i may be a bird in a cage but at least it's your cage

guys. GUYS. I MADE A MASTERS' THESIS. i mean, it's sort of a mess, and it needs a hell of a lot of revision, but there are 36 pages not counting my references or my appendices, and charts, and results, and actual conclusions, and i think i even sound smart! the best part was, as i was in the middle of writing about how the community can agree on the vocabulary ("slash" and "gen") but can't agree on what stories are about (freedom's just another word is the only story i looked at that has "slash" and "gen" both in the top five tags, or, well, had them in the top five tags when i retrieved the page for analysis in february), the "what is gen omg" debate exploded across fandom.

hey, fandom, thanks for making my thesis look good. *buffs nails on shirt*

and for you guys: this week's [magical mystery zip], 4 songs, 18MB. enjoy, and tell me if you like any of the songs.

so, what's up, kids? tell me something awesome. write me some porn. put some pictures of hot boys in my comments. i wrote a masters' thesis! i deserve good things! i also deserve a nap, and i'm gonna go have one. or maybe some dinner. or, possibly, because i live on the edge of excitement, both dinner and a nap.

eta: i TOLD you that tyler hansbrough looks like a muppet! *draws hearts*

some people forget to go to class; i forget my classes have been cancelled and show up anyway. *fails at life*

glory, glory, unc, our hearts will live with thee - fight, fight, fight for the blue and white are rolling to victory. i have pretty much been staring at this photo non-stop all weekend, and it just. i can't even. i love this picture so much it hurts.

also, on friday, there was possibly an incident on campus involving me being a spaz and also involving wes miller, but resmin says i'm not allowed to talk about it anymore. (upside: did not commit sexual assault and did not actually light wes miller on fire. downside: well, did not get laid by wes miller. overall: not forced to watch duke game in jail; probably for the best.)

and there was a brief moment of friday night dinner-time terror regarding YET ANOTHER broken can opener, but apparently i just suck. i can fake it at being a grown-up most of the time; i remember to get the oil in my car changed, i bought a desk chair, i pay my tuition on time, but in the end, i can't work a can opener and i have an oversize tupperware for a coffee table.

i haven't talked about school much this semester - because there are only so many ways you can talk about wanting to beat microsoft access into tiny pieces with a big stick before it gets old - but basically i have a wild brain-crush on my collection development professor. ( a little about coll dev, which i was dreading, and is turning out to be my favorite class of the semester )

i had a wildly laidback rest of the weekend; saturday pru and i went out to southpoint and fondled the laptops at the apple store, drooled over cookbooks at barnes & noble, and mindlessly wandered around target again. (i bought more jell-o, because clearly i have not learned my lesson. also i bought a vegetable peeler. GO ME.) i wrote a lot, and updated my page-of-what-i've-written-this-year for february. i slept a lot. i fed asb's cat and pilfered her internet to download a lot of hank williams, jr. i spent 10 hours on sunday hip-deep in pie database designing, got fed up with access's design view not letting me do what i want, and taught myself enough mySQL to hack the query in my homework. it was a pretty good weekend.

at one point, in a fit of boredom on saturday evening while waiting for tip off, i contemplated shaving my head. mostly i really need a haircut, i can feel the hair curling around my collar right now, and it's driving me nuts. you will all be glad to know i still have hair; i'm not sure i can rock the bald look, as tempting as it was. a cat scan technician once told me that my head was shaped like a light bulb. not exactly the head for shaving, you know?

and finally: this map of major league baseball teams by fan location makes me so happy; all those weird tiny pockets of cubs fans? are people who live where wgn is a standard superstation on cable, heeeee.