Ta-da! My anti-eyebrow piercing!

After a crrrraaazzyyy 30th and a morning spent shoveling food and water into my mouth, I headed over to St. Sabrina's (where I got my nose piercing, two years ago) in Uptown with my friend Jake (heart!) to get a metal bar jammed under my skin.

It sounds a lot more painful than it actually is.  When I got my nose pierced, I was SUPER jittery.  Not this time!  It probably helped that Jake was squeezing my hand.  :)
Anyway, Nate, my piercer, inserted the metal bar (a flat one) under my skin, and attached two studs to each end. 

This type of piercing's a little bit more risky than some other kinds (like nostril piercings) because there's a higher chance of rejection (your body saying, "NOPE! Take it out!" and flipping a shit/infections), and migration (when the piercing starts movin' around), but it should be OK.  I'm going back to St. Sabrina's in a month so Nate can make sure the piercing's not doing anything crazy.

In the meantime, I'm diggin' it.  It's a little sore, but honestly, the canker sore on the left side of my mouth is more sore than the piercing.  I'm guessing that'll change once I start applying a paper towel soaked in saline solution to it.  Nate said it's common for people with this kind of piercing to get a black eye, too.  Bad-ass!

Did someone bite me? - Halloween 2010

It was epic. That's all I can say.

 Erica makin' stuff in the ceramics studio

My giant Bellossom tutu

I was Bellossom! 

This is the actual Pokemon Bellossom. 

My friend Erica as Pikachu.

Pikachu!

Erica playing Space Channel 5.

 Bella!  Bellossom!

Carly and Alex.

Me and Ali F.

ohemgeee it's Link.

BAHAHA ABU

Roxas is love.

New desktop. Image from Anime Paper.

Mew, I choose you!

Today, I received my first "event" Mew.  I've been playing the Pokemon games since 1998, and the only Mew I've had are ones I've cheated/hacked into my game via the Mew Glitch and my beloved Action Replay.  So finally being able to log into the Nintendo Wi-Fi and get a bona fide Mew is kind of a big deal for me.

Mew transferred from the Nintendo Wi-Fi Mystery Gift to my system.

Mew transferred to my party at the Lavender Town Poke Mart.

Mewr so vain!

:D

ME TOO, MEW

Things I like - 10/29 edition

It's been a while:

Adorable Link/Zelda necklaces...

THAT KISS! There are MAGNETS in their faces! :O

From NeliaTenlion's Etsy shop.

I'm not sure how much I like that the Poe Sisters have been given ridiculous hourglass figures, but I do like the idea of them looking more like women and less like amorphous blobs. Here's the direct link to the image.

Amaterasu (Okami) dangling necklace charm FTW. 

Also from NeliaTenlion's Etsy shop.

Woodcut-style LoZ ring. 

From LiyoLab's Etsy shop.

From Wet Seal.

Also from Wet Seal.

From Forever 21.

Greatest thing in the history of things. It's a bandage...FOR YOUR MOUTH! 

Anti-eyebrow piercings.  I'm getting mine at St. Sabrina's (with Nate, who also pierced my nose) on Sunday!  Apparently, there's a higher risk of rejection with this kind of piercing, since, you know, there's actually a bar of some sort inserted into your skin, but I did pretty well combating infection in my nose ring, so I think I can tackle keeping this one healthy, too.  Wish me luck!

Interesting meatloaf: Quotes and pictures from the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference

Enjoy.

• "I feel sad for the millions of people who're going to die, but global warming's looking pretty good to me." -Bob
• "I got hit in the head with a shovel." –Katie  
• "And my sister once bit through her tongue." –David  
• "Stretching the muslins." "Do you also burn the Qur'an?" -David and Bob  
• "It's not really a problem to break someone's knee." –Katie  
• "I usually don't quote myself." –me  
• "Why did I think you had two kids with you last year at the Honors banquet?" "You were on acid?" -David and Bob  
• "I worked at a summer camp. And I had a machete." –David  
• "You should've let us know you were coming into town." -Local on the bus  
• "Did you know that Greek people taste like pineapple?" –Bob  
• "I still think there are people willing to hang a wench." -Bob  
• "Ours will look cool - they're from Staples." –David  
• "I've been infatuated with lots of people, and I've never wanted pictures of their crap." –Bob  
• "I kinda want to shoot him." –David  
• "I'm more than willing to have interesting meatloaf." –Bob  
• "Wonder twin powers activate!" –Bob  
• "I'm Osama Bin Laden!" -Bob, as he stabs a small American flag with a steak knife  
• "It's a Renaissance Tourette's syndrome." -Bob
• "Get yer geek cred on." –Bob  
• "My two current subscriptions are Popular Mechanics and Lego Magazine." –David  
• "Tiny Tim is a thing in my family." –Bob  
• "We abuse Tiny Tim." –Bob  
• "The blue lights BLINDED YOU!" –Bob  
• "It's like a massage for my hands!" "We look like a cult." -Bob and Katie, rubbing the table 
• "Your mom has to gesture really big." –Bob  
• "Your mom is gross." "Your grandma is gross." "Your dog is gross." "Leave the dog out of this." -Bob, David, and Katie  
• "WHOM DO YOU SERVE?" "SARUMANNNNN" -Bob and David  
• "My butt doesn't fit in it." –Bob  
• "It makes me look big-breasted." –Bob  
• "MREOW MEOW MREOW" –Bob  
• "I know a lot about Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh." -Bob

 No stepping on the wing of the plane!

 Lolita, my handmade sock creature (Mommy made her for me!), looking apprehensively out the plane window.

 The outside of the Hotel Phillips, where we stayed.

Dawn, a seventy-five-year-old statue in the Hotel Phillips lobby.

Our hotel room (I shared a room with Katie).  It was massive/awesome, and the beds were super comfortable.

 My conference name tag.

It doesn't look that crowded, but the bus we took to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art was packed. It took fifteen minutes to squeeze everyone on.

One of several giant birdies, created by Claes Oldenburg (the same man who created the "Spoonbridge and Cherry" sculpture at the Walker in Minneapolis) on the grounds of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. 

"Standing Figures (Thirty Figures)," AKA ZOMBEEZ.

"Miss Mao Trying to Poise Herself Atop Lenin's Head" AKA WUTTHEHELL

 The single most beautiful art exhibit I've ever seen. The statue, Guanyin of the Southern Sea, depicts Guanyin, a bodhisattva associated with compassion.  He's seated in front of an absolutely massive wall, taken from a real Chinese monastery.  On each side of the giant room are statues of "attendants."  I spent fifteen+ minutes in awe.  Fucking awe.  

Bison meatloaf at Ted's Montana Grill (owned by Ted Turner). I wasn't a fan (and I love meatloaf!).  It tasted kind of like pickles...in a bad way.

This yummy Kahlua brownie more than made up for the weird-ass bison meatloaf.

Giant skanky cowgirls in the Power and Light District. I can't like it.

Lolita pooped after a day of panels, poster sessions, presentations, and good food.

We paneled twice: Once for the Honors humanities course, Liberating Letters, and once for Student Created Learning Experiences (SCLE), the Honors program independent study program. Both the panels went SO well! After our SCLE panel, a professor from Texas came up to me and asked if it'd be all right if she emailed me - she might consider using some of my research in her classes!  Whether or not she actually emails me is beside the point - the fact that she's thinking about it means a lot.

NCHC shirt ftw.

From our last night in KC. We sat at a Gordon Biersch in the Power and Light District for four hours, eating, drinking beer (mine tasted like banana!), and chatting.  It was fantastic.