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General => Rants and Stuff => Topic started by: Mad Dr Jeffe on April 24, 2006, 11:37:17 PM
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The SFNC is on notice, I will be back on nights starting may... i.e. Wednesday is my first day, and running thru the first few weeks of June till I transfer to Norfolk. Be prepared to amuse regile and commune. I assure you it will be fun. Just like old times. Come, get sent to the corner with me.
Realizing that Im working nights and weekends again I just have to say the same thing everyone does in the alien movies when they get implanted with a chest burster...
Kill me!
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I think that deserves a corner.
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Hey, I'm regularly up til 3am with the schedule I work now - I might actually be able to participate in the SFNC!
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indeed 3 am there is like 5 am here so I'll have a few more hours to type ...
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Hey cool, can I help? But not until June...Stupid school. :(
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well I'll be around at nights untill about the 15th and then life gets Craaaazy.
On a side note, the idea of moving has me slightly depressed, I know I should be excited, but Im not, not yet anyway. Yet again I get to leave my friends and work like a madman to get qualified again.
yay :(
that was an ironic yay if you missed it.
So TWG may be my only link to sanity for a while.
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indeed 3 am there is like 5 am here so I'll have a few more hours to type ...
Not unless you're in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean - (Which I don't discount as a possibility, given the job). But Ohio's on Eastern time.
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doh!
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School ends for me around the end of May, so I might well be about.
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So TWG may be my only link to sanity for a while.
What? Us, sane? I think you'll need to rethink your source for sanity in the coming months. ;)
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prepare the age of the superfly is nigh!
tonight nigh actually.
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It begins!
So how is everyone tonight? Im tired, wish I'd had an infusion of caffine, and wish I'd been able to sleep better this afternoon. Frankly Im beat already which is a bad sign.
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ARGH, Lost makers want only to torture me.
Also, no SFNC for me today, I'm actually working first shift tomorrow and should get to sleep asap. But I must get the Lost out of my head first.
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No SFNC? How will I stay awake? :-/
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Well, I'll be up, assuming I have internet at work. It hasn't been too consistant the past few nights.
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yay! hooray for ferrets...
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yay the daily show just said Bush was a third level wizard.
"Your either with the orcs or against them"
Having direct tv at the office is good.
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Only 3rd level?
I guess he's multi-classed alot. I don't really want to make guesses at what the other classes are. Though I would guess that some Democrats would say he has many Rogue levels. I suppose some Republicans would say he has levels of Fighter or Paladin.
And of course, we now know that Cheney has many levels of Ranger.
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it was his we dont have a magic wand to change gas prices comment.
that and the silver bullet.
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same deal as before 10pm ot 6am come along for the ride....
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Superfly, superfly!
Hey I don't know if you're working tonight, but I'm working third shift tomorrow and Tuesday so tonight I play the "Stay up as late as I can and watch the original Superman while I clean my room game."
It's a fun game. My sleep schedule this week would make a normal person weep.
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Yeah Im up, I've been cleaning out my car a bit,... so I might be back and forth for a while. 3rd shift... suck... its my fridays right now... not that that means I'll be sleeping at night for a while... but still.
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Yeah, well, it's money.
Wednesday night I slept from like 2am to 11am. I pulled a double shift Thursday, slept from 7am to 3pm. Saturday I went to bed at 3am and woke up at 8am, wide awake for some ungodly reason. We went to Dayton and I had to stay awake in the car to keep J.T. awake by talking. Last night couldn't fall asleep until 3:30, then up at 8 for church. Slept for 4 hours this afternoon.
I'm feeling a little weird right now. But the reason I had to pull a double Thursday is our full-time 3rd shifter got fired. So I may be bouncing around for a while.
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ick
It was most likely the changing schedule...
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Yeah, I figured as much. My mom says "At least you're young."
Which is kinda what everyone at work says too. And I am. Only two gals at work younger than I am, and they both don't have the flexibility of schedule that I have due to my lack of a life.
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I know the feeling, once upon a time I knew what the sun looked like.
You'll find that some things will help you recharge better than others.
Earplugs
a must during the day.
A thick sunshade over all windows
also a must.
and a schedule so you get up and dont lay around all day.
try not to switch shifts much.
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So. Superman. I haven't seen this movie since I was like 8. We picked up the DVD at Walmart around Christmas and I never got around to watching it.
I don't remember Christopher Reeve being so cute. I found this bit of trivia from IMDB interesting -
For his portrayal of Clark Kent, Christopher Reeve based the performance on Cary Grant's character in Bringing Up Baby (1938 ).
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I know the feeling, once upon a time I knew what the sun looked like.
You'll find that some things will help you recharge better than others.
Earplugs
a must during the day.
A thick sunshade over all windows
also a must.
and a schedule so you get up and dont lay around all day.
try not to switch shifts much.
I can't sleep too well with earplugs, probably b/c I'm a side sleeper. We have curtains on the bedroom windows that block most of the light. We'll try for a schedule after this coming weekend. My goal is to survive until then. ;D
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its a noble goal... my goal is to get my car towed and be the lead developer on the snakes on a plane game computer game... but that may have to wait.
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I'm not sure how getting your car towed has to do with becoming the lead developer for the Snakes on a Plane video game. Other than the strong likelyhood that a producer of Snakes on a Plane will be towing your car.
Also, things I recommend for better sleep: sleeping mask (only if it's a good one), white noise maker (I like the sound of thunderstorms personally), and scent stuff (lavender or vanilla can be nice).
Sleep is good, yet so under-utilized.
Anyways, I get to make a big mural this week. Yay.
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I'm not sure how getting your car towed has to do with becoming the lead developer for the Snakes on a Plane video game. Other than the strong likelyhood that a producer of Snakes on a Plane will be towing your car.
Also, things I recommend for better sleep: sleeping mask (only if it's a good one), white noise maker (I like the sound of thunderstorms personally), and scent stuff (lavender or vanilla can be nice).
Sleep is good, yet so under-utilized.
Anyways, I get to make a big mural this week. Yay.
Sleeping masks can be good... but I like just tinfoiling the windows and coating everything with black trash bags.
Lavender is a great sleep aid. I had this ointment on the boat, http://www.badgerbalm.com/sleep.html and I loved it, ginger, bergamont, balsam fir and lavender really helped me focus on something other than the day.
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Never tried ointments, mostly have air fresheners. Though I do have a bottle of lavender oil.
Scent has a powerful effect on memory and stress levels.
All this talk about sleep makes me want to sleep instead of being at work.
Not much of a night crew if everyone is asleep at night.
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no then it becomes the superfly dream crew.... after my car is towed I plan on sleeping like a van winkle.
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So your saying the Superfly Night Crew has the ability to enter into the dreams of other people, thus altering the subconscious of the person sleeping?
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yes ...its a lot like Nightmare on Elm street 3 Dream Warriors...
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Very cool, I've been practicing on my astral projection skills recently.
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Indeed, I have as well.
So. Snakes on the plane video game, Im picturing a pac man like game...
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Do the snakes get to go from isle to isle biting the passengers? Then the snakes get longer after each passenger until the snake fill all the isles. Bonus points for really annoying passengers.
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thats awesome....!!!
A combo of the snake game and pac man and of course the snakes are trying to avoid Samuel L. Jackson.
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Yup. I was thinking that perhaps Samuel L Jackson just pops up from time to time and breaks the snake chain after saying a really cool one-liner.
Also, you can have different games maps based on various floorplans of passenger planes. The snakes get to move onto the next plane after avoiding Samuel L Jackson and biting the airplane pilot.
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eventually you just have a single engine cessna with no room... and you keep biting SJ.
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That is cool.
Now you just have to get that Snakes on a Plane producer to come tow your car.
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no I need the snakes on a plane producer to buy me a new car... A hybrid would be nice... or maybe a turbodiesel.
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Granted, but the car is bright pink and the stereo can only play Brittany Spears.
Wait, wrong thread.
Yes, I always do wonder why rich people don't by me more stuff.
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me too, it just isnt fair otherwise... I mean its just gonna earn interest for them...
anyhow Im going to catch an hour nap till the rental place opens and then Im going to try and get my car.
good morning/ night
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I really don't know where else to put this, but it's a rant and it's 2am, so here it goes because it doesn't deserve a thread of its own.
Why must life be so complicated all of the time? I spent a week agonizing over the decision, then on monday I applied for a couple of jobs at local companies (the one I KNOW I can get would be four 10-hour shifts, Mon-Thurs, so i could still work weekends at my current job) and gave two weeks notice at my current job, because it is full of drama and I end up working my butt off because my coworkers suck and have the work ethic of a dead sloth.
I go into work today and they respond to my giving notice by giving me a raise and begging me to stay. Not *offering* me a raise, mind you, but actually putting through the dollar-an-hour raise and making it retroactive for the pay period and asking me to stay. I told them I'd think about it. Mind you this still only puts me at $8 an hour, because I am woefully overeducated and underemployed and living in a jobless hole in the middle of Ohio.
Sometime this week we're getting three banana trees in the mail, and I will teach myself to garden and care for plants in an attempt to work out the frustrations I have at EVERY OTHER THING in my entire life.
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I'm sorry Fuzzy.
If it helps I can sympathize some. I too work at a job that I don't particularly care for, it's been going downhill ever since they fired the old manager on a whim. I'm very over-educated for the job, yet the rest of the people I work with are undereducated for their positions. Earlier this week I almost walked-out on them. I'm the only person in the company that knows how to do my job at the moment, yet that hasn't resulted in any sort of monetary appreciation.
I've started looking for another job, but can't seem to find anything that either pays enough or doesn't have worse working conditions.
On top of that I'm going to school, which generally means I get an average of 4 hours a sleep on any given day. And I have a teacher that is driving me insane with his new age mysticism that he tries passing off as serious academic material. In doesn't help that my classes are almost three hours long each.
If it weren't for my silly little ferret, I think I would be institutionalized.
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And Im about to upheave my whole world and move 180 miles away from my wife to work at the MSO in Norfolk VA, because Im a glutton for something, punishment I think. Which is why Im gonna take advantage of CG funding and finish my degree. Its time. Then I can get out and be a teacher and do what I want with my summers and life. Oh and I wont have to go to war and stuff.
Still Im actually pretty bummed.
So I feel for you Fuzzy
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Sorry, Jeffe. One of those major transition times. At least there's a degree awaiting you. Good luck dude.
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I waffle, sometimes I feel sorry for meself, sometimes I dont... it just depends.
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I feel you on that one, Jeffe. The sometimes feeling sorry for yourself thing.
One of my Ohio friends replied to my LJ post about this and said it sounded like I needed to leave the job anyway because it sounded like I hated it so much. I think it's true; I have a lot of anger I didn't have 6 months ago, and I think getting a different job may be the only way to ditch it.
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yes... yes...
Oh good evening ladies..good to see you online.
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Thanks, I should go to sleep though; church at 9 tomorrow then I work til 10pm.
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Ick....
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Okay, a severe bout of insomnia has driven me back to TWG. I make no promises beyond this night. I'm needing some Superfly love at 1:40 in the morning.
But I saw that stacer and Brenna were logged on, and I thought I'd see if they felt like talking. *Chimera waves*
Hey girls! What's up?
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Sad, the girls are gone. Sprig is on, but I'm not sure if he's on (like sometimes people have the page open but they're not actually actively on the forum). I'll wave just in case. *Chimera waves to Spriggan* ;D
Anyway, I'll probably be poking around here again. I didn't have any free time for awhile, and I had to severely limit my Internet time wasting. I won't have classes, just work, for the next two months, so that will be nice. But work and my writing and a social life is consuming enough.
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Are you still up? I must have slipped off when you were slipping in. Wandering around the web aimlessly this evening, really. Restless. Just got home from the second installment of Buffy season 7, and for some reason coming home to just my kitties made me very sad. Even though my kitties do make me very happy.
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I've been googling my name on blogsearch since the day of the interview, and it's been fun. Well, except for the blogbots that picked up the interview so they could make money from google ads. But there's this:
http://ozandends.blogspot.com/2006/06/visions-of-fantasy-editors.html
Which I thought was fun. He's the RA for the New England SCBWI, so it was quite a compliment for him to call my perspective "informed." :)
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Yeah, we totally missed each other! I think I was still awake then, but I'd moved on to other things like my lj and researching a colon hydrotherapist in SLC (if you don't know about colonics, you probably don't want to ask).
That is so cool about that guy's blog! Of course he would call you "informed"--because you are--but still, that's really cool.
I googled my name once last year. There were a few other girls with my name, but absolutely nothing on myself. I'm like a web ninja!--or just extremely uninteresting. One or the other. :)
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I was doning some site coding last night so I had about 6 browser tabs open, wasn't really looking at this forum since no one is ever on Friday nights.
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Thanks a lot stacer. Now I'm googling my name to see what's out there, and now I find all these weird people I don't know with my last name. I thought it was a very small group of people with this name.
Plus I keep running across this name that Neil Gaiman occasionally brings up in his acknowledgements, a Roz Kaveney, which may or may not be an author pseudonym for Andrew J. Kaveney.
Rawr! =P
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I wasn't really looking at this forum since no one is ever on Friday nights.
Except for those of us who are trying but not succeeding at sleeping in the wee hours of the night. :P
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Well, I'm here but only for a sec. I got Specials on hold from the library today. Get to finish the trilogy!
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Oo, I saw your review of them in your lj. It's been on my to-read list (which is absurdly long), so I requested it from my library after I read how much you liked it. So I should be able to discuss it with you soon. :D
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Hey, have you had a chance to check out No Rest for the Wicked yet? As a fellow lover of fairy tale retellings, I'm curious to hear what you think of it.
I love it. I was reading through the second chapter again earlier. I'm also reading a couple of books on graphic novels/visual storytelling, and I'm really impressed with this particular webcomic. I could just be really partial to the subject matter, though. And the quirky characters.
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I completely forgot, actually. That can be my Sunday afternoon activity. :)
Well, that, and starting to prepare my RS lesson for the Sunday after I get back from visiting home. That's right, I'm a RS teacher. One of the few callings I've never had. This is going to be a challenge--I don't mind teaching subjects I know really well, like family history or children's lit, but teaching about a random subject (I *think* it's Praying to Receive the Blessings of Heaven, but I'm not sure--which reminds me that I need to ask) is harder. Sure, I've prayed to receive the blessings of heaven, so at least the subject isn't marriage or something. But it's not something I've planned curriculum for for 10 years, and it makes me a little freaked out.
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RS teacher was ok, calling wise. Personally I dread anything that has to do with speaking in public but at least you only have to teach once or twice a month instead of every week and it's MUCH less stressful for me that way.
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Jeffe, your words about earplugs were very wise and I should have listened to them long long ago. Worked a double shift last night and put earplugs in before I went to bed at 7:30 this morning. I slept so much better than I ever did without them. Couldn't hear the doors, the dogs, the phone, all the other horrible stuff that wakes me up all day.
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I've always wanted to do earplugs, but I need someone to wake me up, since I sleep through my alarm (the one time I used them, this happened). So I have to wait until I'm married, unless I get a roommate with the same schedule--which hasn't happened so far.
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design a simple 9 volt elctrocution alarm clock... the shock might just wake you up...
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Glad the earplugs worked for ya... undisturbed sleep is awesome.
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Obviousry one needs to rearn how to become rock hidden under bush. Then arl wirl go awray and sreep wirl be peacefur. Enjoy.
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you are so odd.
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you are so odd.
Glad to see I still can keep this "title" to myself even after an almost years hiatus around here. =P
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so the good news is I finally have my own cell phone and it's one of those newfangled ones with a camera and everything, but now I have to pick a ringtone and it's just too vast a choice to be easy.
Plus, there's no sci-fi ringtones to choose from.
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I also have a new cell phone, its ok, but reception in HR is for crud. I also got a new usb II hard drive for extra storage on my computer... (to take some strain off my internal hd) its a lacie lego errr brick and It was 99 bucks for 160 gb...nice... and its stackable with others too... yay.. now I need a usb 2 hub.
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Briefly online while staying at my sister's. Off to a picnic in about an hour. Reunions really make me feel all time-travely in my head. This is actually a good thing--I hope to get some good writing in this weekend, because my new book is based on my hometown. (Even though this is not my high school reunion--it's a drum corps reunion.)
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drum corps is cooler than HS... so there! Good luck writing. I feel like writing too.
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Speaking of writing, I've finally gotten out of my rut of almost 4-5 months of bad-to-no writing. I've got a few poems already written and am in the works of a supers short story. This is fantastic!
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and I Just want to put this in the stupid people with wifi file... tooooo many people have no concept of wifi security...
I say as I type this on my front porch... yay wifi piggybacking
now all I need is a range extender so I can do this from inside....
:D
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Speaking of drum corps, I'm really thinking I need to write a realistic novel about drum corps. So few novels even touch on band culture, and drum corps is far and beyond a completely different culture entirely.
As I've thought about my writing this week, being so immersed in my old life and thinking about what I'll write, I think more and more that the stories I have to tell are realistic. I have a few ideas about fantastic stories, but the ones that interest me writing-wise are realistic stories that reflect experiences I've had, which so few people seem to have experienced themselves (small town/farm life, bando/drum corps, and just the unique combination of a number of factors). So I think they'd make interesting settings. Only problem is I'm still searching for the right plot and characters.
I think I've found the mother character, though. It's the main characters and what they'll do that I'm still working on.
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And speaking of lack of wifi security, there are two networks within range of my unconnected grandma's house. I expected to be completely out of touch for at least three days, but here I am!
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WELL, some of us don't need to worry about such things. We can barely get a signal upstairs in this house unless we're right over the room the router is in. Our neighbors are a quarter mile away and Amish. ;D
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Heh, yeah, if I were at my dad's house, there wouldn't be any sort of signal whatsoever. Neighbor is about 1/8 mile away across the road, and Dad hasn't ever had a computer in the house. No. I take that back. My stepmom just got an ancient computer from a friend last year and even has internet access (dialup), but my dad hasn't done anything on it. He hasn't even touched a typewriter since college in the early 70s.
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Can't sleeeeeeep.
I hate working odd shifts, it messes me up for a week.
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Odd shifts do that.
Course, after awhile you get used to the sleep deprivation...and the hallucinations, parnoia, and general zombie-lifestyle.
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Here here! Paranoia and delusions of granduer are fun! Especially when you're walking home after 8 hours of work and start talking to yourself, coherently.
Oh how I miss that. Well... not really. I do that either way.
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Hey, someone who grew up in California may have to answer this, but can you be a hippie and an intellectual at the same time? Does a college education or two negate any possibility of one secretly being a hippie?
I'm asking for outside opinions because, heck - I live in Ohio, where large sections of the population cannot even properly conjugate "to be" in their sentences.
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Many of the hippies from the 60s were in college. Berkeley, especially. So I would say, no, the two aren't mutually exclusive.
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I think that most hippies were, at least, pseudo-intellectuals.
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I forgot the other important question, which is "Can I still wear a bra?"
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only if its made of hemp
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only if you're willing to burn it every once in a while.
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The make "organic, eco friendly" clothes from bamboo now, maybe that will count.
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Wouldn't bamboo chafe?
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Nah it's woven and ends up feeling like polyester.
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"Pinky, are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"I think so, Brain. But burlap chafes me so."
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So, I have to ask...what prompts all this?
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Oh, I joined an LJ community for long hair, and because of that I've been researching henna and other natural dyes to use as alternative to harsh chemicals. Â I'm trying to decide whether I really want red hair at all, (always wanted it, but would probably get sick of it afterwards.) Â In looking into henna I've ended up all all sorts of herbalistic pages which really make me want to just have a house with my own garden where I can grow my own fruits and vegetables and my own herbs and medicinal stuff like chamomile. Â And never wear shoes, except maybe when I'm riding a bike to the store instead of driving a car, and so on.
I've always had this kinds of repressed childhood fantasy to be Juniper from Monica Furlong's series.
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That's awesome. I read those books a long time ago. I ought to pick them up again one of these days.
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Jeffe hasn't been around in forever! Has he had no internet down in the new station? Anybody heard from him lately?
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he signs on to writer's group on Thursdays.
y'know, when we actually hold it.
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Hey, MsFish, are you there?
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You know what, I don't think eating a whole carton of rice pudding late at night was a good idea. Now I'm super hyper--and nobody wants to play with me. :'(
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Yeah, my roommate only has dial up and Im poor, plus its just busy down here... I miss the chatting, but I need to sleep more here than I did in DC.
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Sleep is good. I say if you can get it, do. Don't fight it! Â ;)
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Yah, but its robbing me of the opportunity to talk to cute girls.
;)
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Like your wife? ;)
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Man, and I just missed everyone.
Jeffe, I haven't talked to you in a thousand years. That sucks.
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yes especially since I miss talking to you :'(
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Last night I had a dream that Fell became a polygamist. Should I go into details?
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Yes, please do! At least, tell us if we know his wives. ;)
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the more positive the answer to that last question, the more interested I am.
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Well, his 2nd wife is named Melissa, and she has dark, curly, shoulder-length hair. And she is Mrs. Fell's sister. They both love him for different reasons and were initially happy to share him, but now Melissa isn't sure things are quite working out.
And last week I dreamed he hooked up with some chick he met in Mexico. Really. I have absolutely no idea why I am dreaming about Fell's love affairs. It's pretty disturbing.
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Sounds like you've been reading too much ShÅjo.
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jeffe, having just noticed I saw that the last time I talked to you was when you convinced me to go get some sleep before work. In which I ended up missing work because I overslept! You terd! =P
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Sounds like you've been reading too much Sh�jo.
LOL
Between that and Karen dreaming that Hrathen took over the school, it does make you wonder.