
5. Washington, D.C. The place was sort of a pile.
6. Montauk Point, Long Island, home of what may be the best sunrise anywhere.

5 THINGS I WANT TO DO BEFORE I DIE
1. Live a good life. (Currently in progress.)
2. Publish a book.
3. Fill a bathtub with jello.
4. Become fluent in more languages, including sign.
5. While court is in session, tell a federal judge to fuck off.

4 THINGS I'M AFRAID OF
1. The consequences of #5 above.
2. Losing control of my faculties.
3. Being forgotten.
4. Repeating past mistakes.

3 THINGS I DO EVERYDAY
1. Eat.
2. Yawn.
3. Meditate.

2 THINGS I'M TRYING NOT TO DO NOW
1. Fall asleep at the computer.
2. Get a neck cramp.

1 THING YOU ARE TRYING TO CHANGE
1. My living situation.