Nikki

I'mma give The Barratt some love, 'cause he's sexy and completely insane.




( Favourite bits )


. . . Annd, hell, this one's good, too:



:D

Oh God. World's worst dizzy spell. Make the room stop spinning pls. :(

Eh. I'm kind of hoping Sims 3 doesn't do well. I don't really plan on buying it: I think the sims look really awkward and doughy compared to their adorable predecessors in The Sims 2, and I don't like that my sims could possibly RUIN EVERYTHING for themselves in one house while I'm playing another house and not paying attention to them. I'm a control freak with my sims, and I don't like to miss ANYTHING that they're doing. The game does have some good ideas, (mainly in the area of house building and sim personalities/body-types) but honestly, I think they should have found a way to apply them to Sims 2 rather than making a whole new game. OR spent more time making Sims 3 stand out from and improve upon Sims 2, since there are a LOT of things in Sims 3 that look IDENTICAL to Sims 2, except maybe a bit more sharply rendered. And the Sims are fugly. :|

Also, EA has been doing some things since Sims 2 that the majority of the player community has found to be underhanded and stupid, so there's that degree of "voting with my wallet" going on, too.

. . . But I'm enough of a dork that I really want the plumbbob flash drive that comes with the collector's edition. X3 If I could just get that, that would be cool.

Just got back from Anime North. It was my fourth year attending. Would have been my fifth, but I had to skip last year due to my work schedule. Holy crap I'm tired.

( Not as long as the average con report: mostly just talking about the swag. )

( Filling out the forms to apply to the local university . . . (ramblings about deciding to go back to school.) )

http://pinkparasol.deviantart.com/art/Dress-Me-Up-Clockwork-Couture-112801585

Just thought this was really well done. A good way to kill a few minutes.

[01:03] Danielle: So you won't think my birthday plans [for you] are corny?
[01:03] Nikki: . . . Do I have to wear a costume?
[01:04] Danielle: ....define costume?
[01:05] Nikki: Something that would make me feel as silly as I felt while wearing the bonnet.
[01:05] Nikki: Or require me to not wear pants.
[01:05] Danielle: That bonnet was lovely
[01:05] Nikki: I looked like shit in the bonnet.
[01:06] Danielle: everyone looks like shit in bonnets
[01:06] Nikki: Therefore you negate your previous statement.
[01:06] Danielle: The bonnet itself was lovely
[01:06] Danielle: I stand by that
[01:07] Nikki: It can't help that it made me look like shit. I do not blame the bonnet.

(ed: I blame her for making me wear the bonnet.)
( More under the cut )


. . . I've just realized that this could be read in a very dirty way.


While we're on the topic of birthdays, today is Susan's birthday! Happy birthday, Susan!! (I've already wished you happy birthday twice today, but I'm doing it again.)

Another digest post containing randomness from throughout the week:

1: zomg I was totally expecting Allison to win America's Next Top Model. WTF the world doesn't make sense anymore. I don't even watch that show normally: I watched it for her. ilu creepychan. :(

The girl who did win did seem to "want it more", though, so I'm happy for her. I think Allison will do awesomely even without the support of ANTM winner-status. People will want to hire her. She's gonna do just fine. :)

2: Saw Star Trek on Tuesday. It was awesome, but some of it made me go D:!! In a good way, though. I think. Other stuff made me go :'( and :'3 because I'm one of those people who cries at movies. But yes, awesome. Go see it if you haven't already. I think they really treated the canon with respect, while at the same time giving us new stuff to chew on (and some new character depth, even!) and the actors managed to both make the characters their own and at the same time stay true to their parts. That is a REALLY tough thing to do, ESPECIALLY when you consider the kinds of sticklers Trek fans can be for canon, but I really think they pulled it off.

3: Tangentially related to #2 - today I was reminded of my childhood crush on John de Lancie. Well, maybe "crush" isn't quite the right term. Attraction? I was a bit young but I think attraction works. It was rather less than a crush in that when he wasn't on my TV screen I wasn't really thinking about him at all, and I was at the right age to be able to say to myself, "He is old and I am young and that would be really weird." But yeah . . . I was always a little happier about the episodes that featured Q. And the novels.

4: Tangentially related to #3 - I also seem to be developing a thing for Stephen Colbert. It's really weird for me because I used to see other girls fawning over him in fandom and I'd be like, "lol ok". 'Cause at the time, while I was aware of who he was and what he was all about, I never really watched the show, so when I did see him my impression was, "funny man playing the part of a pundit. Looks the part, too." And that was about it.

Now I actually watch the show because Danielle is heavily in the Fake News fandom and has dragged me down with her, and yeah. IDK. He's sexy. I think I just have a thing for older completely shameless men of possibly ambiguous sexuality who are maybe a little bit okay a whole lot narcissistic.

WATCH HIM DANCE, YOU GUYS. X3

Randomness #1:

I've been looking into Mesopotamian mythology. I've done it before, but not very deeply. It's fascinating stuff, especially when you compare some of the stories to their Greek and Biblical counterparts.

But man. Most of it? Porn. I'm not even exaggerating. Even the Greek gods would have told the Mesopotamian gods to take a breather. Pretty much any basic element of nature that you can think of was created through some combination of gods gettin' it on. You could make a filmed or illustrated porno based on these myths and not need to change anything except that a porn writer would probably improve the dialogue and (if necessary) the narration. No, really. There are a few parts where Enlil is constantly and consistently compared to a "great bull", and it's repeated so many times that it starts to sound an awful lot like Howard Moon's cream poetry. But, I mean, considering that this was one of the first (if not the first) societies to have a written language, I'm happy to cut them some slack in the literary department. :)

Randomness #2:

Bought a new sketch book. They were on sale for like 3 bucks. I've sort of had this problem for the last couple of years where I'd buy a sketch book and promise myself that I'd start seriously using it, but then get intimidated because omg I'm not good enough for such nice paper D: D: D:, so I'd doodle on, like, lined paper. And the doodle would end up looking great and I'd be like, "Crap. I can't scan this. It's got lines all on it." Attempts to reproduce the doodle on white paper are never as good as the original work, so I sigh and it never sees the light of day, and any time I'd try to work on white paper, my mind would blank and I'd once again say "I'll just be wasting nice paper. :(" And I stopped bothering to use lined paper because of the aforementioned problem, so I just wasn't drawing at all.

So I've vowed that THIS sketch book is just gonna be filled with any crap my hand feels like drawing. Even if it's just literal, toddleriffic scribbles. At least then I'm PRODUCING something - anything! - and getting some goddamn practice.

Randomness #3:

I need to buy some cucumber. Celery just isn't cutting it alone. Craving green veggies liek whoa right now. I'd make a full salad, but . . . it's 3 a.m.
Would also like a watermelon. . . . Actually, I want watermelon even more than I want green veggies.

Randomness #4:

It's looking pretty unlikely that I'm going to get the job I was lusting after, so it's back to the search. Probably for the best. It was out of town and I don't know if I'd have been able to afford the commute, ultimately. There are a few interesting openings at the mall I used to work at. :)

Randomness #5:

. . . OMG WE DO HAVE CUCUMBER IT WAS JUST HIDING OM NOM NOM NOM.

Got my first batch of invite codes! I've already given one away, and am holding a second for someone who asked me early on. I've got three left. Anyone interested?

(If 3 people ask before you, ask anyway: I'll put you on a priority list for the next batch.)

PS: Please include your preferred e-mail address with your request.