The Maid With The Black Velvet Band

I was bored and procrastinating on studying kanji (eviiiiiil), so I started messing around on the long hair comm, and decided I really wanted to know how long my hair actually is. So I whipped out my handy tape measure, and after a couple of minutes of trying to figure out how to get it to lock and how to pull out a full-length strand of my hair when it's still wet from the shower, measured it out.

My hair is exactly 30" long, or two and half feet. That's...kind of a lot of hair. Wow. ^_^

And now I feel guilty again that my default manner of styling is "brush out the knots and just leave it at that".

Gah linguistics midterm is evil, I hate phonology so much it's not even funny. Stupid fucking allophones.

First Times Meme

[1] Who was your FIRST prom date?
I abhor the very idea of the prom, and hence my one and only (thus far) senior prom was unattended by me. I have not for a single moment regretted this. XD

[2] Do you still talk to your FIRST love?
I don't think I've ever been in for-reals love with someone, but I stayed on-and-off friends with my first boy-crush (from, like, 5th grade) until he killed himself when we in high school. Um...this wasn't supposed to be emo, sorry.

[3] What was your FIRST alcoholic drink?
When I was 6 or 7, my parents and I were over at someone's house for an afternoon barbeque type thing. I was drinking soda, and my mom was drinking beer - which I did not realize until I had already grabbed her can and taken a huge gulp of it. Not the best taste ever, for sure!

[4] What was your FIRST job?
My first paying job was this summer, working at the Century Rio movie theater. And it basically sucked in every appreciable way - hot, unpleasant work with boring, annoying people for shit pay. I was so happy the night I quit there.

[5] What was your FIRST car?
I still haven't gotten around to getting my driver's license - maybe this summer? *sheepish*

[6] Who was the FIRST person to text you today?
no one, I don't really text - it's not included as part of my phone plan and my dad gets annoyed if he has to pay extra

[7] Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning?
My roommate Tiffany, because her alarm clock woke up, and her bustling around the room kept me awake. It was around 11 though, so I didn't throw anything at her.

[8] Who was your FIRST grade teacher?
Ms Adams. She was really nice, and quit after my year to become a school librarian instead. She sent me a really sweet card when I graduated.

[9] Where did you go on your FIRST ride on an airplane?
To California, when I was 9-10. I used to fly out to spend part of the summer with my aunt and uncle every year - they'd sign me up for classes, take me on trips to the lake and San Francisco - it was great.

[10] Who was your FIRST best friend and are you still friends with them?
Katy Barnitz, who lived across the street from me in the first house I lived in growing up. She was a year younger than me, and I think we spent a lot more time at her house because they had a nicer yard and we could do crafts. We stayed friends when I moved, but it was hard because we were in different grades, and then she moved to Oklahoma. We picked up our friendshipa little when she moved back in high school, but by then we had very different interests and social circles.

[11] What was your FIRST sport played?
Um. Kickball? Maybe possibly? Or War on Drugs, which was my elementary school PE teacher's version of dodgeball. Either way I probably hated it.

[12] Where was your FIRST sleep over?
Either Katy's or Kynda's (I have/had a lot of friends with K names), before I had to stop going to sleepovers because of allergy/tonsil related problems that made me snore really loud until I had my tonsils out in fifth grade.

[13] Who was the FIRST person you talked to today?
I think I said "g'morning" and "thanks" to the person who swiped my meal card for breakfast.

[14] Whose wedding were you in the FIRST time?
I was the bridesmaid when Lisa and Brad got married - Lisa was my aunt's girlfriend for about 15 years before my aunt decided she wasn't a lesbian anymore and got married. Lisa moved out to NM with her and her husband and lived with me and my mom as a roommate for...about a year, year and a half. She's pretty much family now. It was a very strange wedding - full-on Catholic style, but I was the bridesmaid and the best man was Brad's gay pagan roommate. Fun! And my mom made my dress, which was gorgeous - sage green velvet with white trim.

[15] What was the FIRST thing you did this morning?
Swore at my alarm clock, rolled out of bed, and went to dig my shoes out of the bottom of my dirty laundry bin.

[16] What was the FIRST concert you ever went to?
Gaelic Storm, when I was 14. My dad took me for my birthday. It was at the zoo, and they had to delay it for two hours because it started raining. They were brilliant though.

[17] FIRST tattoo or piercing?
First tattoo last year, a graduation present from my mom (she rocks). I got the kanji for flame on the inside of my right ankle, she got the kanji for breathe under her bellybutton. I love how it turned out, and I've been thinking of getting another one. The only thing I've ever gotten pierced is my ears - when I was 10 (got ripped out, leaving me with weird ear scars), when I was 13 (let them close because I'm lazy), and this Christmas (still got em, whoo)

[18] FIRST foreign country you went to for vacation?
Canada for a few days to visit my aunt and uncle, who live in Vancouver. I got to met my step-cousins, and go to a nature park, and I never did figure out the currency. Good times. Better was my second country - I spent 7 weeks in China the summer before senior year, which was epic.

[19] What was your FIRST run in with the law?
I am, in fact, the only person in my family who has never had the police round for them. My dad (firearms related things, more than once), my mom (set some bushes on fire), my aunt (yelling at my cousins), my cousins (vandalism, drugs, stolen cars, and the infamous Howie Nine-Toes incident), but not me.

[20] When was your FIRST detention?
Senior year in high school, I got caught in a dress code sweep. This was maybe four months after I stopped giving a damn about dress code and just started wearing whatever (and by this I mean normal t-shirts instead of our uniform, not dressing like a hooker).

[21] What was the FIRST state you lived in?
California, but we moved to NM before I was a year old.

[22] Who was the FIRST person to break your heart?
My father. It's...complicated.

[23] Who was your FIRST roommate?
Helen - we got along well aside from her moving her boyfriend into our room.

[24] Where did you go on your FIRST limo ride?
Have I ever? I don't think so...

[25] Who will be the FIRST to repost this?
Eh, I dunno. Somebody awesome!

Nick Fury /Will/ Kick Your Ass and Smash Your Laser Cannon

Argh, I have a ton of work to do for my Japanese class tonight - this week's homework assignment plus last week's I couldn't do because of lack of textbook.

So what am I doing?

[an exchange between movieverse!Tony Stark and Pepper while Tony is confined to bed after an injury]

“Are those –?” she asks, barely able to hide her grin.

“Captain America and the Howling Commandos. Have you ever seen the film reels of their missions? Absolutely incredible. I, uh, found them under the bed earlier,” he finishes sheepishly.

She crosses her arms and tries to look stern, failing abysmally, she’s sure, since she’s practically going cross-eyed trying not to laugh out loud.

“And you are doing…what, exactly?”

“Strategizing,” he says. “Calculating troop deployment based on weapons and ammunition stocks, known skills, factoring in Captain America’s Super Soldier abilities. Not that I ever fight alongside anyone else, but it’s an important skill to keep in mind.”

“Of course,” she says. “I should have guessed. Strategizing. I’ll just leave you to it, then.”

As she leaves the room, she can’t resist tossing back over her shoulder a cheerful, “have fun playing with your dolls, sir.”

“They’re action figures, and I’m not playing,” he shouts back.

But a few minutes later, the murmuring picks up again, and when Pepper leans in close to the door to listen, she hears Tony’s voice, pitched deeper than he usually speaks.

“You’ll never walk away from this, Baron Zemo! You may have a team of highly trained Nazi soldiers and a giant laser death ray, but they will never be able to stand up to…Captain America!”