would that make him genghis khan?

did i mention i met Darryl Flood on saturday? Darryl Flood the packing shipping and moving mongul? er... maybe that's not the word. anyway, after being up quite late friday night, Emily had to work at 8, so i went with her.

we had a terribly silly 4 hour receptionisting time (thriller and hide-and-go-seek were involved... mostly by me. she was being responsible, and also there was a security camera.), and near the end, when i had just done my hair up very silly and was impersonating a ditz rather dramatically, guess who walks in but this mongul! (still sounds wrong, so wrong!) so the feller comes up, shakes the old hand and says, "So now you know there really is a Darryl Flood" and then off he went to a soccer game! and it was at that moment i realised my hair looked like a poodle (not like a poodle's hair, like an entire poodle), and to be quite honest i thought that was hilarious.

pictures and videos to come... hopefully. cross your fingers on the video, i highly doubt i'm that technological.

"Cogito Ergo Cenon"

~or~

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"I think, therefore, I eat"

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studying makes me so hungry!

cecil alexander beatley, hater of spunk, reader of books, and... chef?

dear readers,

you will be shocked by what you are about to read. we all know dear cecil alexander's predominant personality traits, so i feel explaination of his distaste for spunk of any kind and for silliness is unnecessary. but today, on coming home from church, i walked into my room and was shocked to find him intensely studying "the joy of cooking."

this isn't silly, you say? he could be studying how to roast a pig or something serious, you say? oh no. he was learning how to glaze donuts. he had also copied a recipe for baked alaska.

meanwhile, my dear percival was pretending to sleep and dr. george (the owl) was hopping up and down on his shelf in excitement.

it's been an interesting day here. i'm going to go have a little talk with cecil. perhaps i'll make him watch hsm3 so he can reach for his dreams without shame. ;)

yeep, squeep!

tonight has been rather silly in the injury department.

i...

repeatedly walked into the corner of the bed

walked into an opening door

slipped on a phone and fell on a stack of flashcards

fell off my desk

slammed the closet door on my foot

tripped on a cat

tried on reading glasses, lost depth perception, and hit a wall

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ow. i think someone just needs to go to bed.

the bard and the bully

i think i've mentioned the shakespeare class i'm teaching this year... (loving it, by the way!) ... and i've been so impressed and excited by how quick all the kids are and how eager to learn, by some in particular. i know that having favorites is bad, but if i were to have a favorite it would probably be Jared.

12, blonde, TONS of freckles, and always so unabashedly enthusiastic about the play and about learning. it's wonderful to see him not be ashamed by his interest in the subject, especially at that age, where such things are apparently uncool. so last week we were having a nice little discussion of the roman conspirators and what character traits/flaws led up to them deciding to assasinate caesar, and Jared started talking about it, and as he spoke he got more and more excited and breathy and loud, quite earnestly. here are his thoughts:

" well... i mean, caesar wasn't all that girly (looks around at all the girls in the class) ... uh, i mean weak, but cassius kept talking about what a sissy he was, and that he couldn't swim so that meant his brain was weak, and all the conspirators were so much better than him and they could swim too, so they assasinated him! so i think cassius was just... well... well... he was just a BIG FAT BULLY!"

oh jack... how i love you. really. aunt(ish) claire wants to play in the mud too... but perhaps not with these exact results. i'm feeling the distance between here and austin rather horribly this week! the greatest thing of all would be a good talk with jamie and jason.

- the photo is Jamie's, by the way

Kite Day - 3/10/09

we human ships, caught by wind

breezing us through shining clouds

fingertips breathe

lifting feet off daisy blossoms

and finally someone wins!

after three fail posts, it's time for a win! and what win is better than a cupcake win? i would dearly love to have this cupcake table and cupcake seat... but i fear they would make me hungry all the time, and it wouldn't be broccoli i was hungry for, it would be CUPCAKES!

wow.

surfer fail

anarchy fail

just stumbled across this gem...

the whitechapel anarchy group website.

yes, anarchy group. they have regular meetings. so... someone has to be in charge of their meetings or they'd never get started. think about it. it's like by trying to support "their cause" they manage to kill the logic of the idea and prove that they don't actually hold the core beliefs of it.... now that's impressive.

frabjous day!

it's been announced, the sequel to Dark Crystal is in production! yea!

7 items

item 1: to see some incredible art, go here. so beautiful. how i would love to be the one coming up with these wonderful ideas and being behind the camera creating such uniquely beautiful art.

item 2: i know i've been neglecting this blog of late... just so much life happening, so much to do! i'm rather swamped right now under a literal mountain (and no, i'm not using that phrase hypothetically like dr. George does, it is actually a mountain. on my desk. making that room look horrifying all the time.) of books, all amazing, all brilliant, all a rare glimpse into a peculiar, brilliant mind, making it maddening to be so speedy going through them.

item 3: right now i've one of those terrible behind-the-eyes headaches that feels like someone dipped a carrot in wasabi and rubbing alcohol, lit it on fire, and punched you in the face with it. yeow!

item 4: already formulating my plans for the distant-future christmas break from school... they involve many cups of tea

filling boxes with sketches of all the gnomes and dancing

mushrooms and sparrows and ill-mannered oaks and possums that

want to spill out of my head all day long but never get a chance

making headway on my woodland-creature quilt (i'll post fabric pictures soon, promise!)

yuletide cupcakes

turning 18 and becoming an adult overnight (look, a christmas miracle! ;)

item 5: last night i dreamed it was my first day of college, and i had an amazing outfit, and for some strange reason sally field was my philosophy teacher. she was a good teacher, very smart, and she invited me to a coffee-making contest. that very night my home was invaded by alien-robot-coyotes... the details were very clear earlier in the day, but now i forget. there was great danger involved, though. yeep!

item 6: the office is back. yay! it was sorely missed. nearly forgot how brilliant rainn wilson is!

item 7: helped dan and caitlin move in to their wonderful, lovely home this afternoon, and going back tomorrow to help some more! it's wonderful, and feels like a home.

it's been so long!

sorry it's been so long, i've been so horridly busy it's impossible to keep everything going. and this is a problem, because i want to do EVERYTHING! really, have you ever seen a list of all the things i've wanted to be over the years? it's silly.

hobo

airplane pilot

explorer

horse trainer

doctor

wedding planner

research biologist

linguistics

archaologist

musician

photographer

potato/endangered plant farmer

pardon my silliness

i wouldn't normally post something like this. but these are not just boots... these are art. i mean it. i love that there is so much potential for art in everyday things, like... boots! things to go on your feet. feet just aren't pretty. they're kind of weird, actually. have you ever stared at your toes for a long time? they get to looking strangely alien.

photo and boot beauty via anthropologie

yay

i probably shouldn't be this excited. but i think its justified.

the speed limit on the road i take to class every wednesday used to be 50. this made my trip take 45 to 50 minutes... and today, for the first time, i experienced the wonder of the new speed limit. it's now 70. yay! this makes my trip only about 35 minutes, which means that i'll actually be eating lunch on wednesdays now!

ok, there was something else i was going to say.

... oh right, i remembered

i'm going to start posting photography again. i've got some new stuff to share! over the summer i worked on learning more about how to use my fancy camera (which i still haven't named... hmm, sad.), and since i've been reading this biography of walker evans, i really really want to work harder on that.

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one other thing. a strange moment to share, and perhaps slightly embarrasing. i was organising my books last saturday afternoon, and i was standing there, listening to some music, and suddenly i realised that i had been unconsciously dancing with paul johnson and hendrik willem van loon for a longer time than i'd like to admit... and not a waltz or anything like that. ever seen elizabethtown? the scene where he's in the woods and he dances like a three-year-old, jumping up and down, waving his arms around? thats how it was. and i don't think paul johnson would do that. surely he's ever so much too dignified. perhaps van loon would... he seems a merry chap.

Sea-Fever

I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking.

I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

- John Masefield

can i download my life apps now, please?

so i got on facebook tonight, checked my messages, wait, i don't have to explain this. dumbo. anyway i got on facebook tonight and as i was looking over the page i made for my book group i noticed a strangely endearing little button.

next to other people's posts and discussion topics, i as administrator have a fancy little button labeled

mark as irrelevant

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yes. this inspires me. it's like a computer-generated eye-roll! you know how rolling your eyes (not that i'm condoning rolling your eyes... just sometimes its horridly satisfying) makes you feel that you've expressed "you have no effect on me, no matter what you say. silly weak little pigeon, i am not the piece of bread you thought i was, i am an unripe persimmon! you can't hurt me!"

remember this when you're feeling anahillated and beleaguered.