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What I'm most looking forward to this weekend: Not using Clocky again until Monday.

What I'm not looking forward to this weekend: Monday (and Clocky's return D:) being so close.

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Renewing my WoW subscription probably = the worst thing I could do for my schoolwork. :P By the way, I'm a gold-making MACHINE, I tell you, MACHINE.

Also, I was in Stormwind on Tuesday night on my human rogue and was turkeyed twelve times in about six minutes. I should really go kick some ass while in turkey-form--for the lulz.

I hate Clocky with every fiber of my being. He is the bane of my very existence. I may be faster than Clocky, but he makes me regret living when he goes off in the morning. D:

1) I broke my not-publicly-shared goal to post in my LJ every day for the rest of the year. Fail! I actually wrote an entry for my actual blog yesterday, but forgot to post a version here as well. *facepalm* I was too busy doing what's listed under item #2.

2) Yesterday I watched the entire first season of How I Met Your Mother and IT WAS AWESOME. I also watched the first third of season two. I am so addicted. It's amazing. Why haven't I been watching this for years? /fail

3) I've started regularly posting at my blog and I'm excited. I really do want to keep it up this time. I need to think up some consequences for if I fail to keep it updated at least twice a week. Help me think of stuff!

4) I learned how to play gin a week ago and today I won for the first time! Yay! Very exciting. :D

5) I got my WoW account back, yay. They have super ominous hold music of doom and it is beautiful and/or fucking terrifying. I had to hold for an hour, but once I got a hold of a person, they fixed it in less than five minutes. Yay.

Do any of you play WoW? What servers? What side?

I've been playing sporadically for about three years. Now I play primarily on Bronzebeard because I'm a member of wow_doth and wow_dota (Daughters of the Horde and Daughters of the Alliance, respectively). I actually transferred to that server just to join the guild. I don't have a loyalty to either side, but I tend to play more Alliance-side because my highest-level character is there, but I love both.

I'm also an altaholic diagnosed with ADD (and going untreated) so I also don't have any high level characters. D: I think I need to set leveling goals or something. :P

Okay, I'm in need of a new Mac, stat. I have two options. The 27" way-more-powerful and cheaper iMac. The 17" less-powerful and more expensive MacBook Pro. I keep going back and forth between the two and now I need a second opinion because I am way too indecisive.

Keep in mind that I am seriously a power-user. I do a lot of: gaming, video editing, graphic editing, and I multitask like a motherfucker so I have an asston of stuff running all at once. I do need to get an extremely powerful machine that will keep up with me and my needs for at least five years and still have an okay resale value after that time period.

I'm covering the cost of the computer with a student loan which I'm not going to start paying anything on until I finish grad school...in like 2014 or 2015, depending. So am I really worried about a $450 price difference over the next 4-5 years? Convenience and whatever is the best machine for me are a bit more important than this factor, though it is something to consider. Whatever I choose, I'll still be able to resell it, eventually.

I am such a flip-flopper. D:

( Specs, Pros, Cons ) Poll #1488539 iMac vs. MacBook Pro
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12

Which do you think I should choose, given my needs?

What the fuck, guys.

I canceled my WoW account in August because I had quit my job and moved back to Seattle.

On October 31st/November 1st I received two emails from Blizzard telling me that someone was using password retrieval on my account. This is where I got stupid. I should have clicked on both links to deactivate them, but didn't because, well, see below on how crazy my passwords are. I didn't even think of my EMAIL being breached. Instead I just went to worldofwarcraft.com and changed my password because I was like, "o_O SCARY." At this point, my account was still mine, despite the fact the first password email had been sent much earlier in the day.

Now, I have an RL/business email address that I use for anything involving money transactions. Additionally, it's the email address I give to people IRL because it's easier to remember. I have Gmail forward my RL/business email to my most active email address, my online stuff email, which I use for everything else.

Today, I went to reactivate my account and what the fuck, it tells me to log into my Battle.net account. I don't have a Battle.net account. So I create one. Then it tells me to merge my account. So I try. It tells me the login information is incorrect. I know it's not. Just in case, I go to worldofwarcraft.com to try to retrieve my password. It tells me that account has already been merged and I need to go to Battle.net to retrieve my password. The account has never been merged. There is no Battle.net account under my online stuff email. I checked. I just created the Battle.net account under my RL/business email not ten minutes earlier. It clicks in my brain: Motherfucking hacked.

Because of the aforementioned email forwarding bit, I rarely log into my RL/business email on a computer, I just log into my online stuff email. Two days ago I did log into my RL/business email though, because I was freaking out about an email I was waiting for and wanted to make sure that Gmail was forwarding correctly even though I knew it was because I was receiving other email.

However, when I logged into Gmail at this point, I was greeted with an odd message requiring to change my password right then and there because they'd noticed strange activity. Didn't make the connection until just now. Because I check my Trash on my RL/business email? The only items in there are the two password retrieval emails.

Okay, my passwords always look like this: wR3mu*Re8=maf_33#5 **. What the fuck, guys. I take security ~seriously~. I CREATE PASSWORDS THAT MAKE ME WANT TO DIE because they are so difficult to remember. How the fuck do *I* get hacked?

Also, since I've never told anyone my WoW username***, much less password, how did they figure out both my username and the email I used to go with it? That's crazy.

(EDIT: Seeing as I run almost exclusively OS X on my MacBook Pro and I've never played WoW under Windows, it's doubtful my computer was compromised. Plus, I reinstalled my entire operating system on Halloween so it was a shiny new install when it occurred.)

I hope they were fucking disappointed when they logged in only to find out that 1) I only have 2,000 gold, and 2) I have shitty gear because I'm leveling because 3) my highest level character is a 44 at most because I'm a severe altaholic who only plays on and off.

So I'm pretty much taking this as God telling me that deciding to add more procrastination techniques to my life is a fucking terrible idea right now.

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** Obviously, this was not my actual password, not even close, but it's an example of the passwords I create.

*** I wouldn't even tell my own mother if she asked.

Yeah, you read that right. I've transformed into my dad. As my dad is a truly terrifying individual, as hateable (and countless others who have met him in real life) can vouch for, this distresses me greatly.

However, thankfully, the particular issue that has forced me to utter this haunting phrase, is just that I can hit my snooze button for hours.

My mom and I used to mock my dad because his alarm will start going off at 5AM and his ass will still be laying in bed at 9AM. Worst part: He doesn't even hit the snooze. He will just let his super annoying alarm clock go off for four goddamn hours.

I UNDERSTAND NOW, DAD. I apologize.

At the beginning of this quarter, I was waking up around 7AM every day, no problems, and getting extra work done in the morning. I thought not having class until 11AM (although that means I have to catch my bus at 9:45AM because I live so far from school) meant I'd have more time to be productive in the morning!

Yeah, no. I apparently don't know myself at all. Alarm starts going off at 7AM. I set three separate alarms* on my phone and it generally goes off every 3-5 minutes. By the time 9AM, I've probably hit snooze about 30-40 times. Perhaps choosing the Firefly theme song, "Piazza, New York Catcher" by Belle & Sebastian, and "Willkommen" from Cabaret as my alarm clock tones wasn't the wisest idea I've ever had.

So I just purchased the world's most annoying alarm clock, except I purchased it from Amazon despite my love for ThinkGeek. Saving $15USD, plus free shipping demolishes all brand loyalty.

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* Mostly because I can do that weird iPhone swipey motion in my sleep and turn off my alarm entirely without actually opening my eyes. *facepalm*

The answers to the questions you guys asked me for this Question Tuesday! Ask me more questions in the comments! You can ask anything you want! And you can ask as many questions as you'd like, though if I get as many questions as I did for the first Question Tuesday (posted on Wednesday), I may split it up into multiple posts. :D

Anyway, they can be simple questions like, "Do you like pancakes?" or "What's your middle name?" or they can be just the craziest things you can imagine. :D

1. lizzie_marie_23: You love Ender's Game. Are you interested in reading a story where Peter Parker goes to Battle School?
   Um. WHO WOULDN'T BE?

   By the way, for those of you who were like, "WHAT? NEED!" when you read that, here's a link to the story.

   I am using it as motivation to stop procrastinating on the work I need(ed) to get done this week and last! SOON! Ender's Game is one of my favorite books of all goddamn time. :D And Peter Parker pwns!

2. lizzie_marie_23: Why can't I fall asleep?
   Are you doing that thing where you're thinking about how much you need to be sleeping right now? Because if you are, that's why. You'll be awake for the rest of your life now.

3. lizzie_marie_23: Does anybody really know what time it is?
   Yes. I know what time it is. lafemmedarla, however, doesn't. She always insists it's three and a half later than it really is because she doesn't understand that my timezone is the only one that exists, obviously. Sigh.

4. lizzie_marie_23: Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?
   Depends on who the many are, who the few are, and what the 'needs' are. Are they actually needs or just wants disguised as needs?

5. lizzie_marie_23: How do they get someone's voice onto a record (or CD)?
   ~MAGIC~, obviously!

6. lizzie_marie_23: How did you guess right about how many fingers I was holding up? Really, though, that's incredible!
   True story Story of ambiguous truthiness: I used to work as a psychic, but I lost my job due to unforeseen circumstances. :(

7. wannablessedme: Did you like Uglies by Scott Westerfield? I have the audiobook on my iPod and keep zoning out in chapter 2. I find the narrators voice super annoying. Is it worth acquiring the real thing?
   OH MY GOD YES, BUY THE BOOKS NOW. ALSO: Tally Youngblood should never sound like Elle Woods on crack with a Jersey accent. That's horrifying. D:

8. lizzie_marie_23: Suppose a man who could tell the future came up to you and pointed out a child playing with his/her friends. He says that that child will grow up to be a ruthless dictator who will destroy millions of lives. He hands you a shotgun and says the kid must be destroyed. Would you then kill the child?
   No, but I completely support the concept of an Evil Baby Orphanage.

   Also, Wikihistory by Desmond Warzel is an awesome (very) short story that I'd recommend that covers this topic with humor. :D

9. hateable: What are you more afraid of: bears or sharks? (And if you are not afraid of either, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?)
   Well. I don't swim in the ocean because I don't like taunting sharks. But I could feasibly come face to face with a bear on land and that's terrifying.

   But, alternatively, I have a standing rule of not going into the woods unless I'm bringing someone who runs slower than me.

   BUT SHARKS HAVE SO MANY TEETH. AND ARE TERRIFYING. This is so hard. >.<

   I HAVE SO MANY FEARS, WOMAN. COTTAGE CHEESE. What could possibly make you think I wouldn't be afraid of bears and sharks?

   I think I'm going to have to side with sharks. I straight-up avoid where sharks live altogether, but I still go into the woods sometimes (or, I did in Bellingham). But both are scary.

10. hateable: Do YOU think Jensen curls his eyelashes?
    QUITE POSSIBLY. But my little brother has unfairly curly eyelashes too and I'm pretty sure he has no idea that the concept of an eyelash curler even exists. SO IT IS POSSIBLE HE DOES NOT.

11. hateable: Hard shell or soft shell tacos?
    Soft tacos! But shit, if it's a taco, I'll pretty much eat it. I don't give a fuck what's containing the filling.

12. hateable: When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
    I wanted to be a: teacher, writer, veterinarian, scientist, paleontologist, and witch (oh, Hogwarts--did my owl get lost?). I wanted to do everything. Looking at that list, it's quite clear I've always been a nerd. :P

13. hateable: Sprinkles: yes or no?
    DEPENDS. But generally I go sprinkleless. D: Those really tiny granular sprinkles? I'll pass unless they're on these maple cookies my grandma used to make that are the best cookies in the whole world. If they're, like, sprinkles that aren't all ridiculously hard and don't taste like food coloring, then sure, bring 'em on.

    Fun fact: In our pharmacy (aka the cabinet containing all of our prescriptions, vitamins, other misc pills), there is also a shaker of rainbow sprinkles. I don't even know.

Don't forget to ask me questions in the comments!

As I mentioned in a one-line post last night, yesterday my day was invaded by many, many creepers. Being the creeper magnet that I am, I should not be shocked by this and yet I always am.

Yesterday I went to the mall with my friend, Kari, to have conveyor belt sushi (at a restaurant next to the mall) and go to a movie. I'd never had sushi before and I loved it. :D I'm excited to go again!

After we left the sushi restaurant and actually entered the mall, we still had a couple hours to kill before our movie started so we headed for the Apple Store so I could check out the new 27" iMac.

On our way, a crazy kiosk man comes at us from the side, shoves dixie cups containing a mysterious melon-colored liquid into our hands, and commands us to drink. He kept promising there wasn't tequila in it.

And you know what we did?

WE DRANK IT. Our only excuse was that we were frightened of the crazy kiosk man who kept talking about tequila and how he bites his nails. He also demanded we come over to his kiosk (no idea which one it was!) and let him perform an unnamed "procedure" which would only take 50 seconds. At this point, I inch around and hide behind Kari. We decline his offer about 8 times and declare we have a movie to catch and then make a break for it.

The fact that the movie didn't start for over two hours? Minor detail.

The first thing we both do, as soon as we reach our Apple Store refuge, is pull out our phones and tweet that shit so fast. You know you're a little addicted when... </nerds>

We've decided that side of the mall is dead to us now. We can never return.

Then we saw Cirque du Freak which wasn't as bad as I was expecting! Despite its flaws, I actually enjoyed it--it was funny. However, I have never seen a movie filled with so many damn creepers in it. And everybody just went along with the creepers, without mentioning the fact that they were clearly the creepiest creepers who ever creeped!

And on the way home, Kari and I were convinced the bus driver was going to kill us all. The PA system crackled and in a super-creepy and wheezy voice, informed us that the bus was past Tukwila Boulevard or something. Then he kept randomly stopping the bus on the side of the road for a few moments in random, completely dark areas and we kept having these "Oh my God, where the hell are we? Are we going to die?!!" moments every time it happened. I kept seeing a stereotypical horror movie play out in my head. The driver would slowly get up from his seat and turn to face the passengers. Perhaps a large scar would grace his face. And then we'd all effing die and that would be the beginning of the horror film. We'd be dead before the title even showed.

He also blew right past a group of teenage girls standing at the bus stop despite the fact that bus is the only bus that stops at that stop. It may have been the luckiest thing that ever happened to him because I'm surprised I made it out of there alive.

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* I'm trying to decide between a brand new 27" iMac (the one with the 2.8GHz i7 processor) and a refurbished MacBook Pro (17", antiglare, 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo) and wasn't sure if a 27" screen is too huge for the space I have. Another post is in the works about this.

** missambs says: .............. if someone's like "THERE IS NO TEQUILA," that means there is rum.

I swear, LiveJournal, so many creepers invaded my life today. D:

Guys, I noticed earlier today that I get a lot of DANIEL RADCLIFFE IS GAY and nip slip spam on Donut.nu, for some reason. Is that beautiful or is that beautiful?

You know what's not beautiful? Tila Tequila porn spam. D: