No pic again, sowwy

Anyways, it’s been about a month since my last post and honestly things haven’t gotten better. Let’s see if I can compile the list of things that have been happening this last month into something that may be half decent to read.

Spring break was just not relaxing. My computer contracted a HUGE virus and was taken to geek squad to fix. I didn’t have it from about Tuesday of break until right before I drove back to school on Sunday. Lucky for me, Warcraft was on an external so I just plugged it into one of the desktops at home and played away.

The virus was bad. It got to the point where it blocked every website that had anything to do with spyware/virus removal, and when we talked to the geek squad person, she had had the same virus and it had gotten so bad on her puter that she couldn’t open the My Computer window. So not fun.

Anyways, it gets fixed and I go back to school with tons of work, and roomies being worse than usual. I got the virus -again- because guess why? It’s on the school network. Not cool. I only know because I saw one of the computer lab computers with the same pseudo blue screen of doom. So, I’m trying to stick out the school year with a virally infected computer so we don’t have to pay $200 to get it fixed again.

School has been rough. Lots of tests and I have a huge 15 page paper due in a couple weeks. It’s a lot of pressure and my body is just freaking out, so not only am I stressed and trying to get stuffage done  but my body is sitting there going “newp, not going to work, sorry, try again later!”

Roomies have been even worse. Not cleaning and what not. They left me a nice note to clean and I told them I would when they do their dishes, clean the kitchen, clean the living room, and pick up the rest of their crap in the hallway. It’s been pretty tense since, and I have a meeting on Tuesday with the area coordinator from housing. I’m getting my roommates friend banned from the room- sorry if you’re going to be a douche bag but I’m going to be one right back.

Let’s see what they have done the past few weeks:

1. Gotten hair dye on one of my towels
2. Left a dirty tampon applicator on the bathroom floor
3. Got a huge blood stain on my mat
4. Take showers together, knock all my shit over, then not pick it up
5. Keep shaven beard hairs in and around the sink
6. Trash the living room… and barely pick it up
7. Throw all their crap on the kitchen bar… and never pick it up
8. Leave trash all over the kitchen.. rather than walking 5 steps to the trash can…

THEN they get mad at me when I ask them to clean it up! They signed a contract to clean up after themselves so I don’t have to ask them to- well if you’re going to ask me to clean, when you trash the rest of the place, I’m going to tell you to pick up your fking mess first.

Anyways, having that meeting, getting girl kicked out. /endrant

My fishy also died He hadn’t been eating and passed. R.I.P Vladimir Wolinski <3 I shall miss you.

My daughter Hailey in SL also left. I’m not going to rant about that, but I am still sad/upset about it.

Oh and to top off all these AMAZINGLY AWESOME things, my external harddrive died T_T

I kid you not, yet another one has crapped out on me. Luckily the company is replacing it so I’ll get it back in a few weeks. CT Xue is helping me out a bit and I am so grateful.

I actually was supposed to get one from CT on Friday (when tons of dramz started) and it didn’t show. Matt (boyfriend) told me to just go out and get a new one, he’d reimburse me. So I REALLY did not want to go get one because I didn’t want to waste the money when I really just need a new computer, but I cave and go get one. SIX hours after bringing it home it dies. I returned it today for my monies back and CT is helping me get a new puter in a few weeks. I am so done with external harddrives it’s not even funny T_T

(Did I mention how full of awesomesauce he is?)

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE!

Yes, there is one, I swearz! My birthday was April 2nd and I turned the ripe old age of 21 I went out Friday and bought some beer (well, smirnoff ice- aka girl beer) and vodka. I’m drinking some vodka mixed with cranberry and orange juice right now and it is fab. Just what I need when I want to kill things around me.

My drive that CT is coming on Monday, so I shall be able to kill things in WoW then. For now, I guess I’ll just try to get through some homework that has worked up and keep the drinks coming to get my mind off stuff.

<3,

Alexa

Bad blogger bad! Not posting for nearly a month! Whoops, sorry about that, I was doing so well for a bit too…. So where the hell have I been?

Well, remember that thing called real life? I know it’s a stretch, but I’m actually a college student there. That whole college thing is stealing my soul at the moment. I have been so ungodly busy this semester that I’ve had barely any time or energy. For instance, I wrote this blog post during a 40 minute break between my intro to psych class and a make-up organic chem lab because I didn’t have my puter with me (my psych class got out early, so instead of a 10 minute run to the next class, I had 40 minutes).

Anatomy, Physiology, & Pathophysiology (APP for short) has kept me the most busy. A few week sago we had a lab quiz, protocol due, a test, AND a 6-8 page paper due in the same week. Like, WTF?! Not cool. I also meet with my study/lab group at least once a week for a few hours (one week I met with them 4 times!). We’re currently working on a semester long project which I’ll eventually write a blog post on.

I also am taking 4 other classes on top of APP which also have work and tests and what not. I honestly think I was on crack when I made my schedule or something. Last semester I had time in my schedule for naps…. this time not so much so I have been constantly tired. I have classes every day of the week minus Saturday (yes, I even have a class on Sunday), so my one day off has turned into a sleep day. I usually am in bed until 2-3pm and then have some work to do. I know that’s probably not the best thing I could do for myself, buttttttt I desperately need the catch up on sleep.

I’ve also been going to the gym about 4 times a week! Good thing is my muscular pain has gone down slightly (YAY!), but it’s bad at the same time because my sleep hasn’t gotten any better and I think my joint pain is actually getting worse (BOO!). Blah. I go to the rheumatologist on Monday so I’ll be having a nice chat with her on her “magic treatment”.

Another horrible RL thing is that my family has just experienced a loved one passing away. He died about two weeks ago and was totally unexpected. He was diagnosed with cancer in October of 2008 in his esophagus. They ended up removing the part that was cancerous, and replacing it with intestinal tract. Cancer didn’t spread, but the doctors messed up and there was a leak in his esophagus now where it was sutured.  That took a couple months to heal (he was even in the hospital for Christmas) and he lost loads of weight since he wasn’t allowed to eat anything but popsicles. In late January/early February he went home and the leak closed. He was FINALLY starting to feel better, putting weight on, able to go up and down stairs- and his spirit was coming back full force, and then his heart gave out February 21st and passed. Totally devastating after he had gone through all that. Last week we had the wake and funeral and it was very beautiful and awesome considering the circumstances. He’ll be missed, but at least he’s not suffering anymore.

So, with all that, I’m sure some of you have noticed I’ve been MIA in SL. This is due to my lack of energy and time. SL is just not helping me either, it sucks tons of energy for me since it is a communication with others based world. This takes more energy for me than most people because at night my coherence and cognition just plummets and I sound like an idiot, and then try super hard to not sound like one which makes me more tired. Viscous circle. Also, there’s drama in SL and I really really have no time or patience for it. If you want to get in touch with me, leave an offline with your msn/yahoo name and I’ll talk to you there. You can also follow me on plurk by either going to my page or checking out my little blurb thing on my sidebar here at the blog. I update all the time. Create an account if you don’t have one, it really is awesome.

Since SL isn’t doing it for me, World of Warcraft has once again become my game of choice. It allows me to destress (wooo killing) and I don’t have to socialize with people if I don’t want to. EPIC WIN! Matt (RL boof) and I finally hit 80 and got ourselves all geared for heroics, so the game is taking a turn that I’ve never played before. If you’re interested- you can see my 80 resto druids character page here. We’ve also become good friends with another player, and we’re all grouped up together for heroics. Between the 3 of us there is a healer, DPS, and tank. This is awesomesauce (for those of you that play WoW) because it is sooooo easy to find 2 DPSers for heroics. Last night Matt spammed looking for group channel only once for 2 dps for a heroic, and got 8 whispers within 30 seconds. It was grand. If you DO play WoW- I’m on Hydraxis US servers and my main characters are named Lynja and Zaelyn, whisper me sometime!

Next week is spring break- a full week with no classes. SCORE! I’ll be around much more and you may see me in SL. After that, I can’t promise anything. I miss you all much and hopefully things die down soon so I can get decent sleep and be able to log in. See you laterz!

xoxo,

Alexa

I know many people are blogging about this topic right now- but I seem to be in a different situation than most.

Plurk just announced a few days ago that Second Life is now considered a “country”, and then I found out World Of Warcraft is now one too! For those of you who aren’t on plurk, your location you pick your city, state, country- so now instead of the USA I can pick Second Life or World of Warcraft.

Why did they do this? Because there are *so* many avatars on Plurk. No seriously- there are hundreds of Second Lifers on there! This now makes it easier to find other second lifers as well! Time for celebration!

But here is where I have the issue. Yes, my account name is my second life name- but I only really did that because I’ve been in Second Life for well over 2 years- when I signed up for plurk I was actually on an SL break! Alexandra has basically become my online identity for everything because of the privacy behind it. But then again I also play World of Warcraft… and most of my plurks are about real life!!

Oh noes! Identity Crisis!

How is one to choose? I play both games pretty much equally nowadays, but technically my plurk account is of my SL toon, but again most of it is real life plurks…

*SCREAMS*

It’s like one of those doors that goes around in constant circles. I could sit here and knock down and support  all 3 options all day.

And I mean, what’s the big deal with putting your RL location in plurk? You already are using a fake name- are you afraid someone is going to come to your town and ask every person if they play SL and then if their name is [insert your SL name here]? Probably not, but I also understand that people want to be known as their avatar only.

And what about the WoWers? Would you put your server name as the city and then World of Warcraft as your country? What if you play on multiple realms? Do you have a pic of your character?

Not only do I have an identity crisis going on, but yesterday, there was also a debate on whether World of Warcraft and Second Life were going to be allies or enemies. Vint blogged about it here. ACK! Most of my friends on plurk are SLers, so I wouldn’t want to betray them- but at the same time my WoW time is so usually my stress free time. Do I fight with my friends to maintain peace? Or do I go against them to help defend WoW against SL?

I have to say though, if I was forced to choose I’d side with WoW. We have a much bigger population, and I refuse to let the drama whores clog up my drama-free game. Sorry guys! Yes, SL is the shit and what got me into “gaming” in the first place- but I keep falling back on WoW when I get bored or the drama gets to be too much- and then when I get bored of WoW I go to SL- find more drama- go back to WoW. Viscous circle ain’t it? The no-drama sort of appeals to me more, especially since all of my best friends in SL have my outside contact info.

So what am I going to do about my damn location? I’m keeping it as my RL one for now. I pretty much will tell anyone who asks, most of my friends on plurk have probably already visited my page to find out, and RL is supposed to come first right? I mean I plurk about it enough sheeesh.

Congrats to all of you who fought the war in getting Second Life added as a country. Imma stick with my RL one. Good luck trying to find me! [Oh wait- I has the little widget on this blog. Damn. Well- good luck to those who do not read my blog and want to be friends with other SLers!]

I was tagged by Danni to do this 25 things meme. I will try not to overlap too much from the 16 Things meme, but I can’t promise anything! Some of these “things” will be RL and some will be SL… so here we go!

Rulezors are as follows: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you. (To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.

25 Things You Didn’t Need to Know About Alexa, but will Find Out Anyways!

1. I am not a morning person at all, but at the same time breakfast is my favorite meal. Even if I get up at noon, I will still eat breakfast and call it such. My fav breakfast food is french toast!
    
2. I had this brown teddy when I was little, and one day his head got partially decapitated (the head fell off in the back, so it was hanging in front). I cried and screamed until my mom did surgery to fix him. I still have the bear to this day and he is still mah fav!
    
3. I danced for just about 10 years. I have taken ballet, tap, jazz, pointe, and ballroom classes. Yes, pointe is technically ballet, but it was separated from the normal ballet class due to the pointe shoes. Tap dancing is my fav do to it’s awesometastical stress relieving powers. Take a class for an hour where you bang on the floor? I’M THERE!
    
4.  I’ve been in SL since June 2006, and I’ve been in the “kids” SL world since January 2007. I wouldn’t change it for the world!
    
5. I can’t go to bed  unless my teeth are minty from toothpaste/listerine. If I brush my teeth and by the time I’m ready for bed they aren’t minty anymore, I have to go and re-brush them.
    
6. I am a creature of habit. I do nearly the same exact thing every morning and every night. The only exceptions are mornings where I don’t have classes or something to do shortly after waking up. If my routine gets messed up in any way, shape, or form- I freak out and the rest of my day is just awkward.
    
7.  I have the best freaking SL daughters in the entire world! They are not only my daughters but some of my favorite people in RL and my best friends! *sends them all smoochies*
    
8.  I am horribly addicted to SL, World of Warcraft and plurk.
    
9. I am a sarcastic bitch. This is how I was raised. My entire family is sarcastic- and if you don’t get/like sarcasm you would probably want to kill yourself if you ever came over my house. We torture new freinds/boyfriends that come over for dinz. You’ve been warned!
    
10. I hate fire alarms at my school. As I was writing this ours went off- we go outside and wait. And wait. And wait some more! Security comes out “There’s a problem with the building and we don’t know what it is” Wut? “you have to go somewhere else- could be about an hour” *stands in amazement for 30 seconds* fire alarm goes off and we can go in! Or another time when it went off at 4am and we had to be moved into the library for over an hour. 
     
11.  One time at a restaurant my sister’s bf found a bug in the bottom of his beer. Beer was empty when he found it. Instead of being totally disgusted my entire family was laughing hysterically and out of control. We ended up getting 50% off our meal or something. It was a good laugh and has gone down in the record books.
     
12. The only hair I wear in SL is by ETD in blonde-burnt flavor, I only wear one skin, and I not only made my shape but have had it since I rezzed. I love that people can recognize me by my look and not just the name tag floating above my head. That and I hate change LOL
     
13. I love and believe in the Supernatural. We actually think there’s a ghost in my attic that likes to throw suitcases at my brother.  My favorite show on tv is also Supernatural <3
     
14. Speaking of tv, I hate it most of the time and don’t watch it since I’d much rather be on the puter. The only shows I do watch are Supernatural, CSI (all types), medical shows, discovery channel, House, and only a few others that I’ll think about putting on. I do LOVE movies though!
     
15. DVR is a gift from god. My family would probably die without it.
     
16. I can’t be doing just one thing at a time, even while in WoW. I always have my main application going (SL or WoW) plus plurk and instant messengers while probably browsing a few sites as well.  
     
17. The only thing I’m really scared of is small spaces- but only ones that are unfamiliar to me. Spiders don’t bother me too much, I love snakes, and I think bats are the cyootest things evar! (I think that covers some of the most common fears) Needles don’t bother me either, like at all. The only thing that bothers me about shots is the burning sensation and soreness due to the vaccine. I am actually fascinated by getting my blood taken and sit there and watch. Glucose tests (for diabetes) don’t bother me either. No, I don’t have diabetes, but had these tests in AP&P a couple days ago.
     
18. I have way too many doctors for someone who is 20. They include my normal doctor, eye doctor, rheumatologist, gynocologist, dentist, chiropractor and neurologist who I visit on a regular basis. I’ve also been to orthopedists, pediatrist, and dermatologist. I’ve also had 12 months of physical therapy, 2 knee surgeries, multiple ingrown toenail removals, and a few weeks of occupational therapy. I’ve had an MRI on my head and both knees, tons o x-rays, echocardiogram, and many EKGs. All of this and I surprisingly don’t have any life-threatening illnesses (YAY!!!)- though I do have fibromyalgia and chronic migraines.
     
19. I love to travel. I have been to Florida, Wisconsin, Arizona, and every state in New England. Out of the country includes Barbados, Aruba, Russia, and Belarus. I liked Aruba more than Barbados but my Russia/Belarus trip was my fav!
     
20. Every summer my family hosts kids from the chernobyl region in russia/belarus. They spend the month of July in the USA for medical treatment and FUN! Summer of 2009 will be our 10th year hosting, and I honestly can’t remember what we did in the summer before we started hosting, my guess was it was very boring.
     
21.  My sister was born in December of 1990. That year my older brother had the chicken pox and chased me around the house until I got it. I did get it, and had it through Christmas. 
     
22. I have had lyme disease despite having the lyme disease vaccine. Only I could pull this off I think.
     
23. If I go to sleep upset- I usually either can’t sleep or have nightmares all night. Also, even when daydreaming I’ll always think of a cute scenario and things will go on and somehow always turn it into something morbid or horrible. I have no idea how or why I do this but it’s probably due to too many horror flicks plus CSI episodes (I just luffs them so much!)
     
24. I am a music FREAK! I love almost everything and always have some sort of music playing somewhere. I would probably die without my iPod too.
     
25. I am actually an extremely shy and paranoid person in RL. This is mostly due to how awkward I feel in my body since I’m always in pain from the fibro. It’s almost like what my brain says and what my body does is totally different so I’m always self conscious. I am, however, trying to fix this.

I tag: Danni (though she already did it- but it’s in teh rulezorz!), John, Misty, Velveeta, Loaf, Roxette, Smiley, The crew at SL Rev, and anyone else who happens to read this (Yes, that means YOU!!!!).

Stupid questions. Teachers/professors have always told me “There is no such thing as a stupid question”. Sorry, but I beg to differ. There are such things as stupid questions.

I first laughed about this when I saw one episode of Gilmore Girls way back and Lorelei wanted to ask Luke a question, and she said it’s stupid, and Luke responded with there are no stupid questions, and she sarcastically replied “How do pens work?” or something to that effect and Luke replies “Ok, so there are stupid questions, what was yours?” I don’t even remember what the original question was now, but that little tidbit has stuck with me for years.

Stupid questions really bother me. I know in reactions to some things, it’s almost an automated response, but there are some questions asked in certain classes/situations that I’m just sitting there thinking “this person can’t be serious right now” and almost want to come up with a sarcastic answer to mock them with.

Does this make me a bad person? I don’t know. I have probably asked some *really* stupid questions in my time- but for some reason they still bother me to no end.

For example, when you are trying to buy something, and hand the cashier a $20- and they respond “so you want this out of 20$?” I know that there have probably been people that hand them the wrong bill (such as a $20 when paying for something that’s $1), but I almost want to say “No, hold on, let me get out my $50 so you can make even more change”

Another one (more SL example)- when the ETD sale first gets put out and EVERYONE rushes there- I’ve gotten some “are you just looking?” “are you here for the sale?” No, I’m here because I LOVE going to ultra-laggy sims that are commercial and not for relaxing. SERIOUSLY people- only those going to the sale are going to go even if they end up walking like they’re in molasses- not your casual shopper or looker. Even those that were just there to look and didn’t know of the sale and ultra lag would probably quit trying when they find out the sim is filled or when they TP in and can’t move.

Or another. Sitting in the library with books and notebooks all around- someone looks at you and goes “Are you trying to study right now?” No, I just enjoy reading massive textbooks and doing research for fun!

This post is stemming from an incident tonight. My anatomy/physiology/pathophysiology (APP for short) lab was doing a blood glucose experiment. We had to come up with a procedure that could ultimately change the levels of your blood glucose. My group decided we wanted to test cold temperatures and the effects it has on blood glucose levels. I got to be one of the lucky people to sit outside for twenty minute increments x3 (testing our blood glucose every 20min with meters). Don’t ask why we decided to do this, the person that had the original idea got to stay INSIDE, the two that stayed outside (myself included) were the two that were probably going to bitch the least.

So one of my group partners and I are sitting outside in jeans and a tshirt on lab stools. It was 25F/-3.8C outside- aka COLD! Most  people stared at us with omgwtfbbq?! looks but a few responded.

Random student: OMG! Aren’t you guys cold???

Sarcastic response: No you silly person! We were actually so warm inside we decided to come outside with lab stools and chill out here in our tshirts. I actually shiver and convulse whenever I want to- not just when I’m cold.

Random professor: Is this for an experiment?

Sarcastic response: Nope. Our professor got REALLY mad at us so he took our jackets and threw us outside with some lab stools to think about what we had done since he was all out of dunce caps.

Next time you want to ask a question- think about it in your head for a second before it blurts out of your mouth. Ask yourself ”Do I already know the answer to this?” and if the answer is YES, don’t bother asking it.

Ironically, while outside shivering my partner and I realized three things:

1. He was probably having a hard time getting blood to come out of his finger to test glucose levels since we were outside in the cold. One of the first things your body does is start reducing blood flow to your extremeties.
2. We found no studies like this on humans because it would most likely be considered unethical and not pass a review board since there are risks such as hypothermia.
3. Never, ever, ever on your own free will volunteer to stay outside, sitting (aka can’t move around) for that long  in a tshirt when it is this cold. Whether it is for the love of science or not- just don’t do it!

*Grumbles and cuddles under blankets with some hot cocoa. *

Edit: The results of the experiment (if you were interested) were surprising. The control group (the two lucky assholes) had no significant change in their glucose levels (which is expected). We expected glucose levels to go down in the cold since your muscles would be shivering. What happened was after the first 20 minutes they only dropped slightly (we were also wearing sweatshirts) but could also be explained by the first exposure to cold and muscles using up the glucose real fast. After the second time outside glucose levels elevated dramatically. This can be accounted to glucagon (a hormone released by pancreas) starting to be released to break up glycogen stored in the liver into glucose, as well as stimulating your liver to make new glucose molecules. Both of those would increase the amount of glucose in your blood. After the 3rd trial outside our glucose levels dropped again, more dramatically this time- which we can say happened due to the glucose that was just released/made was used up already. 

If you didn’t understand that at all- glucose = simple sugar and your fast acting energy source. If it still boggles your mind you can either ask me about it OR just go along on your merry way I don’t expect many to understand that whole little explanation.

Real life post time!

So I’ve seen so many “New Year Resolution” posts… and Danni and Johan also did posts having to do with school schedules, so this one is kind of a mesh of both

School!

I think I was on crack when I did my schedule for school… here it is:

Monday

Organic Chemistry 2- 9-9:50amEST

Organic chem lab- 2-5:20pmEST

Tuesday

Anatomy, Physiology & Pathophysiology 2- 8-9:20amEST

Cultural Anthropology- 9:30-10:50amEST

Intro to Psychology- 1-2:20pmEST

AP&P Lab- 3-5:50pm

Wednesday

Organic Chemistry 2- 9-9:50amEST

Thursday

Anatomy, Physiology & Pathophysiology 2- 8-9:20amEST

Cultural Anthropology- 9:30-10:50amEST

Intro to Psychology- 1-2:20pmEST

Friday

AP&P Recitation- 8-8:50amEST

Organic Chemistry 2- 9-9:50amEST

Ochem Recitation- 12-12:50pmEST

Saturday

RELAXIN TIME!

Sunday

Sign Language- 3:30-5:30? (time isn’t set in stone yet, we don’t start for another week or so)

So yeah. Tuesdays suck and Wednesdays rock. My options for classes I had to take vs what I wanted to take turned into this mess. Every day I also am getting up *before* class and going to breakfast. That may seem so not me (it is, I hate getting up) but I also cannot live without breakfast and on tues/thurs especially I have to just suck it up. Being well fed and able to concentrate is obviously more important than being starved, dizzy, and only thinking about foodage. I also have to work in some sort of gym schedule- that will be talked about in a minute.

I’m actually really excited about all my classes (except Ochem because chemistry and I don’t get along) especially my sign language class. I’ve been wanting to learn sign language for SO long, and even though it’s a non-credit course I *HAD* to sign up. I can’t wait My anthropology prof seems pretty cool and my intro to psych prof is just fab It’s going to be a good semester!

The only problems I may have this semester is roommate-related and requires another blog post entirely.

New Years Resolutions

Normally I don’t make any resolutions, I think they’re dumb (mostly because I can never keep any of mine), but this year I really need to crack down. Here are my top two resolutions:

1. Stop procrastinating on studying. Ochem and AP&P 1 were hard enough, I really need to crack down and do a little work each day to get through the material. I’m shooting for at least a C+/B- in Ochem and an A- in AP&P  (along with As in Intro to Psych and Anthropology). I know the C+/B- seems low but I’m trying to be realistic here people. I have a serious lack for math/chemistry.

2. The Gym. Many of you know I have fibromyalgia, and the rheumatologist said she is “prescribing” me 20-30 minutes of excercising 5 days a week. I know it will work I am just so tired and sore *all* the time that it’s hard to get over that to get it in the day. Starting next week though I will be hitting the gym so she doesn’t yell at me anymore (and for my own damn good).

Hopefully I can keep to these. The reason I have trouble with procrastination is due to my constant fatigue. When I say constant I mean constant. I haven’t felt “rested” in ages, I really have to convince myself getting out of bed and doing stuff is actually a good idea. I also have issues sleeping. I know it’s really odd, I’m tired all the time but I can’t selep. Don’t ask, it’s just true dammit (and no it’s NOT all in my head). Put fatigue with pain in pretty much every joint and muscle in my body and you’ve got yourself one lazy 20 year old. Hopefully the excercise will not only fix my fatigue and pain, but will help me focus and have motivation to do actual work when it should be done, not at the last minute.

Wish me luck… I need it!

This is yet another blog meme that I saw on Plurk…. Roxette’s plurk to be exact! I decided what the hell and to do it. So here is the RL Alex and 16 random quirks!

1. I’m 20 years old, my middle name is actually Alexandra,  and I’m in college!

2. I’m in my 3rd year at college and plan on going to grad school because I’m hoping to be either in the genetics or microbiology field once done with school.

3. I have chronic migraines and fibromyalgia- go fail body! I *try* not to let it get in my way but there are just some days that plain suck getting out of bed.

4. I have a cat (Whiskers), a fishy (Vladimir),  and 4 ferrets- Mocha, Maggie, Bear and Jack. Mocha is ms. dominant of the bunch, Maggie is clumsy and has had 2 strokes now and still going strong, Bear is not the brightest crayon in the box and very lovable, and Jack is an old man. I love them all so much <3

5. My boyfriend lives in Wisconsin and is 33 years old with two of the cutest chilluns you have ever seen! Yes, 13 years apart is a lot but it just happens to be the same age gap as my parents

6. I have been playing SL for over 2.5 years now and have 6 SL kids and love them all to pieces! I also have met some of the best friends of my life there <3 I also play World of Warcraft with the boyfriend and have many many toons including a 71 druid, 70 hunter, and 66 death knight as my highest ones. Oh and HORDE FTW! I dabble in Spore now and then too.

7. I graduated from High School on 06/06/06 and our valedictorian said Fuck in his speech.  It was a night to remember!

8. I live in Massachusetts and in the same house my entire life.

9. My staple food at college is- you guessed it- Ramen! But my favorite food at the moment is my mom’s chili.

10. I have 7 piercings and no tattoos (at least not yet). Piercings include: 2 in each ear lobe, the top cartilage in my right ear, and my tragus on my left ear as well as my bellybutton. I don’t really “plan” on getting anymore but you never know!

11. My fam is a mish mosh. I have 2 half brothers (one my mom’s son- 30 years old, the other my dad’s- 32? years old), one full sister (who is 18), and all my aunts/uncles on my mom’s side were adopted (there are 4. One aunt is missing, one uncle is an asshole, and my other aunt and uncle who we *do* talk to are half siblings and african american). I have no grandparents left on either side of the fam and the aunt I have on my dad’s side we don’t talk to.

12. I danced for about 10 years! Ballet, tap, jazz, ballroom (for a couple years) and pre-pointe/pointe.

13. I have had 12 months of physical therapy and 2 surgeries- one on each knee. Had them because my kneecaps were out of place! I would have needed the surgery when I was older, but since I was a dancer it just sped up my need for it.

14. I’ve been in 2 car crashes. One of which I ripped a telephone pole in half (literally- the top of it was hanging by wires), the other was a fender bender. The major one I walked away from and never even went to the hospital.

15. I *always* wear my seatbelt when I am in any car. It saved my life when I ripped that pole in half, and now I won’t go anywhere without it. It’s gotten to be a pet peeve now.

16. I hate watching tv but love movies and have music on almost 24/7. I only watch tv when I’m at home and my sisser is watching it.

Okay, now that you know all about my life you can go make a post on yer own blog! Everyone that reads this is officially TAGGED!

LIKE ZOMG! I’M BACK! NO WAI!? WAI!I know I know I’ve been missing. We all need our breaks. Mine just took a little longer than most peoples. Suck it up

So where the hell have I been you ask? That’s a pretty damn good question. I may have an answer- one you may not like but it’s better than no answer

Real Life

I have been doing [a little] RL. I know- that thing that is beyond your puter. It’s a pretty weird place but was trying to get used to it. Matt and I are still together and I actually took ANOTHER trip out to Wisconsin to see him in August. Actually- I DROVE to see him. 1100 miles away too. Pretty impressive huh? I didn’t think I could do it but I did! Stayed overnight in Ohio too with a friend. (OH p.s. for those of you who don’t know I’m a total masshole.) I stayed for about a week and a half and it was total heaven. Met his two chicklets (who are 5 and 3) and they are wonderful as well

School has also started back up! I am a junior in college now :O how did the time go so fast??? Anyways- classes are awesome, but as most people know my roommates are assholes. There could be an entire post on why I hate them but it comes down to one simple thing: They are LOUD. Loud as hell to be exact. Like, keep me up at night loud which is insane. Enough about them though I has more to write.

Jobs- there aren’t any. I need a new puter and to start paying for stuff on my own BADLY- but no jobs. It sucks. Thank fking god Obama won. Nuff said.

Pain (physical- not emo) sucks. Hands getting worse. Still want doctors to give me pain pills and nada so far. Basically same as always.

Things with home are okay (mostly because I’m at school) but mom is realizing there are no jobs and it isn’t my fault. FINALLY god dammit.

Mmmkay. I think that’s all for real life that I can think of… NEXT!

World of Warcraft

Or should I say warcrack? You guess. Yes, that is where I have been hiding away from SL. Expansion comes out next week (WOO!) and I have managed to level TWO 70s in the few months I’ve been playing. I rock I know. Matt also has two 70s now too We are pretty much badass.

For you WoW geeks- I have a 70 blood elf beast mastery hunter and a 70 tauren resto druid. (for those of you who aren’t geeks you’re prolly sittin there like wut o.o?- dun worry I will try and not blab too much).

As you can see I have a few other toons made, some not even played. My 3rd and 4th fav are my shadow priest and protection warrior. They both rock pretty hardcore.

So why’d I go to WoW? Stressed out, away from drama, boyfriend plays it. Killing shit is a really freaking nice stress reliever. Try it sometime! Though, don’t try it on real people please, and if you do do NOT blame me for telling you xD

ANYWAYS kinda getting bored of it hence my return to SL.  Never thought you’d see the day huh? I think I just overkilled it a tad and miss some of my friends, and I think all the drama that made me leave has blown over- hence the return.

SL

So, return to SL… is this fer real? Yes it is. It seems on all my rezz day anniversaries I need a break from SL. Last years wasn’t nearly as long, but there was more drama this year and boyfriend has lasted longer. Be happy I’m back (or not if you hate me- meh dun care anymore)

Any catches to me coming back? Of course. Don’t expect me to get TOO involved in drama etc (we all know that won’t happen but I can hope). I’m going to try not to get uberously involved in crap (huge projects etc) Oh, and, not dating men either (emphasis on men). Have one in RL don’t need another in SL.

Annie (my mini me) will also be on lots too. If you must know her full name IM me. If not you can figure it out.

I will be trying to blog again (and don’t worry there is a rant already in my head about SL at the moment- so stay tuned for that) and you’ll see me in world. At nights I’ll mostly be in WoW when Matt is on, SL is basically going to rotate around his schedule. He is my #1 ya know

I AM still doing photoshop even though I don’t have the store anymore- Just IM me in world or drop me a notecard and we can set stuffage up

I do also still build so if you need anything made or want a quick how to don’t be afraid to ask

Ok, I think this post is freaking long enough. I promised JoJoBees a post before he woke up so here it is. Night all!

[Edit: I know when you click the pictures the box isn't coming up to view the regular size. No idea what is wrong but will try and fix it. All of the pictures here are on my flickr.]

Helloooooo my pretties!

I know I’m the slackiest of slackers when it comes to updates these days but my time in SL has been limited!

Drama has cooled since my HKE posts… funny how I didn’t get any IMs after the correction one *shrugs*

I’ve been on Alex not so much for a few different reasons… one being that one of my best friends has left SL, I don’t know what to do in SL anymore, I still come in to dance for Vie but other than that I am bored city…

OH OH OH AND! I got WoW back :O I am once again a World of Warcraft geek. A good friend of mine (well my boyfriend now) paid for me to re-activate my account for 3 months! I’ve been playing with him and am one level away from catching up to my old character. Mom h as also been playing so it has been teh awesomez! Warcraft is nowhere near the same thing as SL, but lately it has been good for me because it has been my stress reliever. Nothing like going on a game and just killing EVERYTHING you see to de-stress and with everything I’ve been dealing with with SL it has been great! Blood elf hunters FTW!

Last week I actually WORKED! I got a nanny job for my dentist :O they have 4 kids… 4, 6, 8, and 10, all boys except the 8 year old. I worked from the Monday till Thursday.. over 30 hours and made just over $300! Kids were great and well behaved and their mom is stay at home so I just basically had to run errands and keep them out of her hair while she got ready to go on vacation with them. Hopefully I’ll get to babysit more for them!

Speaking of new boyfriend… I am actually on a mini vacation right now! I flew to Wisconsin to come meet him and it has been fab I got here Tuesday late afternoon and flying back home Monday. Later today I’m going to go meet my SL momma <3 She only lives about a half hour from Matt. I haven’t been this happy in awhile.. going to be the worst going back home, but not going to think about that till Sunday

Anyways… need to find some way to entertain myself.. I’m sitting in a Panera Bread at the moment in Madison… Matt works right across the street. Normally I’d stay home but we have to pick up a rental car for me around 12 (which is in 2 hours and 15 minutes) then I can go home and get ready to meet momma! Wondering if this connection is fast enough to play SL or WoW…. we’ll find out!

Tootles!

/me really needs to get back into posting more.

So it’s been up and down the past week or so. I’ve been on my hiding a bit because of drama etc. We’ve also had no customers at the photography studio (luckily we’re not renting somewhere else for that) and Dancing for Vie has been insane.

I officially am NOT working at HKE anymore. Why you may ask? Well here you go:

One of the teachers is not only bipolar, but has worn bits on her around children during camp and ran around a sim screaming that she was going to kill herself.

Another teacher acts immature and breaks rules students are supposed to follow nearly every school day, not only that but has harassed students outside the classroom and has played dirty during elections on her kid alt.

Ooh the elections. The president campaigned way dirty and even totally trashed one of the teachers houses (she moved around furniture because she had mod rights and added other things) and taped it/put it on youtube and all she had to do was apologize. She also has harassed students in the past as well as played dirty during her campaign.

Did I mention most of the staff have kid alts that go to school? Well they do. As I’ve heard the principal and vice principals kid alts are captains of the dance team. Does that seem fair? I think not.

The dance team/cheerleading coach let a girl on the cheer squad without a tryout. Who is that girl? Lyvia’s alt. She also adopted her.

The kids don’t learn anything. They have like an hour of class. Most of it is trying to calm the kids down or waiting for kids to come in. The rest of school is recess/gym/lunch. I understand recess- that’s for clubs, but gym and lunch? It’s too laggy on that sim to do anything and WE DON’T NEED TO EAT IN SL! These three things make up over an hour of school time. Not only that but during class they learn things like weather, adding decimals, etc…. ummm we kind of already did that in RL!!! I understand it’s supposed to simulate a real school- but seriously- you can do that while teaching things worth knowing in SL like building or scripting. Sorry- but I find it a HUGE waste of 2 hours, it’s basically only there for socialization.

I’m obviously not going to take my kids out of there- but I ain’t going back there and don’t want to touch it with a 10 foot pole- sorry wayyyyyyyy too corrupt for my taste.

If anyone from HKE cares about what I wrote- tough shit. All of this I found out from word of mouth so I’m pretty sure the entire school knows- I’m just stating it out loud for everyone else to hear. Don’t IM me about it- it won’t be taken off my page. Suck it up and open your eyes. If you IM me in world about it- I’ll mute you. Plain and simple. No names were stated (other than Lyvia’s- but that acct is cancelled and I didn’t state her alts name) so only those involved with HKE will know who I’m talking about- unless you feel like digging and finding out who I’m talking about.

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NEW TOPIC!

OK while I’m ranting I may just keep going on another thing

SICKEZE HUD

For those that are not involved in the child avie roleplay.. this is the HUD that has swept the kid world!

My daughter Ami wrote a consumer report here… but I’m going to write my own little rant about it.

This little HUD you attach will help you ‘roleplay’ being sick. Ok first of all, why the hell would you want to get sick in SL? That’s the BEAUTY of SL- you AREN’T sick (that’s why I’m in it ffs)

Ok Ok so part of being a kid is getting sick I get it… but let me go on.

Sicknesses spread. If you are near another kid with the SICKEZE HUD and they are sick, you can catch that (such as a cold or flu or bronchitis). The infection rate however is INSANE. Danni caught bronchitis from Ami from 10 meters away!! And there’s very little time kids spend not sick if they are always around kids. There is an “immune” state which is like 4 or 5 hours or something, but that isn’t much if you are ALWAYS on SL.

Speaking of this “immune” state… this goes for things like appendicitis. I know a kid that got her appendix out TWICE! How the hell does that happen? Did they take her spleen out by accident the first time and so her appendicitis cured and then she got it again and they took the right thing out this time? Did she just grow a new appendix? Ok, I understand catching the cold more than once- but that is insane.

You can also break arms etc. This seems decent. Danni broke her arm falling 500m… now theoretically she should have DIED but at least she broke something… but a friend of mine broke her arm from using a deruthing rocket… another just by running into a wall.

I think there may be some bugs to work out in this thing.

It’s also a whopping 500L. Sorry, I find it a total waste of money. You can roleplay sicknesses better than this thing. (Where did roleplaying go anyways?? Has it really gotten to the point where you need a HUD to help you roleplay!?)

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OK I’m done I promise. Next post will be a little less insane, hopefully. Can’t promise anything though.

Tootles!