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I've done everything I can under the circumstances: I've voted (absentee ballot due to ill-timed moving shenanigans), I at least contributed to motivating my step-brothers to vote, and I've talked to all sorts of people about various relevant issues in an effort to get them thinking and willing to vote. From here on out it's news, food, and eventually booze because no matter what happens I'll be too wired to sleep otherwise.

Good luck, America! We're going to need it.

Sure did go a long time without posting. Mostly because there hasn't been a whole lot to post about. Not so at the moment! I finally caved and started selling tarot readings on Etsy, so if you know anyone who might be interested, please point them to The Wise Eye so I can provide insight for money.

Thaaat's pretty much it. /shrug

J finally realized that even the two of us combined are no longer capable of giving Bowser the attention he needs, so today I took him back to the SPCA for her. Even though he's not actually my dog and I never wanted him to be, it broke my heart to turn him in because I'm the one who's mostly been responsible for him for nearly a year now. He's a sweet dog, even if he is a huge butthead, and he's also still young and already neutered, so I'm confident he'll pass the temperament test and get adopted into a good forever home soon enough.

It sucks that it wound up this way, but I hope J has finally learned her lesson and will hold off next time she wants a dog.

This is a friendly reminder to my fellow US citizens to get registered to vote if you aren't already! GottaVote is a quick, easy resource for getting prepared no matter what state you live in: it tells you your state's registration requirements, when you need to be registered by, ways you can vote if you don't think you'll be able to make it to your polling place on Election Day, and even helps you register by mail if necessary.

Depending on your state's requirements, it's not necessarily quick and easy, but given recent changes in some states' laws it's a lot better than flying by the seat of your pants.

I still have so many thoughts and feelings about The Avengers that they're bottle-necking when I try to get them out, but get them out I will!

( Obviously, this is the point where we cut for spoilers. )

So anyway, I loved The Avengers to pieces and I'll be seeing it again for sure. I don't know that anything will compare to the experience of seeing it at midnight in a theater full of tired but still so excited marathon-enduring nerds, if any other audience I see it with will laugh at as many of the funny parts or as loudly, but I look forward to it anyway.

Sometimes I forget my sister's almost as much of a nerd as I am, and then she goes out and buys her own nerd shirts for the Avengerthon today. Now if only she'd finish getting ready so she can buy Bowser's new cage and we can get a move on.

Hour and twenty minutes until Iron Man!

Driving home from Walgreens, this month's survival kit in the passenger seat, Metallica on the radio. So begins Shark Week of April/May 2012.

( Cut for people who don't care about periods. )

I'm sitting here with my fic notebook open to the current page, looking at the spot where I'm supposed to write more, and what I really want to do is go to the next page and see what happens next. Except I haven't actually written any of that yet, so it's just blank pages through to the end of the notebook. Foiled again!

Background: these days I've been carrying a couple of Moleskines in my purse. I bought one back in February, because it was shortly after the Super Bowl and I was looking for something I could easily carry around with me for occasions when I'm bored and writing seems like a good idea. It was just the right size to slip into my purse, so I bought it and cracked it open and now I see why people love them so much. That fresh, woody smell when it's new! The crisp, narrow lines stretching the entire width of the page! The floppy cover, which takes so well to stickers!

Yes, stickers. I was bored with the plain black cover as soon as I bought it, but that just makes it easier to customize, so I went and wound up buying some nice scrapbooking stickers to decorate the outside. That wound up becoming my original writing notebook, because more recently I bought a second, identical notebook for fanfic. It has different stickers on its cover so I can tell them apart without opening them. I can fit both of them, a normal reading book, and other more normal things in my purse all together and still have enough room that the book's the only thing that has to go if I'm sneaking pop and candy into a movie.

Mostly, though, I just really love my notebooks.

UM FUCK YES. The AMC Theatre down in Newport on the Levee is among those participating in the Ultimate Marvel Marathon (or as I like to call it, the Avengerthon). I just bought a ticket for myself because I don't expect anyone else I know around here to be as hardcore as I am, but I'm passing the information around in case anyone decides they are and can actually get there.

( this is just about how I feel right now )

Nothing terribly important's happened for most of that time, life continues apace. However! This month I was finally eligible to upgrade my phone, so now I've got me a Samsung Epic 4G, which is basically just Sprint's particular version of the Galaxy S. It's so nice! Got the Feeds & Updates widget hooked up to my Twitter, got my emails connected, got widgets for weather, the moon phase, searching Duck Duck Go, power controls, and the task manager, got some nice wallpapers transferred over, and I even have a nice little charge bar at the top of my screen that gives me a better idea of how much battery I actually have left. I also have a screen protector and five games, which is really more than I need for emergency entertainment but whatever.

Now I'm shopping for things to customize the outside of my shiny new phone. Got to have it all!