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Country: United States
State: Nebraska
Metro: Lincoln
Birthday: 3/13/1985
Gender: Female
Interests: Smelling Spring, writing, reading (even silly fan fiction), singing, playing WoW, and other general areas of goofing off.
Expertise: Editing, managing to mess things up, say the wrong thing, and basically get myself into trouble. Oh, and putting things off to the last minute.
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  cozyhearttraci
MSN: tracigolding@hotmail.com
Yahoo:  cheekyfraggle
Member Since:
5/5/2002
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| Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
-Robert Frost, "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
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| I'm embarrassingly heartbroken right now...
David Tennant's leaving Doctor Who.
I have been so enamored with this show, and mostly because David Tennant's portrayal of the Doctor just has me riveted.
At this moment I feel like I just lost a beloved pet. Sure, the show will go on and another Doctor will replace him...
...But who could ever fill those Converse?
I have horrible timing...I discover programs that I love just as they go under and/or have major cast changes.
Perhaps I should take up a real-life hobby like...like something not involving watching television.
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| My computer has gone KABLOW!!!! At least, that's the sound I like to think it made when it decided to up and go to hell on me. Got it in to some fix-it type people here in Seward (oh yeah, I moved in with my aunt and uncle to finish school, didn't I mention that?) and I guess the "main board" is shot all to crap and it's going to cost me probably as much to fix it as it cost to buy it.
Oh, and when did I buy it? Just over a year ago at Best Buy in Grand Island...March 07. And the warranty was only for a year.
So if Best Buy was a house that had a front door step, I would so be launching a great big flaming sack of POO on it right about now. It was supposed to be the coolest and bestest new computer on the market and blah blah blah special features, and I bought the hype hook, line, and expensive-as-hell sinker, and now I'm out a computer and have no idea what to do.
At the Seward library right now, surrounded by nosey 8 year olds who think it's totally fine and dandy to be peeking their noses in on my internet business. Yes, that is bitterness you're hearing in my tone. I've got a bit of it at the moment.
On a better note, I went from having no job to having TWO jobs. I started as a clerk at the grocery store (whoopie) Monday, and yesterday was informed that I got a position as Community Support Professional, working with the mildly handicapped, at this place called Region V Services. It pays a good dollar and a half more than I've ever made before, so I'm pretty excited about that. I'll be juggling both jobs and school for as long as possible, trying to get caught up on bills because not having a job leeches the life right out of ya.
Now the irritating 8 year olds are making obnoxious slurping sounds. Note to self: never procreate.
I'm going to go now...back to my life with the 60 year olds, which isn't nearly as bad as it sounds, I swear. Time to plan a funeral for my computer...
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| Quick! Before it's too late! And by "too late," I mean you have until Sunday, July 20th to watch this hilarious masterpiece for free, and after that they're going to start charging.
I have just discovered this fun little online miniseries blog/musical about a lovable villain, Dr. Horrible, and his less-than lovable arch-nemesis supposed good-guy, Captain Hammer. This short little spoof is made by Joss Whedon, who is the genius behind the Buffy franchise. Seriously, I was so excited to see Joss had made something new that I literally dropped everything when I heard about Dr. Horrible, and decided I absolutely had to see it, right away. And as usual with anything Joss-related, I was in no way disappointed. Joss is a bloody genius and watching this has made me want to go rent all 7 seasons of Buffy and reminisce about the glory days of television and my lost childhood.  Or maybe just, you know, mourn the loss of Buffy all over again.
Joss is coming out with his first television series since the epic but failed "Firefly" this Fall on Fox, called "Dollhouse." I don't know a thing about it other than that, but all I really need to know is that it's Joss and ergo, it's going to be fantastic!
In the meantime...go on, go watch Dr. Horrible! I promise it's worth your time! I mean, come on, Doogie Houser (Neil Patrick Harris) as a lovable villain? Sheer brilliance!
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| Okay, so it's no secret that I have recently become just a bit obsessed with British sci-fi show, Doctor Who. And since life is super boring right now and all I ever do is go to work, hand out job applications, set up interviews, and answer phone calls from customers who want to know the different between the 590 and 470 lines of garage doors (and hell, I want to know what the difference is too, because I don't know a damn thing about doors, thank God), I'm going to ramble about the absolute love that is Doctor Who.
I just saw an article on NY Times online about Russel T. Davies, the head writer/producer of the show. And can I just say, it's about time this show (and Russel, who is amazing) got some love stateside. Forget Star Trek. Anything any of the Enterprise crew ever did has been done--and topped five times over--by the Doctor in his little blue, time-and-space traveling, box. And Captain Jack Harkness makes Captain Kirk look like a eunuch monk. Homosexual? Bisexual? No way--try OMNIsexual. In the words of Captain Jack's co-creator and fellow Who-writer Steven Moffat, "It felt right that the James Bond of the future would bed anyone. He's far too busy saving the
universe to worry about which brand of genitals is best."
And what American sci-fi show can claim to have 45 years under it's belt? That's right, Doctor Who first premiered back in 1963...which means a good portion of the people who currently work on the show (including its current stars) weren't even born when it began. How is this possible? It's possible thanks to an ingenious little plot device called "regeneration." What does this mean, exactly? It means that the title character can actually change everything about himself--face, body, even personality quirks. So whenever an actor tires of playing The Doctor or, you know, gets too old to go gallivanting throughout time and space, he can be replaced. So, worried about your favorite show getting canceled? I'm not! My favorite show can last forever, since, thanks to a simple plot device, the entire cast can be changed without doing a lick of damage to its structural integrity (dammit, there goes the garage door manufacturing lingo. I need a different job).
Oh, and Who isn't exactly lacking in the eye candy department. Plenty to look at for the girls, yes, but also, plenty for the guys as well.
The only downside is that becoming a Whovian (or, "fan of Doctor Who") has increased my wanderlust by about a thousand percent. Not just because it's a show about traveling through time and space. It's those darn British accents, and all the world-traveling. The show films in Cardiff, Wales and occasionally London, mostly. But it recently filmed on-location in Italy (for an epic episode called "The Fires of Pompeii" in which the characters go to--where else?--Pompeii on "Volcano Day").
And suddenly, Nebraska feels even more like...well...Nebraska. I need a vacation, and STAT, before I start dreaming about answering phones and talking garage doors...
Ending with the best quote I think I've ever heard, regarding Who producer Russel T. Davies and his supposed "Gay Agenda" :
"You come across the occasional nutter who will talk about Russell's
gay agenda — I imagine he keeps it in a pink folder in a special
leopardskin safe — but this is possibly the most heterosexual Doctor
we've ever had. Clearly, Russell's gay agenda is to
turn everyone straight." -writer Steven Moffat
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