Bloglet, the gentleman's mock turtle soup -- Moss made it sweeter than myrrh ash and dhoup
I don't! I swear! I just break out in a cold sweat, thrust my fists into my eyelids, and stagger around in eccentric circles mewling gibberish because I like them! I want to understand them! But they terrify the everloving mule-treacle out of me.
RAWR. Ok, y'know what? You're no math brain. You're barely a math ganglion, on a good day. You'll be lucky if you pull a 500 on the GRE this Friday, even after all the hand-wringing and woe-is-me-ing and increasingly frantic bouts of studying. But meh. The sun will rise the next day, your girlfriend will still love you, and you might even get into graduate school after all. You're going for an English degree, dork. The graduate adviser chick herself said there was no point in trying to raise your math score. Well, you haven't. If anything, you've lowered it, by psyching yourself out and trying to reawaken all the clamoring little half-remembered rules from high school instead of sticking to your old time-tested formula of hazarding and guesswork. Bite the wax tadpole and be a man about it, for once. So you wanted this to be your breakthrough, proving finally to yourself and the world that you were capable of sustained, productive diligence after all. Nope. But that doesn't mean you're doomed to a life of eternal slackerhood. If you want to be more than a worm, there's nothing stopping you. Just goddamn do it already. No grand gestures, no double-or-nothings -- just start working and keep working and somewhere down the line look down at yourself with surprised relief and say "Well, I'll be. I'm working." and don't stop. That's what a grownup is, ok? You've missed this one; go on to the next.
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04:39:29 AM,Friday 18 February 2005
New Band Name: Stoick Furr!
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11:04:43 AM,Thursday 17 February 2005
No studying (though I'm about to read my homework right after I start my employer's breathing treatment), but I just submitted my taxes, FAFSA, and TAP, which I figure should be worth some kudos, right? Yeah, well. Math tonight, we swearssss.
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07:25:28 AM,Thursday 17 February 2005
Never, never, never shake a baby. Baby monitors, on the other hand, are fair *#&@in' game. Especially if they're making ungodly hideous SCCXXCRTTCCHHHHWOOOOO ZZZZZZSHCHSHSHHFFFF ZZZZXCHHHS EEEEEEYEEEYEEYEEE ZSSSCRFCRAAAAAAAAZSCRRCRRCTCH noises. It frequently corrects the problem, and it sure makes you feel a damn sight better.
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05:05:10 AM,Thursday 17 February 2005
I think, though I'm not entirely sure, that at some point during the 10 and a half hours of sleep I got today I dreamed I was a sentient lab rat following along with the score of a Beethoven symphony. Remind me to ask my roommate if he'd been playing any Beethoven symphonies in the apartment, 'cause damn was that vivid (it's only the personification and/or existence of the lab rat that's in question; I, or whatever dream-subject I was inhabiting, was definitely following along with the score of a Beethoven symphony.) Good sound quality, too. {thumbs up}
New York Graffiti Explained, with your host, the limitlessly gnomic K. Seen in the tunnel leading from the 191st St. station up to 190th:
Fuck the LOX don't bite.
"Why would anyone even try fishing for smoked salmon in a Washington Heights subway tunnel? Everyone knows their spawning grounds are down on the Upper West Side," I say.
She makes no immediate answer, but rings me up at work around 1:00 am that night.
"It's obvious! They were swimming upstream towards the Catskills!"
I immediately grasped the truth of this. So now we just need to clue the guy into what kind of bait he should use, and he's set. I'm thinking pickled capers?
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04:53:25 AM,Thursday 17 February 2005
Tremble, mortals. My mother has a livejournal.
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02:50:16 AM,Monday 14 February 2005
No studying. Wrote a bit, though. Am happy. Will study this weekend with girl. PF and Eudaemonist came by last night and slept in my bed while I was at work! They're such lovely sorts. They told me to read New Grub Street and gave me a complimentary Boccaccio and Russian Propaganda! We're going out to breakfast soon. Then this with the girl. Glorious day. Am happy.
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07:27:57 AM,Friday 11 February 2005
I got to hear my employer use ERICA for the first time tonight. I'd seen her write emails with it, but this was the first time I heard the speech synthesizer. Not bad! No mispronounced words in the five or six sentences she spoke, and the voice was much more Telephone Time Lady than Evil Robot. I approve. (And I think she finds it a big relief, too. For one thing, it's almost impossible to be witty when someone is spelling you out letter by letter. This takes about as long, but she's able to say the whole thing at once after she's put it together instead of forcing us to guess the words piecemeal.)
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07:46:12 AM,Thursday 10 February 2005
Results 1 - 10 of about 56 for "hideous hum" "motorem bum"
Results 1 - 10 of about 61 for "hideous humm" "oracles are dumm"
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07:22:00 AM,Thursday 10 February 2005
This is kind of fascinating. After reading this Chick tract (yes, I know, it's an unhealthy habit), I googled "hitler catholic", scanned over the top ten sites, and extracted the following quotes (one from each page, in order):
"Although the Catholic Church has always maintained to be a victim of Hitler's Nazi policy, the opposite is true. Not only it did nothing to prevent mass murders, it benefited by "renting" from SS the slave laborers brought from Eastern Europe, just like Bayer AG did for medical experiments at Aushwitz death camp."
"Hitler reading with his glasses. If only he had read Martin Luther's masterpiece translation of the Bible . . . and converted to Christ. He might have become a great 20th century Reformer instead!!" (Runner-up: "For more information on the Exodus see the movie: The Ten Commandments starring Charlton Heston.")
"Quotes from Adolf Hitler -- Night of 11th-12th July, 1941: 'National Socialism and religion cannot exist together.... The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew.'"
"Further, Nazi Germany's soldiers wore belt buckles inscribed 'Gott mitt uns' ('God is with us'). This slogan sounds eerily similar to Ohio's present motto, 'With God, all things are possible.'"
"I have often reflected, wistfully, on how much happier modern history might have been had Hitler been brought up as an atheist, an agnostic, or, at least, a Unitarian."
"A good Catholic would never engage in mass murder."
"Hitler was a devout Catholic. Caligula was a quite devout follower of the Roman religion, as was Augustus Ceasar, and neither one of them killed nearly 'millions'."
"Each April 20, Cardinal Bertram of Berlin was to send 'warmest congratulations to the Fuhrer in the name of the bishops and the dioceses in Germany' and added with 'fervent prayers which the Catholics of Germany are sending to heaven on their altars.'"
"Gregor Strasser (May 31, 1892 - June 30, 1934) was an early leader of the German National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP) or Nazi Party. Strasser was eventually murdered on Party Leader Adolf Hitler's orders, as part of Hitler's consolidation of power."
3 pages by Protestants blaming Hitler on the Catholic Church
2 pages by Atheists blaming Hitler on religion in general
2 pages by Catholics blaming Hitler on Atheism or Paganism
2 discussion boards with varying opinions (though the overall bent seems to favor the Atheists)
1 page with no apparent agenda (the Encyclopedia article on Strasser)
Well, huh.
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06:26:26 AM,Thursday 10 February 2005
Haven't been studying, but haven't really been slacking either -- just applied to three jobs, and am debating going after another. Will get to Milton next, I swear. Math might have to wait 'til tomorrow.
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04:33:53 AM,Thursday 10 February 2005
My roommate has a webpage! I didn't know 'til I saw his CD label printed out just now. Doesn't look like my other roommate has one of her own, but here's a picture of her, at least.
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09:24:14 AM,Wednesday 9 February 2005
Still no GRE studying and entirely too much webbage. But I read one of the texts for my class (the one, of course, that we're going to be studying in spring, and not the one assigned for Thursday) -- Love Alone, by Paul Monette. I would read and nod my head and furrow my brow and appreciate the line and take in the sense, all calm, and suddenly I'd be weeping, with my face screwed up and my eyes blurred over -- just ten or twenty seconds; then I'd blot them with my sleeve and keep reading, and it wouldn't happen again until the next poem, or the one after that. Exhausting. Pure and terrible. Here's one.
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07:38:56 AM,Wednesday 9 February 2005
I've been a monogrammed washload of suck tonight. No studying, no homework, none of the three writing projects I'm supposed to be working on -- didn't even read any of the splendid novel I'm in the middle of. Just web browsing and junkfood and other tedious lameness. Well, boo.
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05:20:07 AM,Tuesday 8 February 2005
I think I may try and get out to this.
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05:15:19 AM,Tuesday 8 February 2005
Sweet Rutting Rasselas, how brilliant is this? Les Miserables: Citoyen Smackdown. Screw Broadway, Cliffs Notes, and Merchant Ivory -- this is the kind of Classics-For-The-Masses I can get behind.
Coming soon!
Divine Comedy (2D Platformer)
Leviathan (Real-Time Strategy)
Phenomenology of Spiritris (Puzzle)
Beyond Good and Evil (Science Fiction Role-Playi-- hey, wait a second...)
Pride and Prejudice (First Person Shooter)
via Odious.
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04:23:30 AM,Tuesday 8 February 2005
At this point, it's almost tempting.
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02:59:54 AM,Tuesday 8 February 2005
My GRE tutor just sent me a host of word problems featuring Montaigne, the Staten Island Mafia, and Jim "Spanky" Jarmusch. Well, quite. He also wants me to give him a list of profitable (i.e., their authors don't need day jobs) webcomics. Off the top of my head, I can think of:
Achewood
Penny Arcade
Megatokyo
Sluggy Freelance
Player Vs. Player
Are there any others? Dunno about, like, Diesel Sweeties or Wigu or Partiallyclips or Scary-go-Round or Qwantz; I read them so sporadically, and don't really keep up with the newsboxes. Oh, and it's PvP that's offering free syndication to newspapers by way of advertising, right?
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02:50:01 PM,Monday 7 February 2005
Holy Limpopo, it's deafeningly hot in here.
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02:43:38 PM,Monday 7 February 2005
It's been decided that next Halloween's motif will be masks, and I've finally hit on mine: The Knight of the Mirrors.
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07:41:10 AM,Monday 7 February 2005
