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| 06:50pm 08/06/2009 |
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from my extended stay in Denver. Wasn't keen on spending the extra cash to stick around another 2 days, but I wasn't missing leonard, damn it. go a couple pics and some nice video. But I'm still working on compressing it while maintaining HD and not fucking up the sound so I can upload it to vimeo. Right now the one file is about 750 meg. I'll put it up around when/if I'm successful. Went up to a meadery in boulder on one of my extra days on an empty stomach. Yay for alcohol tastings with no food in the belly! :) Came back with 3 different 750 ml bottles, so will be enjoying those for a bit.
But yeah. Leonard was just simply, as the kids are saying these days, the shit. I want to be him when I'M 74 years old. Or sixty........or now...
But yes, that's it for now. I managed to slice my finger open on my blinds (falling blinds. Acceleration due to gravity = 9.6 m/s/s * relatively light mass of blinds / really low surface area = apparently enough pressure to over come flesh's elasticity and surface tension.
Anyway, end result is bandaged finger making it difficult to type. Updates later. |
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| 12:34am 16/05/2009 |
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Who wants to take an impromptu road trip to Denver to see Leonard Cohen on Tuesday June 2?
Totally serious here. Any takers? |
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| Any Zune users out there? |
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| 10:00am 13/05/2009 |
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How you like it? Is $80 a good price for a refurbished 30GB model?
Looking for something to tide me over till I buy one of the fancy new Walkmen due out this summer (or hell...maybe the new zune if I can be convinced. :) |
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| 01:21am 10/05/2009 |
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They never know the answer you're actually after. :) |
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| 10:03pm 05/05/2009 |
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music: Siouxsie & The Banshees – Little Johnny Jewel
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I've been missing sewing lately. As such, I've been browsing ebay and debating dropping a few C notes on a Bernina 1008. It's what I learned to really sew on and would kinda feel like going home again. I'm actually pulling myself into the black financially, so I really could afford this, but given some of my other tentative plans, it's might not be the most PRUDENT of expenditures right now.
Still, every now and again it's nice to reward one's self. hmmm...decisions.
So, TAing at the combat renewals workshop the other weekend went well. Depending upon the instructor I was more involved in some classes than others. But that's to be expected I guess. What took me by surprise is that just from that little taste, I think I may actually ENJOY teaching a bit. This is odd, because teaching is always something that intimidated me because I feared the inevitable student that would know more than me and I'm always well aware of my short comings. But I guess a friend of mine is right. It's more about facilitating learning than imparting knowledge. ...Not to discount the need to a good broad foundation, but...I dunno...I may have to reconsider my position there. I actually even was able to contribute to the Quarterstaff test fight despite my concerns about not having actually tested in that weapon. |
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| And life trudges on... |
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| 02:36pm 24/04/2009 |
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So yeah...supposed to be a light season. Turned out not to be. The story's been told. Add one more project to the pile. What the hell. That makes 7 so far this season. Our artistic director asked if I'd help out and do one of the readings for the Great Plains Theatre Festival at the end of may. Figure, what the hell. My weekends are already taken up with performances of Little Foxes now, why not fill the week nights with rehearsal. I know. I'm a bitch to moan about being in demand. Poor me. Alas alack. But I'm really not. I'm resigned to it. And it's all down hill from here anyway. However, the email in which she asked me was closed with the following:
P.S. Do you have any specific plans for next season in terms of being out of town or otherwise engaged? I do not have a season at this point but would like to be aware of times that you are unavailable.
Hee hee...it's nice to have a season planned somewhat around my availability. Makes me feel all warm and squishy inside. Then the funny bit is at rehearsal, she asked me again. (turns out she hadn't been getting my emails) I told her basically what I wrote. That yeah, I have some tentative plans for next year, but I was waiting until next month to start finalizing anything so I could see what our season looked like. I of course had my annual Chicago excursion in January and the weekend before thanksgiving I wanted to intern at another fight conference, but apart from that, there was just a couple tentative plans labor day weekend and my trip to L.A. I wanted to make before the year was out.
And at that comment, oooooh, at that comment I received gold. She looked up and her face just FELL. "Why are you going to L.A.?" Her thoughts seemingly being that this would be a preparatory trip for a more permanent move. It's not so much at this point. Just want to visit some friends, but it was nice to see that reaction at the thought of losing me. hee hee. :)
Soooo anyway. Getting ready to leave for Lincoln here in a couple hours. I'm TAing for a combat renewals workshop this weekend. Small group. Should prove fun. Though I've got to question the classes I was assigned to. Saturday is Broadsword followed by Sword and Shield. The two heaviest weapons. Right after one another. Grand. I mean, granted, this isn't Vegas and we're not doing it for 10-14 hours a day 6 days a week for 3 weeks, but still... :)
Then on Sunday it's quarterstaff followed by rapier and dagger. Which is odd, because when I applied for this position, they had asked which weapons I was certified in. I answered all but Single Sword and Quarterstaff. I hadn't had enough practice in the single sword style to feel comfortable assisting, but Quarterstaff I at least felt comfortable around the weapon and never had any issues when dealing with it in the past. Never the less, I still have not had the hours to have tested in this weapon. Yet here I am, TAing for a class in which people will be RENEWING their certification in it. What's wrong with this picture? :) Oh well. c'est la vie. No?
That's where we stand right now. Onward to Lincoln.
Saturday night's all right for fighting. |
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| 03:54pm 16/04/2009 |
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Reproduction Anglerfishes employ an unusual mating method. Because individuals are presumably locally rare and encounters doubly so, finding a mate is problematic. When scientists first started capturing ceratioid anglerfish, they noticed that all of the specimens were females. These individuals were a few inches in size and almost all of them had what appeared to be parasites attached to them. It turned out that these "parasites" were the remains of male ceratioids. At birth, male ceratioids are already equipped with extremely well developed olfactory organs that detect scents in the water. When it is mature, the male's digestive system degenerates, making him incapable of feeding independently, which necessitates his quickly finding a female anglerfish to prevent his death. The sensitive olfactory organs help the male to detect the pheromones that signal the proximity of a female anglerfish. When he finds a female, he bites into her skin, and releases an enzyme that digests the skin of his mouth and her body, fusing the pair down to the blood-vessel level. The male then atrophies into nothing more than a pair of gonads, which releases sperm in response to hormones in the female's bloodstream indicating egg release. This extreme sexual dimorphism ensures that, when the female is ready to spawn, she has a mate immediately available.[3] The spawn of the anglerfish of the genus Lophius consists of a thin sheet of transparent gelatinous material 2 or 3 feet wide and 25 to 30 feet long. The eggs in this sheet are in a single layer, each in its own little cavity. The spawn is free in the sea. The larvae are free-swimming and have the pelvic fins elongated into filaments. Such an egg sheet is rare in fish. |
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| Writer's Block: Looking Back |
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| 08:31am 14/04/2009 |
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10 years? Holy crap has it really been that long? *looks at archives and winces* God damn, I'm getting old. That means that this journal is approaching its ninth birthday in a few months. Actually, this would have been about the time I started hanging around on LJ; just didn't get around to actually making an account until the autumn.
Anyway, my first post? Was written shortly after I had gotten back from working summer stock up in Minnesota after college graduation. It was about the feeling of limbo and trying to define oneself in a state of transition. Student/civilian couple/single actor/working stiff. So you know...not much has changed. :) And also about how I've never been good at keeping journals and wondering if this thing would even last. heh. :)
There's a couple of you who have been around since damn near the beginning. Cheers kids. We've come a long way while standing still. :)
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| Oh, and ladies? |
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| 02:14am 14/04/2009 |
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Despite what you may think of it? The bro code, IS important. |
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| 02:11am 14/04/2009 |
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living in a past that never was.
I think it's time to go to bed. |
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| Good to know. Good to know. |
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| 06:06pm 13/04/2009 |
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 Aries (Mar. 21-Apr. 19)
Capricious Uranus teams up with pugnacious Mars this week, thereby making April 15 a lousy day for sadomasochistic play. Trust us: Those nipple clamps that hurt so good on Monday will put the pinch on your relationship come Wednesday. Sticks and stones may turn you on, but an angry word in the heat of passion will hurt like hell. Play it vanilla and trust in the immortal words of Sir Elton — Saturday night’s all right for fighting.
Suppose it's a good thing my new package won't be arriving till towards the end of the month.
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| Well...fish fry IS coming up this friday... |
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| 05:36pm 30/03/2009 |
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Aries (Mar. 21-Apr. 19)
Change has been in the air for weeks, Aries, and this week it will finally strike. Not financial or political change, mind you. We’re talking serious identity change. Switching clothes with your partner will yield surprising results. Try it in front of an audience. If that’s your normal routine, you will go back to basics for a change. Put on, and then take off, your and your partner’s own clothes. Then close the door.
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