Sunday, June 13, 2010

business hours are over

This is probably overdone a little bit,
but it always makes me laugh.
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So today I almost broke my toe, tripping on a dog toy
and slamming it into a table edge,
taking off a chunk O Jenny in the process.
Shoes are going to be my bane for the next few days.

I don't post them often but I wanted to share
some of my favorite screen shots
from our little world in LOTRO.
This is Aaron's dwarf Kwali, who is also a rune-keeper.
He has the most expressive face. I love him!

This is my elf Nalshara, who is a lore-master.
(Arahslan spelled backwards! ah ha!!!)
Also in this pic is her pet, Quoth, the Raven.
(I totally stole that name from Haley)

Here she is with her new bear. I haven't named him yet.
Anyone wanna name him?

This is our two hunters, Verain the hobbit and Maethur THE MAN.

Here is Maladhros the champion (Aaron) on the left, Ahryslan the minstrel (me) in the middle
and Edheriel the hunter (Haley) on the right.

Here is Maethur again with my guardian, Arahwen.
He loves that pirate costume so I got me an eye patch too lol

This is all from the last year or so of playing, and finally went through all of the pictures. Aaron has some good ones too, maybe I can convince him to post them on his blog. His pc is better than mine so his graphics are maxed out I think, and the images look so much nicer.

Im off to pass out.

this is really cool

It's a video that Cash fans remade and drew themselves. Each pane is a different person's rendition.(Sorry the spacings off, I can't get the code to work right, and I don't have patience to play with it right now.)









And I found out today that Buzzfeed has a little section just for turtles!!! HAHA! See for yourself >>> here.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

study break at almost 3am

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Ben Harper - God Fearing Man



I cried the first time I heard this song. It's power overwhelms me every time I listen to it. I can agree that his guitar playing is something that takes getting used to if you're not used to that style (I grew up on the blues), but I think he is absolutely amazing. Some songs are meant to play sloppy, and raw, and totally by emotional whim. Those are the ones that are played straight from the heart. And look, this version has slightly screwy audio. Go find the real 11 and a half minute song. Much better sound on my awesome headphones too.

I went in to work today, and they didn't need me, so I went to see Aaron at work, and we went out for lunch. Since he works off of Crump Blvd, on the way home I stopped by the old historic Elmwood Cemetery. To quote a website I found, it is "not only a cemetery, but an arboretum and bird sanctuary, and a home to one of the major preserves of old forest growth left in the developed metropolis of modern Memphis." I thought to myself as I left, "I wanna come back and take an audio tour when I have more time." So I get home tonight and check my email, and BAM! Groupon has a local Memphis e-coupon for 50% off the cost of a ticket for an audio tour for Elmwood Cemetery! FREAKY!!! It's fate! I'm totally taking Haley. She likes grave rubbings.

I spent over 4 hours tonight reading 4 chapters on Chemistry. I HATE THIS CLASS ALREADY. Not only will we cover 30 chapters in 10 weeks, but there are still two other classes. THANK GOD I have Ms. Davis for Ethics. I love that woman.

I was so drained tonight when I got home, and I was very happy to see a dvd sitting on my desk that I rented from Netflix (GET OUT!) haha It's an animated flick by Tim Burton called "9" and it was fantastic. I was very impressed, and surprised that I hadn't heard of it before. For such a (color-wise) dark movie, they made every scene awe-inspiring, and beautiful. It's a post-apocalyptic story about foregoing what is easy and convient to do, and doing what is right and just. It's rated pg-13, but I thought it would appeal toward an older crowd than strictly children. Hell, I even watched the making of, and that was pretty cool too. Apparently the guy who made this originally made the short film it's based on. It was his thesis for film school, and the guy even got an academy nomination for it. Anyways, totally worth a watch.

I am also leaving up Soulseek for anyone who wants to use it. My user name is arahslan, of course. lol Haley wants to download some music from me so it will be up indefinitely. If you don't know what the hell I'm talking about, go HERE.

If anyone happens to know a lot about Chemistry, then meet me and like 4 other people at Mazzio's Pizza on Navy Road in Millington at noon on Friday. I'm SO not kidding. Ok well, I'm off to go find the specific heat of aluminum, so I'll see you later.

Monday, June 7, 2010

stereogum.com is my friend

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I pretty much slept all day. lol Which is fine with me, it was my day off, and I needed it. I did have a dream last night though, that we lived in Alaska. It was beautiful there. So this morning, I have been thinking alot about the future. I graduate in about a year, and after I do, we have to make a decision on where we are gonna go. Stay in Memphis and work for a while, or move somewhere. Honestly, I want the fuck out of Memphis, for a while at least. I'd like to move to St. Louis. That way we aren't too far away for our families, but we will be too far away for the lazy annoying people to come visit. haha I'm horrible.

I've been watching InvaderZim and he's rubbing off on me. DISGUSTING HUMANS!!!

I gotta go shower for Ethics class tonight.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

A thought.

Recently, someone pointed out to me that in every post that I make, the music for that post is always at the bottom. It was also pointed out that if I put it at the top, that people would get to "experience a day in the life of a Jenny the right way." I tend to agree. So here we go.

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(it's a lazy kind of afternoon)



Thank you everyone all of the birthday wishes. It made me feel really good to know that my friends are still behind me. I'm one of those people who needs to hear it from time to time. Tomorrow the new semester starts and I'm taking all of what's happened in the last few years as a good omen to continue on my path to a better future. Money as usual is tight, so Aaron and I didn't do anything extravagant for my birthday like we had planned. I had wanted to go to BlueFin downtown for dinner, but it is expensive. So we just closeted ourselves away from the world, and spent the day together. He and I are always so tired when we get home, we don't always get to take advantage of the hour or few that we do get to see each other a day. My birthday was a different story. I didn't get out of the bed until almost noon. lol It was nice. Don't I look relaxed?

I did a little shopping with Michelle on Saturday, and i got the cutest sleeveless sundress, and 3 pairs of flip flops for like 6 bucks. WOO flip flops! Then yesterday I'm on my wayhome from work and I see that the Rite Aid close to McAlister's is closing and they have the ENTIRE store at 50% off!!! SO I wander in there and find some REAL deals. I won't go into detail, but I will say that I love nail polish! and at 50 cents a bottle, I stocked up!


Im also off today! We haven't been getting alot of hours, and Ive been taking FULL advantage of the situation. My camera is old and dying from the many times I've injured it by dropping it on the ground. But it does still take awesome pictures. Here's one of the rain yesterday off my back porch.

Yes I know my yard looks like a small forest.

I also wanted to share some of the pics I took from the last day of class last semester.
I love all of these people!

Btw, you gotta LOVE Christina's face in the back. I love that girl.

Friday, May 21, 2010

i need to rant a little

I just got another piece of mail for someone who doesn't live here anymore. This isn't abnormal, it happens all of the time because the ten million people that have lived here over the years used this address for a multitude of things, and are too lazy to get a freaking change of address form. SO, I have been collecting it in a box, to take to the post office to tell them to stop delivery on everyone. Most of the mail is junk, and some of it is very important, but I can't convince some people of how important it is to not only READ the mail that the state might be sending here about their child support information, but to also to respond to it. That would require them to come here and get it, or even at the least to send me a mail order to pay to send it to them by mail.

Are you effing serious?

Well anyways, today, I check the mail and SOMEONE got a BABYTALK magazine. Now I know that this person hasn't gotten anything like that in the past, and is currently in the persuit of making a family with his wife. So I am to assume that this certain someone is still using my home address to sign up for junk mail that he doesn't want to get himself? I call bullshit, and I demand action. If you *%#$^%$ don't stop using my address, I will hunt you down and paper cut you to death. That is a really horrible way to die, so don't bring this on yourself. Just be an adult and go to the damned post office and fill out the change of address form. It takes like 10 minutes. And if you have to wait in a really long line to get it done, then it serves you right for doing what you did. Or didn't do. Whatever.

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not one of the best movies, but one of my favorite prince songs...

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Blue Sunday

I'm taking a break from my Bio206 class so I can say hi to all you wonderful readers!!!

Aaron and I just had a long discussion about these books he's been reading, The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. I read them a long time ago, and he keeps asking me questions that I can't answer because I'd be giving away spoilers haha If you can handle her crazy writing style, they are definitely worth a read. He seems to like them. Who could deny Lestat? lol

We had a big storm recnty that dumped alot of water on the city. Before it happened I filmed this short video of the crazy lightning outside of my house that night.



I have been listening to alot of music tonight while I study for my final. Every heard of a movie called Hedwig and the Angry Inch? I watched it instantly on Netflix. lol Go rent it in all it's cross dressing glory. GREAT soundtrack too. I love the voice. Example:



Wait.. right around 44 seconds in... is that a bald Wayne Brady? lol

I'm off to study a bit more. And listen to more music. From movies I watched on Netflix.

Saturday, May 15, 2010

this is amazing

Leslie showed me this earlier today



The kid is TWELVE. I really am not into Lady Gaga very much, and I sorta liked her version of this song, but the way this kid does it, its almost a totally different song. A very beautiful song.

Well I have done one final, and still have two to take. After May the 22nd this term is over. I start back to my next term like a week later(lol) but I'm still pumped. This term I took Accounting 1, a human disease class, and psychology. I did well in all of them, but I don't think I'll make straight A's this time. Accounting kicked my ass this term. I had SO much homework to do, and I didn't turn everything in. I know,I know... I'M TIRED. I don't have to KILL myself to make the Dean's list EVERY semester. Next term I'm taking an ethics class, Environmental science, and Chemistry. If I can test out of the one Algebra class I have left to take, then ALL of my General Education classes are done, and all I have left is the actual Pharmacology classes and my 2 internships. I'm projected to graduate in May of next year, so ONE year left!!!

I gotta study. Ill be back later maybe. lol

Thursday, April 8, 2010

just awake and thinking about bones

This whole week sucked. I'm not going into the gritty details of why again... I already made a private post (I should say rant) for my own personal sanity, which ended up being quite lengthy. Just know that it did indeed suck very badly. I released all of my pent up energy about it at that moment, so have none left to contribute presently. I would rather move forward, and talk about my most recent obsession : Bones!

I love this show. I even love the things that I hate about this show. haha They went from being annoying, to quirky, to being kinda cute - alot like how The Venture Brothers grew on me. It's all about the characters for me in a story, and these characters are quite flashy. I can't watch as much as I'd like, I just don't have time.

I also have been drawing alot. When I have some time after my study group on Friday, I'll try to scan some of them in. I usually take the handmade notebook my mother gave me to school and after a test is done and we are waiting on others to finish, I doodle. This has become a habit since I'm trying to stop smoking. I need something to fill my mind, and keep my hands busy.

It is SO hard. I like to smoke. I have always been one of those people. It's a guilty pleasure for me. I have to change everything, and I have to do it soon.

I'm getting way too old for this crap. lol

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