Go West Young Nerd

We salute our Locutus of Blog, Abra, as she joins the ranks of the graduated and begins her life in Seattle. We send her off with open hearts and our warmest of wishes. Take luck and enjoy your adventures, NerdyGirl, but remember we are only a blog post away.


Abra Kilroy
Originally uploaded by Raksha38.

I love you Abra! Enjoy Seattle goodness! I know you're going to totally own that city within a month.

Comics In Braille Wouldn't Be That Bad, Right?

So, I had to get glasses. I fucking hate them. They're ugly, they give me a headache and make me dizzy, and everything looks farther away than it is, so I'm constantly groping around like a retard when I try to grab something. I wish I'd never gone to the eye doctor in the first place. I wasn't going to wear them at all, they were just going to be very, very expensive coffee table decorations in my new apartment, but my dad smacked me in the face with some logic, so I feel like I have to now.

See, my dad is an optometrist, and though we're not close and I don't actually like him very much as a person or a father, he does know his shit when it comes to glasses. So, since the eye people here in Idaho are fucking incompetent, lazy assholes and wouldn't explain what the hell all those numbers in my prescription mean, I called my dad in Ohio to ask if my vision would get worse if I didn't wear my glasses. I also called him to beg him to adjust my glasses right* as soon as I get into Columbus in September. He said that my vision wouldn't get worse if I didn't wear my glasses, but I have a pretty hefty prescription, so I probably really need to wear them. The whole reason I went to get them in the first place was that I was getting terrible headaches all the time, so if these would make those stop, that would be a good thing, right? (*sigh*) He said I should wear them for two weeks to get used to them, and then after that I could just wear them when I'm doing things that give me eye fatigue and strain and give me headaches. Unfortunately, this means I'll have to wear them pretty much all the time, since reading, using a computer, driving (especially at night), watching TV, and sitting in buildings with flourescent light gives me headaches. And sometimes I get eye-headaches when I'm tired.

Fuckin' A. I can't fucking stand the way I look with glasses. I'm not a vain person, honestly. I just hate to make things worse, is all.


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Originally uploaded by Raksha38.

* = The lady who made my glasses refused to adjust them right. She kept saying "Well, they look straight" in this tone of voice that implied I was just trying to make trouble. Then she'd push on the left nose pad a little (it needs to come in and the left lense needs to come up a bit), but she wouldn't do it hard enough to actually move it. Now most of the weight of the glasses is resting on the right side of my nose. The mark on that side of my nose is quite a fetching shade of neon pink.

Dude, Seriously. Seriously, Dude.

Okay, so today I was flipping through the latest issue of Herbivore Magazine and came across an interview with a guy named Josh Harper. I nearly dropped the magazine in shock. This guy is the He-Bryski! Seriously, someone should alert Jess, because it looks like she's got a brother out there nobody told her about! Was she adopted? Did one of her parents run off and start another family? This is just weird. So, for comparison purposes, I swiped a pic of Jess from the Women's Action Network's Scrapbook page and scanned the pic of Josh Harper from the magazine:


Jess Bryski (with the fabulous Rachelle)



Josh Harper (aka the He-Bryski)


My mind is blown, yo.

A Super Special Blog Post Just For Brittany!

Just because I love you so much, my little squid, I made this picture for you! Sweet dreams, little one!


BrittanyWookie
Originally uploaded by Raksha38.

Is it wrong that I'm so proud of this? I'm especially pleased with the way the spider gag turned out. I had to take it off of a woman who was in a completely different position than this Wookie, resize it, and stick it in there. I also had to create a pair of chaps out of one chap leg and a belt. And I did it all with MS Paint! Oh yeah. I'm hardcore, yo. I got mad photoshop skillz.

Cheap Interview Post Used To Disguise The Fact That I Don't Really Have Anything To Say At The Moment

Here are The Official Interview Game Rules:

1. If you want to participate, leave a comment below saying “interview me.”
2. I will respond by asking you five questions - each person’s will be different.
3. You will update your journal/blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview others in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

Questions from Linus

1) Where were you when MST3k aired its last episode?

I was right in front of my TV! It was three houses ago (four, if you count the one we're in the process of moving to now). It was on HWY 200, right outside of Sandpoint. It was a trailer on a big horse farm where we were caretakers. My mom and I sat in the livingroom laughing our asses off during the show and sniffling on the commercials. The movie that they played "Danger Diabolik" is the movie on which the Beastie Boys based their video for "Body Moving." I also think that Diabolik in his white costume looks a lot like Fantomex from the X-Men.

Bonus Trivia! - Diabolik comic books, callendars, and stuff are still being published. A disturbing number of the covers I found on Google have him scaring the bejezus out of women.


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Originally uploaded by Raksha38.

Also - When I did a Google search for pictures of Fantomex, it turned up this avatar of Danni from "The Tribe." It's always freaky when two of my obsessions converge for no apparent reason.

2) Pick one: chard or escarole?

Chard, I guess. I don't have any strong feelings either way.

3) Scientists say that humans may have evolved from apes, or possibly other extinct species. What do you think you evolved from?

Pfft, I don't know what those scientists are talking about. I didn't evolve from anything. I sprang forth fully grown, like Athena. Only replace Zeus with Freya, and there you go. I'm all kinds of special, don't you know.

4) I swallowed a quarter once. What have you swallowed?

Oh, dear. So, my old cat Pookie used to drool when she'd purr. She also liked sleeping on my chest or tummy or in the crook of my arm when I was laying down, and then purr until she fell asleep too. So, one afternoon I fell asleep on the couch in the living room, with my mouth wide open. Pookie, as usual, came up and curled up on my chest. Well, I must have been making a weird noise or something, because my mom says she was staring at my face and then she leaned over to sniff my nose and mouth. Unfortunately, she did that just as this huge drop of drool fell off her chin. Right into my mouth. It choked me awake. That was so nasty.

5) If you could go back and start school over, knowing what you know now, in what subject would you major?

Well, the choice of major for me wasn't a question of what I enjoy or what I want to do with my life, so much as it was a question of what subject I hated the least and trying to find something that wouldn't drive me to kill myself before I graduated. So, Women's Studies it is. I would never have taken any Psych classes, though, so I wouldn't have ended up with my Psych minor.


Completely Random Addition: I was reading the Something Awful forums earlier and a poster by the name of Doctor McNinja had this avatar. I laughed for a good 4 or 5 minutes. It's possible I need to get out more.


Originally uploaded by Raksha38.

"Why Can't People Understand, I've Got A Short Attention Span? Short Attention Span."

1) I have both of the X-men/Star Trek comic crossovers and I have the first novel 'Planet X.' Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find me the name of, or better yet a link to, the second crossover novel. I must have it. As a Trekkie and a Marvel Zombie, I feel strangely incomplete without it.

2) Speaking of the X-men, remember back in February when our very own Pink Princess posted that flow chart of who's kissed and/or screwed who on Buffy? Well, I've got that one beat! Feast your eyes on the X-men Continuity Flow Chart, 1990-2000!


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Originally uploaded by Raksha38.

To see a much bigger version, click here. Put your cursor over the picture and a button will appear in the lower left hand corner of the picture. Click it.

That's only the basics, too! Somewhere in there, they had both of the X-Men/Star Trek crossovers and a couple other things too. Dudes, I own most of these comics, and even I can't follow this chart!

3) I've developed this strange fascination with the song "Guns Don't Kill People, Rappers Do" by Goldie Lookin Chain. They're 8 white British guys. Funny weirdness.

4) If you can identify where the title of this post came from, I'll give you a cookie.

I've got the deep hurting....

Little update:

My mom's "you won't have to do any moving stuff" resolution lasted almost a week. On Friday, she finally started making me do stuff to prepare for the upcoming move. So far, we've pretty much remodeled our entire house so we can sell it. Even though our house was really nice already and we're asking nearly $100,000 less than our nearest "competitors" and our house is way nicer than anything you can get for $139,000 around here. Today, I had to pack up all of the stuff I'd left in my room because I don't need to cart it to school with me, take it out to the garage, unpack about a third of the stuff I've brought back from school, and figure out a way to camouflage the other 20 or so boxes full of my comic books in a room with no closets. That was...interesting. Thank goodness there are some built in drawers in the wall. I had to move most of my clothes to the armoire in the basement, but at least any potential buyers won't know I'm a nerdy freak. For some reason, my mom seems to think this is important.

I never want to walk up another flight of stairs in my life. Unfortunately, this means I'll now have to live in the basement of this house, since that is where the computer I am typing on is currently located. I hurt all over.

Did you notice the dollar amount I mentioned above? Those of you who know me are probably surprised, since it's no secret I'm flat broke, always have been, and my family isn't much better off. My parents are asking (and will be getting, no question) $139,000 for our dinky little house in the armpit of Idaho. They bought it almost three years ago for $71,000. That is how crazy the housing market is right now. The Californians have discovered us and not only have prices gone through the roof, but they're selling houses as soon as they go on the market. The house my parents are buying is a little farm house on 10 acres outside of town somewhere. They're paying $180,000 for it. However, turns out the sellers just want to get the fuck out of here, so they're selling it for way less than what it's worth. That property actually appraised at $280,000. The best part of this is that they're starting to build a bridge across the river at the end of the road that leads to that farm. When they finish it early next spring, they're putting four $1,000,000 houses in that area. My parents' property value is set to triple. Yes, I've had to live on nothing but cheese sandwiches for a week straight in the recent past because I couldn't afford to buy groceries, but my parents' home will be worth nearly a million dollars.

My head hurts.

And, of course, I won't be living in this shiny new house, as I will be moving two more times this summer! Everytime I even think about that, I throw my head back and cry like Snoopy ("Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa!").

In other, geekier news, I promised here are some pictures of things I'm getting for myself because I just got my last paycheck from the Science Library and I like being poor:


Mitchell
Originally uploaded by Raksha38.

This is my new bag! I decided I needed a bigger one to carry around the laptop I got as a graduation present. So I went big and I went nerdy. Mitchell. Even his name says "Is that a beer?" *sings* Who's the puffy guy who's the big blurry sex machine? Mitchell! They say Mitchell is one bad mother-- Shut your mouth! I'm just talking 'bout Mitchell...


FilthyAssistant
Originally uploaded by Raksha38.

And since I will be transfering my button collection to my new bag, I'm going to nerdy it up a little with a little Filthy Assistant action. Not that my button collection isn't already slightly nerdy, what with the "Phoenix Lives!" button (from back when she died the first time) and my piece of flair.