via Amber

Post-Hypnotized Peter

What Office Space character are you?
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(my final score: 87.5)

via dave:

You're the United Nations!
Most people think you're ineffective, but you are trying to completely save the world from itself, so there's always going to be a long way to go.  You're always the one trying to get friends to talk to each other, enemies to talk to each other, anyone who can to just talk instead of beating each other about the head and torso.  Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, and you get very schizophrenic as a result.  But your heart is in the right place, and sometimes also in New York.
Take the Country Quiz at the Blue Pyramid

You are a Liberal Idiot. Your heart is bleeding
and on your sleeve. Your celebrity icon is
Hillary Clinton.
What Kind Of Idiot Are You?
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these quiz entries are lame. then again, so am i.

Which Famous Homosexual are you?
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Are you damned?
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You're coming back! And if you are a Hindu you are going to have very specific characteristics:

"The slayer of a woman and the destroyer of embryos becomes a savage full of diseases; who commits illicit intercourse, a eunuch; who goes with his teacher?s wife, disease-skinned. The eater of flesh becomes very red; the drinker of intoxicants, one with discolored teeth...." (Garuda Purana)

What rating is your journal?
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According to the "Which Big Lebowski character are you?" quiz:

Why don't you check it out? Or we cut off your Johnson!

What Finding Nemo Character are You?
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Which OS are You?

Which Peanuts Character Are You Quiz

earthday ecological footprint quiz 2003

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 14

IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON.

WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE ACRES PER PERSON.

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 3.1 PLANETS.

yikes.

my geekiness is 43.3925%, which means i rank as a major geek. (via Dave).

i think i'll write a proper entry tomorrow. i just spent a good while catching up on my diary reading, and i also had a ton of these bookmarked and needed to clean 'em out:

my bathroom floor is clean now. some s.o.s. pads and 409 did the trick. oh, and also a paint scraper. i was afraid the pads (and the scraper) would screw up the ceramic tile in there, but it worked out ok. in other house news, though, it got flooded again. well, one corner of the front bedroom did. i guess i shouldn't say that it flooded because it wasn't under water, but apparently water seeped in somehow and made the carpet damp. argh. that problem needs to be fixed quickly. a couple of months back i thought the carpet was damp in there. my mother didn't agree, though, so i figured i was just going crazy. perhaps i shouldn't doubt myself so easily.

i didn't sleep well last night. i had a hard time falling asleep, and then once i finally did, i hard difficultly staying asleep. then, around 11am, i was awakened by my mother & sara (carpenter guy's daughter - i've been spelling her name wrong). i think they have nearly finished everything up, but i'm really not sure. apparently my mother had asked them to do a couple of extra things that i didn't even know about, and that's why they keep ending up back over here. i got closet doors today, but only one is working correctly on the track, so at some point, they'll be back yet again to take care of that.

You are Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The "Which Beatnik Are You?" test was created by aglaea. Take the test here!

Which Cartoon Cat Are You? Quiz by gypsydance

You are like a rockstar...only in Dutch.

Find out what YOUR inner non-sequitur is!

quiz by A.V. Phibes

find your queer as folk personality!

carpenter guy came back friday & saturday to finish stuff up. all is done at my house other than i still have no closet doors in my bedroom. i think they finished up everything they were working on here at my parents'. on friday, carpenter guy's two daughters came along. the oldest (sarah) is eight and the younger one (katie) is four. what a handful. we went to wendy's for lunch and then to see lilo & stitch. that was enough to wear me out for the day. despite the whole getting worn out thing, though, i had fun hanging out with them. so very cute. i still can't believe i'm going to have a girl. i think one will be more than enough for me.

Which glamour goddess are you? By kjfishie

What Type of Villain are You?
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Which Peanuts Character Are You Quiz

i still haven't heard back on my labs from last week (though i should know something tomorrow) nor the ones i just did yesterday. so, no news to report there. as much as i'm not anxious to get big & fat, in a way i wish it would come sooner. i'm feeling all bloated & it seems like none of my regular pants are comfortable anymore, but at the same time i'm not large enough to fit into maternity stuff yet. argh. perhaps i could try some of these low rise pants.

that's another thing, though. i'm pretty much clueless as to where to shop for maternity stuff. gap & old navy both only sell maternity clothing online (i think old navy sells it at stores in SF and NY, but that's no help to me). sarah said she bought some stuff from motherhood maternity, and they have stores here, so maybe i'll go check them out. i went to an old navy outlet store today and bought a few things that i'll probably only be able to wear for another month or so because i'm duh like that. i did buy a couple of cute little baby sleepers for $1.99, though.

i bought ghost world on dvd, even though i've yet to actually see the movie. i figure i will like it, but if i don't - well, too bad for me i guess. it was on sale, and it's been like fifty years since i bought any dvds, so i just thought "what the hell?" i also bought the 20th anniversary edition of tron because, well, because it's the 20th anniversary edition of tron.

i think it's getting close to time to change this layout again. of course i love badtz maru, but i doubt i'll ever leave any design here permanently. i can't even remember when i last changed it. i think it was after my trip to japan, though. hmm. it appears i changed it on january 27th. yes, i think it's about time for an update. of course i haven't been feeling very creative lately, so who knows when it will actually happen.

i'm a rabbit.what kinda pet are you?
quiz made by muna.

thanks to damodred for the pet quiz.

random movie quote:

"you and i combined make the perfect woman."
"no. you and i combined make the perfect political prisoner. what we really do well is act self-righteous and starve."

will i ever get back to updating normally? it's not looking too good. i don't know what my problem is. honestly, i just haven't been spending much time using the computer at all lately.

i needed to clean up my bookmark list, and these were all in there. at this point, though, i have no idea where/who i got them from.

i wonder if dubya will enjoy his trip to berlin.

also, i wish i understood german so that i could read all of these.

Do you swear a lot? quiz by maikamariel

What's Your Sexual MO? Find out @ She's Crafty

You Are Gilbert From "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" You are very giving and self-sacrificing. You're always there to lend a helping hand to family and friends. However, this generous nature often robs you of fulfilling your needs and desires, and may cause you to become resentful. Find a way to balance your kindness with your independence.

Take The Johnny Depp Quiz!

i love gilbert.

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p.s. i'm going to hockey tomorrow. HOORAY!

once again, for those of you who care, please forgive me for not writing anything of substance. simply put, there's just been too many things happening all too close together, and beyond that - i just feel like crud. once everything settles down and i feel comfortable with writing about the current state of my life, i imagine it will be pretty clear why i've been so unintentionally mysterious lately. it's nearly too much to handle, period, and it's all been thrust my way much too quickly.

i'm nearly 100% positive that i found these through Kimberley:

what's your battle cry? | mewing.net | merchandise!

take the antisocial test.
and go to mewing.net. because laura's feeling social.

then i discovered this silliness via lilybow:

What Porn Starlet are you? Take the quiz @ 5tarla.net

that certainly gave me a laugh i have been so desperately needing.

the stupid batteries in smoke alarm in the hallway are apparently about to die because the damn thing keeps beeping for no reason. i am in no physical condition right now to climb up there and fix it. if it doesn't stop soon, i'm afraid i may just find something with a long enough reach that will allow me to beat the hell out of it so that it will shut up. argh.

so, i'm still not quite ready to write about all that has transpired in the past week. soon, hopefully. i myself ended up in an emergency room yesterday afternoon, but it's all ok. nothing too serious and i just walked out with pain meds. but still - ouch, ouch, ouch. actually, that about sums everything up. i'll just fill the rest of the page with silly tests.

Which Talk Soup host are you?

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after browsing through days of Dave that i'd missed, i had to come back to add this:

Also known as the Smiling Tree Frog or Dumpy Tree Frog due to the nature of its appearance, this frog is a very hardy creature and a favorite pet of amateur frog owners, although some pet owners complain that they are not active enough. These frogs love to eat, which can make them quite fat, hence their "dumpy" appearance. Unlike many frogs, these frogs do well with other frogs of their species and are fairly friendly. They like a warm and moderately humid habitat and eat larger insects like crickets, cockroaches, locusts, moths and beetles.

What kind of Frog are you?

it's quite disturbing that i'd like to eat cockroaches.

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and another, courtesy of lilybow.

I'm Alice from Eyes Wide Shut! Which Nicole Kidman are you? Find out!

i've gone days without updating again, and i don't know why. yay me. i've had time to write - i just haven't. my sleep schedule has changed considerably in the past week. i've actually been sleeping at night. then i've been waking up around 5-6am, which is just ridiculous. this matters because i always feel more creative (and am usually more productive) during the nighttime hours.

why does dland do froobily things like not updating all of your pages? i've had this problem before when i've changed my layout. i think a lot of us are familiar with the whole half of your diary still having the old layout thing. today, i decided to break the diaryrings that i run off into their own page. in the nav, i added 'rings i run' and then decided that sounded stupid. so i went back and edited the link to read 'my rings' instead. so now it's all bollocky and some pages say 'rings i run' and some pages say 'my rings' - what's the story on that? i hate emailing andrew every time this happens going "can you please fix it?!" of course he always does (with the exception of my old broked rings page which i just gave up on a long time ago), but i just feel like a lame-o when i'm bugging him about stupid crap like that. i think that this time i'll just not bother. people who read this thing will just have to deal with two differently worded links pointing to the same place.

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I Will Die of Natural Causes. Your choice of life style has enabled you to live a nice long life.. To eventually die of a stroke, or was it a heart attack.. Either way you out lived just about anyone that gave a shit about you anyway.. Congrats Find out how you will die, Take the Death Quiz now!

i don't have much to say about the oscars. unfortunately i'd seen very few of the nominees this year, so it wasn't like i was rooting for any particular film, director, actor, actress, etc. - that's probably why i fell asleep before the show was even over. i missed all the big awards and just found out who won this morning. i didn't see monster's ball and i don't want to take away from halle berry's moment, but i have to say this: "It is for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened." she forgot to mention that it helps if you look like halle berry. honestly, that has very little to do with ms. berry herself, and much more to do with my own issues with hollywood.

What day are you?

Which Colossal Death Robot Are You?

she put highlights and lowlights in my hair, so for a while there i looked like the queen of aluminum foil. ok - just now when i was searching for a picture of how ridiculous one looks with foil wraps on their head, i ran across this. heh. anyway, i did find a suitable picture:

this is just silliness.

random movie quote:

"look, it's a school of whales."
"they look a little bit old for school."
"university then."
"university of whales."
"they look like dropouts to me."

the counter piece of the kitchen furniture that i bought forever ago is finally assembled. it was quite a job. actually, the only part that really sucked was attaching the top. it's solid birch and the thing is like 26" x 58" - so it's freaking heavy for one thing. there's eight screws that attach it to the base. there aren't any pre-drilled holes for these screws, though, like there seems to be with everything else from ikea. what's the story on that? that so sucks. and it gets even worse - you have to use a little tiny screwdriver on them because the wood that holds the drawers in place prohibits you from using a normal one. i was cruising along with the power screwdriver up until that point. i was working on it a couple of days ago and rubbed a blister on my palm, so i took yesterday off to give my hand a break. i finished today and my palm is all hurting again. i tried wearing these work gloves that my mom has, but they didn't prevent me from getting a blister. the two cabinets are assembled as much as they can be for now. really all that's left is attaching the doors, and you're supposed to do that after they're attached to the wall. on the first page of the instructions, it has some assembly tips. translated to english, one of them reads "it is advisory to be two people during assembly." huh?! the ikea translators need to lay off the crack.

i sometimes wish i could live in an ikea store. i know that some people think it's crap, but bollocks to you, i say! ok, i can sympathize with the chair problem. i also bought a chair from ikea that was crap. actually, i think he and i must have bought the same chair, because mine did that whole knock you downwards thing, too. rob and i called it the ejector seat. i have bought tons of other stuff from ikea, though, that hasn't been crap. some of my stuff that got flooded is still in good shape. i tossed my two chest of drawer units because the particle board soaked up a lot of the flood water so they were just ugly and nasty. my cd storage thing is fine, though. you can tell it got wet if you look at the back, but the front is fine and it's just as sturdy as it ever was. the back of the thing is always against a wall, anyway, so there you have it. problem solved. maybe i just have better ikea luck than andrew.

of course you can buy better furniture, but most likely not without spending a lot more money. ikea stuff is almost always in my price range. so until i win the lottery or something and can afford to buy furniture from herman miller, knoll, blu dot, minotti, mitchell gold, b&b italia, modernica, ligne roset, etc., i'll stick with ikea. more realistically, i like some of the things at both storehouse and crate & barrel, but they're still too pricey for me right now.

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yikes.

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remember that old (shampoo?) commercial where the girl told two friends about it, and then they told two friends, and so on, and so on, and so on? well, you should take that idea and apply it to this quiz.

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*Take The Gap Toothed Celebrity Test!*

(of course i'm david letterman. who else would i be?!)

I'm the badass burgundy patent Doc Marten...
I'm cool as hell, I'm deep,
and maybe a little dark

Which Doc Marten are you?
(by *coffeebean*)

Darth Vader Tall, powerful, and the darkest of the dark. You've got armies, fleets, and the dark side of the Force wrapped around your little finger, but you still have a soft spot for that little wuss you call "son." How sweet. Take the Imperial Test at Bucketheads!

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i think i might write an actual entry later today. we'll see.

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p.s. have you taken this quiz yet? really, you must. you should also place a link to it from somewhere. forward it to all of your friends, too. it's the right thing to do.

last week or whenever that was that rob was here & he helped me find an sftp client, he was freaked out about my having so much crap all over my desktop. "it's so unlike you! actually, i kind of like it." it is unlike me. i'm horrible about creating ten million folders with stupid names, but it's like there's order in my chaos. you know, i'm one of those people - it's a mess, but i know where stuff is. normally, though, i keep my desktop pretty free of clutter. nothing stays there very long. i either do what i'm gonna do with it and trash it, or i end up storing it on a drive somewhere so i can find it later. right now i must have at least 15 folders on the desktop along with a ton of loose files. i mean, crap is everywhere. it's ridiculous.

so i got to thinking about this, though, and now it sort of makes sense. ever since last summer (read: the frigging flood), i've been pretty much living out of boxes. for the most part i did a pretty organized packing job, so stuff that belongs together was packed together. i had no idea what was in each box, though, so whenever i wanted something, i'd have to go digging through box after box until i found the right one. i'm pretty sure that living like this would normally drive me insane, but i haven't really had much choice in the matter. i had to live like this, so i suppose i just learned to manage. somehow that's transferred to the way i use my computer as well. my desktop has become a symbol of my current state of being - completely disorganized.

random movie quote:

"heineken?! fuck that shit! pabst! blue! ribbon!"

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please, for maria's sake, go take this quiz. already taken it? take it again! it's fun! yay quizzes!

Take the What Will Your Result To This Quiz Be? Quiz
by napoleonherself, if you are so inclined.

. It has to be YOUR way. But when it isn't, you panic, but hold your ground. You keep your gun pointed and trigger finger ready, but you'd never really hurt anyone. Though you like being tough, feeling control, you often enjoy blending in and being part of the ordinary human race. Take the What Pulp Fiction Character Are You? quiz.

i was feeling like total crap for two days straight. it felt like i was trying to get the flu. i had sort of a head cold going on, i was achy, my stomach was upset - all that good stuff. i also had nightmares both nights, and i was crying a lot. crying about anything & everything. after "what the hell is wrong with me?!" went through my head several times, it dawned on me that i'd neglected to take my stupid effexor both days. sheesh. i'm not sure about the nightmares, but all those other things seem to be pretty common side effects of quitting effexor xr cold turkey. the stupidest thing is that i didn't even mean to quit - i just forgot to take the damn pills. it's kind of scary, though, that it freaked my body & my brain out so much, so quickly. i don't like that.

so for me to say that my state of mind hasn't really improved much over last week is probably needless. not yet, anyway. now that i'm back to taking my drugs, i'm hoping that things will get back to 'normal'. normal isn't great, but it's as sure as hell better than this.

it's dark. it's distressing. it's deplorable. lots of other d-words, too, but i'll just give up now.

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p.s.

I love you man. You are probably the drink with the most fan clubs ever. A lot of people depend on you and your caffeine content to keep them up all night. Others are just addicted. Find your inner cola.

i found that one via dave. i would have been confused if i wasn't mountain dew, considering how horribly addicted i am to the stuff.

i didn't feel like writing anything of substance, anyway, so thanks to dave for pointing me in the direction of this quiz which revealed which letter i'm most like:

So which letter of the alphabet matches YOUR personality, huh?

that's pretty accurate, i think. then i found a bunch more thanks to my queen of quizzes. it's brilliant that the poet quiz tells you "If you see more than one poet listed below that is because you displayed an equivalent amount of traits of more than one poet. Just pick your favorite one to show the world or list them all!" how remarkable to be informed that i display an equivalent amount of traits of these two:

You are Sylvia Plath
No matter how much you struggle, you can't manage to shake off depression. You use symbolism to express yourself and have a knack for getting the most out of gas ovens.

Take the Which Poet are You? Quiz - brought to you out of boredom and pretention!

You are e.e. cummings
Your use of the English language is not bound to any grammatical or even logical standards. You live your life with rhythym and passion and find yourself constantly searching for meaning by traveling or in new relationships.

Take the Which Poet are You? Quiz - brought to you out of boredom and pretention!

and then this one made me laugh:

Which Musketeer Are You?

i swear i've taken this quiz before, but sod it. i took it again. i got the link from m. this time around. i seem to recall that i was dinky the other time, too.

Which Winona Are You?

i've only seen this movie once. i remember that she took care of a bunch of stray animals, which of course i thought was brilliant, but it seemed like everyone needed to lay off dinky and just let her be dinky. i don't remember any lesbo thing, but then again it's been a long time since i've seen the film. i bet it was the "people often mistake me for a lesbian, but i'm really just a tomboy" choice that cemented it.

i know nothing about Rent, but she said that didn't matter.

Which Rent character are you?

*Take This Test!*

Take The Ice Cream Flavour Test!*

i found this one through waldo:

Which Trainspotting Character Are You?

and then i found this one through whatgoeson:

Which British Band Are You?

so i took a third quiz at the same site:

Which John Cusack Are You?

What Psych-Ward do you belong to?