YOU MUST VOTE BY NOVEMBER 9TH!!!

I have included a step-by-step process on how to log in to the contest website.

Please keep in mind that this site is still semi-broken, the steps are very repetitive, and you will probably run into errors. Please be persistent!!!

Hopefully, Apple will work on this problem and get the site to run more smoothly, but until then, you have to go through this ridiculous process to do it.

But do it anyway! Because you love me and want me to get a new MacBook Pro. And because my great, awesome, muscular little brother will beat your eyes repeatedly about the head and shoulders (the head and shoulders of your eyes, that is).

YOU MUST VOTE BY NOVEMBER 9TH!!!

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If you don’t have an Apple ID, follow these steps (If you DO have an Apple ID, skip to step 5):

1) Go to: http://edcommunity.apple.com/insomnia_fall07/contest.php
2) Click on “Login/Register to Rate & Comment >”
3) Click on “If you do not have an Apple ID, Create An Account Now”
4) Fill out the registration form, you will be logged in to “My Info” screen
5) Go to: http://edcommunity.apple.com/insomnia_fall07/contest.php
6) Click on “Login/Register to Rate & Comment >”
7) Log in with your new Apple ID
8) Fill in the following fields: First Name, Last Name, School (Illinois State University), State, Email, Confirm Email

At this point, you may get an error. Click “Back” and fill out that form again. Thank you for being so patient. When it says, “Access denied to Insomnia Film Festival” (or something similar), wait a few seconds and it’ll log you in anyway. If not, submit the form again. SORRY!

When it’s finally successful, it will say, “Your registration for the Insomnia Film Festival has been received, click here to visit the film festival gallery and begin rating and commenting.” HOORAY!

Now click to visit the film festival gallery. Enter “Hydrophobia” in the search box. “Hydrophobia” from DePaul University will be the only film, click on it.

Now watch it, and rate it, using the drop-down box on the right hand side.

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THANK YOU! So much!

Love always,
Katie

And co-produced and written by: Macho Man “Joshua Klemp” Savage AKA The Ultimate Warrior

P.S. Eyeballs beware.

And this is exactly how I feel about it:

((Comic © 2007 PvP Online))

And, just so I don’t go around acting like a genius, I made this at a dollmaker site: eLouai. You can also make the same dolls here: FrankenDoll, and it’s more Mac/Safari friendly.

If anyone wants to make a really good soundset for Adium with Firefly & Serenity sounds on it (not quotes…I have those now, and I have to admit, they’re getting a little annoying). If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry about it. :P

Just a little update, gotta run, sleep time.

- Go to bed at 4am
- Wake up at 1:30pm
- Go to the Apple Store and buy an iPod
- Walk around Woodfield for three hours
- Finally leave at about 6:30pm
- Drive two and a half hours to Normal
- Stay up until 8:00am futzing with your new iPod and being anal about your iTunes
- Wake up at noon (four hours later, mind you)
- Prepare to work an 8 hour shift from 2-10

I am not looking forward to work.

But in other news, I have an iPod now! Finally!

And I got the best deal of all time. I got a 20GB iPod (yes, an older generation), an iTrip, a StickyPad to hold my iPod on my dashboard, an iPod case, “The Matrix” on DVD, and “The Sims” for PS2 all for less than the $300 I got as gift money from my godmother on Monday. The iPod itself was “refreshed” and only $179. I am the bargain queen.

My darling, adorable, phenomenal kitten decided today was the day. I have a poetry analysis and a midterm due tomorrow, and Minerva thinks, “What a perfect time!” What did she do, you may ask?

THE STUPID TWAT TIPPED OVER A CUP OF WATER ONTO MY 2-MONTH-OLD iBOOK!

*sighs* I almost snapped her neck.

Anyway, it’s drying out tonight. Hopefully it’ll boot up with no issues tomorrow. Mac tech support said wait two to three days, but I’ve also read a few hours in some places. I also read a week. We’ll see. Cross your fingers.

*cough* Done now.

Other than that, things are pretty cool. I totally dig all my classes except costuming, because it’s taught by a grad student who thinks the Egyptian symbol for life is spelled “ank”. Well, great. But it’s not. It’s “ankh”. She spelled Nefertiti wrong. Said Anubis was the god of the Underworld and weighed the souls. Yeah, maybe before Osiris came along, but still…

The jackal-god of mummification, he assisted in the rites by which a dead man was admitted to the underworld. Anubis was worshipped as the inventor of embalming and who embalmed the dead Osiris and thereby helping to preserve him that he might live again.

Anubis is portrayed as a man with the head of a jackal holding the divine sceptre carried by kings and gods; as simply a black jackal or as a dog accompanying Isis. His symbol was a black and white ox-hide splattered with blood and hanging from a pole. It’s meaning is unknown.

Anubis had three important functions. He supervised the embalming of bodies. He received the mummy into the tomb and performed the Opening of the Mouth ceremony and then conducted the soul in the Field of Celestial Offerings. Most importantly though, Anubis monitored the Scales of Truth to protect the dead from deception and eternal death.

Early in Egyptian history, Anubis was a god of the dead. This role was usurped by Osiris as he rose in popularity.

The god of embalming is probably associated with the jackal due to the habits of jackals to lurk about tombs and graves. One of the reasons the early Egyptians sought to make their tombs more elaborate was to keep the bodies safe from the jackals lingering about the graves. It is only natural therefore that a god of mummification would be connected with them. By worshipping Anubis, the Egyptians hoped to invoke him to protect their deceased from jackals, and later, the natural decay that unprotected bodies endure.

Anubis was the son of Nephthys: and his father was Osiris. One myth says that Nephthys got Osiris drunk and the resultant seduction brought forth Anubis. Yet another says she disguised herself as Isis and seduced Osiris and subsequently gave birth to Anubis.

- Ancient Egypt: the Mythology – Anubis

I mean, okay, she didn’t completely slaughter it, but there were a lot of, “Um…”s and “I think…”s and really, someone out in class yelled out that he was the god of the Underworld. Either way, Osiris weighs souls. She’s like, “Oh, here’s a picture of Anubis weighing souls.” He’s kneeling down and pretty much watching over a mummification. *blink* Also, she didn’t have a picture of the pschent crown (the crown of the pharaoh after Lower and Upper Egypt joined together). “I couldn’t find a picture.” Oh, look: Royal Regalia. I know teacher’s don’t trust the internet, but for Christ’s sake, there’s a lot of good research to be found, particularly because this class isn’t about specifics, it’s about general costume pieces. She didn’t have pictures for like…half this stuff. Grar. Yet, we’re supposed to find pictures to label for our midterm project…so…?

Tomorrow, we start on Ancient Greek costumes. Somebody hold me back.