dear students you're supposed to wait until I give you scalpels

[cornerofmadness]

Before you cut the tip of my finger off. HOW you managed to paper cut my finger so bad just handing me back a lab book I have no idea. Blood everywhere. how can a paper cut result in a bleed that gets all over the lab table, my shirt and my whole hand?

AND the book store didn't order my lab books. They used the scratched out book order and IGNORED the one written out starred and circled as the one to use. Special.

The copier worked for all of 3 minutes before dying again. And I forgot to mention that to top off my crappy day yesterday/today that time of the month rolled around and reared its ugly head.

We also felt the earthquake here. Not in my lab but at the clinic they had. I hope everyone is safe and sound. It looks like most of my flistis accounted for.

Note to self no matter how sweet the coupon is you do NOT need to buy ANYTHING from Amy's kitchen.It all tastes awful. I was reading the box after eating (it looked good black bean cassarole that 'tastes like a big bowl of nachoes') where they proudly say they use less hot spice than the traditional mexican dish. This is not something to brag about. It tasted like corn much and black bean paste and looked like something the dog barfed up. Nothing I've ever gotten from them has had any taste. Bland rules Amy's so-called kitchen.

Anyone want to beta a roy/maes story? I'll be done with it tonight in theory





This wallpaper is slightly less scary

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Ooo, I kinda like that wallpaper.

I didn't feel the earthquake.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i suspected you would

i didn't either this time, not like last yearor the year before when it broke stuff in my apt

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Well, you know my garish tendencies.

I've never had anything break in a quake, just shudder around.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I've had more stuff break in mining blast incidences

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

That...somethow doesn't surprise me.

CRICKET

[bay115.livejournal.com]

Ew, papercuts! I hate getting those. D: But yeah, sorry you had another bad day here. Try to keep your spirits up, though!

This is going to sound rude, but I'm slightly amused over a lot of people being overdramatic with the earthquake. However, I live in Southern California where earthquakes happen very often, so I can understand the East Coast being scared if this is their first time experiencing it.I too hope everyone is safe and sound.

Haha, I so would want to beta your Roy/Maes story, but I'm already busy with your demon hunters story. D: Looking forward to it, though!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

they do suck

we have plenty of fault lines here too. All the buildings have been built for this since at least the 1800's (including this harmonist house in the picture). but it's been a while since one hit this hard. For that matter this is the third quake in 3 years here where I am in OH

I'm looking forward to finishing it

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

No, I get the amusement, my daughter-in-law is from LA and she was giving me shit all afternoon about being so shook up about the quake. But it is different when it happens someplace where it so rarely happens- they said we haven't had an earthquake anywhere near this since 1897! And your quakes in southern CA aren't usually felt a thousand miles away! This was an unusual one, even the geologists are saying so.

Besides, the shoe will be on the other foot this weekend if the hurricane they are saying is headed this way hits, and my D-I-L is hiding under the bed scared shitless. I grew up with them, and while I respect them, I do handle them pretty matter-of-factly. She, on the other hand, is terrified. Revenge is sweet. Mwahahahaha......

[sonjajade.livejournal.com]

at least this wallpaper uses similar tones and doesn't clash so vividly... and the blue color is kinda nice!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes this one looks less likely to eat you in your sleep

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

No. Those are roses. Roses will always eat you in your sleep.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

roses and clowns

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

And that doll I sent you a link to last night.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

It's better than the other wallpaper, but still pretty damn loud. I think whoever decorated this house had the 19th Century equivalent of "Used Car Salesman polyester plaid leisure suit" taste.

So far, it sounds like you need to hit "re-boot" and go back and start this school year all over again. Hope things improve for you.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

they certainly had a flair for color or something

i'd like to reboot the last 20 years while I'm at it

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

There certainly are large hunks of the past 20 years I wouldn't mind erasing or at least re-writing, hell, I could say that of my whole life, for that matter, as long as nothing changed that my daughter got born. I sure won't be sorry to see the door hit 2011 on its ass on the way out, that's for certain.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

you me, my brother and our parents

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think it's a long, long line. I think this has been a shit year for a lot of people. I was actually having a conversation about how crappy a year it had been and how the apocalypse of 2012 couldn't be worse, joking about all the end of the world stuff in that light, when the quake hit. (that'll teach me, I guess.)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

never tempt fate

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

...and never ask questions you don't really want to know the answers to. (As in, saying "what else could possibly happen?") I know better...

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

For some reason, shallow cuts can bleed like the devil.

Wow, your bookstore is "special."

Granted that a 5.9 earthquake is moderate, but having lived in California, I'm slightly amused by all the "OMG! THINGS FELL OFF SHELVES AND WERE KNOCKED OVER! WALLS CRACKED! END OF THE WORLD" reaction.

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

I know it sounds silly, but it was just so damned unexpected, it's hard to explain. You don't ever get tornadoes in CA, so try to imagine how you would feel if a tornado suddenly ripped through your town out of the blue and tore up a bunch of trees and left a big path of damage - even if it didn't mow down entire blocks of buildings or kill people, it would still be a big shock. It's all in what you are used to. I've seen people who are not from around here (I live near the VA coast) go into completely irrational panics when a Cat. 1 or 2 hurricane is due. Whereas my reaction is simply, "oh well, here we go again, better buy a few batteries."

It's all in what you are accustomed to. The earthquake just totally gobsmacked those of us who have never lived in an earthquake-prone area - we've come to expect the ground under our feet not to ever do such things!! It's like suddenly you feel this safe thing that you took for granted yanked out from under you. And it's been since 1897 that there has been one that magnitude around here, and it probably wasn't quite as big or felt as widely as the one yesterday - so there isn't anyone alive who had ever experienced an quake like this in this region - until yesterday, that is!

[bay115.livejournal.com]

Funny you should mention tornadoes as actually CA DID have one back in spring of 2005. I only remember this as I was on a week long school trip at Northern California with some classmates and then a few of my friends have been getting calls from their parents saying a tornado/twister just passed by Southern California. There wasn't any serious damage but all of us were quite shocked, so you're right on that haha.

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

I lived in tornado alley in southern Illinois. I'm more scared of a tornado than a moderate earthquake. The media do seem to be overreacting, but that's what they do these days. :-)

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

Too true! It just isn't a proper news story these days unless they totally flog it to the point of absurdity.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

tornados scare me more

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

I've had nightmares about tornadoes. Earthquakes, not so much.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

they sure can

it does this every year.

I know. and the media is just fanning the panic. they love this crap