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03:20 pm
[Link] | Auxiliary fetus engaged. Stixlet is go. Repeat: Stixlet is go. Over.
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11:59 pm
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I know a secret.
And that's all I have to say about that, before tomorrow.
;)
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12:55 am
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To Japan and Back, Round Four! Fight! (Tired of it yet?)
The girl of exactly small town where you have lived in the lonely world;
She took the train of the midnight when it goes anywhere.
Exactly the city which withstands in south Detroit, raises boy;
He took the train of the midnight when it goes anywhere.
The singer of the smoke room,
The wine and smell of the cheap perfume...
For smiling where the night can be shared,
And, and, and it continues those.
In the top and bottom of sort,
Others who wait for their shadows which are searched in the night.
As exactly lived in order to find feeling,
The light people in the night it hides somewhere.
The dies everyone thinks my earth laid which pays
The fact that exactly one many time
Is rolled with anything,
That we want thrill, eagerly work....
The people who are several lose in order to obtain, it wins,
Part was born singing blue.
Ohio state, never the movie edge,
And, and, and it continues.
In the top and bottom of sort,
Others who wait for their shadows which are searched in the night.
As exactly lived in order to find feeling,
The light people in the night it hides somewhere.
The fact that it believes you do not have to stop!
In the feeling,
Sort the light people hang on.
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01:10 am
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To Japan and Back, Round Three! Fight!
In the afternoon of center it was it is not different.
As for me the shadow of the child
Who is said with to some rank extends,
As for him it can object of that sneaker
Under passing and -- whether thing you walk and
He seems like the child whom it possesses frequently,
Does many questions... he said:
"Distant me very?"
Being it is your thought everything of God to me,
Calls to me evening is not different was;
With our methods, the sun was broken the cloud freely.
We count, only the blue car fly the crack of sort,
And it seems like the child who is made frequent,
Do many questions... we said:
I really to meet to her, because the fact that you ask to her
"We why are we, it is who, is desired,
Be your thought everything of God to me.
Because there is my method I meeting to her,
Be your thought everything of God to me.
Say so very directly in me,
AM I, AM I very directly now?"
The cold which is chosen pace you obtain that.
The noise where this place which our shoes how make is hard...
Our clothing become dirty, we to transfer the eyed people of the cross to large number,
It seems like the child frequently,
Many questions are done...
I really to meet to her,
Because the fact that you ask to her
"We why are we, it is who, is desired,
Be your thought everything of God to me.
Because there is my method I meeting to her,
Be your thought everything of God to me.
So call the fact that I am distant very to me?
As for a certain me very distant now?"
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04:29 pm
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To Japan and Back, Round Two! Fight!
Here from field,
I fought because of my meal;
I insert my back section in my life.
I me am correct,
me as for the necessity to be permitted
as for the necessity to fight in order to prove the thing which is not it is not.
You do not shout,
your eye, that do not lift
just the uncultivated land of a certain teen.
My hand, the land
of the travelling south cross
which is turned off the fire you take the sari,
pass my shoulder and do not see.
There is here where departure us greatly
before becoming old,
happy ones is close,
probably will get together.
Uncultivated land of a teen!
That is the uncultivated land of a teen only!
The uncultivated land and Ohio state of a teen, it can obtain! Uncultivated land of a teen!
Those entirely become wasteful!
(Yes, it's another relatively easy one, but it's entertaining to try and sing these lyrics in time with the song.)
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11:30 am
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To Japan and Back, Round One! Fight!
An amusing time-waster that always ends in entertaining reading. Copy and paste a set of song lyrics to babelfish. Make sure you've got all real words in there; "lovin'" and "tryin'" and that sort of thing won't translate properly to Japanese (which is the next step). Once you get your gibberish (I maintain that Japanese is not and will never be a real language), copy it, paste it to the text window, and translate it back to English. Post it and see if your friends can guess what the hell's going on.
This particular one should be relatively easy for anyone familiar with my musical taste -- it has a few phrases which are dead giveaways (which is better than the nonsensical crap that comes out most times). Without further ado, the first installment:
Non- human feelings my day of woman was used,
my raw materials the smoke seems, and my wine everything was drunk.
In my heart which does the new start
where it goes to California of the thing which hurts in my center which is formed.
The someone love of her eye and the flower of her hair
in me was theres girl there.
As my chance of the large jet aircraft was taken,
been the same everything, never it is those, you do not have to permit.
The sea is red, tomorrow can continue how today,
the sky was being thought in gray and doubt.
It trembled as a child of the sun,
the mountain and the valley which are started shaking started becoming aware.
The anger of God the punch of the nose profit,
seems the way in starts flowing;
As for me you think of that perhaps I sink.
Me being the place where the road moves straight and the highest,
when it reaches to that of the time when I meet there, the line throw me.
In order to find the queen who does not have the king;
They her perform the guitar, shout, and mean that you sing.
The woman never it is not, it rides never, never is it is born,
but in the donkey where the footstep of the dawn which tries the thing which is found is white.
In the same way to by your it is hard you inform the fact that it stands,
the hill of my mountain of dream eagerly that it is hard, there is an arm.
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12:43 pm
[Link] | Taking a breather now that my folks have left town. Hardly spent any time with them, between work and their schedule limitations (arriving late Friday, leaving early Sunday). Still, part of me feels like even so little was too much.
There are days when I look back at what my life has become and wonder at my decisions -- particularly, staying out east while my family moved back to Missouri. While I know that a moment of doubt will always creep up again, for the time being I feel an overwhelming vindication.
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06:33 pm
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Upcoming Events
For those of you who have yet to meet the baby: we will be in State College from July 6th through July 9th. That Saturday is Ned and Gillian's wedding, and the night before are the bachelor/ette parties, but early Sunday and pretty much all day Thursday are doable. She'll probably be spending a lot of time around Alice, given the whole "needing her to live" thing, so you'll need to reserve a time slot well in advance.
July 27th through 30th is Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. It's basically a musical camping trip in the Adirondacks; $105 will cover a four-day ticket. Volunteers are accepted for another ten days -- they get a sweet campground, they stay free, they eat free. If you can be there all four days and get your app in on time, you're in.
Give some thought to one or both -- it'll be good times.
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03:03 pm
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Today's Ulcer in Waiting
Almost three months ago, Alice contacted the landlord with regard to our mouse problem. The broiler on our stove, as readers may recall, was full of mouse shit. As we were making arrangements for new living space, an opportunity arose to take a house starting in July. Alice mentioned all of said information in a conversation with the landlord's wife, and a curious ultimatum was made: we could have a new stove, or we could end the lease one month early. We have a toaster oven, so we opted for the latter, provided the stove would be cleaned and we would be permitted also to have a cat in order to deal with the mouse problem. A verbal agreement was struck.
We sent a letter with the rent which included these as addenda to our original lease agreement, requesting that they be signed and sent back to us.
Today, we received a call from the landlord's wife, who informed us that failure to notify them forty-five days before evacuation ends in a forfeiture of our security deposit. When it was pointed out that this agreement was reached some time ago, she, in essence, told us she had forgotten.
If she forgot about it entirely, why the bleeding fuck did the landlord show up here to clean out our stove some months ago?
I invite you, property-owners: push us a little farther. Go on. I fucking dare you.
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07:47 pm
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) sibilantwhisper
User Number: 2132711
Date Created:2/6/04
Number of Posts: 247
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| Sibilantwhisper has found himself too drunk to walk, staring too long, lying to the police to save his ass, stoned enough to pass out, arguing about religion, staying up with good friends until well after sunrise, saying "I do" in front of a number of people he hardly knows, shrugging off punishment, escaping death, under arrest, and watching the birth of his daughter. Though not all of these are things he'd actively want to do again, he'd relive them all if given the opportunity -- and, he maintains, at least it can be said that he's found himself. |
| Strengths: Passionate, cunning, resourceful, intellectual, creative, sarcastically witty, Viking. |
| Weaknesses: Slow to act, scatterbrained, quick to anger when thresholds are crossed, holds one hell of a grudge. |
| Special Skills: Singing, acting, writing, debating, Viking. |
| Weapons: Tech Support (spiked mace), Ugly Stik (length of wooden curtain rod), Stixy Brixy (the brick without which they will never finish the White Building). Always favors blunt instruments or anything with a heavy head, as he values power and intensity far more than finesse. |
| Favorite Ideologies: Neoplatonism, Gnosticism, Existentialism, Pantheism, the "Left-Hand Path", Judaism, Capitalism, Socialism. |
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12:07 am
[Link] | "If I were a font, I'd be Arial. Adamantly not-quite-normal."
This is a "Stix is still alive" post. Too much going on these days to put something more substantial or sensical.
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04:44 pm
[Link] |  | You scored as Black wolf. You are a black wolf. Strong and silent. You tend to hangout by yourself and not depend on others. You're just a lone wolf in a crowd of hunters.
Black wolf | | 75% | brown wolf | | 70% | white wolf | | 50% | Silver wolf | | 50% | red wolf | | 50% | Grey wolf | | 40% | yellow wolf | | 25% | Blue wolf | | 15% | </td>
what color wolf are you?
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03:44 am
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Tags: meme
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11:38 am
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Words I Might Have Ate
A stolen idea. Each of the statements below is something I'd really like to say to someone, but don't really care to say to their face for one or more of any number of possible reasons. I've put things behind their own cuts, both to spare friends' lists and let people pick out anything they please that they think might be entertaining (or might pertain to them). I've been working on it a few sentences at a time over several months, so the tone might change very drastically from post to post. You were warned.
( One: In which I express regret over matters of distance. )
( Two: In which I apologize for misgivings I hope to bury. )
( Three: In which I caution a good friend against being too guarded. )
( Four: In which I express gratitude for a friend willing to bridge a gap. )
( Five: In which my hatred condemns bit and bridle. )
( Six: In which I express tenuous sorrow for a half-innocent bystander. )
( Seven: In which I confess that the innocent actions of a friend brought me sorrow. )
( Eight: In which I earnestly hope a friend learns to wise up. )
( Nine: In which I reassure a friend for decisions kept quiet. )
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03:52 pm
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This is what happens when I am bored, sleep-deprived, and at work.
In the tradition of "The Ballad of Njord and Linnorm," Egil Freyrsson is proud to offer this preview of Gottensaga: the Musical! (Tune stolen from Disney's Beauty and the Beast.)
Egil:
Gosh, it disturbs me to see you, Torbjørn,
Looking so down in the dumps.
Ev'ryone here'd love to be you, Torbjørn,
Even when taking your lumps!
No man at althing's as admired as you!
You're ev'ryone's favorite jarl!
Ev'ryone's awed and inspired by you,
And we'd all love to be your huskarl!
None have skills like Torbjørn!
None match wills like Torbjørn!
In an einvig, well, nobody kills like Torbjørn!
For there's no einherjar half as deadly
Perfect, a pure paragon!
You can ask Halfdan, Gyrd, or Jarnskeggi,
And they'll tell you whose vike they prefer to be on!
Egil and Chorus:
No one brawls like Torbjørn!
No one mauls like Torbjørn!
Egil:
And just who is that burning your halls? It's Torbjørn!
Chorus:
For there's no one as burly and brawny!
Torbjørn:
As you see, I've got more girth and height!
Egil:
Not a bit of him's scraggly or scrawny!
Torbjørn:
And no one's told you your pants scream in the night!
Chorus:
No one fights like Torbjørn,
Rules the nights like Torbjørn!
Egil:
When it comes to it, no one Soul-Bites like Torbjørn!
Torbjørn:
I'm especially good at island-creating!
Chorus:
Honor to Torbjørn!
Torbjørn:
When I was reborn I ate four dozen men;
With two fingers I'd kill a wild boar!
And now that I've aged, I eat five dozen men,
So I'm roughly the size of a knorr!
Chorus:
Oh, ahhh, wow!
My, what a guy, that Torbjørn!
No one's slick as Torbjørn!
No one's quick as Torbjørn!
Egil:
No one's nearly as much of a prick as Torbjørn!
Torbjørn messily and noisily crushes Egil's skull with one hand.
Chorus:
My, what a guy,
Torbjørn!
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12:05 am
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Sometimes, a photo can make everything better.
I apologize to your flists, but my daughter = clinical cuteness.
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08:16 pm
[Link] | Long week.
Tuesday: Brought Alice to the ER, where she continued several hours of vomiting, nausea, and dehydration. Called off of work, being [naturally] unable to find a babysitter at 2:00 in the morning. Waited almost eight hours for Alice to receive saline and antinauseants via IV (ooh, palindrome). Stopped feeling so well myself in mid-afternoon.
Wednesday: Got up at 2:45 AM to shower (welcome to my schedule!). Felt sick over the course of cleaning up. Called off of work again. Managed to hold back from vomiting all day long.
Thursday: Called off of work again; began vomiting at 5 AM, kept at it for much of the day. Spent the rest unconscious and apparently performing a full-body workout in my sleep, for as wonderful as I felt afterward.
Friday: Went to the ER myself, noting dehydration, nausea, vomiting, chest pains, all sorts of wonderful stuff. Thought better of reminding a nurse that it is very difficult to draw blood from someone who is dehydrated, and instead let her stab me with a needle several times while she was still trying to be nice. Got an EKG when they decided not to take chances with chest pains; while I appreciate the sentiment, let me tell you that peeling electrodes off of bodily shag carpeting does not a happy Stix make.
That's pretty much where I'm at now. The chest pains have largely given way to a constant dull ache under my collarbones, from all the feeling I put into hugging that bucket. God damn, do I hate vomiting.
If someone can figure out how to fit a BBQ cheeseburger into a clear liquid diet, I will give them ten dollars.
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08:00 pm
[Link] | I think I would kill for a steak.
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12:32 pm
[Link] | (1) your own cell phone
(2) a television in your bedroom
( ) an iPod
( ) a photo printer
( ) your own phone line
(3) TiVo or a generic digital video recorder
(4) high-speed internet access
( ) a surround sound system in bedroom
( ) DVD player in bedroom
( ) at least a hundred DVDs
( ) a childfree bathroom
( ) your own in-house office
( ) a pool
( ) a guest house
( ) a game room
( ) a queen-size bed or larger
( ) a stocked bar
( ) a working dishwasher
( ) an icemaker
( ) a working washer and dryer
( ) more than 20 pairs of shoes
( ) at least ten things from a designer store
( ) expensive sunglasses
( ) framed original art
( ) Egyptian cotton sheets or towels
( ) a multi-speed bike
( ) a gym membership
( ) large exercise equipment at home
( ) your own set of golf clubs
( ) a pool table
( ) a tennis court
( ) local access to a lake, large pond, or the sea
( ) your own pair of skis
( ) enough camping gear for a weekend trip in an isolated area
( ) a boat
( ) a jet ski
( ) a neighborhood committee membership
( ) a beach house or a vacation house/cabin
( ) wealthy family members
( ) two or more family cars
( ) a walk-in closet or pantry (well, you could walk in....)
(5) a yard (the size of two parking spaces)
( ) a hammock
( ) a personal trainer
(6) good credit (but I earned that! and am too broke to use it!)
( ) expensive jewelry
( ) a designer bag that required being on a waiting list to get
( ) at least $100 cash in your possession right now
( ) more than two credit cards bearing your name
(7) a stock portfolio
( ) a passport
( ) a horse
( ) a trust fund (either for you or created by you)
( ) private medical insurance
( ) a college degree, and no outstanding student loans
Do you:
( ) shop for non-needed items for yourself - like clothes, jewelry, electronics - at least once a week
( ) do your regular grocery shopping at high-end or specialty stores
( ) pay someone else to clean your house, do dishes, or launder your clothes
( ) go on weekend mini-vacations
( ) send dinners back with every flaw
( ) wear perfume or cologne
( ) regularly get your hair styled or nails done in a salon
( ) have a job but don't need the money
( ) stay at home with little financial sacrifice
( ) pay someone else to cook your meals
( ) pay someone else to watch your children or walk your dogs
( ) regularly pay someone else to drive you
( ) expect a gift after you fight with your partner
Are you:
( ) married/partnered to a wealthy person
( ) baffled/surprised when you don't get your way
Have you:
( ) been on a cruise
(8) traveled out of the country (to fucking Canada)
( ) been to the Caribbean
(9) been to Europe (when I was two)
( ) been to Hawaii
(10) been to New York (I live here, fucktard)
( ) eaten at the space needle in Seattle
( ) been to the Mall of America
( ) been on the Eiffel tower in Paris
( ) been on the Statue of Liberty in New York
( ) moved more than three times because you wanted to (quite the opposite)
( ) dined with local political figures
( ) been to both the Atlantic coast and the Pacific coast
Did you:
( ) go to another country for your honeymoon
( ) hire a professional photographer for your wedding or party
( ) take riding or swimming lessons as a child
(11) attend private school
( ) have a Sweet 16 birthday party thrown for you
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10:36 am
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See, if I'd known this, I might've believed in the Zodiac in the first place.
While December 14th is my birthday, it turns out I'm not a Sagittarius. The oversimplification of the Tropical Zodiac led to the omission of a thirteenth sign -- though I suppose it's technically the tenth in terms of rotation.
I am an Ophiuchus. A Serpent-Bearer.
According to the classical interpretation, this explains:
- My interest in and liking for snakes
- My proclivity toward interpreting dreams and looking for omens
- My plain dumb luck
- My ardent idealism
- My interest in personal harmony and peace
- My affinity for anatomy and physiology
- My willingness to learn
- My desire for creative expression
- My concern for others' well-being
- My affinity for bureaucracy
- My intuition and interest in divination
- My acceptance of the fact that suffering is required before success
- My distancing myself from my mother as quickly as possible
- My interest in death and the afterlife
- My depression
- My tendency to procrastinate
- My having been hurt the most by people I once considered close to me
The number twelve is supposed to hold major significance in my life; I'll have to give that one some thinking over (though 12 years between myself and my brother and my being 24 at the time of my daughter's birth are two examples that come to mind). The sign is associated with Asclepius, Imhotep, and Joseph, of the respective Greek, Egyptian, and Hebraic stories.
And, well, it does explain why I like Setites so much....
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