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[cleolinda]

Horoscope of Irony:

Quickie: Fun and romance are on the menu, and that's plenty of food for thought.

Overview: Social butterfly -- hah! You're more like a social eagle. You've got it covered from planning the party to making sure that the mix of guests and the music selection are just right. Party on!

Daily extended (by Astrology.com)
You're one of the most fun-loving signs in the zodiac, and right now that zippy, lighthearted energy that's your signature is turned up to eleven. Even routine trips to the grocery store become fabulous adventures in the unexplored when you bring your unique perspective and love of laughter. Is it any wonder people are clamoring to be in your presence? Your charming self is off the charts when it comes to personal magnetism.

Right now, my "personal magnetism" is at the level of "Nnnnngh, is it time to get up already?" So... whatever.

Once again, I am horribly behind on updating (the new) Digest. But it's a journal now, so it's easy and it doesn't matter! I can just fire up Semagic any time I want to! I can become a totally dedicated poster any time I want to! I figure that if I tell myself this using enough exclamation points, I will believe it eventually!

Class the other day was okay--it was one of those fortunately/unfortunately days, you know? Like, unfortunately, another class had mistakenly laid claim to our room. Fortunately, our professor totally pulled rank and kicked them out, which was awesome. Unfortunately, I proceeded to spill most of a Mountain Dew on my table. Fortunately, Tabitha handed me something to wipe it up with. Unfortunately, that something was a piece of notebook paper. Fortunately, the paper at least... sort of did the job. Unfortunately, when I gathered my things at the end of class, I had a small pool of soda underneath my notebook. Fortunately, Tabitha was one of a few people I already knew from other classes, so that's nice. Unfortunately, the class is, once again, mostly female. Fortunately, the professor knocked a couple of books off the syllabus. Unfortunately, there was another book entirely that wasn't at the bookstore, so I didn't even know we had to read it, and it's turned out to be kind of rare. Fortunately, it's totally 19th-century sensation fic in the vein of The Quaker City, which, as you may recall, I loved. Unfortunately, we're not reading that first--we're reading Melville's Typee. Fuckin' Melville. Fortunately, Typee is vaguely hilarious, particularly the part where the two sailors run away from the ship and... neglect to bring food with them. And then the brilliant part where they try to get through a recalcitrant stand of canes/reeds by throwing themselves at it, and after about twenty minutes of crushing their way into the thicket, finally turn to each other and say, "Hey, don't we have knives?" GENIUS.

We then wound up the class with the fortunate announcements that we will have informal "responses" for each book, rather than a midterm paper, and that the professor has decided that presentations kind of suck, with which I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE, so none of those, either. So I have to think that the class, on the whole, comes out higher on the positive side of the chart. Which is a good thing, because I have it again in about an hour.


Linkspam:

Obituaries at the Six Feet Under official site.

From a friend of a friend: Beginner's Guide to BPAL.

Defamer is saying that this is a parody. I don't care. If it isn't true, as a friend of mine quipped, it should be.

Whee, fun things! (Supposedly the Sloganizer changes every thirty seconds. I have totally added it to my info page.)

Comments

[madlori.livejournal.com]

ah, Cleo. I see by your link and your now-playing song that you too are haunted by the SFU series finale. *sobs*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, I threw a massive pity-party for myself an entry or so back. : )

[honorh.livejournal.com]

I saw that Tom "Xenu Ate My Brain!" Cruise yesterday and truly hoped it was a parody, because it'd be sad to think he was *that* far gone. Well, he's pretty far gone, but that's an even more Speshul brand of Crazy, y'know?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

To me, the real point the parody makes is that we're all totally ready to believe he could be that crazy and egomaniacal. It almost says more about him than if it were true.

[draconifers.livejournal.com]

Hee, i'm getting more confused with the fortunately/iunfortunately stuff :P
I'm just goinna guess you had an interesting day

[karintheswede]

Thanks for the BPAL FAQ. I've been meaning to look into it, but have been vaguely intimidated by the sheer number of scents.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, I always tell people to think of what they like the scent of--vanilla, citrus, roses, musk, lavender, whatever--and then run a search for those ingredients on the website. I'm thinking of writing up a list of basic recommendations by ingredient, if I ever have the time...

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

Damn, reading about sexy classes like that has me almost excited to go back to school again!

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Funny, I would've figured you as optimized for illogical infiltration. And "dangerous assassination" -- be glad you're not in Pat Robertson's rolodex at the moment.

[auryanne.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thanks for the newbie BPAL link. (My eBay stuff shipped!!! *hopping with excitement*)

[emargaret.livejournal.com]

"don't play with fire, play with emargaret." Heh.

[sweetdaddydavid.livejournal.com]

«I'd sleep with Sweetdaddydavid.»

^ is the legit first one I got.

[t4-flirt.livejournal.com]

two questions(well, 3 really)

1. What sign are you? (and where did you get those crazy horoscopes?)
2. How did you get your Sloganizer to show up? I put the code in my info, but all it did was show the code and not my Sloganizer.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

1. Sagittarius.

1b. my.yahoo.com--I'm subscribed to their horoscopes.

2. Hmm, I don't know. There may be some kind of option you need to check to allow you to post code on your info page--it might be under livejournal.com/customize, I'm not sure.

Sloganizer

[greyduck.livejournal.com]

I had to build my own, because the template system my website runs on simply refuses to "play nice" with their provided code.

That said, a few rounds of "neat, now click it again" yielded some good material to put into my rendition. Heh.

[bunnymonkey.livejournal.com]

Heh. "Do It with Cleolinda." I'm trying to, you damn machine!

Maybe you're a social eagle because of all the livejournalin' and emailin' you've been up to. And maybe you just have super-swank friends.

I'm devastated to report that Dorian has started to make me sneeze. I'll ask Lin or other BPAL junkies up here if they'd like to swap with me. *sob* It's just not fair!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

What? Dorian does not love you? THIS IS UNHEARD OF.

That said, you can probably get just about anything you want for an imp of Dorian.

dead link

[amoeba-j.livejournal.com]

Defamer is saying that this is a parody.

this link is dead now :( what parody did it have posted?

Re: dead link

[lotusbiosm.livejournal.com]

Here's the defamer.com piece (http://www.defamer.com/hollywood/tom-cruise/tom-cruises-shakespearean-thetans-118740.php), which quotes the Toronto one in its entirety, and which also links to the original parody.

[lotusbiosm.livejournal.com]

I knew I could count on Cleo to bring the truth about the reincarnated Tom Cruise. It was just odd, and it wasn't being picked up by other sites. And there was no source. Hooray for Cleo.

[dreamingenigma.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link to the beginner's guide to BPAL... I'll probably end up picking out one of the juniper scents I looked up the other night in the chat... damn, y'all SFers just make it hard to resist ;)

Bookplates

[tehgreyarea.livejournal.com]

Well, you wanted to know of any authors who used a book plate idea for their books (and me, being retarded, couldnt find a place to email you or get you the message otherwise),and I know of one ive used, http://prestonchild.com/bookplates/bookplates.htm

Its easy.

[edda.livejournal.com]

ROBOT MEME! I saw that one ages ago, but I think I skipped it because my computer was being assy. *zips off*

Also hope classes go well. *sends good vibes*

[skyblade.livejournal.com]

My slogan? "Naughty little Skyblade".

Hey, you're quite good looking for a robot.

[yarha.livejournal.com]

Supposedly the Sloganizer changes every thirty seconds. I have totally added it to my info page.

I've always been satisfied with

Everyone wins with Yarha! Really!

Yarha, What in the Hell would Yarha Do If Elected or: WHY DIE?

[twilight-zen.livejournal.com]

It seems all my horoscopes are horoscopes of irony. Oh, and my rising sign is the one that seems to fit me most now.

[vytresna.livejournal.com]

Aha! I see you've stumbled across the Cyborg Name Generator! The same genius responsible for that also did the Book of Ratings (http://www.bookofratings.com/), which has stopped updating, but is nose-spurtingly hilarious, and there's loads of it.

[lezopez.livejournal.com]

Fuckin' Melville

I've never seen it summed up so well. The only author I loathe more than Melville is Steinbeck.

[silentemotion.livejournal.com]

Completely off topic, but I'm taking a course on the Mythology of Harry Potter, and with your enjoyment of the series (at least enough to do a M15M for the movie), I was wondering if you wanted to be added to my email list.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Sure!

[ambiguousreason.livejournal.com]

Hahahah I love how wrong horoscopes can be. That's what makes them so great.

Presentations are of the devil.

[lyrainverse.livejournal.com]

Melville sucks. Billy Budd is several hours of my life I won't ever get back. At least what you're reading sounds mildly entertaining!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, it was just about the second book he ever wrote (Typee). Clearly he hadn't refined his Awesome Melville Powers of Boring You Stupid yet.

OT

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Ursula Vernon cracks me up— she wrote this in an entry today, and it reminded me of you:

*One of the best bits about living in the South, and which I'm glad to have learned, is the proper use of "god love 'em," or "god bless 'im," or "bless 'er heart," which, when used as a qualifier in a sentence, allows you to say the most incredibly insulting things. It's like a free pass for the rest of the sentence. "And Bob, god love 'im, is like a retarded puppy," or "Bless her heart, she'll sleep with anything on two legs." To get the full effect, one must shake one's head gently while talking, with an expression of exasperated affection.

That was a footnote to the main entry (http://www.livejournal.com/users/ursulav/375796.html), on how she might have been a bang-up pseudo-scientist, but chose to be an artist instead.

Re: OT

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I so do this. Except sometimes I actually mean "bless" when I say it, or use it as kind of a filler reply like "Cool" or "Okay" or "Really?" I was telling Sky that it's like the "fuggeddaboudit" of the South: it means 5000 things. Although that usage? Is totally the most fun.