This Week Was Awesome Because… (Vol. 1.2)

1. On Sunday, I saw Rufus Wainwright live with my mom and it was amazingcakes. He’s a million times better live, he’s also hilarious, and if we were not both gay, he would be my husband.

2. I researched and wrote my entire first draft of my research paper on Wednesday because the first draft was due THURSDAY. It was supposed to be 12-15 pages long. I wrote 14.

   Showed up to class on Thursday and was the only person who had written more than seven pages. Sigh.

3. Yesterday I spent an hour on Omegle, trying to see if anybody on there WASN’T a creeper. I had a few epic exchanges. As I may make a more extensive post here with more, here’s a small preview:

   You: Do you like goldfish?
   Stranger: yeah
   You: Aren’t they delicious?
   Your conversational partner has disconnected.

   Stranger: show me yo titties
   You: Do you have a problem with man boobs?
   Your conversational partner has disconnected.

   Stranger: up for cam sex
   You: Grandma?!!!
   Your conversational partner has disconnected.

   Stranger: hey
   You: Are you a creeper?
   Stranger: yes i am
   Stranger: sorry
   You: Thanks for admitting it.

4. Yesterday I was standing on the bus and, of course, all of the bondage and escort ads fell out of the newspaper¹ I was holding and fell on an old woman’s head. She looked very dismayed that a whole lot of transvestite hooker ass had just rained down upon her face. D:

5. I just noticed that I get a lot of DANIEL RADCLIFFE IS GAY and nip slip spam on this blog, for some reason. Sometimes going through my Askimet filter gives me serious lulz.

   Also, related to spam, why this week is NOTSOME: Tila Tequila porn spam. D:

1. My fellow Seattle people will not be shocked to hear it was The Stranger, a free weekly paper with copious amounts of picture-ridden escort ads. ↩

This Week Was Awesome Because… (Vol. 1.1)

1. You know what I love? Making new friends. Also, rediscovering old friends. This week I rediscovered a lot of old friends and discovered many new ones. That’s pretty much one of the most awesome things that can happen to me.
2. I entered into the planning stages of a year-long YouTube video project with some of the aforementioned newly discovered and rediscovered friends, as well as a few very old, very close friends who are still just awesome.
3. I found out If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is playing at the Seattle Children’s Theatre until the end of November. The only way I could POSSIBLY be more excited for this is if instead of a mouse, the main character was a moose. And if instead of a cookie, they gave him a muffin.
4. I got two new nicknames. One of my new friends mentioned in #1, Jackie, has christened me with a new nickname: Hot Donna. As in, Hot Donna on That 70s Show. The nickname is spreading like wildfire, I tell you, wildfire. I give you all permission to call me Hot Donna as often as you’d like.
5. I’ve decided that every Friday I’m going to blog about why the past week has been awesome. Recalling the awesome things that have happened, even in an otherwise terrible week, will definitely improve my view on things.

Home Again

First of all, Donut.nu has a new layout for the first time in over a year, though it is similar to the old one–but vastly different at the same time.

Second, I revamped the site entirely and it feels a lot better, more me. More at home. I feel more comfortable posting here now, which I definitely like.

When I’m not posting here, I’m usually posting at my LiveJournal¹ or Twitter, though some stories that get posted at Twitter get expanded upon here. Some stories that are posted at LiveJournal are posted here as well.

In other news, I am still alive and chainsaw man did not kill me, though he nearly did my sanity in, I swear.

Additionally, the best thing that has ever happened to me in my whole entire life happened today. In that I found out that If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is playing at the Seattle Children’s Theatre for the next month. The only way I could possibly be more excited is if instead of a mouse, the main character was a moose. And if instead of a cookie, they gave him a muffin.

1. Username available upon request. ↩

I’ll Think About Doing It Tomorrow

I’ve been doing a lot of things lately. And by “doing a lot of things” I mean “thinking about doing a lot of things”. The thing I’ve actually been doing is playing entirely too much WoW.

Three site-related things I’ve been considering:

1. Starting a book blog.

I’ve been pondering reviewing all the books I’ve read as well as posting about all the books I’m excited about, my library loot, my 2009 reading projects, and other book-related things.

My problem: The amount of books I read in addition to the amount of time I spend thinking about books would take over my entire blog and thus might push away people that have no interest in reading about my reading habits.

My other problem: Reading is the hobby that says more about me than all of my other hobbies combined. Pushing it out of this blog entirely is sort of like separating it from myself.

Possible solution: I could post a weekly, bi-monthly, or monthly wrap-up of everything important going on at the book blog as well as link reviews in my book log and project pages, etc. It’s easier for readers to skip over one to four posts per month than 66.7% of a blog.

2. Redesigning and recoding all of my fanlistings as well as my fanlisting collective.

This desperately needs to get done. It’s been on my to-do list for about two years, perhaps longer.

Plus I’ve recently been approved for the Ron Perlman, David the Gnome, and The Boondocks fanlistings so I need to create those as well.

3. Adding a new layout here!

I’ve designed a layout for my fanlisting collective that, honestly, I want to put up here instead because I really like it. It’s rainbow though. Not rainbow all over the damn place. Just…rainbow. I like rainbows.

I still really like the current layout, but it’s really old. I could always consider adding a theme switcher, though.

Moving In

While I’m not dead, Briar.cc is. I’m officially finished moving to my new domain, Donut.nu.

I’ve also rewritten most of the about section. A few kinks are still being worked out, particularly with the film and book logs. In addition, I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.7 which was a bitch to upgrade from a plug-ins perspective.

My new RSS feed is feeds.feedburner.com/donutnu

Why Donut.nu, you ask?

Well, me being lazy, I’m just going to copy paste what I wrote under the website section.

My first name is Donna. One of the most awesome people on the planet, my friend Patricia, calls me Donut. She informed me that dona in Spanish means ‘doughnut’–at least in Venezuela. There’s also a slight Veronica Mars connotation there for me.

Oddly, I loathe doughnuts. Except the powdered ones. Those are delicious.

I chose it because it’s short, sweet, easy to remember, and still personal at the same time. It’s a name I can keep for a long time.

I’ve decided to go by my first name from here on out rather than my middle, particularly since Donut.nu is based upon said name.

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