*cough* You're honestly telling me that THIS is trying to retake control of the world?!?! Good Freakin' Luck :p

 

The Truth about "Murphey"

Everyone knows about Murphey's Law. Many people believe that Murphey intentionally stalks and haunts them. Some KNOW that Murphey is always watching them. And a very few are lucky enough to actually MEET Murphey, to recieve undeniable proof that he exists and is sentient. I am now one of those few.

Last night, at around 10:00, life couldn't have gotten any better. I wasn't on top of the world, but absolutely nothing had gone wrong in almost 3 months, and a LOT of things had gone right (a great Christmas, Pat's visit, getting $100 off our rent, getting a new job, etc...). Needless to say I was riding pretty high. I needed to get some milk and other groceries, so I went out to my car at around 10:30 to head to WalMart. I saw two tow trucks patrolling the Arden Villas paking lots, and while my brain decided it was good, since I would be gone while they were checking tags, some voice inside my head kept warning me that sooner than I'd like my car was gonna get towed. I ignore it, fill my tank up with gas, get my groceries from WalMart, and head back home. When I arrive, there are ZERO parking spaces open. I mean NONE. And I'm not the only one driving around in circles looking either. I drive around for a while, getting a little worried because the milk is getting warm, when I finally see an empty residents space. I figure I'll hop in there temporarily, counting on the parking lots to empty out later that night (it's now about 11:15) so I can grab a visitor spot (which is where I belong). I go back outside at midnight, look for a visitors space, still no luck. Alright, I'm thinking I'll give it one more whot after I get outta the gym, and if that doesn't work, I'll park off AV property. I'm not too worried at this point, the annoying little voice has gone away, and I already saw the tow trucks making their rounds earlier. So I go and work out, some back outside just before 1am, and guess what? No minivan.

It doesn't surprise me somehow, and I'm not worried so much as I am frustrated... I'm figuring it'll cost me about $200 to get my car back. So I go inside and start researching the City ordinances about towing, what the maximum fee is, what additional fees there are, etc. I go to sleep, wake up the next morning and contact the towing "company" (it's just a guy with a cell phone renting space at a car care center), and he tries to charge me almost double what the law allows. We haggle, he backs down. Now I walk to work, ask permission to go fetch my car, walk home, fetch David, drive to the towing location, and lo and behold, the towing guy isn't there, but my car is. Luckily the car care people are nice enough to listen to my story and "sell" me my car back... I brought along a copy of the ordinance, so it isn't hard to prove to them that the max I should have to pay is $100, since it's within 24 hours from the actual tow. Short story short, I pay the $100, get the van outta it's cramped parking space on the first try, and drive to work $100 poorer. I'm disappointed about the money, since that comes straight from my moving funds, but I'm happy to have gotten off so lightly.

Now that it's happened tho, I realize that the voice in my head that was mocking me ('cause it wasn't really a warning... more of a taunt) must have been Murphey, which proves without a doubt that he exists, and is sentient.

The rest of my day has been great :)

What an ending for a nearly perfect day...

I went to WalMart to pick up some milk and stuff around.... 10:20, got back around 11:20, had a glass of milk, waited around until about midnight playing DoD... At midnight, I went out to the gym to work out. Now... when I left for WalMart, I saw both tow trucks making their rounds of the parking lot. When I'd come back from WalMart, there were zero visitor spaces available, and I had milk in the car which I didn't want to spoil, so I parked outside one of the buildings and took my things inside. I had a glass of milk, waited for that to settle, then walked out to work out. I walked past my van on the way to the gym, and also took a detour to check if any visitor spaces had opened up, which they hadn't. I planned to check again after my workout, at both visitor lots, and if there were still none, well, by that point I probably would have just driven in circles until one opened (as I can see people outside doing right this minute). Instead, when I came out of the gym, my van was gone. Completely vanished. Inside of 50 minutes. I wasn't in a reserved space, just an unmarked residents only space. Granted, I had no right to be there, and I'm not going to begrudge any reasonable towing fee, but honestly... Plus, either Equity, the new owners of the property, picked a new towing company, or someone at this company just forgot what they were doing, because the van was supposed to be immune to towing due to me being from Chambersburg (so was the owner of the old towing company) and my van has a sticker on it from the Chambersburg dealership where we got it. Oh well... subtract about $200 from my savings account...

Busy Day

Well, let's see... I woke up around 8:00, walked to work at 9:10, got there 10 minutes early (was due there at 9:30). I hung out waiting for someone to show me what to do, finally got taken in hand and shown the ropes.

What we do on Mondays is call the USPS offices that we'll be surveying about 3-4 weeks from now and confirm their survey appointments, gather their contact info, etc. So that's what I did all day, we got all of this week's calls done, and got halfway through next week's as well. I also did a little data entry at the end of the day, feeding all the stuff we collected back into an Excel sheet.

Tomorrow I'll be finishing up the calls and doing more data entry, and then pulling info from the extranet for our technicians to use on their appointments.

Since I know that just confused the heck out of everyone, I'll explain roughly what this project is all about. The USPS is upgrading their scanners and PC's, we're the company who's technicians go out to each post office and install the new system (plus do the site surverys).

So anyway, I walked home for lunch, Stormy was so incredibly happy to see me that she jumped up my leg and then just stood there staring at me for 2 minutes. I had lunch, checked my regular forums, chatted a little, and then walked back to work.

Finished up the day, walked home, had a snack, and settled in for some DoD:S action when I hear "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life" whistling from my purse. Of course it's Pat calling, just to check up on how my first day was :) If I haven't said it before, I'll say it now... anyone who isn't friends with Pat is missing out.

So we chat, and then a verbal fencing begins in preparation for my visit in June. I'm not really sure who came out the winner on this one... Pat made some pretty bold threats about "6 or 7" plots he might have running, and I ALMOST slipped up in such a way that I could never recover, but luckily he didn't catch what I had said until it was too late.

I'd have to call that one a draw... but until I actually reach Seattle, my primary focus is on living until I do, and preparing the weaponry I'll need once I get there, for all the rest, simply avoiding defeat is a victory to me.

As for the weaponry... rest assured it is proceeding VERY well indeed *evil laughter*

And amazingly enough, right now I'm chatting with Greg on XFire... I don't think I'll ever call him a friend again, let alone anything more, but I just can't bring myself to hold a grudge any longer, regardless of what happened. Plus, he is fun to play dod with.. unfortunatly his laptop can only handle the oooold dod, so until he gets a new desktop we won't be playing together. He sounds... meh, normal I guess, which is fine with me. I never feared HIM per se, except after I broke up with him and he was acting unstable and might actually be in the area... my only real fear was myself, 'cause if I'd let him get away with it before, why not again? But now I know, beyond a doubt, that I would never let that happen again... not from him, not from anyone. Thanks Pat :)

Ouchies!

So I finally decided to find out what the score is regarding my weight and body fat percentage, because I've been meaning to do something about my appearance for years. Turns out, I'm 130lbs and have a 27% body fat percentage. For someone who's 5'2" and 24 years old, that's kinda high. It also turns out that my blood pressure is pre-hypertension. And of course, I don't have the most hourglass figure a girl could ever want, so you can see every lb of that 130. So for a lotta good reasons... drastic action is going to be taken. I've been working out on the exercise bike at the gym every night all week, and I'm really enjoying it, I just sit there with a CD going and pedal until the music stops. I started out kinda lightweight, but Friday night I did 15 miles during a 62 minute cd (Les Mis Complete Symphonic Recording CD2), doing what the bike calls "60 rpm" average at a flat intensity level of 2 on a scale from 1-10 (figuring higher rpm is better for me than working harder at lower rpm?). Unfortunatly, the bike is in pretty bad shape, and the pulse rate indicator doesn't work, and I can't afford to buy my own (for $50 can get a pulse rate indicator... or for $100 my own exercise bike... both out of my budget for now). Today I have also started changing my diet. There's still half of a pizza casserole in the fridge that I'll have to finish, but I'm trying a buncha different brands of yogurt, as well as some slimfast stuff, and strawberries and cucumbers. Oh, and here's the big shocker: I'm not only switching to fat free milk *shudder* but I'll actually be drinking my 6-8 8oz glasses of water per day. I'd say wish me luck, but I don't think I'll have any trouble sticking to this... I know it needs to be done, and I have a very big incentive at the end, waiting for me :) What I can't understand is how the government could get the recommended calorie intake so wrong... normal being 2000, SlimFast's site recommends that I only intake 1300 to achieve my goals... on a normal day, eating my normal food, drinking my milk, etc, I only take in about 800-900 calories. Acoording to the gov. that's like... a starvation diet. *shrugs* just means I'll continue to ignore all "recommended daily values" like I always have.

More Les Mis Content

Here's some more Les Mis stuff I found on the web:

Les Mis paper and pencil RPG game: http://www.geocities.com/lesmisonline/lesmisrpg.zip
Les Mis font: http://www.geocities.com/lesmisonline/lmfont.zip
Les Mis Purity Test: http://www.angelfire.com/musicals/rentlm/purity.html

And now I'm off to do my taxes!

Everest! The train just entering a long tight sweeping turn

 

Everest! The train just starting to descend

 

Everest

I rode Everest today at Disney's Animal Kingdom. It won't actually be open for a while, but this weekend annual passholders get to ride it. It's a really amazing ride.. very fun, you go forwards and backwards, and really feel like your train is out of control many times throughout the ride. The Yeti is simply incredible... it actually scared me. I'll post pics here in a second... and after that, I'm going to sleep. I have not been sleeping much or well lately, so I need to catch up this weekend before I go to work.

Hooray! I got the Job!

Yay! I start work on Monday at 9:30, work is located about a block away, so I can walk home, eat lunch, and be back within an hour break :D I'm working for TEKsystems, the company that has been trying to help me get a job for all of 3 days now. The project I'm on is the upgrading of all the USPS hardware and software. Basically I'll be working at a desk (1 block from home), calling post offices to set up appointments for the field techs, asking questions about the current comfiguration, entering the data, working in Excel, etc... It's an admin position, but since it's tech-related it is a good transition for me. Besides, working at TEKsystems office will let me make lots of friends there, which means I'll be all the more likely to get the next position I'm after.

Good things :)

Oh, and Pat's first care package will go out today, since he finally got me his address.

=1stCPB=

I joined 1st CPB (1st Canadian Parachute Batallion) today, the clan who owns the server I pub dod:s on. It was kinda random how it happened, I hopped on at around 3pm and was amazed to see people in the server... they were playing the new kalt so I decided to go have some fun. There were only 4 of us for most of the time, myself, RandelFlag, Cougar, and the other slot rotated between people. We had all-talk turned on, ran around with bazookas and low grav, and just generally had a blast. I forget how joining the clan first game up, but Randel offered, and I was like "sure". Turns out he's one of the co-leaders of the clan, so he just added me and that was it. Really nice group of guys, very fun to play with. Oh, and I'm in "D" Company, just in case you ever see one of our internal company vs company scrims :)

I didn't get the job...

... and I couldn't be happier! (well, I could, but you know)

Ok, so I get this call from Dan, he says he's sorry, I didn't get the data entry job, someone with prior telecommunications experience edged me out. Ok, I'm philosophical, I can understand that, and besides, I know that Dan said earlier there was "something in the works" as far as another opportunity for me. Then it comes: "We do have a position open in one of our project groups. You'd be working in this office, it would be almost entirely on the phone, but also using Excel, Word, and Outlook. What you'd be doing is coordinating the installation of new hardware and software at every postal office in the US. Scheduling the field techs to go out there, maybe walking them through the process over the phone, that sort of thing. The project will last from 3-12 months, pay would be $12.50 per hour, you would need to commit to the full project. Now, I realize it's not a hands-on technical job, but it is the sort of position that will get you in the door, give you some technical experience, and after this it should be much easier to find a company willing to take you for something more like what you want to be doing. So what do you say, wanna come in tomorrow and meet our manager?" *stunned silence on the other end of the phone, then disjointed attempts to politely say "yes, thank you"*

Ok, three things about this that are awesome:
1) TEKsystems is working very hard to get me into a job that I'll be happy in, even tho we all know just how hard it is to get an inexperienced person into a technical career right now.
2) the office where this job is at is literally a block from my apartment, easy walking distance both to and from work and also for lunches, this means sleeping in and eating cheap but well
3) the job pays the same as the data entry position, and while it will likely last longer, that just means I'll have more money saved up and better credit by the end.

Am I excited about this one?!?! HELL YES!!

Interview!

Well, I showed up a half hour early, read my book for 15 minutes, then went inside and hooked up with Eric from TEKsystems. These TEKsystems guys are awesome, Eric met me, gave me a more detailed briefing about the job, gave me background on FDN, talked about the people I'd be working with, the atmosphere, etc, and then we just sat around chatting about money and highways and tech jobs and stuff until the FDN people got done with their meeting and came over to interview me. Eric introduced me, then took his leave. The FDN people were kinda... blah. They never showed any expression, they were VERY brief... They asked the usual sorts of questions, like what my most relevant experience is... I think I screwed that one up, I mentioned my computer experience and Admin Asst experience, rather than my inventory and recieving experience. When I mentioned my computer experience they asked if I was more interested in that sort of thing or in data entry, and I said I was interested in anything having to do with computers. Dumb answer, I know, I guess I had gotten so at ease with Eric I didn't quite know what to make of these two, and I didn't have much time to figure it out either. They asked me if I had any further questions about the job, I said TEK had done a great job of telling me all about it. They explained the basics in a bit more detail, told me more about the process, and then asked if I had any other questions. I didn't, so that was it. Total time, about 3 minutes. After I left I called Dan at TEK to follow up and tell him how it went, I told him basically what was said, and he said that I should hear yea or nay tomorrow, since they are interviewing all day today. He said if it doesn't work out, he's got some other things that are "kinda in the works" for me. Eric and I had also spoken about the sort of job I would prefer to data entry, and he said he would look into it because FDN is expending their tech support section and there might be a PC Technician opening. Both have told me just how incredibly hard it is to get in on the ground floor in that line of work, even with certifications, because most companies want experience. Still, I've got enough money to last me through March, at which point I can go on unemployment and live off that. I'm leaning towards preferring to wait a month or two and get a job that'll give me a start in the PC tech field rather than take the data entry one and THEn have to try to get a PC tech job down the road. Still and all, if FDN offers me the data entry position, I will accept happily, and I will know that in 6 months TEK will have even more reason to hunt down just the sorta job I want, plus by then I'll have the certs to DO the job as well. Either way you wanna look at it, wish me luck!

Money Matters

Alrighty, so, assuming I get this job, and work at it for all 6 months. I am currently in debt to the tune of $10584, broken down as follows:
$185.00
$272.00 - currently being handled by a law firm
$320.00
$1778.00
$1808.00 - currently being handled by a law firm
$2134.00
$4087.00
If I arranged with each company to accept payment plans, I would try to get the first 3 on 12-month plans, the next 3 on 24 month plans, and the final one on a 48 month plan, thus keeping my total debt payments per month at $391.24, which is quite manageable. I don't know if they would accept such a plan, but I believe that most, if not all, would. Now, the trick part is the next part. I would attempt to get them to agree that after making 3 consecutive on-time payments, all of my future payments count TOWARDS my credit. In other words, the first 3 have no effect on my credit score, but AFTER that, the fact that I'm making my payments on time would improve my score, so that I could get my credit back in order and continue with my life. If I could get all that (a big IF), during the 6 months I hold down this contract job I would pay $2347.44 towards the debts, leaving 8236.56... BUT my credit score should be much higher, because I would have made 21 "positive" payments to improve my credit.

The minimum I will make at this job is $12.00/hr for 40 hours a week. My monthly expenses are as follows:
$550 rent/utils
$150 car insurance
$100 food
$100 gas
$8.33 cell phone
This means I spend $908.33 per month just to live, or $5449.98 through all 6 months. There are a few one-time only expenses that are coming up... probably around $400 for Stormy's shots and surgery, and about $350 for my Disney annual pass renewal, and $60 to complete my vehicle registration for this year, and $400 for my visit to Seattle. Assuming losing 20% of my income to taxes, and the standard 4.3 weeks in a month, the least I could come out of the job with in savings (assuming no unexpected expenses come up in the meantime) is $2899.78. Sounds pretty bad, but if I stick it out for the full 6 months I should also be getting my $0.50 completion bonus. I don't know if this would be taxed, but assuming it is it'll still bring me up to $3312.58 in savings at the end.

That's still not much, but considering it would be pure savings, that's better than I was when I left NCA, and I hadn't paid off any debts nor repaired any of my credit at that point.

Now, assuming a best case scenario of 10 hrs a week overtime (say I work Saturdays), I could come out of the 6 months with $7130.98 in savings. Big difference, huh?

Ok, so split the difference, say I come out with an actual $5221.78 in savings. I've completed a 6 month assignment for TEKSystems, and they have offices in every major city in the US. I can now ask them to find me any kinda job that I'm qualified for in any city in the US. Let's just say, for the sake of argument, that I've managed to get my A+ and Net+. Without my MCSA/MCSE, I should still be able to land a job in the $25k-30k range doing tech support or some such. Those jobs exist EVERYWHERE, and there's never a downtime when there aren't any open. The FDN job is roughly $25k-35k depending on how much overtime I get, so money-wise it wouldn't be much of a change. I'd be able to stay on track with clearing my debts, and put away about $5-10k a year, depending on how frugally I want to live. That would mean a Mazda3 in 2-3 years from right now. Does the van have 2-3 years left in it? Especially if those years include a cross-country drive with a trailer and a full load of stuff? I guess if need be I could load it on a train, so it wouldn't have to make the drive, or tow it behind a UHaul. Say I can actually move for $1000, but that my rent where I move to is double what it is here? No, I'd definitly need a roommate sorta situation for it to be feasible. Jen? Pat? You two said something about each having a spare couch? ;)

Alright, enough wandering... bottom line is... even with the nice financial cushion I will get from 6 months work, it won't be enough to clear my debts by a long shot, all I can hope it will do is get my credit back on track. And at the end of the 6 months, I really won't be able to move to the west coast unless I have gotten more than just my A+. I'm gonna need some big-time certifications and as much on-the-job putzing around with the FDN tech support people as I can possibly get, because to make this work I'll need to be able to land a $40k+ job. God that's a scary thought. Not the money, but the responsability, and the sheer amount of knowledge and experience I would expect myself to have to consider myself worth that kinda money. But what THAT means, is that while I'm working as many hours as I can at FDN including nights and weekends, I have to make time to take a semester at Volusia Community College for my MCSA or MCSE. I need to talk to TEKSystems, see what they think of my plans (such as they are), see what advice and light they can shed on it all.

Gah! 2:00am, I have a 10:30am interview, and I'm wide awake, shaking like a leaf inside because I'm so damn nervous about everything right now... I just know that something's gonna happen, and I really can't afford that. I refuse to find myself at 30 years old sitting on my butt here in FL hopping from one random job to another every few months, still driving the Mini-Van, and without a decent guy in sight. : That's what really scares me... the fact that at 20 I told myself that by 25 I'd have a great career, I'd be married, I'd be living somewhere cool, and I'd have a more than comfortable income between myself and my husband... I'd be traveling, seeing the WORLD, and loving every minute of life. And here I am at 25, hopping from temp job to temp job, TRYING to pay back debts that it only took me 3 months to accumulate more than 3 years ago, stuck living on other people's leases and with never enough money to go out and do anything enjoyable, and worst of all I'm alone.

You know what? Fuck you Murphey. I want a do-over.

Interview Scheduled!

I interview with FDN Thursday at 10:30am, wish me luck!

Pre-Interview Interview successfully passed!

I just had an interview with Dan at TEKsystems, they're one of the largest technical temp agencies in the US. There is a position open at FDN, doing mainly data entry with some phone work up in Maitland, practically across the street from NCA (my last job). They're forwarding my resume up, and I could be interviewing with FDN either Thursday or Friday, and starting either Friday or Monday. It's a 6-month contract job, $12.00/hr with a $0.50/hr completion bonus (they pay that at the end of 6 months), and 1-10hrs a week of overtime. That's enough for me to pay off all of my debts at the same time, but I believe what I'll do is pay off the ones that are in the hands of angry lawyers, and save the rest of the money. After the 6 months, I can either go perm with FDN, or I can go back to TEK and ask for another job. Say in Seattle. TEK does a lot to support their workers, they have a lot of free online classes I can take advantage of once I'm a contract worker for them. So anyway, I'll post more when I hear back about an interview and/or getting hired.

Declaration of Intent for the Year 2006

(accomplished items will be marked in bold, items to be accomplished within the next 6 months are italic)

I intend, by the end of the year 2006, to have accomplished all of the following:
• Found a good guy with whom I can be happy
• Gotten my body in shape to a point where I don’t feel weak or embarrassed
• Gotten my A+, Network+, and MCSA/MCSE certifications
• Learned how to handle a gun
• Learned how to handle a sword
• Learned proper swimming strokes
• Gone horseback riding
• Gone canoeing/kayaking
• Gone rock climbing
• Gone ice skating
• Gone camping in the woods
• Gone skiing
• Attended dance lessons
• Retried archery
• Played paintball/laser tag
• Tried a new food every day for the entire year
• Relocated to Seattle, WA
• Cleared myself of all debts

I intend, by the end of 2007, to have accomplished all of the following:
• Gone scuba diving
• Gone white water rafting
• Traveled in Canada
• Visited 2 brand new states
• Climbed/hiked to the top of any convenient mountain
• Visited Washington, D.C. and Chambersburg, PA
• Visited my sister in California
• Visited Disneyland
• Visited New York City
• Settled down with a good guy who makes me happy
• Bought a car in which I can autocross regularly
• Settled into a job I can call a career
• Gotten a second cat to keep Stormy company

I post this here so that it is on record, for I fully intend to hold myself to these goals, and to be held to them by my friends and family. Anyone who would like to accompany me for any of the above is welcome to come along.

Saw this on CNet's News.com, had to share :)

Top ten reasons Geeks make good fathers

Ok, after writing about how it isn't always easy being married to a Geek, and ten reasons Geeks make good friends, I have one more Top Ten of Geekdom for you inspired by Maryam's geek blogs: Ten reasons why Geeks make good fathers. And they do! They really are uniquely qualified for this role. My husband says I never blog nicely about him, so honey, here you go:

1. LEGOS. The Geek is really more of a Man-Child than an adult. In their minds, they are still 10. They freakin' still love to play with their legos, and have never grown up. I have one friend, WHO WILL REMAIN NAMELESS, that still has legos in his room. He doesn't have kids. Just legos. Of course, my children love legos and Steve will lovingly spend hours playing legos with them.

2. VIDEO GAMES. Due to the whole Man-Child thing as stated in #1, the Geek loves video games. And he's good at them too. My husband is the hit of all the kids' friends because not only can he talk video games, he plays them too. If my children get "stuck" while playing their Gameboys and bring it to me for assistance, all I can do is feebly hold it and say " Mommy doesn't know how to play this." Daddy, however, can beat the game.

3. MATH. A huge plus here. No matter how old they get, Steve can still help with the math homework. My ability to be of assistance is going to last another few years before *I* end up throwing the math homework across the room in disgust.

4. SMART KIDS. Smart Geeks make smart children. Although for the most part, it's great to have really intelligent children, when your just turned two year old is using the word PREPOSTEROUS correctly, it makes for some difficult times as they get older. I literally spend a large part of my time scheming to stay one step ahead of my oldest child.

5. UP ON TECHNOLOGY. The beautiful thing about having a Geek for a parent is that you aren't wondering what your children are doing online. You *KNOW* what they are doing online and you can limit it if necessary.
It's fabulous peace of mind.

6. SCIENCE FAIR PROJECTS. Children of the Geeks always have the coolest science fair projects. And you don't have to cajole your Geek into helping. You'll find him fiddling around with the science materials whether you asked him to help or not.

7. TOY ASSEMBLY. You will never, ever have to spend six hours of your life, that you will never get back, trying to assemble some 2,000 piece toy at 3 am on Christmas Eve again. The Geek can do it in minutes flat. Usually without the directions. Whereas I have tried to assemble toys and said "Mommy has to go to the bathroom" just so I could escape and scream into my pillow in frustration, if the Geek is around, he can take it right off your hands. I now just say "Daddy is really good at this, let's wait until he gets home."

8. GADGETS. Never again will you have to wonder what that new electronic toy is that all the kids have. In fact, your Geek will probably already own it. The problem arises when the Geek won't share with the children. "Daddy, I want a digital camera." After the child leaves the room: "I'm not spending hundreds of dollars on a digital camera for him, he's too young." I say "Let's get him a cheap one." Steve looks at me as if I just said Aliens are invited to dinner. " To have it take crappy pictures?" He scoffs and walks away in disgust. No sub-par electronics in this house! How dare I suggest it.

9. SMART IS COOL. Having a Geek for a father instills the message into your children that smart is cool. They idolize Daddy. Hopefully, they'll want to grow up to be just like him.

10. BEING IDOLIZED IS GOOD FOR YOUR GEEK. Course, you have to be careful that his head doesn't get TOO BIG. That's why I blog. Gotta keep his ego in check SOMEHOW.


taken from: Welcome to MY world

More Les Mis-related content!

Ok, just stumbled on this... this is cool. Orson Wells did a radio version of Les Mis, playing the part of Jean Valjean himself. This is a link to d/l it for free. Free Old time Radio Shows - Les Miserables

Les Mis-related content!

I'm Cosette!
Sweet and sheltered, but not just another pretty face, I've overcome some tough times, and have nowhere to go but up. Only the most hardened sociopaths -- and, well, fanatical Eppie/Marius 'shippers -- have anything bad to say about me. Which Les Miserables Character Are You?

Frankly, I think this quiz is pretty bad and inaccurate... I'll post if I find a better one. -Liz

I'm sooo l33t

You scored as James Bond, Agent 007. James Bond is MI6's best agent, a suave, sophisticated super spy with charm, cunning, and a license's to kill. He doesn't care about rules or regulations and somewhat amoral. He does care about saving humanity though, as well as the beautiful women who fill his world. Bond has expensive tastes, a wide knowledge of many subjects, and his usually armed with a clever gadget and an appropriate one-liner. James Bond, Agent 007 75% Indiana Jones 67% Captain Jack Sparrow 67% Neo, the "One" 67% The Terminator 67% The Amazing Spider-Man 58% William Wallace 58% Batman, the Dark Knight 54% Lara Croft 50% El Zorro 46% Maximus 46% Which Action Hero Would You Be? v. 2.0 created with QuizFarm.com

What OS is this? ;-)