This list doesn't go any earlier than July 2007 and neither does my memory, so if it's not on here, forget about it.

( Gossip Girl )


( Harry Potter )


( Twilight )


( Essays )

( Supernatural 4x01 - Lazarus Rising )

EDIT: OH. OH. I almost forgot. Well, first of all, music meme. Letters of your first name, letters of the song, etc. You know the drill. Songs to come once they finish uploading.

K - Kyle's Mom's A Bitch from South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
A - About A Girl by The Academy Is...
R - Radio Song by Superbus
I - I Wanna Save You by Something Corporate
N - NYC by Snow Patrol

Second, Wednesday, I went up to where they were filming Gossip Girl and stalked the stars. :D I got there late, so only Taylor Momsen, Chace Crawford, and Willa Holland, who will apparently appear this season (sorry if I spoiled that for you guys), were there, but, OMG. Oh, and the mother was there, too.

But Taylor and Chace wouldn't stop to sign any autographs. I mean, neither did the mother, but she at least apologized for not having the time. Taylor came out of her trailer on her Sidekick, saw us, went, "Oh," and then walked away. Chace didn't acknowledge anyone that wasn't his bodyguard. Willa Holland was the only one to sign anything. Good thing I like her. She's so pretty.

And Chace is way prettier in real life than the television gives him credit for, even if he hid in his trailer for like an hour and even had his hair and makeup done in there so he could avoid coming out for as long as possible. As though we were going to jump him or something. And as though he could avoid it by hiding if we were. Pfft.

And, today, I'm going to a free screening of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, which I am forgiving for its differences from the book (most important, NICK asked NORAH to be his girlfriend for five minutes, NOT the other way around, and NO ONE GOT LOST AND FOUND JESUS, DAMN YOU) because Michael Cera is in it. Mmm, Michael Cera. Hopefully, I get to see it because it's kind of first come first serve.

God, I love this city.

Hi. Remember me? That one girl who went to college? Yes? Well, hi.

Just popping in to say that Gossip Girl gets steadily more and more awesome.

One Tree Hill, on the other hand, is a steaming pile of suck.

That is all.

Whoosh, okay, so, today, I was exhausted from staying up late to do tons and tons of reading that turned out not to be due today. And then I was exhausted from running from my class to my dorm and back just for a jacket that the running made me too hot to put on. And then I had fun because Writing I is so much fun. Our professor asked us to rewrite cliches and one of them was "It's raining cats and dogs":

GIRL: It's raining so hard, the levees are broken!
CLASS: (silence)
GIRL: Too soon?

And then we had to rewrite the sentence "she walked discreetly through the door" to get rid of the modifier:

BOY: She shimmied through the door.
PROFESSOR: Shimmy?
BOY: Yeah.
PROFESSOR: I don't think... Okay, when I think shimmy, I think dance. You mean to shimmy. It's an intentional, noticeable action. You'd notice if someone danced through the door.
ME: STOP! Shimmy time!

And then we all took a moment to shimmy. I love this class. I love those people. I love college! I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop, but until then... shimmy time!

( Now, more importantly, One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl )

Tomorrow after my placement test, I'm going home. Did I mention that? Sorry if I did. :3

So... some woman harassed a guy with the last name of Cullen into dating her and they eventually fell in love and got married her name could be Rosalie Cullen. Stephenie Meyer, what the fuck have you done?

Did the Harry Potter fans ever do anything that crazy? I can't recall anymore.

I think Twilight should be quarantined on a remote island in the middle of the ocean (named after a Twilight character, boom boom che!) until it agrees to stop inducing crazy in already hormonal unstable old women and small children. And if it refuses, we BLOW UP THE ISLAND.

I think it would be so awesome if South Park made a Twilight reference, but Matt and Trey are probably blissfully unaware of this "special brand of heroin".

And, for the record, HERMIONE GRANGER > BELLA SWAN.

EDIT: Not to suddenly switch fandoms or anything, but fellow One Tree Hill fans, guess what my Daddy bought me for my incoming move? Uh huh. Lucky bamboo.

Can anybody tell me why the CW didn't pick up Aquaman? It looked like an okay pilot to me. Besides, Justin Hartley can butter my biscuit any time and he's living in La La Bikini Land which means he can get shirtless in every episode. I'm not seeing the downside. Maybe if I pray hard enough, they'll still pick it up?

Re-reads are starting up over at sortofbeautiful (and yes I just noticed today) and I am seriously afraid. I wanted to sign up, but that would require me to actually read a chapter of Breaking Dawn. Which, hell no. But our re-reads are always way better than the actual book so I'll be enjoying those instead thank you very much. I think it says a lot that my friend, Malek, who normally goes out of her way to disagree with me on everything, agreed that Breaking Dawn was a big bucket of fail. Only difference is, she actually read it all the way through. ( Now for the actual Breaking Dawn spoilers )

In personal news, my Dad made me clean the bathroom today. I swear I nearly threw up as well as did my fair share of shuddering. I cannot describe to you how big a phobia I have of the bathroom. I hate it. It is my least favorite room. I do as much as I can outside of the bathroom so as to spend as little time as possible in there. I don't even keep any of my toiletries in there. I have no idea what I'm going to do when it's my turn to clean the bathroom at my dorm. Cry, maybe.

Also, apparently, Michael Rosenbaum/Lex Luthor will not be a series regular in Smallville season eight? I was shocked and appalled until I heard that Kristen Kreuk/Lana Lang wouldn't be either. The latter is a cause for celebration; the former... well, I'm wondering how they're going to make that work. I looked at some spoilers and there's one episode I'm particularly interested in seeing, but if I know Smallville, it's just going to be another cocktease designed to lure me back in until yet another Stoopid Clark moment makes me want to put my foot through the television again (see Labyrinth).

I still think Justice was, like, the perfect episode. And not just because Lee Thompson Young and Kyle Gallner were backing Justin Hartley in a daring rescue. Well, okay, yeah, mostly because of that. But Chloe was awesome in it, too. Then again, when is Chloe ever not awesome?

Time's winding down to college. Janine's leaving tomorrow for South Carolina, Lauren's leaving for Connecticut on the 22nd, I go to NYC on the 24th, and Emily and Christie leave on the 30th for NYC and Rhode Island respectively. I miss all my friends already. I had a movie night at Emily's on Monday, took Janine to the movies yesterday, and Lauren came over to my house after work today. Now, I just have to wait for Christie to get home from Mexico so I can spend some time with her before I go off TO MY NEW LIFE!

I just have this feeling that college is going to rock out loud. Therefore, I will cry a river if it sucks.

Also, how sad it is that the topic of debate yesterday while Janine, Lauren, and I were waiting for the movie to start was who is a bigger psychopath, Light Yagami from Death Note (Lauren's choice), Eric Cartman from South Park (Janine's choice), or Azula from Avatar: The Last Airbender (my choice)? We eventually decided that Light was the best strategist, Cartman was the best sociopath, and Azula was the best at physical combat, mostly because her evil was severely restricted by the fact that she was on a children's show. I kept arguing that we had to consider what Azula was capable of doing, but Janine kept reminding me that Cartman had tricked a kid into eating his own parents and then licked the tears off his face at the age of eight.

Of course, we decided after seeing The Dark Knight that the Joker kicks all of their asses as far as sociopathy goes.

I'm still not sure who's worse though. I mean, Light Yagami's insane, but so's Eric Cartman and Azula.

And, to make this entry come full circle, I packed all of my winter clothes in a suitcase to take to college. My hats, boots, coats, scarves, socks, belts, and bags filled an entire suitcase alone. I can't imagine how many suitcases I'll actually end up taking.

Yeah, I finally cranked this out. It took awhile, some blood, some sweat, and some tears, but hopefully people still enjoy it. In the wake of Breaking Dawn, you know you were all probably thinking Edward and Jacob should just do each other instead of Bella. Hell, in the wake of Twilight, you know you were all... whatever, I hope you like it.






pressure [1/17]
freeing_pan, rated R overall for violence, language, sexual humor, sexual situations, and that one part where Edward and Jacob do that thing.
Twilight, Edward/Jacob, m/m alternate universe.
Edward Masen is less than enthused when his parents move him from sunny Los Angeles to the dreary town of Forks until he meets and befriends Jacob Black, who easily wins him over with his impish smiles and love for cars. But, as their relationship grows and flourishes, circumstances will force them to evaluate what they mean to one another and whether or not it is worth it.
Part 1 Complete, 8337 words.

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When the sun found the moon she was drinking tea in a garden
Under the green umbrella trees in the middle of summer
When the moon found the sun he looked like he was barely hanging on
But her eyes saved his life in the middle of summer
So he said, “Would it be alright if we just sat and talked for a little while?
If in exchange for your time I give you this smile?”
So she said, “That’s okay as long as you can make a promise not to break
My little heart and leave me all alone in the summer.”
--When The Day Met The Night by Panic at the Disco

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( His cellphone, forgotten on the sheetless bed, had 31 missed calls. One of them was from Jasper. The other thirty were from Rosalie. )

My aunt woke me up this morning afternoon just so I could take her to the stupid train station. Sometimes, I swear, the ability to drive is a total curse.

There's also a clip from Gossip Girl season two floating around the internet. I tried to watch it, but then I had to stop because ( spoilers kill )

My ushanka arrived. That's right, I am now in the possession of a lime green ushanka. I was wearing it all morning while watching South Park. I am unbelievably amused.

Also, welcome week at NYU is going to rock, but there are so many events going on that I'm afraid I might not get to them all unless I make a schedule and how lame is that? Which reminds me that I never got to see The Mummy. :(

Um, that's it, really. I just realized I hadn't updated in like six days. My iPods almost completely full?

I did basically all my college stuff today (well, all of it so far). I messaged my roommates to start setting down The Ground Rules as well as laying out who's bringing what. I read all the little pamphlets they sent me about housing and dining and the student lounge, etc. I also filled out the form to renew my passport which expired the day before I came back from Jamaica (a harrowing experience in and of itself because the whole time in the airport I was afraid someone would say, "Hey, wait a minute, this passport is expired! GTFO!") I am so tired. I have no idea how my parents do all this stuff on a regular basis, for themselves and two children. All the more reason for me not to have any.

Of course, doing all this college stuff has made me all the more impatient to get there. I'm so excited I can barely contain it. I alternate between being excited and being scared, but right now excitement is winning out. New York City, here I come!

Oh, also, my cousins are here. Abigail, Aldon, and Adriel. They arrived way in the early morning and Dasha and I attacked them as they were passing by my room in the dark. Like, literally. We jumped them from behind. Abigail nearly fell down the stairs. It was awesome. So, yeah, now they're here so. I'm going to use Abigail as practice for having roommates. Because I don't just have one. I have four of them. Two of whom I'm sharing an actual bedroom with. Should be fun, eh?

I found Kyle's ushanka on amazon.com. How sad is it that I am totally buying it? Yes, I am going to be walking around in the winter time with a giant fuzzy lime green hat with fluffy ears on my head. I can understand if you no longer wish to know me.

I have ultimately decided that I am not buying Breaking Dawn tomorrow. I mean, I considered leaving the Twilight fandom entirely, but then I realized that fandom was all I had left to save me from the fail, so, I'm thinking I might just give away my books and just read fanfiction for the rest of my life. Another author lets me down except at least Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows wasn't full of enough fail for me to avoid reading it entirely. I mean, it did give me Albus Severus and Scorpius.

I swear I had a point when I started this entry...

Oh. My. God. WHAT?!

Just... just what? You're kidding right? Haha, internet? Haha, Stephenie Meyer? HA? HA?

Because if you're serious, then, goddamn, woman, you have been smoking some damn good pot and you need to share it with the rest of us. It's like whatever J. K. Rowling smoked before writing the epilogue to Deathly Hallows... times a million.

I am... I am appalled. I am... Screw this. I'm taking Jacob Black to my house where she can't reach him.

That aside, I still have so much to do and so little time to do it in. And tomorrow once my cousins get here I can kiss my privacy goodbye because I'm leaving for college before they leave for Jamaica and I'll have a roommate, so, you know. I will never get as much privacy as I am languishing in right now. So, I'm going to languish and watch That 70's Show and pretend I didn't see any of this Breaking Dawn bullshit.

P.S. Avatar: The Last Airbender finale = win. Y/Y?

Two weeks in Jamaica begging my Dad to use natural ventilation rather than the air conditioner as we sped along the country streets has made my sister think my mind "has been taken over by the environment" and my Mom just plain want me to "STFU and stop shutting off the AC!" In the airport on the way down, I got Myspace / Our Planet and, while ignoring all the annoying and shameless myspace plugs, got a lot of tips on how to save the plant. Viva la vida verde?

Meanwhile, spending two weeks in Jamaica where the person nearest to my age was eleven has gotten me into iCarly and the Jonas Brothers (and That 70's Show, but I was into that before I left. It's just now I have the season one box set). No, seriously. I now have a poster of Nick Jonas on my wall and got distracted in Path Mark this morning because I was busy reading about them in Rolling Stone.

Now I have the arduous task of a) unpacking, b) ironing my clean clothes, c) washing my dirty clothes, and d) getting everything in my room clean and set up for when my cousins come up from Jamaica to stay with us. I'll be going off to college before they go back down to Jamaica, but it will be good to see them. And on August 1st I can finally find out who my NYU roommate is.

Um, I think that's more or less it. I have so much to do and so little time to do it in so I'm going to take off. How have you guys been since July 13th? Surely you don't expect me to check my flist for updates. It's massive right now. D:

So, following my viewing of the Wall-E movie, I have decided that I need to go green and fast before I end up living in a nasty-ass, toxic wasteland, forcing my children to get blasted into space and become fat, lazy slobs like their mother. Except with floating chairs.

Anyway.

Going green is way difficult. It will involve a complete and total 180 in terms of my lifestyle. I'm starting small, you know, turning off the lights and television when I leave the room, using the air conditioner only when necessary, carpooling (although I did that before), and I'm going to buy the family a recycling bin just as soon as we get back from Jamaica because all the paper we I waste in here is appalling. It's just, I feel like I could and should be doing more.

There's a book coming out in August called Generation Green which is a teen's guide to helping the environment and I'm going to buy that for more suggestions. There's no point in doing this if I'm going to be half-assed about it, you know?

And don't worry, I won't become one of those gun-toting environmentalists pushing my beliefs on other people all the time. :D I have better things to do with my time than force people to agree with me.

The song count on my iPod has officially passed 800. I'm so proud. Eventually, I will hit 1000 and then... and then I'll have to find something else to do all summer.

NYU gave me a heart attack earlier because they sent me an email with 2008-2009 Housing Cancellations and I was like, "OMG NO I KNEW THEIR SILENCE HAD TO MEAN SOMETHING BAD!" But they were just reminding us that we had to cancel our housing by July 18 if we wanted to get our deposit back. I've just been nervous because Lauren, Janine, and even Nicele have all gone to some kind of orientation at their colleges and NYU hasn't said anything substantial to me since I sent in my money. Am I the only one who doesn't have college orientation until Welcome Week in August? Should I be worried?

Packing for Jamaica is at 94%. I just need to pack the toiletries and that's it. After that, I need to pack my carry-on with entertainment because I will be bored as all hell down there, I swear. But Daddy says I need to stop bad-mouthing my home country so... Nevermind. I need to get a mood theme.

Stolen from dreamer4life78.

1. List 15-20 of your favorite old and new fandoms.
2. Have your friends guess your favorite ship from each fandom.
3. Strike out the fandom when someone guesses correctly and put the name of the first person to get it right.

In no particular order:

1. Harry Potter [Harry/Hermione] - dreamer4life78
2. Gossip Girl [Chuck/Nate] - hell_in_the_end
3. One Tree Hill [Lucas/Peyton] - dreamer4life78 (although Nathan/Peyton would have also been acceptable)
4. Veronica Mars [Logan/Hannah] - imaginesthesnow
5. Boy Meets World [Cory/Shawn] - hell_in_the_end
6. Smallville [Clark/Chloe] - dreamer4life78
7. South Park [Stan/Kyle] - hell_in_the_end
8. Twilight [Jacob/Bella] - dreamer4life78
9. Avatar: The Last Airbender
10. Dark Angel [Alec/Max] - sacred_lullaby
11. The Office
12. The Black Donnellys
13. Supernatural [Sam/Dean] - fewdaysdown
14. Card Captor Sakura
15. Bandslash [Brendan/Ryan of Panic at the Disco] - imaginesthesnow

And, yes, it is cheating if you just go and look in my profile. I have my eye on you people! And be careful. Some of these aren't as obvious as you think they are!

In other news, I went shopping with my Mom and sister today (at the ungodly hour of ten in the morning) and I have begun packing for Jamaica. In that I dropped all the clothes I bought today straight into the suitcase without even taking the tags off. But, same thing, really.

I think I have bad karma. I've missed out on seeing The Boiling Rock Parts 1 & 2 and then all of a sudden Nick announces that they're going to show "all new episodes" of Avatar (which means the one I watched on the interwebs plus some other new ones) and an Avatar season/series(?) finale (Sozin's Comet Parts 1, 2, 3 &4) and you want to know when this is happening? Oh, yes. The day after I leave for Jamaica.

My chances of being around a cable television every night for a week? Zero. Zilch. NONEXISTENT.

Ugh.

I went to the city with Lauren and Nicele yesterday and we ended up getting Nicele into South Park and Panic at the Disco. Well, okay, into slash involving those things. But same difference, really. And I'm definitely rekindling my fondness for Card Captor Sakura (although it was the crappy English dub known as Cardcaptors when I first saw it). I think I might start watching the anime. Of course, Sakura still makes me throw up a little in my mouth while simultaneously thinking she is so cute, but I think that's really just the fantastic art. And the anime has Meiling in it and I can't enjoy Syaoran/Sakura knowing that poor Meiling is in love with Syaoran and hurting.

But they are so cute.

Whatever, I'll just keep operating under the belief that Everybody But Kaho Should Just Do Eriol. Well, okay, Kaho, Touya, and Yukito, because the latter two are busy doing each other and I don't care who he's the reincarnation of or how old he really is, KAHO MIZUKI YOU ARE DATING A TEN YEAR OLD BOY YOU NASTY PERVERT. If he wants a mature woman who is physically appropriate for him, he should just date Tomoyo. Meanwhile, To Catch A Predatory is going to come for Kaho's ass, mark my words. Her and Mr. Terada.

I lost my point somewhere...

I'm back on that fic I keep putting off because I know it's going to suck out my soul and at this point I'm just trying to get things straight in my head. Because a lot's going to happen and I'll forget it all if I don't write it down. And I may as well disregard most Twilight because, seriously, that book is like 96% omgz edward's a vampire and wuuuuv him and like 4% omg james is a vampire and he's gunna eat choo RAWR.

Anyway, back to the point. Poll time!

Poll #1216918 About that AU fic I'm slaving over
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 30

Should imprinting be included in the storyline?

In lieu of going to that party at the boy's house, I have been stranded at home and have rekindled my fleeting interest in Across the Universe long enough to start shipping Max/Jude. Because I went on YouTube and watched "With A Little Help From My Friends" (and "I Want You/She's So Heavy" which scares me just as much now as it did when I watched this stupid movie in the first place) and went, "Huh. Know what? That's hot."

Fanfiction.net agrees with me 'cause all the M-rated Across the Universe fanfics are Max/Jude. I don't need a better incentive than that.

Of course, I still don't like that movie. Then again, I didn't like Jumper, but I still managed to come out of that shipping Griffin/David.

I've added Prince Harry (my own personal prince charming) and Prince William to my list of Beloved Brothers. Just above Huey and Riley Freeman, but below Tommy and Dil Pickles. And, of course, Sam and Dean Winchester are still #1.

And I was watching a couple of episodes of One Tree Hill from season four. Lucas tells Peyton he'll wait for her. To her face. He tells her this to her face.

( the romantic liaisons of lucas scott )

Hm. Hm. Yes, he waits really well, that Lucas Scott.

Which reminds me. Welcome to my life, _kathrynnn, blincolin, fewdaysdown, laminy, leftoffield, seacakes, the_scene_xx, and unloveablehands. Whew. Did I forget anybody? I feel like I did...

1. Take a picture of your bag.
2. Now dump everything out, neatly adjust it, and take a picture (no matter how embarrassing).
3. Talk about the items inside.
4. Tag 6 people.

( The Dump Out Your Bag Meme )

Today, imaginesthesnow and I went up to the city and I finally learned how to drive to her house. There is a long list of movies I need to fulfill my best friend duty and take her to see. Ironman, for instance, and Prince Caspian. And she's never seen Gossip Girl! I fail at friendship!

Havemercy out on the 24th. Are you excited? 'Cause I'm excited. Also, this? Is so in-line with my jakeward au that its like God himself is like, "Hey, Karin! DOOOO ITTTTT!"

Also? I now ship Chuck/Serena like whoa. The more I think about it, the more I like it. I blame library_of_sex completely.

Are you an adult who regularly watches the Disney Channel? Do you and your seven-year-old sister share TV shows? Do you find yourself drawn to the Tiger Beat when standing in the grocery check out line? Do you hum along to the music when shopping at Toys R Us?




Yes, another one. But, more importantly, ( this )

And there's a High School Musical 4 being written. You know what this means, don't you? Ashley Tisdale and Lucas Grabeel are going to get old and die working on these films. And soon... yes, it will come to... High School Musical 5: College School Musical. Followed by High School Musical 87: College School Musical 8: What Do You Do With A BA In English? Followed by High School Musical 145: Back to High School 1: The Next Generation.

The people at Disney need to be stopped.

Meanwhile, I am so annoyed with my family right now.