Wondrous Apparitions, Provided by Magicians.

For interested parties, my new HR journal will be at thejobfairy. There's nothing there yet, but soon there will be. I will try to update on Fridays, or whenever something Really Stupid happens. The Job Fairy will need an icon, too, so if you have any grand ideas, I'd like to hear them.

I made the new journal as one of the advertising-sponsored ones, mostly to see what it would look like. In case you were wondering, the plus-level layout is majorly intrusive and annoying. I don't expect that I'll be spending a lot of time logged into that account, except when I'm updating. There's only one ad on that page. The aggregator view of entries has a box ad on the top, a bar with sponsored searches underneath and a sidebar, which contains a picture ad and a number of text ads. All of the text ads on this one are "Hot Stock Tip!" ads. Ick. Anyway, I'm not paying out for another journal, so I suppose I'll have to live with it.

In other news of things I have to live with, I took the last of my synthroid today. Now, I get 90 days of the stuff at the time, and as of right now, I have no medical insurance. That means that 90 days of synthroid will run me about $85. If I can hold off without meds for 14 days, I will have my new insurance in place, and the scrip will be infinitely cheaper (I think, anyway. Having not gone through this company before, it is hard to say whether the pills will be covered at all, and if so, at what rate). I suppose I should have counted my pills and anticipated this, and budgeted to buy new pills at the sorry bastard with no insurance rate. Or something. Maybe if I call the pharmacy, they could sell me two weeks worth of pills instead of the whole 90-day scrip. We'll see.

God dammit. LJ has eaten two posts now. Bah.

Think I'm typing all that again? Well, maybe.

I think I need a Mae West icon. Or at least something flirty that's not quite as antagonistic or threatening as Graendel or the doll with the whip.
**adds that to the to-do list**

EDIT: It also just occurs to me that nearly any flirting I do is somewhat antagonistic. What's up with that?

As it happens, I have 148 interests listed on livejournal. This means to me that I have room for two more. And I'm certain I've left out something important.

Anybody have a suggestion of two things that should be on my interest list but aren't?

I've just discovered something. Along with "black cock" and "blonde pink", "Snape head" is a phrase that you should really think about before blithely typing it into the Google image search.

So, yeah. I was building an icon containing "The Condensed Harry Potter" (see below), and needed more Snape expressions. Mais non. So now I'm off the concept totally. Besides, the icon on this post is the only Harry-Potter-related icon I'll ever *really* need.

What brought this on? Whizzed through the new HP book on Saturday waiting for Asmodeus to get fixed up. And liked it, or at least liked it better than the last one, which I think might have been Harry Potter and the Really Shitty Year, or Harry Potter and the Suicide Helpline, or something like that. I generally like these books because they're funny in unexpected, and generally good-natured ways, not because I'm into the deep drama of wars in the Wizarding community or whatnot.

See, people with extraordinary powers using them to deal with normal situations, funny. People with extraordinary powers striving valiantly to save the world, not funny. Like in the Fantastic Four movie -- Mr. Fantastic stretching across the hall for a roll of toilet paper? Funny. Mr. Fantastic stretching around Enraged Villain Dr. Doom in order to Save The World From Certain Death? Seen it.

Anyway, without further ado:
( The Condensed Harry Potter, as told by E3 )

1. Finish writing my bits for the Wild Hare Lammas ritual.
2. Bake something for said ritual.
3. Make something related to cheesecake for Gaia Lughnassadh potluck. Mmm...cheesecake.
4. Find or acquire a dress to base my costume around for DragonCon. We're going to be in the parade with the Wheel of Time group (is it cosplay if it isn't anime-based?) -- I'm apparently going to be an Aes Sedai. This implies that we should also solve the shawl issue at some point between now and Con.
5. Sleep.
6. Finish How Few Remain. I hope that George Custer gets what's coming to him for cheating on his wife while mocking the Mormons for being polygamists. Hypocrite.
7. Go to the library and get more books! Mmmm....books.
8. Interview prospective Gaia ritualists. cynthiaweb and druidevo, you'll be getting a call or an email for scheduling purposes Real Soon Now.
9. Make new icons. I really need one for "I disapprove" and one for "SQUEE!". Except that under no circumstances should I ever have an icon that actually says "SQUEE!". I'm so much more subtle than that. Heh.

Also, today LJ ate my previous journal settings.
Do I know how to put it back exactly the way it was? No I do not.
But the rust is kind of sexy, no?

I lost a post. Dammit.

Yeah... I just figured out how to do the user tag. Go me. At this rate, I will conquer the world soon.