where did annie go when she went to town who are all those creeps that she hangs around

I've spent a week hiding in my mom's house, hunched over the computer or the coffee table on which I spread my jewelry supplies, whizzing around the neighborhood on my bike when it's sunny and hiding inside under the covers when it rains, wishing my mom wasn't too cheap to pay for heat. Because my mom has a weird DSL connection, I can't IM anyone. As a result, the only person I've exchanged more than three sentences with this week, besides Mom, is my little brother. While he is fairly intelligent for a 15-year-old because I've spent years training him, and somewhat cooler than me, he is...a 15-year-old boy. As a result, most of our conversations go like this:

Me: So really, the distinction between good and evil is a totally human-created paradigm, right?
Brian: ...
Me: What do you think? Brian?
Brian: I likes da squirrel.
Me: Yes. Squirrel. Okay.
Brian: So whaddya think about that there string theory huh?
Me: ...
Brian: I likes da squirrel.

The good thing is that he has promised to show me how to use some nifty object called Trillian, which apparently doesn't kick you off Yahoo like GAIM does. He himself doesn't have a problem talking with all his weird little friend-people because he uses AIM instead. I do not use AIM because I have a major grudge against AIM. It killed my master.

Anyway, I was looking forward to going to the Motor City ComicCon this weekend and meeting Jeff Combs...and I didn't. (single tear) I stayed in the house instead and hung out with my nuclear relatives. Which was nice...we went swimming, went to the movies, went to eat dinner at overpriced restaurants despite the fact that Mom is a teacher and therefore broke. (You can pay $20 for a plate of pasta but you can't afford to keep my fingers from falling off from the cold?)
( Mom rants about love! )

Anyway, instead of meeting Jeff Combs, I went to Comic City in Novi and got the new Fillerbunny comic. It's probably the most cynical thing Jhonen Vasquez has ever done in all aspects of its existence. I also discovered that there are "Army of Darkness" comic books, and not just the Re-Animator crossovers. These books are actually not too bad-looking; they are fairly well-drawn and seem to keep the spirit of the movie, as far as I could tell. (I only got to flip through them a little before Mom dragged me away and started asking pointed questions about why I was spending $3 on a piece of "badly-drawn crap that you're only going to read once and then throw away" when I could be saving that $3 for MY FUTURE. Mom, you do not throw away Jhonen Vasquez comics, you save them and shove them under Jhonen's nose and go "WILL YA AUTOGRAPH IT PLEEZE?" and then giggle. Anyway, what else would I spend that $3 on? It's already in my wallet and not my bank account, I might as well get the comic instead of buying donuts or something. Jeez.) When I get my first paycheck, I swear EVERY CENT of it is going towards "Army of Darkness" comics, replacement JtHM and "I Feel Sick" comics (Brian lent ours out to one of his friends who lent it out to someone else who moved to Canada, the little fucker), and miniature six-sided die. Can't cast Lightning Bolt without 'em.
Reading this over, I can't believe what a nerd I am. Nevertheless, I leave you with a word of advice: If you are trying to vacuum out your mom's car because you spilled glitter all over the seats, and you have one of those vacuums with the long hose and stick attachment, and you get bored and start waving it around and tell your little brother "This is my BOOMSTICK", you had better make sure that he's actually seen "Army of Darkness", otherwise he will not get the joke and will just stick the vacuum onto his lip and pretend it is sucking out his vocal cords.

ETA: Still making earrings. Plz buy some. Anyone know any good jewelry communities?

I wanna write fanfic now

I had a very disturbing and vivid dream last night. It started out as an episode of Yellowjacket Greenapple, Private Investigator, and it had drworm in a cameo appearance as some kind of oracle psychic. The plot involved a small group of sorority girls whose brains had been taken over by Yeerk-like aliens (Yeerks were the aliens in the "Animorphs" series, which I used to love; they were little slugs that went into people's brains like in Heinlein's "The Puppet Master" book). The aliens were being controlled by something that appeared to be a Gundam robot (I don't watch Gundam but I know what they look like), and it was making the sorority girls take over my dorm, go into people's rooms and perform weird rituals meant to placate their demon robot master, then steal all the furniture and chop up the stairs so that they could hold the rest of the dorm captive and put the slugs in our heads. I would like to say that I bravely held them off with Yellowjacket Greenapple and drworm, but I actually spent most of the dream cowering in my bunk and trying to find the elevator so I could get out. I'm not sure why Yellowjacket Greenapple was there, because he doesn't actually investigate real things that are happening. Maybe he was there on accident. And drworm isn't actually an oracle psychic, unless there is some spooky new development in her life that she has neglected to inform people of. Also, my dorm doesn't have an elevator. And I didn't have a bunk bed while I was there.
Maybe it's one of those deja-vu dreams I get, and I'll have a bunk bed next year, and evil alien sorority girls will take it over.

Yay for public libraries. I went to mine today and they were celebrating with cheap balloons because they got more taxpayer money. I would much rather my taxes, which I do not pay, go to public libraries instead of nuclear weapons. Of course, this was a millage, so it only affected the Farmington Hills area. And Farmington Hills doesn't have any nuclear weapons. It'd be cool if they did.
Actually, no. That's untrue: Farmington Hills does have nuclear weapons. I distinctly remember one of my history teachers telling me that there was a missile silo on Grand River, left over from the Cold War. I'm going to have to go and verify that...
Anyway, I got books. I got all seven Preston/Child books that they had (everything up until "Brimstone"), but I am not entirely sure which ones actually have Pendergast in them. All of them? Some of them? Are there some that just have him as a minor character, and then some where he's the main character? Are there any webpages that have a guide to this? I'm going to read all of them anyway because I may have to spend more time at Dad's, and I don't have my jewelry things there...but I'd like to know anyway so that I can figure out which books I have to prepare myself with hot tea and a locked door for, and which ones I can just read during commercial breaks.
I also got a new William Sleator book. William Sleator, for those of you who have not read any of his books, is probably the best YA SF author, like, ever. His books have intriguing premises, intricate and deceptive plots, complex characters, and well-developed underlying themes. His writing reminds me a little of most of ghostgecko's stories, actually.

William Sleator books that YOU NEED TO READ:
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Will work on new part of BttF Fanfic Chain story tomorrow. Have plans to lobotomize at least one major character. The group host person, Heidi Rittner, says she wants to make me a moderator. This means I can kick people off the chain and let other people join...if anyone wants to...