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I'm at Dad's house. I hate Dad's house with a passion. The only good things about it are the food and the cable. I could care less about the food, because there is nothing to do here but eat anyway. The cable is sort of OK, but there's only so much enjoyment to be derived from waiting for Invader Zim to come on. I'd much rather be back at Mom's. I was making anti-death bracelets for people. They weren't that good, because I don't have very many yellow and green beads. But they should still work, I guess. Actually, I don't think they'll work. It's more of a way to tell people that I like them and that I don't want them to die.

I couldn't even bring my laptop to Dad's because Mom doesn't want me to take it. She's afraid that Dad will want to mess around with it and break it. So I still can't IM people until I get up to school, and I'm really lonely and missing everybody a lot. I really, really wish I was going with you guys to Horrorfind and the museum and all those other cool places because then I could meet you and hang out with you and it'd be really nice, and...yeah. I hope you guys have fun.

I wish I had a car. I wish I had a girlfriend that lived near me. I wish I'd never broken up with Tammy. I wish Boyd would call me. I wish I had more of an inclination to hang out with people in real life, because I haven't seen any of my real-life friends in a while, but I'm too lazy to try to call them and make plans. I wish my parents weren't crazy. I wish I lived closer to people I like. I wish I had my own apartment. I wish I knew that everyone I like liked me back.

I saw "Scanners," finally...right after I finished "Slan," so that was a little weird. Both of them are about people with telepathic powers who are shunned by normal people. Both main characters don't know that there's a whole community of other telepaths like them out there. Except that there's an undertone of astonishing arrogance in "Slan," not only towards humans, but towards slans without antennae, who are seen as being better than humans but still inferior to "true" slans. I don't like that.
What I really like about "Scanners," besides the exploding heads, is the unusual way telepathy is portrayed. Like a mental illness, not a special power. It makes so much sense! Imagine you're a little kid who can read other people's minds. Even if you realize that the voices coming into your head aren't your own and belong to other people, and even if you can somehow manage to figure out how to stop them from overwhelming you, how would you know that other people can't do that? You'd assume that everyone else can read minds, and you'd get terribly confused when other people can't pick up what you're thinking or what the other people around them are thinking.

I'm going to post "Time Is a Wave and a Particle" when I get back to Mom's house, probably, or maybe sometime this weekend, so you will all have that to look forward to. Also I'm working on a new story for serious this time. I've already got two pages written on notebook paper.

OK, here are some surveys and things now. I still refuse to call them memes.

Survey: Five fictional characters I would sleep with. nyghtshayde tagged me for this. I think I've already done this before, but stuff changes. It actually took me a while to even pick five, because I'd rather see most fictional characters have sex with each other.

1. George McFly, kind of. Here is how I see it: If I was any kind of Mary Sue, I'd probably be a 17-year-old girl in 1955, knowing my luck. (I don't like the 1950s, except for Beat poetry.) In high school, I was the kind of socially paranoid, bookwormish girl who hung around the really nerdy boys because they were the only people who treated me like a human person with a brain and not a piece of rotten meat. Some of them got mad crushes on me because I was the only girl who treated them like human people with brains instead of walking cootie factories. I went out with some of them for a few awkward dates (note to straight girls: Go out with nerd boys, they will be really nice to you and totally cherish you) because I felt too bad to tell them straight out that I would rather go out with girls. This was solved in 12th grade when I started going out with Tammy, which is something I would not have done had I lived 50 years ago. I would have probably gone along with it and married George until the late 1960s, when I would have run off to join a commune somewhere.
2. Hamlet, from the play. Not because I think he'd be that good in bed, but because I'd love to hear what he says about it.
3. Most of the later female characters from the "Discworld" series. Probably Susan or Magrat. It's hard to pick girl characters in general, because there are so few good ones in my fandoms. PTerry writes female characters really well.
4. Aziraphale, from "Good Omens." I'd make sure to use a LOT of protection, as I don't want to give birth to a race of wizards or make Yahweh flood the world. Actually, I don't really know how it would work, since I don't think angels have genders. Well, whatever, we could just talk about books instead. That's sometimes better than sex. Sometimes.
5. I can't think of another fictional character I'd have sex with. Can I have a threesome with Danny Elfman and Tim Burton? I know they aren't fictional, but they might as well be.

And here is another one which I got from ghostgecko. I have modified it somewhat.
Casting Call

I think it's inevitable that as we read each other's journals we create mental pictures of each other. Post this on your own journal to find out who your friends see when they read about your life.

Two Rules:
1. The person must be famous in some way.
2. You have to post a link to a picture of said person in the comments, or to their profile on Wikipedia or something.

These castings can be based on things in the person's personality or on physical traits you know they have.