shinydinosaur: (Default)
2011-11-05 11:59 am

Meme time!

Stolen from [livejournal.com profile] chosenfire28 (who stole this from [livejournal.com profile] violensi)


MEMES YAY


SIX NAMES YOU GO BY (in order of frequency):
1. Katherine
2. Kat
3. Ceri
4. Ceribri
5. Shiny
6. Mimi (a bffl gave me this nickname)

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. This beautiful shirt
2. Blue/black/white stripey pajama pants
3. my glasses

THREE THINGS YOU WANT VERY BADLY AT THE MOMENT
1. yummy hot food or a salad and some Starbucks
2. to move out of my house (there is serious long-term idea planning going on)
3. to get the evening off at work thursday b/c I have opera tickets to go with a friend

THREE PEOPLE WHOM YOU HOPE WILL DO THE MEME
1. [livejournal.com profile] harbek
2. [livejournal.com profile] lias9
3. Anyone who likes memes

THREE THINGS YOU DID LAST NIGHT
1. Helped a wonderful friend out with her photography portfolio and mostly got a lot of shots of my long hair and my gorgeous and even longer grey scarf in the wind and omg love the pics. She's gonna have the best stuff in her portfolio everrr.
2. Went to a jazz session downtown for First Friday, had a lot of fun even as the youngest person there, and went to the library's monthly sale and got like ten pounds of books and stuff for like $10.
3. Watched a bucketload of television for the first time in weeks.

THREE PEOPLE YOU LAST TALKED TO ON THE PHONE:
1. my dad
2. my amazing friend mentioned twice already (she's the one calling me Mimi)
3. my mother

THREE THINGS YOU ARE GOING TO DO TOMORROW:
1. probably sleep in, then go to work from 2-6
2. not study for the biology test on friday
3. cross-stitch or read one of my new books or both

FOUR OF YOUR FAVOURITE DRINKS:
1. Orange Juice
2. the arnold palmer drink
3. Water
4. Starbucks Frappicino idek how you spell it

THREE THINGS THAT MADE YOU SMILE TODAY:
1. Waking up and realizing I will one day get out of this house. (I do not call this place home unless it's to refer to it as my -temporary- place of residence)
2. Changing my text message notification to the chorus of 'Electric Blues' from Hair (it used to be the chorus of 'Superboy and the Invisible Girl' from Next to Normal and for my old phone it was the Dollhouse theme)
3. Remembering that this Thursday and Friday, respectively, I am taking like my fave guy friend to his fave opera as a semi-surprise (he was in happy shock when I announced I snagged the last 2 tickets my college had) then going to see my friend perform in Fiddler on the Roof.

*gets ready for a 6-hour shift*
shinydinosaur: (Wash: no wheel)
2011-05-30 01:25 pm

BEST. DAY. EVER.

I GOT THE JOB.



I GOT THE JOB!

*mass flailing/squeeing ensues*

I can't even like type right now omg you guys my first IM immediately getting off the phone was like 
ceribri 1:07 pm
HOLY SHIT I GOT THE JO
JUST GOT OFF THE PHWNE
CAN'T TYPE
BRB
sO MUCH FLAILING
LIKE YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW OMG


AND NOW I AM GONNA GO PARTY AND CALM DOWN (BUT NOT TOO MUCH) AND GO TO THE AWESOME COMICS STORE COOKOUT WITH HOTDOGS AND HAMBURGERS AND STUFF IN AN HOUR. SO EXCITED OMG. THE PAY IS PRETTY NICE AND I GET TO WORK WITH CAMERAS AND KIDS AND DUDE I WAS MADE FOR THIS JOB. I'll be working like 28-29 hours in my first two weeks (paid training yay!) and then I'm guaranteed like 15-20 hours or more every week as a part-timer. THIS IS GOOD. VERY VERY GOOD. Just have to go get a blouse and some shoes that fit their dress code. :DDDDDDD
shinydinosaur: (Topher: not unlike pride)
2010-12-21 04:05 am

EPIC FULL LUNAR ECLIPSE PICTURE TIME

(APPROPRIATE ICON IS APPROPRIATE. OH, SO MUCH.)

Holycrap my hands are freezing I can't feel them.
I went outside for like half an hour and got ONE GOOD PICTURE.

LET ME SHOW YOU IT.
PICS )


I also have epic pics of the moon 'un-eclipsing' as the red part of it goes down the moon, as it were.

To clarify: I have this decent camera, it's not anything special, and I set it to the setting for like, shooting stars, so it keeps the shutter open for 15 seconds to get the shooting stars all in one shot, k?

Except my hands are shaking bad although it settles a bit once I can't feel/move my fingers anymore, so I go to my neighbor's wooden fence thing and prop the camera up and try to shoot although that whole set winds up cool yet blurry; it looks like if you try to quickly shoot/film a moving glowstick or something. You get the motion and there's like multiple moons.

So then I grabbed some twiggy branch things from a bush and pushed them up against the back of the fence and let my camera rest on them and three shots more -- all with me crouched down holding perfectly still, and I got that one. <33333333333333

I'm allowed to pat myself on the back now and crawl wearily into bed again, right?
PS: Not only did I not go to bed at 3:30 AM after getting this picture, I stayed up until 5AM getting shots of the moon in its various post-eclipse phases. (Which I'll post links to later if there's any interest.)

BED FOR ME KTHX.