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April 20th, 2009

04:25 pm - @#$$#&*%$ Apple Software.. *smash head into wall* *sigh* waaaahhhhhh.... God damn Apple Software. After many months of believing that my shiny new laptop which should certainly be a very good computer was simply incapable of playing nicely with my digital camera- as every time I downloaded the camera to the laptop the videos would become solidly stuck at least 90% of the time, no renaming, moving, or deleting allowed- I finally discovered an internet forum revealing that simply having QuickTime installed on the laptop was causing the video freeze. Removing it solved all my problems, and my videos were now free to be moved, named, and deleted at will. Today is apparently the first day I have tried to work with my iTunes program since then. Turns out iTunes will not work without QuickTime installed, though I can't imagine why they would do this to people. I don't need QuickTime, I use iTunes for music. I use VLC for video. I just want my music files, goddamn it. So iTunes will not open at all with QuickTime gone, but QuickTime is the devil. And thus, Apple plots to fuck over my laptop. Bastards. Current Mood: cranky Tags: annoyed, itunes, rant

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July 16th, 2008

11:19 am - Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog- innovative show, yes, but good?.. So, yesterday, July 15th, was the release date for Act I of three parts of Joss Whedon's new internet show, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Claimed to be prompted during the writer's strike as an innovative next step in the evolution of TV entertainment, the online show, as well as its unique handling, is definitely a curiosity. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog airs at http://www.drhorrible.com, publishing Act I yesterday, Act II on July 17th, and Act III on July 19th. At midnight on July 20th, the show is removed from free internet viewing and only allowed to be purchased, by iTunes or by DVD release. All their up-to-date information, scheduling, products, and site-status news is published at http://doctorhorrible.net. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog has relied solely upon the popularity of Joss Whedon and word spread across the internet by fans for its advertising. For those who don't know, Joss Whedon is the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, the Sci-Fi "space western" show Firefly, and Firefly's movie sequel Serenity. Despite this odd method of non-advertising, the show reached a launch-date popularity far beyond any expected, resulting in an immediate crash of the site. The show was quickly moved to a new server, although many users were receiving a "site not found" error throughout the day while waiting for their computers to reset to the new server's IP address. http://doctorhorrible.net published an update about the move, and at some point during the time at which I checked their site yesterday afternoon and again about 4 hours later, they had edited this post to remove a final paragraph addressing how one could force their computer to go to the new IP address right away by changing their computer's HOSTS file. They had mentioned that no one should try it unless they were sure of what they were doing. Well, I wasn't sure of what I was doing, but I'm pretty good with computers and was willing to fiddle with a HOSTS file in something as simple as notepad. So, I went ahead on both my computers (XP and Vista) and added the necessary entry to my HOSTS files: "207.57.78.179 www.drhorrible.com". Hurray, Dr. Horrible video for me! * EDIT: * Well, the completion of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog left a range of emotions. After progressing past the initial sadness to recognize the necessary tragedy in the character's development to become what he was to become, I have determined that Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is just awesome. Yay! Although there are songs that I would qualify as disappointingly poor quality, or at least high school musical embarrassing, there are more that are really damn good (such as the opposing world view duet with Dr. Horrible and Penny), and overall I love Dr. Horrible. >^_^< Yay! Current Mood: good Tags: dr. horrible's sing-along blog, joss whedon, new internet stuff, tv reviews, tv shows

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June 30th, 2008

05:10 pm - I made Kitty Cat Icons! Wee!! >^_^< . I made some kitty cat icons with some of my favorite recently found kitty pics. >^_^< Yay! I can't use all of them, even with my LJ plus account (and I'll miss having my Pink icons available- it wasn't easy to find so many pics of Pink, the catgirl from Dragon Pink, back when I did those- *sniffle*), so I tried to pick out some of my favorites, and I'll post them all anyway. >^_^< Yay Kitty Cat Icons! >^_^< The captioned icons: The icons I didn't caption: The blanks of the ones I captioned: Yay!! >^_^< . Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: Gaelic Storm Tags: icons, image work

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May 21st, 2008

12:20 am - Obsessive Gaming Problem.. (Hello Kitty Online) I got a Hello Kitty Online Closed Beta account through the giveaway at mmosite.com! I'm still up.. I can barely see.. I'm going to stop for the night. I read on their site that the second wave of closed beta testing will only be open until May 25th! Ack! But I've been playing for a few hours each on two or three days now (several today), and I seem to be running out of things to do. More quests might open up after I complete the building of a house. Apparently, constructing the house takes 16 hours of playing to work on it if you have a Guild to join with 5 people who will build it with you, but if you don't, then lots longer. Sounds like that's one section of the game that could use some cut down for the final product, 'cause ouch on the time for that! Anyway, I've got some feedback recorded for the game. I'll write some more later. Need sleep. See ya! >^_^< . Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: Hello Kitty musics

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February 4th, 2008

01:25 pm - UMaine [Orono] Shoots Down Student Orgs Well, UMaine is pulling their stupid as hell shit once again. Apparently, they decided to drop Student Orgs Fairs from the Family & Friends Weekend lineup. The Student Orgs Fair with "carnival" theme has now been replaced by their usual "Late Night in the Union" carnival stuff. I mean, sure, chocolate fountains are neat, and giant inflatable structures can be mildly entertaining, but what the hell does that have to do with a college?? Family & Friends Weekend is supposed to be about showing off the college, and getting new students and younger siblings interested in attending. And man, these "Late Night" things are so stale by now.. *sigh* So, no more showing off Student Organizations to family and friends. Guess they'll just have to settle for the Dining Commons tours.. Bleh. This sucks. That kills the only opportunity Student Orgs have to gather more attention and interest in the Spring Semester. It also kills an opportunity for Student Orgs to give prospective students more reasons to think about attending. The Fall Semester kicks off with a Dinner on the Mall and Student Orgs Showcase. The Blade Society (Fencing Club) gets to show off there, and they used to do Family & Friends Weekend too, aside from last year's administrative fuck-up that didn't give them space, even though they had signed up. So geez, what the hell are Student Orgs supposed to do in the Spring Semesters now? We'll need to come up with something to do on our own. The Fall Semester is easy, Samhain gives us a perfect excuse to run a Pagan Campus Organization Divination Fair in October. (Man, that Divination Fair rocked, woo!) But what do we do in the Spring Semester? Every year we have a bonfire & cookout with a Maypole to celebrate Beltane, but what could we do that's like the Samhain Divination Fair that we could hold on the front lawns by the library? Something to really get as much attention as readings? .... ?? Current Mood: annoyed

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December 5th, 2007

06:43 pm - ... The cat that steals your soul.. The cat that steals your soul.. Check out the designer's original bad-Engrish blog post about these guys here. Current Mood: amused

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November 27th, 2007

11:06 am - Some more PaCO stuff Yet more about the Pagan Campus Organization. (For the stuff about what's already over, it's just hard to get over some of this stuff, you know? I just gotta get it out somewhere.) Anyway, I've got to get to campus today. There's a whole list of things that PaCO needs done. I'll see what I can do by myself, and then see who's available and when to do the rest. We're trying to recover from the damage Michelle has done, but it's rough. She did manage to screw up a few things for us in her secret plot to get Zeus thrown out.** Where before, the departments we needed things from on campus were perfectly friendly and happy to help me get things for PaCO, they are now standoffish and rude, because Michelle got Gustavo Burkett to bully them over her "no non-students" thing, so even though our group tossed her traitorous, discriminatory ass out, these departments are no longer willing to help me, because they don't want to be yelled at again for helping a non-student. Now, this isn't the biggest problem ever, but it's a decent-sized pain in the ass. Sure, we can have the Officers and other student members do most things-- which they should anyway, but if they can't and need another willing member to do it, the member should be allowed to-- but, some things are just easier if they'll talk to me once in a while, since, at this point, I do all our design work. I made the buttons design pages we need laser-printed. I make flyers. David tried to email the buttons files to the lady who could get them printed for us, but his email wouldn't send them, so I did it. Easy. But then, they were mean about it. I mean, it's ONE thing to be standoffish or ignore a non-student because you don't want to get bullied again, but it's a TOTALLY SEPARATE thing to be rude to a student officer just because they are asking that files from a non-student get accepted for the group. You know what? A student officer actually HAS the right to pass on the wishes of the group, and if they say it's ok to take design work from a non-student because, yes, the group needs it, then, you know what? It SHOULD be OK. Come on, what planet are you University people on?? So, Gustavo pushing this "no non-students" thing on other departments, which our group doesn't need to listen to-- HE said the group could vote on whether or not it accepts non-students as equals, and it DID, so that's that-- is hindering our progress, and that pretty much sucks. Gah. A guy whose job it is to HELP Student Orgs shouldn't go out of his way to HINDER them that much. Sick. So anyway, trying to help the new officers as much as I can. Hoping that PaCO will be fully recovered as soon as possible. Whew. **Yeah, that's what it was all about. Did I mention that yet? The three weeks of hell she dragged PaCO through was all about the fact that SHE didn't like Zeus, and was willing to sacrifice everything to get rid of him. She went whining to Gustavo at Student Orgs to say, "I want to be fair and democratic, BUT, we have to get rid of Zeus, how do we do it?". So that's why everything got fucked up. All the while, she put on a fake face, and said that "it's the University's rule, not mine", while it was JUST HER PLAN to get rid of him, not the University's rule at all. She just wanted to use whatever bits of University stuff she could grab hold of to push her own agenda. She was two-faced and back-stabbing, trying to pull shit to get her own way. And she attacked at least 4 of us to do it. She had the nerve to say things like "I don't appreciate a forced election to get rid of me", when all the while SHE was the one trying to use whatever she could in order to force Zeus out. She brought the election down on HERSELF by pulling that shit. Duh. Of COURSE she lost the election. Pagan groups don't discriminate, and they don't put up with that power game shit. She attacked ME as well as Zeus by pulling that "no non-students" shit. She attacked DAVID and STACY as well as Zeus by pulling her "no 'old' guys" shit. Fuck that. The unbelievable nerve she had really pisses me off, even now. The nerve she had to lie to my face, acting like stuff was about PaCO and University shit, when it was really all about HER and what SHE wanted. She attacked ME, she attacked DAVID and STACY, in her plot against Zeus. She attacked my friends AND me, she abused her power on the FirstClass system by deleting any post she didn't like, she stepped all over EVERYONE'S rights, and she tried to break apart and change the group I love most to suit her own, discriminatory agenda. Of COURSE she lost the election, no one would put up with Evil Bitch shit like that. And only after she lost, did she reveal that it was really all about Zeus, all along (not that we hadn't suspected). She let PaCO suffer because of what SHE wanted. PaCO shouldn't have been dragged through this. That's just another injustice she has done to this group. If she had some problem with Zeus, she should have just spoken up about it, not pulled power-game shit behind everyone's backs. Hell, she could have brought his presence up to a vote in the group. I'm sure she would have lost, just as she lost the election; Zeus has been very valuable to the group, getting us bonfire pits and permissions, and has been friendly and seems to be liked by the others. I suppose that's why she didn't do it. But to pull shit like this, to step on everyone's rights and back-stab, just, arrrgghh. It's sickening. It just disgusts me to see someone capable of such two-faced-ness and unjust behavior. You can't have things both ways, either, and we SAW her trying to pull that shit. She pushed the rule that no one could vote unless they'd attended two PaCO functions, except when she said that the friend of Alora's that she liked could vote, even though she'd only been to one meeting. You can't pull things to have it both ways, you know. That's stupid as hell. She expected to say that I could come back after she'd pulled this "no non-students" shit? She told me that my cut-off from the FirstClass folder was expected to be temporary? Fuck you. When leading a group, you get things on one set of rules, or the other, NOT however you want, whenever you want. If you set a rule, and it's accepted by the group, then that's how it's going to be. You can't make exceptions ONLY when YOU feel like it, and tell everyone else they CAN'T. If she'd have gotten her way and convinced the group to reject, for the first time in 10 years, non-students, then Zeus and I would have to leave and not come back until she was no longer President, and the group could have a chance to vote it back, if they wished. She could have tried to invite me back, as it seemed like she wanted to do, but fuck that. It's not RIGHT. For me to go back after she made it her platform to exclude non-students? What the FUCK was she thinking? When you want a group to set a rule, that's the fucking rule. You don't get to make exceptions for JUST those you LIKE. Period. I suppose it's lucky Tarsha wasn't still around. How would they justify their "no non-students" platform with her still wanting to attend? Anyway, I guess the overall feeling I'm stuck with these days is extreme hurt. The level of this BETRAYAL.. Just, wow. To be willing to stand up in front of me and tell me that I don't matter anymore, to be willing to tell me that the years of effort and personal money I've given to help this group are nothing, because SHE suddenly wants the group to adopt some obscure rule so that she can further her own, personal agenda of getting rid of Zeus. To be willing to ATTACK ME, DAVID, AND STACY, to be willing to hurt anyone that might stand up for what was right, just to get her own way. To have the nerve to try and act like some kind of victim, to whine about what a bad friend I was, when SHE was the one who did all of this?? For her to attack me and then whine like she got what she didn't deserve for all these people she hurt? It's shocking, sickening, disgusting, and painful. Current Mood: busy

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November 19th, 2007

05:36 pm - Super Fun Afternoon! Wee! >^_^< . Wee! This has been a super fun afternoon! Not so much in the way of actual fun, but that we got so much done and it was so easy! And that's really exciting! Really, this is the part that keeps blowing my mind, was just how easy it was to get this stuff done. Woo! *bounce* *bounce* Yay for PaCO! So, on Friday a few of us got together for about an hour and a half. And today, a few more of us got together for the same. 2:30 to 4:00. So, in just three hours of effort, we've accomplished more for PaCO than PaCO has seen in any semester for years! It just makes you bounce with joy! >^_^< Today, we got us signed up for a Bake Sale table in the middle of the Union! It was so easy! That really keeps knockin' me over, ha ha. >^_^< We went into the office at the Information Booth, asked about getting a table across from the Info Booth for a Bake Sale by donation, Ms. LeClair said, "When do you want it?" We said, Friday, December 14th. She wrote us in, and boom, we were done! Woo!! 20 seconds. Seriously. Wow. Every time we tried to suggest a bake sale to raise group funds, Michelle kept saying it was too hard, because you had to pay fees to sell stuff in the Union, and they'd make us go to the basement where the jewelry sellers get tables, and have to fill out paperwork, and blah blah blah. And wow, NONE of that was true! I just can't get over how easy this was! Hurray for PaCO getting to do stuff! >^_^< Today, we also got our key to the Wade Center Office, finally. That only took about 30 seconds. Maybe 45 seconds by the time we had to walk down the hall to the office to pick them up at. We've completed our Club Update, we've completed our Event Funding Request for our Yule Celebration Bonfire & Cookout, and we've completed our Yearly Office Budget Request which will reimburse us for all kinds of advertising. We got all the info we need to buy advertising on CAB's Buzz, News Flush, and Table Talk! We'll get our ad space in the plastic table thingies for a whole week with that! (And in the News Flush bathroom stall boards, and in the Buzz.) Woo! And wow, that was easy too! >^_^< AND we got all the info we need to buy ad space in the Maine Campus paper if we want too. Also, surprisingly easy. The Yearly Budget will go quickly if we use these for every event, but it'll be ok. We can keep having bake sales, now that we know how easy they are, and PaCO will never have to worry about funds for little things again. Woo!!! I mean, I could put extra effort into these advertising methods by designing the little 2.5" x 3.5"-ish ads and stuff, but probably I'll just send them the basic info, and email them one of the flyers I made so that they have the option of using my clip art, if they want, or it'll at least give them an idea to work from. I bet that'll work fine. Making the ads is what they do, right? >^_^< Ooh, we even signed up for a new thing, which was free advertising in the Union. There was a little purple slip on our desk in the Wade Center to sign up for free marketing. They'll make us an ad to put up all around the Union and in the Wade Center, and send it to all Student Orgs on First Class. Woo! I heard we were the first group to sign up for it. >^_^< So, the only thing left is printing, because Ms. Gifford was not in this afternoon. We'll just have to get her my new buttons files (pretty new Yule buttons, woo!) and the flyers for the Yule Celebration, and have our stuff printed and then go pick it up. Yay!! >^_^< Woo, so, yeah, that pretty much covered everything. Hm.. Yep, everything on the list is checked off! Woo!! We got everything we needed done, and it only took three hours! Woo! Go us! Yay, can't wait for the fun! >^_^< After this stuff, there's not much to worry about. Set up for these things is pretty darn easy. We could do the Bonfires & Cookouts blindfolded by now, and the bake sale only needs a couple of us to bake some mixes. Oh, gotta shop for supplies to make candles and soap and lip-balm. But we know what we need, and we know how to price-compare, so that won't be hard either. Woo, we're done! >^_^< *bouncing with happy excitement* Wee!! >^_^< . Current Mood: bouncy

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November 17th, 2007

02:24 pm - Power Games Come Crashing Down, & then, Fun! Whew. What a week. Thursday, we finally had our meeting of the Pagan Campus Organization to vote on elections. This shit got dragged out for three whole weeks, when it really didn't have to. PaCO lost all of its month of November fighting this. That's really just sad. We could have been doing so much for the students of UMaine, holding so many fun activities and discussions, but instead we had Student Government pushed down our throats until we could finally vote out the one trying to control everyone with their own personal agenda. Gah. How sickening. We really could have resolved this at least a week sooner, but since Michelle was "in charge", holding the figure-head title of President, she dragged it out and pulled so much shit with involving Student Government and deleting any posts on FirstClass that held any view other than her own. Most of our new members stopped coming. Who the hell wants to deal with Student Government agents sitting there watching your every move, intruding where they don't belong? Who wants to deal with someone who takes away everyone's right to speak and deletes posts left and right? No one. We were lucky to have a few dedicated and capable new people ready to take on the group and save it. So, the election went quickly. Last week's vote to allow non-students to continue being welcome and counted as equals was unanimous. Of course, that's what PaCO has always upheld, and there are reasons for that. (Not to mention the fact that non-student members has only ever meant one to three former students at any given time, who still wish to spend time with their friends while they're around. Non-students are not a threat, they are just friends, and the group is smart enough not to fall for anyone's stupid attempt to call them a threat.) This week's vote for new officers went quickly, without much contest. This proves that the group did not agree with those trying to clamp down on it, and that the group still believes it has the right to make decisions as a group, without someone forcing their own agendas over everyone else. And, at the end, it was revealed that Michelle had only dragged PaCO through all these weeks of hell because she became determined to find some way to kick Zeus out, because she doesn't like him. Wow. That really sucks. To make PaCO suffer, and lose a whole month, because she wanted Zeus to have to leave. I wonder if she would have pushed so hard to kick out non-students if Griff were still able to make it, or if Tarsha was still around. She liked both of them, and never questioned the "non-students are equals" belief while they were around. Only when she became obsessed with getting rid of Zeus did she pull all this crazy shit. Wow. I bet she would have said other non-students could keep coming, even though her whole platform was "no non-students". Hell, she even told someone that a friend of theirs could vote, even though the friend hadn't attended the agreed upon "two PaCO functions" that everyone else voting was required to have done, just because she liked the friend. WTF?? I'm glad the group was smart enough to recognize such bullshit and two-faced double standards being pulled all over the place. Anyway, on to the POSITIVE: After the elections were over and Michelle decided to leave the group, the room relaxed a bit and we started to get into some fun conversation. Then, some new people even showed up! Yay! It was a woman who had seen our Samhain Divination Fair on the Mall on Friday, October 26th. She came in with her little baby, who was adorable and very well behaved, and then her husband came in a bit later. We all had one of the first fun and interesting conversations we've had in PaCO in a very long time. We actually talked about paganism and Christianity, and other random stuff. Good times. We also slated a full list of activities for the rest of the semester. It's a bit tight, it's a real shame to have lost November to all this mess, but we've got a list of things that are not too demanding, and it should go great. On Friday, I met up with some of the new Officers, and we filled out our Club Update, an application for a Yearly Budget to cover our button printing and flyer printing costs and such, and an application for Event Funding for the Yule Bonfire & Cookout, and Candles, Soap, and Lip-balm Making! Wee! We got all of those done and handed in, discovering just how easy this all really is. We got the date of the next funding meeting, so that we can send someone to it. And the date of the Student Senate meeting after that, in case they want to see someone there, but I don't think that normally happens. It should be just the first meeting that anyone needs to go to. We also went to some offices in the Union to talk to people about permissions for advertising and bake sales and whatnot, but the people were in a meeting, so we have to get together again later and do that stuff then. We thought of some new ways to advertise, and will check them all out. Even the "your ad here" phone numbers on the bathroom stall boards! Ha ha. Man, I'm so excited to get PaCO all advertised and stuff, and draw in some new members, and draw back some old. We've already had several old members come back, and more say that they will. (We keep getting told that people left because of Michelle and Toby, but that they'll come back now. Still odd, trying to think about how that all happened. Weird stuff.) Anyway, on my way back from campus on Friday night, I stopped in at the Natural Living Center and wrote out a whole chart of prices for some of the stuff that our new President said we'd need for making soaps and lip-balms. I wrote down prices and ounces for Almond Oil, Apricot Kernel Oil, Cocoa Butter, and Coconut Oil. Coconut Oil was actually the cheapest thing, if you got it from the bulk refrigerator, being only $1.99 per pound there, whereas the stuff in jars on the shelf was about $14 per pound. Wow. But hopefully, I've got enough here that we won't need to buy any. I've got about half a 128 ounce bucket here, and I don't cook with it as much as I used to, so I don't mind sharing it to make some nice new stuff. Yay! >^_^< We had already gone to the AC Moore together, so we already have pure beeswax for this stuff, and some paraffin for this stuff and the candles. Yay! Definitely looking forward to some great new fun activities! Wee! >^_^< . Current Mood: relieved

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November 6th, 2007

03:05 pm - Arrogance and Insanity (This is a bit more ranty than my previous post, but I think I have a right to get this stuff off my chest. I mean, when you spend nearly all your free time working hard, going above and beyond any other person's efforts, for a group that you love, and never would have said a word about it, well, when someone then comes up to you and says, "you don't matter anymore, and you're not as good as we are because you're not a student anymore", [when in all accounts you could probably be considered better, being the one putting in all the effort], well, that'll really set you off. --Please see my previous posts for the less ranty rundown of what's been going on.) So, Thursday night at the Pagan Campus Organization meeting when I told Michelle, "look, you've been my friend for 5 years now, but I think you're leading PaCO badly", she just sat there and said all snippety-like, "Well I think we're doing pretty good". Well, yeah, PaCO has been doing great up until now this semester, in spite of her, really. She almost killed it by not doing anything last semester. Hello, where've you been? Oh yeah, NOT helping us, that's where. I can't believe she has the nerve to sit there and act like anything good that PaCO has now has ANYTHING to do with her. She hasn't done shit. She's even tried to stop us from giving PaCO so much success. She's the one who sat there in September and told the group that since Carole LeClair said there wasn't a place for us to have a Samhain bonfire now that Bumstock Field has been paved over, we couldn't have one. It was Zeus who talked to the people on campus who actually matter, and got our permissions and location in order. Zeus made it possible, and Michelle did nothing but stand in the way. We were lucky that we've been able to move around her this long to keep PaCO alive. We have several new students this semester, which is what will save PaCO from death. Did Michelle do ANYTHING to help us get that? No. I'M the one who spent hours upon hours upon hours making cute little pagan buttons with PaCO's name and URL on them. I'M the one who spent hours designing and posting flyers all over campus. I'M the one who signed us up for the Summer Student Orgs Fairs to make sure that PaCO would get represented to the incoming freshmen, which is how we gained several of them now. I'M the one who went out to all the Summer Student Orgs Fairs, and set them up and gave away buttons and sat there to recruit new students, dragging Zeus along. Zeus and I are the ones who put all this effort into PaCO, and Michelle has put in none. Michelle wouldn't help us with any of that. She ALWAYS said she was too busy to do anything for PaCO. David and Zeus and I are the ones who have done it ALL. She wouldn't even bother to reserve PaCO a meeting room this summer. I had to do that myself! I emailed the right guy, and he told me that we were LATE getting a room, while Michelle had only insisted that it couldn't be done over the summer and we had to wait till September. We almost missed our chance to get a room, because SHE wouldn't even TRY. The only thing we've gotten Michelle to do so far is hand in our paperwork for the Samhain events, and she even did that LATE. We had to get on her case for weeks before she'd finally get off her ass and give it to someone (It took about 3 minutes to fill it out at Mabon. NOT hard.). That cost us a lot of valuable time. Then she wouldn't bother to follow up on it. She emailed some secretary who never responded, and left it at that. When we were finally out of time (we ended up with less than a week to prepare for the Divination Fair with our funding), I'M the one who contacted the right person on campus to get us our funding. I pulled the Divination Fair together with Zeus. Zeus and I did all the shopping for the Divination Fair. We picked up the pumpkins and cider. Would Michelle have bothered to go looking for pumpkins? Of course not. She's NEVER put in much effort for PaCO. Either that, or she'd have just picked up a few expensive ones at the grocery store, and gotten a fourth of the value we got at Spencer's Nursery with the half-off pumpkins that were about $1.50 each. She'd have bought the $6 ones just because going to the Hannaford was simpler. Oh, Michelle did ONE bit of shopping for the Divination Fair. She got ahold of our funding card and spent $30 on two kinds of cookies for the bake sale. And no, there weren't a lot, they were just freakin' expensive. Zeus and I got three kinds of cookies, brownies, and two kinds of cupcakes, including frosting, cupcakes cups, and eggs and butter, all for $17. The bake sale table pulled in $53. But because Michelle was actually so bad with money that she spent twice what we spent on stuff that was a only a third of what we got (2 types of cookies for $30 as opposed to 6 types of baked goods for only $17), she single-handedly knocked our bake sale profits down to only $6. I was astounded that she would actually blow that much money on the thing that was supposed to MAKE us money. Seriously, how do you not realize when you're overspending that astonishingly badly?? Michelle's NEVER been able to handle doing anything for an event. She's the one who would go shopping for bonfire cookout food and come back with ONE box of vegi-burgers that Tarsha and Peter and another vegetarian would all stare at, because there are only 4 vegi-burgers in a box. Each of them would get one, and all three of them would stare at the last one like a group of sad, hungry kittens. Last Beltane, I made sure that Zeus and I were in charge of shopping (Michelle and Toby came along, though I'm not sure why), and we made sure to get four boxes of vegi-burgers and some vegi-dogs, and even had vegan burgers. It was lucky we did, we had a vegan girl come and visit us. We know how to provide and help our members. Michelle has never figured out how, and likely never cared. Zeus and I are the ones who made things, bought things, stored things, and hauled things. We're the ones who got it all going. We're the ones who brought all the important stuff, including a fire pit, and got that stuff set up with help from Alora and Zoe and Staci. Zeus and I are the ones who put up over $280 of our own money, so that PaCO could use the $500 funding it was granted from Student Gov. Student Gov does reimbursement, not money handouts, and Zeus and I put in everything ourselves to make this event happen. We did more than our share just getting everything done prior to the event, and the amount I did to help clean up on top of all that was going above and beyond what any other member has EVER done for PaCO. Hell, I'M the one who cleaned up all the pumpkin guts off the campus lawn after the Fair. And helped Toby scrub the paint off the pumpkin table. How much do I have to do for these people?? And then she has the nerve to tell people I didn't help clean up? Hey, who picked up the pumpkin guts and scrubbed paint? Not you. And the nerve to say to my face that I don't matter to the group because I'm not a student? Where would they have been without all the stuff I did for them? All the stuff that Zeus did for them? Sitting in the meeting room, saying that stuff "can't be done", that's where. I'm just absolutely astonished at the arrogance that Michelle can sit there and think she should get any credit for everything we have done, while she hasn't done shit, and even got in our way. She's the one who sits on her ass and says that things can't be done, and then Zeus and I get up and do them anyway. She's the one who NEVER helps us, never shows up when we have a banner making session, hands in our simple, easy paperwork LATE, and whines about how stressful it is to be President. How stressful can it be when you refuse to do anything?? She's mad that Zeus and I get these things done for PaCO when she said they couldn't be done. Instead of learning to get off her ass and do shit, she'd rather get rid of us so that she makes herself right. She'd rather see PaCO not allowed to do anything, because she says it can't be done, rather than see it flourish because we're willing to get up and try. Sickening. Absolutely sickening. There could have been a Samhain Bonfire and Cookout this weekend, and there won't be, because she wanted to stop us from accomplishing things while she wouldn't. We were all set to pull it together, yet again, for PaCO, but she put herself and her own ego ahead of the group, and was content to watch it all come crashing down because of it. I never thought I'd see such insanity from her. Maybe I should have seen it coming. After all, Elements split off from PaCO while Michelle had an officer position, and Trinity splintered off of UMPIC because of her and Toby. I've heard old members come up in the wake of all this and tell me stories of so many people who left PaCO because they felt alienated by Michelle and Toby, who apparently were more rude to these people than I ever realized they could be. I never saw how much damage they were doing. I wonder how I missed it. I want to see PaCO return to how it was years ago. Return to what it was that these old members wanted before they got discouraged and left. I know we can do it. We were so close, now. We were getting things done, until Michelle tried to shut us out and use campus rules to say that we had to leave for not being undergrads. We were so close to the good old days. I don't want to see her shut us down like this. I want to see the new students continue getting good things out of PaCO. They need people who will TRY, not people like Michelle who sit there and say stuff can't be done. Current Mood: amazed at the arrogance

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October 27th, 2007

12:06 pm - Highest of Crimes Michelle (current President of the Pagan Campus Organization, fallen into power by apathy and lack of elections) has been deleting posts from PaCO's First Class folder (the forum system for UMaine students, faculty, and alumni). PaCO has ALWAYS regarded post deletion as the highest of crimes. When "Psycho Boy" had moderation powers and began deleting anything he didn't like, there was uproar. He was removed. Michelle has deleted posts by myself, by Zeus, and by David, because they disagree with her and express the opinions of her wrong-doing in PaCO. She has called them "mean" and "inappropriate", where we would call them true, appropriate, and needed to be heard by the group. She has then posted her own posts, furthering her personal propaganda while denying others the chance to see what others of us have said. She can argue all she likes that Zeus and I are no longer students, but David is BOTH a Student AND an Officer, therefore, this is an affront that threatens each and every one of us, and cannot be ignored. It has never been suffered through in the past to let someone commit these crimes and continue with their abuse of power. PaCO has always stood against censorship and people abusing power to keep themselves unopposed. PaCO upholds freedom of speech and equality of ALL members, student, non-student, officer, and non-officer. I am willing to fight for PaCO. I am willing to fight for David, and for all of my friends who suffer the injustice of having their voices silenced in the one place where their voice should matter most. Current Mood: ready to defend PaCO's rights

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09:36 am - Backstabbing from the Least Expected Sources Zeus let it slip that Gustavo (the head guy at Campus Activities) told him that Michelle (the current President of the Pagan Campus Organization, elected by apathy) told Gustavo that Zeus' opinions did not matter, and that she and Toby had tried to talk about removing Zeus from the group, and called him a meddling non-student and hinderance to the group. I regard this back-stabbing action as an unforgivable insult. Do you honestly think that you can call the ONE person who was willing to call people on campus who mattered, NOT powerless secretaries like Carole LeClair who could not give us approvals, but REAL decision makers like Gustavo and people at Facilities Management, a hinderance to the group? The ONE person who literally SAVED THIS GROUP'S ASS in terms of being able to actually HAVE our 10th Annual Samhain Bonfire? The ONE person who put in the effort to get through to the right people to get us a location approved for a bonfire? The ONE person who put in hours upon hours to build a bonfire pit out of a freaking oil tank so that we could have this event, a hinderance to the group? How dare you take such an action. Where were you when Zeus got us a location for a bonfire? Where were you when I got ahold of Andrea Gifford for student funding instead of waiting for some other secretary who never responded? Where were you when we were busting our asses to pull this stuff off? Do you really want to call Zeus a hinderance to the group? Do you want to pretend that he didn't pull off everything he did to save PaCO's ass? Do you want to pretend that he didn't get us a new location for a bonfire? Do you want to pretend that he didn't build us a freaking bonfire pit?? Then where would we be? Right back where we started, with you not wanting to talk to anyone, wanting to sit there accepting the "fact" that we couldn't, for the first time in 10 years, have a Samhain bonfire. Content to sit and watch the group die, just as it was doing last year. I've been killing myself for a year or so now to save PaCO from death. I've put in the time to make buttons. I've put in the time to post flyers. I've sat at summer Student Orientation Fairs to try and get our existence out to new people. Zeus has put in a shitload of effort to save this group as well by now, working with me on these efforts this year. I don't appreciate seeing people actively shooting PaCO down while we've killed ourselves to save it. I didn't ask for the position of Vice President. Yes, I'm not a student anymore. I enjoyed coming to the group and making efforts, building things, making buttons, designing flyers, running our webpage! I wasn't even interested in an Officer position. I know I'm not a student anymore. But I was nominated, and voted for, and put in place BY THE GROUP. They wanted me because I DO things. So I took it. And I've busted my ass to pull things like this off. I've done food shopping, I've budgeted, I've hauled things, I've stored things, I've made things. Zeus and I have put in 10 times the work that anyone else has ever even TRIED to. More than that even. I still don't want to see PaCO die, as it came so close to doing, I think the group serves a wonderful purpose on campus and brings in wonderful people, when we put in some damn effort to let them know we're here. But I'm much less motivated now to continue trying to help it when others are actively hurting it, trying to knock down one of the only people who has actually been able to accomplish great things for us. I sincerely hope that the new members can take it over as soon as possible, and make something good out of it again for the future. PaCO needs to be completely taken over by the new students. All new officers, and no one pulling power games, whining about how stressful it is to have a title that they don't even really do much with, not really wanting the group to ever do anything because that might mean they'd have to step up for the group, even though it's pretty easy to do so. I have been stepping up for this group for years, and Zeus did too in his time. I can't even name how many events I've pulled off by making things, hauling things, and setting things up. How dare other people whine about how little they have to do, and then have the nerve to try and get rid of the people who are actually accomplishing things. Grrr. Current Mood: pissed off

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September 26th, 2007

09:18 am - The leaves are falling! The leaves are turning red and brown and falling to the ground. It's almost October! Yay! >^_^< . Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: Loreena McKennitt

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September 24th, 2007

01:38 pm - Evilness at Blogger.com I used to have a blog at Blogger.com. Sure, I hardly used it, I do most of my blogging here at LiveJournal, after all, but I did have a few friends over there. (As I do on many different blog sites I use to keep up with different friends.) I did have a few posts. I feel.. what? "betrayed"? You see, Blogger.com is now "The New Blogger.com". They are now fully integrated with Google Accounts. They're bigger and fancier. But instead of making this upgrade while preserving the accounts of their members, it seems they have made the upgrade by deleting everything they had, and making members who log-in re-setup their accounts. I went there, and I logged in, and then it made me go through a set-up process to add in Google Account info. Then it took me to my new URL, with my blog, blank and empty and set up with a new template. Even though it lists me as a member since February 2005, when I first joined, and told me it recognized my account, it expects me to start over from scratch. All my settings, entries, and friends are gone. What am I supposed to do with that? I hope LiveJournal never does such a thing. What a horrific thing to pull. It's a good thing I kept LJ as my primary writing place, otherwise I'd have a lot to be upset about. Current Mood: disappointed

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June 1st, 2007

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May 23rd, 2007

10:33 am Some days I can't help thinking about things, and I become overwhelmed by how much I hate this world. I hate the things that are allowed to go on in it. I wish I was a being with the capacity to punish people when they insist on hurting and damaging, and no one can do anything about it. I wish I could help people when no one else will, when no one else cares at all. I wish I could take horrible people's power away and stop them from causing so much pain. I keep thinking about Zeus' kids. The state took them away based on one person's frivolous and baseless accusation. They have dragged out their little power game unreasonably long already. The kids are suffering, and no one cares. They will have emotional, perhaps psychological scars from this lengthy period of separation early in their lives. It could take them years to recover from this, if they can fully recover at all. Zeus watches everything they do, from his trained perspective as a psychologist. They display a lot of confusion and perhaps developmental problems. This power game will hurt them for years, but the government does not care. They just want to show that they have power over others, in whatever petty ways they can manage. The kids are suffering physically. The foster parents they were given to refuse to stop smoking around them, despite the laws that say they can't. The kids kept showing up to visits reeking of cigarette smoke. Their health is in danger, and no one cares. No office gives any regard to the complaints filed by Zeus. They won't lift a finger, law has no meaning. There is evidence to say that these foster parents are sexually abusing Zeus' son, and neglecting his daughter- not feeding her enough, not taking care of her. Still, the government does not care. Why should they care if the people they chose are highly dangerous to children? Why should they care if the trash they let become foster parents are sexual abusers? All that matters to them is the power game, and how much they can hurt a family if they choose. The official psychologist has already decided Zeus is no threat to his kids. That would be obvious to anyone who knows him. He talks about his kids all the time, and it is clear that he cares about being a good father. Very few males I have encountered, if any, showed this much interest in fatherhood. I don't know where anyone would get the idea he could have ever been a threat. The agency that watches the visits are looking at the evidence that the foster parents have been sexually abusing and neglecting the children to build a case. That's good, but it will be of no use. No one else will care. No one will do anything. If lucky, this trash will lose their permissions to foster, and will not be able to abuse any more children. But they will not get thrown in jail for 50 years, or anything else that they deserve for what they've done. The legal system doesn't do shit for anyone, ever. All the legal system will do is harass victims for daring to bother them with their problems. One thing that always gets me is the tragedy of people who never even know what they've done. I think that people should know what they have done to others. If nothing else, they should know. I never get over how frustrating it is that people will do things that hurt others and never even acknowledge it. Some jerk in traffic nearly causes an accident by the stupidity of their driving, by ignoring a yield sign and cutting across two lanes when you're driving right there, and you almost hit them because of what they've just done, and they never even look. They probably don't even know you're there. They have no idea the danger they put you in, and they don't care. Someone gets all huffy, or meddlesome, and thinks they know something they have no clue about, so they call a government agency, and bam. Over a year of pain and suffering inflicted on two, innocent children. Given over to sexually abusive and neglectful foster parents who are allowed to get away with it. Two innocent children, confused and isolated, left with trash who treat them poorly, removed from the safety of their home, separated from their protecting father, for a year or more. Suffering. And the person who called has no idea. They probably don't even care. They probably haven't given a thought to it since the week they called, so long ago. They likely don't even know how long this has dragged out, and how long the children have suffered in pain because of them. They don't even know. Would they ever care? Of all oddities that could have occurred, Zeus and I were talking about my old days at college, and I had mentioned a girl named Decha [dechavu], who I met a few times at some things back then. He said that she was the one who called to get his kids taken away. I still don't even know what to think of that. She was friends with so many good people I knew, it's hard for me to imagine them associating with someone capable of that. I wonder if anyone will ever tell her of the year's worth of horrors that have been visited on these children because of her. I wonder if she'll ever know their pain and suffering. I wonder if she even cares. But I still feel that never knowing is worse than knowing and not caring. At least people should know what they've done. Current Mood: frustrated, helpless

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May 21st, 2007

08:17 am - Adventures in Crossing the US Border So, on Saturday we had a nice day in Canada. We went to an SCA event in the Shire of Lyndhaven, which is New Brunswick, Canada. We enjoyed some archery, axe throwing, getting videos of armored fighters on the field, some strange new foods, and of course, the opportunity to play in medieval clothing. >^_^< Crossing over to Canada went just fine. We went over at about 11:00 am. The officer for Canada asked us a few standard questions. We answered them. We let him know that, yes, we had a fair amount of camping gear here, but we hadn't decided yet if we would want to spend the night. He gave us a little survey for our visit to Canada. Off we went. Coming home to the US sucked. We had decided not to camp out after all. We came back to the border somewhere around 7:00 pm after an enjoyable day. The officer for the US asked us a bunch of questions. We answered them all. I'm not sure what it was he didn't like. Perhaps he did not like the look of medieval gear. Perhaps he is suspicious of all camping gear. But we had to wait in a little lobby while they rooted through every last bit of my car. (I know 'cause I saw a bag of old cassette tapes that've been buried under the passenger seat for over a year sitting out, and old fast food bags from last year dug out of somewhere.) And of course, they re-packed it badly. Not healthy for my obsessive side. (Must organize!! ack!..) Anyway, in the lobby of the Customs Office there was a Statue of Liberty, perhaps 6 feet tall. It had a very large chain from its foot to the podium it stood on. First of all, I can't even imagine how anyone would steal that statue, regardless of the chain. Who's going to go into a Customs Office to get it? The place doesn't close, right? There are always officers there, right? The statue is huge and nearly impossible to carry, if it is the metal it appears to be, right? So why the chain? There was just something terribly, visually disturbing about a large chain on the Statue of Liberty. Just, disturbing. Way to go with the symbolism on that one, gov. I would have liked to have a picture, but after I took a few in the lobby, an officer came out who said I couldn't have any, and please come over and delete them in front of him. I thought it was a public lobby, but I guess not (yet another reason to wonder about that statue getting anywhere..). So I did. He even made me delete a picture of the outside of the Customs building from down the road (I'd been taking photos of Canadian street signs that were unusual or didn't make sense to me.) Although why I needed to delete a photo of the outside of a building that anyone can drive right up to and see is beyond me. *sigh* Little reminders of our country sucking. Sometimes I wonder if Canada is nice to live in, all year round. Current Mood: thoughtful Current Music: Blackmore's Night

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April 2nd, 2007

12:51 pm - Because you simply HAVE to share stuff like this.. Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl If you like Tim Burton's stuff, you'll probably like this. >^_^< Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip: Thou Shalt Always Kill Awesomeness. Music vs voice volume plus continuous speed makes it require a bit of concentration to follow everything he's saying. But definitely awesome. Current Mood: amused

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February 8th, 2007

01:53 pm - Aqua Teen Bomb! OMG, you all have to watch this video!! (of course, the funniness comes from being aware of the recent situation in Boston that's been on the news, regarding CN's Aqua Teen advertisements.. so, you all better know that. >^_^< ) http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1894264233 Yay!! >^_^< . Current Mood: amused Current Music: Aqua Teen Bomb!

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