Rock-n-Roll Journey to Mars

Have a happy Thanksgiving, American f-listers!

Now please excuse me as I go to nom on Turkey in an internet-less apartment in a town that's currently experiencing below-zero temperatures.

More updates on my car.

Power steering pump and/or rack and pinon are having problems. I'm going to take it to a mechanic tomorrow and have them take a look at it (again - got steering fluid checked last week and they warned me about this). Basically, the steering pump is really noisy when I'm turning. When I turn at an intersection, the steering is mostly smooth until the end of the turn, right before I let the wheel slide back into being straight - at this point, it shudders, makes a whirring noise, and is difficult to control. Fixing all of this may cost me upwards of $1400. My parents are willing to pay for it, but I hate that I've had to make them pay for a new battery, new tires and wheels, and now a whole lot of other new shit.

Though they're throwing around the idea of getting me a new car. I'm not too sure how I feel about that.

In other news, Arthurian lore is one big cluster-fuck of continuity. I will never again complain about movies/tv shows/etc not "getting the lore right" because there are so many conflicting versions of the stories, it's ridiculous.

I'm thinking about starting a Tumblr. I've been eying the sight for a while as a sketch blog. I know I keep saying that this is my sketch blog, but I always feel weird posting just one image, so I save things up until I have a lot of art and then I don't really have anything to say about the stuff. I kind of feel Tumblr would be a nice place to just post random doodles as I draw them, and then keep art dump days on LJ. Maybe. I don't know.

OH FUCK EVERYONE IN MY SUITE IS GETTING SICK AT ONCE

Oh man. I think I did more stuff today then all the other weekends this semester combined. Today was awesome.

Moved into my new room, which is about 15 feet away from my old room, so it was a quick move. The new room feels kind of small, but I think that's because we've got two people living in here. Which is fine. Our walls are absolutely COVERED with posters, which is awesome - my roomie for the first half of last year didn't have any decorations. My suitemates are all awesome and nice and they're like an actual community which is what I wanted to have while living in a suite and my old suitemates suck.

Went out with my roomie and her bf to get shakes at a diner. A diner that I've got past countless times but haven't bothered to eat at. But oh man. Their shakes. They are so awesome. I had a chocolate covered strawberry shake and nom nom nom so good.

Helped one of my suitemates put together a zombie costume. By which I mean, I used purple eyeshadow to give her the appearance of sunken cheeks and eye sockets, but she looked awesome. MEETING PEOPLE, YAY!

So yeah, awesome day. Tomorrow I'm going trick-or-treating with my roomie, and need to get all checked out of my old room. Should be awesome! GOD I'M BEING SOCIAL WHAT IS THIS

IT'S AWESOME, THAT'S WHAT

I said a while back that I wound up with no roommate moving in. I finally got work from the building director, and I'm being paired up with another person whose roommate moved out at the beginning of the year. I just met her and she's pretty cool (she likes Pokemon! Glee!) and since she says her neighbors are a lot quieter then mine, I'll be moving into her room soon. Not sure if there's a specific date I need to be moved out by, but I'll hopefully hear about from the director about that soon.

NYCC ’10 | DC’s Batman Beyond moves from miniseries to ongoing

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW

Thanks to rengeek for sharing the news! *hug*

So, I sketched quite a bit in the past month. Guess today's an art day, then.

( All sketches, mostly original stuff, one piece of fan art )

In other news, I've started reading Homestruck. That... comic? Can it really be called that? Is... strange. I just finished Act 2, and while it's interesting, it moves rather slowly. Still, the themes being presented and the way the story moves along, flipping between perspectives and time-lines, it really interesting.

Just finished reading Aeschylus's The Eumenides for my world lit class and... hooboy. It has lines like this:

(Clytemnestra's ghost, to the Furies) "Storm at him/ With hot blood-reeking blasts blown from your vaporous wombs

Okay, yes, periods are icky. But really? Really.

And then there's this:

(Apollo) "The mother is not the true parent of the child/ Which is called hers. She is a nurse who tends the growth/ Of young seed planted by its true parent, the male.

Not only are women just incubators, they don't even have a true connection with the kid!

What the fuck, Ancient Greece?

GLEE IS GOING TO DO A ROCKY HORROR EPISODE THIS SEASON

KURT GETS A BOYFRIENDS THIS SEASON

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LET KURT SING "I CAN MAKE YOU A MAN" TO HIS BOYFRIEND

oh hey this reminds me I never did post any of my Rocky Horror photos...

The Ramayana: One of the oldest records of victim blaming in the world.

So, remember these shining examples of douche nozzles? They have now decided that 10:30 pm wasn't neeearly a godawfully insensitive time to play their shitty music and shout at each other right outside the dorms. Now they have to do it at TWO IN THE FUCKING MORNING.