zombies galore

For a little 1 April fun, check out life death hacker.

Dating tips for the romantic undead. Use Google Maps to track zombie sightings. Have fun.

And how ’bout that Homestar, eh? He’ll turn your smile upsidedown. At least for today, anyway.

consolodation

I’ve been contemplating moving my library blahg back here. You know, integrating the posts. Not that there are that many… less than six, I think. I had intended for that site to be a record of library school and what not, but it’s just a dead blahg. Nobody likes ’em dead. They start to smell. And then there’s the clean up. But you’re just so apathetic about the whole thing, you know? If I do bring it all together, then I don’t really have anything professional to present to anyone. I rather liked the idea of having the library stuff separate, so I could keep any professional stuff there. I don’t know…

Suggestions?

old skool

I’m importing the archives into WordPress. It’s tedious, but I want all the content in one place (for reals, it’s crazy scattered now). It’d be easier to import if it were automated, but I can’t considering, some of them are still in Grey Matter form, others are in text files, and still others are in Word. It’s insane. But, it’s giving me something to do while I aviod doing research for my paper. I’ve done enough for now, and will start reading stuff on Monday, so there.

[edit to add] for some reason, WP isn’t allowing me to add anymore entries right now. It keeps giving me the same error message. I’m not doing anything different from what I had already been doing, but now it won’t work. Oh, well. I’ll try to figure it out later.

[another edit to add] Apparently, it’s only having a problem with one post. Oh, and I’m including comments directly in the old posts. I’m not going to do any crazy formatting or anything. This is already tedious enough, thank you very much.

[yet another edit] 2003 is done. Woo-hah!

Fret not

Hey, everyone. As you can see, I have decided to use a blogging software to manage my blahg. I used to use Grey Matter, but one of the scripts ran amok on the server, and I had to stop using it. Since then, I have coded my own blahg. It was annoying, because I do not have enough coding skills to make an automated blahg. Every time I’d want to update, I’d cringe knowing how much tedious work it is just to get a post up, update the RSS feed, etc. (My coding skillz are as sophisticated as the web was in 1995. Yeah. Time to change.) I have done a little research, and I think WordPress is the one I’ll be happy with. It will take a while to get the site back to looking like I want it, but please bear with me.

Change is nice. It’s a little like spring cleaning. The site will probably be a bit bumpy for a little while, seeing as how I still have school work to do, but in the mean time, sit tight, and wait for the new sparkle j dot com. (Note: if you have any links to the rest of the content on the site, like the crafts and what not, you can still access them. The only thing that’s changed is the main page. Just use your bookmarks, should you have any.)

Edit to add: I thought it would be funny if I added the first post when I made this blahg three years ago. Funny, eh?

two days ago…

it was my birthday.

wooooooooooooooooo!

I had a party, so I forgot to get online to go “woooooooooooooooooooooo” on the 19th, but yeah, birthdays are cool.

they sang to me at work.

they actually sang.

and announced it on the intercom thingie.

I had a party, I got some presents, but I didn’t get any cupcakes, my guests ate them… all. I snooze, I lose. But I had some of the birthday cuppie cakes I made for work, but that’s not the same thing, ’cause the ones I made for the party were way cooler: better sprinklies.

yum. and rad.

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Yeah!

Happy Freakin’ Birthday!

Posted by EvillMonkey @ 12/22/2003 08:35 AM EST

my scarf

speaking of knitting (the Wednesday, Dec. 10 entry) I’ve had only 3/4 of a skein left to go on my big not-quite-harry-potter scarf. It’s grey, tube-shaped, like the harry potter scarves in the movies… I began making it because, er, well, it’s kind of silly, really:

I wanted to go home for Christmas on a train, and have a long black coat, and a grey scarf, matching hat and mittens, and say “happy Christmas” as I boarded the train.

I crocheted the hat, actually… it was meant to be a “Mrs. Weasley”-type beret, but it came out rather chef-like, really. I like it, though. The scarf has been “almost done” for about a month. I’ve just lost the energy to stare at grey yarn. I put off doing the mittens, too. And besides, my coat is brown. I never had time to make that black one, anyway. (My whole Christmas vacation was inspired by a silly, romantic icea about trains and traveling)

And that hat I was supposed to do for Colleen has been postponed… hopefully I’ll have it done by the end of winter so she can actually use the darned thing.

snow

we’ve finally dug ourselves out of the snow… or, rather, Jesse’s finally dug us out of the snow. We now have a little path leading from our door to the place where the snow plow stopped… it didn’t quite make it down our long driveway. It was fun, though, to tromp through the woods to get to Ruth’s. We only have a couple of trees down, but several branches. It’s going to rain tomorrow– rain alot. I’m glad I took lots of photos, or, rather, that Jesse took alot of photos, before all the snow turns to mud. I’d much rather live in the western part of Massachusetts so that the snow stays until April… ok, maybe not, but this coastal-snow-for-two-days-then-turn-to-muck-immediately stuff is tiring. For most of the winter it’s going to be 35 and rainy, I just know it. Ah well.

I’ll have to whinge about it later… it’s only December, and I’ve got at least three, if not four months of winter ahead of me. heh, heh, you’ve been warned.

I’ve got a JOB! Whee!

I’m working at Marshall’s with Ruth. yay! MONEY!!!!!! but more importantly, FOOD!!!! wooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

*happy dance*
*happy dance*
*happy dance*
*happy dance*
*happy dance*

whew, glad I got that out of my system.

I’ve got to get back downstairs, my hippie nag champa is starting to get to my head. eek.

Replies: 3 comments… woo hoo!

Feckin sweet! Congrats on that one!

Posted by EvillMonkey @ 12/05/2003 09:02 AM EST

leaving on a rail train

I got my train ticket in the mail today. whee! I haven’t been on a train trip in ages… since 1997, I think. I’ll be visiting my folks for the holidays, and then they’re coming up here to visit for the new year. woo woo!

I was supposed to teach a workshop today, but my package of supplies hasn’t arrived yet. Every other parcel in my order has arrived, except the one with the needed supplies! argh! I was hoping to get it in at least by this morning so I could throw together a class, but I’ll just have to cancel. Ah well.

I have a sugar hangover today. We had our Eddie Izzard Jammy Goodness party last night to watch “Circle” and to celebrate the release of “All the Queen’s Men”… it was a fun movie… not the best in the world, but really fun, nonetheless. I don’t like that Joey guy from Friends, and he played the “leading man” type guy. All the other guys were wonderful… Especially the one who played “Johnno”… he was so adoreable… And he didn’t die! In movies, the guys that I like a lot always die. There was a bit of tension around the “is he going to die or not?” question, but he pulled through, thank goodness. 🙂 But I ate too many desserts made with jam, and I thought I was going to explode.

Christen is in town with her Boyfriend, Jason (or J. or Jay… I can’t figure that one out). They’re going out to dinner this evening, and I’ll get to visit with them after that… they’re leaving in the morning.

Thanksgiving was fun. Mikey and I made a bread dressing/stuffing thingie to bring to Terry and Bob’s. Bev made an awesome vegan feast… yum. We’re still eating the leftovers that she sent home. We saved some jam squares that Melissa brought, and Amanda left the last half of her cake that she made for the Eddie party, and I have some Jammy Dodger cookies left, and a couple of pieces of apple pie that Bev sent home with us… we’re all sugared out. We need real groceries, though. As much as I love cake and cookies for breakfast, I think I should have at least some nutrition. (Chocolate’s a food group, isn’t it?)

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Bah nutrition! Chocolate and sugar are good enough. Mmmm…cake.

Posted by EvillMonkey @ 11/30/2003 11:33 AM EST

it’s been a while

my devoted (cough cough) readers have nagged me enough to make me post something.

something.

there, are you happy now? tee hee.

A great big HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!! to MO today!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Chad, you made a cameo in one of my dreams last night… it was really weird. We were all at some wacky 20 cent party and it was kinda like the “toga” party, but a little different. We were all wearing weird drapey clothing like togas, except both shoulders were exposed. It was Gustav’s idea to have a “shoulder” party… weirdo. Anyway, you were going way crazy taking photos of everyone, and trying to get photos up girls drapey things. It was really funny. Don’t you go and get any ideas, now.

I think the spaminators who nabbed my email as a mask are pooping out, so I only got 230 messages today, as opposed to the 500 that I was getting. They were all bounce-backs. I hope that’s the last I see of them for a while. Thanks for the advice anyway, Kristen.

I’m almost done knitting that scarf for myself. I finished that hat a while ago. woo. I’m working on making a scrapbook for the crafty projects that I actually finish.

I’ve stopped biting my fingernails (as of October 3) and now I’ve been inducted into the society of nail grooming. It’s really stupid. I had to buy an emory board, and everything. And they don’t last very long, so I need to buy more. My nails grow really really really quickly, and I’m having to trim them and file them more than I’d care to.

Aren’t you glad I posted this people? You wanted something to read, and here it is. Exciting, no?

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Posted by Goblin King @ 11/24/2003 09:05 PM EST