Bloglet, the gentleman's mock turtle soup -- Moss made it sweeter than myrrh ash and dhoup
The NYC election commmission (or whoever's in charge of these things) thinks that I spent more than four years in jail or have been fined over $5,000 and am thereby ineligible to vote. Um, shouldn't I have, y'know... noticed? Fortunately the nice ladies at the table looked at my big innocent (not to mention completely bewildered) eyes and let me in the booth anyway. So whee voter fraud! I'm thinking I should probably get this straightened out, though.
I just stayed up until 2:00 am reading The Life of Pi, which I checked out from the NYCI library because it was the only book in the entire place I wanted to read. Lame crime thrillers and biographies of boring heads of state, otherwise. Anyway, I'm glad I read it. I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably shouldn't have done it at a gulp-- I'm feeling a touch of literary dyspepsia, and tomorrow morning isn't going to be fun. Plus I earned myself a red square and three yellow ones by abandoning the night's duties. D'oh.
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01:59:41 AM,Thursday 10 November 2005
Sebz Zbagl Clguba gb Uneyrdhva. Vg'f n inevrq yvsr.
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09:35:37 AM,Tuesday 8 November 2005
The last line of Ulysses in steno. Rather pretty, don't you think?
Speaking of litrachaw, we did chapter 20 today (initial D and final SH)-- after the test, which made me harrumph, because I know I got at least one thing wrong, and caught it even before I started the transcription, though of course at that point we were forbidden from changing our outlines, grr-- and it's inspired me to stitch together a sort of hardboiled pistache, composed entirely of practice sentences from the chapter. Ahem:
Dave mashed the mush in a plate. Dot shoved Dave to the wall. Double trouble was her name. "Slow down, Dave. My pay is due on Tuesday at noon. I wish to seal our deal. Those dead heads took drugs. That lake is cold and deep. Are you to watch that batch of stashed cash?" "Who will cover that news report tomorrow?" She told him to hush up. "Throw the cash in the slot. Push the trash out the door. Do not dial Josh at the barn. We will see you on Ash Wednesday."
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01:21:21 AM,Tuesday 8 November 2005
I ain't been blogging, really. One-liners, but none too interesting ones. Been wanting to, though. Busy as (*&@. Never been this busy in my life. Not complaining. I've been whupping my massively easy Medical Terminology class and rather enjoying it to boot. Steno is hard but damn satisfying, and though I wish we could jettison the ~3/5ths of the class that's more than six chapters behind and monopolizes the teacher's time asking lame questions they should know the answer to, I'm digging being able to use more and more of the alphabet every few days. Our first test's on Monday, and I think I'm gonna rock it.
I love reading daily logbook-confessional blogs, but I feel lame writing them. I know I should be writing pithy essays and soul-scrying epigrams and things, but my life ain't bad, even if it's circumscribed, and it'd be nice to have a record to look back on, yeah? So I'll do it anyway, and my audience can go play bezique.
My body seems to think that Autumn + Day Job = Blubbertime, so I've been trying to lay off the Doritos and move things around a bit. I bought one of those giant yoga balls and a thing where you stand on it and twist around-- had one as a kid and loved it-- and a crazy bootleg DDR pad that just plugs into a TV. It's fabulous. 8 bit graphics, 50 songs. About ten of 'em have names, from "My Heart Will Go On" to "You Are My Sunlight" to "Lemon Tree". Yes, an inspired cover from the one on Julia's "It's All True" mix. I'll maybe try to record it. It's mono, bleepy, and indubitably... Eastern-influenced. But hey, it works fine, and it gets me spazzing.
I got gray paint for my room, but I've been stalling for weeks-- primed maybe half a wall so far. I have a theme, a title, and a handful of likely tracks for my blogswap. I made my mom's lime dill chicken for the first time a few weeks ago, and it was more than passable. I dressed as The Humbug without his Homburg for Halloween, and K. went as a kohl-eyed pirate, but we both had evening classes, so we just schlepped around a bit before heading home to collapse. The weather's fine as anything, though.
I miss hanging out with people, but there might be a game night (Betrayal at House on the Hill and maybe I:NWO or Munchkin or who knows what else!) forecasted reasonably soon. Need to wrassle Porter down from Westchester into the city sometime soon. Don't see nearly enough of that boy. Need to go down to see Martin before doomsday, but who can say when or how? Gleeurgh, it's hard fitting it all in. But I'm playing music again. I've had my girl around enough to keep me breathing-- and we study together. Can't even spell out the happiness that primes me with. I've been enjoying lots of trashy fiction and have started hankering for Henry James. I'm happy. I'll try to blog more.
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03:54:08 PM,Sunday 6 November 2005
IT IS SO HARD TO LEAVE THE BED OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN.
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09:27:52 AM,Friday 4 November 2005
For the bhakriwas sorghum, you see.
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12:15:03 AM,Thursday 3 November 2005
Gru-el.
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12:22:11 PM,Wednesday 2 November 2005
Fweep.
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10:36:49 AM,Tuesday 1 November 2005
The steno brief for "she was" is SHAOEFS. That is, SH + long E (both natural enough) + FS, which apparently can be used for "was" in briefs, though never on its own. I can't figure out any logical reason why, but fortunately my fevered geek brain just came up with a spontaneous mnemonic: digamma, as featured in such literary classicsXena: Warrior Princess fanfics as "For Ant of a Nail"! Ha-ha! I knew a Classical education had to be good for something.
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11:47:34 PM,Monday 24 October 2005
So then I said, "If I could come that way, I wouldn't need an endoplasmic reticulum!"
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10:14:12 AM,Friday 21 October 2005
Following on the heels of the last entry: my drag king name is totally gonna be Sal Ammoniac.
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12:20:39 AM,Friday 21 October 2005
I finished The Baroque Cycle. I have no more Baroque Cycle. I can never read The Baroque Cycle for the first time again. Wah!
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10:45:52 AM,Thursday 20 October 2005
Sentences from class dictation today:
"Tie his tie. The rye seed is up. Al is right. Pat is right. Put up the pipe. The pie is perfect. I taught Art to type. She wore a red wig. Ed was robbed. This certificate is all set. Is she there? His pet horse has a short tail. They kept it way up. You should sit up straight. Was that a cry? Paul has their receipt. She thinks it is open. This egg is soft. Their cab is old. They stole the show. You should wear a coat. I caught a cab at the curb. He rode his horse up a hill."
Bleurgh. But the dictionary's up to 436! K. says I should apply myself to a creative writing project using only my steno machine and the limited stock of words I know so far. I just might do it yet (I'm thinking my last billet-doux to her, consisting of "I heard you had soup. Will I eat soup? PS: You are hot." probably doesn't count toward the total, though.) Also, I've been recording my teacher for scholastic purposes, but I swear, the next time she gives us her "Use the pinky fingah!" in purest nasal Queensish, I'm posting it up here for the edification of my public.
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12:45:47 AM,Tuesday 18 October 2005
It's Marmite toast and soup weather. Or is it Marmite, soap, and Proust weather? I can never remember.
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12:03:18 PM,Thursday 13 October 2005
There are exactly 218 words in my current steno dictionary.
Eight of them are naughty.
None of them, sadly, is "futtock", but give me a few months.
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10:17:40 PM,Tuesday 11 October 2005
Awesome: The transcription job I just did involved the word "futtock".
Awesomer: I already knew what it meant.
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07:40:03 PM,Saturday 8 October 2005
I will never live in an apartment by myself. I need to be resigned to this. Two or three more years of roommates and then wedded bliss. I guess that's not so bad.
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05:29:19 PM,Friday 7 October 2005
Go Glencoe Coelacanths, go!
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08:31:50 PM,Thursday 6 October 2005
At work. Stepped outside for lunch, when what did I see but three bags containing free sample packs of Nutella, with crackers, to boot. Ha-HA!
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01:28:00 PM,Thursday 6 October 2005
Tam Lin live in NYC! I am intrigued.
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12:52:15 PM,Thursday 6 October 2005
