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DONATE TO THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY

I'm raising money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Light the Night Walk, which is happening on 11 September 2009, coincidentally, the day my grandfather died of lymphoma in 1996. Donate if you can, bbs, plz :D

Um.

Shower and then downtown? WTF, why am I still sitting here?

HOLY SHIT, IT'S ALL-STAR WEEK!!! =D

I need to go and find the Arches they decorated for this shindig, and see what all else they've done to downtown to make it ready for this event - it's like my own personal scavenger hunt =D

I also still need to find a Gryffindor tie and shit for tomorrow night D=

This is such an awesome idea.

WOO YEAH RP MEME

DO ITTTTTTTTT.

Depp Conjures Up Capt. Jack For London Hospital Visit
_{2 July 2009 6:41 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news}


Johnny Depp thrilled sick children at a London hospital on Wednesday - by dropping in unannounced, dressed as a pirate.

The actor has been in the U.K. capital this week (beg29Jun09) to promote new movie Public Enemies, and took time out from his busy schedule to visit Great Ormond Street Hospital to cheer up young patients.

Dressed as his Pirates Of The Caribbean character Captain Jack Sparrow, he visited several wards - including the one his daughter Lily-Rose stayed in when she was treated for kidney failure in 2007.

A source tells WENN, "Johnny was so friendly with all the children on the ward and they absolutely loved his pirate outfit.

"He spoke to lots of the youngsters and staff - and made their day by posing for pictures with them all."

The generous star has previously donated $1.5 million (£1 million) to the hospital to thank them for looking after his 10-year-old daughter during her health scare.

I went to go and see the 10.45 showing of Public Enemies with my brother, sister and our cousin when, about halfway through, when it was starting to get exciting...

THE FIRE ALARM WENT OFF.

We stayed and sat in the theatre until the screen cut out, then we went to the customer service desk because we knew, due to Pie's working at this particular cinema in the past, they'd give out re-admit tickets. Basically, if there had been a real fire, we'd likely be dead right now.

It sucks, cause I know myself, and I know it's unlikely that I'll go and finish Public Enemies with my re-admit, but there's always Harry Potter what I can use it for.

Good Idea:

Tennant to Star in Doctor Who: The Movie?




Bad Idea:

IDK. I'm not too fond of North Korea promising to nuke the US. Really, I just wanted to post about Tennant =D








also, Michael Jackson died. the fuck? weirrrrrd.

I made my own salsa for dinner last night. It was super awesome, negl. I think I'll go down and have a bit of that now, and then back to the job search.

pea.ess -
While I was carrying the salsa out for my dad to try, I slammed my finger in the door. It still hurts like a bitch; I think my nail is going to pop off.

pea.pee.ess -
The salsa before I devoured it:

IN THE FOLLOWING PHOTOS, YOU WILL FIND JAMES AND MY INTERPRETATIONS OF MY ASSAILANT AND ME TONIGHT IN VARIOUS OUTRAGEOUS COSTUME (KIND OF), BECAUSE LAUGHTER TAKES MY MIND OFF THIS SHIT THAT WENT DOWN, YO, SO WE GET RIDICULOUS:

( all the photos cause i am way too exhausted to pick and choose tonight )

All right. I hope you enjoyed that brief look into the life of the Nic and James Show. I'm your host, Nic, and I'm going to get a few hours of sleep before my father comes to deliver me from this neighbourhood :'(

SO, UM, WHILST I WAS TYPING HAPPILY AWAY ON MY COMPUTER THIS EVENING AT AROUND 22.30 CDT, I GOT ROBBED.

AT GUN POINT

AT MY MOTHERFUCKING HOUSE!!!!

THIS GUY CAME OUT OF NOWHERE, I LOOKED UP FROM MY COMPUTER, AND HE HAD A GUN IN MY FACE AND SAID, "IF YOU SCREAM, I WILL KILL YOU."
"OOOOOKAY",
"SHUT DOWN THE COMPUTER, DON'T TYPE NOTHING, TURN IT OFF AND GIVE IT TO ME."

SO, UM, YEAH, I DO SO. HE ASKS ME FOR MY MONEY, SO I GAVE HIM WHAT I HAD IN MY POCKET, WHICH WAS MY DEBIT CARD AND $20.

"WHAT IS THIS?"
"MY DEBIT CARD AND LIKE, A DOLLAR."
"WE GOING INSIDE. OPEN THE DOOR."

HE ASKED ME IF ANYONE LIVED WITH ME, IF I WAS ALONE AND ALL THAT, I WAS LIKE, "ER, JUST MY CAT. IT'S JUST REGULUS."

HE HAD ME HAND OVER MY PHONE AND ITS CHARGER, AND I THOUGHT THAT WOULD BE IT, BUT NO, HE ASKS ME TO TURN ON THE LIGHTS, AND DEMANDING I GIVE HIM SOMETHING OF VALUE. SHIT, MOTHERFUCKER, I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING OF VALUE. I'M POOR AS SHIT. SO I OFFERED HIM MY CHANGE CUP, WHICH IS A HUGE PLASTIC STEIN FULL OF CHANGE. HE ASKED HOW MUCH WAS IN IT (ABOUT $100 IDK?!!? INCLUDING A FUCKING $2 BILL, WHICH SHITS ME LIKE MAD. THIS WAS MY RAINY DAY FUND, YO, OR BASICALLY WHAT GOT ME THROUGH THE MONTH OF MAY). HE DEEMED IT ACCEPTABLE. THEN HE MARCHED ME THROUGH MY APARTMENT AND TOOK MY iPOD AND ITS BOSE AWESOMESAUCE SOUND STATION, PUT IT IN MY DUFFLE BAG AND THEN HAD ME DUMP MY PURSE CAUSE HE WANTED TO TAKE MY ID WITH HIM SO "IF [HE] GOT CAUGHT, [HE] KNEW WHO TO COME AFTER". WELL, I LOST MY ID OVER A YEAR AGO, AND HE WAS LIKE, "YOU BETTER FIND SOMETHING FOR YOUR ID". ALL HE GOT WERE A BUNCH OF RANDOM BUSINESS CARDS, A WELL EXPIRED BANK CARD TO MY ACCOUNT IN THE UK, AND AN EXPIRED CAR INSURANCE CARD, SO AT LEAST THERE'S THAT. THEN HE TOLD ME TO GO SIT DOWN IN THE BACK OF THE HOUSE TILL HE LEFT.

SO RIGHT NOW, I'M AT JAMES'S HOUSE, ON HIS COMPUTER. I'M LIKELY GOING TO BE MOVING VERY SOON. IDK. I DON'T FEEL ALL THAT SAFE IN MY HOUSE, THOUGH I DO ELSEWHERE IN SOULARD. FUCK THIS SHIT.

WILL BE BACK IN A MOMENT TO UPDATE WITH DRAMATISED PHOTOS FEATURING JAMES AND MYSELF.

I am inordinately pleased with myself for creating my own "I'm On A Boat" ringtone. I cannot wait until Senor McDouchey from the collections agency rings me back to test it out. I was to have resolved everything by him by 3p EST, and seeing as how it is now ten after two, I am wondering if he's dicking me over and trying to have me arrested on charges of fraud (according to the message he left me this morning, passing a bad cheque over state lines is fraud, so now I wonder if it isn't were the cheque made out to a company in Missouri). He did say Eastern Standard Time, though, which would correspond with one PM Central Daylight Time, and I did return his call from this morning shortly after 13.00, local time. Very sly, of you, Mr Coons, but I am on to your little game here. I call shenanigans on you, sir.

Really, the cheque wouldn't have been bad if I hadn't been such an idiot and left my charger in England. I do not have my financial advisor's E-mail address, nor could I find one in any of my searches online, and so I had to wait until I got the charger back in the post, which came on Saturday, and it was a holiday weekend, of course, so I couldn't get in contact and get it all sorted until yesterday anyway. Coons is the one who contacted me about this lickle matter whilst I was in England in the first place - I remember very well his incredibly monotonous and boring voice; it's rather like Will Ferrell's character that "CAN'T-CONTROL-THE-VOLUME-OR-TONE-OF-[HIS]-VOICE" - and I remember him discussing his upcoming trip to Jolly Ol'. I think I'll scare him with this fact. Maybe he'll be so impressed with my seemingly psychic abilities that he'll knock a further hundred dollars or so off what I owe (I already got him to drop my debt from $2900 to $1400 - muaha!).

Off to answer questions concerning that pesky court case. I really cannot wait until all of this is resolved and I can start fresh and anew. It almost feels like waking up for the first time in many years.

Addendum:
I just got a call from my old school (or, more likely, the collections agency they use), telling me I owe them $570.00, which is horseshit. The lady did not know my case at all. I asked how it was that I owed additional money when everything should have been included in the tuition bill, and said that I had paid my tuition through financial aid, which is not true. I never filed for financial aid or any sort of loan at all, so it can't have been that. Then she asked if I had withdrawn, which I had, and she said it was likely from that. I asked how, since my tuition was paid in full at the start of each term. She floundered, and said, well, if that's the case, then you need to fax proof of this. Fine. Whatever. But those motherfuckers have been trying to get more money out of me from the start - it was $700+ after my first month - WHAT?!!? No. So I ignored all of those notices, and yeah, now it's inexplicably been lowered to $570.00? Shady dealings, if you ask me, and I'm not about to send someone that much money unless they can prove that I owe it to them. Fuck that.

Back to my questionnaire concerning THE DECEMBER INCIDENT. ooga booga booga.

MY TAX REFUND CAME IN THE POST TODAY!!

SHIT YEAH, MOTHERFUCKERS!

If Milwaukee lose tonight, we'll be tied for first! Go Twins! And Chicago's fallen to 4th! Huzzah! I know it's early on in the season yet, but I don't care. This makes my heart happy.

I hope I get this job on Tuesday so I have money so I can go to Cardinals games. It's unlike me to not have attended at least one game this far into the season.

In other news: I finally got my phone charger back! YAY. I have so many things that need sorting out that require the phone.

Also,

Dear motorcycles,

I hate when you rumble down my street, as it invariably sets off my car alarm. Kindly fuck off.

Thanks,
nicccc

Things are looking up for several reasons:

1. I got an e-mail from my mum asking me, if she were able to do it, from whom would I like an autographed All-Star baseball: Ozzie Smith, Lou Brock, Bob Gibson, or Stan Musial? Er, WHAT?!!?!!?!? All are so awesome, but I already have an autographed Ozzie Smith ball, and I've met and talked baseball with him before. I ultimately told her I wanted one signed by Musial because one of my first memories of playing softball had to do with Musial, not to mention when my family and I were nearly run over by him at the home opener of the 1996 season. Plus, he's well old, so who knows how much longer I've a chance to get a ball signed by him, y'know? But God, I would love balls signed by Gibby and Brock, too. Next time.

2. Speaking of the Cardinals, they fucking swept the Cubs at Busch!! Yes! Perfect timing, too, as we have taken such a swan dive in the month of May, and have gone from a good distance in front in first to third. Now we're solidly in second to the Milwaukee Brewers (2.0 games back, Chicago is 4 back and in third). We open play against the KC Royals tonight. Should be a good series - it generally is.

3. The weather. It's so awesome right now. The only thing marring this is the fact that the river is flooded, and so there is no where for me to go and just lie on a beach since they're all underwater. Oh, well. I might take out my bike later and just ride aimlessly.

4. I might have a job as soon as Tuesday, which is fabulous! It'll be at Schnuck's, a local grocery chain. Not all that glamorous, but it's money, and it's at the new downtown location, so it's nearby and that location is supposed to cater to the loft district and all the rich young professionals that live there, or at least that's what I heard.

5. fancynewgin and I are going to the midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince dressed up as the Black Brothers. I am so ridiculously excited for this =D =D =D.

6. There is something else I am really excited about, but I can't think of it right now as the other items on this list are just so awesome.

I want to go to the beach, but I don't feel like driving all the way out to Fenton to do it, especially if the river is up, cause then the exercise would just be useless. I'd get my kayak from my parents' house, but 1. it's further out than Fenton and 2. I can't fit it on my car anyway. I'd have to borrow a truck or something. Meh.

ETA -
Useless exercise. The river was so up it covered part of the road. I didn't even bother trying Castlewood; just turned around and headed straight home. 50 miles roundtrip for nothing.

At least I got home in time for Jeopardy!.

HOLY SHIT ALL MY POWER'S JUST GONE OUT. RIGHT AS I WAS TURNING ON THE TEA.V TO SEE WHAT THE WEATHER SITUATION IS, TOO, LOL.

IT WAS WEIRD, CAUSE THE WIND'S JUST GUSTED SUPER HARD ALL OF A SUDDEN, THEN THERE WAS A CRASH, BUT IT WASN'T LIKE THUNDER. IT SOUNDED LIKE CABLES SNAPPING, LIKE WHEN THE T-REX BREAKS OUT OF HIS PADDOCK IN JURASSIC PARK, AND THAT'S WHEN THE ELECTRICITY WENT OUT. DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN

UM, THE BAR ON THE CORNER STILL HAS ITS LIGHTS. I CAN SEE THEM. AND SO ARE ALL THE STREET LIGHTS. I'LL PROBABLY HAVE TO GO DOWN IN THE FUCKING BASEMENT AND FLIP THE BREAKERS. THERE MIGHT BE VELOCIRAPTORS DOWN THERE!! I AM NOT SAM JACKSON!! DONUT EAT ME!

OMG, DONUT EAT ME, EITHER, T-REX!!! D=

I seriously need to go on Wheel of Fortune. These people make assloads of money and they're all idiots. I solved every puzzle tonight well before the three contestants did. I would pwn that shit. Even if you lose, whatever money you made during the game you get to take home. How awesome is that? And you can win trips to awesome places! Goddd. Where do I sign?

Other things I need to do include:

-Transfer money into my chequeing account
-Take a shower
-Unpack
-Give the ay pea tea a good tidying up
-Find full Doctor Who episodes on the 'net.

I can tell you right now that the last one is definitely going to take top priority.

Y HALO THAR. MAYHAPS YOU WOULD LIKE TO JOIN THIS LICKLE COMMUNITY: capslock_conor?

YOU WOULD DO IT IF YOU KNEW WHAT WAS GOOD FOR YOU.^*











*THE FOLLOWING THINGS ARE GOOD FOR YOU:
-CAPSLOCK
-COCK
-CONOR OBERST
-COMMUNITIES THAT CELEBRATE ALL 3.




I AM A HEALTH PROFESSIONAL. YOU SHOULD TAKE MY ADVICE.

I remember most of last night, lol.

Off to Reading for the cider festival and to do it all over again.

I love this country.

PS - It looks like annenaxos jizzed in her bed!! =-O!

I'm vaguely listening to "Mystery Diagnosis" on Discovery Health channel, and I totally diagnosed the kid in the first five minutes of the episode. All they mentioned were that his fingers were a bit funny at birth, and he developed a chest indentation at a month or two, and I knew straightaway that it was Marfan Syndrome.

The kid was in and out of doctor's offices all the time, and they didn't find out until he was 5 that it was Marfan. What kind of hack doctors was this woman taking her kid to that can't diagnose something as simple and distinctive as Marfan Syndrome when I did it in less than five minutes off a bloody TV show I'm hardly paying attention to?

I really wish my mum or dad or someone had been in the room with me when I declared it was Marfan. I feel like being told how brilliant I am.

ronaldberry posted this pic:





I mean, it's a valid question, seeing as his face and his body definitely do not match whatsoever.

I CAN'T HELP MY CURIOSITY, OKAY!?!

I've not done one of these in ages.

Step 1: Music player on shuffle.
Step 2: First line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
Step 5: If you like the game, post your own!

1. I don't know just where I'm going
2. The sun is up, looks like a perfect day to put our soldiers on a cake parade.
3. [[I like this, I like this]] I was young
4. I hitched a ride with my soul by the side of the roadlizitaloo
5. Happiness, more or less
6. My dreams come on like vultures
7. Got the mic in my hand, but can I make you understand
8. Childhood living is easy to doim_thinking_rb
9. I hope my little brother puts a call in today
10. We're just a wish away
11. You threw out the past
12. Don't walk the plank like I did
13. I got a question mark
14. Better than watching Gellar bending silver spoons
15. Up on a hill, here's where we beginlizitaloo
16. Every day I wake up alone because I'm not like all the other boys
17. Warm sun, feed me up
18. [[Whoa, whoa, whoa, you don't know]]You walk around like maybe there's something you're missing
19. I tune my weaker eye
20. Motor, Motorhead baby
21. Shrill as a choir of children
22. Oh, comely, I will be with you when you lose your breath
23. Every day, in every way, I'm falling
24. Will you stay in our lovers' story?chocolate_frapp
25. The sun came up with no conclusions

I don't know that anyone will get 6, as it's a local band, but meh. They're definitely worth knowing :D

And Lizzy, I know you definitely will not get 15 =P

Why does half of this rice taste like soap bubbles, and the other half is perfectly fine?

Also, the soap side is hard, and the other is soft.

Both sides were cooked at the same time, in the same pot. The only difference is the food they're lying next to in my lickle container (and the other food does not taste of soap bubbles).

Please to be explaining this to me.

You know, I never quite understood the fangirling of Snape. It never clicked for me, and I considered myself one of the few the proud, the Marines immune to this phenomenon.

I realise now that I was quite mistaken, for I know that, despite how much I disagree with casting him as Regulus, this will be me on the inside when his scene (which probably lasts literally less than a second) comes up:



Seriously, the smallest mention of Regulus makes me go all wompy and splutter rather incoherently.

The Blacks are by far my favourite family in Harry Potter - the rest don't even begin to approach coming close - but the love I have for Regulus is jjasgdjgfkdasdhfjsduigsdihfKEYBOARDSMASHjudhkjdshld. Sirius, too, but OMG REGULUS.

<3 <3 <3




ETA:

LOLOLOL for days @ Snape's nose.

ETA2:
fancynewgin, I made the Black family on the Sims 2, and one of Regulus's fears is having a party, lololol. I also gave him ducky pyjamas.

I AM AT THE SOULARD COFFEE GARDEN HAVING BEST BREAKFAST EVER. I'D TAKE A PICTURE OF IT, BUT YOUR COMPUTERS WOULD EXPLODE FROM THE AWESOME.

Sorry for you,
nicccc

ETA: This why an advisory has been issued:

DANRAD'S BALLS WHIRL LIKE HELICOPTER BLADES, AND WHEN DANRAD GIVES THE COMMAND, THEY LEAP FORTH AND PUNCH YOU IN THE EYE.

_{this was caught on hogwarts' cctv, jsyk}

Easter was a pretty enjoyable affair. Highlights include the both the Cardinals AND the Blues winning, and talking with my brother for an extended period of time without getting angry with each other. And we were drinking, too! Usually such a combination equals us yelling at each other, or rather me yelling at him, and him sulking off to gry. It nearly got to that point cause he was on the verge of crying cause his girlfriend hadn't called him, and he was angry about how upset he was, and I told him I know what that's like because he had left me in a similar manner twice in the past, and he was all 'Ohhh, thanks for making me feel like shit. I've heard from all three siblings in the past two days how I've let them down. Yeah, I feel awesome.'

OH SHUT UP.

Then his girlfriend called and he was :D :D :D so that was excellent timing on her part. Well done, Sarah. ILU for it.

So after that, Garrett and I proceeded to get completely wankered. Sweet. When I got up this morning, I could smell Blow-Pops, but I ignored it. I got up to get another soda, and discovered that I had Blow-Pop gum - complete with the stick! - stuck to my shirt. LOLOLOLOLOL WIN.

I really hope that Greg doesn't find that cheque any time soon..!

I dropped it on the 6th, and it's still not been deposited, and it better not be until I can deposit a cheque of my own. FML, fo realz.

PS - Howie Mandel is not funny. At all.

Things I love:

-Monk
-Jericho
-My Internet's up and running again... for the moment
-annenaxos is in town

Things I hate:

-The cold
-My taxes still aren't done (easily remedied, but dshjksdfhj)
-Things falling apart
-Magic isn't real ACCIO! ACCIO! ACCIO! goddom.

OMG OMG OMG

THERE IS A LONDON GHOST WEEK 24 APRIL - 2 MAY!! GUESS WHEN I ARRIVE. 29 APRIL. I AM SO HITTING THAT SHIT UP, AND I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR FLISTS CAUSE I'M WAAAAAAY TOO EXCITED ABOUT THIS!!!

BRY BRY BRY BRY BRY BRY BRY BRY
FINISH UP YOUR PAPER EARLY, SHIKADEE :D :D :D

From Londonist:
It's the event that Londoners have been dieing for. London Ghost Week begins on 24 April, and celebrates all things spooky in the capital. Highlights include an all-night vigil in a Victorian school, séances at the sites of Ripper victims and an X-factor-style show to find London's Best Medium.

The Ghost Week is organised by spook-hunting company Fright Nights and follows similar events in Edinburgh, Oxford and Canterbury. Our city out-trumps anywhere else in the UK for its supposed supernatural population, so it's about time someone got round to planning something like this. We're complete and utter skeptics in such matters, but find the prospect of a night in a creepy building irresistible. Proof.

Head honcho of Fright Nights, Marting Jeffrey, thinks we might be in for an eye-opening experience. "Skeptics often warm to the investigations," he says. "We've had some fairly inexplicable things happen over the years. For example, back in 2003, we witnessed the full manifestation of a little girl in front of 23 people in Dudley Castle."

Ghost hunts will take place at some of the capital's lesser-known haunted sites. "We really like exploring these hidden nooks and crannies," says Jeffrey, who nominates the Admiral's House in Greenwich as his pick of the venues. "It's an extremely haunted property, with all the activity focusing on the stairs. There are many reports of strange noises, and sightings of a white lady. But there's never been a public ghost hunt there before." Other paranormal stake-outs will take place in the morgue at the Old Naval College, Greenwich, the Ragged School Museum in Mile End, houses in Ilford and Finchley, and the Canal Museum in Kings Cross. Each event will be overseen by a medium who will attempt to contact the dead and give advice on sensing paranormal activity.

All bunkum, if you ask us. But bally good fun all the same. And we haven't even mentioned the magician versus the medium face-off, at Magic Circle headquarters. Londonist will be along to the ghost hunts at the Greenwich morgue and the Ragged School, and hope to (discretely) Twitter the events live. So if you can't make it along, you'll be able to watch our descent into madness unfold before your very eyes.

London Ghost Week runs from 24 April till 2 May. A complete list of events can be found here.

...but when I save "hurry", please interpret that as "MOVE YOUR FAT, TUB OF LARD ASS, NOWWWW!!!"

I'm watching Scream right now for the first time in probably five years, and I still remember this movie word for word.

Skeet Ulrich is totally im_thinking_rb. I've been poisoned.

I need to go and download episodes of Jericho, see him in more recent stuff, you know.

WHO HAS A CAT/DOG DOOR IN THEIR FUCKING GARAGE?!!?

Dear milk,

OMFGILUSFM.

Adoringly yours,
nicccc

Seriously. I think I'd die if I were to become lactose intolerant. Shame my friend hasn't got that much milk left; I'd like another glass. This one went too fast.

ohhhh, I see how it is, Internet. Working fine now, are you? Where were you at ten am when I needed you to purchase Bright Eyes tickets? Fucking cockblocker.