Weekly roundup of user tags

As it turns out, it is impossible to apply for 18 jobs in one day. However, I did apply for one, found two more that have online applications that I'll have to do at work tomorrow, and then I asked for application packs for four more. So I guess that's a small "go me".

And I should point out to the crew that all the jobs I was able to apply for are in the UK. So we'll see what happens. Still, it was a bit sad that I couldn't find any jobs in Seattle, Alaska, or Madison that I wanted to apply for/was qualified for.

Anyone who says Bush isn't having a detrimental effect on the economy is WRONG.

I have to get off the computer now. I am tired of staring at the screen. I attribute that to why I gave my mum "Worse Than Watergate", by John Dean, for Mother's Day. But she's going to loan me the Richard Clark book and another one she's got, the name of which eludes me, so when I get done revamping my dissertation, I'll have more vitriol like yesterday's.

Oh, and big squee to jkivela! Thanks to him, I have lovely new backgrounds for pragmaticthorn, dance_magic, and a much greater understanding of the ways in which you can customise your journals. Apparently it involves banging your head on the walls.

And I meant to thank srichard for Craving, which I feel I can do, since she blames me wrote it at my urging.

And just to mention my current mastery of the user tag, I owe darumaseye Voldemort/McGonagall, orionnoire shower smut, and jkivela evil twins/Harry smut. And then there's game stuff. So I'm a writing monkey lately, and I think that some of it - obviously not the smut, you perverts - will be a big help in later life.

How did I get to this point?

But at least I submitted Check, renamed Riding Horse in a fit of insecurity, and submitted to a totally different magazine...and now that I've mentioned it here, I can be rejected publicly. Whee! This week: grants for Palestine.

The news just characterised Goblet of Fire as a movie "about Harry's first love.". What would THAT be, then? A dragon? Cedric? Voldemort? Are slashfic writers writing for the news now?

ETA: The ever-enlightening news has just broken the story that there is a "massive crash and fire" on I-5 south of Marysville that's closed the southbound freeway...I want to see the horrible pictures! No commercials! Fire! Wreckage! Now!

Then I think about the people involved.

Then I feel like a total media whore that my inner child* still wants to see the wreckage.

*Does anyone know the fic where Harry asks Draco how he can live with himself and Draco's response is enlightened self-interest? He then explains that everyone has a conscience and everyone has an inner child, and what he did is hold a gun to the inner child's head and yell "SHUT UP BITCH OR THE KID GETS IT!"

It might be Snitch. Or something by mistful. Gratuitous user tagging!

A Moment of Silence

Sadly, there were no pictures of either the fire or the dragsters that myseriously caught fire. It was all just shots of the traffic backup. And the newsman managed to mix up where Everett is. So the backup, Mr. Newsman Whose Job I Could Do If I Were A Cracked-Out Monkey, did not go from Marysville to Everett on the southbound lanes when the fire occurred near Marysville.

That would be because?

Yes! Marysville is NORTH of Everett!

So I had no flaming race car lurrrve tonight, which makes me vaguely sad. But as I can't remember the prayer that good Catholics say when there's a siren, maybe it's for the best.

Off to read more Rashid Khalidi, who I would so totally fangirl except that you don't really want fangirls when you're a successful author and speaker and teacher. And I DO NOT wish to find out OTHERWISE. Let me keep my delusions!

And yeah, thanks to niburu33 for the tip on the Megadeth download. Seems like it might be decent. But we shall see.