In other news... I may be getting a job as a page at the local library. I have an appointment on Thursday to, I suppose, finalize it and get my hours sorted out. In any case, oh yeah! :D Progress is good!

I got my final grade for my psych course - a B. Whoo! Pretty good for my first college course ever, and certainly quite good after all the badness I've been through. Now I'm not scared about college - it is teh easiness. Yay. :)

I also will hopefully be working at the university's radio station as the World music director. I have to finish creating a sample playlist, send it to the general managers, and then I'll hear back from them. Is this not the coolest week ever for me?

It's fantastic to feel human again. *dances around*

One last note - not too fond of the new Daily Show set. I miss the couch. And... well, the rest of the set. But yay - Rove coverage! "Turd blossom", indeed. Maybe this will finally "bring down" the Bush admin? Expose the badness and corruption, the back-stabbing and blatant lying, the hypocrisy and manipulation, of the current government? Probably not. Damn.

Cheery bye, Scarlett


Listening to: Fire on Babylon (Live) - Sinéad O'Connor

So, I've finished my summer course! Hooray and such. I can't believe I've just finished taking my first college course... I mean, just a few months ago I could barely get out of bed. I am pretty damned determined. :D

I'm feeling quite well. I am working very hard on exposure, and am not letting myself reassure myself - I just deal with the anxiety and doubt. It's a bit scary, but freeing at the same time.

I'm starting to feel "normal" again - finally! - and am feeling more revved up to update sites and other stuff.

I'm giving my Enya site a complete overhaul, and I hope to upload all the changes soon. It's on the first page of Google at the moment when you search for "enya", which I never thought would happen! It's sort of an online goal fulfilled. But I want to make the site even better, with more to see and such. So, I hope that when I upload the changes that it stays on the first page! :D

I plan to close my Sarah Brightman site but create a new Sarah Brightman site. Here's what I mean: at the mo, my SB site has a purpose - to present Sarah links to fans. I've tried to make the site into what I've wanted it to be (a way to bring the Sarah web community together somehow, to highlight all the Sarah sites that don't get much traffic, among other things) but I've lost enthusiasm for it. Not for Sarah Brightman, but for trying to keep that site going. Instead of a links site, I will create a new site to display my SB graphics that I've created over the years (and will continue to create). I've got to plan this out - I want to have the graphics site up before I close SBLS, so that I can launch the graphics site when I officially close SBLS. I haven't thought of a name for the graphics site, although I came up with Forbidden Colours (a song of Sarah's). I may use that; we shall see. :)

My poor Blackadder page needs a bit of sprucing up! I can't really add anything more to it outside of icons and wallpapers; all that needs to be said about Blackie has been said on numerous other websites. I wish I could think of something new for the site... well, wallpapers and icons are fun. :/

My Doctor Who site needs some love too. I'm pretty pleased with the layout, but there are a few things I probably should tweak. I have more caps to add to it, and need to make some more captions. I do love teh Who silliness!

Some Kind of Blends is running fairly smoothly. There's always a bit of extra work when I change the seasons, but that's how it is with a monthly challenge site. I do worry about how I will keep the site updated in the fall, when I'm in school, but as long as I plan ahead I shouldn't have to pull all-nighters to update the site! (Because that has happened before...)

Scarlett's Pile O' Icons needs a lot of love. I want to make icons so badly, but I keep getting sidetracked with working on my Enya site and trying to adopt out my FLs. Speaking of FLs...

It's not very difficult to keep my 4th Doctor's Scarf, A Night At The Opera, Seven Seas of Rhye, Tie Your Mother Down, Fly (Sarah Brightman album), Ofra Haza, Moya Brennan, Anywhere Is, Savvy, Withnail and I, Take Me With You, Bedtime Story, or Enya fanlistings updated, but it does take time... but I don't want to give them up. The fanlistings I put up for adoption don't take any more time, but they are the ones I can live without. A Day At The Races (Queen album) is an album that, in real life, I can't live without, but as I have the TYMD FL, and that's the song from the album that I simply adore, I think that having the album listing is overkill. Although it did take me awhile to make all those screencaps... but I'm not complaining - I got to stare at Queen the whole time! Whoop! :D

Even though I'm giving away fanlistings, I'll think about how I should create a fanlisting for this or that. The song Troy by Sinéad O'Connor, for instance, or Peter Cook, which I think I will end up making at some point. A fansite/listing. I love teh Peter Cook. I've also considered making a fanlisting for the Fourth Doctor, seeing how I love him so very very much. It wouldn't be difficult to run it - I would integrate it into my Doctor Who site.

And then I think how silly I am with all these fanlistings. I don't know how the people with over 100 fanlistings do that. I remember when having one site was enough, especially if it were packed with content and you were really dedicated to it. I've come up with a theory (someone else probably already did, but... oh well) - you age faster on the internet than in real life. I'm only 18 (19 in August!), but I sometimes feel like a geezer when I look at people's sites. Fanlistings, for example - they made no sense to me when I first came across one. Domains, for another example - when I got mine, it was a *big deal*. Coming up with a domain name was a huge process for me - it had to be *just right*. I was so excited that my parents were going to pay for a domain for me! Now, people seem to be able to buy multiple domains - buy a new one when they tire of the old name, you know. It makes me feel ancient! I wouldn't be able to do that, get another domain. I love lunaestas.com too much. :) So anyways, I actually get nostalgic when I come across sites I used to visit when I first went online, and I feel a true sense of loss when I discover that sites I've loved forever have closed. I must sound like the strangest person ever... ;)

Anyways, I was feeling happy, so I thought I'd post to document the fact. :D

Cheery bye, Scarlett


Listening to: Sunset Dreams (Clannad)

Posted in my LJ because Blogger's... well, Blogger is Blogger. :/

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Stupid Blogger isn't working. Figures; I finally feel like posting, and it doesn't work! Ah well, LJ is a good back-up. :)

It's been ages (it feels like ages, at least!) since I last made a real post (at F&P or here). So, here are some updates about moi...

Let's see. In my last post, I rambled on about a few things. I'll add to those ramblings here. :)

My psyc course is still going well, and I really enjoy just sitting there, taking notes, and being normal. I think that, however, that psychology was not the best subject to study right now - reading about various mental disorders and different theories about them has caused me some anxiety and serves as fuel for the fire that is my HOCD. Oh, OCD, you scamp, you! :/ Aside from that, I'm doing quite well and have only one more week to go. This is good and bad; good, because I can sleep late, and bad, because I still need structure. I am intent on keeping myself as active as possible during the 1-month downtime before the fall semester starts. Partly because I want to be, and partly because it's doctor's orders! :) Gotta keep my mind moving - constructively. So, school's going well. :)

I've been having a rough time with my HOCD for about two weeks, but my therapist and I stepped up the exposure and I expect to really go about it better now. I've finally got a very good understanding of how I'm supposed to go about doing exposure and making it count, so I'm pretty confident about that. I'm still not as structured or as active as I need to be, so I'm working on that too. I must say, HOCD stinks. Just wanted to point that out. Silly HOCD.

Hmm, what else? On the online front, I haven't been doing much. I've been keeping Some Kind Of Blends up-to-date, which is good. I'm so amazed that people do really seem to like participating in the challenges. I'm very proud of SKOB - the little site that could. :)

I've attempted to adopt out several of my fanlistings, but I was only able to give away one. I have a list of fanlistings that I have put up for adoption here. I can't believe I'm letting A Day At The Races and Paul McGann go... but I have to pare down my online projects.

I'm embarassingly behind on emails. At this point, I can't really remember who I need to get back to. So, if you've been waiting for an email from me... please email me to nag me to email you!! :) Gosh, I'm so behind on some other online things... changing links, affiliate requests, and other random stuff. It gets kind of overwhelming, which is sad, because it's all online - not real life! :/

On a lighter note... I got the Daily Show's Indecision 2004 DVD set - so funny! And yet, so very, very depressing. If you're in a bad mood, don't watch the Election Night Coverage. You'll just end up feeling depressed... oh, golly. That was a bad day. But, it's fun to watch the pre-election stuff, to relive that feeling of "Hey, maybe Kerry will get elected! He's got to be elected!" Seriously, though - it was a bittersweet hopefulness. Well, it was for me, at least. :) And the national anthem, as performed by Stephen Colbert, Ed Helms, Samantha Bee, and Rob Corddry is excellent - they can really sing! :D

On another light note... we've got HIGH SPEED! Yes, we now have a cable connection, and I am deeply in love with it. Because of the miracle of high speed and teh internets, I was able to download an *entire NEW WHO! episode* and just about fell out of my chair when it finished downloading and I started it up. NEW WHO! The episode is "Dalek" and is brilliant. Abso-bloody-lutely brilliant. I really hope that a US network will pick it up, but I doubt it... I love teh internets. New Who! NEW WHO!!!!!!

Oh yes - I found my Not Only But Also tape. Turned out it got shoved back in a shelf like it did that last time it went missing. I still think it was off cavorting with my bra. In any case... oh, how I love Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. I have got to stop losing that NOBA tape! :/

M'kay, I think that's about all. To everyone who I haven't emailed back/commented in a journal/whatever - I hope you're all doing well! Take care!

Cheery bye, Scarlett


Listening to: Eye of the Duck (Natacha Atlas)