Dust and Fundamentalists

2004-05-17T17:10:00.000-04:00

17 May 2K4

Mumble. Why does this thing keep on not wanting to work? I don't get it.
Eight days of school left. Don't know whether that's good or scary beyond all reason.
music: "Rain in the Summertime" - the Alarm (internal soundtrack)

2003-11-13T16:03:00.001-05:00

13 November 2K3

Blog is attempting to be a no-show again; can't be having with that. (If only because I check all my links from here.)
Life goes on...
music: "Celebrity" - BNL

2003-09-12T23:45:00.000-04:00

12 September 2K3

I'm apparently the only person in my computer class (there're nine of us) with a proper blog, though everyone else is now quite enamored of the concept. So, this thing might be making a comeback if we wind up using the wossnames for classes. (Or else I'll set up a third one for the five millionth time - good job you don't need codes here.)
The Good Omens RPG has died down a bit in recent times, but that's all right because now I've got Discworld RPage! It started for a larke, as is fitting for the fandom in question, and the closest we've gotten to organization is an OOC community, for the sake for staying organized. We're up to eighteen people now (some of whom aren't posting yet/regularly, but that's all right). It's also the source of the latest nickname in my mini-bio list.
And my new favorite web abbreviation: IALVATJ. (I am laughing verbally at this joke.)
Cleaned up the links whilst I was here as well. They needed it due to domain expirations and suchlike.
music: "Mary and the Holy Ghost" - Todd Rundgren

2003-06-23T18:27:00.000-04:00

23 June 2K3

Really, the most I do with this anymore (as you prolly noticed) is use it as my link database.
had to update a couple of them, though. afrai moved, and Erin let her domain expire, and the really big news is... Saunter Vaguely Downward has moved. And is now using the spiffy layout what Amy made for me (finally!).
As a future point of reference, you're best off checking the LJ for updates.
music: "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" - Timbuk 3

2003-03-30T16:38:00.000-05:00

30 March 2K3

Am back.
Much writing and stuff at LJ.
Opened icon repository last night. Yes, I really mean it about Dubya.
Would be nice if I could find something in this bloody research to back up my point for my Frankenstein paper.
music: "Politik" - Coldplay (internal soundtrack)

2003-02-20T21:38:00.000-05:00

20 February 2K3

Blog would do well to show up during technical Internet exile time. (Full story at LJ.) I can't go fixing this all the time.
music: basketball game radio broadcast

2003-02-08T23:44:00.000-05:00

8 February 2K3

Yes, I know. Been a while, for here at any rate.
Finished LotR (five million appendices notwithstanding) on Wednesday. Random thoughts may be found at the LJ. And believe me, there are some to be had. Mostly on the subject of Eowyn or Mount Doom.
Joined a Good Omens RPG, not to mention started a community of the fannish sort of my own. If you want to see the RPG character-specific LJ, that'd be here.
So, that's what I've been up to, in a nutshell.
no music - random TV noises

2003-01-24T21:18:00.000-05:00

24 January 2K3

Am currently a few chapters into Return of the King. Would've gotten there sooner, but the second half of Two Towers is bloody well boring and I was sick all weekend, therefore not in a state to deal with the book.
Started Frankenstein in English. Apparently, on one of the two days I was out sick, people did group work over what they already knew, complete with pictures. Somebody drew a hot dog in a mug. Frank in stein. ...Whatever.
This is an Erin link, assuming you're caught up appropriately with TLAS (about halfway through what's there now will do). Quote of the Day material from said link*:
"Death. It's what's for dinner?"
music: "Two Points For Honesty" - Guster

* - Said link is LONG and set as a funny!alternate to something about halfway through a series. A Dariafic series. So, if you're still interested with that in mind, I suggest you dig up the series proper and start from there. Recced to Erin in particular because I know she's read some of it, at least.

2003-01-15T21:59:00.000-05:00

15 January 2K3

Finished Fellowship Friday afternoon. Am now a bit over halfway through Two Towers and rather desperately missing my subtext. Gollum continues to be a fruitcake. Updates on this still being posted at LJ.
Madness otherwise known as exams has begun. Maths wasn't quite so non-triumphant as I thought it was going to be. Spanish was as usual - second thoughts about taking a fifth year starting to pop up.
English and history tomorrow. Should be fine on former - and latter, really, but I think entire class of latter is joke this year. Will have to do actual studying for Friday's batch, though religion studying will mostly be putting notes for big fat essay into book we get to use for said big fat essay.
music: "Satellite" - Dave Matthews Band (/me swears blind she didn't do it on purpose!)

2003-01-07T21:45:00.000-05:00

7 January 2K3

Decided yesterday at lunch it's about time I actually read Lord of the Rings, so after I was done I went up to the library and checked Fellowship out. Am currently nearly halfway done - would be farther along if not for real life getting in the way. Bizarre theories and suchlike available at the LJ as I think of them.
music: "Satellite" - Dave Matthews Band

2003-01-01T00:55:00.000-05:00

1 January 2K3

What better way to ring in the new year than with Christmasy Horsepersons fic?
I mean, really, 's not like I'm concerned about missing the holiday.
Also. this is amusing.
music: "Take Me to the River" - Talking Heads (live version. don't like it as much but too lazy to change it.)

2002-12-29T21:26:00.000-05:00

29 December 2K2

Erin, at least, should have fun with this - it's a Good Omens fansite... in Spanish. ("Gente Bien" just doesn't quite have the same ring to it as "Really Cool People." XD)
music: "All the Children Sing" - Todd Rundgren

2002-12-28T16:37:00.000-05:00

28 December 2K2

Would whoever thought it would be funny to change my comments link from "sushi dinners" to "poseurs" please own up so that I may smite you appropriately? And I changed the password to them, so don't think you'll be doing it again. (They're supposed to say "towels" now, even though I can't seem to manage to type it properly the first time.)
Oh, and speaking of comments. If you want to tell me about something in a post and the blog comments aren't cooperating at the moment, either email me (tell me what it's about) or leave it in the LJ's comments. If you use the latter option, I allow anonymous comments, but please put your name somewhere on it. Unless I already know your LJ username... but that's two of you.
music: random Van Morrison thing stuck in head

2002-12-27T21:52:00.000-05:00

27 December 2K2

I have a CD player again! A portable one, I mean. With a remote (for some reason - I think you plug the headphones into it, though). And it'll play a burned one that my old one had trouble with.
Saw Two Towers last night. Let's see... Gollum is a fruitcake... whatever you do, do NOT piss off the trees... did they have Strom Thurmond play the old king, or was that just me?... and afrai was beyond right about her pairing of choice. (I'll let you lot investigate that on your own. ^_^)
Spent trailers writing a Good Omens trailer in my head. My cast list ideas to date are on the LJ. Which is now less appallingly festive by far.
Oh, and the big Christmas present of the year: Leather coat from parental units. Have been borrowing one my sister left here when she moved to Austin. That one's PunkRock!leather coat; the one I just got is more like Stylin'!leather coat. XD
music: "San Tropez" - Pink Floyd

2002-12-23T22:41:00.000-05:00

23 December 2K2

I Googled "Good Omens" last night with the intent of reading through all the result pages. Got tired of it today around page 77, but not before finding some interesting stuff. (Most of the linkage is on the LJ, though I'm dragging a few over here.)
For instance, fanart.
This one's got Horsepersons fanart! And I doubt the one with the semi-warning on it will feature who you'd think... um... yeah.
It's at the bottom of the page, under a bunch of Discworld fanart. Check out that drawing of Newt. XD (Third from the left, if you're wondering.)
Hey Erin, did you ever read any of Invisigoth Gypsy's Dariafic? Because last night I found a Good Omens fic with her name on it. 'Tis quite good. Considering emailing her and saying that this is a sign of All That is Right in the World.
No music at present, due to 'puter-sound sitch. So, semi-heroic TV noises.

2002-12-21T20:51:00.000-05:00

21 December 2K2

And so it was that Slight Return was released upon the world, and there was much rejoicing. (Yaaay!)
All-around Galactic Cynic update, actually. Tweaked the Done and Not Done writing pages as appropriate, and updated Quoteage! while I was at it.
Oh, and I updated the GO link on the bio page <--- over there. And there's a new link, somewhere in that general area. Found it the other day, and *I am in awe.*
music: "Pure and Easy" - the Who

2002-12-21T15:59:00.000-05:00

21 December 2K2

Considering making a Horsepersons quiz, which would likely involve signing up for a Quizilla account. I've only got two questions so far, one being the prerequisite "What is your favorite color?". I mean, with that lot how can you not have that question? The other one concerns how the quiz-taker feels about CAPITAL LETTERS. Natch. Any suggestions will be taken into consideration - email them or leave 'em here. Or on the LJ (where I'll take anonymous comments so long as you put your name in it somewhere).
Oh, and I'll prolly be posting "Slight Return" later. Daria/Good Omens crossover. Fun!
'Puter's sound is broken. Hell, whole Interweb was broken from Thursday afternoon till 11 last night - don't know whether I fixed it or the provider did.
music: "Intermittently" - BNL

2002-12-18T21:43:00.000-05:00

18 December 2K2

Check LJ for more Good Omens links. (None of them belong to Lucas. XD)
music: "Father Time" - Shark Island

2002-12-18T20:19:00.000-05:00

18 December 2K2

Hey Lucas. Your blog is the THIRD search result on Yahoo when you look for "Good Omens."
Found that out tonight while trying to relocate this. Wonderful little explanations of all sorts of strange and wondrous stuff throughout the book. (And sort-of filling in for my not actually having the book at this moment. Religion teacher still has it.)
And while I was poking through things in the search results, I found a review of the book by someone who didn't like it. Dissenting opinions are all well and good, but I'm wondering how much thought they put into this - they claimed the book, along with stuff by Douglas Adams, P.G. Wodehouse (whose stuff I haven't read but I recognize the name), and some other guy I've never heard of are "very British."
Could this be because *all those authors are British?* Let's think about that.
...Nah, that's not *possibly* it. It's got to be something that makes a lot less sense. XD
music: "The Safety Dance" - Men Without Hats

2002-12-13T22:30:00.000-05:00

13 December 2K2

As of Sunday this blog will be a year old. And Muse Attacks two days after that (if memory serves).
Hamlet test was yesterday. Relatively easy. But why did I get hella writer's cramp from ten fill-in-the-blanks and a paragraph? (Well, it *was* a long paragraph. But still! I'm a writer!)
Really wasn't such a bad 13th Fri., until Spanish. If you want the full story... Ruka and Morgan, you can just check the LJ. Anyone else in the usual circle, email me. Anyone out of the usual circle... SOL.
music: "Come On Eileen" - Dexy's Midnight Runners (I *really* need the happy-music now.)

2002-12-11T21:47:00.000-05:00

11 December 2K2

Very nearly screwed on physio project. Had better start v. soon.
We got the Christmas tree Sunday. It smells like oranges. What self-respecting Christmas tree smells like oranges?!
If anyone can recommend rock-and-roll banjo songs or kill-the-drummer songs, please do so. Will be writing up list at LJ in a moment.
music: "Pinch Me" - BNL

2002-12-08T20:10:00.000-05:00

8 December 2K2

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Must make playlist for CD... later. Tried while music was on and songs weren't staying where they were put. Bad songs. Stay.
music: "Send Me On My Way" - Rusted Root

2002-12-06T22:40:00.000-05:00

6 December 2K2

Another school basketball game tonight. Team showed up toward the end of the second quarter. We won by 4 points. Great Southern pansies from the younger opposing teams thought their guys were infallible or something, then didn't stick around long enough for us to beat them into sodding little pulps. Grr, argh.
Here's a theory for you: If Cat Stevens converted to Islam, the bulk of the religion DOES NOT believe in blowing yourself up just to kill a few enemies while you're at it. If they did would the guy who wrote "Peace Train" have joined up? I don't think so...
music: "Not So Far Away" - Glen Burtnick

2002-12-05T22:40:00.000-05:00

5 December 2K2

Got a snow day today. Out tomorrow, as stated. Bamf, instant four-day weekend. Doing window angels for Art Club... probably Tuesday.
Bill and Ted soundtrack = wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. When there's only one song I truly can't stand, it must be good.

2002-12-03T16:43:00.000-05:00

3 December 2K2

(School) basketball game tonight, (Miami) basketball game tomorrow, munchkin placement testing Friday (which means I get to stay home), physio and English projects due last week before break, physio thing due Thursday that I should (of course) be doing NOW, math and physio tests today.
The math test was easier than I thought it would be; then again, this wasn't really a problem chapter. I figured I'd be fine if I got the system things, and the only one on the test was the kind I'd known how to do right away. ^_^
Ruka, the icon stuff is on my LJ comments, in case you haven't looked there yet. 'Twas closer than my email box at the time.
Tomorrow is, on my calendar o' oddities, Be Excellent To Each Other Day. (So figured because the Bill & Ted movies came out on DVD December 4th last year.) If you feel like celebrating, do so.
Anyway. Must start on bloody physio assignment.
no music, Trading Spaces noise

2002-12-02T21:44:00.000-05:00

2 December 2K2

What Monty Python Character are you?
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(There's a reason I have a Beware of Attack Rabbit sign in my room...)
Drew something today in Spanish class. Just finished coloring it, and will scan it in here in a few. Hopefully get it online, too.
Dad doesn't like Jimmy Eat World. He told me to turn it off in favor of the other mix-radio offering, which is something I really don't like. Stupid driver's-choice rule. (Of course, I'll like it once I'm driving...)

2002-11-30T17:18:00.000-05:00

30 November 2K2

GOOD OMENS COMIC!!!
That must be known to all. I guess this can act as a holdover for those of you who haven't read/found in order to read the book yet. Not much there at the moment. But it's still madly cool.
GOOD OMENS COMIC!!!
no music, just TV noise of unknown nature

2002-11-30T16:00:00.000-05:00

30 November 2K2

I suppose after all that yesterday, Michelle now owns my kingdom. I'll have to get back to her on that, but in the meantime I'll plug her NaNoWriMo novel for her. (It's good. Go read.)
...In case you didn't figure it out, that means I now have that LiveJournal I was talking about. Many thanks to Michelle for the code. I'll work on making it more interesting later (comments links, colors, etc). The hamsters are the mood icon there because of the one I currently have there. Didn't see that as an option for the other, or else I may have gone with it.
music: "Brian Wilson" - BNL

2002-11-29T15:47:00.000-05:00

29 November 2K2

A LiveJournal, a LiveJournal... my kingdom for an LJ... (At least so I can get in on the whole friends-list business. I could do that with the uJournal, if I wanted to give them money. Which I don't. So.)
Ruka, I think you may have tried to organize the whole code business for me earlier this month, but if you emailed it to me I never got it. I'm pretty sure that was the weekend my email was down. (Then again, you did just say it was *a* friend who wanted one, and that's not necessarily me. But if it was me, could you please try re-sending it?)
Anyway.
Hope all you American-type persons had a good Thanksgiving.
Miami's next basketball game is against Wright State... I believe it's at Wright State. If so, they'll be playing in the Nutter Center. Is that a good sign or a bad sign? XD You realize I'm only asking because somebody named Nutter donated to the football stadium our school uses, and one of the band members therfore figures it's cursed, right?
The next thing I write is probably going to have a Cathcowduist in it. Just for kicks. And because I can make people that weird if I want to. Not sure if they'll turn out to be right or not.
music: "Too Much" - Dave Matthews Band

2002-11-27T22:35:00.000-05:00

27 November 2K2

I almost made you people deal without an update tonight. But I didn't.
Quoting a NaNoWriMo member's signature:
"It's only random chance that I hit the keyboard in such a way that my answers make sense."
That sounds like the man in the shack (Hitchhiker's Trilogy, book 2) with a computer, does it not? XD
Went to a Miami basketball game tonight. After being slaughtered by Purdue and beaten by Maryland, they won. Cue much rejoicing. It's getting good!
music: "Spaceman" - Harry Nilsson

2002-11-26T16:55:00.000-05:00

26 November 2K2

It's been snowing since noon-ish. Of course, it does that they day before we get out of school anyway, but I'm not complaining. Not really. Snow can have its uses, and it is at least sticking to the grass. I need the five-day weekend. Badly.
Speaking of which, we're actually having turkey for Thanksgiving. *gasp, shock, amazement* My grandfather... apparently spent too much of his youth eating bird meat, so we usually don't have turkey (or chicken, or any more unusual fowl) for Thanksgiving or Easter. Word has it that Grandma didn't give him a choice this year.
"The Old Apartment" was on the radio this morning. I like that song when I haven't heard it in a while, but don't like it if I've heard it too much (that happened a few years back). And besides, it's BNL on the radio, so I won't stop them.
Ok Go was on Channel One. Assuming the music for their to-and-from-commericals things was theirs... not bad, prolly worth looking into.
Having a stereo in my room rules all.
Note to self: Promised to take a Cirque du Soleil DVD to International Club meeting next Monday.
While we're on the topic of clubs, the announcement people misread "Chess Club" as "Cheese Club" yesterday. Still not sure how they did that, but I got to bug said club's president about it this morning. XD
I desperately need to do a Quoteage! update... another BNL lyric quote, and something from a friend:
"The obvious option is to ban cottage cheese in the United States."
Dad and I are probably going to Wildberry tonight. (Guessing that because he told Mom to put the chili away, we'd get something. She's visiting a friend.) Should be much fun. They have a Ministry of Silly Walks t-shirt, among... lots of other things. And while we're up there, I'll try to get Dad to go to Looney T. Bird's (music store). I really thought they'd be closed by now, since they were announcing that in September, but if they're still open we may as well go by.
music: "Baba O'Riley" - the Who

2002-11-25T20:46:00.000-05:00

25 November 2K2

Finished my calendar pages for physiology earlier - managed to completely forget about them all weekend. ^^; At least they weren't due till tomorrow anyway. I had to do three days' worth of random joint-related factoids. For lack of anything better, I used abduction for one of them. Yes, ther is a UFO on it, but only to illustrate the common usage of the word. The other stick figures show the physio-related meaning.
I like the UFO. It's all shiny. XD
That reminds me. I should try and get my Romeo and Juliet's Day Off picture back from my English teacher (from last year), even if it's only long enough to scan it in.
I have a stereo in my room now. And there was much rejoicing. *yaaay*
Random surfing at the NaNoWriMo board got "Oh, Where is My Hairbrush?" (the Veggie Tales song) stuck in my head. And that's the current music, since I really don't mind it.

2002-11-24T21:21:00.000-05:00

24 November 2K2

Yes, yes, I know, nothing for two days straight. So sue me. :b
Weekend in a nutshell:
*My parents were a LOT less nice than I was about the quality of the muscial one-act.
*I broke my portable CD player yesterday. The top broke right off, and it's probably a lost cause. Eh. At least the CD didn't break - it's the one with the cover of "Take On Me" on it, and I *really* wouldn't have been happy then.
*Didn't bother with the Santa Parade. Aside from being tired, I was kinda felling like I was starting to get sick (still do, a little). I really do NOT need that now. Besides, I've got a 105% in band, so I can afford the one zero. I'll live.
*Oh yeah, interims were Friday. My math grade is not in the 80's, but it's still a C. I understand this chapter, so all should be well.
*My religion teacher still has Good Omens. She said she tried reading it last week (while in the hospital for kidney stone removal), but it's hard to read whil on pain medication, so maybe over Thanksgiving break she'll finish it. I promised one of the guard girls she can read it next.
*We went and got the stereo from Grandma's house this evening. Apparently my aunt's not going to be very happy with that one. Who cares? Once I've got it set up I'll make sure there's not anything in it...
*I finally got the backstory to Cathcowduism last night. Long story, as you may have guessed. I told Lora to email it to me later, so once I get it I may share it with ya. That's mostly why I didn't post last night - was at Applebee's till late, got home at 12:30, decided not to bother.
music: radio - some fun song I've never quite caught the name of, but I like it!
(Oh yeah. Dad tried to tell me I missed "Alice's Restaurant" earlier. But it was only the first part, and I've got that CD now, so I'm not sure why he bothered.)

2002-11-21T21:34:00.000-05:00

21 November 2K2

Days off are just lovely. ^_^
We had a short practice for the Santa Parade (which given its evilosity may as well have a few letters scrambled...). Would've gone outside to do some marching-type things but couldn't. Estaba lloviendo. (The pidgin Spanish LIVES!)
Another looker-at back for "Slight Return" - will do Good Omens explanation when not sidetracked by random plot ninjas. At least my work is taken care of for the Daria explanation - I can just send them all to Outpost Daria and be done with it.
According to my history teacher, West Virginia is unconstitutional. (Not that I'd take his word for it offhand, but...)
There's apparently something in said document about not carving up existing states. Which is technically how West Virginia was created. Since it *was* right at the beginning of the Civil War, it's possible that Virginia wasn't even a state at the time, which would solve the problem.
Still, thought Lucas would be interested, since he's always saying West Virginia is a nuisance. XD
music: "Hoedown" - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2002-11-20T21:07:00.000-05:00

20 November 2K2

Opening tonight with a random quote from "Slight Return":
"It had never been Scarlett’s style to beat around the bush - she much preferred just shoving the damn sword straight through the small animal hiding inside it."
I just love that line. Not to mention it fits her. A few tweaks to be made, and two (three?) lookers-at still at large, though I did give them till Sunday. 'S hard to wait for feedback when you're expecting it. One of them who did get back loves my lines about the CHOW (tm), even though he's never read the book. XD
...That reminds me. I need to throw together a people-explanation for those poor legions of Daria fans. I was going to do a summary-type object for SVD anyway.
So tonight was dress rehearsal... although I don't see why it's theatre ettiquette (possible SP) to watch everyone else. Wouldn't it make more sense to practice being where you're supposed to be? (Like when you're not acting.) Anyway. Billy took my suggestion re: hiding the microphone in all the junk onstage before his solo. ::does happy-dance:: It just works so much better than randomly pulling it out of his pocket, y'know?
As you noticed, it's still fun and I'm still in. (Well, it's fun except for where the Hard Candy people were told to ALL be backstage, and we don't have that much of a backstage. But that's beside the point.)
"Five dollars an hour... Five dollars an hour... Spain, hmm." (It's prolly not that funny without the backstory, but I don't have the time.)
music: "A" - BNL

2002-11-19T22:13:00.000-05:00

19 November 2K2

Not much to say tonight, other than I'm not writing about anything remotely involving killer Furbies any more. (Just after I'd found a way to tie the plots I had together, too. :b)
Anyway. This is proof #42 that Miranda is psychotic, and proof #387 that my characters like torturing themselves in the name department. She's changed ideas again, and what's more, the female lead in this one is named after the angel of death.
Yes, you read that right. Azrael Fisher. She will eventually be living up to her name, and probably in as literal a sense as is possible. (She's definitely NOT going to be an assassin, I can tell you that.)
It gets better.
My male lead's first name is *Bentley.*
See, I told you it got better.
Rehearsal marathon tonight. I figured since (a) the park in the one-act I don't care for is a bloody mess at the beginning, and (b) the lights that "haven't been on for years" work as soon as they're turned on, it would make sense for one of the soloists (oh yeah, this is the musical one-act) to find a working microphone in all the trash on the ground? They may not go for it just to avoid it getting walked on, but I still think it's a cool idea.
Princess Grace is doing the independent-reading project on the Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging series. I can see the newspaper headlines now! XD
Quote of the day goes to one of the band members, though it actually concerned trig: "I like things I can see, touch, move, or explode."
music: "Starman" - David Bowie (On a semi-related note, does anyone else think the piano bit in "Lady Stardust" doesn't really fit with the rest of that song?)

2002-11-18T19:28:00.000-05:00

18 November 2K2

More fun with that plot device generator:

"T-Shirts bearing the logo for the Hard Rock Cafe. Locations printed on the shirts include Hard Rock New York, London, Lemuria, Saturn, Hell, Krypton, Nirvana, Middle Earth, the Age of Dinosaurs and more."

"A bundle of papers and floppy disks containing source code and executables for a huge and complex program with a single input - the length of time it should run for. Unfortunately there is a bug in the program; however long it runs it will always just print "42" before terminating."

"Course catalogs and application paperwork for Illuminati University, Unseen University, and Miskatonic University."

"A series of petri dishes, filled with clear protoplasm. If anyone touches the protoplasm, it is absorbed into their skin. Over the next few weeks, their general health will improve, they will become immune to infectious disease and any specific medical problems they have will resolve. Their appearance will stay the same for the remainder of their life (which may be, at this point, several millenia.)"

"A Bible, translated entirely into Ebonics."

"A cellular phone. It's ringing. It's from a psychic hotline, and they're calling you."

"A copy of Aviation Week and Space Technology detailing the construction of the International Space Station, dated August 14, 1798."

"A loaf of bread and a smoked fish, and an empty jug. If you divide each in half, they will (almost instantaneously) heal back into whole units, leaving you with two loaves and two fishes. This can be done any number of times. The jug can be filled with water, and then will pour out red wine."

"A large granite rock wrapped in vellum and a shattered pair of Victorian scissors."

"A careful, thoughtful analysis of the differences between the various incarnations of 'The Hitchhikers' guide to the Galaxy', written out longhand on paper from a common hotel chain. It is obvious after only a few pages that the author is not comparing the versions to one another, but to what he claims actually happened."

This thing is just too much fun.
Found a way to relate the ideas I had to the killer Furbies, and am in the process of attempting to write it up. (Well, not right now. You know.)
Even though I was supposed to be decided by today, I'm still not sure whether I should use the Terry Pratchett thing or Long Dark Tea-Time for my English project. It's going to boil down to how quickly I can finish that first, I suppose.
music: "Baba O'Riley" - the Who

2002-11-17T19:32:00.000-05:00

17 November 2K2

Some random fun with a cool toy:
"The head of a pin. If placed under an electron microscope, many tiny demons can be seen, doing the rumba."
(First Crowley was on there yesterday, and now this?! This is just too, too fun.)
More or less recovered from the big "fun" yesterday. Expanded version of story to be found here.
Random ideas for that one-act I might be writing floating around head, and they don't have much to do with those killer Furbies. Of course. XD
music: "Wowie Zowie" - Frank Zappa (radio)

2002-11-16T20:32:00.000-05:00

16 November 2K2

So instead of Killer Sunday they had Killer Saturday... and there very nearly WAS actual blood spilled. All over how fast the understudies should have their lines down when they've barely done the stuff onstage. Apple may never talk to me again, let's put it that way. I was very close to just leaving and not coming back, at least not for the one-acts. Tried staying out of the argument. That tactic failed beautifully.
They're not *fun* this year. The casting is a mess, backstage is poorly organized (I shouldn't have to ask for times they want me there, should I?), the actors hate each other, the directors don't trust the understudies, and said understudies don't have any clue what they're meant to have memorized by when... why am I putting myself through this?
Notes for next year, when I might be writing a one-act (Attack of the Killer Furbies) and will naturally want to direct it:
*If it has some sort of "moral message," make sure there's at least one character who just refuses to have the point pounded into their skull. (That's my one problem with the musical one-act. Too bloody preachy. They all "see the light" in about five minutes of the time they start talking about their messed-up lives. Life doesn't work like that. And I *know* it's unlikely to get a "moral message" out of that idea, but you never know...)
*Do the casting for the people who deserve it. Not just because their seniors, not just because it's the kid's first time out and not getting a part might crush their gentle spirit, not just because they only walk onstage in a Dutch-boy outfit for the class one-act. (Which is actually quite funny, watching all those seniors act like five-year-olds, and there's no Dutch-boy outfit yet, but I digress.) Understudies included in this thought.
*The understudies WILL KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING!!! They will be at as many rehearsals as the actors are required to be at - ideally all, but there's a buffer space of three practices in case something comes up. They will watch when they're not acting and do it themselves, at each practice. (This is most of the point from the argument this afternoon.) Oh, and they won't be expected to learn two major parts, if I can help it.
Hmm, if I got enough of these I could set it up like the Tips for Evil Overlords thing...
music: "Life During Wartime" - Talking Heads

2002-11-15T22:22:00.000-05:00

15 November 2K2

Hey, reserves? I need some help with this avatar business. Erin? Amy? Help?
music: "Take On Me" - a-ha

2002-11-15T21:16:00.000-05:00

15 November 2K2

Spent about 20 minutes goofing around with my uJournal's layout... I'm not exactly thrilled about the gray/black/white/general monochromaticity of it, but that should be changing fairly soon. If I can make the picture on my own I will, but I'll be calling in the reserves if I can't work it out. The post-a-comment link now says "where is your towel?" in Spanish, complete with accent marks and the upside-down-question-mark business. XD
music: "She Blinded Me With Science" - Thomas Dolby

2002-11-15T20:08:00.000-05:00

15 November 2K2

I forgot to tell you about my "driving" experience last night. So I'll do that now, but first, the backstory:
Dad bought something that, far as Mom and I are concerned, is a rusted-out wreck of metal - nominally, some sort of Jeep. From the 40's sometime, I think, and doesn't even have an engine. I think this is a guy thing. (Normally old cars rule all. But not this one. I just *don't get it.*) He's also got an early-60's thing that actuallly has an engine, not to mention it's more likely to get fixed.
We had to have a tree outside my parents' bedroom cut down. The thing was HUGE, but very nearly dead, and it'd be nice if it didn't fall on the house. Chopping-down space coincided with the location of the Jeep-like object and the other thing, so the people who did the chopping down moved them.
We tried to push the Jeep-like thing back down, but that didn't work. So Dad got his truck right up behind it and had me steer the Jeep-like thing back downhill. o.o For the record, I did let him know he's insane, but... actually sitting down and driving *might* not be quite so freaky. (Wouldn't know yet. Haven't done that since April.)
The other thing is not back down the hill. Whoever moved it moved it by the wrong part, so the thing that keeps the wheels straight is now bent. Dad can't get under it to look while it's on the slope, and he can't get it back downhill.
And now, for something completely different: During the Hamlet discussion today, someone was trying to figure out what the point of Laertes even *being* there was when so far, he's only been in the very beginning. The teacher mentioned that he'll be back. One of the guys wanted to know who dies.
So he looked for himself and announced it to the whole class. >.< And then the question was, "Well, if everyone dies who rules the country?" Which isn't reallly that hard if you think about it.
music: "Something Ain't Right" - David Byrne

2002-11-14T21:18:00.000-05:00

14 November 2K2

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And in other news, Mom said if she sees the Bill and Ted DVD anywhere she'll get it. That's probably a likewise, so far as Is It Fall Yet? is concerned. (Not planning to put money into a chopped-up version of IICY. /me hopes the Nogginized episodes aren't the ones up for the series DVD, whenever that happens. If you're wondering, the IIFY DVD was out before the Noggin business.)
music: "Solsbury Hill" - Peter Gabriel (Hey Sidra, if you can find this one, it's great too.)

2002-11-13T21:27:00.000-05:00

13 November 2K2

(Fangirl Ramble (TM) ahead, so you know...)
I shouldn't have done Good Omens for my summer reading, it seems.
We have to do an independent-reading project for English. One of the options is to do a newspaper page - and a Tadfield Advertiser sample popped into my head. Another option: Character from book does radio spot for something they'd be likely to endorse. Immediate mental feed of Crowley doing a Best of Queen commercial. XD
As it is, I think I'm either going to read Midsummer Night's Dream (finally), use Long Dark Tea-Time, or finish the Discworld book I started... last month?
Did, however, tell Apple that now she can finish Good Omens. (What can I say? When I lend or give people books I want to know what they think. And it's not like I'm forcing her into it, it was just a suggestion.)
Turns out somebody at the board has read Good Omens, speaking of it. There's one for the lookers-at list. ::much rejoicing::
music: "Enid" - BNL

2002-11-12T21:06:00.000-05:00

12 November 2K2

Parental units decided to buy a (used) car - red Jeep-y thing. It's alright.
Have since added three songs to the F-G S! list. That brings me up to eighteen. Several of them are four, five, or six minutes long. I don't think they'll all fit on one CD. XD
So, what I simply must have, once again with the ABC order treatment: (Most artists listed below.)
"All the Children Sing"
"Amnesia"
"Easy to Slip" - Little Feat
"Fear is Never Boring"
"Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy"
"I'm the Answer"
"In Your Eyes"
"Jessica" - Allman Brothers (Beautiful song, also token instrumental number.)
"Just One Victory"
"Lovers in a Dangerous Time"
"Over the Hills and Far Away"
"Pure and Easy"
"Runaway Train" - Soul Asylum (Which I've loved for YEARS, and only just found out we have. Go figure. :b)
"Sufficiently Breathless"
"Take On Me"
"What a Day That Was"
Dad's watching the Miami (Ohio)-Marshall football game. I'd be out there, but I don't like football and I don't like him yelling at the TV screen.
I think "Slight Return" is done, but then again, I don't. Will have to get it typed up and see what lookers-at think re: the ending.
I find this heartily amusing.
music: "Slippery People" - Talking Heads

2002-11-10T21:45:00.000-05:00

10 November 2K2

We actually went to church today (gasp, shock, amazement). Nothing about the Horsepersons, but the second reading *did* mention the Rapture, so I did get one funny bit out if it.
If I were to put the next Feel-Good Stuff! CD in alphabetical order, it would shape up something like this:
"All the Children Sing" - Todd Rundgren
"Amnesia" - Pousiette-Dart Band (Seriously guessing on spelling, but it looks right.)
"Fear is Never Boring" - the Raisins
"Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy" - Queen (Usually, suggested songs are funny the first time. This one's *still* funny. It's the Crowleyness.)
"I'm the Answer" - Simon Townshend
"In Your Eyes" - Peter Gabriel (Saving "Sledgehammer" for my Dance in the Car CD.)
"I've Just Seen a Face" - Beatles
"Just One Victory" - Todd again.
"Lovers in a Dangerous Time" - BNL
"Narcissisima" (or "On the Amazon", both are by Don McLean and the way the order works out they'd be in the same place.)
"Over the Hills and Far Away" - Led Zeppelin
"Pure and Easy" - the Who
"Sufficiently Breathless" - Captain Beyond
"Take On Me" - a-ha
"What a Day That Was" - Talking Heads (Current music selection as well.)
Let's see... five of those (there are fifteen) are on not-CD recording formatses. I may have mentioned previously this one's waiting for the Toast.

2002-11-09T21:00:00.000-05:00

9 November 2K2

Went to the library today - they don't have very much of the Sandman stuff, and what I looked into had "coming soon" on the copy status thing, so I'll just ask for a few at Christmas. And Coraline.
Not a whole lot to say today, actually, but more than... when was that, the third? XD
music: "Video Killed the Radio Star"

2002-11-08T21:29:00.000-05:00

8 November 2K2

E, Saunter Vaguely Downward has a template!!! It's not up yet because Erin came up with an alternate plan for the hosting business, so I'm saving it for then. ([Trent]Alternate plan. Cool.[/Trent]) Will probably use the envy.nu URL for the fanfic archiving end of the business so as not to eat up all of Erin's space.
Many thanks to Amy for making the template and putting up with all my nitpicks on it. ^_^ (Oh, and it's got some of that artwork the FTP tribs are keeping off my artwork page. War, most specifically. With the truck (though you can't actually see the implements o' destruction) and proof that I shouldn't really be trusted to draw more than M-birds.)
Came up with a story idea for the writing contest I linked to yesterday. May wind up sounding like it's related to American Gods when I'm done with it, but I actually came up with the character idea before I read it. And there's no big war thingy either. XD
I need something witty for SVD's future guestbook. The only idea I've had so far is The Book of Guest, but that's just sort of... eh. Any ideas? Anyone? Bueller?
Hey Lucas. You know Todd Rundgren's stuff. Any idea what album "Just One Victory" is on?
music: "When I Fall" - BNL

2002-11-07T22:03:00.000-05:00

7 November 2K2

Official end of marching band was tonight, complete with senior awards... I got And There Was Much Rejoicing. (Indeed. *yaaay*) Came up with one (Exploding Drummer) for next year, and am writing it down so I remember to bring it up. Well, okay, possibly two (the other being for the first Good Omens convert!).
Made a locker sign for her with the caveat from the front of the book on it - someone apparently found a warning *against* Armageddon offensive and took it down. Some people. I have somersaulting cows on the inside of my locker. I leave signs on the outside, stupid people write/draw on them, I get mad. So I just stopped bothering. :b
This sounds cool. Madly cool. May have to write something for it.
music: "Wavelength" - Van Morrison

2002-11-06T21:49:00.000-05:00

6 November 2K2

Got off me duff and did a couple of things...
1) Finally emailed Amy about the template for Saunter Vaguely Downward.
2) Took out web space after the latest FTP tribulations. Intro "by" Scarlett, because I felt like writing it from her POV. That and she wouldn't leave me alone about it. Red on black is quite nifty, isn't it?
After the last attempt at FTP downloading, I emailed my sister to see if she could be of any help. She recommended somethig that seems to work quite nicely... except for the bit where the web host place isn't actually holding onto more than one piece of art at once (or through updates) - out of the new stuff, anyway. So, till such time as I can talk my parents into spending more money on the 'puter, I've taken the web space into my own hands. And then once I've got the FTP program working... the same old debate picks up. XD
If anyone's curious about that story from English I mentioned... *his* part involved a snow day for the Super Bowl (Super Bowl bit = attempt to annoy me). *My* part said the "snow day" was in the coach's head - as he thinks he's teaching a sevnth-grade gym class - and his doctor wrote a hundred-page report on it, but the team didn't bother reading it. Like I said, you can definitely tell who wrote what. If this guy has a brain he certainly doesn't show any signs of it. (Hey, at least I'm *laughing* about this. So to speak.)
music: "Not So Far Away" - Glen Burtnick

2002-11-06T17:16:00.000-05:00

6 November 2K2

I've been writing down things for my next Feel-Good Stuff! CD - it's waiting until we have the Toast set up. That way I can get things like "Sufficiently Breathless" on it. And throughout the land there was much rejoicing. :yaaay:
Today felt like a Daria kind of day, so I wore my Daria shirt to school. Either tomorrow or Friday is going to be Cirque du Soleil shirt day. And, if I feel like it, I'll wear my BNL shirt to school - the band name is in such a place that no one can see it if I tuck it in. (My Fallout Shelter shirt, on the other hand, will require a more creative solution.)
We did a vocab unit in English today, and after we went over the words we split into groups to write stories using some of the vocab words and a couple of random phrases. I had a wild card until it turned out (surprise, surprise) the usual suspect was sick, so I wound up in a group with the exemplary reason of Why I Hate Jocks.
He wrote the first paragraph of the story, trying his best to get on my nerves. (The kid can't seem to get it into his head that Good Omens *is a freaking book!*, and I'm not going to waste breath explaining it to him.) But then I got to write the second paragraph. And I was the one who used the actual vocab words. ::insert evil smirk here:: Far as I can tell, the stuff I wrote that was funny in its own right got more laughs than his attempts at annoying me. You could defnitely tell who wrote which.
OH! Ruka, I've been meaning to ask - are you planning to revive Ask the Senshi? (Or should I be asking whether the senshi will let you *live* if you don't? XD)
music: "Baby Let's Swing" (etc.) - Todd Rundgren

2002-11-05T21:03:00.000-05:00

5 November 2K2

The cosmonaut dude was... interesting. Yeah, that's a good word. XD As was the end of Buffy, which I went in and watched after my parents started laughing at it.
Hamlet continues to be dull on the whole, except for a few mildly entertaining bits.
I swear I told my parents there's a band thing Thursday, since I KNOW I mentioned it in relation to trying to find Peter Gabriel tickets. Honestly, why couldn't the man have scheduled Cleveland for a weekend?
Not much to say tonight...
music: "Take On Me" - Reel Big Fish (Liked it so much I borrowed it from someone at school!)

2002-11-04T17:07:00.000-05:00

4 November 2K2

I'm *this close* to an ending for "Slight Return"... any of the Good Omens crowd want to beta it? (It's a Daria/Good Omens crossover, but I want a couple of beta-ers from just one of said fandoms, to see if it makes sense all around. Erin, since you're the only person I know of who's familiar with both, I'd really appreciate your help if you've got time.) Can't guarantee on how soon it'll be out. Definitely by Thanksgiving, prolly sooner.
Got... something resembling a translation for the Latin in the back of that rosary I got from my grandmother: The wood from the tree (something something) (Dominican?). The Latin teacher didn't even know all of it. 'Twas all-round thought a cool thing, though.
A cosmonaut is coming to school to talk to everybody tomorrow. Should be interesting. Bad news: We have to be in uniform tomorrow. Good news: We get *two* extra out-of-uniform days tacked onto the end.
Someone aske why not an American astronaut - I figure this way we can ask why they didn't just leave the whol of N'Sync *in* space. I wouldn't miss them...
music: "Nighttime in the Switching Yard" - Warren Zevon

2002-11-03T15:36:00.000-05:00

3 November 2K2

...Am I meant to say something? If so, I can't tell you anything truly important. So sorry.
music: dying strains of "Proudest Monkey" - Dave Matthews Band

2002-11-02T17:02:00.000-05:00

2 November 2K2

And another random happening at the football game last night:
Due to the coldness which makes me think they should make lids for football stadiums, someone said if we were REALLY desperate to get warm we could just torch the drums. They'd go easiest because of all the oil in the part you beat on, apparently.
I then informed her she shouldn't have given me that idea. This was the friend I got to read Good Omens, byt the way. And then I figured out we'd have to get someone else to do it, since I was *War* for Halloween, not Pollution.
So, one of the trumpet players was nominated for the job. He doesn't get it, but since when does that matter?
Plan for next week: Take Good Omens to school and get... someone to read it. Maybe said trumpet player, maybe one of the guard girls who had previously expressed interest, maybe even my religion teacher! (I mentioned it to her a while back, and she said she'd probaably like it but didn't have time right then due to soccer season. Soccer season is now over. So.)
music: "Mirror Mirror" (I think that's the name of it) - Roger Daltrey

2002-11-02T15:01:00.000-05:00

2 November 2K2

Okay... I have a slightly less vague idea of what I want for the Saunter Vaguely Downward layout. Narrowed it down to two drawings, at any rate. So you'll be hearing from me fairly soon, Amy.
Can anybody recommend a good FTP program? Please? I think further artwork on display may depend on it. ^_^;
But on the upside (there is indeed one), we seem to have picked up an unzipping program along the way. Off to try fontguy.com once again... after I find my list of cool fonts, that is...
Uploaded the Daria glasses to Galactic Cynic but didn't link to them last night. Too tired/hyper (it's an odd combo...) to do so. Football team lost, by the by. Actually, it's more like they were there for most of the first quarter, and then whoever played their middle six regular-season games showed up to finish it.
first quarter score: 14-14 (with us scoring first, of all things)
final: 31-14, them.
Just as well with me. I hate playoffs. It's cold and I don't even like the football team and I seem to be expected to show spirit for them anyway. Oh, and it's cold, did I mention that? I'll probably get sick again, figures, just when I was getting over last week's coughing-up-lung business. Next year, if the bass drummer who got kicked out (more or less) wants to go THAT badly I'll propose he goes instead of me. :b
music: was "Feels So Good" - Van Halen, but Mom's making a phone call about those printer cartridges, so I'll prolly turn that "Take On Me" cover back on after I get my lunch.

2002-11-01T15:54:00.000-05:00

1 November 2K2

Dude... first reading at Mass was something from Revelations... *and the Horsepersons came up!*
music: "Take On Me" - Reel Big Fish (THANK YOU LUCAS!!!!)

2002-10-31T22:22:00.000-05:00

31 October 2K2

Erm. Well. That didn't quite work.
I tried downloading the FTP program virtue.nu recommends... didn't work out. I'm in a bit of a quandary now. Can't get *either* drawing of War, or Crowley, or the Nice and Accurate Prophecies up there without one, since i don't give my hosts any money and therefore can't upload anything bigger than 1 meg.
Maybe if I could email them to someone?
Anyway. I did manage to get the two smaller things on. Go here (there because - again - I don't give them any moeny), scroll down to the Miscellany section, and the new ones are Attempted Sunglasses and Saturday Sunset. Though the sunset didn't necessarily occur on a Saturday. Is explained better there.
...I forgot my Daria glasses!! Guess now's as good a time as any to test out the plug on the other side of the keyboard. XD
music: "When I Fall" - BNL

2002-10-31T21:27:00.000-05:00

31 October 2K2

Scannerage is hooked up. Haven't attempted my one drawing of Quinn, but I'm pretty sure the sketchbook is bigger than the scanner, so it'll be an interesting trick. XD My sunset photo got the honor of first scan. If I can work out uploading stuff to the site tonight, I'll at least get War on there. I kinda doubt the roll of film the phot of me is on is even finished yet. Eh, who cares? You'll have *something* visual...
(Amy, I'll be getting to ya about a template... relatively soon. If it turns into one of those goes-on-for-centuries "soon"s, remind me.)
La la la, funky (well, funkier, they're already strange due to Proficiencies) schedule tomorrow... everybody wanted an All Saints Day Mass despite aforementioned strange schedule. So we're not having first or second period. *And there was much rejoicing!* (No, really. Have I mentioned my history classroom is actually a circle of Hell? That's why they have a religion teacher in there after. Said history class is second period. Mwaha.)
Got the first Dirk Gently book from the school library after lunch today. Really should be reading Hamlet instead, but... you know how it goes. It's making slightly more sense, but then again, I'm only on chapter four.
Speaking of English, I have to type up *that* paper at school too. Those printer cartridges? They're the wrong kind. Of bloody course. Anyway, there were two prompt choices: A fictional character that inspires you or something about gender equality in today's society. As my writing on the latter was mainly another rant at MTV and I liked the former better anyway, I went with that one. And I wrote about Crowley. XD
(In-class looker-at yesterday: "Good Omens. There's that book again.")
Took my copy of The Daria Diaries to school as part of an art attempt (that I wound up not working on in school - go fig). Two people went "Oh, cool!" and asked to see it, and someone else thought it was cool but there's no way my physiology teacher would have put up with her reading it during class, and we both knew it. So I just pointed out the "Copy Spunky" thing to her.
music: "In a Moment" - Collective Soul
(random tidbit: "Radar Love" is in a Subaru commercial. Coolness.)

2002-10-30T19:39:00.000-05:00

30 October 2K2

EEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
We have scannerage! And Titanium Toast! And Photshop (and several other related things)! /me is a happy duck!
Can't play with any of it yet - have to clear the desk first. And figure out the 'puter-maintenance thing. But that soitenly won't stop me from lookin'. Gotta get it off the kitchen table anyway.
I need to list what artwork I'm putting up now...
*Obviously my Good Omens fanart - a drawing and a sketch of War, my Nice and Accurate Prophecies movie poster thing, and *Crowley!*
*Possibly the faux-brickwork I did on a sketchbook cover. Another side effect of watching Trading Spaces. XD
*If I can fit it in the scanner (it's on rather... large paper), my fire-faerie Quinn thing from a few months back (you may remember me mentioning it, or perhaps not). I'd have taken it to Texas for that round of scannerage but didn't feel like lugging that sketchbook around.
*My sunset photo from the last roll I had developed. And, even though it's a not-great picture, The Alleged Lamp so you all know why I was so excited to get it.
...Hmm. That would seem to be everything, at the mo.
Lucas, I've never tried to download music before, but I'll try once you've updated. (Note to anyone who missed it - this concerns a cover of "Take On Me". I don't have it, he does, he's putting it on his mp3 site when next he updates.)
music: "She Drives Me Crazy" - Fine Young Cannibals

2002-10-29T21:31:00.000-05:00

29 October 2K2

Lucas, of *course* I know that song. Have since I was five or six - my parents trained me well. XD
Finished disease report, such as I can from here. Have to type it tomorrow morning, but... that's tomorrow. Couldn't find anything on three sections out of 21 - actually more than I thought I'd get. Figured out why the Google search said "the famous abstract painter (1879-1940)", by the way. Whoever typed it in the first place didn't have very good sentence structure. For the record, said painter was Paul Klee.
One of my old drawings got resurrected by that Pop Art thing Hilde did on Trading Spaces... though my hand may kill me before I finish all those dots. XD
music: "Helicopters" - BNL

2002-10-28T21:41:00.000-05:00

28 October 2K2

Got some research done on my disease report - have something to type up tomorrow morning. *You do NOT want scleroderma.* Trust me. I just watched my grandmother die from it. That was bad enough.
Ruka just took over someone else's LiveJournal. Let me get this straight, you two - I can have the one she just abandoned? Is that what you were plotting and scheming? (And as for the other thing - forty-two!!)
Oh, speaking of Douglas Adams, how's Dirk Gently going? (Has he shown up yet? XD)
Did some religion homework earlier - we just started the sin chapter, so there was stuff in there re: original sin. I kept doing Good Omens Fangirl answers in my head (and very nearly wrote one of them down). And then there was a bit in the text about wiles, so the top of the page now says: "You see a wile, you thwart. Am I right?"
I love that book to little tiny bits.
Hamlet, on the other hand, I could live without. It's not nearly as excruciating as Great Expectations and Old Man and the Sea were, but... I don't know. One of these days I will get around to reading Midsummer Night's Dream. That sounds more like my kind of play.
Got a Canadian dime as lunch-line change today. Speaking of random coinage, I can't find that wheatback penny for *anything.* Wasn't in the jar, wasn't in with my early-60's pennies, wasn't in the random-foreign-coins box... /me hopes fervently it isn't in the sweeper bag. Ewww.
Lucas... we may need to do a music trade.
music: "Lawyers, Guns and Money" - Warren Zevon

2002-10-27T22:07:00.000-05:00

27 October 2K2

Because we all need truly useless tests:

(Morgan, it's not Quizilla, but I don't know whether it'll cooperate with you. It might.)
music: "Sister Disco" - the Who

2002-10-27T21:23:00.000-05:00

27 October 2K2

They did *so* have time to play "The Safety Dance", but they wasted it playing the stupid group dance things that they'd already played. And they didn't have "Boris the Spider"! What good is it to have a Halloween party without playing "Boris the Spider"? (Ah well. They had (and played, at my request) "Take On Me". Much bouciness and hitting of high note. Booyah.)
I think I'm going to do something unusual... and update Galactic Cynic. *gasp, shock, amazement* No layout changes on the horizon, but I've got some song lyrics to throw on there.
Along with the scannerage and Photoshop and printer cartidges (oh my!), we're getting Toast. Not just any Toast... Titanium Toast! (It's software to put stuff from records and cassettes on your computer, and it cleans up the sratches even.)
Oh... crap.
Physio disease report due Wednesday. Meant to be typed. No printer cartridges... think, think, think...
PING!! Proficiencies week. Non-takers get to come in late, but Mom has to be there at the usual time anyway and I don't have a ride. Sounds like I have a morning project. *whew*
(Why yes, I subscribe to the Calvin theory of "inspiration" on school projects*, why d'you ask? XD)
*i.e. - last-minute panic.
music: "You Better You Bet" - the Who

2002-10-26T18:40:00.000-04:00

26 October 2K2

SCORE!!!
I get to go to the dance after all. That, and my nail polish job actually held up fairly well, until I did the dishes. Even then the only casualty was a scratch on one nail. Go me.
Mom has a red belt (should've known that). She brought up her boots, which I'd already considered, but I think my combat boots will do just as well. ('Sides, I've got red socks!)
Got my last roll of vacation pictures (with other random finish-off-the-roll shots) today... And my sunset came out!!! That's a very hard thing to do, according to Mom. I hear a layout calling, once I get it up here. (Why yes, I think I *can* relae it to Good Omens, why d'you ask? XD)
music: "Sledgehammer" - Peter Gabriel

2002-10-25T23:42:00.000-04:00

25 October 2K2

You know what I need? I need orange juice.
Seriously. It helps with sore throats, at least in my case. Went through two quarts one time when I was sick. There's the bare remains of some in the fridge that we mixed... a month ago? The pulp's separated out and I don't know whether it's fermented or what. Needless to say, I'm not really up to trying it and finding out. o.O (Cough medicine, by the by, is the work of the Devil.)
Dude, the only dance out of the school year I really want to go to and Mom prolly won't let me, seeing as I'm coughin my lungs up over here. Ah well. I can essentially wear the costume to school in a week or so (minus Mom's coat, natch) for one of my raffle-payoff days. Might do nail polish tomorrow anyway. Will probably drag Mom out after that red belt to go with it (that I may or may not have mentioned), and will do my best to get a picture of the ensemble, big-arse sword included.
Due to possible scanner-having status, I'm trying to pick something for a Saunter Vaguely Downward layout-thing. Either aforementioned picture in costume (Erin, would that top the narcissism level you set with you ravatar?) or the sketch I've been using all over the place. Except I've fixed the muscle issue with her arm since I photocopied it.
music: "Pure and Easy" - the Who (It's a Who night, folks. Computer tried to eat the CD earlier.)

2002-10-25T20:39:00.000-04:00

25 October 2K2

First thing of note on today's report: This. Sucks. (Doesn't sting as much as some other celeb deaths have - for me, anyway - but *still.*)
Second, I hope you enjoyed your afternoon of slackage, Sidra.
Third... it would seem the third-oldest coin in my collection (1910 wheat-back penny) has gotten itself mixed in with my Jug Wars fund. I already checked the box I've got some of the old ones in, not to mention the box with my first Jug Wars delivery in it. That leaves the jar. o.o
I'm interested enough in collecting old coins that I'm the only grandchild whose parent wasn't sent home with a warning against spending the stuff. Could be because I've kept it going since I was about 7. Newest thing in it would be a couple of those Sacajawea dollar coins. The honor of oldest goes to my Indian-head penny.
In other news, I heard the words "shopping," "Photoshop" and "scanner" in the same (or at least closely enough related) sentence tonight. And there was much rejoicing. ::yaaay:: I even put in the deciding vote on the typ of scanner, that being for the kind I don't have to rip apart my sketchbooks over. I just might clean off the computer desk for this! XD
music: "Love, Reign O'er Me" - the Who

2002-10-24T21:35:00.000-04:00

24 October 2K2

Parental units made a first today - they actually made me go to school sick. Because today was the last day of the quarter and I wouldn't get my quizzes in otherwise. They did at least think to get me out of there after said quizzes were out of the way, and as it was I forgot about my Hamlet quiz anyway. Wouldn't have been able to tell anyone the plot by that point. XD
Further brainstorming for Saunter Vaguely Downward - random songs that remind me of something in Good Omens. I'd probably have to get some of them from other people. (Just because we have a lot of music here doesn't mean we have everything.)
Watched my new Daria tape today. The pilot ep was... interesting. What the heck is Quinn *wearing?* Hey, Daria does her bootlaces the same way I do (tied around the boot). Cool.
If I'm feeling this much like death warmed over tomorrow I'm not going to the football game, much fun as the halftime music will be. (Note to self: Suggest one of this year's competition songs for senior night next year, if still in marching band.) However, I refuse to miss the dance. Not after it took me far too long to work out the red jacket part.
music: "Genius of Love" - Tom-Tom Club (internal soundtrack)

2002-10-23T21:40:00.000-04:00

23 October 2K2

Happy Mole Day to all chem students, past and present. If you haven't had it yet... you'll see.
(Have I mentioned lately that I HATE being sick? Because I do. I also hate having to go to school anyway because I've got tests and quizzes all over the place.)
Curse those accursed ill-timed concert dates. There's more or less no way we can make it to Cleveland either day Peter Gabriel's up there. Most non-triumphant. Lucas, you'd better enjoy yourself in New Jersey.
Now, off to try typing up some of "Slight Return"...
music: "Wavelength" - Van Morrison

2002-10-22T22:09:00.000-04:00

22 October 2K2

My precalc folder's due tomorrow. I thought it was due today, but she only collected half the class and it wasn't mine. Still, I've got it organized. I'm missing the occasional homework but I did reviews for all four chapters (compared to the one I did for all year last year... I'm improving! XD).
Tried to not do the essay for my Honor Society app, so I did it last night. A hundred and fifty words happen a lot faster than you think. Weird.
The football team might yet go to playoffs. No! No! I don' wanna! (If the bass drummer who got evicted wants to go *that* badly he can take my ticket.)
We got out music for the senior night (friday) show today... Summertime (competition music my freshman year), Georgia On My Mind (competition music from last year), and On Broadway (for some reason). I know the low brass guys, assuming the Prodigal Tuba Player wanted to come back for it, would have lobbied for Corazon, but they're the only people who know parts to it. I don't think I've ever HAD one. The previous band director never collected music.
speaking of which: "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" - Tears for Fears

2002-10-20T21:29:00.000-04:00

20 October 2K2

There's a reason I thought Nutter as a last name sounded familiar - I saw a Who concert in the Nutter Center (I think it's Wright State's basketball stadium, usually) a few years ago. And I just realized Friday someone with the last name of Nutter donated money to the stadium. (Which actually belongs to the public high scholl, but... whatever.)
If you're scratching your heads, that was another Good Omens-related thing. XD
Finished American Gods earlier today. Interesting book there. Trying to get into Neverwhere. The Discworld book I may or may not have mentioned earlier has been put aside in favor of stuff I can't keep forever.
Very few band practices this week, since we're doing a stand-and-play show for senior night.
music: "Close to Me" - the Cure

2002-10-19T23:38:00.000-04:00

19 October 2K2

almost forgot - *Happy Birthday Sidra!!*

Happy Happy Birthday
From all of us to you
We wish it was our birthday
Then we could party too
HEY!

music: bits and pieces of Firebird Suite on internal soundtrack - a coupl eof bands played it today. Cool song.

2002-10-19T22:46:00.000-04:00

19 October 2K2

We were five points short of qualifying for finals at the band competition (do you get Mid-States that far north, Erin? that's what kind it was). And the band that *had* the extra five points was the biggest one there. Eh, who cares what the judges thought? We rocked.
Random amusing tidbits:
Someone *actually used the term "be-bop" to describe modern music* today! What's more, he was sure that's what he meant. Well then. XD (It's a small Good Omens tidbit, everyone who hasn't go and read it...)
Substantially through American Gods - no, that does not translate into all the way. One of those characters talks the way a Dariafic author writes. It's bizarre. (Erin, if you've read "Revelations" or "Visitation" you might know what I'm talking about. Compare it to Media, if you've got the book handy.)

Anyway. Morgan, I might be able to trade Daria tapes with you, for a while. I've got all of S5 (which you missed most of, I think) and have been looking for some earlier stuff. Email me about it if you're interested.
music: "Never Is Enough" - BNL

2002-10-19T00:00:00.000-04:00

18 October 2K2

Miracle of miracles, the football team actually WON. Their record for the year is now 3 wins, 6 losses. /me hopes they don't go to playoffs. (I don't like the football team with the exception of maybe two members, I have no school spirit whatsoever, and I don't want to freeze my arse off for the sake of school spirit when I don't have any.)
Sad thing is, we could beat the Bengals right now. XD
The band director was really steamed at people after the game - something about people who don't want to do the competition tomorrow? I thought he invited the last (possibly only) one of those we had to quit. Like I said, if I'm blowing anything off it's the playoffs, should the team go that far. I like the competitions. That's the only reason I'm there.
People at school got off their collective duff and sold enough raffle tickets to get next Friday off school. Considering we were at the less-than-halfway mark Wednesday... woah.
Somewhat more than halfway through American Gods. Cool book. Took it to the football game and read when we weren't doing anything.
music: "Take On Me" once again...

2002-10-16T21:20:00.000-04:00

16 October 2K2

UFO SIGHTING!!!
Two of them. Too fast and tood quiet to be any sort of jet (according to Dad - he found them). And they were bright on top of that - one of them showed up rather nicely when it went right by the moon.
Oh, and the "if I'm careful" in reference to certain fangirl-appropriate DVDs just means I have to look in the right places. I don't plan on getting the Is It College Yet? DVD, since they couldn't be bothered to put the non-cut version (or indeed any of the promised extras) on it. :b Will, however, look into Is It Fall Yet? and (natch) Bill & Ted.
music: "Take On Me" - a-ha (because I didn't hear it OVER AND OVER AND OVER! enough yesterday. XD)

2002-10-16T16:09:00.000-04:00

16 October 2K2

Played hangman for most of religion today (marketing trip, half the class was gone). At least it started as hangman. One of them jumped off a building, one of them got shot, one of them was hanging over a fire... at which point the teacher said it was Inquisition, not hangman. So I went up and did one with The Comfy Chair.
And then the teacher pointed this gem out... Lego guys enacting the Kinghts of the Round Table song from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Actually, I linked to the pick-yer-speed page, but... close enough.
no music, random DVD noises (one of the Cirque du Soleil ones)

2002-10-15T21:24:00.000-04:00

15 October 2K2

Had a stomachache all through the PSATs, and it seems to be coing back. Brill. Anyway, the tests caused us to have a Mass in the afternoon - which, after All Saint's Day (in the middle of Proficiencies week this year), the school may never do again.
I hate fundraisers. With, to borrow Erin's phrase, the passion of a thousand fiery suns. But turning in my 55 raffle tickets gets me copious amounts of out-of-uniform days. And rids our house of 52 flowery address labels that were reportedly made "just for" my mother. Those people don't know her very well... (If you're wondering, my grandparents bought the other three. And they liked the surprise TV.)
While I was writing our phone number on the raffle tickets I kept thinking I'd slip and write my grandmother's phone number instead. Don't plan on forgetting it any time soon, even though I'll never use it again, as it's the only one I know of with seven unique digits (area code discounted). And then a couple times i nearly wrote my name on them (again).
Got some writing done... but absolutely nothing else. I can't start *doing* this again!
music: "Take On Me" - a-ha

2002-10-14T22:21:00.000-04:00

14 October 2K2

...Well.
It's not just a DVD player, it's a freakin' HUGE new TV (old one will go to grandparents, as theirs only has one operational color. XD) and four DVDs, those being Roxanne, Young Frankenstein, The Big Chill, and Silverado. Mom said "if I'm careful" Daria and Bill & Ted will turn up. Oh, the joys of uncensored B&T... the only one that really gets on my nerves is the "fag" substitute. And they didn't forget the fish food either.
music: back to "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy" for a while...

2002-10-14T20:05:00.000-04:00

14 October 2K2

Rumor has it my parents went to get a DVD player. Could be because Mom got Cirque du Soleil DVDs while we were up there, and Dad said we'd have one by Christmas anyway. I hope they don't forget the fish food.
Oh, Erin and Sidra, I meant to tell you guys I'd like to trade "mix" radio stations. Yours does it right, mine doesn't. ::is insanely jealous:: (Well, it's serviceable. It's just they don't really mix the music timelines up enough. They scrapped the 70's stuff after the decade changed.)
Went to the library today primarily hunting down Sandman. They have some of it, but I'd like an order so I don't put a hold on one from the middle. I did, however, get American Gods and Neverwhere. That really should hold me for now.
...CRAP!!! I have physiology homework for tomorrow! And it has to be typed, which I can't do here since our printer is very recently out of ink. Gee, good thing Mom's is operational, eh? (I have homework even though I won't be in that class due to PSATs.)
Even though the about ten seconds of "Take On Me" wasn't anywhere near enough, I think it sparked Miranda back on a related project. (Which I haven't updated in quite a while.) We shall see. I'd really prefer to finish "Slight Return" first, but... you know. Miranda.
music: "She Drives me Crazy" - Fine Young Cannibals

2002-10-13T23:47:00.000-04:00

13 October 2K2

So I'm reading a Good Omens fic with some... interesting pairings. (Only one of them is the one I keep telling you you'll pick up on once you read it, Morgan.) I suddenly realize not only am I listening to Queen, but I've got "Somebody To Love" in the rotation. That just hits very high in the funny-coincidi meter.
Speaking of such things, total time wasted on solitaire about 15 games ago: 37 hours, 37 minutes, 37 seconds.
music: "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy" - Queen (This is what was actually *in* previously mentioned Music With Rocks In update. Whoever said it's a Crowley song... you are a thousand times right.)

2002-10-13T21:07:00.000-04:00

13 October 2K2

Cirque du Soleil was *madly cool.* The headless-guy-with-umbrella they had in the show (and on the posters for it, natch) reminded me of a Magritte painting, so I bought a shirt with him on it. And no one will be able to tell me it's not blue. They won't understand the picture, but that's all right.
Two random Cleveland questions for Erin and/or Sidra (the latter of whom I just linked to, actually...):
1) Do you know anything about that huge black-brick church? and
2) What in the WORLD do you people do to your mosquitoes?! Those things were huge!
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame was also cool. We missed some stuff (one-hit wonders, glam rock, etc.) and as such will have to go back up there sometime - maybe *then* things'll work out, Erin. Interesting artifacts (they actually used that word!) include:
*the Big Suit (TM) - Talking Heads (The thing's eight or nine sizes too big for the guy who was wearing it. XD)
*a bag full of hotel keys a member of the Eagles collected
*some feathery... thing Elton John wore onstage (who else?)
*part of the Exploding Drummer's drum kit! (Yes, you are meant to ask about that.)
I think the music-videos thing could've been set up better. (Like actually showing whole videos...) But it inspired a rant at Empty-V, which I will be posting at the other thing. And the about ten seconds (overall) of "Take On Me" they had in there were nowhere near enough. Must get on tape... somehow.
Hey, how about the H of F gets a bunch of 80's videos on a video/DVD and they sell it? They'd make a killing, I'll bet. Either that or one of the music TV channels should start running old stuff again.
A couple of random tidbits Erin may be pleased to hear: I've started in on a Terry Pratchett book Dad bought from SFBC a while back (I *swear* I've actually seen octarine, as is described somewhere in The Colour of Magic), and will be checking the public library soon for Sandman. They're fairly big on graphic novels. So they just might have it.
music: "Now I'm Here" - Queen (As was inspired by Erin's update at Music With Rocks In. A few other random songs programmed.)

2002-10-11T18:23:00.000-04:00

11 October 2K2

Musicians... and/or... stage crew.
That's my audition results. After someone telling me I had one of the best auditions. Princess Grace is in a similar boat - she had a good audition too, and she got alternate/skit person.
I have to talk to the teacher who's directing about the musicians thing. (We are once again in one-act musical territory, friends...) One of my questions will be if I can get involved in one of the skits - my main reason for trying out was because I wanted to *act.* If I'd just wanted to do crew I'd have pulled a Fiddler and signed up for just crew. (Yes, I know I'm still involved and that's a GoodThing (TM) and suchlike. Now wait for the other sticking point...)
The other sticking point involves the drama class. They have at least part of a one-act all to themselves. Some of them went out for parts in the other ones anyway. *And got them.*
I have absolutely nothing against the idea of a drama class or any of the people in them. My problem is, they're taking up parts other people could have when they already know they've got something. Dad said that's not how you encourage people to get into the drama department - and it's not.
Hey, sometimes you do have people involved in more than one - sometime I'll tell you the replacement-Aquaman story from last year's plays. But this... it's just not necessary y'know?
Sometimes it feels like the same people always get the lead roles, and then supporting roles are rotated out to "give new people a chance." That's nice... but what do you do when they flake out on you? (Last year the one I was in had three different cast changes. I would not be surprised to see at least one this year, knowing some people.)
Nugget Of Irony: I was talking to one of the freshmen who went out for a part after we'd both tried. She thought I was more qualified for... well, anything, really... and she got an alternate/skit part. I consider that being able to do more than I get. XD
Okay, so I found a problem, and I found something to laugh about in the whole thing. I think that's a fair balance...
music: "Slippery People" - Talking Heads (stress relief music. bwahaha.)

2002-10-10T21:45:00.000-04:00

10 October 2K2

Audition results don't get posted till tomorrow. Don't Panic, you'll hear about it.
Erin - we are leaving Saturday morning to drive up there. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame will be Sunday, most likely late mrning/early afternoon, if you think trying to meet up there would work out. (And if they're closed on Sunday... Dad was wrong then, wasn't he? XD)
music: "Heart and Soul" - T'Pau

2002-10-09T20:40:00.000-04:00

9 October 2K2

Woo. My audition rocked. The snippet of play was boring - it was the end of a scene, and cold-reading the meat of it may have gone better - but who cares? After last year, it's a well-established fact that I can fake pain. (My part involved having a corsage pinned to my chest. Long, long story. XD) Someone said me and Princess Grace had the best ones, from what she saw.
Speaking of Princess Grace, I sent her a test run of... Bill and Ted's Excellent Postcards! (They're linked toward the bottom.) Most triumphant upadte-thing there.
Um... Erin... I don't know if I'll have time to "visit" you. We have to be at the Cirque du Soleil place by 8 on Saturday. We may or may not be leaving Friday evening (that depends on whether Dad has to work in the morning). We're planning on doing Rock & Roll Hall of Fame while we're up there, but due to uncertainty on departure time, I can't give you a time for *that.* How about an I'll get back to ya and we leave it at that? (read: If I can get a sane estimate of when we'll be at the H of F, I'll pass word on to you.)
no music, dryer noise

2002-10-08T20:35:00.000-04:00

8 October 2K2

Got my copy of Good Omens back. It was well enjoyed. It's somewhat battered, but it's not horribly mutilated so I don't have to go on the warpath or anything. I figure on needing a new copy eventually.
Ruka... that's just bizarre. (Not the shipperism, the other thing. You know which other thing.)
Speaking of unusual, lookie what I found: Escher LEGO ...things. These are people with far too much time on their hands.
I nearly finished my tooth pun for physiology - all I need to do is get rubber cement tomorrow and put the rest of it together. I did Toothsayer - "If you touch her there again, your dentist will be in a new tax bracket."
Football team is in 14th place out of... 28, I think. If they lose Saturday (which is likely), it'll be mathematically impossible for them to go to playoffs. Which I know *they'd* love to do, but I'd really rather they didn't. /me does not enjoy sitting through a sport she doesn't even like and a team she has NO enthusiasm for just because she's in a group that goes to all the football games.
But I won't be there Saaaturday! I'll be in Cleveland! (And there was much rejoicing. *yaaay*)
music: "Wavelength" - Van Morrison

2002-10-07T22:10:00.000-04:00

7 October 2K2

Signed up to audition on Wednesday, so I'm not trying to go on a nearly-empty tank. (Or whatever.)
We had Bibles out for a while during religion today, and when I wasn't keeping up with the place I was supposed to be, I was poking around Revelations, most specifically the Horsepersons bit. This particular version had the "pale" everybody mentions for Death/DEATH/whatever you want to call him as pale *green*, which is the most specific I've found. Explained that plae green is a decay color. I can see that.
Will be getting the Nutterized "Peace is Our Profession" tomorrow. I just *have* to put that on my lit book.
We started doing a swing show so we don't get sick of the competition one. At the rate the football team's going (will get updated ranks toimorrow), the in-season practices will stop in a month. Fun fun fun!!
music: "Always Something There to Remind Me" - Naked Eyes

2002-10-06T19:48:00.000-04:00

6 October 2K2

Went to the Rennaisance Festival today. Bought a cool necklace (one jewelry-item every year, it's a tradition) and *finally* had enough money to get a blank book in a leather book cover. You're actually paying for the cover on those things. It's blue and has that giant tsunami thing on it. Fairly famous painting, you might know what I'm talking about.
One of the jewelry shops had some cool faeries, Morgan. That's not what I got, but they were still cool.
So I started typing some of my revisions to "Slight Return" last night. After I'm through something with the Tommy Sherman memorial Goalpost in it, I hit spell-check. Its top option for "Sherman" is "Sheridan", which I find funny since that's what they wound up calling him by the end of that episode.
Oh, speaking of Daria, I just got the first Daria video as a birthday present. And there was much rejoicing. *yaaay* (I bought the second one at Borders a while ago.)
Lora said she finished the first Hitchhiker's book (which I gave her when she graduated) and liked it so much she went out and bought the rest of them. She's not through the whole Trilogy yet, though. Still, that makes... three converts so far. And two Good Omens people, with several more whom I've recommended it to.
Erin said she knows of at least one other person who's doing my Halloween costume idea. Prolly someone in her general vicinity.
music: "On the Amazon" - Don McLean (internal soundtrack)

2002-10-05T22:39:00.000-04:00

5 October 2K2

...Oh, and my flute survived an attack by a rogue football. It still works. (Then again, it still worked after I accidentally threw most of it across the parking lot last year... That being an even longer story.)
Those of you who've read the other blog-thing know my Halloween costume is set to go. I'm guaranteed at least one person who'll get it. Possibly two, if Apple's that far into Good Omens by then.
This is being linked just for Ruka. She said (in a comment I found today while archive-surfing my own blog) she likes the original. Which reminds me, if you want to see the archives for January through June, modify the numbers from one of this year's linked archives. I don't know why they won't show up the other way.
Hey, Good Omens party people - should I do a Dramatis Personae for "Slight Return"? Because if I should, then I'll want to start on it now. I'm also debating my approach to finding lookers-at/beta-ers/call them what you will. Will handle that at Muse Attacks in a mo.
music: "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" - Arlo Guthrie (remember Alice? this is a song about Alice.)

2002-10-05T12:52:00.000-04:00

5 October 2K2

Note to self: Never wear boots for parade again. On the other hand, they came in handy for the football field (can you say "Mud-fest"?).
I spent most of the game talking to the cool people who graduated after my freshman year. I have to email Lora later. She's a busy duck. She's in a play (Godspell), will be directing a play, and is doing all manner of campus ministry things.
Erin's new layout prolly will be pithy once it's in a readable setup.
More on the shirts thing from yesterday: There are at least people on student council who know the administration probably won't let us get "Dog Pound" shirts. The football players argued that if the seniors (last year's) had the shirts they got last year (which had slang for female anatomy on them), there'd be no problem with "Dog Pound" - but once the admin found out what was ON the shirts, they didn't want to see them anywhere near a school function. Ever again.
And someone suggested "Blue Balls", which was all-around vetoed (mostly because the football players are set on their choice. They want shirts that say that, they can go order their own).
This guy has a rather interesting blog. I answered his concert poll thing, and he emailed me in thanks for visiting - I've confuzzled him with my oddity of music selection. Go me. XD
music: "Narcisissima" - Don McLean

2002-10-04T14:26:00.000-04:00

4 October 2K2

Had a half-day of "school" (no actual classes included) partly in honor of homecoming and partly to start off the raffle. There were graduating-class meeting things involved, during which the student council people were asking for ideas on... several things. My suggestions are as follows:
*Get some actual collection-type things in the Little Theatre for each grade level. We have a hard time getting in on Adopt-a-Family and suchlike because we're either enitrely or partially forgotten. (Partially is achieved through only sending in money collectors for one grade level - happened my freshman year.)
*Hallway theme for Spirit Week - do a Yellow Submarine spoof. (The library is the Sea of Endless Knowledge, chen lab is the Sea of Noxious Fumes, physics teacher's room is the Sea of Particle Waves...) A couple people like that one, and a few people thought since the seniors' class color is yellow, *they* would do it. But our class color is blue, so we could be the Blue Meanies! (Before you ask, no, I haven't actually seen the cartoon thing. I've read parodies, though, and they're enough to get the general idea.)
*Speaking of Blue Meanies, I suggested that for a class T-shirt slogan (project for next year). The football players all want "Dog Pound", which aside from sounding stupid and REALLY BAD for the girls, is used infrequently (but juuust enough) by the public high school in town. If they wind up going with that ("Puppy Pound" is apparently an option for the girls), I will not buy one, I would not wear one, and chances are my mother wouldn't LET me wear one. I refuse to be called anyone's puppy - or dog - and will not wear a shirt that says I am just for solidarity-or-whatever.
*So far as Jug Wars goes, I meant to say that people should stock up on silver change alongside the pennies, but didn't. (Jug Wars is a rather complicated fundraiser. Pennies are +1 point each, and silver change and dollars are -(insert value of change/bill here) points. You put pennies in your class's jar and dump silver change on everyone else. I'm saving nickels and dimes, a fair amount of which (besides nearly all my pennies) have come from Grandma's house.)
Yay, I'm all contributary and stuff. And things, can't forget things.
music: "Karn Evil 9 (first impression, part 2)" - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2002-10-03T21:45:00.000-04:00

3 October 2K2

First, a random amusing interlude (brought to you by the board):
Total Messages: 1374
New Messages: -1406

And now one-acts rambling.
Auditions are next week. I had a part last year, got compliments from more people than my immediate family and friends, and (according to my parents) was the only consistently loud person out of the three one-acts. Yay for hereditary volume. Did backstage for the musical, as can be noted in the February and March archives (whenever next they rear their ugly heads).
Don't know what the plays are for this year yet, other than one of them is student-directed. Chances are, since I did a good job last year they'll want me in something. I'll keep you posted.
...Dude. I have to finish my audition form. (Basically, what am I doing that would keep me from being in rehearsal, and what have I done in the thea-tray?)
music: "In Your Eyes" - Peter Gabriel (There is something indescribably yummy about the bass line in the chorus.)

2002-10-03T16:23:00.000-04:00

3 October 2K2

Can someone tell me when the band guys started watching Ninja Turtles again? (That's not truly horrific - or, for some of them, unexpected - but when they manage to work it in to the *drum cadence*...)
You may have noticed a new link-thing <--- over yonder. That's Lucas. Speaking of whom, two questions for him: (a) How'd you get my birthday off? and (2) Someone did a SONG called "San Dimas High School Football Rules!"?
music: "Lovers in a Dangerous Time" - BNL

2002-10-02T21:23:00.000-04:00

2 October 2K2

::snicker:: Thanks for the present, Lucas. (For the curious, check last night's comments whenever they come back.)
Speaking of presents, Apple started on Good Omens. And she likes it. So it was that the book spread even further. (Mwahaha!)
...And speaking of Good Omens, can somebody with the book get the the Agnes Nutter-ized spelling of "profession"? I'd look it up myself but someone's borrowing my book. I want to write a bunch of random Brit Lit (comedy, natch) quotes all over my book cover. Hey, so long as it has to be covered, I may as well have fun with the thing. I drew the green guy (from some Hitchhiker's Trilogy covers) on it this morning.
Morgan... I don't think you'll find Good Omens in the library. Not exactly a well-known book, except in the right groups of people. Go ahead and read The Princess Bride. Fun book. The chase-scene chapter is at least a hundred pages, if not over that.
No band practice tomorrow, since we did a CYO-ers (munchkins, in other words)/alums rehearsal tonight. And there was much rejoicing. *yaaay*
music: "narcisissima" - Don McLean (fun song. everyone go listen to it. and "On the Amazon", while you're at it...)

2002-10-01T22:33:00.000-04:00

1 October 2K2

Brief note before I head off ot bed/story-rehash central: At the exact time of my birthday tomorrow (9:37 AM), I will have five minutes of history to sit through. With any luck, the Old Man will have cleared out of the room by then (he does that sometimes).
...Yeah, that's a good birthday-present. XD
no music, barely enough TV noise to count.

2002-09-30T21:21:00.000-04:00

30 September 2K2

There was a picture of the band in the local paper. They could've just as easily made it a picture of the host band, but no, it was us!! The entire brass section was in one picture, not to mention a field formation. How many bands can you do THAT with?
And that trophy we came home with? Second OMEA trophy the band's managed to bring home. Ever. The other one's from 1978. Third place in class C. Saturday was class A. (For those not familiar - should be everyone but Erin - these people sort it by school size, not band size. So our 20-piece band was up against a couple of at-least-75-piece bands. Go us!)
And on top of that, *our* show is the one everyone was talking about Saturday. And apparently they still are.
"Slight Return" is about to undergo some heavy-duty revisions.
Oh, and speaking of the host band, I have to get back in contact with a few members of said band. I know them from junior high. Saw a couple at the competition, and one of them works at a restaurant we frequent, so I could always ask him to pass stuff along. (Look out world - Jill's *thinking!* XD)
no music, Dad's watching Stargate...

2002-09-29T22:11:00.000-04:00

29 September 2K2

My math teacher called earlier and said I got a 90 (B by the school scale) on my test. I *knew* it was thoroughly less evil than the first one!! She also said if not for a couple of stupid mistakes I'd have had an A, so it'll prolly be "kicks self for rest of day" once I see them.
Interesting Tidbit of Day: There is a Daria/Bill and Ted crossover in the works. Not mine, though I've pondered the idea. Release date unknown, but you'll surely hear about it (probably through Ficblog) once I've read it. (That will, of course, depend on it being released. XD)
...Why does it smell like clay dust? No, really, it *does.* I should know. My mother is an art teacher (which may have something to do with the smell).
No, wait, it's the towel, which has been in the relatively-new vanity thing in my bathroom for about a month. Eh.
Stole a music survey from my sister last night, but I don't have it all filled out yet. It'll wind up over here when it's done, prolly.
music: "Over the Hills and Far Away" - Led Zeppelin

2002-09-28T23:23:00.000-04:00

28 September 2K2

We came home with a trophy!! We came home with a trophy!! (Third place out of... four or five, I'm not quite sure. But nobody expected us to even do that. NObody expects the Spanish Inquisition!! And we didn't qualify for state, but who *cares?* We came home with a trophy!!)
Quotes of the day:
"I'm losing my pants!" (Not as bad as it sounds... involves band overalls, for which the standard operational procedure is to wear shorts underneath.)
"I *am* breathing. I wouldn't be alive if I wasn't."
"My rubber walrus cheese protector is missing." (In other words, the snare drummer is on the bus. :b)

Catching up on TLAS, partly induced by the near-removal of it from the Outpost. "Good Morning, Lawndale High" absolutely rocks. [cue wicked grin] But by this point, if you don't start from the beginning you're completely gone...
Erin: "A Family Holiday" ranks the second Gaiman ref thus far. Lynn buys one of his books (she has good taste, for a fictional character. XD). And she did a Delirium costume... "Bare Acquaintances", I think.
Quote O' Moment (from "The Kids Aren't All Wrong"):
AP: I'm gonna introduce you to a little enervation called Jolt Cola!
(Jolt? For ten-year-olds? *Run.* And I think he meant "innovation", but this *is Inarticulate Boy. Yes, I *know* the people who've never read TLAS are so completely lost it's not funny. So go read it.)
music: "In Your Eyes" - Peter Gabriel

2002-09-27T23:01:00.000-04:00

27 September 2K2

No football game, as all the stadia in the area would seem to be absolute messes. And there was much rejoicing.
Apple liked her present (Good Omens), and said she shall make time to read it. Maybe then she'll understand my counterpoints to her "snake am I" joke.
On the TLAS front: *does best Emily Litella voice* Nevermind! Whatever the problem was, it's not a problem anymore. So. (Eh, just as well. I'm terrible about signing up for things I actually need. XD)
Speaking of TLAS, I (finally) started in on "A Family Holiday" - from what I remember of the teaser, it's prolly not going to end well. Other than the Random Ongoing Plot O' DOOM will be outta here. (Thank Bob... I mean, there's only so many stories in that vein I can take.)
And speaking of stories, maybe I'll hit the Ficblog later and recommend that Good Omens/Les Mis crossover I found... (No Les Mis experience required. And it's funny! Ish. I think I'll shut up now.)
music: "In Your Eyes" - Peter Gabriel (this version SO beats the live-cover-thing I've heard on the radio of unknown artistry...)

2002-09-26T21:43:00.000-04:00

26 September 2K2

I think, despite the rain, things are somewhat less "bloody hell" than they were yesterday. Might be partially because (due to aforementioned rain) we got a day off band practice. And there was much rejoicing. *yaaay*
Verdict from On High (or over the phone, at any rate): Casual uniform for the football game tomorrow. It's only supposed to rain more. I plan to see if I can wear my boots, since (a) the tops'll be covered by my pants and (b) they'll do a far better job of keeping my feet dry than canvas sneakers could ever hope to do.
They didn't have to do surgery on my grandfather last night. They still don't know exactly what's up, I don't think, but they've got time to get anitbiotics in.
Much Quoteage! today, even though I think I got the date wrong at least once. Will have to get it out and check, and will at least get it on the 'puter while I'm at it.
Princess Grace is going to bring a blank CD so I can make a copy of the Bill and Ted soundtrack for her. (Sam *so* did not understand why she was excited about it. But then he hasn't seen the movie,)
music: "Not So Far Away" - Glen Burtnick (from said soundtrack, and only song that I don't know the movie-location of. but it's good!)

2002-09-25T21:13:00.000-04:00

25 September 2K2

Bloody hell.
My grandfather (Mom's dad) is in the hospital. He started complaining last night about really bad stomach-area pain, and went in this morning. The doctors think he might have an infection from something that's wrong otherwise with his intestines.
But that's not all. Why on earth would that be all? During a CAT scan to see if that'd help figure out what was up, the doctors found a couple of aneurysms (SP?) on whatever arteries are in the abdominal area. (See, a little later into physiology and I'd probably be able to tell you all this stuff. ^_^) They wanted to wait a couple days to remove them so they could get antibiotics in him, but they may have to go after them tonight. All in an effort to keep the things from rupturing, seeing as if *they* go...
Bloody hell! Two in one month is {Princess Grace}just a little{/Princess Grace}* excessive. And besides, my birthdya's in a week. I don't want to do funeral-home again. Particularly not Wednesday...
* - Princess Grace tags, in this case, translate that into "just a lot." (Oh, did I mention she's in my English class now?)

In other news.
If I want my TLAS fill, I'll have to sign up for that mailing-list business (as related here, it being the Ficblog and all.)
The sunset was really really nice tonight. I think it's somewhat comparable to "There's a red sky. At four in the afternoon.", except for the four-in-the-afternoon bit.
Started a list at None of the Above: Signs that you're addicted to the readable sort of British comedy. Maybe I'll post it on the page soon. Who knows?
Erin, if your blog is Ty Central, why not make a layout? XD
music: "Wavelength" - Van Morrison (Not obssessed, I just happen to like it a lot. Everyone go download/buy it. *now.*)