Yesterday.... there was a firealarm at 4am.

Today there was one at 2am.

People need to grow up and learn how

To make their damned pop-corn.

To remove the lint from the lint tray before they use the dryer.

To put water in the instant oatmeal (specific to room 307).

To stop leaving the showers running with the hottest setting selected abd the doors open so that hot steam sets off the fire alarm.

To learn how to use what few, thankfully few apparently, appliences they are aloud to have. You can't figure out how to use them? No more insta food for you!

Among other feats of intelegence.

Okay... So. I don't really know who all is coming to my dinner like thing dispite trying to make it pretty easy to figure out. That's okay, though. I know what I'm making, I know what time it is, etc.

As far as I know



Dinner is at 5:30PM, if you'll be late we'll save you a plate. Dinner includes

Pancakes
Probably Waffles
Creamed Eggs
Biscutts
Baccon
And maybe Cinnamon buns.

This is likewise on FRIDAY the 22nd.

And, on a side note, the little jumping thing this LJ autosave does while saving is annoying as hell.

Going home this weekend! I might just write a real post then!

Be home around 9.

Jeni and I have been rping for a while and we randomly decided (or she said I should do this and then luckily decided she would help or it wouldn't look nearly as nice or be nearly as well done) to make a comic out of it. The first chapter is actually done, amazingly enough, and I'm very happy with it. I think it looks pretty neat- its a blending of 3d Poser Rendering and photos and I'm hoping to add in Vue backgrounds for some of it as well soon- and the story line is well on its way past this point.

There are no warnings for the comic so far. It's PG, mild nudity note(though anything too exposing is artfully covered up), and an Yaoi will not be seen until a fair ways away. So far even in the rough script it's still more romance and kisses then hard core.

I've been pretty busy so I haven't had time to post but if you have a few minutes check it out and let us know what you think, kay?

TV Asahi has again published a list of Japan's 100 favorite animated TV series. The list is based on an online poll of the Japanese populace.

Bold the ones you've seen all of.
Italicize the ones you've seen some of.

The first five people to comment will receive an individual, unique piece of art, by me, about them. Can be anything of my choosing and may take a little to be completed.

Recipients must repost this in their own journal.



- This could be artwork, poetry, prose, even a quick ficklet depending on who you are.

Yay for project_jeni

I have soo much to say...but no time to say it. Suffice to say:

I will be at AWA until Sunday.

I want to bounce off loose ideas off Jeni but have no time at the moment so I'll wait until Sunday unless I sang a computer sometime during the convention.

If you want me to look for anything call me

864-906-2942

Okay... So these past few weeks have found me the emotional backboard of about six people, give or take a few. Typically, I don't mind this. I like helping friends, if only by listening, but there have been quite a few complications in this. Also, by listening and not venting myself, in many cases though not all, I end up feeling quite a bit lopsided and do quite a few of emotional turn arounds.

I don't enjoy these.

Over all, however, like usual most of the ones that are the most draining, head banging, or otherwise are the ones about wanting girlfriends/boyfriends etc.

Now I'm not feeling the most attractive or likeable at the moment, doubly so because I apparently put someone up to something that would hurt her even though it was for the best in the end (in my opinion) but I digress. Here is my over all answer to all you under twentyfives who are completely fixated and obsessed to the point of "I'M GOING TO BE AN OLD MAID ALL MY LIFE" or "I'M GOING TO BE A BACHELOR ALL MY LIFE".

Wake up. You are, over all, under 20. Most of you who aren't are under 22.

You have plenty of time to find that special someone.

You are perfectly attractive as far as people go, male or female.

The mass majority have a fine personality even if I would end up killing you if we did anything more then just be friends.

Changing yourself to suit someone else, to get their attention, or because you think there might possibly be something that might go on later is futile and silly. Not to mention personally degrading by saying you as you is not enough.

If the person can't see you without your make up--its not worth it.

Long distance relationships are hard. Don't get in one if you can't hack it. I will want to beat you over the head with my sink.

Love, as I told a friend the other day to try to get a bit of a laugh, is like a rapist... it comes and jumps you when you least expect it. So stop stressing about it. If you're on the look out- it's looking at the girl/boy behind you.

Don't let all your cats out of the bag a few months into a relationship. Mystery helps. Also if you have some skeletons be truthful but don't wash them in the story, it tends to frighten people.

Over all...

I really don't think you all, if you're in your early twenties or even some beyond, have anything to worry about. Calm the fuck down.Breathe. Think about things-- you have plenty more people to meet. You don't HAVE to date in the small pool of friends you have now. Go clubbing, if you want, have fun. But over all relax and stop stressing out. You're fine. You're good. You just need to stop being hyper sensitive to: MUST HAVE A GIRLFRIEND/BOYFRIEND... MUST GET SEX.

People can tell, and its a turn off a lot of times oddly enough.

As a passing note: Look, if you know me--I'm going to be the crazy cat lady, not you, and there can ONLY BE ONE.

End of story.

Moral: Stop freaking out and look at my list again.

(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

× I miss somebody right now.	✓ I don't watch much TV these days.  (I have no tv.)	✓ I own lots of books.  (...I just need a sixth book case...)
× I wear glasses or contact lenses.  (I probably need glasses or contacts.)	× I love to play video games.  (I wish I could try video games.)	× I've tried marijuana.
✓ I've watched porn movies.	× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.	✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy.  (In general.)
✓ I curse sometimes.  (Goddamn.)	✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.  (In some ways.)	× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.

( it goes on... )

Death of Y may spawn new human species
Judy Skatssoon
ABC Science Online
Thursday, 10 August 2006

The pending demise of the Y chromosome could give rise to a whole new species of human, a professor of comparative genomics says.

Scientists have been speculating about the demise of the Y chromosome for some years now but Professor Jenny Graves of the Australian National University in Canberra has come up with a bold new twist on the theory.

Graves, who has been working on sex chromosomes in marsupials, will present her theory at the 11th International Congress of Genetics in Brisbane today.

She will tell the conference that new 'male making' genes on other chromosomes could step up to do the job of the Y chromosome's SRY gene, which is the key to making males male.

But this could mean men without Y chromosomes would split off from those with, eventually evolving into a new species of hominid.

"It's quite possible that you could make new hominid species that way," she says.


When two populations become two species
Graves says men without a Y chromosome would be largely infertile. But a small number would reproduce and pass the new sex determining gene to their children.

Eventually the group with the new gene would separate from the Y gene group, potentially evolving into a new species, she says.

"[The two groups] couldn't mate with each other so they'd get gradually different, just like chimpanzees and humans gradually became different 5 million years ago," she says.

"When two populations become two species there's generally there's some sort of wedge driven between them so they can't mate with each other.

"It might be a mountain range ... but it might be something fundamental like the way they determine sex has flipped to some new way."

15 million years and counting
Graves says there are only 45 genes left on the Y chromosome from "a grand total" of 1400.

It also contains a lot of 'pseudo genes', which look like they should work but don't, suggesting they've recently become defunct.

According to her projections the Y chromosome will disappear altogether in 15 million years.

This will occur because unlike the other coupled genes, the single Y chromosome can't recombine with a matching partner and refresh itself.

Mutations will build up and the mutated genes will eventually drop off the chromosome because they no longer perform any useful function.

Graves says this has already happened in the case of the mole vole, an aggressive little rodent that appears male and is able to reproduce despite having lost its Y chromosome.

XX men
Australian researcher Professor Andrew Sinclair, of Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, is researching so-called XX men, or the roughly one in 150,000 men who are born without a Y chromosome.

"What it's pointing to is the presence of new genes we haven't yet discovered to replace the ones on the Y chromosome," Sinclair says.

Alternately, the "volume" of previously existing genes may have been "turned up" in the absence of the Y genes, he says.

Sinclair's team is the first in the world to use new high-density gene chips to examine XX men in the hope of finding out which genes these are.

About 10% of affected men also have a tiny portion of the Y chromosome stuck on their X chromosome which carries across the testis determining gene, he says.

Sinclair says Grave's theory about a new human species could make sense "in a theoretical way" but is unlikely in reality.

"I don't know about a whole new species of human but if you lost the Y chromosome completely males would have to evolve in some way to deal with it," he says.

"If you have males without a Y chromosome I don't think I'd go as far as calling them a new species, but a new type of individual."

The guy I accidently stuck my tongue out to... invited me to go with the guys to have a beer afterwork. I, unfortunetly, had to inform him I'm underaged. He was surprised, I'm extremely amused.

...

And other random older guy just bought me a coke and gave me two religious tracks. "If YOU died right now do you know for sure that you would go to HEAVEN?" and "The Most Imoportant moment of your Life."

I'm...someone perplexed and disterbed. The look in his eyes... yeah.

Imagine at least, probably more, 48 dell computer boxes stacked up in stacks of three, four per pallet, on pallets. They are about to my nose and six times wider then I am.

I luckily, thank you bookstore lady for distracting me into being late, just missed the stacking part but came just in time for transport to mail room.

The guys there? That aren't part of the mail room but kind of are? Pull one most of the way to the mail room and leave me to pull it in the rest of the way, situate it, and get the other three or so inside. I'm the only one there to do it, apparently, because they aren't part of the mail room, but kind of are, and I'm the only mail room person there.

I don't like a lot of help but... I'm a 110 pound woman, not exactly impressive looking and the key jack to lift the pallets goes to my throat. Its also extremely hard to manover if you haven't done so before and probably in of itself heavier and bigger then I am. With the boxes you're talking a couple hundred to a thousand pounds I'd guess.

Six near broken feet later and seven stops using abdominal muscles.. I have two in and a half an hour has passed. Everyone just kind of stares at me as I keep working- finally a manager comes to help me before I get run over by the pallet/cart.

It was DAMN fun. I half wish he hadn't come and helped me, though I have to admit I was having a lot of fun mentally laughing at the guys that were supposed to 'help' me.

Ah well, at least one of them did look at me, look at the thing that was probably 10x my size, and say "Uh...I'm getting that. You help with the door."

If there was anyone else in this position I'd say "Thank god someone helped". If I were to see someone smaller then me doing anything close to this I'd help in ten seconds flat...I am still somewhat dissapointed, though.

Just snipped Anderson for Math 103...its better then my previous teacher but the class is 8am and I don't do mornings.

The only class I would take at 8am, if I could snipe it, would be Psychology of Gender (its the only time its offered) OR a few other ones that I have some interest in. I'll probably drop math and take Psychology of Personality (assuming I can't snipe Gender in the next few weeks) at 9:25. It'll make me take three classes Tuesday/Thursday which I didn't particularly want to do but... 

I really suck at math. I mean really and if I'm half awake and bored, as I mainly am in math classes, no amount of good teaching will do me much good(In math I might as well be brain dead and a living Cadaver). The exception was my math teacher for Algebra 2 and Geometry. She was sexily sarcastic and a wonderful, caring teacher. 

I'll call John to see what he thinks, he had Anderson before, and welcome any input. If you think I'm being stupid and should suck it up for a semester feel free to let me know.

 I have a feeling, though, that I might put off math another semester so that I can (hopefully) snipe an equally good mid morning/afternoon mathclass (preferably MWF as a two hour mathclass will make me twitch spaztically and possibly foam at the mouth).

Give me a prompt, ANY SORT OF PROMPT, be it crazy wacky crossover or or weird AU or "regular" fic or an original, and I will write anywhere from one line to one paragraph from a pivotal scene.

I had the urge to crossdress last night so I exparamented in beinding and then had Johnathan and Eli go and dress me up.

I feel sort of bad for the quiet guy who came with us. He looked mildly uncomfortable XD.


And now onto today's festivities.


In all, I learned that just because its Jean doesn't mean everything matches. I also learned that I wear an 18 in mens/little boys, apparently make a fairly good guy/hobbit, and again that I hate buying strange books in the bookstore.

But, oh man, that guy in the Womans/Gay-Lesbian section at Barns and Noble gave Eli such a look when I was showing her the Woman Pirates book. He FLED. "Eli, do you like girl pirates?" "Girl Pirate Porn?"

And then he came back to look at the section again and found Eli reading The Best Gay Erotica 2006 and fled again. Oh man. It was soo amusing.

Soo... most of the day was dedicated to dressing me up. Next time we'll go dress Johnathan up or Eli up XD It'll be fun.

Today Eli and Johnathan saved me from eating alone by first getting lost at Flour Daniel and then picking me up.

Much fun was had by all, I hope, until Eli got a headache.

Now I'm back sorting mail. I swear the same peice comes up six times.

In other words, yes, again I'm bored.

I do now have Poser again, though so to keep myself amused later, rather then now because that won't happen at work, I want to offer/ask for characters to make for anyone who reads this on poser.

If you want to do this give me a good description of the character: Body type, personality, hair, eye color... be very specific. Give me background etc.

This can be yours or a fandom character, rp or story. Whatever. I don't care. Just give me a good description and I'll see what I can do.

Yes, I'm bored and I want to play with poser. So... anyone interested?

Necrophilia is only illegal in about 16 states?

How well do you carnally know a corpse?

Yes, yes, I am bored.


Edit: I just realized how that sounded and how bad taste that could be considering some peoples current life issues. It wasn't supposed to sound like that. I just read it in a book over lunch. xX Sorry!

My brother... must die. A horrible, horrible death. I'm going to let him have it if I see him tomorrow.