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dear self,

you are not going to fail out of school.

you are probably going to get 3 Bs and 1 A, including ridiconomics and calamatistics. this is not terrible. this does not mean you are making a huge mistake. you are not a blight on your name.

email your professor and that other lady for your project. write your papers. you are not going to be riding the rails (unless it is to determine how cost-effective high speed rail is) anytime soon.

unless it is to chill with your hobo friends.







everything will be okay.

You thought just because the season was over I would stop posting about Mad Men? Hahahaha. Funny story.

Remember my fst? Me too! Those were pretty good times, before we knew how amazing this season could be. But here is a secret: there were a bunch of songs I cut off Women on the Verge! Because it was getting kind of long, and mostly they didn't fit with the overall tone. You know what they do fit, though? A B-SIDES ALBUM.

(you may want to pretend there's one of those "parental advisory: explicit lyrics" bars on it.)



( 12/11/1963 )

Ps, let's talk about this cap from the finale. Not really spoilery, but, you know.( best ever? )

New York was fantastic, why did I leave, oh right it costs my entire life, etc, etc, BUT LET'S TALK ABOUT THE IMPORTANT THINGS THAT HAPPENED THIS WEEKEND.

( shut the door. have a seat. )

+ I finished my midterm weeks without lapsing into a panicked ball! Well, maybe for a minute or two, but I GOT BETTER.

+ ....which means it is time for victory flights! Double wooooooo. Getting to see long distance friends <33333 I was debating whether I would bring my computer, and then I was like, hahaha, self, priorities:

+ how would you post things for Drabblevember?! I don't normally talk about my fic writing here mostly out of vestigial self-doubt and discomfort (I used to have a couple rl friends also on lj, but that was. you know. YEARS AGO), so, yeah. My web of lies! So complicated.

+ SO EXCITED. It has been SO LONG since I have been on a plane! Like. Maybe like March of 2008?! Holy shit, self. <33333!

I have two midterms this week! So, with that in mind, tell me:

Poll #1480507
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what kind of cookies do you like best?

N-No reason.

So there is a 9 Happy Things Meme going around, but I am feeling CONTRARY and have made it 9 Things I like About Halloween.

( and so! )

YA books won the poll yesterday & so:

( Percy Jackson & The Dashed Hopes )

( Speaking of preternaturally talented children: )

And then ( following on the puzzles theme )

( and as a bonus... )

* Hahaha, nevermind, I just figured out why I love said "burgeoning real-dude mystery genre": it is because I played FAR TOO MUCH Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? as a child. Not the show, the computer game. And it was AWESOME.

1. *cough* Y-You know.

2. Poll #1470485
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what post should i write first?

3. Why does my stomach think it is the star of a new CW drama? Stop whining.

Riddle me these, Batman:

Ask me a fandom, and I will tell you:

+ OTP
+ Runner-up
+ Honorable mention(s)
+ Crack pairing(s)
+ Ship everyone else seems to like, but I don't

and then I will answer when I get home from class, because I will definitely not have fallen asleep in the student lounge and never come home.

Today I thought, maybe I will post about something other than Mad Men, and then I thought, HAHAHAHA, you have nothing else to report on but balefully studying numbers and questionable YA books. A-And overly addictive online games. ON WITH THE SHOW.

( seven twenty three )

5 photos behind the cut, because Photobucket decided they should be gigantors.

( preparing for the g20 )

People here are FREAKING. OUT. A couple dudes today were talking about how some of the anarchist groups are going to glue shut ATM boxes as a protest and it was all I could do not to laugh. Like, a) no they are not, b) NO THEY ARE NOT, c) they are obviously going to pick something that has a security camera attached to vandalize. Also: no they are not, jhc. Tomorrow is going to be an exciting zoo, though, partly because I get to walk through THE MADNESS to get to class, and partly because I need to be in my building until it is shut down by Secret Service at 4 pm!

First off, Christina Hendricks did a photoshoot with some wedding magazine and it is RIDICULOUS. ( without even trying! )

How so prettyyyyy. There are a bunch other here, but that one is by far my favorite.







Additionally, have a meme. Possibly it is obvious I am trying to avoid doing work, but at least this is productive. "Productive." ( icons! )

"[With "The Fog"]...the writers who've made Betty such a bratty, unlikable ice wench all season have given us a reason to sympathize with her and a view into her twisted mind."

A bratty, unlikable ice wench. Really?

( A Defense of Betty Draper )

Poll #1456004
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The best thing about fall is:

- SHINGLES 0, ME 1! All the disgusting things that were supposed to happen have happened, and I have washed my hands approximately eighty frillion times.

- I had to get a bunch of software for a couple of my classes and thanks to the tech bookshop, it cost $5! Including Office! They had a "discounted tech/software" store at NYU but I never actually took advantage because nothing was ever NEARLY that remarkable.

- Relatedly, my least anticipated class was apparently wicked mislabeled and is not, as the name led me to believe, a seminar teaching us to use Access or some shit, nor is it, as the assigned reading led me to believe, some rando in-depth legal study. We had to read a bunch of case studies from a law textbook, but then spent today talking about the nature of regulation and the internet. Fortunately I have already taken Internet Lawyer 101, so I was slightly ahead of a couple people in the class ("but if you're just using the internet, like, not everything is AOL, is it?" What? No.).

Poll #1456005
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What movie should I see this weekend?

- I'm reading this kind of terrible Georgette Heyer book, Why Shoot a Butler? and it's really disappointing! I was seduced by the green cover and exciting vintage Rolls Royce, and its pleasing hand-sized shape. I'm three-quarters finished and I will not not let it best me!!

- and now I go pass out.