This guy is now 18, and allthough to be fair he doesnt wear this make up anymore, I think it's fair to post this on the grounds that he was unnecesserily nasty to me. Enjoy.

I was the ever so awesome Queen Titania for Halloween. I made my wings, and the dress is from Value Village, which I modified the crap out of.  That slit actually went up to my hip....Dad's face was AWESOME when he saw it.

           

found these beauty while surfing the net. I had a good laugh.

My first picspam! Yay!

BEWARE OF SPOILERS ('tis the ending, after all)
( The Leading Man does something heroic )

Cross-posted to: balthier_ashe, romance_icons

On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

Great garments & costumes sale priced up to 65% off at etsy, including Alice in Wonderland, American Mcgee Alice, Gothic Red Riding Hood, Witch, & more:



HERE

Besides NaNo, I've also been reading The Killer Angels for part of my Civil War class. That book actually inspired me to change one character in my story from an infantry officer to cavalry, and though my concept of the character has pretty much stayed the same besides that there are now elements of John Buford in there.

The Killer Angels is, by the way, an excellent book, and I can see why it's been praised as one of the best pieces of Civil War literature period. It has that quality of just scanning really well, and I've read over a hundred pages of it in one day without feeling like I've been forcing it. That's what I call good writing.

30,000, biotch.

*does the electric slide*

The 30,000th word was "exception", which I just felt like noting.

I've reverted to being six in an odd way. The other day I had a sudden craving for Honey Nut Cheerios, so I went out and bought some. I haven't had those things in years, but I've been eating them for breakfast and the occasional snack.

It also turns out that two of my friends might have H1N1, or as they so elegantly referred to it, "The Swine". After I heard this I had a very scary moment where I thought I might be falling ill due to having a bit of a temperature and spinning head which caused me to call out from my internship to avoid exposing anyone else, but as of several hours later and a nap I appear to be fine with no fever. That was certainly something that had me very worried, but it may have just been exhaustion and/or allergies acting up. Better safe than sorry, though I feel a bit silly. My ears still feel a bit warm, but that's more likely allergies than anything.

In fact, people are so worried about this that today we pretty much kicked a coughing person out of Diversity Services. Yeah. Technically Krys did it, but I helped, since he went up to this girl we both know and asked here why she was here if she was that sick while not-so-subtly implying that if we all got sick we'd blame her. He also brought up a good point when one of the staff members wondered why students in general are so reluctant to call out (and hence are being cited as major vectors for this disease), mainly that missing class is simply something they literally cannot afford. I once did the math out for how much an individual class costs per day in cold hard cash, and though I don't remember the exact number (200 something) it basically sums up to losing a couple hundred dollars for every class missed. You can see where the calculation goes on about risking exposing people versus getting your money's worth, and unfortunately college students tend to think with their wallets first in mind and their health second. Now granted, skipping class for stupid reasons is something else entirely, but we won't get into those people...

Day off tomorrow due to Veteran's Day, and I'm going to do at least a small thing to acknowledge the service men and women considering that both of my grandfathers fought in WWII and I can thank the GI Bill for a good amount of my own well being, but I haven't come up with anything else.

Massachusetts employee fired for anti-gay remark

Vidala had only been working at the store for a couple of weeks when a female manager mentioned she was getting married to her female partner.

The 24-year-old expressed his disapproval of same-sex marriage. The two had a few exchanges, and after their conversation, the female went to human resources.

Vidala was fired. Brookstone said it stands by its zero-tolerance policy on harassment. Vidala's termination letter read in part, "...in the state of Massachusetts same-sex marriage is legal...the comments you made...were inappropriate and unprofessional. While you are entitled to your own beliefs, imposing them on others in the workplace is unacceptable..."

Good! I'm amused that he's trying to pass this off as a free speech issue, since he's making the classic mistake that just having the right to free speech doesn't give you the right to be an ass and not face consequences for what you say. You can't get away with making racist remarks and you can't get away with this, plain and simple, especially in a professional environment where they can and do have the right to fire you for acting like that.

Another story I read about this said that the guy went in a chapel and was "told by God" that he had to express his disapproval. That has to be one of the worst excuses for being an ass you can come up with, so this guy got what was coming to him.

The "'Bout time!" is in response to my work study check finally showing up in the mail. It usually shows up on Thursday, so I was predictably getting a bit anxious when it wasn't here by Saturday. I also set up direct deposit with them that should kick in next week, so I won't have to play the watching-the-mailbox game with them anymore, assuming they have their act together (which, given that it's a University department, I probably shouldn't put too much stock in).

The sonic torture was some sort of work they were doing on the outside of the building at my internship today that sounded like a high pitched whining noise, almost like a drill at the dentist. For someone as sensitive to sound as I am it was torture, so I ended up making a bunch of copies as part of a side project they're having me to do to get away from it.

And a date. Due to our schedules Sara and I haven't had any significant one on one time for about two weeks now, especially since she's gone to New Hampshire these past two weekends. This, however, will be remedied on Wednesday when I have both school and work off as well as a gift certificate to a restaurant on Beacon Hill that I won last week at an LGBT group event. So we're set to do that on Wednesday night. *glee*

After Halloween costume clearout sale as well as other sale items like this great cute skulls underbust corset:



At our etsy shop HERE

Many years ago now when I was a boy I lived in an area of South East London and I used to go to school there. I cannot remember my exact age but I guess it would be between the ages of 7 and 10. I remember standing in the playground with a group of friends, the clouds were grey, fat and hung low in the sky and I recall seeing a ball of fire come from the clouds and fall to the ground.

To me it seems that this thing had fallen in a fenced off piece of waste ground and so after school a few friends and I went exploring this area looking for what had fallen, we never did find anything, and ever since I have wondered several things.

1: Did I just imagine it?
2: At that age my perception of distance would have been poor so did I actually see something but mistook WHERE I saw it.

I don’t know if this post is worthy of this forum but at the time I felt it was odd and something outside the realms of normalcy.

NaNoWriMo is going pretty well, and I'm up to 17224/50000. I think it helps that I'd already planned out the direction it would go and just have to write most scenes rather than make them up from whole cloth, though there have been a few exceptions and a few that have just spontaneously formed. It's going to get harder now that I'm in parts I haven't planned out as thoroughly.

I also discovered an appropriate coincidence in terms of one name I picked. I needed to give a name to a military unit that was the first ones to land in a particular area, and off the top of my head I came up with the 101st. Turns out that the 101st Airborne was the first unit on the ground in Normandy during WWII. I might have subconsciously known that but I wasn't thinking about it at the time, but I'll keep it as a little tribute.

I also got the midterm back for my Women and Crime class today, and I got a 99 on it. Yowza. The teacher cut me some slack in that while I didn't remember the specific term from one concept I was able to explain it, and when I asked him about that he says he mainly just cares if we get the gist of it. Now all my midterms are done!... But finals will be in a few weeks. Ugh. It never ends.

The other day I also bought David Gray's new album. For those of you who don't know, I love David Gray, and though I haven't gotten a chance to listen to this new one all the way through it seems he hit a home run again. The man has an amazing voice and writes extremely beautiful songs. "Kathleen" from this new album is especially pretty. Amusingly enough as I was buying it at Newbury Comics they gave me a mini record with live versions of two of the songs... and I not only had no idea what it was for a few minutes, but I don't even have anything to play it on! I told one of the people I work with about this and she thought it was funny, since the generation/technology gap is so great.

As a first timer to Y-con, I decided that I would like to try my hand at a bit of cosplay. This is my first cosplay ever but hopefully not my last! Con itself was a dry run for it, so now I know what works and what needs to be worked on.

I am a bit proud as it's my first cosplay!

( Male Black Mage )

Just letting everyone know -

I'm currently open for cosplay wig commissions again - I recently came off of hiatus and am trying to advertise my services once again. :)

You can view my commission gallery and my policies on my website, here:

http://www.fbwigs.com

If interested, there is a form on my site to request a quote. Or, you can email me directly at:

ferociousbeasts@gmail.com

I specialize in Square-Enix style wigs, with spikey looks and crazy colors. I'm open to most any challenges!

Thanks for looking!

- Molly

Not sure what it means....need somone to translate. New screen though ^^

http://www.geneon-ent.co.jp/rondorobe/anime/hellsing/

Hello, uh, first and foremost: please inform me if I am doing anything wrong. I am fairly new to LJ and I'm still not familiar with all the unwritten rules around this site. That aside, an introduction is in order. My cosplay name is Strifehart, some of you MIGHT recognize me from deviantart or some West coast conventions in America. If you've met me at a con you probably know me as Cloud, Leon, or most likely Squall. (Though I have PLENTY of other costume based names) Otherwise I guess I'll just post some past pictures and maybe get a few thumbs ups/thumbs downs. I would love to meet any of you who wish to talk so please do.

Oh I have cosplayed Cloud Strife (Infantryman, VII, and AC), Squall Leonhart (KH1 and FF8 casual wear), Genesis Rhapsodos, Kadaj, Tidus, Shuyin, Axel, Roxas (Organization XIII), Riku (KH1, Unknown, and KH2) and I believe that is all. I know I seem to stick with the cliche games, and even more cliche characters, but I was rarely in charge of what we cosplayed.

( I ramble, here are some pictures. )

I found this video on gender and advertising on a sociology blog I follow:



Sad but true.