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This is what you get to write about in academic papers when you go to graduate school for LIBRARY SCIENCE:

"There is little consistent agreement on the best way to subcategorize the specific cheese areas found in these supermarkets and the one attempt to apply stable, almost Linnaen categorical boundaries (at Central Market) ends up undermining itself and causing the internal collapse of its own consistency."

"It is presumed that paneer is “more British” than it is “more like” any other defined category of cheese and so merits inclusion in the British & Irish section because of its cultural connections to perceived Britishness."

"Cream cheese is probably the most anti-shredded cheese of all possible cheeses and the further in type and state from the proto-shredded cheese (in this case assumed to be Kraft shredded extra sharp cheddar)."

HOW IS THIS MY LIFE

thez, one of these t-shirts was made for you. GUESS WHICH ONE.

Tomorrow I am moving to my new apartment in Austin. My room is (mostly) packed — a few odds and ends are left, but those can be collected and transported in The Tiniest Car. Derpcat is completely freaked out and keeps wandering around like she's never seen the floor before and jumping at every noise:

It also turns out she is completely incapable of dealing with bubble wrap. Like, she went insane when I accidentally kicked some. She derped so hard.

My walls are, for the first time since my parents moved here, completely bare. This isn't my room any more. My brother already has a pile of stuff in one corner, and as soon as the last of my stuff goes he is making this his bedroom and his old room his gaming room. Because boy needs two rooms, apparently. Anyway, after this weekend I no longer have a room at home to go home to.

When I went to Oxford, my room didn't change. My desk, my bed, my bookshelves, my chest of drawers stayed the same for the whole almost three years I was gone. When I came home last year it was like I'd never left. Like I had just graduated from UTSA all over again and was still that same kid I was in 2007. It was hard to get over that feeling and hard to remember that, actually, I had changed in those three years a lot. It was hard to lay in my room each night and not feel like I'd taken a huge step backward.

I'll never have that problem again and that makes me so sad. This has been one of the few unchanging spaces, one of the few constants in my life for the past ten years.

This is not to say I'm not excited about my new flat. It's so lovely, and I'm so excited to get to hang my pictures on new walls.

meej wins the prize since a meejletter was the first piece of mail I received at new!flat. My beloved Herr Walther von der Vogelweide is getting framed beautifully to match my Amor Vincit Omnia, and my gorgeous detail of Bernini's Apollo and Daphne is finally (finally) coming out of its tube after seven years of waiting for its turn. I can't decide where to put my map of England, or whether I should hang the Caravaggios over my bed or my hugenormous collage of postcards and pictures and tickets and things.

But that's tomorrow. Tonight I'm sad that I am finally, for reals leaving home permanently. The next time I come home I sleep in the guest room as a guest.

:(

It is WoW fic, about two characters in development. I was trying to sound out their voices and their personalities, but mostly I was writing for teh lulz for Desnik and Meej. Background information can be provided, but I hope I get across enough to make this tidbit enjoyable? Please feel free to critique. <3

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For those of you who don't WoW with me and haven't had the pleasure of hearing me occasionally stop mid-sentence to have a coughing fit, I am apparently dying of tuberculosis. I've had this hacking cough for a while now and just when it seems to be getting better, it gets worse again.

I guess I can be like my great-grandfather and move to El Paso. :( Except I hate El Paso and would actually rather die. :(

So anyway if I randomly drop off the face of the planet (again) for a while, it's probably because I coughed up a lung (literally) and died.

So, proof that I am a retard, I answered all of these AND THEN FORGOT I NEVER POSTED THEM. So, here you go.

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I'm giving up Dr Pepper.

I KNOW, I KNOW, YOU ARE ALL SHOCKED. Don't ask me why, it just seems like a good thing to do. I am hoping kicking my caffeine addiction will help me get back to where I was in England (when I dropped almost all caffeine consumption for the better part of two years), in terms of not being a grumpy morning-hating zombie all the time.

I don't know if it will work, and this experiment will probably end badly at about 4pm this afternoon BUT I AM GOING TO GIVE IT MY BEST.

Wish me luck.

Now more meme:

Day 14 — When did you start playing?

I can’t remember exactly, but it was some time around October 2009. Mostly that was futzing around in vanilla on my EU server, and I didn’t get really REALLY serious until I rolled Sitrantha about a year ago.

Yuss, I am a newb. <3

Day 15 — Your favorite Wrath instance?

I honestly do not have one because I blew through Wrath without really stopping to pay attention to anything before the Argent Crusade quests in Icecrown. I guess I liked Utgarde okay? I remember doing that one a couple of times.

Day 16 — What do you listen to while playing?

I usually don’t listen to anything in particular. Sometimes I leave my iPhone/iPad shuffling away but I tend to get really tunnel-visioned when I play, especially if I am tanking a dungeon, and so I am not conscious of what I’m listening to ANYWAY.

Day 13 — Your favorite Burning Crusade instance?

You know what, in spite of doing it over and over and over repeatedly for rep and phoenix hatchling drops, I still love Magister's Terrace more than any of thenother BC dungeons. Tempest Keep (the Eye included) is a very close second, but. Man, you cannot beat MGT as far as I am concerned.

Day 10 — Your favorite mount.

This is actually a really, really hard question for me. My favorite FLYING mount THAT I PERSONALLY HAVE is my netherdrake. I am proud of doing that grind even if it was way easy compared to when BC first came out. It was still very annoying and there were many times when I said “eh, I have the sparklepony fuck this” and decided to stop but then went back and persevered and now I have one and I love it.

A very very close second FLYING mount THAT I PERSONALLY HAVE is my black drake because it was the first mount I ever rolled for against other people and I won it and I love it. <3

My favorite ground mount forever and ever is my Swift White Hawkstrider, but I got that on one of my 35 Magister’s Terrace solo runs so I don’t feel like I accomplished anything to get it except being obstinate about the baby phoenix. Still, I LOAF EET.

My favorite ever mount that I do not have is Al’lar. What can I say.

Day 11 — Your favorite gear set.

Duh, it’s Tier 2. No explanation required.

… Tier 6 is a very close second.

Day 12 — Your achievements (choose one character).

I am really proud of all my achievements, but particularly I think the Netherwing, Shattered Sun Offensive and Argent Dawn/Crusade reputation achievements if only because I ground through those daily quests persistently FOR WEEKS. I refused to level or do anything else until I got them while AT LEVEL (or very close to) because that was IMPORTANT. Now I am like fuck it, I’ll just let the tabard work for me while I’m in a dungeon.

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So, those of you who play with me in WoW know that I am having a go at acquiring Shadowmourne for my own fanonly wankful delight and I am (re)writing Sitrantha around that. I am really excited that I am almost done with the first stage in the questline because it had my most favorite cutscene I have encountered in-game.

Today meej linked me to the 2010 Blizzard writing contest winner and omg my Tirion-fangirl heart nearly exploded SO HERE IS A LINK FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED:

Silver Hand, Ebon Blade

Day 07 — Your favorite piece of lore?

The short answer is: everything. In high school I was that girl who held the esteemed position of Alpha Nerd because I was the only one who had read and (if I didn’t fully understand everything) could correct my nerd friends on the finer points of the Silmarillion’s lore. The point being: I fucking love lore. Possibly this is related to why I am The Worst English Major: I love the history of things as much (if not more) than the actual things. I am the worst person in the world for getting stuck in a wikitrap and WoWpedia has just made that infinitely worse because I will read everything about everything and then want to go see it in the game.

The slightly more specific answer is “everything ever about Tirion Fordring and the Argent Crusade.” I am a big fat medievalist sucker for knightly orders and tournaments and Crusades and and and. Bridenbrad ;_; <3

Day 08 — PvE/PvP/RP?

My personal preference between PVE and PVP is PVE, although recently I’ve gotten more into PVP and I have been enjoying it a lot. Well, enjoying is maybe too strong. It is frustrating as all get-out and I really, REALLY hate rogues now a whole ton, but there are some awesome and exciting elements to it. For one thing, until I semi-retired my Holy spec (for great Shadowmourne questing justice!) I LOVED the opportunity to heal in battlegrounds. That shit it fantastic. I am curious to see how my temporary Ret spec does because being a Prot paladin in battlegrounds is not really that fun. :(

As far as in-game RP goes I am not a huge fan. :/ I am not quick-witted enough for live RP banter, which is why I love the forum-RP version of my Warcraft experience at Bind on Pickup (BoP) so very, very much because it allows me to take my time and translate, explore and elaborate on things I experience in WoW into meaningful, polished stories with depth and character development. Or, you know, shit for lols. I do like casually RP-ing with my guildfriends in chat, but I treat much of what goes on as things that may or may not translate to the “real” RP game, rather like the forum’s shout box.

Day 09 — A screenshot you like.

I like this one of my first ever big kid raid because seriously: best moment ever.

I also like this one, because my Sitra looks so pretteh. <3

And finally, I like this and this for Bind on Pickup RP plot hilarity.

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I flaked out on this over the weekend because I was lazy and also I went to Austin for SXSW, which was cool but very, very crowded and there were lots of very, very smelly people. Seriously, it was like being in London on the hottest day of the year -- AMERICANS, USE YOUR DEODORANT, YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER.

Anyway, moving swiftly on and catching up:

Day 03 — A class you’re awful at playing?

I have not had the chance to play all of the classes -- I've done mage(s) and paladin(s) with just about equal success, and I have one wee hunter I enjoy questing with but never get to because it's not on my primary server and therefore I forget about her. So far out of all the classes I've started and then ditched because: I love my main tankadin too much, the only one I have felt I spectacularly failed at was priests. I have a tiny priest. He's okay in a dungeon because he's not drawing aggro, but questing with him is hard because it's like "attac- dead. Resurrect. Attac- dead." Seriously, I cannot keep him alive long enough to do much with him. :(

Day 04 — Your favorite zone (Classic, BC, WotLK & Cata)?

Classic: This one is really hard, because I didn't really enjoy any of the vanilla zones the way I do the expansion ones. In fact, I pretty vehemently loathed several mostly because the quest chains were so long (effing Green Hills of Stranglethorn) or I spent so much time there grinding rep (Eastern Plaguelands/Stratholme for Argent Dawn, for example).

I do love me some Un'goro Crater, though.

BC: I love every single thing about BC and every single zone, except the Ghostlands. The entirety of Outland was so cool and I still love tootling around in them.

WOTLK: I didn't do the traditional Wrath questlines leading through each zone, so of the ones I have properly seen (Dragonblight, Zuk'Drak, Sholazar Basin, and Icecrown) my favorite is probably Icecrown. I love me some Argent Crusade, I am not gonna lie. (Bridenbrad ;_; <3 Matthias ;_; <3 Tirionnnnnnnn ;_; <3 <3 <3)

Cata: Deepholm. No competition. I love it so hard because it is so damned pretty.

Day 05 — Your favorite classic instance?

… this is a hard one to answer, because I loved Stratholme a LOT the first few times but I did it I think over two dozen times for the Argent Dawn rep and now I am hella sick of it.

I also really liked Dire Maul but again, got way sick of it.

Day 06 — Your favorite quest line?

Bridenbrad ;_; <3

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Day 02 — The biggest jerk you’ve dealt with (in game)?

I am very extra certain that most people I know who have played WoW will have encountered people far more spectacularly jerktastic than my poor example here. XD I have heard horror stories akin to the delights posted on Fat, Ugly, or Slutty, but have thankfully lived a pretty blissfully innocent WoW experience. LA LA LA EVERYONE IS LOVELY, WE'RE ALL FRIENDS :D :D :D

The biggest dbag I've personally endured was a fellow tankadin -- unfortunately, almost all the dbags I've encountered are tankadins. :( I guess the class attracts them? :( I don't know why it would, we're all nice people who like hugs. :( Anyway, as I was nearing level 70 and trying to finish working my way through Revered with the Shattered Sun, I spent a lot of time queueing for random Heroic Magister's Terrace but since there was apparently a dearth of healers I would queue FOR HOURS which I felt was frankly out of line, since there was supposed to be a TANK shortage and I had never had to wait before. Harumph. My solution to the situation was much like my solution to being a DPS who had to wait for hours for a tank -- I decided, being a paladin, to just secondary spec Holy and DO THE HEALING MYSELF.

Enter the jerkwad. Pretty much every time I queued to heal, I got paired with this tankadin guy who ridiculed everything he could about me -- my gear was shitty (I was wearing tanking plate instead of healing plate), I was some stupid noob, blah blah blah. Even after several runs of NEVER ONCE WIPING, he would still say "oh great, got the fucking noob again" when we entered the instance. He also went crazy fast through the instance, so he would frequently engage bosses before I could get there and then he would complain that I let his health get too low.

Eventually I got so tired of him that I waited until he engaged a boss and left the group, presumably leaving him to die horribly, and I gave up doing randoms in favor of the Shattered Sun daily quest grind.

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30 Days of WoW Meme

Day 01 — Your first character?

Truthfully it was a tiny human warlock which I deleted after a few hours because I couldn't figure out how to do anything and got fed up.

When I got over my tantrum, my first REAL character was Mulucimrev, a human mage on EU-Ghostlands. I was living in England at the time and unemployed due to the long and drawn-out visa saga that defined my life in 2009/10. I took up WoW mostly because of hearing my friends talk about it so much all the time. Mull was amazing and I loved being a mage! Fireballs are the best thing ever! Sadly she only made it to 65 before I moved back to the US and had to close my EU account. :(

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( PALADINS, FTW )

(Reposted from my El Jay.)

Stolen from the facebook:

The Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen authors (poets included) who've influenced you and that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag at least fifteen friends, including me, because I'm interested in seeing what authors my friends choose.

( Answers Below the Cut )

Tag: ALL THE PEOPLE

Reasons why I like Twilight:

This.
This.
This.
This and this.
This.

Reasons why I dislike Twilight:

Everything else.

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