What could my friends be up to today?

9:21PM - MacGyver Challenge: Bumbershoot Special Edition

http://readymademag.com/blog/2008/07/23/macgyver-challenge-bumbershoot-special-edition/

Calling all music-loving MacGyvers! In case you missed the deadline for our most recent round of the Challenge, never fear: you've now got a special-edition situation on your hands...

11:06PM - well this blows

I was really looking forward to moving out of the house for this semester. I was looking at apartments, getting furniture and stuff together, that sort of stuff. I have a class at 10am this coming semester, so I was excited about being able to sleep in a bit before having to get going for that.

I was especially excited about getting to hang out with friends (and have guys over :3 ) without having to worry about bugging my parents.

Yeah, no can do. No apartment for me, because money is tight right now. It doesn't exactly help that my parents went on vacation in June and are going to a conference out in Portland in August. :-/

Between having to get stuff around the house repaired, rising gas prices, taxes, and all that stuff, it's not that surprising, but it sucks balls all the same.

6:15PM - Hold Steady: Jason Munn does T-shirts

http://readymademag.com/blog/2008/07/21/hold-steady-jason-munn-does-t-shirts/

What graphic designer Reid Miles was to Blue Note Records during the jazz era, Jason Munn of The Small Stakes is to the modern-day indie music scene...

11:12AM - New user icon

Because the old one was out of date (and this one actually looks like me):

8:08PM - Comic Con Print #1

( hey check it out I made another limited-edition print )

9:53AM - Audience participation: Re-fashioning theater seats

http://readymademag.com/blog/2008/07/16/audience-participation-re-fashioning-theater-seats/

http://readymademag.com/blog/2008/07/15/audience-participation-re-fashioning-theater-seats/

</p>As someone who’s always wanted to renovate and run an old movie theater, I flipped over these Marimekko -clad movie theater seats. After scoring some old theater cast-offs, Sonya of the KnitSonya blog let them languish for a while in closets and hallways before deciding what to do with them. Then she...

1:36AM - Project Realway: How to drape a muumuu

http://readymademag.com/blog/2008/07/15/project-realway-how-to-drape-a-muumuu/

</p>Muumuu matters: San Francisco’s Stitch Lounge has posted a great tutorial on how to transform a vintage muumuu into a drape-neck top...

6:09PM - MacGyver Challenge: Hangers [Less than a week left!]

http://readymademag.com/blog/2008/07/15/macgyver-challenge-hangers-less-than-a-week-left/

It's officially crunch time, folks—you've got less than one week left to submit your genius project ideas to the hangers edition of our MacGyver Challenge (the contest ends next Monday, July 21, 2008).

Surely you are brimming with ideas. Here's how to submit...

9:55AM - Free and hacked embriodery patterns

http://readymademag.com/blog/2008/07/15/free-and-hacked-embriodery-patterns/

http://readymademag.com/blog/2008/07/14/free-and-hacked-embriodery-patterns/

Through Sublime Stitching, Jenny Hart has resurrected the art of embroidery. Her hip and funky patterns have provided aspiring stitchers like myself with plenty of inspiring designs. But I’m also glad to see that other artists are joining the stitching game...

6:18PM - I-Do-it-Yourself: Wedding projects

http://readymademag.com/blog/2008/07/14/i-do-it-yourself-wedding-projects/

Every Thursday, the Once Wed blog posts a DIY wedding project created by Laurie Cinotto of LaLaLaurie. As July is smack in the middle of the wedding season, crafty brides should take note...

12:37PM - I feel good na-na na-na na-na NA

So Adam un-blocked me on AIM the other day after six months of either ignoring me or being openly hostile. I talked to him, he was still petty and rude. He wouldn't even tell me WHY he was so hostile, and he admitted that he didn't regret it. What a douche.

So I told him that I was better off without him in my life and blocked him.

He seems to think that I did it out of spite or something, or that I was trying to manipulate him somehow. Nope. I just think I'm happier when he's not around. So that bitch can suck it.

11:43AM - Thomas the Vampire

I had a wonderfully awesome dream last night.
Well, awesome for me.

I can't remember most of it, but this is what I do remember, in partially accurate sequence:

I was some sort of priestess, or something like a priestess, and though that part of the dream was long and vivid, I can only remember a shadow of a room and this girl who I didn't like very much. That girl turned out to have a brother and they also turned out to be vampires and they overthrew me or something more detailed and dramatic than that.

Then five hundred years later I came back. I don't know how I just did, alright? They were surprised to see me I'm sure. Then the brother and I fell in love, somehow. Then there was something about water turning green, and if it turned green that meant you were a vampire? Or were turning into a vampire? Well water turned green somewhere when I was with him and that might be how I knew. Or water turned green when I already knew he was a vampire and that meant I was turning into a vampire? Anyway, he died somehow after a battle, or a duel, or something like that. And after he was injured he pulled me into the water (this was different than the green water. I think it was like a canal or a pond or something), and we sat there holding each other. And then we kissed and his sister saw us and his name was Thomas. And I told him that I had come back after five hundred years, and before that he had come back after five hundred years, and so on, and I would bring him back again. I promised him and he said he knew and then he died. It was really sad. Yeah that's a good way of describing it. Whatever it was sad to me. And then I went on a rampage. I can't remember why. Maybe because I was protecting myself, or maybe because I wanted vengeance, or to reclaim my kingdom (or whatever). I don't know but the rules were if you wanted to defeat someone you had to hit them with some sort of bread and something else as well. So I went around stealing peoples pizzas while they threw bits of bread and cookies at me. I managed to defeat everyone who hadn't already been defeated, and then my mom said that the water turning green had nothing to do with vampires, but it just meant you had an excess level of chlorine in you or something (that came from Law and Order last night, I'm pretty sure). So I went to the new priestess, who had a line of about nine people waiting to ask her questions. I skipped the line and went to the other side to wash my hands in the sink. Then I sat on the benches where the rest of the people started to sit and listened to the priestess answer questions. I was really bitter because my lover had died, obviously, and I had just fought lots of people, and so when she said that the green water meant chlorine, I didn't believe her, because every time I saw a vampire or something water turned green. I don't know it made sense to me. So I kept mumbling to myself that she didn't know anything and I was the real priestess, but I didn't tell anyone. I think that's when my alarm went off. By the way, Thomas was really cute. He had blond messy hair and was a bit like Raphael from Soul Caliber II. You know, sexy and noble and a good fighter. That was my favorite part of the dream.

I sometimes hate writing down my dreams because it forces me to name everything that was going on and make sense of things that don't have to be made sense of. I never describe dreams the way I experienced them, either. Its pretty much impossible. But I hope that maybe I'll come back to this explanation and it will remind me of the things I couldn't describe about the dreams, the feelings and scenery and everything else.