| This just made me giggle. |
[15 Nov 2009|08:47pm] |
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"Over the Waves" - Juventino Rosas |
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So I signed into Yahoo! Mail and glanced at the headlines. The choice for the main headline had me chuckling.
The headline: "In first visit to China, Obama walks a tightrope (AP)"
The accompanying photo: President Obama, visible only from the knees up, holding an umbrella.
If it helps you get the same mental image, listen to this in the background and read it again.
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| Uhm. |
[12 Nov 2009|01:15am] |
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"Third Gymnopedie" - Erik Satie |
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... well. I was going to post about a dilemma I've been having.
But it's been a while since I last visited LJ, so I've been reading over the friends page.
I don't think I have any right to complain.
My sympathies to those who actually have it bad.
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| Polaris. |
[08 Oct 2009|09:20pm] |
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So a cat decided to adopt my family.
It's very much not the other way around. Dad's quite allergic to a lot of different pet danders, and especially cats. But we occasionally get cats who either are kept as outdoor pets and wander through the neighborhood, or live in the barns in the fairgrounds, or whatever, and Dad's not averse to patting them on the head and leaving out a can of tuna now and then.
So there's a couple of new cats in town of late; one's definitely a pet belonging to one of the neighbors ... but there's one that, far as we can tell, isn't really owned. And he spends a lot of time wandering around outside the house, approaching family members and occasionally mewing at the windows or doors because he wants in.
He's a little black cat with a single white spot on his chest, so I've taken to calling him Polaris, after the North Star. Very approachable and all, although he has a tendency to wait just outside the door, and if you're not expecting a little blob of blackness right there, it's a bit scary.
So the other night, I wound up watching Polaris get into a dispute with the other new cat. It wasn't a fight per se; both cats stood their ground, with Polaris yowling loudly and the other cat yowling more quietly. Neither cat would attack; Polaris was young and inexperienced, but the other cat was old and slow. So there was a lot of careful posturing and loudness. I think I understand more about international politics now.
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| Oh, yeah, that blog thing. |
[28 Jul 2009|04:45am] |
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So a couple of months ago, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) gab encouraged me to revive my long-dead webcomic review blog. So it's up again. I still need to work on making the site look cooler and stuff, but for now you can find it here. My writing's a bit less self-deprecating on that one, since it's my job to take a look at other people instead. So check it out.
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| It begins. |
[27 Jul 2009|06:40pm] |
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Packed and shipped my first parcel to Ohio today. Six years' worth of sketchbooks.
I think going back home is now irrevocable.
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| Customer disservice. |
[15 Jun 2009|10:48pm] |
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"Si Demain" - Bonnie Tyler and Kareen Anton |
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Or rather, disservice from a customer.
I've spent the last month or so working part-time at a tuxedo shop (way to put that degree to good use, Simon!). It's nothing massive or world-shattering, but it pays and the work is something I can keep up with.
But we don't just carry men's tuxes; we've got tuxes for children. And children, as we all know, are my kryptonite.
So around 5:30 or so, a woman comes in lugging a bassinet under one arm and towing a boy behind her with the other. She declares that she wants to have her older son fitted for a tux, for such-and-such a wedding. I find the order form, start filling things in. This was when I got the first sign that something would go wrong: any time the kid so much as started to peek over the desk, the mother would scold him and tug him back.
In other words, the kid hasn't had his nap today, he's probably spent all day running errands with Mommy and is growing increasingly fidgety. Mommy, of course, doesn't understand why her kid won't sit still and behave--after all, she's not tired, so why should he be? This means that every thirty seconds or so, she's snapping at him.
Seems like everything's going okay ... the pants fit, the shirt fits, the jacket fits, and after a good chunk of hemming and hawing, we find a vest that fits. And then comes ... the shoes. Turns out the kid has short, wide feet. So toddler-10s are too narrow for him, and she declares that toddler-11s are too long. I go digging through the bins of children's shoes (which, far as I can tell, haven't been properly sorted in ages) trying to find a pair of 10-1/2s so we can exhaust the possibilities. And as I'm coming back with the pair in hand ... I find her on the phone, talking to another tux shop.
I really hope I don't need to point out how rude that is.
Meanwhile, the baby in the bassinet keeps threatening to cry from boredom. At long last, she declares that she's going to look for another store with the right kind of shoes. I give her a polite nod and apology and move on to the people who are returning a half-dozen tuxes, most of them hung on the weakest hangers.
I've got a headache tonight.
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| Spammity spam, wonderful spam ... |
[25 May 2009|03:00pm] |
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Looking through the poor, neglected Gmail account that I so rarely use, I noticed an odd subject line:
"Your powerful uprise will excite women."
It left me wondering ... are armed rebellions that hot in the sack? I mean, really? I was willing to write it off, but a few lines farther down ...
"Revolution for unsatisfied couples."
Man. Military juntas must make for amazing lovers.
Actually, Kate Beaton already has the answer. A sexy revolution.
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| Ah, well. |
[07 Apr 2009|04:14pm] |
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So I got a response from Random House, to this effect:
"Y'know how you applied for that first-year associates program? Yeah, we decided not to do it this year after all."
... Salieri.
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| Hearing things. |
[01 Apr 2009|12:53am] |
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"Six Ecossaises," Beethoven |
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I think I might be going deaf in my right ear. Or possibly have some kind of infection.
Last couple of weeks I'll hear my pulse rather loudly in that ear once in a while. And today, tinnitus and mild pressure on the eardrum. I'll have to make an appointment with that new doctor, I guess.
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| Attendance is futile. |
[29 Mar 2009|02:34am] |
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Ballo di Fiore |
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So the campus medieval club gave a concert tonight.
It was a pleasant hour of music, dance, singing, and refreshments.
Three people came, outside of club members.
At least the music was good, even if there weren't too many ears for it to fall on.
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| Possible job? |
[26 Mar 2009|05:59pm] |
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So I interviewed with Eleutian Technologies yesterday. If I get the job, it means a part-time job teaching English to Koreans via teleconferencing.
It also means doing it on Korean time, admittedly, and it would mean probably missing Anime Expo and a few other things that would be kinda nice to do. Including walking for graduation, depending on the shift they assign me, now that I think of it. Hmm.
Well, this could be, uh ... hm.
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| Givin' it the ol' out-of-college try. |
[13 Mar 2009|02:57am] |
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"All that I needed (was you)" - Jermy Budd |
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So on a certain someone's suggestion, I put in an application for Random House's entry-level associate program (like a paid internship where they shuffle you from department to department for a year and then maybe offer you a job if they have an opening and like you a little).
It'd mean moving to New York for at least a year if I actually got hired and stuff ... but I'd also have a job in the publishing industry. And be living pretty much by myself.
Ambivalence reigns.
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| A music video of my own. Sorta. |
[03 Mar 2009|09:35pm] |
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See above. |
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So yeah, been on YouTube for a while, mostly just faving other people's videos and stuff. But I finally recorded one of my own.
Warning: it's loud. I'm still not sure how to record stuff on my camera, and I don't have anything that edits .mov files. Sorry all.
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| Music Meme. Yeah. |
[01 Mar 2009|06:00pm] |
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Official Rules:
1. Put your iPod or other music player on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3.YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!
NOTE: If something came up as "Track #" or had a title that was just a name and a number, I skipped it for the next one. This, unfortunately, happened rather often.
( And away we go. )
Wow. A lot of these were eerily appropriate. Like ... a heck of a lot.
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| Continued effort. |
[26 Feb 2009|01:21am] |
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"Get on the Bus" - Bound Together |
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So I put in an application with the City of Provo. Maybe that'll get me a nice secretary job or something. Here's hoping.
In the mean time ...
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| The frustration of the job hunt |
[10 Feb 2009|01:53am] |
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"The Rocking Grounds" - Final Fantasy III |
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This makes two jobs in a row that I've applied for, and then been told, "Hah, silly us! We're not hiring after all. Sucks to be you, fatboy."
... okay, so maybe not in so many words, but gosh darn is it ever frustrating.
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| Tweets for today |
[06 Feb 2009|07:01am] |
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Chirp.
Wark, kweh kweh!
BucCAW!
Tweedledeedledeet.
Cheepers cheepers.
Chirp.
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| Knight Games |
[06 Feb 2009|03:38am] |
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"Love Tropicana Deluxe" - Sister Mayo |
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So I got "knighted" today.
Which is to say, I I got pulled into an honorary Order in the medieval club for being a kinda nice person when I wasn't looking. Mainly, though, it's because the order I got put into is one that the club wants to bring my roommate into as a squire ... and they need someone to squire him to. Right place, right time, I guess.
Speaking of which, BYUSA is putting on its Knight Games festival tomorrow night/tonight from 8 to 11 pm. Any of you in the Provo area should totally come, if you can. Tickets should be cheap, and there will be plays, music, dancing, food, and a fencing tourney to watch.
So totally come. And such.
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| Is it too much to ask ... |
[24 Jan 2009|10:42pm] |
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... that when you post something derisive about someone else, that you not use bad grammar in the middle of mocking their intelligence? Is it really that hard?
Seriously, people, do not start your comments with "Your an idiot" or I will find you and slap you around with my third-grade English textbook.
After I find my third-grade English textbook.
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