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This journal is semi-locked. My fiction and memes are not, everything else is. If you want to add me for my fiction, go right ahead. If you would like to read the other insane ramblings (it's actually very boring) please comment here and I'll add you back.

That was the most terrible interview in my life and I wish someone would kill me right now. K thx.

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Er...does anyone have any idea about craigslist etiquette? If I don't like someone's response to my post (about a room for rent) can I just ignore it???? Or do I have to tell them, No, sorry, I don't think so.

Bernie Mac is dead. Wow. That just seems really unfathomable to me.

( Never EVER go to an HoB )

Pass this on please.

So I got this email at work today, from the UK office. I think it's really cool, and urge everyone to donate. It's only a donation of about $4 (you have to buy a minimum of 2 balloon tickets) and you'll be able to find out where not just your balloon goes, but where all the balloon's go.


Balloon race...
A local school (Waterbeach primary school) is trying to raise money for it's failing swimming pool, and on the 5th July they are going to release hundreds of helium-filled balloons in a balloon race. Unlike other balloon races whereby the finder has to stick a stamp on the tab and send it back to claim their prize, this time a Microsoft employee has setup a website hooked into Virtual Earth (like Google Earth) which will plot in real time the finding of balloons around the world. From his website you can buy a balloon to launch for £1 (you don't have to be there to launch it) and you'll get email alerts with race progress and if anybody finds your balloon. Cool eh? What I find quite funny is that this guy has drummed up lots of interest and has loads of hits to the website - which is hosted on a mediocre PC sitting on top of his fridge at home :o) http://www.racingballoon.com. So, Bostonians, look out of 1 Kendall Sq at about 2pm on the 10th July, they should have made it over there by then...

Hi everybody –

I've registered this year to be an individual walker for this year's NAMIWalk in Brighton, MA. NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the largest education, support and advocacy organization that serves the needs of all those whose lives are touched by these illnesses. This includes persons with mental illness, their families, friends, employers, the law enforcement community and policy makers. The NAMI organization is composed of approximately 1100 local affiliates, 50 state offices and a national office.

The goals of the NAMIWalks program are: to fight the stigma that surrounds mental illness, to build awareness of the fact that the mental health system in this country needs to be improved, and to raise funds for NAMI so that they can continue their mission.

My fundraising goal this year is $100.00, as I'm starting a little late -- the walk is coming up quick, on May 31st, and I'm asking family and friends for support.

I would like to ask you to come and walk with me or to donate to support my participation in this great event. Visit my personal walker page to sign up: http://www.nami.org/namiwalks08/MAS/phitchins. There is also a link so you can donate directly to me online. Donating online is fast and secure, and I'll get immediate notification via e-mail of your donation.

Anything helps, and both NAMI and I appreciate it.

Thanks for your time and support!

Hmmm. I don't quite think this sounds like me.

I am typing this entry on an iPhone. It is awesome.

I am working on an update for my story, for those who haven't forgotten it. I apologize for my long absence from the zaylor world; life has just been throwing me curveball after curveball for the last year and I am just now starting to get myself back in order. I will hopefully have regular access to the intarweb again soon, and then I can start posting again.

I miss you all like crazy and hope you still remember me. Um, haha?

Love,
Jaisy

Sooooo-

Shout if I'm gonna see you in Tulsa!

I'm so excited I can barely breathe. =D

( Hahaha. )

You know it baby.

So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool...
7. Put this in your journal!

Opening: Move On - Jet

Waking Up: Forever Autumn - The Moody Blues

First Day of School: Love - The Moffatts

Falling in Love: Let You Down - Default

Fight Song: Thinking of You - Hanson

Breaking Up: More Than Fine - Switchfoot

Prom: Sweet Dreams - Roy Buchanan

Life: Black-Eyed - Placebo

Mental Breakdown: Lost Without Each Other - Hanson

Driving: Happiness and Misery - Jonny Lang

Flashback: Where is Your Heart - Kelly Clarkson

Getting Back Together: Enough - Default

Wedding: Unwanted - Avril Lavigne (ooooh...foreshadowing?? either way, bad omen)

Birth of Child: (Let Me Up) I've Had Enough - Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Final Battle: Isn't Life Strange - The Moody Blues

Death Scene: Steamroller - James Taylor (hahahahahahahahaha....hahahahahahahaha!!!! Terrible Death. Would NOT want to die this way.)

Funeral Song: One More Girl - The Wreckers

End Credits: This Time Around - Hanson


It's uncanny the way most of these songs work, especially for my life. Way to go iTunes.

How exciting. Not TSoU, but still.


Genre: Hancest, T/Z
Rating: NC-17, I guess...or maybe R. I'm no good at rating things.
POV: Zac
Notes: So I wanted to write a short for Taylor's birthday, just a cute little piece....but apparently I don't know the meaning of cute, because what came out is NOT cute, but angsty and a bit sexy. And it really has nothing to do with Taylor's birthday. And this is, actually, my first foray into writing...ahem...adult scenes. So PLEASE let me know how I did. Because I can't tell.

PS, BIG thank you to Miss tumbling_down who told me it didn't suck, lol.

But anyway.

( Afterglow )


Feedback, is, of course, GREATLY appreciated.

This thing is taking me almost as long to type up as it did to live it, lol. And I have to leave for work now. =(

Pretty sure I am absolutely dead.

I'll post all about my adventure tomorrow before work. Now, I need to go pass out.

<3

So, here I am, two hours before showtime still sitting in Newark Airport, waiting for Aura's flight. NO idea when it will arrive. Kim is looking for the arrivals board now.

Needless to say, we're not making the soundcheck thing, which sucks because Aura and Kim spent $40 for hnet JUST for that.

PLUS, it takes 45 minutes at least to get to Sayreville from Newark, so Aura has like 30 minutes to get here before we're going to be late. I'm just hope-hope-hope-hoping she'll make it.

I am so angry at the weather in Chicago right now I could cry. And I'm angry at American Airlines for being complete DICKS to Aura. She was waiting in Chicago from 6 AM until about 2ish. Maybe even later, I'm not sure when they took off. She even called the customer service line to complain about the crappy customer service in the airport, and they told her they couldn't help her, she had to write a letter or fax a compaint. RIDIC.

There was lots of eventful stuff today, but I'll post about it tonight after the show when I can cover everything.

BIGSIGH.

So I'm here in New Jersey with the Lovely Kim the_redtape and we're having a blast. The trip was not without the usual roadtrip drama, of course, but I'm just glad I had company!! I left work early at four and headed home to finish my packing and clean out my car, and then at about six thirty I left to pick up Kim in Rhode Island. I had no problem getting there, as I have meetings about five minutes from her house every month for work - very odd coincidence, lol. When I got there, her mother immediately asked for my phone number (as expected, my mother would have done the same, lol) and I realized - OOPS, I forgot my charger. Aaaand I only had like, half a bar left on my battery. So we spent the next twenty minutes driving to two different Radioshacks so that I could buy a new charger. So already I'm -$30 and I haven't even bought anything related to Hanson, lol. Then, Kim realized she forgot her camera and the cd she wanted Hanson to sign in case we got the chance, so we ran back to her house to pick those up. And then we were underway!!!

But not, of course, without stopping at the liquor store to pick up some spirits. =D

Had no trouble finding the highway, but at that point the adventure began. For realz. I forgot to check my odometer, so after driving for approximately forty minutes, I realized I had no idea where I was or how much farther I had to go. Kim, being the Mission Control Leader, is reading me the mapquest directions, but no matter how many times she repeats herself, I can't retain the information. So we continue on our quest to find the elusive George (err...the George Washington Bridge). After another hour or so, we begin seeing decisive signs of life in the form of....NEW YORK CITY!! Which just happens to be Kim's favorite city. There was a bit of drama with the camera, because we (Or, Kim) was trying to get pictures of the amazing city and the "Welcome to New York" sign, but my car was bouncing. =( That was not my fault. That highway needs to be repaved. Srsly.

Did you know: You know a black man/Won't show the way....When every eye is on the porch/We can only breed contempt....Well the men in black suits/Came up to the porch....Georgia/We've both learned to count the miles....She wakes and bakes her place in line....

So...that was exciting.

So we're driving...and we're driving...and then things start happening to the highway, like mergers and turnoffs and exits that could be our exit but we then find out are not, and the lanes get about 50% smaller and there were millions of 18 wheelers and they were closing in around us...and then!!

We found George! It was great. We squinted to make sure we were reading the signs correctly, and made sure we got on the lower level of the bridge. And then - more drama.

I turned right instead of left, and there were a few VERY tense moments where I thought we'd get lost, but then it turned out okay. The highway merged back onto the New Jersey Turnpike, and all was well. And we were in New Jersey! The last leg of our journey!

Or so we thought.

We kept seeing signs for a tollbooth, so I got my wallet ready, but there was nothing. And I kept swerving in and out of lanes because I had no idea where we were going next. Were we turning? Going straight? Was there a tollbooth? Wait, is that a tollbooth??? No, it's just a bridge with a McDonalds. Oh. No. Two McDonalds. Whaaaa?

And then there were two more McDonalds. And then two more. It was the twilight zone. I was going to be stuck driving the same stretch of road forever and ever.

But lo! There was the tollbooth. FINALLY.

OMG. $4.95??? WTF??

But anyway. So we drive through. I go very slowly, to make sure we take the right route this time, and we make it successfully.

But now...Mapquest is telling us to take US-1-9. Huh? We're not seeing signs for this. So we keep driving...Oh look! There's the sign for Newark Airport/Elizabeth...which is where our hotel is...buuuuut Mapquest doesn't say to take that exit. So we keep going....

And then belatedly realize we probably should have taken that exit, as now we're being shot out onto another highway leading to somewhere totally different. So we decide, quite rationally, no freaking out, to get off at the next exit and stop and ask for directions. That's gotta be easier than trying to figure out the rest of the highway system. Right?

Uh huh.

We pull off and drive down to the right...cause the guy in front of us was turning right, and I figure, that's gotta be a good way to go. And Kim, very excitedly, spies a White Castle! So we have to take a picture. And next door is a Burger King, and luckily the door says the front counter is open until 3AM so we can go in and ask for directions. But they locked us out...=( Maybe the drive thru? Except, we'd feel ridic sitting in the drive thru writing down directions, so luckily Kim sees a Hess station down the street. So we go there.

Miss, I need your id. Wha? ID? ID?!!! I left it in the car (VERY SLURRED SPEECH)...Oh, it's here. And I want my APOLOGY when you see it too! I'm not apologizing.

I'm sorry, but I swear to God I thought we were going to be mugged. So the Hess station didn't last long. We very slowly and very calmly walked back to the car, got inside, locked the door, and SPED the fuck off. We decided that taking the highway would be easier.

And IT WAS. Dear Lord. We got back on headed the opposite direction, soon saw signs for Newark Airport, got off on the RIGHT exit. There was a small mishap involving a three point turn in the middle of a public street, but luckily at 12:30AM it wasn't very crowded. And the cop didn't show up until after I was turned around.

And then we were there! Amazing.

There was ANOTHER small mishap with the parking, but I'll save that for tomorrow.

Wish us luck at the show!!!

Title: The Song of Us (9/?)
Rating: R
Genre: Hancest, T/Z
POV: Taylor
Notes: I decided to split this chapter into two parts, otherwise it was going to take me FOREVER to finish it. So I have some of the next chapter already written, and I'm hoping it won't take me very long to finish. Please be patient! LOL, I know everyone's anxious to get Taylor back to Tulsa for some Zaylor action (finally!) and if everything goes according to plan, that should happen in CH 11.

Thank you all for reading and putting up with my horrendously long delays between updates! <33333

And oh yeah - I wanted to dedicate this chap to heart_iswild cause she's awesome. =)


( All Because of You )


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