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la_belle_laideOMFG, teeny, tiny, little micro houses. They are so cute.
Soooo Wednesday on my way to Kung Fu I blew out a tire. Not like I was doing donuts or anything (mmm, yum, I am so hungry,) but I must have run over a nail or one of my damn neighbors' broken beer bottles. The tire was flat and I was riding on the rim by the time I got to the end of the block. So I didn't go to class the next day and I wrote to my two professors to tell them I wouldn't be in. One of them wrote and said "no worries!" and the other--my Myo professor--wrote and said, "Your quiz average is so high that one day isn't even going to affect your grade." I was happy, and I pretended like I was Hermione.
A few days before, at Kung Fu the Gold Dragon said to do forms (Sifu wasn't there,) so SnarkLit and I went outside to the parking lot to see if we could work through the sword form.
The result:
Not so bad all in all, but I messed up the running part and we both screwed up the ending. Towards the middle, the Gold Dragon comes out and watches. My favorite part is when he asks us (you can't hear anything but cars on the video) "Which way did you guys start out facing?" and we both point to the street. Kung Fu is such a lark sometimes. ^_^ But I'm putting it so that next week when I forget sword form again, I can just take a peek at this entry before I go to train and maybe it will refresh it in my poor empty head.
Last night we had a rain and wind storm so epic it was almost a tai-fun (still reading Shogun, and today the sun was shining and the weather was sweet, if still too cold. There hasn't been a single real summer day yet. Not only did it take down a ton of huge branches,
but it also knocked out the power late last night. It was weird because a transformer totally blew up. I don't know how far away, but I saw the sky light up like blue dusk for a good couple of seconds just as everything else went black. Of course in my movie-addled brain, the aliens had finally arrived. Well anyway, no power means no white-noise machine, and so I couldn't get to sleep.
Even on so little sleep, I was a house-cleaning machine today. Even the gods of cleaning looked down from up on high and said, "Damn." For a while I had Lokepo* out while I hosed his cage. He was sitting on the back of my computer chair where he usually sits, and when I came to get him he got all hissy with me. (He doesn't like to be picked up.) I took some pics because he's so damn cute, but I love the way his wings look in these pics. Almost like spirit wings.
Such a little bastitch.
During my mad cleaning spree, I also had time to hang out with Boychild outdoors for a while and play Twilight Princess with him. Outside, we were eating raspberries off the vine and I was telling him that he can only eat berries off of vines if he asked Mommy and Daddy first. Then, if they said yes, he had to pick nice red ripe ones, and check them for bugs. He told me this back for the rest of the day. "Berries, mommy daddy mommy daddy mommy daddy. Pick! Red, nice, YUM. Bugs, NOPE." He was totally humoring me with the bug-checking too; he didn't even glance at them. It was too cute. And I got some fantastic pictures.
Pick!
Bugs: NOPE!
YUM.
Oh yeah, so tomorrow I'm having the Kung Fu party. Or at least I hope that I am. I'm expecting a few people and I only hope that they show up. Last year, you remember, only three people showed up but we had a fantastic time anyway. I hope that tomorrow will blow last year's party out of the water! It was supposed to be rainy and thundery all day tomorrow; the weather channel said so for weeks. Yesterday morning I went outside and said, "Weather Gods, can we make a deal? Can you do all the rainy thundery stuff in one shot and leave Saturday sunny and warm?" I went inside and checked the weather channel only to see that they had suddenly changed the forecast, and now tomorrow is supposed to be 80 and sunny all day. YES. Clearly I control the weather. ;)
Well, I'm starving (my aunt insists I have a tapeworm; I insist that if I did, I would be losing weight rather than gaining it,) so I'm going to sit down with a bowl of cereal and a vitamuffin or something and watch MASTER(bator) AND COMMANDER, YAY! On the recommendation of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spatterdash and a few other good folks. I'm sexcited! Better start the movie now, because it's assnumbingly long. Whoop whoop!
Oops, one more thing.
LMFAO yeah, okay. I think these things are meant to flatter you, and yes I was purposely vamping it up in the second one. ^_^ And I seriously keep getting Japanese people, like, very flattering Japanese people. It's probably because it's the celebrity database and they really don't have any unattractive people to match you up with. However I do have to wonder if Claudia Black is in there and if so, why I don't get her. Hmm.
Oh. And Open Office just informed me that the chapter by chapter summary that I was working on of Le Novel, to send to TOR, does not exist. Thank you, power outage.
*Right, some of you might remember me occasionally calling my crow Lohi'au, named after Pele and Hi'iaka's handsome chief who was saved by lightning. The night I got my crow I thought he was going to die. There was a huge lightning storm that night, and the next day he was so much better so I thought... Yeah. I never looked up the meaning of the name until recently. Turns out that "lohi'au," apart from being the name of the chief, means "retarded" or "handicapped." Well, umm, he is--like I've mentioned, all of my animals are handicapped in some way--but it's still bad name mojo. I've always called him Havoc anyway (since no one could pronounce Lohi'au,) but I still wanted to switch the original moniker to something more fitting. I wanted it to sound alike too because when my Mom visits him and takes care of him while I'm away, she likes to sing his name to him and then he sings back. "Loke" means "rose" and "po" means night, darkness, obscurity, the time of the gods, the other side of the veil, and it also means "Havoc." Maybe that's a little bit goth, "Rose of Night" but he's a crow. Crows are goth by nature.
Soooo Wednesday on my way to Kung Fu I blew out a tire. Not like I was doing donuts or anything (mmm, yum, I am so hungry,) but I must have run over a nail or one of my damn neighbors' broken beer bottles. The tire was flat and I was riding on the rim by the time I got to the end of the block. So I didn't go to class the next day and I wrote to my two professors to tell them I wouldn't be in. One of them wrote and said "no worries!" and the other--my Myo professor--wrote and said, "Your quiz average is so high that one day isn't even going to affect your grade." I was happy, and I pretended like I was Hermione.
A few days before, at Kung Fu the Gold Dragon said to do forms (Sifu wasn't there,) so SnarkLit and I went outside to the parking lot to see if we could work through the sword form.
The result:
Not so bad all in all, but I messed up the running part and we both screwed up the ending. Towards the middle, the Gold Dragon comes out and watches. My favorite part is when he asks us (you can't hear anything but cars on the video) "Which way did you guys start out facing?" and we both point to the street. Kung Fu is such a lark sometimes. ^_^ But I'm putting it so that next week when I forget sword form again, I can just take a peek at this entry before I go to train and maybe it will refresh it in my poor empty head.
Last night we had a rain and wind storm so epic it was almost a tai-fun (still reading Shogun, and today the sun was shining and the weather was sweet, if still too cold. There hasn't been a single real summer day yet. Not only did it take down a ton of huge branches,
but it also knocked out the power late last night. It was weird because a transformer totally blew up. I don't know how far away, but I saw the sky light up like blue dusk for a good couple of seconds just as everything else went black. Of course in my movie-addled brain, the aliens had finally arrived. Well anyway, no power means no white-noise machine, and so I couldn't get to sleep.
Even on so little sleep, I was a house-cleaning machine today. Even the gods of cleaning looked down from up on high and said, "Damn." For a while I had Lokepo* out while I hosed his cage. He was sitting on the back of my computer chair where he usually sits, and when I came to get him he got all hissy with me. (He doesn't like to be picked up.) I took some pics because he's so damn cute, but I love the way his wings look in these pics. Almost like spirit wings.
Such a little bastitch.
During my mad cleaning spree, I also had time to hang out with Boychild outdoors for a while and play Twilight Princess with him. Outside, we were eating raspberries off the vine and I was telling him that he can only eat berries off of vines if he asked Mommy and Daddy first. Then, if they said yes, he had to pick nice red ripe ones, and check them for bugs. He told me this back for the rest of the day. "Berries, mommy daddy mommy daddy mommy daddy. Pick! Red, nice, YUM. Bugs, NOPE." He was totally humoring me with the bug-checking too; he didn't even glance at them. It was too cute. And I got some fantastic pictures.
Pick!
Bugs: NOPE!
YUM.
Oh yeah, so tomorrow I'm having the Kung Fu party. Or at least I hope that I am. I'm expecting a few people and I only hope that they show up. Last year, you remember, only three people showed up but we had a fantastic time anyway. I hope that tomorrow will blow last year's party out of the water! It was supposed to be rainy and thundery all day tomorrow; the weather channel said so for weeks. Yesterday morning I went outside and said, "Weather Gods, can we make a deal? Can you do all the rainy thundery stuff in one shot and leave Saturday sunny and warm?" I went inside and checked the weather channel only to see that they had suddenly changed the forecast, and now tomorrow is supposed to be 80 and sunny all day. YES. Clearly I control the weather. ;)
Well, I'm starving (my aunt insists I have a tapeworm; I insist that if I did, I would be losing weight rather than gaining it,) so I'm going to sit down with a bowl of cereal and a vitamuffin or something and watch MASTER(bator) AND COMMANDER, YAY! On the recommendation of
spatterdash and a few other good folks. I'm sexcited! Better start the movie now, because it's assnumbingly long. Whoop whoop!Oops, one more thing.
LMFAO yeah, okay. I think these things are meant to flatter you, and yes I was purposely vamping it up in the second one. ^_^ And I seriously keep getting Japanese people, like, very flattering Japanese people. It's probably because it's the celebrity database and they really don't have any unattractive people to match you up with. However I do have to wonder if Claudia Black is in there and if so, why I don't get her. Hmm.
Oh. And Open Office just informed me that the chapter by chapter summary that I was working on of Le Novel, to send to TOR, does not exist. Thank you, power outage.
*Right, some of you might remember me occasionally calling my crow Lohi'au, named after Pele and Hi'iaka's handsome chief who was saved by lightning. The night I got my crow I thought he was going to die. There was a huge lightning storm that night, and the next day he was so much better so I thought... Yeah. I never looked up the meaning of the name until recently. Turns out that "lohi'au," apart from being the name of the chief, means "retarded" or "handicapped." Well, umm, he is--like I've mentioned, all of my animals are handicapped in some way--but it's still bad name mojo. I've always called him Havoc anyway (since no one could pronounce Lohi'au,) but I still wanted to switch the original moniker to something more fitting. I wanted it to sound alike too because when my Mom visits him and takes care of him while I'm away, she likes to sing his name to him and then he sings back. "Loke" means "rose" and "po" means night, darkness, obscurity, the time of the gods, the other side of the veil, and it also means "Havoc." Maybe that's a little bit goth, "Rose of Night" but he's a crow. Crows are goth by nature.
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Date: 2009-07-25 02:29 am (UTC)Since i finished my big job today i was like, fuck it, i am celebrating and (thus, forewarning: i am plastered) decided to eat fancy pizza and drink fancy beer and watch M&C, my favoritest movie ever, and i totally hope you enjoy it and do not think it is boring, which some people have said to me and i always think ARE YOU DEAD IN THE LOINS??? SHIPS. FIGHTING. GALAPAGOS ISLANDS. HOT MENS. WHO PLAY CELLO AND VIOLIN. AND SWORDFIGHT. CANNONS AND COMBAT AND ASSKICKING. AND SHIPS. AND HOT MENS.
Goddammit, i could just press play and watch it again again. Ha!
P.S. HOT MENS.
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Date: 2009-07-25 03:02 am (UTC)Ummm Russel Crow and Paul Bettany playing with their instruments together is totally not a metaphor for sex. ("Or would you like something more aggressive tonight?")
Congrats on your "big job" (LOL you said "job") and OMG, like you promised, HOT MENS.
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Date: 2009-07-25 03:10 am (UTC)And i always laugh at that line because it's SO TOTALLY SEXTASTIC. Yes, i would appreciate something more aggressive, thanks MR BETTANY LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO MY PANTS, SEE HOW SWIFTLY THEY DROP.
And thank you, i am so, er, relieved, to be done with my "big" "job."
And how awesome is fucking lil wee Max Pirkis as Lord Blakeney with his little arm shot off? What a great actor that kid was in that flick.
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Date: 2009-07-25 04:22 am (UTC)Or: "I do prefer something more aggressive tonight, how about this time you be the master and commander?" OMG, he was tasty; I love a man of science.
That little dude was so awesome, actually everyone in the movie was great but that kid had aplomb! And the dude who played Pullings was boiling hot. I was all DAMN HE FINE.
OH HEY. Is this where your icon comes from?
Anyway thank you so much for the rec! I will watch this one again for sure.
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Date: 2009-07-25 02:30 pm (UTC)And Blakeney, man, at the end when he's all, "WE MUST BOARD THEM!" and jumps through the hole in the side of the ship and starts blowing people away one-handedly, god. The first time through i think that was the most striking thing to me, how differently people viewed children at the time--the boys all smoking and getting shitcanned and diving into battle killing people, and everyone accepts that as normal and isn't like, "We must shelter the perfect innocent children." I mean, i'm not saying that's preferable--i'm glad i didn't grow up working in a factory from age 5 or fighting in wars as a preteen or whatev, just that our culture now is so far from that.
Actually, the icon is a photograph i took standing on deck looking upward aboard the Exy Johnson, which i used to be volunteer crew on when i lived in LA. It's one of the few things i really, really miss about LA, was volunteering at the maritime institute and crewing that ship.
Also, i recommend the books that the film's based on, too, but with the caveat that, if you get into them, it's a big chunk of your life that you'll spend with them, since there are 21 volumes. But, then again, everyone i know who's read them and liked them has been more than glad to devote the time--my mother said to me when she finished the last one, "Reading the Jack and Stephen books is the singlemost excellent literary experience of my life." And she reads a LOT. If you're reading (rereading?) Shogun, clearly you can make the big commitment to a story, though these are like, Shogun exponentially.
You do have to get into a sort of nautical headspace and either be willing to look up terms like topgallants and taffrails and such or resolve to just accept them as part of the atmosphere and move on. AND you have to get into a similar naturalist headspace and look up all the weird animals and plants Stephen talks about in their travels, or do the same acceptance thing and keep moving. It's kind of like when you watch Trainspotting and you have to ease into the dialect and the slang, but once you do, it's fine.
And my GOD the double entendres in the books are off the hook, and there's so much more stuff that they couldn't even put into the movies, like [i just thought maybe the rest of this sentence would be spoilers you wouldn't want to hear, but OMG, Stephen is SO AWESOME EVEN MORESO IN THEM].
IF you start reading them, you mos def have to start with the first and go through; i mean, you COULD start in the middle but it's best to go from the first in which you see how Jack and Stephen meet each other.
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Date: 2009-07-26 07:04 pm (UTC)God I love these SO MUCH! They keep having them on Apartment Therapy and I think they are FANTASTIC. I love love love little spaces.