Am sitting in a Young Adult Round Table workshop on how to keep up with tech-savvy teens. They mention blogging. So it's probably legal for me to do a quick post. To show that I'm learning.Happy Friday, everyo...
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Friday, 30 November 2007
Thursday, 29 November 2007
Yeah. I tag myself.
But I'm going to say that the lovely Desmama tagged me.5 things I was doing 10 years ago1. Starting my new campus job, cleaning urinals from 4:00am to 7:30am every morning. Betchyall didn't even know how hard core I can be! And boys, seriously. What is with the leaving of the newspapers on the floor of the bathroom stalls? That's just gross.2. Enjoying new short haircut--the result of a previously mentioned rappelling incident. Unfortunately, did not know how to properly blowdry new short hair and so wandered around with hair pyramid on head.3. Living in the dorms with Miss Hass, Audra (my room roommate, who called me Eugene, which I still answer...
Wednesday, 28 November 2007
It's beginning to look a lot like . . .
So it finally started snowing here in L**** yesterday. Which is a good thing because it's been unseasonably dry and we need water, etc. But I was kind of having fun pointing and laughing at all the skiers and snowboarders who've been standing around in clumps looking all forlorn as they gazed up at the dry, brown mountains.I'm trying to make lists of things I want to do this next month to feel all Christmassy. It always seems to go by so fast and I'd really like to be able to slow down and enjoy the thing, dangit.So here are some of the things I want to do. Would love to get ideas from anyone else who has some favorite traditions!1. Go see the...
Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Because Tuesday is the day for sharing
My sister Jenny called me at work yesterday because she was in Burlington Coat Factory looking at Grown Lady Dress-Up Coats for the first time ever. This is the one she called me about:Pretty, huh? The shell is 80% lambswool and 20% cashmere, which will explain what happened next."It's just so beautiful and so soft, and now I'm standing here in the store petting myself.""I don't think you're supposed to do that in a public place.""Well, I'm in a dressing room. So no one knows I'm doing it but you. And the dressing room video camera people.""Okay, that's good then."But speaking of dressing rooms and the freaky things we do in them, something...
Monday, 26 November 2007
Because you don't want people to look at you and think, "yeah, there's a cat lady in the making"
Today is going to be one of those days where I favor the Internet with a few Pearls of Wisdom. I have been hearing from a lot of young women lately who, I fear, need a gentle talking-to. A reality check, if you will. If you, Gracious Reader, do not need such a check then you can read this with smug satisfaction, basking in the glow of your own emotional health and maybe treating yourself to some dark chocolate while you're at it.If, however, my words strike a chord deep within you and make you want to come over to my house and light pieces of it (or me) on fire because I just don't understand, then trust me: you need to hear this.I am hearing a lot of single young women talk about how it's really uncomfortable for them when their siblings (especially younger siblings) get married before they...
Thursday, 22 November 2007
Happing Thanksgibbing back
It's set to be a good Thanksgiving, I think.As my sister Jen announced, my Ridiculously Talented B-in-Law Ed just got his first official job since launching hisself as a commercial photographer. He'll be doing a series of shoots for Norton Antivirus for their 2008 print campaign, and I'm sure they're going to be amazing. We've all been praying really, really hard that he'll get hired soon so that they can stop being poor people. I've been praying extra hard because Jen promised me that once they're filthy rich she'll be able to do things like take me to London for my birthday. (Hey, my prayers don't come cheap. You gotta earn 'em.)So yeah. There's...
Wednesday, 21 November 2007
Liberation katarche!
So that's it. My 2 years of JC education has officially ended, I can get my life back finally. I could still recall myself in utter dire emotions earlier this year while I struggled myself through the gruelling timetable, being always in a half conscious state of mind. I survived on thoughtcrimes and metal music from my mp3. Hard it was. I also could remember how fucking confused I was in JC1, when I kept thinking of withdrawing from JC to go to Poly, I played truancy many times, thank Loki, nothing serious happened due to that. Haha! ^^ I'm good at it.So, there and then I was surviving on a diet of thoughtcrimes, thinking about The Outside...
Good things!
I have no idea why good things are starting to happen so late into the year, when I am done with my A Levels (Tomorrow!).Let me list them down for you.The Flourishing society here in Singapore is showing signs of recede from The Dark Age, I just hope it sustains.Nick "Mephistopheles" Burd has suggested a fucking kickass 1984 Package, which consists of the following paraphernalia. (I confirm the fact that Nick is God from this time onwards)1984 Centennial Edition softcover bookThe 1984 movie (1984 version because the one from the 50s sucked hardcore)1984 EssaysThe Newspeak DictionaryGrammar lessons for NewspeakLanguage lessons for NewspeakDominic Muldowney's "The Music of Oceania" (1984's film score; all of these songs were in 1984 as far as I know)Eurythmics' "For The Love Of Big Brother"...
Tuesday, 20 November 2007
Utah State University Print Sale
This announcement is mostly for the Cache Valley dwellers. On Thursday, November 29th, the Art Department of USU is holding its annual Print Sale, where you can buy original work by USU students, faculty, and alumni.Reasons why this is cool.1. Who doesn't want cheap original art?2. When people come into your living room and admire your walls they won't say, "IKEA, right?" (Not that I don't love and want to marry IKEA, because I absolutely do, but it's nice not to have the exact same stuff that everybody else has.)3. Original art feeds pretensions of grandeur.4. You're supporting art students.5. You might find some great Christmas gifts.6. You're buying local.7. AND you're buying handmade.8. If the artist ever becomes big it will make you look like the most discerning art buyer ever, you with...
Monday, 19 November 2007
Editors don't get paid nearly enough
Part of my job at the moment is to do all the purchasing for the library, and one thing I look at is the New York Times Book Review bestseller list.Number 1 for last week is Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell. I went over to Amazon but saw that it has received 102 customer reviews with an average rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars. Which, ouch. Then I saw the first customer review and I absolutely had to share this bit with you. Props to eagle-eyed Top 1000 reviewer Terry Matthews, who notes:Between pages 65, 66 and 67, Cornwell writes"...he's done the unthinkable." "...he might be capable of the unthinkable." "...not if he did the unthinkable."...
Sunday, 18 November 2007
Thanksgivingish svithe
A couple of weeks ago I decided to resurrect the journal I'd been keeping on my computer. Because it turns out that I've gotten so used to keyboards that the idea of actually having to laboriously write . . . out . . . words . . . on . . . paper just seems tortuous. Especially since most of the things I want to say already exist in e-form on a blog or email. And really, shouldn't we be to the point now where we can just stick a USB cable in our ear and beam the stuff onto a laptop? C'mon!I tried to go back to the paper journals because I do love pretty journals. Their portable nature is good too for when you're in church but it's kind of being boring that day so you can write "to do" lists and blogging ideas but people will think you're taking notes on what the speaker/teacher is saying and...
Wednesday, 14 November 2007
Conversation yesterday in a car, which is apparently the only approved way of getting around in L****
"Okay, look. See? This is what I'm talking about. That guy in the wheelchair is going to come to the end of the sidewalk and there's no slopy thing for him to go down. There's just a curb. He's going to be stuck there!""That's not good.""No, it's not good, and that's my point about L**** and the stupid sidewalks. Where's he supposed to go, huh? Is he supposed to go up in the grass? What if his wheelchair won't make it?""I dunno.""Is he going to try to go over the curb? Because the last thing I need to see today is a cripple pitching forward out of his wheelchair and landing on his face in the street.""Not on a Wednesday, at least. On a Monday, maybe . . .""Yeah, because on Mondays you could use a laugh.""But on a Wednesday that's just crue...
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
Every day should be relaxation day
Spitfire and I had Monday (Veteran's Day) off, so we decided to commemorate the sacrifices of veterans everywhere by treating ourselves to a day of debauchery. We grabbed Jenny and drove up to Park City in order to temporarily escape from our lives. Not that our lives are bad, because they're not, but we're pretty much all going through crazy stressful times and we figured a bit of a Hen Night was preferable to one day snapping and buying some kind of high-powered rifle and climbing the nearest building with it. I'm sure you agree.At the hotel we sat in the hot tub, did pedicures and manicures, gave each other back rubs, and ate dangerous amounts...
Monday, 12 November 2007
Am having relaxational Girls Day OutI
I'm in Park City with my sisters today, playing Refugee from Real Life. We're about to hit World Market and the Outlet Mall and Main Street. Expect pictures and stories tomorr...
Sunday, 11 November 2007
=)
Recently, I have been listening to quite abit of Kitaro, especially during my (largely irregular) meditation sessions.I found a great paragraph in the lyric booklet of Mandala CD, it's written beautifully. Here it goes;" The Great Spirit Great spirit. All living things come face to face with The Great Spirit,And the Great Spirit dwells within all living beings. Tree, Flower, Water, Earth, Wind ... all things.At times the Great Spirit is severe.At times the Great Spirit is soothing.Encompassing all life.Everyplace the Great Spirit dwells is the source of gentle crytsalline light.And within that light we become One.Floating as if in our mother's...
Friday, 9 November 2007
Lazy Friday
Lazy on the blogging front, that is. I'm being a crazy person at work. But I need to take a moment to brag about my book club, which is The New Awesome. We met a couple of weeks ago to chat about Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. The theme for the food was "local," and it just had to incorporate some kind of local product. Up here we have Weeks Jam, Aggie ice cream, Cox honey, and all kinds of good stuff. Here are some of the things we had:Zollinger apple ciderGossner's smoked squeaky cheeseGoldfish crackers from the nearby Pepperidge Farm plant, which, yes, kind of a cheat, but hey--I love me some goldfish. (Note: You can also buy 2-lb bags of Godiva...
Thursday, 8 November 2007
I would be the Queen of merit badges
I have a friend who works for a news station and does all kinds of cool video and video-editing stuff. The other day he said he'd been asked to go teach a local Boy Scouts troop a bit about what he does. It's for their Cinematography merit badge.My friend couldn't believe they had a Cinematography merit badge, since he never heard anything about that when he was a Boy Scout. In his words:"I didn't know they had cool merit badges. All we ever did was crap like the Run for 100 Miles merit badge or the Let's Go Out in the Freezing Cold and Shoot Stuff with Arrows badge. If I'd known I could have been doing Cinematography it would have been way different."I told him not to forget the "Just play basketball in the gym every week and call it Scouting and then go steal refreshments from the girls...
Wednesday, 7 November 2007
Voting and other Public Services
And now I can say that my boobs have been on the Internet.So I voted yesterday, which made me very proud and pleased. Except I wasn't on the ball enough to re-register at my new address so I had to fill out a provisional ballot which may or may not even count. Whatever, though. I got to wear the "I'm cool and civic-minded" sticker and that's what really matters.One of the polling stations was here in the library's meeting room, and around 6pm I discovered a tiny problem--namely, that there were about 3,000 small children running around unsupervised in the library. Lots of parents were coming to vote (yay!) and bringing their kids (also yay!)....
Tuesday, 6 November 2007
I have been thinking.
Or aimlessly pondering on why Johnny Depp and Peter Tagtgren look so alike for the past few weeks.I came to no answer but I derived a conclusion that they are both great artists, but biased me have to vote for Tagtgren more because he is just fucking talented and twisted. Me likey! =DGo Tagtgren, ...
My first guest post ever
It can be found over at Cicada's blog. For those who aren't going to click over (although I can't think of a single good reason not to) I have to share this one bit from the post:We waited outside on the grounds while the wedding party got changed into their tuxes and other finery for the pictures. And while we waited Daltongirl saw something so arresting that she grabbed the top of my head and swiveled my neck over so that I could see it too. A lady walked out of the temple wearing the most extraordinary footwear I have ever before seen in life. She walked over to a bench and sat down, where I hope she pondered the choice she just made to go...
Extreme relief.
6th November 2007, 5pm, marks my last encounter with Mathematics - the third worse thing in the Known Universe since squat toilets, ever, if possible my entire swearing life. =DCongratulate me!I was so overjoyed with the abovementioned fact that in the spur of ectasty, I drew this in the exam hall, which attracted a few odd stares from the examiners, which was non-chalantly ignored by me. Here's a picture of it;Plus, I am halfway through the A Level Ordeal, time is rather fast. And, thankfully, I have sufficient confidence in my work I have submitted thus far. Be the same for the second half, thank you! Haha.But right now, I have to wait in...
Monday, 5 November 2007
Happy Guy Fawkes Day!
I nearly forgot! Today we commemorate the failed plot of 1605 to blow up Parliament. So if any of you have been hankering to burn something, tonight's a good night to do it. If anyone questions you you'll have a ready excuse. If, however, your target is a government building, you might want to keep in mind what happened to Guy (at least according to the good people at Madame Tussaud's).I'm just sayi...
Quite the productive weekend
We done got Cicada and Murray hitched this weekend (to each other, as planned, rather than to other people, which would have been awkward). It was all quite nice. Expect stories, for there are several. In fact, Daltongirl and I are going to be guest blogging over at Cicada Song this week while the happy couple are honeymooning in Costa Rica. So you won't even have to wait until they get back to get answers to these and other pressing questions:What did Cicada's dress look like?What bit of inspired advice from the temple officiator left Daltongirl and me raising both eyebrows?Which newlywed couple went AWOL between the ceremony and the reception,...
Friday, 2 November 2007
Guilty Friday treat
I know I'm slacking, I promise next week will be better. Running the world is hard, y'all. Also I apologize that you had to look at my sick green face on Halloween. It looked even worse close up and I had to sacrifice a Sonia Kashuk foundation brush to get it looking that way. (While at my bathroom mirror I lost all sense of perspective and forgot that "better" is not always the same as "good.")Anyway. Lucky for me I didn't worry too much about the face (and neck, and upper chest, and pores shrieking in agony while planning a high-stakes revolt) because I was busier worrying about the fact my hair was still damp when I crammed it underneath that wig and it was probably mildewing and was going to fall right off any second.Good times.So here is my guilty Friday pleasure--the trailer for Wanted,...
