Well I feel really stupid now. I've had this paid account with Livejournal now for 2 years and I've updated less than ten times. I'm tempted to say that I'm going to update more frequently now but I've said that several times already and everytime I've forgotten to do it.
School has finally settled into a good pattern (Well as good as it can get considering my classes are really boring.) and my work hours are really good. I am done with school and work every night by 6 which is really nice because I'm addicted to Supernatural, Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy. I used to miss all of my shows because I had to work at night so it's really nice to be able to be finished with everything at a decent hour.

Anyone who knows me and is reading this will be shocked to learn that I switched majors to Secondary Edu this summer. I never thought of myself as a teacher but it sounds fun so we'll see.

I love my job. I'm at work right now and I have to say that beyond the boringness that pervades this place, the people make it very interesting to work here. If someone walked into this building without knowing what it was they wouldn't believe it's a library. Yes, there's books everywhere but there are also groups of people talking and yelling down the stair well at each other and people chewing tobacco and spitting sunflower seed shells everywhere (I live in the rural South). When I first got here it looked so proper and serious, Yeah Right. I've been in public libraries that have been more proper than this Uni library.

I'm reading this really interesting book right now. It's called What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality. It was recommended to me by a friend of mine who thought I would agree with what was being written. I'm about half-way through right now and I have to say that the author brings up some interesting points. He talks a lot about how you have to read the Bible from a historical context point of view rather than the fundamentalist straight forward way. I'm already planning on how to use this book the next time my grandmother wants to debate the rightness of gays and lesbians.

My nephew's birthday was last Friday. I've been a bad aunt; I bought a present and then forgot to call on his birthday and I forgot to actually put his present in the post. It's finally getting sent off today and I guess he won't really care because it's still a present but I still feel like a bad auntie. My niece's birthday is this Friday, hopefully I'll actually remember to send her gift to her before her birthday.

I'm going to go now and not even bother saying when I'll update next, it could be later today or it could be 3-4 months from now. If I don't see you again "Good afternoon, good evening and good night."

It's been really hectic at school lately so I haven't had time to update and I still don't but this new FDA regulation has made me so mad I have to write about it. They have passed a new rule banning any men who have engaged in gay sex from ever donating anonymous sperm. The FDA said that they felt gay men have more chance of having HIV/AIDS than straight men. So any straight man who does drugs using needles has sex with potentially positive prositutes or has unprotected sex with anyone they want can donate sperm within a year of the application while a gay man in a completely monogomous relationship who has never done drugs has no chance to. There is so many things wrong with that statement I don't know where to start. If all the FDA was worried about was protecting people from HIV/AIDS all they have to do is have the applicant tested when they give the sperm and freeze the sperm for 6-months to a year and have the man tested again. I've tried to see this new rule as anything other than discrimination but I can't. This new rule is just another sign of the increasing right wing, religious influence on our country. In other words, It Sucks.

Hello all

As I said earlier today I am writing to update further on my life and show pics so here we go.  I am writing my English paper on civil unions vs. marriage for gay and lesbian couples which is interesting.  We've already turned in our proposal and annotated bibliography and our position paper is due on Friday.  I don't think I'll have a hard time writing it but we'll see. 

I've been surprised by how few books I've read lately.  Normally I go through a book or two a day but now it seems I've been reading more fanfiction and e-books.  I still go to Books-a-Million two or three times a week but that's just because I love bookstores.  I was really disappointed the other day when I went to buy the new MaryJanice Davidson book Hello Gorgeous.  I figured it would be $7 or $8 but since they made it a trade paperback rather than a normal it was $14! 

       Mini Rant time:  I hate trade paperbacks.  The pages are really flimsy and tear easily and the size is awkward.  Basically it's an excuse by publishers to try and make more money.  The sucky thing for them though is the majority of people won't buy trade paperbacks because the books are too expensive for a paperback.  I will willingly pay $20-25 for a hardback but I just can't make myself pay $15-20 for a paperback.  I'm a poor college student who can't afford by book habit as it is much less with books like those.

Rant over. Sorry.  I didn't end up getting the book (see reasons above) and instead went to Pier 1.  I adore that store even though the wicker theme right now is weird.  I'm not a huge fan of wicker.  People who know me don't let me sit in wicker chairs because I always end up breaking all the pokey things off.  Therefore wicker is something I will never have in my house.  A month after I bought something all that would be left of it would be a pile of broken ends laying on the floor.

In other news I've been entertaining the idea of writing a book.  I'm not worrying about getting it published or anything because frankly I don't even know if I have the patience to finish anything.  If I actually do it will be something mystical or supernatural.  Those are my favorite type of books.  Time-traveling Vikings, vampires (not Anne Rice), and were-anything are my favorite.

 

( Pictures and my Recommendations )

Hey everyone
I've been thrilling myself tonight playing with pictures.  It is so fun! (okay not that fun but it's pretty neat) I don't know why I haven't tried it before; actually I do. I thought it would be too hard and I'm sure the complicated stuff is.  I'm enjoying myself right now so that's cool.  When it gets to hard I'll probably start.
Lately I've been really into arranging fake flowers.  It's fun and I like the flowers because I can't kill them like I do all my other live plants.  So far I've done two new arrangements and played with another one I already had.  My roomate thinks I'm crazy but that's cool.
It's been forever since I've updated which sucks because I'm actually paying to have this journal but I'm going to try and do better. 
School has been crazy hectic lately; I've actually had to go to class (shocking I know ;) ).  I'm taking a intro to Biology that is killing me.  It's supposed to be pretty easy (I mean, really, how hard can intro to Bio really be?) but my teacher is horrible.  Our test questions come from some independent question bank, not from the book or the lecture, and there is almost no way to prepare for the test.  The class average on the last test was a 50%.  He says he's scaling at the end of term which I am so thankful for because I have no desire to repeat this class.   

Since I said I would recommend a story every time I update I'm going to do that now.  It's behind a cut for those who don't want to read the recommendation. 

 

( The Memoirs )

I know it's been awhile since I've posted, I've been busy. For those who don't know today is AIDS awareness day and everyone should check out for more information on what you can do to help fight the spread of AIDS/HIV or just tips on having safe sex. I'll write more later.

I'm bored at work and trying to stay awake so I figured what better to do than to take some time wasting quizzes.

I really like the results of this one. ;'D

Angel.


Who's your male Buffy soul mate?
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There will probably be more later.
Ciao
Rhi

I said last night that I would be having a bad day because I stayed up so late and I was right. I missed two classes that I need to go to because I slept through my alarm. Oh well.

In other news I have decided that at the end of each post I am going to recommend at least one story from one of my fandoms. The stories might be slash or they might not be but I will make sure to say what it is and what the rating is. After today the recommendations are going to be behind a cut so if you don't want to see them you don't have to. Today I am going to post one from Harry Potter, Queer as Folk, and Buffy.

For Queer as Folk I am recommending Moonshadow Woman's In the Beginning. It is an awesome AU Brian/Justin fic. My only warning is that it is AU so the characters are slightly different from canon and it is R-NC-17.

For Harry Potter I am recommending Sabershadowkat's Draco Malfoy and the Heart of Slytherin. It is an awesome PG-13 Harry/Draco slash story. It is long but it is worth it.

For Buffy I am recommending Karen's Camp Killalot. It is the first story in a totally hilarious series. The other two stories in the series are Here We Come to Save the Day and Freakazoid High. All three stories are wonderful. Camp and Here We Come are pure BtVS featuring mainly Dawn/Conner while Freak is a HP/BtVS crossover. The rating I would give them would be pg-13 for Camp, R for Here We Come, and R-NC-17 for Freak.

I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.
Salut,
Rhi

Wow it's been forever since I've written. Oh well. I have a class in 4 hours but not only am I not sleeping I have no inclination to head in that direction anytime soon. That sucks because the class is boring enough with a full night's sleep much less two hours or less worth.
I just learned that Chris Reeves from the Superman movies died this weekend. I was kind of upset even though I've not seen the movies. I guess because he was a good actor and from all reports was a good person who hadn't let the problems in his life keep him down. I hope he's happy wherever he is now.

In other news I just finished rereading Echo's I Have Never Felt Your Fear which was wonderfully entertaining as always. It is a hilarious story mostly involving Ginny, Draco, Blaise and Luna but many others make appearances. It's good for laughs, romance and bits of drama thrown in. It is rated R though so be sure you're mature enough to read it if you decide it sounds good.
Echo is one of my favorite authors. She writes everything from Buffy to Harry Potter to original fiction. Anyone interested in a delightful read should check her out.
That's enough for now. I'm finally getting tired so I think I will go to bed now.
Goodnight all,
Rhi

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Why is it that a person who has lasted 12 years of indoctrination so that she can receive a piece of paper declaring a finished education must sit for 4 hours while old men read horribly long speeches that make no sense and aren't inspiring in the least so that she can graduate? Tonight was my graduation and it was horrible. Our speaker was this older man who fell asleep in between each phrase. A two minute speech became a 10 minute speech despite many people's attempts to make him stop. After all the names were read we all lost our caps because they were thrown fifty feet in the air, landing in an undisclosed location, our gowns were stripped off us with little ceremony as soon as we were out of the civic center and we had to fight the crowds of crying parents to get out of the place. All that effort for a piece of paper that doesn't actually get you anything but a low paying job at McDonald's or Burger King. Oh well I have received my diploma and now I get to join the world of indebted college students for the next 6 years or so. Isn't life grand?
Now that that is over I am going to immerse myself in the wonders of fanfiction
Bon Soir

fireicefaerie

I got this from pretty much everyone but if you want to try it then:
Copy and Paste this to your live journal: [font color=username][b]username[/b][/font]
then put your username in place of username and change the [ and ] to < and >

Today I decided to join the world of livejournal users. I will probably talk mostly about the stories I read and my life so if neither one interests whoever is reading this then sorry in advance. Have a good day.