Fabulously Fat College Student

Blog closed indefinitely. Don’t expect to see me around other blogs either, even though I’ll be there, I’ll likely be in lurk mode. Reasons can be found at my personal blog, for those who are interested.

I FINALLY got around to making a livejournal so that I could comment on blogs of those who have LJs, and to join the fatshionista community! (I’m quite excited about the latter, if you couldn’t tell. xD) so anyhow, livejournal users, come visit me! (This will always and forever be my main blog, but I’ll likely be posting fashion-y and hair stuff on that one now).

http://integgy.livejournal.com/

So here, have a bit of a game! I snagged this from Bee, and BFDynamo. The premise is to go to imdb.com, and look up 15 of your favorite movies, and copy down quotes for them. Then others try to guess which movie it’s from. When someone guesses correctly, I’ll strike out that quote. Person with the most correct wins >9000 internets.

1) “There is no news. There is only the truth of the signal. What I see. And, there’s the puppet theater the Parliament jesters foist on the somnambulant public.” Mrs.Millur and nuckingfutz both got this one! Even though Mrs.Millur got it first, nuckingfutz wouldn’t have seen the post, since I had to approve them. It’s from Serenity, the movie based on the Firefly series. <3

2) “Give yourself over to absolute pleasure.” Correctly answered as Rocky Horror Picture show, by goodbyemyboy!

3) “She is tolerable, I suppose, but not handsome enough to tempt me.” Gotten by Sarah, of BFDynamo! (It’s from the 6-hour, A&E Pride and Prejudice miniseries. Oh yes, I’m so cool. )

4) “Romantic? Hemingway? He was an abusive, alcoholic misogynist who squandered half of his life hanging around Picasso trying to nail his leftovers.” Mrs.Millur gets this one again! It’s Ten Things I Hate About You, which is up there at the top of my favorite movies list. <3

5) “I’m gonna get out of the car and drop you like third period French.” Ducky’s got this one! It’s from Ocean’s Eleven.

6) “There’s no Christmas in the Army!”

7) “The prettiest sight in this fine pretty world is the privileged class enjoying its privileges.” It’s The Philadelphia Story! Starring Katharine Hepburn (<3), and Jimmy Stewart. Congrats to Weightless One!

“See, I’m a man of simple tastes. I like dynamite…and gunpowder…and gasoline! Do you know what all of these things have in common? They’re cheap!” This one identified by PaleAndNerdy, as the new batman movie, The Dark Knight.

9) “It is YOUR LUCKY DAY… to be baptized into the Greek Orthodox Church!” Congrats to Bee, for guessing My Big Fat Greek Wedding!

10) “Its called an easy-out-clause because its supposed to be EASY”

11) “At last! My arm is complete again!” Bee nails another one, with Sweeny Todd!

12) “Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.” And another correct guess by goodbyemyboy.

13) “Oh! What a cute little chair. Why, there’s seven little chairs. Must be seven little children. And from the look of this table, seven untidy little children.” This one goes to nuckingfutz, for Snow White, which was the very first movie I ever saw in theaters.

14) “Come in. Come in, my child. We mustn’t lurk in doorways. It’s rude. One might question your upbringing.” It’s The Little Mermaid! Congrats to 32-P!

15) “Me? I’m dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It’s the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they’re going to do something incredibly… stupid.” Pet~, and Fat Angie tie it up with Pirates of the Carribean! (Curse of the Black Pearl).

And there we have it. Happy guessing.

Yes, O.M.G. I am a complete Ellen DeGeneres fangirl, I’m not ashamed to admit it. I figured, I’ll share this with you guys then, since all of my friends simply don’t care, and call m weird for being excited. Anyhow. My mother, while browsing Ellen’s show’s website to see how to get guests on the show*, happened to breeze by the tickets page, because she was curious, and decided to apply to get tickets for her, and myself. So at first it was no guarantee, we were put on a list, etc. So today, she comes home, all excited, saying that she’d been called up by someone who worked on the show, and said we had guaranteed seats in the audience. So HOLYSHIT I freaked out, and we both were yelling and jumping around like the Ellen fangirls we are. I may not always get along with my mother, but when we do get along, we get along VERY well. So, I’m excited. We’re going to the September 8th taping, so all you Ellen fans, look for me in the audience! (I’ll put of the day that the show will be on after I find out). But SERIOUSLY, YOU GUYS. SO EXCITED, AHHHH!

*she’s working on trying to help promote and publicize this scholarship book that the mother of one of her former bosses wrote (man, that’s a mouthful).

So I tried the personality test. Got it from Vesta and BFDynamo. I rather like it.

Your Personality Profile

You are dignified, spiritual, and wise. Always unsatisfied, you constantly try to better yourself. You are also a seeker of knowledge and often buried in books. You tend to be philosophical, looking for the big picture in life. You dream of inner peace for yourself, your friends, and the world. A good friend, you always give of yourself first.

(Snagged this one from Big Fat Dynamo )

The Rules

1. Put Your iTunes/music player on Shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write that song name down, no matter what!

The Questions

1. If someone says, “Is this OK?”
Gold Heart Mountain Top Queen Directory, by: …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead

2. What would best describe your personality?
Goodnight Demon Slayer by Voltaire

3. What do you like in a guy/girl?
Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Queen

4. How do you feel today?
Bang Bang You’re Dead by Dirty Pretty Things

5. What is your life’s purpose?
Walking on Broken Glass by Annie Lennox

6. What is your motto?
Flow my Tears The Spider Said by Liars

7. What do your friends think of you?
Jesus Shootin’ Heroin by The Flaming Lips

8. What do you think of your parents?
Mr.Blue Sky by ELO

9. What do you think about very often?
We Don’t Need No Education by Pink Floyd

10. What is 2+2?
Wonderful from the Wicked Soundtrack

11. What do you think of your best friend?
C-C-C-Cinnamon Lips by OkGo

12. What do you think of the person you like?
Citizens of Tomorrow by Tokyo Police Club

13. What is your life story?
Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd

14. What do you want to be when you grow up?
Amsterdam by The Dresden Dolls

15. What do you think when you see the person you like?
Colors of the Wind Pocahontas Soundtrack

16. What do your parents think of you?
Miss Teen Wordpower by The New Pornographers

17. What will you dance to at your wedding?
It’s On by Superchick

18. What will they play at your funeral?
Hey Jude by The Beatles

19. What is your hobby/interest?
I’m Not That Girl from the Wicked Soundtrack

20. What is your biggest secret?
Everything Is by Neutral Milk Hotel

21. What do you think of your friends?
CANDY POP by Heartsdales (feat. SOUL’D OUT)

22. What should you post this as?
Streets of Fire by The New Pornographers

This was quite a bit of fun to do.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how, while I used to read 1-2 books per week, lately, I’ve been picking up books, only reading them halfway through, then just abandoning them. I’m not sure if I’m going through a temporary ‘readers block’, or what, but I just can’t seem to finish a book. So, here are some books I have finished, some I’d like to read, or just have no interest in at all. (Snagged from Fatadelic )

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline (or mark in a different color) the books you LOVE (I put an asterick by mine)
4) Reprint this list in your blog.
The premise of this exercise is that the National Endowment for the Arts apparently believes that the average American has only read 6 books from the list below.
5) Strikethrough those you hated or couldn’t get through

1 Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen*
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (Gave up after book 5. Glad I did, after I heard what happened in later books)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible -
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell*
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I’ve read a great deal of his work, though not all of it)
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien*
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables- LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding*
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley*
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle(And a majority of the Holmes stories. I used to be quite a bit of a Holmes junkie, back in highschool)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down- Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Up next, BFDynamo’s iPod Meme. Because I’m a bit bored today, and have been going through a bit of a blogging dry spell.

I found this gorgeous piece of artwork in the unlikeliest of places (let’s just say that the whole site in general is very fat-negative, and I’m not going to mention it here). But, not only did I find this piece there, but the thread it was in was (almost!) fat positive! It wasn’t fat-negative, that’s for sure. And it made me happy to see it. <3

Edit: Bad thread is bad. Still some are fine, but now, it’s devolved into assholes. >.>

I thought I’d be gone a bit longer, but I came back early, and decided that I had so very many things to say about my experience at Anime Expo (which will henceforth be referred to as “the Con”), that I didn’t want to wait. Unfortunately, despite being back, I’m also quite busy at the moment, so I’ll be working on an entry piece by piece, putting together my personal experience, as well as things I observed/heard/etc around the Con relating to FA, and my own struggle with fully practicing it.

So, entry coming in a few days, so long for now! (pictures too, maybe? This one’s a very big maybe.)