Still sick.

Man, I hurt. Just... everywhere. I'm coughing and hacking like mad, and my body temperature keeps bouncing up and down. It just sucks. Alot.

But, even though I'm sick, I went out to a movie tonight with my sis and my spanish partner/non/pseudo- boyfriend. Long story, don't ask. We'll see how it all plays out.

Anyways, it's the first I've met him, and he was exactly how I'd figured he'd be. He's a very sweet guy, I like him alot.

My sister and I managed to irritate each other, but we both know we're being bitches to each other, so we'll be fine tomorrow.

We saw My Bloody Valentine (3D, oh joy.).

Dumbest. Movie. Ever.

So much cheese that I should have brought wine and crackers with me. That being said- classic date movie. And we enjoyed ourselves, so it works out.

Anyways, I'm exhausted, and feel like crap, so I'm going to go crash.

Talk to you folks later.

P.s- look at this! I'm actually updating!

continuing on the web blab update...

I've fallen back into my old habit of frequenting daily blogs and webcomics, Oh dear.

Currently, I'm a fan of quite a few.

I go to Gofugyourself.com everyday, and it never disappoints. The commentary on the pictures of horrendous fashion is always hysterical, and the page itself provides hours of entertainment.

I adore lunchbagart.tumblr.com . This father draws on his kids lunch bags everyday and uploads the pictures. It's incredibly sweet, and hes an amazing artist.

Theres the 'well duh' that I go to icanhascheezburger.com and nearly all of its affiliates (read- loldog, lolceleb, pundit kitchen, and failblog) on a daily basis.

For webcomics... well, here we go.

Leasticoulddo.com . My all time favorite webcomic. Updates every single day. Make sure you read Sohmer's blogs under the strips, its definitely worth it. Lar Desouza does some amazing artwork here and at LFGcomic.com, their other love child, a D&D-esque webcomic.

3panelsoul.com from the makers of MacHall. Geek humor and amazing art. Very good, unreliable upload schedule.

questionablecontent.net . Fantastic webcomic that my best bud Kitty got me addicted to. More geek humor, the occasional obscure musician joke. Pretty tongue-in-cheek.

requiem.seraph-inn.com/ - The Pheonix Requiem. An ongoing and completely captivating comic. Beautiful artwork. Very recommended.

lackadaisycats.com - Hysterical webcomic set in the 20s. Main characters are cats. AMAZING artwork.

http://kitsune.rydia.net/comicsfeywinds.html - can't really describe this one. Fey Winds is a fantasy comic with all the necessities. Sword fights, dragons, sorcerers, elves, fox girls... It's amazing, and I love it. Once again, fantastic artwork.

thedreamercomic.com - a story about a girl wo goes back to revolutionary America when she falls asleep. Captivating and extremely well planned story, really good artwork.

evildivacomics.com - just recently got into this one. A demon feels the need to do good deeds, and it keeps getting her in trouble. Funny, and very cute.

Thar. Hope you're sated!

Tv shows!

On the entertainment front, I have a couple new TV shows that I am obsessed with. I've become a big fan of the Mentalist, with Simon Baker. It's basically your typical crime drama, but it's entertaining. I am ABSOLUTELY in love with BBC's Robin Hood. Good GOD what a great show. You can watch the episodes on Megastic.com- they have all of them. Jonas Armstrong, who plays Robin, is a great actor, not to mention complete mancandy. Besides appealing to my hormones, the show is incredibly well written, despite messing up their timeline occasionally, and the characters are fantastic.

I've also caught on to the show Coupling, a couple years late. One of its stars is Jack Davenport (you'll remember him as Commodore Norrington from Pirates of the Caribbean) and it’s written by Steven Moffat, one of the writers and producers from Doctor Who. It's absolutely hysterical, and I'm hooked.

Following my BBC trend, I've been watching Merlin (while waiting on the new episodes of Robin Hood). Merlin is interesting. They completely screwed up the story of Merlin- Chretien de Troyes would be rolling in his grave. Morgana is now Uther's ward, Arthur is the crown prince of Camelot, and knows that Uther is his father, and starts the series as quite the prat, honestly. Mordred is a young Druid boy, not the son of Morgana and Arthur, Gwenivere is the maid-servant of Morgana (And seems to have the hots for Merlin).... I could go on. But you know what? I really enjoy it. Despite the fact that the writers took MAJOR artistic license, it's really good. It's sort of like the Mummy movies. The history is ALL jacked up, but I love the movies, they're great. Merlin doesn't exactly have the same captivating characters that Robin Hood does, but it is equally well written. I'm looking forward to see how the story continues to develop.

Now! Lets talk Doctor Who! I finally got around to watching the Christmas Special, “The Next Doctor”, and it didn’t disappoint. Same cheesy Doctor antics. It was great to see Tennant work with David Morrissey again, after they worked together in the excellent Blackpool. I bet the off screen antics were a sight to behold.

I have to admit, I’m not a huge fan of Russell T. Davies writing style- he usually has a flair for the melodrama, and has a tendency to over extend the sap, but this episode, written by him, is not his typical. I look forward (with great excitement and immense depression) to Tennant’s last couple specials before the new Doctor, Matt Smith, takes over. I’m not completely impressed with the new guy, but I’m not going to shoot him down before I’ve even seen him do his thing. All I gotta say- You never forget your first Doctor. I’ll always be a Ten girl.

For now, though, I’m down to my last two episodes of Merlin, and I’m still waiting for the new episodes of Robin Hood, and I’m twiddling my thumbs impatiently for Doctor Who’s next special, “Planet of the Dead”. In the meantime, I have Top Gear to fall back on and nurse me out of my illness with a good case of the funnies.

Whats new

Hey, folks.

Here's my opportunity to catch you up on the past couple months.

At the moment, I have a nasty cold, and it totally blows. I had my semi-finals for Nova Idol, the singing competition at my college, tonight and it was pretty rough. Some of my high notes were really scratchy and rough, and I was so light-headed. The judges were nice, and they said I still did a good job, and there were alot of strangers in the theatre who told me I did a great job as I walked by. I needed the ego boost, I was pretty deflated. I talked to Herb, the organizer of the competition and a former professor of mine, after performing.

I just sound rough. I have the sick voice. It keeps cracking and I keep coughing and hacking, so its not getting any better. Heres hoping they remember me from last year though, and pass me on to the finals.

My friend Lauren is in town, she flew up from Texas for the inaguration. We were best friends in Middle School, and she moved, but we've stayed in touch. Regardless, I haven't seen her for 3 years, so its wonderful to see her again.

As of December 21st, my very first CD was completed, and I'm very proud of it. I put alot of energy, heart, and soul into it, so it means alot to me. My parents and grandparents have been passing the cd around their coworkers and friends and the reactions have been fantastic. It really gives me the confidence to send it out to recording companies and producers to try and get it signed. You can listen to a couple of the songs from my CD at www.myspace.com/toryritter and I'm working on aking some music videos to put up on YouTube to get even more exposure. If you have a facebook, I've also set up a musician's page there.

I've started a new semester of classes, and I'm diving head first in there, so it should all be very interesting. Its all pretty laid back- Spanish, College Success Skills (required, ug), Psychology, and a Speech class, also required. I took two acting classes, but for some reason, that doesn't count as a speech class. Bulocks. I tried to get into the last required Math class this semester, but no dice. Theres always the Summer.

My former (and now, again, current) Spanish partner has turned out to be quite a guy. We're going to see a movie tomorrow night, I hope I'm not still feeling like death warmed over then. My sister is tagging along- she suggested the movie. Should be interesting.

Excited about the inaguration, and surprised that nothing bad happened, besides Ted Kennedy's attention grabbing seizure. The more interviews I hear from the inaguration the more impressed I am with President Obama. Even if I don't necessarily agree with some of his policies, I will admit that he is an amazing and personable guy, and at the very least, he has manaed to create hope in millions of Americans that i haven't seen in many years.

That being said, Cheezus Christ. I live in the DC area, and inaguration day SUCKED. Like every other local I know, I decided to stay in and watch the festivities on the telly. Now I'm irritated hearing peopole complain about the state of DC for the day. People don't realize that DC isn't really people-friendly, like Miami, or Chicago, LA, or NYC (I know, not the best example). DC maybe fairly 'touristy' but, its not designed for its tourists. DC doesn't normally issue warnings to its inhabitants about anything, so when they were saying stuff a WEEK before inagurations about which Metro stations to avoid, and street closings, blahdeeblahdeeblah, we took the hint. Tuesday was one big security SNAFU. I'm very irritated with people's reaction to police and security doing their job. How can anyone be surprised that the infastructure cracked here and there when we had an influx of nearly 2 million people who had little to no idea where they were going?

I have some papers I did for my english class last semester that I'm planning on dropping on here- just to give you some idea of what I've been working on.

For now though, I must be off to take some more cold meds. Fun fun. The stuff is supposed to be 'honey lemon' flavored.

Honey Lemon my ass.

See you on the flip side.