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sykojello
03 July 2008 @ 08:07 pm
I'm going to empty out the contents of my bag and have a look through them, okay?  
Stolen from [info]theoriginaldork 
1. Take a picture of your bag
2. Now dump everything out and neatly adjust them, and take a picture (no matter how embarrassing)
3. Talk about the items inside. Detail
4. Tag 6 people. ( don't tag the person that was already tagged)

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There was a picture on fandom secrets of David Tenant and Alex Kingston.  My first thought was what?  Dr. Who/ER crossover?  Then I read the text.  I guess it was a spoiler but I don't understand what it was talking about.

Dude, I did nothing today at work.  Nuh-thing.  Tomorrow will be more of the same.  Stupid PIC duty.  I should be staying home watching the Twilight Zone marathon on SciFi.
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sykojello
02 July 2008 @ 09:50 am
 
I just got an email from keithurban.net announcing a new promotion: sign up or renew your membership in the fanclub and get either:
 

Um, what else?  I saw Wall-E last night.  Most adorable movie evar!!  I just went to look for icons and there's already fanfic... I'm frightened.
 
 
sykojello
27 June 2008 @ 10:52 am
pointless tv post  
I watched Last Comic Standing and Fear Itself last night and both endings really bugged me.


Anyway...

I hooked my mp3 player up to a set of old computer speakers that had been in my office forever.  Now I can listen to my music without headphones!  Simple idea, but I had never thought about it until yesterday.
 
 
Current Music: Flat on the Floor - Carrie Underwood
 
 
sykojello
24 June 2008 @ 12:39 pm
Writer's Block: Comebacks  

Know any great comebacks?


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 Your mom.


I couldn't pass that one up.
 
 
sykojello
19 June 2008 @ 10:04 am
 
Am I  the only one that thinks the appropriate response to every Writer's Block question is "your mom" ?  

Cause that's always the first thing I think when I read it.
 
 
Current Mood: okay
 
 
sykojello
16 June 2008 @ 02:58 pm
Hey look! It's my first icon post!  

31 icons - ER 8x16 - "Secrets and Lies"

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Comments are nice.
All icons can be used as bases.  Please let me know what you do with them! 
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sykojello
11 June 2008 @ 09:12 am
Strange ER dream  
The entire cast of ER was in one of my old dorm rooms.  I don't know if it was the actors or the characters because they were all wearing thier hospital clothes.  We were all sitting in a circle on my bed (I guess it had to be pretty big to fit all those people on it).  We were chatting and someone, I think it was Carol, asked me if I had noticed any discrepancies in the show.  I said there were a lot but my favorite was from "May Day".  I explained the scene to them: Weaver's leading Carter to his intervention and as they're walking down the hall he takes his stethosope from around his neck and puts it in the pocket of his lab coat.  But once they walk through the door, the stethoscope is in the opposite pocket.  (I'm not making this part up.  It's really in the episode.)  So everyone laughed at me for watching that closely and I felt like a big dork.  Then everyone but Carter went into another room.  Carter found that ER scrapbook and started looking through it and I was so embarassed!  I remember wanting him to go away so I could talk to Dave but I didn't want to say so and upset him.

I watched two episodes of Torchwood and looked through [info]ihasatardisand [info]ihazastopwatchlast night.  You'd think I'd be dreaming about Jack or the Doctor!  Different doctor, I guess.

 
 
Current Music: Some Unholy War - Amy Winehouse
 
 
sykojello
07 June 2008 @ 08:34 pm
End of training and pictures  
I wrote an entry on Thursday night, and as soon as I hit post the internet went down. I was too tired to write it all again. But now I have pictures to go with it! Most of these were taken on Thursday evening when we walked around the town.

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This is the Twin Turrets Inn. Susan and Les's room is the turret on the right. 


The Bears )

So Friday we finished training around 1:30.  Wendy wanted to stop at a  glass blowing place and we spent about half an hour there while she decided what to buy.  We got confused with the directions into Philly and ended up going the wrong way.  By the time we got there at 3:30 we only had time to see the Liberty Bell:
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and Constitution Hall before it closed at 5.  Wendy is an awful driver and I didn't want to risk my life by having her drive around Philly until 7, so we just went airport.  Luckily the place is huge so we had plenty to occupy us until our flight left at 9:15.  We went into the shops in the market place and ate at TGIFridays.  We boarded the plane and the flight attendent told us we could spread out if we wanted; there were only 16 people scheduled for the flight.  We arrived in Columbia half an hour early and I got home around midnight.

And that's the end of my journey.
 
 
sykojello
04 June 2008 @ 10:26 pm
Training: Day 3  
Today breakfast was pineapple chuncks, french toast, and ham.  I forgot to mention before that she brings out a starter (breakfast appetizer, maybe?) first, and that's usualy fruit.  Anyway, training was alright.  We started getting into functions that we don't use at the museum yet but we will in the next year or so.  We're actually learning!  It's amazing how many things this software can do.

Gateway had a cookout for lunch.  It was supposed to be bangers and mash to celebrate an English job they just finished, but they also had hamburgers and chicken and stuff.  We had lunch with Dave and he showed us these magical tasks that he does to make items scan correctly.  Everything make so much more sense to me now!

After class we went to the Philadelphia Premium Outlets.  I bought a mini purse at the Michael Korrs store.  It was the only thing in the store I could afford but it's Michael freaking Korrs.  Then we went to the King of Prussia mall, which is gianormous.  Once I found out that there's no sales tax on clothing I had to restrain myself!   Dinner was at a place called Bahama Breeze.  I had jerk chicken pasta with mushrooms the size of ... I don't know...really big mushrooms.   So very full.

Last but not least, happy birthday Noah Wyle and Dr. John Carter!
 
 
sykojello
03 June 2008 @ 10:09 pm
Training: Day 2  
Found out this morning that the lady who runs the inn is also the mayor.  I have to say, I was not surprised.  Breakfast was fruit and yogurt, quiche, and bacon.  I learned a lot more in training today than I did yesterday.  Most of it was stuff that would have been really helpful to know a year ago when we had to set everything up ourselves.  Like the receipt format, for example.  We had to make up our own using Friendly Ghost Language (it's like html but not, and not the least bit friendly), and whenever I would ask support for help they would tell me I just have to play around with it.  Today the instructor gave us a page of definitions for these keywords and commands, and suddenly it all made sense.

We met our customer service rep today.  That was fun.  He's pretty much the way I pictured him, just older.  Like thirty years older.  But now we can all put faces to names (or voices, in this case).  I don't think I mentioned yesterday but the building is not what I expected at all.  When I think of a global software company, I imagine their corporate office to be impressive.  I was picturing a seven storey glass building, an open lobby with marble floors, maybe a fountain or indoor garden.  Nope.  One storey stucco doctor's office-looking building.  Dave (our CSR) gave us a tour.  He works in a basement cubicle.  It's so depressing!  Now we know why he walks around all the time.

We had lunch at a deli.  I have no idea what the name was.  It started with a T.  Right after we sat down the high school got out for lunch and kids decended upon the place.  The owners give the seniors cake as a graduation gift since they're such good customers during the school year.  For dinner we went into Pottstown.  TGIFriday's (who had a framed Who poster by the bathrooms) and then we saw the new Indiana Jones movie.  Parts of it were good, parts of it I thought were pretty dumb, but I haven't seen the other three so I have nothing to compare it to.

I has a new layout!
 
 
sykojello
02 June 2008 @ 11:14 pm
Training: Day 1  

Breakfast was pears in a cream sauce (a-mazing) and cranberry pancakes.  Everyone staying at the inn is going to training, and everyone in training is staying at the inn.  We got to class and the instructor handed us these massive manuals.  We also got laptop bags with a notebook, mug, and pen inside.  Training was okay.  I haven't really learned anything new yet.  It's a beginner's course, so they're teaching us how to set up users and menus--stuff I figured out a year ago. 

We went to a local Italian resturant called Mama Maria's for lunch.  There is nothing in Boyertown.  Susan is devistated that there isn't a Starbucks anywhere close by.  There is, however, a movie theater with one screen, currently playing Horton Hears a Who...

After class, Susan, Les, Janet (a lady in our class) and I went to a Phillie's game.  That was a lot of fun.  I had never been to a major league baseball game before.   Phillie won over Cincinatie 5 to 4.  They have this green mascott called the Phillie Fanatic that looks like a muppet.  I saw a picture of it and asked, "what's that green thing?" and we spent the rest of the night calling it by that name.

On the way back, "Somewhere Out There" came on the radio in the car.  I said "Awwwww!  I used to love this movie when I was little!" and Les asked, "what movie?" "Fival!" I replied, and Les started laughing so hard I was afraid he was about to crash the car.  Then he said that he remembered watching that with his kids and I had made him feel old.

Oh, and before I forget: Saturday night, I had a dream where I told Stephen Colbert that I was going to Pennsylvania and he got really excited, and he wanted to come with me so we could go to Hershey.  o - O

 
 
sykojello
01 June 2008 @ 11:25 pm
I made it  
My first flight was successful!  Checking in at the airport took less than ten minutes because Columbia is so small.  The plane was tiny.   Seriously, I've been on busses that were bigger.  Taking off reminded me of being on a rollercoaster.  I kept expecting it to go plummeting down (except that's not what I wanted it to do!).  Flight was about an hour and 15 minutes. 

Once we landed and got the rental car, we got on I-95 south instead of north.  The exit we took to turn around happened to be the bridge to New Jersey.  Once we got back to Pennsylvania everything went well.  We got here around 10:45.  The inn is amazing.  It's called the Twin Turrets Inn.  It was a mansion that belonged to the Boyer family, and that's about all I know.  Susan and Les's room is huge, and they have one of the turrets.  Mine room is pretty big, too.  I have a double bed (with a canopy) and my own bathroom.  The lady that runs it says she's making pancakes for breakfast tomorrow.
 
 
sykojello
31 May 2008 @ 10:10 pm
 

I'm going to Pennsylvania tomorrow for training.  Flying to Philadelphia then driving an hour or so to Boyertown.  I've only flown once.  I was four or five and it was from Columbia to Raleigh, so I'm sure the flight was ten minutes long.  I don't remember any of it.  I'm not scared, but I'm not excited either.  I'm really not looking forward to having to spend a whole week with Wendy.  She'll have to drive because I'm legally not old enough (you have to be 25 to rent a car) so hahaha...except not really because she's an awful driver.  We'll be there for a week.  Susan and her husband will be there too (thank God!).  

I'm taking my camera and I'll try to take pictures.  Never been that far north before.  I was going to do that meme 

[info]luisadeza is doing but I'm sure I'm too lazy.  

 

 
 
sykojello
30 May 2008 @ 08:57 pm
And now for something completley different: a man with 3 buttocks  
This skit never ceases to make me cry with laughter:  Musical Mice 


Also this one: Raymond Luxury Yacht
 
 
 
sykojello
30 May 2008 @ 02:08 pm
 
I ran into one of my friends from Phi Sig at lunch.  He just finished his second year of medical school and is about to move to Greenville in like two weeks.  I'm really mad at myself now.  I thought he went to MUSC in Charleston, but no, he's been in Columbia for the past two years and my dumb ass never called him.   He didn't call me either, but I guess that's not really the point.  The point is that I've always had a little crush on Mike and I'm upset that I didn't see for two years when he was still in town.  He did tell me that he'd like to see Keith Urban sometime and to call him if I ever head up to Greenville.  I certainly will.

I'm always so fascinated when people in med school tell me about what they're doing.  I always think, 'oh like on ER'.  I guess Mike does too, though.  He told me he was thinking of cardiotherasic surgery 'like Isiah Washington on Grey's Anatomy'.  

Yeah, so I was at lunch for two hours.  But I can't get in trouble because I was with my boss.  :-)
 
 
sykojello
25 May 2008 @ 09:11 pm
 

My uncle and I invented a new drink today.  I really wanted some kind of fruity drink, but you can't buy alcohol on Sundays around here, so I had to improvise.  My dad had rum and vodka, but the only things we had to mix it with were Diet Pepsi, Diet Dr Pepper, or Crystal Light.  Jim and I looked in the freezer and found sherbert, so we thought, why not?  And it was actually pretty good.  We called it Suntan Lotion because it tasted like suntan lotion smells.  Here's the recipe:

1-2 oz Parrot Bay coconut rum
rainbow sherbert (half a cup, maybe?)
half of a banana
splash of lime juice
Mix it all together in a blender and voila (that's French) it's finished!

 
 
sykojello
19 May 2008 @ 07:34 pm
proof of my nerdyness (picture heavy)  
I was going through some storage boxes a few days ago to find Monkees pictures for my scrapbook, and I found an ER notebook that I made in high school. Take a look at what happens when my OCD and my fangirl tendencies cross paths.

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Spectacular, right?

While I'm at it, here are the finished pages from my Monkees scrapbook
 
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hey hey )

And that's all I've got for now.
 
 
sykojello
15 May 2008 @ 07:22 pm
 

I have run into problems with my wonderful new job.  People think I can read their minds.  I get emails asking why such-and-such event isn't on the site, and I have to explain that it's because they haven't given me any information.  So, if you want it to go on the site, A) tell me and B) give me the info!  

Anyway, Susan bought us new 22 inch widescreen monitors!  They're awesome.  They turn 90 degrees so everything is in portrait view!  I can see the whole Flash file when I work on it now, which I've been doing a lot this week.  I almost had my problem figured out yesterday, but then the director called and said, before you change that make it so the pictures rotate faster (because 6 seconds is waaaaay too long).  Well, shit.  I don't know how to do that!


 
 
sykojello
13 May 2008 @ 09:26 am
 

Flash is hard!

 
 
sykojello
08 May 2008 @ 08:46 pm
...okay...?  

My cell phone just rang.  I didn't recognize the number but I answered it.  I always get wrong numbers on my phone but once I tell them it's a wrong number they go away.

So anyway, I feel like watching ER all of the sudden.  It's kinda weird.  The urge just came out of the blue.  I guess I could finally open the season 7 DVD that's been sitting on my shelf for over a year now.  Or the season 8 dvd. 

I'm off work tomorrow for Confederate Memorial Day.  Yeah, that's a state holiday.  They had to balance out Martin Luther King Day somehow.  Oh, South Carolina.  I love you so much.