Collected Thoughts

That's the show I discovered on Cartoon Network today.

OMG!!!!

There's a rabbit, excuse, hare, in charge. He hops. And wears a monocole. And the animation reminds me of something but I can't figure out what and it's driving me nuts.

Plus it's funny.

I really wish I could put my finger on what the animation looks like...something from when I was a kid I think....

Today was a long fucking day.

Class!! So my argument and persuasion class is going to focus a lot on the media. WHOO!!! I can totally do that!!! We ended up in little groups, I think these will be our groups for the semster. If not I hope I get this one guy that was in my group, S. He's ... a little alt. Doesn't watch tv, totally down on the news channels and a sense of humor. We had to get info and introduce one person -- one of the questions was "What is an argument you'd like to win?" My team's answers were: Waffles v pancakes (pro waffle), McDonalds v Burger King (pro King), and "always win DS9 is the best Trek". I broke with the food debate, but I should have gone with Dunkin Donuts v Krispy Kreme (pro Dunkin).

Other people were serious. One girl got upset because the person introducing her accidentally listed her argument as "abortion should be legal." The girl is really anti abortion.

I will need to get the new book. It's about $60 and paperback. There's a handbook but I'm going to ask _ej_ if I can borrow hers.

For class we read an essay in our text, answered group questions, then wrote 3 paragraphs for one of three questions. There will be a lot of in class writing and 4 (I think) timed writings. Plus one research paper. My homework is to bring in an editorial (and be prepared to discuss it), read pags 1-29 and write three journal entries. The journal is for writing comments or thoughts while reading assignments. And be ready to discuss the essay.

I think I can do this, I just have to make sure I don't procrastinate.

I'm hungry. I just ate (well inhaled is probably a better description) a breakfast sandwich. But that hasn't helped.

I want a cookie. We have the best cookies here EVAH! In an hour I'll get to eat my fozen dinner.

Last night I meant to write up my thoughts on some of the vids from Vividcon that I've seen. Not that I went, but I've been a downloading fiend. I got distracted and I won't get home tonight unil after 9. I'm thinking I'll just collapse into bed.



I did see Failures in Experimental Vidding (or what ever that vid is called)...it's really funny and well done. And I liked the violence done to the a cappella music, it seemed to fit.

I watched Elevation and several QAF vids by sisabet that I haven't seen before. I do'nt think those were at Vividcon, I just looked at her site and downloaded what I didn't think I had. I want to see QAF!! I think when I send my dvds back to Netflix I'll bump the show to the top of my list.

Over the past several days I've been downloading vids almost at random and I've found some vids that are just bad. One would think that I'd shy away from them, but I seem to be looking for vids that sound like they won't be good. It must tie in with my love for The Badfic.

You are the Fourth Doctor: A walking Bohemian
conundrum with a brooding personal magnetism
and a first-rate intellect concealed somewhere
beneath your charmingly goofy exterior. You are
perhaps the most terribly clever of all the
Doctors, though your occasional bouts of
childishness get you in trouble. You never go
looking for a fight, but when someone messes
with you... good heavens, are they ever sorry
they did.


Which Incarnation of the Doctor Are You?
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I was trying for the 4th Doctor.

Dad's birthday is Thursday. I forgot this until Sunday.

Anyway. I'll be getting him a lame present and then I'm not sure about dinner. Because of his girlfriend. They may want to do something. Which is fine, but then I Said something and now it looks like I may be meeting her for the first time at his birthday dinner.

I haven't met her yet and I'm just...she's THIRTY!!!! For gods sake. And a doctor and omigod my life is SO LAME compared to hers.

dcjensen is awesome!! He helped me solve my divx issues.

Of course that meant downloading yet another media player but I can see the vids! Without the flicker at every edit! astolat's Jig of Life is a great vid, really wonderful Witchblade vid, but nearly blinding when it played with a kind of flicker on every edit.

The media player is vidoelan it's a free open source program. It says it will play any format. Except I don't get audio when I play quicktime files. But it solved my divx problem so YAY!

I've been downloading as many of the vids that were shown at Vividcon that I didn't have before. Mostly I've been able to watch all of them.

Except I'm having a huge problem with divx. The only vid I'm able to see is Mountain and Duende. Elevation and Drop Dead Gorgeous are just garbled visuals but I can hear the music. It doesn't make sense and I can't seem to make it work. I downloaded the divx player. I thought I had the right codecs but...argh!!!

I'm laying all the blame on my computer.

I found out what's going on with my eye.

The blurriness is a side effect of a medicine I started several months back. There's nothing wrong with my retina and no indication of actual loss of peripheral vision. So that's good.

The dr said that if I stop taking the medicine the vision problems won't increase. However, he doesn't know if my vision will go back to normal.

Oddly I'm okay with that. I can keep it from getting worse and if it doesn't come back then the problem is more of an annoyance than anything else.

Several times in this lj (and on b.org) I've mentioned my friend E.

And now she has an lj _ej_. She's fan of Stargate, West Wing, CSI, many ohter things. She's the one I was hunting down Jack/Sam stories for.

First I stayed home from work. I feel horrible about it but my god I needed a freaking day to pull myself together. I feel better even though I got zero sleep last night and I've gotten a few things done.

I called my shrink but they haven't called me back so in an hour or so I'll call again re: my meds.

And I called a different eye doctor, explained the situation and they said I should be seen by my HMO's optometrist first becauset the HMO perfers that, which was news to me. So I called them to set up an appointment, I didn't go into detail why since the eye clinic I saw yesterday didn't think that there was a need. But the appt they gave me was for Sept 9 and then I explained what was going on. I got put on hold and talked to someone else who asked me detailed questions and when I hesitated to use "peripheral vision" (because I got smacked down for using that yesterday) the person I spoke to said "you mean your peripheral vision". And said I could see them tomorrow at 8. So I'll be there.

The big difference is that they took me seriously and wanted to know information. And my supervisor knows what's going on.