Bloglet, the gentleman's mock turtle soup -- Moss made it sweeter than myrrh ash and dhoup
I played music again today, for the first time in so long. Just blues and easy celtic stuff with an obliging guitar player, but it felt massively, massively good. Need more, and soon, and lastingly.
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08:37:51 PM,Saturday 15 May 2004
I'm not very good at this yet. But I'll keep trying.
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04:35:46 PM,Saturday 15 May 2004
Whitening toothpaste is an unwholesome thing, but reading isn't, providing it's done correctly. I'll explain myself in the comments when I'm not so sleepy.
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10:52:39 AM,Friday 14 May 2004
Gay zombies in drag. Singing "Three Little Maids From School", at an undead piano bar. Well, that made my morning.
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10:16:28 AM,Friday 14 May 2004
Recently, like, over the past several weeks, words have started looking wrong to me. I mean, this happens all the time occasionally, but it's never gone on for this long before. I type a word, and I think I've misspelled it. Especially with things like double letters and schwa sounds. I usually work it out from etymology, and then I google it, to make extra sure, and it's turned out in just about every case that I was right. But am I losing my ability to spell by instinct, not to mention my memory of spellings I've used all my life? That would suck.
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12:15:10 AM,Friday 14 May 2004
Air Hunger.
I read about it in the Hospice book at work. I guess I just liked the phrase. ("And I eat men like air"...)
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12:06:55 PM,Wednesday 12 May 2004
Real quick like: re-reading the Aeneid. Just finished book IV (a verse translation by a guy named Rolfe Humphries; never heard of him before, but I like it a hell of a lot -- much better than the other two I've read. Not counting Dryden. 'Cause Dryden ain't even a translation, in my book... it's just a piece of friggin' work, man. Yeah.)
Is Aeneas's beauty any good to him at all? Achilles's beauty is an essential, inextricable part of him. It's so bound up in what he is, it's impossible to imagine an Achilles who's not fiercely, painfully beautiful. But Aeneas? His parentage is mentioned often enough, but its consequence -- his godlike visage -- always jars me when it comes up, because it seems so supremely unlike everything else that makes up the man. We only see Anchises as an old man or a dead man, so we never think of him as beautiful, though of course he was; that was his main distinction. But Aeneas is in his prime, and yet, his beauty only ever seems to matter when his mother's with him, and then only in inferior contrast to her own. But in him, himself? It seems irrelevant, almost incongruous. It has nothing to do with his fate or his character. Does it? Or am I overlooking something important? Does this bother anyone else the way it does me? Aeneas is so inpenetrable anyway, though god knows I admire and pity him. But his beauty... I don't get it.
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11:53:38 AM,Wednesday 12 May 2004
Bizarre. But thank the jazz ants for the internet. Pegasus and Word start crashing after I install the printer; I look in the error report, note the .dll, google it, and get this page on the first hit. So many tears of frustration spared. Phew.
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12:06:21 AM,Wednesday 12 May 2004
Underneath the sign that said "Three Hour Library Parking", someone had written "Memento Mori" in black marker.
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12:02:32 AM,Wednesday 12 May 2004
Just pretty much with the ecstatically happy all the goddamn time. You'd think it'd start getting tedious, but it ain't.
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09:26:25 PM,Tuesday 11 May 2004
Why Sesto is a good man in spite of his treachery, and why Tito is a good man in spite of his virtue.
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07:23:03 AM,Tuesday 11 May 2004
Deus ex frikkin' machina. What on earth did I do to deserve this?
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11:39:37 PM,Monday 10 May 2004
Tommeltott, Slikkepott, Langemann, Gullebrann og lille Petter Spelemann!
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06:41:57 PM,Monday 10 May 2004
It always surprises me that I can hear the trains from my bedroom. I mean, it shouldn't; I've lived here for twenty years, and I've always heard them. But they're way across town, on the far edge of the North Side. It seems too great a distance for the whistles to carry. But maybe the mountains magnify the sound somehow. I don't know. Anyway, I love the sound of trains when I'm awake and everyone else is sleeping and the day's just light enough to be blue and no sun's to be seen yet anywhere.
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07:44:27 AM,Monday 10 May 2004
"Your self description sounds marvelously like Kent in King Lear. Who could hope for more? I'm here in San Francisco, with no ability to help, but convey my best wishes..."
-- a random Johnny from the Johnny-Xpress list, and one of the nicest compliments I've gotten in a while. I think he's right, though; my subconscious seems to have stolen that bit wholesale (if corrupted) without even the courtesy of telling me:
"I can keep honest counsel, ride, run, mar a curious tale in telling it, and deliver a plain message bluntly: that which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in; and the best of me is diligence." [Kent, I-iv]
"I'm cheerful, diligent, a middling cook, and a punctilious housecleaner (Though I've got a tendency to bellow out bad opera while I'm doing it. I'm sure I could stifle the impulse if necessary.)" [Me, last night]
Guess that senior essay was good for something. D'oh. Oh well.
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01:03:07 PM,Sunday 9 May 2004
Ribosome Builder, my brother's revolutionary new molecular modeling program, is up at Sourceforge. He's looking for anyone who might want to volunteer a bit of time to write unit tests for it -- it's fascinating stuff, and will help him out enormously in getting things ready in time for his PhD thesis later this spring. So, if you have any interest in 3-d modeling, biochemistry, or the synthesis of proteins, check it out!
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05:58:39 AM,Sunday 9 May 2004
Bereft.
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01:01:49 AM,Sunday 9 May 2004
A fugue with the subject: F-E-E-D-B-A-G
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07:04:15 PM,Saturday 8 May 2004
You catch more fly honeys with, um... wait a second...
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09:43:33 AM,Saturday 8 May 2004