So, FYI, I survived my interview. :) The woman was super nice and very professional, so I think everything is on the up-and-up here. All I can do now is wait and see if any jobs pop up through her. Thank you for all the advice yesterday. *squishes flist*

Then I came home and spent most of the rest of the day moving huge pieces of rock around, because my dad's making rock walls around the plants and trees in the front yard. I'm going to be so ridiculously sore tomorrow that I don't even want to think about it.

Okay, so I'm a little weirded out right now. I sent my resume to some different recruiting sites, including one I found on Craigslist. I heard back from the Craigslist ad, and the woman I spoke to supposedly has a job she wants to send my resume in for. But the thing is, her staffing company is clearly just her, and she wants to meet me tomorrow to talk to me more about the job, but she wants to meet at the Chantilly library. So, I've got some warning bells going off that are making me wonder what could possibly be up here. Should I be worried? The library's a pretty public place, but still...

Dear Supernatural,

THANK YOU FOR MAKING A CRANKY DAY MUCH MUCH MUCH BETTER!

Loooooooove and puppies,
Katie

(Spoilers for the season four premiere, in case the link didn't give that away.)

I wasn't going to post about the overwhelming cranky feeling that descended upon me this morning and hasn't really gone away yet, but then I read my flist and discovered I'm not alone, so...know that you're not alone if you're feeling cranky or irritable today, folks. *squishes everyone*

OMG. How did I not know that hulu.com has the full run of Highlander available for viewing? *happy flail* Now I have something to mainline when I can't sleep. (Bonus: my Netflix queue is a normal size again!)

Dear Virginia,

You can keep up this 70-degree-weather-in-August business for as long as you want. I'll be over here with all my windows open, enjoying the breeze.

Love, Katie

So, my sister came home yesterday from spending two months in CA with her dumbass boyfriend. We're all amazed that she made it the whole two months - we expected them to break up and her to tearfully call home and beg my dad for a plane ticket. And they did break up - I don't know how many times it was overall, but they publicly broke up twice, and by publicly, I mean my sister changed her Facebook status to "not in a relationship" so all her friends would console her and tell her what an idiot her boyfriend is which, of course, she forgets all about as soon as they get back together - but she stuck it out.

As of right now, there's no evidence that she came home pregnant, but I think she might be being careful, because while she was out there she had to spend a lot of time around her boyfriend's older brother and the girl he knocked up, along with the ten month old kid, and being out there apparently taught her a) how much trouble a ten month old is when you want to have a social life and b) how horribly her boyfriend's parents treat the girl, compared to how they treat the baby and their son. So, that's something, I suppose.

- I have a new layout! It a) is brighter, b) looks slightly wonky in IE but I don't caaaare, and c) shows how much I talk about Supernatural, judging from the size of that tag. Oops.

- I still can't decide if Tropic Thunder - specifically, Robert Downey Jr's role - is going to be horrific or hilarious. I miss Stephen Hunter's movie reviews, because there's no one else who views and reviews movies the way I do.

- I want to be excited about the Olympics, I really do, but the excitement is just not happening yet. Maybe when events I actually want to see are on, that'll change.

- Are there any other sites besides Monster and CareerBuilder for general job hunting? I'm realizing how out of the loop I am, having only looked for school jobs for so long.

- Oh, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY TELESILLA! *throws confetti*

I swear, prostitution seems like a more viable career option with every interview I go through, because it's the only job I'm mentally capable of doing.

ETA: This is not to say that I didn't appreciate all your good thoughts, because I did. I'm just pretty sure they went to waste.

Eeeeeeee new Keane album on October 13th eeeeeeee!

Okay, so, while I'm a huge fan of music in general, it's rare for me to be loyal to a band or artist to the point of where I'll buy anything they make without listening to some of it first. The only three examples I can think of are The Decemberists, Muse, and Keane. And now there's going to be a new Keane CD yaaaaaay! You can download the first song off of their website and eeeeee it sounds different than their usual stuff but eeeeee so good! *bounces*

Okay, so I know del.icio.us changed themselves, and I'm still debating whether or not I'm okay with the new layout, but recent posts are making me have to ask - how did the Facebook layout change? I...didn't really notice anything. >.> Is it the addition of the chat thing at the bottom that's bothering everyone, or do I just not pay enough attention to Facebook to notice the layout changed in a big way?

So, am I the last person on Earth to realize that when you're logged into a Gmail account, and you send an e-mail from another Gmail account you've linked to the first one, if the person receiving the e-mail is looking in Microsoft Outlook, it openly displays both e-mail addresses?

I am, quite possibly, the stupidest person ever and if I ever get a job, it'll be a miracle.

ETA: Okay, yeah, I'm completely ready to crawl back into bed and start this day over again.

Jax Panik is a South African musician that was pointed out to me recently, and he's got a great video to go along with his great music. Let's see if I can get YouTube embedding to work for once.

In retrospect, I probably should have asked this before ComicCon while everyone was still around. Oops.

Men! And people who drink like men! I need beer advice! My brother is turning 21 on Tuesday, and I don't know what to buy for him. A request for Mike's Hard Lemonade has been made, but I want to get him something else in the beer family. The closest I get to beer is hard cider, so I don't know what to grab. Any recommendations?

It would be wrong to leave this section of the newspaper open on my mother's desk, yeah? Alas, I'm afraid that since I don't have a husband, the point will be lost on her.

Oh fandom, my disappointment runs deep. How is it possible that people are just now realizing that the owner of the fanhistory.com wiki is a grudge wanking psycho? People, the site was created so she could try to control what the internet has to say about certain fanfic authors she likes and doesn't like. I thought that was common knowledge. *facepalm* Consider yourself learned folks now.

(Also, don't worry if you have a page there. Unless you're a BNF who's annoyed the wiki owner, having a page at FanHistory won't give you any more publicity than FF.net will.)

So, since someone keeps asking for pictures...

( My two current knitting projects. )

HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion - this link has been getting passed 'round my flist all morning, as it should be, but I'm putting it here in case anyone hasn't seen it yet.

The thing that bothers me the most about this is the misleading aspect of the title. The Department of Health and Human Services doesn't have a problem with contraception as a whole - no no no, their problem is with birth control pills, and any other method used to get rid of fertilized eggs that haven't been implanted. You know, all the methods that women use for birth control. But condoms, the primarily male method of birth control, would probably be considered all right, since you can't say you're murdering a precious little egg baby if the fertilization never happened.

Yes, it's atrocious that they're trying to change the medical definition of pregnancy based on the stupidity of a country failed by abstinence-only sexual education programs. But the fact that their method of going about this is designed to once again drive the point home that people don't think women should have a choice in whether or not they get pregnant is the most appalling thing to me.

ETA: Yes, I know, I've gotten things mixed up while working on too little sleep, but my basic rant of "Rawr, why does our government hate women?" still stands.

Dear People of the Internets,

Please stop watching Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog so the server will recover and I can get the page to load.

Please?

*pokes website* Looooooad! :(