An Actual Entry later

Looted from artkouros

The answers are off the top of my head, so you'll just have to deal with the hookey-ness.

LJ Interests meme results

1. bondage:
   Submission and the power gained by giving power up fascinates me. There's something essential that only you can touch - even when you're completely restrained and controlled by another. In fact, it's hard to find it unless you've given up everything else. NOT being in control is amazingly cathartic.
2. comedy:
   I love to laugh. I love to laugh at myself even more. Comedy is the guise we're able to take criticism in. Life is absurd and only the sane giggle about it.
3. edge:
   I like the place where things aren't clearly defined. the sense that anything can happen is essential to me. It can't be a constant but it has to be available.
4. gargoyles:
   Who doesn't like gargoyles? They're fun and scary, functional (often) and decorative. Plus you have love anything that Christianity had to take from Pagans to get people to go to church.
5. journeys:
   Everyday we're going someplace, the fun is drawing the map as you go. A Journey is about the how you move forward, not about where you're going.
6. music:
   I love music - all kinds. And I do mean all kinds. There maybe artists I don't get but I've yet to met a genre I couldn't get into in some way. If you can sing along or dance to it I'm in Heaven.
7. performance art:
   I like the fluidity of using identity as a medium. Where does what we create end and who we are begin? Being able to create and share an "experience" is something I strive to do.
8. queer:
   I'm not completely one thing or another. I occupy that third space where the rules don't apply.
9. science fiction:
   Show me the future. Science fiction depends on optimism, on the faith that there is something coming. There will be a tomorrow and that's exciting. Plus I love the intersection of culture and technology most SciFi explores.
10. travel:
    I love to explore new places or places I've been but don't totally know. Traveling isn't about going, it's about making the conscious effort to take the journey. See the world and you'll see yourself reflected in it.

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It was a weird and wonderful weekend. I'll write about it later. Now it's time for homework.

I'm old. Stop Iding me!

I just wasted 30 minutes trying to log onto to the college library website to do my report. It requires my campus ID number and a password which is the last part of that number (unless I've changed it). I don't remember my campus ID. It's a weird abbreviation of my first or middle name, initials and some numbers (33 something, I think). You use that and another password (the last 4 of your social) to access CAMPUS email.

I know, it's my student ID, but I don't know it and seem to have misplaced it. I DO have my student radiographer ID badge for going to the hospital, but that's a different ID number.

Here's the thing: I'm 34 years old. My brain can only hold so many factoids.

I already have to know my drivers license number, my car license plate number, my car insurance policy number (or their phone number at the least), my health insurance policy number, the keypad code for our alarm system for the house, my checking account number, the pin code for the atm, the second checking account number, my password and ID for my regular email, my 401K account number and PIN, my loan account number, the account number and pin for my car loan, my credit card number, the ID and PIN to access EZ Pass, 17 birthdays (my immediate family and Mr Bear) - 19 if you include his parents, my address, my three previous addresses, our anniversary, the date we met, my pin code and ID number for unemployment...None of these is less important than the school ID number I was randomly assigned.

Can people just back off the assignment of User IDs and passcodes? It's a library from Pete's sake. I could walk in and access the database or articles. Let me use my social or something - it's already in the school's system. Same with my student ID. You took everything but blood on the online application for admissions - why are you so privacy concerned now? Make it the end of my social or my driver's license.

I'm too old to have to remember all this AND what day of the week it is and what class I'm supposed to be in and if there's a quiz today and what on...