my moral standing is lying down

Ahahah, after the first half of this year where I was pretty much posting every single day without fail (except weekends), now would be the time for me to sort of... disappear. Right after adding new friends on a friending meme and everything! /fail I've sort of been hanging around twitter much more than eljay in the past few weeks, so don't hesitate to say hi over there (@osaraba), if you're around!

RL mini-update: I am still currently between jobs though luckily I am getting unemployment (so I'm not freaking out about how I'll pay rent), and I've done a thing here and there for some extra cash. STILL LOOKING though.

So many happy things have happened lately! Joe & Morgan's baby was born and I AM SO HAPPY FOR THEM! The roller derby triple-header at the Aviator center in Brooklyn was funnnnn (all my teams won) and I got to see cathybites whom I haven't seen in forever~! I had a WONDERFUL lunch with some friends (who are all former coworkers)!

I'm pretty much set to get those tats done on the weekend of 8/27-28, so I'm getting more and more excited about that as it comes up. Nicole (the tattoo artist) isn't coming to NYC, but I'll be going to Philly instead and probably staying over at her place on Saturday night and then leaving Sunday. It'll be just like when I got my birds tats.

Have I mentioned how I've been sort of obsessed with knuckle tats lately? I definitely can't get them because of the fields in which I've generally worked (admin), but I've sorrrrrrt of considered getting some in white ink. It's still a very tentative idea, but I've been trying to think of what word(s) I might want to get. What would YOU get, if you were to get knuckle tats? Or what word(s) have you admired on others' knuckle tats?

Anyway, to top it all off-- MY EARS ARE NOW AT 2-GAUGE (6.5mm)!!!

Hee! I wasn't even trying or paying attention to stretching right now anyway, but I noticed in the bathroom mirror tonight that my lobes looked like they were actually being weighed down by my jewelry, and realized that there was actually a bit of space between the jewelry and the lobe... so I tried my 2-gauge taper et voila! It fit through so smoothly in my right lobe and with just a bit of stretch in my left. But I'm totally unprepared for this and actually have no 2ga jewelry at all! I'm going to try and stop in at Unimax tomorrow to pick up some cheap 2ga CBRs or plugs or something, but I'm going to be looking for something pretty in 2ga which means I may be posting pics of earrings again, ahahaha.

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I want to go skydiving again.

Thursday 10/29/09:
AA 59 JFK 7:05am → SFO 10:30am

Sunday 11/01/09:
AA 20 SFO 3:15pm → JFK 11:45pm

So yes, JUST purchased tickets to San Francisco (as well as a rental car -- $88 for the weekend)! I will be there during the weekend of Yaoicon, but I won't be buying a badge to the con. There are other things I'm intending to do -- skydiving, visiting the Winchester House, and going to see the annual Warp 11 Halloween show! And this time, Liz & Juliet, and maybe Judy will be going!

On Thursday, however, I intend to just kick back, hang out, and talk shop with friends I haven't seen in forever! yaoichick and badmomma64 are among the ones I know are going to Ycon this year. I need to arrange meet-ups!


You know what's weird? My flights are the same exact flights (with almost the same exact departure and arrival times) as my last flights to Ycon, back in 2007.


[edit: Liz's flight itinerary]

Thursday 10/29/09:
VA 25 JFK 4:35pm → SFO 8:15pm

Sunday 11/01/09:
VA 24 SFO 3:05pm → JFK 11:40pm

[edit: Juliet's flight itinerary]

Thursday 10/29/09:
SW 690 MDW 7:25 → SFO 10:05pm

Sunday 11/01/09:
SW 635 SFO 1:45pm → MDW 7:55pm

[edit: Judy's flight itinerary]

Thursday 10/29/09:
Delta 717 JFK 7:00am → SFO 10:38am

Tuesday 11/03/09:
Delta 724 SFO 10:25pm → JFK 7:00am