Phouka, you're right. ^_^ NRL, I did notice your riddle, I was just afraid to guess... ^-~
Me, too. I'm a lousy riddle-person. Lousy at solving them, anyhow. I've never actually tried to write one...
Anyways...
Mab's blessing, everybody.
Cat
NRL, my guess was not fit for public consumption...! Like the limerick though!
My humble opinion on poets: The best is Thomas Chatterton, beyond all doubt. The best angsty poet: Stephen 'Screw You God!' Crane.
If I may quote:
Love walked alone.
The rocks cut her tender feet,
And the brambles tore her fair limbs.
There came a companion to her,
But, alas, he was no help,
For his name was Heart's Pain.
"Have you ever made a just man?"
"Oh, I have made three," answered God,
"But two of them are dead
And the third-
Listen! Listen!
And you will hear the third of his defeat."
Bleeeeeeeak...!
Bleaker than bleak. And when I pulled the board up this morning, I wondered why you were bleating, I was so tired. grin.
The answer, not that you want to know, is "A nun with a spear through her head." If you want more limericks, I got 'em. I spent too much time in college making them when I should have been studying, but they're fiiilthy, so I hesitate to post them here. As for real poetry, I'm afraid I've been afraid of it. Never touch the stuff. The only poet I've ever read at any length is Ogden Nash, who I like a lot. But he's silly.
I've got to get ot of the taxi business. I had an accident last night. Got caught in the middle of an intersection turning left when the guy in front of me stopped suddenly and a motorcycle coming the other way couldn't swerve in time. He ditched out. One dent on my hub-cap. The bike was totaled. The guy was okay, but it scared the shit out of me. He could have died and I would have been at least half responcible. It's all going on my record and I'm sure that my employers won't be very happy with me either. What am I doing here!?! Got to get back to scribbling where I belong and where I can't hurt anybody. But right now I've got to go get back in the cab and drive again. The rent is a cruel mistress. See y'all.
Sorry to hear about the accident, NRL. I know the feeling. If I hadn't given in to sleep last night, I would have posted an answer to your 'riddle'. Oh well, that's life... Limericks are fun. My favorite is by Edward Gorey. Ahem...
A headstrong young woman in Ealing
Threw her two weeks' old child at the ceiling;
When quizzed why she did,
She replied, 'To be rid
Of a strange, overpowering feeling.'
Sorry to those of you who didn't think that was funny. On a related note, a friend of mine had a list of the top 100 reasons it is good being a guy. My girlfriend read it and she questioned me about one of the reasons. That reason being 'You think the idea of punting small animals is funny'. Granted, I would never do such a thing, but the idea got a giggle out of my friends and I. She didn't understand and we couldn't really explain it, but I guess that's why they say men are from Mars.
Sorry to hear about your accident, NRL. Sometimes it seems no matter what you do you're going to get hit. Glad you and everyone else are okay, though.
Annachie, Edward Gorey is a bit strange, but he's funny in a twisted sort of way.
MY favorite limerick:
G.B. Shaw
There once was a man from St. Bee's
Who was stung in the arm by a wasp
When asked, "Does it hurt?"
He said, "No, it doesn't,
I'm glad it wasn't a hornet!"
(try saying it out loud... or telling it to someone.. cracks me up!)
That's absolutely horribly funny, Sticks! LOL!!
Have you noticed that in one of the later series of Amber books (Roger Zelazny), the main character actually meets an old hermit named Dave-- whose cavernous home emits an awful but mysterious stench?!?!?!? (I say this because we're on the subject of limericks...)
NRL>> Your riddle WAS horrible. The reason I hesitated to answer it is because I feared the answer was something as gruesome as that. It reminds me of one of my favorite riddle pairs, the first riddle being "What's green and red and goes 100 miles an hour?" and the second being "What's green and brown and goes 100 miles an hour?" Being that these are classics, I'm sure most of you heard them by eighth grade. Ah, well. Those were the days...that I never want to go back to, and cringe even to think about!!! NRL, I'm so glad you and the other guy are ok. How scary. I'm praying to your muse, that he/she sends you something to write that will make you some $$$, so you can get off the streets. --Ethereally, Grey
Grey, Annachie, thanks for your thoughts. Yes, I know a sign when I get run into by one. This one has GET OUT OF THE TAXI written on it in big red letters. Annachie,, Edward Gorey is one of my favorites. His Gastlycrumb Alphabet is one of the most hilariously gruesome bits of rhyme I've ever read. "E is for Edgar, devored by snails," or some such. Lovely.
question: does everyone have Realplayer5? would everyone mind gettting it? i had an idea for my page that will require it.
if not, you can get it here
Yeah, I have it, Stickman. What are you planning?
well, i have a mock up version on the page now. look for the magic lantern! *grin*
s'my birfday *pout* 29.... one more til 30.
Wow, Sticks. You're one older than me. Hippy Pappy Bthdth Bthdthth. (Which, as you know, means "A very happy birthday with love from Pooh"). I hope your coming year is great!
Grey
thank you grey, m'dear!
Don't worry, Sticks, you get over 30 by the time you're 35.
You too, sticks? My B-day was the second, also. Of course, I'm only 25, but that's temporary. At least my insurance will go down now... Hope yours went as well as mine did. --Cat
Happy belated birthday Cat and Sticks! I'm going to look for the magic lantern now, sticks...
Sid
What does a magic lantern look like?
Guess we're a buncha January babies. Happy belated to you, too, Cat. I always gotta kick outta having my bday on the 13th day of the 13th month. There was no way I could afford to be superstitious.
--Grey
Just a quick note to let y'all know that there's a new Borderland page up, connected to the Endicott Studio site. We decided it would be useful to a one page that was a guide to all the other Borderland pages on the net. If you have a Borderland page that you would like listed, please contact Mardelle Kunz: avalon@azstarnet.com The url for the Endicott Studio Borderland page is: http://www.endicott-studio.com/brdrlnd1.html
Cool page! I like it! Thanks for the address.
Sid
Sticks, finally made it to your page. Very cool. That's what I always thought web pages should be like. Doorways to other worlds. They are so often disappointing. This was pretty groovy. I assume you'll be adding more corners as you go. G'night, all. Hmmmm, I just got an idea. I'll be back....
Hi everyone! Sticks, I love your page, but why isn't there a pic of *me* in the loft as well as TLO? I live there too... *pout*
birthdays, birthdays... so many birthdays! Mine was last month (the 29th). We should all get together around this time next year and have a party. Let's make it somewhere where it isn't raining. I like the rain and all, but we're currently feeling the effects of El Nino and it isn't a good thing.
rain? Don't I wish. Right now, there's probably 6 inches of snow outside, and gonna be 9-12 inches by tonight. The library was closed, darn. :-) Like I wanted to go to work today anyway. The funny thing is, though, I left for work, and they called while I was pulling out of the driveway, so I drove a normally 15 minute drive in 30 mins, only to find out that I didn't have to be there anyway... Ah well.
Sticks, I still haven't found the magic lantern.
Sid
happy birfday, cat and annachie!
shade> coming soon.. i only just added techie.. promise, you'll be there.. hopefully, everyone will be there.. working on danceland interiors as we speak! *grin*
sid> go down the alley.. turn to danceland, then go left...
WOW!! I had no idea... got to the roof, but didn't think to go farther! Boy, that's impressive!(I'd say you're a genius, but I wouldn't want to give you a swelled head... grin...)
Sid
*grin* thanks.. more to come...
danceland is started... hope you like.. if anyone wants to sketch out a floorplan for a place and send it to me, please, do so, it would be more than welcome! *grin* (angel... ferret.. *hint hint* *LOL*) (or anyone/where else... )
I'll be on when I can... please be patient, sticky. Just recently am able to get this far. Corva's having trouble, too. Figures I can get on when I need to leave for work...
s'cool... *grin* take yer time.. i'll leave the ferret off until.
I have a feeling my email gremlins have taken residence on the board... out! scram!
Sid
Sticks>> I'll send you a floor plan and description of my room "Tree Corner" in the Wherehouse. Also, if ya want, a photo of me, so you could draw a cool pic (wistfully)... Sid & Corva>> I also have occasional trouble getting to the 'board. I just chalk it up to uneven tech in BTown and try again later.
--Ethereally, Grey
Sticks, I know I'm babbling, but everytime I go and look, it's different and better. Yay! Thanks for doing this...
--Grey
Wow, happy birthday to those who've had them! Always nice to know people are still alive..when they might not be, or some such nonsense. Hope everyone's doing well, and owch, sorry to hear about the accident NRL, but it happens to th'best of us. Checked some pages, looked at some themes...you people are doing great. Keep up the good work and the blazing imaginations.. Oh, and I suppose long life thrown into the blessing would be okay. ::grins:: \\// Peace all.
grey> thank you soooo much! and you are welcome.. *grin* i'll keep working on it (BTW, danceland is up.. sort of...)
i'd love a pic of you, and would be honoured to do one for you...
thanks jonathin!
peace...
I made it!!!! The board seems to have taken my offerings of old wire and tinfoil as a toll. So many BDays! Happy happy to all. "grey hairs being plucked, and from below my pillow a cricket sings", Basho. Getting older is a very odd thing. Poems and twisted ol' Gorey! I lost a number of friends in the last year. I found a great book all filled with Japenese Death Poems and their beauty lifts me. "Empty-handed I entered the world, Barefoot I leave it. My coming, my going--Two simple happenings, That got entangled", Kozan Ichikyo. There are some incredibly beautiful lines in this book. Each bit talks a little about the author of the poem and what happened around his death to illiminate it meaning more. And yes, the english translation is next to the original Japanese. Sticks! Where do you find all the time for this nifty building? I'm sure glad that you do though! With offers like that one to Grey, your gonna have a lot of character drawing requests pouring. Do you know if Terri has been on a wander through your/her world yet? I wonder what she would make of our shared/story/world? Is there anyway we can get our old posts back or are they truely gone? Terrible babbling, too long unable to find the Board...sorry... One more poem of Basho's to part with...`"A solitary crow on a bare branch - autumn evening" Good Travels All!
Hey, Corva, I like that poetry.
Sticks, whose place is on the mountain?
Went back, saw it, went into Danceland, loved it, love the whole thing!! Its sooo cool! I am like horribly and utterly impressed! heh, I sound really good right there. ah well. sticks, can you use the pic I drew of Sid at all and make a better one? and I have a story for you, if you still want one.
Sid
Corva, sweet! Good to see you back. Can you put the citation of that book of poems up for us to see, or at least send it to me? I WANT THAT BOOK.
--Greedy Grey
Japanese Death Poems - written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the verge of Death, compiled and with an introduction and commentary by Yoel Hoffmann. Charles E. Tuttle Company #0-8048-1405-4 fifth printing 1994.
thanks, Corva! Grey, Just came back to ask that very same question--are you psychic?(is that how you spell that?)
Sid> send sendsend!!!!!!! i want the story... did a pic.. gonna send it up tonight.....
corva> send a desc or a pic and i'll do m'best! *grin*
i don't know if Terri has been through the walkthrough, but mardelle kunz emailed me a reply to my request for a link to it, saying that she liked it very much! so i got that going for me...
peace
oh, yeah.. that's ifurita's place on the mountain..
Will send the story right away. Love the mountain place, btw. thanks! can't wait to see the pic and more stuff!
Grey, where and what is your listening house? Sid, lookin forward to "seeing" you around! Sticks, this one trusts in you and your muse; if what I send you inspires(sp?) you not, then let it wait. My thanks to all of you in general, just because.
Sid's story is up, but yer gonna have to look fer it... *grin*
Stickman - cool pages man. Excellent work. I know how hard that type of thing is...The link from the pary page reflects the new url. Corva - nice poetry. Are you into Haiku? I have a couple of books....(side note) The party page is updated every 4 days or so. New links, etc. If you wonderful people have anything on how you all got into Borderland, and how it altered your existence let me know and it'll probably end up on the page...if you want it to, that is...Thanks!
thanks, raven.. 'preciate it!
Stick, I love the new pages, and found more the last time I went, but everytime I try to go to the stories or the gallery it crashes my computer. I suppose this means I need to update my version of Netscape or something? Annoyedly, NRL.
Argh, home early: I fell out of a truck at work and landed on m'back. To add insult to injury a bunch of boxes made like lemmings and fell on top of me. I'm thinking accidents are in the air. NRL, I hope everything has calmed and you won't have to drive the cab anymore. Poor cabby-man. I'm blowing you kisses, they should make it there some time next week. You know how slow airborn kisses can be... Oh, blech. I'm being girlie. *make it stop!!!*
You, Angel? Girlie? Gosh, we might even think you were a *girl* or something... (Said in the tone of voice a five-year-old boy uses for the word 'girls.')
Sticks, how do you get to that page again? I seem to have lost the address.
I just bought an album of Tom Lehrer songs, so I'm sitting here listening to The Irish Ballad-- absolutely hilarious, for anybody who hasn't heard him yet...
Mab's Blessing, everybody...
Cat
NaRL, dear man-please read the signs when you see then, check your map, then take the next exit and keep on going...
Angel, hope the boxes didn't do any lasting damage! I am sitting here snowbound still, and what pretty snow it is, we have upwards of 20 inches now...
Love the pic, stickman! thanks ever so much. I think I might just put it as a wallpaper on my puter, need a new design anyway...
I am having too much fun with this snow, been off work for 4 days and I'm not complaining...
Sid
you okay Angelfriend? I know all about boxes - book boxes can be agressive(sp?) if they get out of sorts and one never know what will set them off...
NRL> ummm.. not sure what the prob is... dependant on what version of NetsCRAPe you are running (actually, 4 isn't that bad...) you might want to upgrade... it's free, and only takes an hour or so... ifnot, try MIE 3 (4 is too buggy right now, i don't recommend it... )
thanks again all...
peace
Corva>> "The Listening House" is the name of my favorite song, from a long-forgotten group called Lazarus. I can send you the lyrics if you want 'em. I've been thinking about opening a listening house in BTown one of these days. And muchos thanks (and muchas smoochas) for the citation to that book. I'm gonna ILL it--those librarians haven't figured out why I need all these things, and they never will, Boo-ah-ah-ah. BTW, I'm working on a story, involving Claris Day, called "Long Shadows." I hope to have it in readable form soon...
--Ethereally, Grey
yes, please do send me off the song so that I can understand better. Thats always the quest isn't it...lookin' forward to the story for more of your beautiful wordings!
Success! I have successfully and finally completed the first-ever official computer done "Sid & Peterson's" shirt!! Yes! Transfer paper finally worked! sorry, just a tad excited, ruined 3 shirts, 4th one was a charm, and 100% cotton. :-P
sticks>> I was wandering 'round the Wherehouse, and I backed the URL up to your main page. Is that a photo of you on there? You never said you were cute!
--Grey, agog
Angel! waugh! Where's your guardian angel when you need one... ;p *patpat* Grey, Claris Day? I'm flattered. ;)
utterly wild music has been found...the one really digs odd and interesting music! This seedie is calling itself: Synaulia, music of anicient Rome. It is documented and played on recreations of period instruments. The group that put this fineness together is "Synaulia", a research group made up up of multi-disciplinary students all gotten together to work on archaeological music!!!!! It is fun, sounds great, and is so far off the beaten track that it is off the map all together...check it out if you can find it! It also comes with a great little book explainig 'stuff' - I like stuff explained...oh! a web site for it, or at least its publishers: www.amiatamedia.it. I'm gonna go check it out now!!!
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/1377/english.html
one of the musicial dudes on the front has pointy ears!!!
The boxes that fell on me were not hostile, however the dock bit me hard and I now have a really cool (but incredibly ouchie!) bruise across my left flank. It has lotsa colors and is really big. Looks like Van's painting pallet. Took the thing almost 24 hours to mature. I wonder what it'll look like tomorrow. >smug smile< Nope, not feeling like a *girl* (sticking tongue out at Cat) annnny more. Bwah ha ha ha! (brushing underside of my chin at all the cookie cutter girls) Man, I need to learn some obscene Maori handsigns, that would be the greatest!
Claris, angels don't get angels... We are too good for that! Big, strong, tough angels are we!!! (Flexing what muscles I have) Oh, yeah, sure. Now I sound like a *boy*. Yick! Hmmm.... Think I just hit another existential crisis. Mr. Sartre! Mr. Sartre! Don't be dead; come explain something to meee!
Do you know, I talk to you folks more than to my family...:pauses to make "reflective" face:...Does that mean I've become a --Wispily, Grey
the stickman <> Sat Feb 7 14:54:45 EST 1998
*blushing* thanks grey....
Grey, if you are one, then so am I!
Hi everyone. I've been faithfully keeping up with the posts and my mail, but school hasn't given me much of a chance to actively participate. The rain here hasn't helped much either. On the up side, I'm off in a few hours to go snowboarding. Well, we'll see. If the roads and resorts aren't closed I'll be boarding.
TLO>> Did you participate in the 'library escapade' at Stanford?
No, didn't participate, since nobody came banging on the door at 3am. Ah well. And later on, at a reasonable hour, it turned out that they had more than enough volunteers to help clean out the library basement.
I heard that Tahoe got about four feet of snow...I really really wanna go skiing again. :/
So, where is Sid's story? I've been going nuts trying to find it! I've got a migraine from looking so hard...whee. ;) Not even a hint? Pretty please?
Later, TLO
OK... a hint.. sort of a riddle (sorry, corva)
"look for the only "light" that sid can stand"
corva> pic is pencilled... needs to be inked... should be up tomorrow...
peace
A picture of Corva, yay! Another thing to find!
Sid, not snowbound anymore, but still up to her knees in some spots.
Hey Sid! I want a Sid & Peterson's T-shirt! What does it look like?
Well, the T-shirts are technically advertisements for the books Sid and Peterson wrote. The one I just did is for "Sid and Peterson's Practical Guide to Dragonslaying." It looks great! Still have to 'iron' out a few design problems, but its nothing major. On the front is The title, a castle, and a dragon, on the back will be highlights of contents, (Something like: Packed with Information! Lavishly illustrated, Tips from the experts, Dragon Anatomy) I have to do the back yet. And then at the bottom is the S&P disclaimer, which is great. I'm so excited!! (can't you tell?)
I mean, I first came up with this idea in 1993, its taken me this long to actually get the story together. I probably have a hundred or so different S&P titles: Practical Guide to Princesses, Treasure Hunting, Stepparents: Wicked or Otherwise, and a whole long list of more.
But I'm planning on posting the original design picture on one of my webpages, cause I want to sell the darned shirts. So I'll post a link when I do.
Boy, didn't mean to type so much... ;-)
Sid
Oh, yeah, after I get the picture up, if you really want one, provide the shirt and I'll do it for free. :-)
Okay, here's a picture. hopefully I remember how to do a link.
Wow, aren't we a happy little pack of graphic designers! ^_~ Seriously, looks great. heehee. Augh, must go study. =_=
Sid!!! It's great! Of *course* I want one. I'll have to scrounge up a shirt. Sticks>> No, no, thank *you*!
--Grey
corva's pic> jpeg no, thank *YOU*, grey... look for corva on the page! *grin*
and with a white background
Sid <> Sun Feb 8 20:05:38 EST 1998
found Corva, like the picture!! Hey, Corva, is that Geoff?
so, mr. annachie, this is where you hang out when you should be emailing *me*. have just been given the "insider tip" that one of the public broadcast stations up here is working on airing neverwhere and gaining rights....doing an interview w/ mr. gaiman and putting out neverwhere on tape with the interview attached. anyone care for updates? i will try to check the board regular-like. or will take private e. and am on the border list. my, i am so intouchable....*grin*
sticky... CLOSE THE LINK!!!!
Sticks, I found the Corva picture! The corvids are doin' flap-crazies and and the Bear says, "but how did Sticks do that?!"; I agree! Is there a way I can get a color copy of that in a bigger size? I'd be happy to send postage. My printer is old(b&w), and you know about trying to teach such things new tricks. Great T, Sid! What happened to those BTown Pub Crawl shirts, by the by? Out skiing with the Bear last week there was aface plant involed and he didn't want to do it this week end...we played in snowed in playground at the Valley of the Moon instead. This is a fine city, this Anchorage place is...
Trying to close the link...
That's funny, the other Ember I know is a kender...Hmm. *g* Nice to see ya here.
kender?
Kender: One of the redeeming traits of the early Dragonlance books, which weere the best of the lot. Kender are short, thin, pointy-eared, with lots of long, full hair, who have no concept of property ownership or of fear, and tend to walk around acquiring everything that isn't nailed down, and walking into trouble. They'd make great thieves if they understood the word 'steal.' *g*
pub crawl shirts were my department untill my money (ample at the time) was completely wiped out. Now I can't afford to do them but I did come up with a design and all. Had the prices figured and all... >sigh< Wish I hadn't got hit with all those bills, completely drained my book paycheck which was going to be used on the shirts.
Anyway, after a weekend (Fri-Sun) of Speech classes I had so much nervous, I'd-rather-die-than-get-in-front-of-all-these-people energy that I drew Corva and Sid and also remembered that I have never sent Trinlay the pic I did of her. Sid's pic turned into 'Manga Sid' so I scribbled up a superdeformed Sid, too. The two came out b&w, no gray. The Corva pic is more detailed... Don't know if they are comparable to sticky's, though.
Trin, I will send the pic of you if you can promise to not tell me how cheesy it is!!!
Thank you for your answer Claris; I think I would like these kender ones...Angel, do we get to see these, er, us-s? It would be a grandness, it would...please?
Well, I'm back from my little excursion into snow chain territory and I'm happy to announce that I didn't die. :) I had to drive twice as long as I should have had to (due to the conditions), but the mountain was all powder and the storm warning (which I foolishly disreguarded) kept most people away this weekend. There's just something about carving your own path on the side of a mountain.
Hi Ember, welcome back to the border.
Sticks, cool Corva pic. When are you going to do one of me? When I send a picture, right? Angel, about that girly boy-y thing. Stay right where you are. I think we are all better when we stay close to the middle of the spectrum. I've never liked frilly women or macho men. Both seem like defencive posturing. I like people who are people first. So there. G'night all. Scrambled sleep habits this week-end. Feel weird. MAybe I'll try that sleep thing again. Might work this time.
yeah, Angel, do we get to see the pictures? *grin* You drew a picture of me? wow. thanks. hehe, that's the longest link I've ever seen... Annachie, also glad you didn't die.:) Snow isn't fun to drive in, I know these things this past week.
One question, Angel, what is 'Manga'?
Manga is the japanese word for comics. I drew Sid in a japanese comic form. There is a sub-category of these comics called 'super-deformed' which means I basically drew another pic of Sid which looks like a little kid or doll. Tiny thing.
I'll scan them and send them out. Not done with Corva even though I started her first...
Annachie, I have always wanted to snowboard! Of course, I would really like to try the little known art of 'sand-boarding' too. Maybe a road trip to the closest sand dune desert is in order... Where would that be? Kansas...?
NRL, my philosophy is exactly that. I have decided it is much better to be both/neither male or female and just be human. Slays me as all the guys I know think I'm a man-hater because of this attitude. I sit between the two so I am seen as more masculine than femme, when it is simply that I am more so than most girls. If I were a boy I'd be seen as the opposite.
oops.... sorry...
I WANNA SEE PIX angel! *grin*
NRL> when you send a pic, or at least a physical desc... *grin* working on the character from yer story for danceland! *grin* (i know he was at the ferret, but give me some leeway! *grin*)
NaRL - Sticks did the Corva with out a photo thing. He takes words and makes them images! Most folks do that, but ours stay in our heads. Looking forwards to seeing the two Corva-s and the two Sid-s together. Then I'll have to ask Grey to scan in the photo I sent her a while back and the three corva-s can be seen. Very strange. But I've always thought that everyone is seen differently, day to day people look very different to me - some people more than others. There are a few that stay the same. And then those who have changed over the years, and my brain still sees them as they were; no matter how many photos I take and keep, or how much I try to make it live in the now... Angel, be sure that we are so very fond of the you that is; no matter how it fluxes and plays, it is still you!
So, this is a song from 'way back when *g*, and widely regarded as cheesy, I hear. But I like it, and I just noticed these lyrics in it...It strikes me that a Bordertownish/celtic rendition would serve it very well. ^_^
Excerpt from "The Wayward Wind:"
Oh I met him there in a border town
He vowed we'd never part
Though he tried his best to settle down
I'm now alone with a broken heart
And the wayward wind is a restless wind
A restless wind that yearns to wander
And he was born the next of kin
The next of kin to the wayward wind
I went, I saw, I was in awe...Great pic of Corva, Sticks! There you are, you lovely crow-mama, you! Amazing, Stick's pic looks a lot like the photo you sent me--maybe not detail-for-detail, but the spirit that unites the photo and the pic is strong. P'raps that's why I tend to despise photos. I had to do the formal "portrait studio" thing the other day. Gah! (to use a pungent word borrowed from Claris) It was a nightmare. The guy tilted my chin out and told me to say things like "shopping" and "diamonds." The photos aren't me. Completely absent are my lopsided sly grin, wry tilt of eyebrow, and the way I look up from under my eyelashes. I feel like my spirit was stolen.
--Grey, climbing down from my high horse
Thanks, Angel! I understand now. Just tack it up to the fact that I'm clueless. :) A friend of mine got a scanner, so I'm going to have a picture of me up on one of my webpages soon!! I've always wanted to have one.
Claris, I don't think I've ever heard that song, but I like the lyrics!
Grey, I'm going for a 'portrait' sitting with Chris on Saturday; I look absolutely horrible in pictures, I don't really want to go, but they're free...I know how you feel. Best picture ever taken of me was one I didn't even know was taken. sigh.
Well Sid...I don't have much time but I thought about my promise to return the favor of the link you sent me! I think this gets you back quite nicely if I do say so myself!
http://doncaster.on.ca/~vampyre/misc/humour_1.html
I am sure you will enjoy!
ROTFL!!! haha!! Van, where did you find this, its great!! (and you're very lucky Sid has a sense of humor, btw.*grin*)Especially liked the top 15 complaints of modern day vampires... Nutrasweet or not, fat-free blood tastes like crap! Loved it! And the jokes were hilarious!
Sid
You all keep me from getting class work done! I spend hours zipping around to all the web pages, checking out the URL's people post, playing on the listserv, thinking about the riddles, etc. On the other hand, doing all this has kept me sane. So I guess there's a price for everything.
--Grey
Ask Angel...I can find almost anything on the net....It's Magic! I am glad you enjoyed the page!
Someplace to be Flying is here and in my hands!!!
I am going to set up a link for it on my own page.
Someplace to be Flying started out really good, I'm still not done... Lilian Jackson Braun sidetracked me. *grin*
Arrrgh! I feel so behind! It took me half an hour to get back up to date on the posts! My work has eaten my life!!! <
Angel, if it's any consolation to ya', neither Carol nor I saw anything wrong with your degree of *girlish* or *boyish* -- it just seemed pretty Paper Angel-ish, y'know?
Mab's blessing, everyone. I'm going to try to sleep now...
--Cat
Thanks, Sid, for the notice about Someplace to be Flying. I'm off to the bookstore tonight! Angel>> I just want to agree with gNaRL, Cat, et al. I always think of you as Paper Angel and don't notice how boyish or girlish you are. Not to beat a dead horse or anything...but I really like you! 'Course, I myself live in the "gray" zone between our society's specific gender roles (pun noticed, but not intended).
--Ethereally, Grey
We've had an archive! Must have been pretty low on the richter scale--I almost didn't notice it. --Grey
Sid <jst_clair@sprynet.com> Wed Feb 11 18:02:49 EST 1998
Corva, I don't know if you read Charles DeLint, but you need to read Someplace to Be Flying--all your friends are in there!!
Saw something strange on my way to work today; five big crows(or whatever's around here), sitting on treebranches, and right in the middle was a huge, black bird, don't know what it was, but it was twice the size of the crows, and they were big themselves. And it looked like it had white feathers in its tail... I thought of Corva's buddies...
Sid
Well, I don't know, Grey, it sure was faster to me!
yup, that nameless post earlier about having it in my hands was me. I know the Crow Girls - they're been in deLint's short stories before, but it is good to visit with them once again.
Corva, just found your story on Stickman's page, wow! Liked it! good story.
Thanks everybody. Wasn't looking for a show of support but it is always great when you get one! Grey, we need to have a OK-con. Get us Midwest people together. Looks like I am going to get to go to LA la land, my father's girlfriend works for an airline and I am asking for a ticket for my b-day. So, there it is. ^-^;; Happy am I! <-- Corvaisms are beginning to saturate my dialect... That is not a bad thing!
BTW, I had never heard of the Crow girls until I saw a scene Charles Vess had penned of them. Wish I had time to read, haven't gotten to the book Claris sent me, let alone 'The Flight of Michael McBride' which was purchased for me by Van's significant other. >grin< Oh, yeah, we be taking Van (chuckle) to Alladin on Ice... Hopefully he won't take it on himself to try and help the skaters win against that evil vizier.
Have fun at Alladin!
Yeah, if there was a con closeby, I'd go, I'm technically Midwest...Angel, I read the Flight of Michael McBride, can't remember if I liked it or was indifferent...
Any Jo Clayton fans here? I got an update about her from a fantasy list I'm on, its not good, will send you the email I received if anyone wants, so many prayers can be said...
I enjoyed the McBride book, wide images that drew me in. There were corvids there as well. Vess is grand! Thank you for your words about my scribblings; I am glad they made some sense to you. They are windows to me; I am not very linear or clear pathed, so they tend to follow that lead. YAH!! THERE WILL BE OUR ANGEL AT THE LALA THING!!! I will have to be there. There is this great tale "the king of crows"; thinking I am that was Midori's as well...hmmm, back to Newford for now.
Waugh, Angel, I'm so jealous. ;p
Yep, Angel, Sid. A Midwest con would be a good thing. I would still like to host y'all, but I'll need to wait 'til the semester is over. Ya wanna help me plan the thing? I'm open to ideas. Norman is a little town in OK, but there's a university here.
--Grey
Um, well. Claris, I guess I could ask for more than one ticket? But I have scheduled with the Hotel De La Nathan, and I'm not sure how the establishment feels about more than one guest stealing towels. >grin<
Corva, be there or be cat food. Jamyang (m'cat) loooves birdies....
Grey, waiting til after the semester is a very very good thing!!! I've performed at the Norman Ren Fest, actually. So I've been there. Also lived in Miami OK for a bit. Have plenty of relatives (not family) in OK.
Sid, Hope we can see you sometime in the daylight without a big >POOF!<
Extra strength sunblock does wonders.
But it leaves your skin all oily and greasy... grin
Well, my brother and his girlfriend stayed at my place once, but they had the advantage of being able to sleep one atop the other so they fit. More than one guest in this place is stretching the limits, although if you all bring sleeping bags, who knows... Angel, I'm so glad to hear you're really going to make it. Slowly but surely it seems I'll meet you all. Neck deep in work, not including my job. Writing and rewriting and schmoozing and scheming. My theoriy is, if I make enough noise and frantic motion I can fool my self into thinking things are going forward. G'night all.
NRL--Earthlunk? That's not a nice thing to call yourself. *giggle* Okay, back to moping for me...
moping, the Claris lady!?! whys, is there help to be had?
CAT FOOD!!!!!!!!!...angelfriend, er... I will work on taking that in a friendly manner but the thought of skaterat for cat food keeps popping up in this brain...gerhhg...Winter Faire is starting up this weekend. Dog sled s, big rides, fun foods, happy raven birds, snow art, all sorts of fun! The Bear and I were out watching the artists working today; trying to figure what those big blobs of packed snow (ten feet high or more) are going to be carved into it loads of fun!
Well, the Claris lady is *shhh, don't tell* really missing the Shikake elf. -.- Ahem. Thank you for the virtual flower, though. Can't say I didn't get any this Valentine's Day (for once. *g*). *hugs* Anyway. Snow art! Sounds fun! I always loved that kind of thing. ^_^ BTW, Danceland on the MUSH has been redecorated for Valentine's, there's a party either the 14th or the 15th, not sure yet...
argh! i get so caught up in the inanities of life on this side of the terminal that i sometimes forget thta time is passing and i have places i'd rather be! Claris: i am not kender....think i'm too tall for the job *grin* and i tend to forget to worry about obtaining things....so they'd probably kick me out for "lack of acquisitions" or something. and i don't remember who was worried about the boy girl thing, but i can say this: most my life i have been considered one of the guys. and it has been good and bad. but i wouldn't trade it for anything. i think that the instant we try to let our anatomy define us, we are missing out. just because i don't have the same bits as the boys i know doesn't mean i don't have as much fun playing soldier or tromping around. of course, it means that a lot of guys find me "too aggressive" and a lot of chics find me "pushy" or "too rough," but i figure that as long as i let my interests guide me, and not my anatomy.... isn't that *always* good advice? okay, ramble off......*grin*
I'm sorry you miss Shikake, Claris. Doesn't get any easier, either. 'Least you got flowers. The one time I got roses for Valentine's day was from my best friend Tim. He sent me roses and a beautiful poem that he'd written. It was terrible, because the sidekick and I had just settled on our current arrangement, and I had to tell Tim, after he'd laid his heart out on the line. I still feel a twinge whenever I see red roses. Well, I went looking for Someplace to Be Flying, and the bookstore here won't get it in 'til the 15th!!! Argghh. I dragged my poor sidekick all over town looking for it, too. And he had a headache, but did I care? No. So you see how ruthless I can be? Speaking of ruthless, I still haven't found that pic of Sid, and I wanna see it! --Grey, out girlie-ing Angel Hmm, roses on Valentine's day...Well, one year I made an offhand remark to a good friend, who shall remain nameless, that I didn't like the day much, and had never gotten flowers. I was just being mean about the day, wasn't hinting... Now this guy was pretty transparently interested in me, but he hadn't ever done anything about it. So guess what he does? He tells Ghost about it, and Ghost, being the nice pal of a catguy that he is, gets me a flower. I mentioned it to the friend, because, after all, this was his big chance. He says he was afraid of how my parents would react. DOH?! If you ever get close to a human, and human behavior...' But let that be a lesson to you guys. Even a failed try, like Grey's friend, is better than none. Um, wow, that was really pointless... Guess I'm just psyching myself up to spend tomorrow studying by myself. :p Natter, natter. Sowwy!
Claris <ccsmith@comp.uark.edu> Fri Feb 13 22:59:39 EST 1998
Sid <jst_clair@sprynet.com> Sat Feb 14 00:09:25 EST 1998
Grey, sent you a hint. :-) Good luck. Corva, snow art must be wonderful to see! We probably had enough to do something with last week, but the rain has now washed almost all of it away. Claris, couldn't imagine you not missing him, and I'm sure he's missing you too...have a nice Valentine's Day everybody. hehe, I got opera cremes...yum yum. Hey Van! Sid is sending you a peace offering!! hehehe.
Hello, all. It's me, Carabosse aka Didi. I discovered that I am too happy to be called Carabosse anymore, and too old for a cute nickname like "Didi", so for now I'll just use PoshRat. That still applies, no matter what. :-) I had to give up on the list 'cause I couldn't keep up with the role-play, but I missed y'all too much to stay away entirely...
DIDI!!! you'll always be did to me.... *grin*
oh, yeah, grey, if you still can't find it, email me and i'll tell you... you found corva, right?
Ooops. Didn't mean to send that yet. Just got finished with Carol's Vday surprise. Well, a series of them, actually, connected by a long series of colored ribbons and hidden carefully around the house. 'Carefully,' because we have 3 cats who REALLY want to know where all the neat ribbons go, and what I was doing dangling them all over if I wasn't planning to Play. Mostly storebought surprises this year (last year was handmade valentines day stuff), but cute... Carol had the good grace to be working from 11 pm to 7 am tonight, so the timing's perfect for when she gets off work. Looking forward to seeing her reaction to this one. <> Ah well. For the record, I still think it's a kind of stupid holiday. Mab's blessing, everyone.
--Cat
LOL. Evidently "big" is a recognized HTML tag, Cat. Your >BIG GRIN< had unforeseen effects. ^_~
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO ALL!!! Aladin on Ice was fun! Hope you are all having a good one!!!!!! Thank you for the Valentine's Sid and I hope you enjoy yours....
DIDI!!!!! (see, i used caps i was so excited....and we both know how much i hate that....) good. you're back. i'm finally getting myself onto here, and i know you have more time to play than i (is the guilt trip working? *grin*) and was valentine's just marvy? is that why you're too happy to be carabosse? (and, considering the silliness we've both seen in each other, i feel quite able to call you didi. :-) )
Um, oops? Glad I didn't do any irreparable damage.
Thanks for the valentine, Van! You, know, now that I think of it, Sid has probably never received a Valentine before... always a first time for anything.
I did finally find Sid, thanks Corva, Sid, Sticks. I've been to Danceland, several times, but didn't find the link to that little alley until just now. Just took some patience--and a li'l help from my friends *g*. The side kick and I got up yesterday morning, looked at each other gravely, and said, "Happy Valentine's Day." Then we laughed our heads off. Later, we went to see "The Replacement Killers." I recommend it. Good music, good pacing, well-made movie. And I sighed quite a few sighs over Chow Yun-Fat. He's a wonderful anti-hero.
--Ethereally, Grey
My Valentine's day, by Paper Angel
Such lovely auburn hair has he
The man of my current fancy
He slept still beside all last night
never touching me, though he might
He loves to kiss my cheek and hold my hand
Can there be another like him in the land?
Alas, yes, it seems there are more than many
that are half setter and partly Brittany
So... I nice angst-filled Valentine's to you all! ^_~ I hope everybody had a good time whether they have lovers, want them, or are happiest without them! Love you all!
I have a good man. :) For Valentine's Day, he got me an appearance in the lettercol of "Akiko", Godiva chocolates, chocolate body paint, "The Celestine Vision", and "Someplace To Be Flying". *And* he took me out to my second-favorite restaurant (my fave one was booked) and we went to see "The Wedding Singer", which we muchly enjoyed. Best V-day ever... *beam*
Angel! Yes please post the drawing! Sorry I've been AWOL, went to see _Kundun_ (like _I'd_ miss it...) it is indeed mr.Scorse's masterpiece.
Well, Chris and I planned on eating out at a nice restaurant, we ended up getting Burger King and sitting at home watching TV cause the restaurants were all booked... But he got me opera cremes, so I'm a happy person!!!
Hope everyone else had a nice day...
Blech! Valentines Day! Icky! All that sappy sentiment floating around, nothing but cheesy love songs on the radio. Except, of course, where any of those apply to Carol, who bought me a nice card and little white stuffed tiger. So all in all, my day was pretty good. --Cat
<3. Well, I was hoping that would look like a heart on its side, but it looks like a heart on its side with it's nose broken off. Happy belated Valentines, Y'all, from your benighted Valentine. Yeeesh, what a weekend!
I have two arms, but run without legs
I have a face but no beauty am I
Any may learn to master me
But My measure is master of all
Too tired to put it to rhyme and measure... sorry...
a clock?
Bingo, Sid, that's two for you!
Wow! I got another one! Oh, joy! :-) Perhaps I'm not so bad at riddles after all!
I do not like Earl Grey tea, I will not drink it, so says me. I will not drink it in my class, I will not drink it in a glass... *g* They were all out of Darjeeling when I went to get my tea today. I got Earl Grey instead. *hackcoughwheezesputter*
Chew on this: ^_^
Born Motherless and Fatherless,
Into this world without a sin
Made a load roar as I entered
And never spoke again.
wave?
My sympathies. I can't stand anything with chammomile in it. I think I'm allergic to it or something...I've never had Darjeeling, though I have tried Earl Grey and wasn't impressed...I am a Lipton plain tea(refrigerator or sun brewed) person myself, although I will admit to drooling over the Stash Tea Catalog when it comes to my house.
as for the riddle, the guess by the nameless person above sounds good to me. :)
That nameless one was me - was just rushing about to see frozen falls! I think I will have to send Teas to everyone(or at least bring them to the BTown party)! There are few things worse than bad tea and once one has been bad tea-ed it colors ones' veiw, often making peoples think they don't like teas at all. Grey sent me a truely grand ginger tea...wanting more am I, and running out - must be findig more or paying Grey finders and shippers type fees! One of the fine folks that started Stash teas years ago has gone on and made a new company by the name of Tazo; if you can lay mits on any of their teas, they are worth nabbing!
oh, yeah? I'll keep my eye out for a catalog or something...they're certainly wearing me down with the nice descriptions of their teas, though. Only problem there is every time I order something from them I end up ordering too much...
Wish I could get to the party. Closest I'm going to get to anything is a con up in Columbus this May.
No, wave isn't the answer, although it does fit... I'm very pleased that the tea I get on campus is Stash. Most impressive. ^_^ They did something right! imagine that! ;p
Well, it seems 'Didi' won out. And Ember got it right: I have been too happy lately for being Carabosse. I've got friends again and been invited to parties, I have my own prince, and I've lost most of my interest in cursing people. Mostly. And Grey, Chow Yun-Fat is a great HERO, nevermind anti-hero. :-) He's the bright light in his otherwise dark world (hand to forehead)... Oh, there I go goffick again. But anyway, I think he's keen. And my favorite tea of the moment: White Persian Melon. It comes loose in a large tin marked "Rare white tea enlivened with the nectar of succulent melon. Light, refreshing, and ever so exotic. A luxurious delicacy." I've found a magical place called the Teahouse Kuan-Yin...
Umm, yummy. my mouth is watering. sounds really good. Okay, okay! Now I think I have to buy something from Stash's new catalog, just because of this!! ;-) not that I'm complaining too loudly, of course.
Hmm...I wonder if Stash has a website...(I embrace my cybernerdy-ness!) I'll be right back.
--Grey
They most certainly do. http://www.stashtea.com , of course. You can ask to have a paper catalog sent to you, or you can order online. And they also have oodles of tea info. on their page as well. I'm now going back to revel in tea facts...BTW, Ms. Poshrat, I meant anti-hero in a good way. Anti-heroes are my favorite kind of heroes *grin*.
--ethereally, Grey
No! No, I won't go to their website. I won't order lots of tea. I won't... grin... too late... I've been caught by the tea leaf of happiness...I will buy tea I will buy tea...
My favorite tea is Oolong, which they often serve in Chinese restaraunts. It has the nicest, crispest aftertaste. They have it cold in big liter bottles down at the Japanese supermarket in Little Tokyo, but it costs five bucks a bottle. A bit steep for me at the moment. But when I get rich.... Tea for everyone!
Well, I ordered some. Wanted to try their Orange Pekoe, and I ordered some of their dessert teas. Passed up all the cool exotica teas for now. Their webpage was sllooww!
Gonna do the Marie Antionette thing, NRL and say, "Let them drink tea" when you're rich? :)
Hugging NRL for the wise choice of tea!
Actually, Claris, I have to stick up for Earl Grey but add: it is very easy to get nasty varieties. I stick to purely English companies for the Grey. I generally touch not the fruity teas, fruity teas seems wrong to me 'cept lemon.
I sent a message on the mailing list, but iy hasn't returned, ignore it if you get it as I'm going to reiterate it here. Van got 'Annachie Virus' and was in a wreck this morning. He's okay but incredibly upset over it. He's pretty sore, as well. I guess I just wanted to plug for sympathy since I'm beseiged just looking at him lying listlessly in the hovel here. Thanks and I'm scanning those pics as bribes.
um... whilst looking for my bribery material I noticed my large sketchbook to be missing. It must be in Van's art room (a mysterious place that I am currently barred entrance to). This is not all that uncommon, just means Trinlay's pic will get out as it was in a sketchbook not currently in demand. Y'know... occurs to me that nobody has ever seen the elf's art... If I could just sneak in I could show you his watercolors and such.
Poor Van! Methinks I might have to find you a sympathy card somewhere to cheer you up.
used to hate fruit teas as well, till this summer when i spent the 4th with a friend who used celestial seasonings rapberry or somesuch (grrr...just went to check the cupboard, and found naught there....and i am one of those who sometimes shops by picture....) and made an ice tea...i was polite, took a sip....and ended up being possessive of the whole pitcher.... *shrug* just in case one should like ot not hate fruit teas......
Angel! the drawing is fantastic...wish I was that adorable... I like several of the Celestial seasoning teas (Peppermint, Orange- Mango...etc) Republic of Tea has some nice ones too. (Kid's cuppa is nice) Earl Grey is available in variable quality, some of it is really horrid... and IMHO the good Earl Gray is best with milk or butter in it. but YMMV.
YMMV? Your mouth may vary? I'm about as tired as I've ever been. All those other times I said I was tired. Silly boy. I didn't know what I was talking about. Went to bed at 2:15 last night. Got up a 5:45 and didn't sleep well in between. Got up to train for a new job. Limo driver! Basically the same job I have now, only now rich people will stiff me. Start Friday. I'll let you know how it goes, and if I see anybody famous. Van. I had a rotten accident recently too. I know how these things shake you up. The idea of what could have happened is almost worse than what did, and what did is pretty bad! Let Angel hug you. She just sent me one via the ether and I highly recommend them. G'night, all.
TEA TALK!!!!! sent out cheerinesses for you Van...where can we see this new vision of Trin? Congrats on the um, step up?, NaRL; there is a real perhapsness that I might be giving another try at the NaRL sighting next week...now should go fall over - Bear wakings are an early thing round here; mine hibernates not but is somewhat overly gleefull somewhat too early in the AM for my late hours of late...ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz
Get better, Vandellyr! Glad you're all right!
I'm wide awoke, having crashed (read: collapsed) around 3:30 yesterday afternoon and slept until about 2:30 this morning. Now I'm just hoping I have the energy to go to work-- too much to do there to miss it. Anybody wanting to send healing energies my way is more than welcome-- though I think the best help would be if I could find time to rest. Argh!
Anyhoo, Mab's Blessings on everybody
--Cat
NRL, I remember a page in that book I sent you. Something about the poor guy tipping well and the rich man stiffing unless on a date... That the case? Have another hug. BTW, which travels faster? Ethereal hugs or kisses? Any comments Ethereal Grey?
ember, fruit teas are only to be tolerated if cold. I actually like Passion Fruit Peppermint from (of all companies) Republic of blech-- pardon, I mean Republic of Termite Dust... no...? Gah, you know. Their teas make better potpourie (sp?) than anything else.
Sid, if you ever give up the vampire trade, you could always be a Riddle Master. Claris, I'm still working on yours.
Ethereal Grey adjusts her spectacles, checks the tilt of her tall pointed hat, clears her throat, and makes a pronouncement: hugs and kisses travel equally fast once they're released into the ether, because the "waves" out there are eternal and constant, regardless of what rides on them. But you have to put things together in the same packet if you want them to arrive together. I find it most expeditious to virtualize a nice, warm, leisurely two-arm hug accompanied by an unhurried kiss (on the cheek, if you're squeamish) and then send the whole packet out at once. Which I am now doing, thrice...
Once for Van...
Once for Cat...
and Once for gNaRL...
And Cat and gNaRL, I bless you with sleep that is extraordinarily restful, however much you may get of it. There!
ethereally, grey
Hello Everyone!!! Thank you for all the wonderful get well notes...I am feeling sore but glad to be alive. The woman that I hit didn't yield to her green to make a left turn and turned right in front of me. I was going thru a green light and my lane had no one in it but me. The lane beside me was packed with morning rush hour traffic trying to get on the highway...So basically a van in the lane beside me stopped waiting for the road to clear so he could move forward. He left a space for others to turn onto the highway. I wasn't going that fast in the other lane but when she came thru I tried to stop and the road was damp so all I could do was slide into her. Come to find out she is UNINSURED and was driving a rental car. The police did not know she was uninsured because she kept saying she was in a rental. She called my house and told my significant other that she was uninsured. So now I have to let my insurance company take on the Rental company for damages since they let someone uninsured drive one of their cars....Meanwhile I have to pay for a rental car till something good happens....Sigh... That tea sounds better and better with each passing moment...
clue Claris? Van--worry not your lovely but achey head about the out come of this nasty running into and car twisting happening. My dear one, the Lurker, is a lawyer type, and he thinks that from what you have said about the incident the rental company should be forced to pick up all the damages(because it was their's and their renters mistakes)-these should include your doctoring, the car's doctoring, and the rental of an auto till yours is up and about again. He mentions that getting the moneys back often takes longer than if seems it ought to but...hang in there! The tea is on its way - but you will need to provide the water!
Min, how could I give up being a vampire? grin... I rather like being one anyway... Van, still sending happy thoughts your way, and I hope everything turns out well. My sister was in a wreck recently, one of the ladies I work with Friday, and it seems like they are going around. Here's to hoping no one else catch's Annachie Disease...
I'm awaiting on my tea I ordered... patiently, patiently...
paper angel: yes only cold for fruit teas. otherwise, too bland. but then, i find i need some strong flavour like mint-types or gingers to make mouth pay attention. van: give me the bad ladies residence and i will hunt her down if you like. cause if the rental company is going to take the fall, you don't need her alive, right? and i am too restless of late.....perhaps homicide would help settle me, neh? *snicker* yep. violent i am. sigh....the poor parents who raised me.....
Speaking of vampires. I had an idea today, and I wonder if it's been used anywhere. Just an image really, of a vampire who's place is filled with tacked up pictures of the sun, because he misses it so much and it's the only way he can see it anymore. Finally got some good sleep last night. Gonna need another night though. G'night all, and thanks for ether hugs and kisses. I return them doubly.
Whats up all? Hows it going? Thats my 2 cents, thank you!
Tadpole! You found the caps lock key! Yay!
Hey, NRL, see what a little sleep can do for the creative process? Good and neat idea! That doesn't sound familiar to me, but I haven't read *all* the vampire books out there, only most of them.
i REALLY like that idea!!!! might just have to do a pic! *grin*
WOW!!! found this great poem thing that says alot to me about me, around me, ohwowohwowWOW...please spend a moment and check it out...
http://stripe.colorado.edu/~standard/V6N1/POETRY/bray.html
Sticks.....Please, please, please link your page...I lost my whole filing cabinet and favorite places bookmarks the other day so have no links!!!
Happy B-Days all!! Love yas...big smoochies and whatnot...::evil grin:: Gotta jingle now...see ya soonest!!!
Scary-lovely. I like it and mourn the sadness of it.
Corva, that's an amazing poem you found. Has he published any more, do you think?
I just finished Freedom and Necessity by Emma Bull and Stephen Brust--anyone else read it?
Ah, Corva, that's beautiful. How did you find it? Serendipity?
Glad you slept last night, gNaRL. I wish on you another one...Poof!
Hey there, Kino! How long have you been around?
I saw Freedom and Necessity in the store, Min, but I held off on it. What's your opinion? Is it good? What's it like?
ethereally, grey
Min, I read Freedom and Nesessity about a month ago. What a slog! It had some great ideas, but I thought the telling the whole thing in letters really bogged it down and made it hard to follow. Events were talked about out of order and you had to refer back to older letters to figure out what was going on. Also I thought that although they went to great pains to have everybody talk in the idiom of the time their minds were all too modern. They felt like well read nineties college students pretending to be Victorians. In the end, it lived up to my expectations. I love Emma Bull and don't care much for Steven Brust, so I figured I'd get a book I sorta half liked, and that's what I got. Oh well. I'll just wait for Emma's next solo outing. Later, yous guys.
Well, I liked it, but you're right, it's slow going. The characters are very observant and very devious, and consequently I had to read every scene twice (or more) to figure out what was going on--every glance, every hand gesture has two or three meanings. There are also al lot of themes and plots going on, and my favorite, which is the existence of Faerie in this world, and by the end of the book it had been left by the way. NRL, have you ever read Bull's short story Silver and Gold in After the King (anthology of short stories in honor of Tolkien). Apparently, she's re-writing it as a novel--don't know when it will be out.
I'll check out your poem when I get home, Corva! I bought Freedom & Necessity, started it, but didn't get very far.. its not really high on my list of things to read right now... but I'll read it eventually... reading Wizard Fantastic, short stories now, there's some good ones there...
Okay, here's a hint, this one written by me:
Foretold am I by fire on high
My voice is borne through the air.
Thy babe and thy cat do hide to earth
My sister's tears fall there.
Well, thunder? That's my guess.
We have a winnah! ^_^
Another one? Wow. I'm on a roll now. Hit me again, riddlemasters! Maybe I've conquered my riddle-ineptness! (doubt it, though.)
Many myths and legends were spoken of my jaws
In most ancient times I was held in awe
Today few believe in my sorcery
Nor the illusions I cast about me
I eat the foolish, leaving none raw
Does Sid still fear my call?
The wind up... and the pitch!
Ack! forgot a line!
For I am more dead than she
And devour anything in my way blindly
fire?
Or time?
predawn...the nameless post was the corva-one...'morning again it seems...
or death itself...
Testing...
one two three?
four five six... :-P
21?
heading for to the LaLa land early tomorrow morning...hope to be able to check the board but not sure at all about the mailing list...i'll try and be the chat tonight, lastish, to say "latter" to anyone that is about. Good Travels Friends!
Nope, 47.
Hi everyone, yes tea talk! so Corva did you see my accidental mass mailing to the list of the drawing? (I'd LOVE to see the color version) Now I'm thinking of really doing something with a formerly vague project concept...anyone game? it's about PERCEPTION, I've already got a few self portraits, and a couple drawings of me by friends who I see face to face... Without using Angel's drawing as inspiration, could some of the rest of you draw me as you've imagined me... maybe when this is done I'll put them all together (with a photo or two) and make it into a book or something sharable. Though I also like the idea of a gallery wall covered with all different views of the same person.
Was trying to make it sound like a dragon, but the answer was fire. It was actually really easy. I'm doing a presentation on riddles in my Speech class, so does anybody have the URL Ellen Kushner left???
I emailed the pic to a friend... mentioning "One of my friends drew this" but not mentioning who it was supposed to be. Silly kiss up- he said "Wow looks just like you..." (he just got downsized AND his live in girlfriend left him so I don't know if his perception is what it usually is. ;) Cool music from Lorena McKinnet, _The Book of Secrets_ (the new one) I'm dancing around to "Marco Polo" and my daughter is intending to memorize "The Highwayman" (she'll ve 11 in April) and impressing her literature teacher with it. tk
Trin>> I'd love to try this "perception" thing. I can't guarantee when you'll get it, but I've already got an idea percolating...
ethereally, Grey
Angel, I write every URL down I see, but I can't find my notes anywhere... sigh, to be organized...although, I sure wouldn't have anything to complain about if I was organized. Gone would be my most enduring complaints and excuses... I think I'd miss them a bit...
Here's a short riddle I found:
You must keep it after giving it. ??
Its rather easy, too.
Sid
Your name? (Although, that'd be rather ironic, on the net names are fickle and mutable things...*g*)
Your word. Wow. A riddle even I could answer. Always been terrible at the verse riddles. Just finished my first weekend of limo driving. Much less stress than the cab, although I think it's going to be less money too. Oh well, jobs are like that, huh? Working hard on a bunch of new writing projects. No prose though. Not for a while. Every year for the past three years, my new years resolution has been to write a fantasy novel, but the damn screenplays eat time like fire eats paper. One of these days I'm going to have to go back home or up to Alaska or somewhere away from the "You've got to write this script NOW!!!! while the window of opportunity is open" LA vibe for two months or three and just knock it out. It's in my head. I just need the time!!! He says as he goes off and watches stupid tv for three hours. Hypocrite. G'night all!
You're right, NRL!! Told ya it was easy.
DUH. *giggle* Oh well, remind me to not guess at riddles when I'm sick...
Hey NRL, I've just made your life much easier! *giggle* http://www.maddogproductions.com/plotomatic.htm
Hey, Claris, I like that!! Nice site.
Yeah, name would have worked in a way, but I know I have many names, especially on the net too, who doesn't?
*LOL* So, NRL, all this time you've been telling us how hard you work to write these scripts, but with Claris' site we could all come up with something in five minutes...
--ethereally, grey
just met the NaRL one!!! very good people, a fine man!. Hopes to all that your chance to come and hang with him in June becomes a reality! Me=still stuck up on the Hill, with the Bear(who is being turned into old fruit by his well meaning grandrents), watching the crows and the hawks make light of each other, and trying to ignore all the unfeathered selfblinded ones that sqatugly on the beautiful land...feasting my fevered brain on Someplace to be Flying and resting my eyes on the end of the sunsetting over this strange winter green world of sourthern california...
Hi!!! Corva, I wanted to tell you THANK YOU for the TEA!!!!!!!!!!!! I am currently downing a cup. Slowly sipping....! Wonderful! I am sure that the tea will heal what the doctors could not. I am still stiff from the accident but that is better than last week! I just wish I could find out what is going on with my car!!!!! Waiting on the rental company's insurance! Well, I am off to bed! Goodnite to you all!! Sweet Dreams!
I'm noticing an inverse proportion between the amount of time I spend at work and the amount of writing I get done. It seems odd, since I still spend plenty of time at home, but I think work is eating up all my capacity to think. Or, the evil spirits of Lawton are draining my creativity for their own nefarious purposes. Not sure which. Was sick last week, but that's gone now-- thanks to all those who sent energy, warm thoughts, and ethereal hugs & kisses!
Mab's blessing on everyone, may you all stay healthy, strong, and lucky!
--Cat
argh! i am having a morning! sigh.....knew i should never have remembered the bb url to look at while working....the Man doesn't appreciate doing self stuff on govt time..... walking down drive, dressed for work (read: girl clothes, stupid girl shoes w/no traction) slipped on rain slick pavement. tore up a brand new pair of tights (and for poor ember, that is very much too expensive to just dismiss) and tore up the poor left knee underneath. and was then late to pick up carpool (lucky he loves me) blah blah blah.....been up 3-1/2 hours and each minute has been a little adventure. am reminding myself that laughing is better than other reactions.....and am being very 3-year-old happy like about the bright neon bandaids showing from under my black tights today :-P only ones in the apt and i am glad. cause now the suits can add another thing to their "reasons we know she's not like us" okay okay.....gotta return to the blah of grind.......hope all else having better time and miss corva, if you call me on thrus or fri and it is 1900-2200, i will be at rehearsals, so call either 1700-1845 or after 2200 or leave number with roommate that i can call ya at
gotta ya ember-hang in there through it! will be doing the checking out with the others in the party as to when i am freed to be doing what i need to get done; then i will be giving you a ringie! Glad to hear our Cat is well again; good vibes from good people go amazingly far don't they? Smiling that the tea made its travels to Van so swiftly and that their mission has been a sucess!!!
Won't be hearing much from me for a few days. School tonight, friday night, Sat. morning till 5Pm, same for Sunday. Cheated out of a weekend and must rehearse the damn demonstration which comes off on Sun. Work, study, sleep... >sigh<...
Love you guys! Corva, be well, crowmama and hope you gave NRL a hug for me. Ember! I usually have to buy a ton of band-aids for summer and spring for all the transitions from skateboarding to asphaly body-surfing! >grin< I found some awesome, water-tight, *clear* ones which are just the best, if a small (normal) size!
BTW, Corva, and anyone else who is/will be/might be out of town, you can still post to the ML from a different address than the one you subscribed with. You won't receive any list mail, but if you mention that you're not subscribed from that address, just posting, I'm sure no one would mind CC:ing any replies to you. ^_^
corva: good omen that this time you saw the NaRL one? maybe we will figure out a way? and i did survive my day. did something i never do. friend i carpool with called i the afternoon and said "take a late lunch with me and don't go back" and i thought about it. and wondered which i would rather remember having done when i am old and grey. and realized that work was eating me. and left. felt weird. a bit guilty....but am now over the bizarre cascade of funk that hit me from the moment i awoke until i left the office. weird events seem to be over. *bliss* angel: oooooclear and water-tight? just normal ol' bandaids? i go through phases. the "i'll just be a man and ignore it" phase where i don't use any bandaid and just bleed until i scab. the "fine but i don't want to have to tell everyone what happened *this time*" phase, where the clear would be nice. and the infamous "look! a tiny cut! an excuse to put some eye-catching obnoxious bandaid on and flaunt my non-corporate-ness!" phase. of course, the latter phase always seems to coincide with important meetings....*snicker* which i guess is no worse than the friday i had a surprise meeting but took advantage of "casual day" to dig out my one gaudy tyedye t-shirt (annachie, does that scare ya?) that doesn't match all the black they associate with me....i love peoples faces when they're in shock. *grin* gotta go feed and rehearse. so i'll shut up for the night. hope all have lovely evenings!
Gee, busy board tonight...
Angel, hang in there and crash when you are not swallowed anymore!Corva! Happy am I to hear from you... hope Lalaland is treating you well... is it raining? Cat, know what you mean, work sure doesn't foster creativity... they wouldn't let me put little skulls and crossbones on the magazine labels today... or happy faces, either. *pout* Thought I'd liven it up and everyone thinks I'm joking... *grin*
Ember, I hate it when that happens... but nice neon bandaids sure do liven things up...
Ah well, back to work... gotta write a bit before I crash.
Oh, yeah, Ember, what are you rehearsing?
Ember>> I've either seen you in it, or seen a picture of you in it. In either case, yes. It does scare me...
Well, last few jobs I've had, cut fingers seem to be the occupational hazard du 'jour =) So here I am with several boxes of bandaids between home and my desk drawer. .. including Sanrio ones with Picke Bicke or Batdz Maru & co on them, got some clear ones (all that shows is the cotton pad.. and does ANYONE on the planet match that "skin tone"? ), and neon ones... and Disney ones. "you can always spot the parents, cartoon bandaids were the only ones in the house, eh?" (My kid is almost 11, I get the sanrio ones for me, and the disney ones are left overs from when she thought they were cool...)
well, before the day was over, i had been stupid and acquired yet another bandaid.....*grin* but it just meant yet another colour i could slap on the ol' pasty skin. sid:my attempts to liven things up have caused nothing but reprimands. but, as the youngest in the office (govt offices usually are comprised of a bunch of people in their late 40's or older and one secretary who is younger and gets treated stupid, no matter how brillint she is), their are a handful who've decided that i'm adorable (ick) so it's not too bad. and in order to get back at fate for destroying my new tights, i wore them to rehearsal, with a skirt. my thought being "these are new tights and i am darn well going to wear them!" plus, they showed my bandaids off perfectly. and am rehearsing a play for a festival thing up here. only tech this time. but i figure it's gotta be done, and gets my face more known for when i absolutely must have the spotlight. (dang it, i can't make this thing make paragraphs,.....am i just too tired of late? grrrr) anyhow, trinlay: cool bandaids are for kids and people who still have a chance in life :-P that's what i always tell them. (though i am currently in love with bandaids that have glow in the dark stars or casper or with sparkly silver ones......) and, mr. annachie: i don't think there's a picture of me in my nice alarming tyedye. so you must have seen it first hand. *grin* yep. i'm scary. (and which scares you more: the shirt or the fact that i have nail polish to match my neon bandaids?) gonna run off and get ready for work. (little extra time cause carpool friend is on a trip) hope all have a smashing day. someone *pleas* remind me how to make this let me have paragraphs! i ramble too much to do without!
Ember, the easiest way is to use the BR tag; one will just make a line break, two BR BR will make a space between paras. Of course ya gotta put the pointy brackets around 'em.
Hi, all. As I posted to the list, I have comps next Friday, so won't be sending out much 'til after. I am fried. However, I'll still check the board, so commiserations, fellow horror stories, and just plain good thoughts would be welcome (blatant plug for support).
--Sludgily, Grey
okay. i kinda thought this was an html thing.....which i haven't used in 3 years or so, since i was informed "in order to pass this class, you must put up a webpage"
okay, that was just a little test to see if i still have a brain in my head......i have found that, since i graduated, my brain has ceased to function. have to get back into school so that i can get myself out of this intellectual quagmire.....
should run back to work.....bleh......
--slave of the Man, but still the Ice Queen
ember
okay! it worked! woohoo! i can say i accomplished *something* today.
*snicker*
pretty sad when this is my big accomplishment....
back to the joy.... :-P
Hey, Ember! You did it! Congrats!! (Watch your mailbox, girl) *evil grin* (gee, been doing too much of that evil grinning lately...)
Grey, hang in there, I'm thinking about you... sorry don't have any stories to share about them.
Grey! I believe in you!
Van & Angel in unison: YOU GO, GIRL!!!
AAARRGGHHH! Fluxs in the ether! My phone was out for a few days because of the weather and I couldn't come here. Didn't realize how much a part of my day it is to chat with you all until I couldn't do it. Maddening. Yes, I met Corva... and Bear, and had a lovely time. She demanded that I take her to a Chinese restaraunt since Techie had made much of the one I took him too. Hope I didn't dissappoint, Crow Mama. We talked of this and that, saw wonderful sunsets and found we had mutual LA friends. She took me to the place she's staying on the hill. Yi! Big. Rich. Scary. Back to Soho, girl, before it rubs off! The new job is feeling more comfortable now and I'm finding I can do a little writing here and there in the car between runs, so it might not be so bad. Well, off to bedfordshire. G'night, all.
sid: saw my mailbox. *evil grin of my own* but won't be able to touch it till late tonight or tomorrow. then we'll see who's grinning.
grey: finals and such are ick, but i would tarde you places without hesitation. sick but true, i miss that stuff now and am trying to go back to it. *grin* distance makes the heart grow fonder. or something.
angel: saw your note on list. will get with you as soon as i can spend time on my mail. did you want me to send you the ember description again? or should i just jumpt form shadows?
corva: hey lady! if you're in town, gimme a call. i have rehearsals from 6-10 this eve, but will try to stay off email for a bit when i get home so's i can let you have a chance.
a fine glitter-filled ick-free sorta day to all!
ember, official govt icicle
*snicker*
hmmm...i wonder if it's totally obvious that i want ot be anywhere but here right now.....i knew it was a bad idea for me to realize i could post to the board from work......too tired and radio is putting me in a funk "i've had a hole in my heart for so long, i've learned to fake it and just smile along"....and darn it i just really need to sleep!
ember goes muttering and grudgingly back to work......
this useless post courtesy of the govt. they drove me to this.....
::wavies to all and throws lots of colorful beads, printed underwear, stuffed animals, plastic souvenir cups, trinkets doubloons and miscellaneous baubles:: HAPPY MARDI GRAS EVERYONE!!!! Alright, Alright so I'm four days late...so sue me I had to recover.....::evil grin:: And Yes it took me four whole days to recover from the mass of pressing flesh and drunken debauchery that is Mardi Gras....on a day in a town where nudity is** a costume!!!! It was Great!!! I had a fantastic time, not much different from Bordertown on a busy Saturday night though. Brought along some of the other Horn Dancers and we rocked the Quarter!!! Well I hope all are well and please let me know if ya want any of these plastic trinkets cuz Julie won't let me store them at her house, she says the reason Louisiana is sinking to the Gulf is because of all the dead Mardi Gras beads hangin' out in everybody's attic. Carryin' them all back home will jus' be too much of a chore an' Toby will have fit if I bring "anymore worlder trash" back to the den...::giggles:: he is gettin' to be such a stodgy ol' goat!!! Ya didn't hear me say that though...::giggles tossing back the elflocks with a loud jingling:: Be safe an' well one an' all Oh wait....I have been workin' on a book...okay maybe a story, we have to see how much I can milk this for. How about a CDU (chemical dependency unit) for otherworldly creatures? Can you just imagine the withdrawal symptoms and subsequent psychological treatment for a Vampire or Werewolf? ::laughs elflocks jingling like mad:: Gotta jet peoples....big smoochies and hugs from me to you!!!! Love ya all!!!!
Ooooooops!!!! fix it!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry!!!!!! ::looks down pouting::
...
testing...
one more time...
testing...
Strike two.
jingle you have plastic beads?!?!?! bad bad ember weakness.....pretties....ex-roommate sold plastic mardi gras beads for an aids foundation here.....she said she stood on the corner, like a little gypsy girl.......jealous am i...........
jealous and still stuck at work....bleh.
Exerpt from Zod Wallop (by William Browning Spencer)
Harry turned to his agent. "See that?" he said.
She looked out the window.
"Raymond is telling his friends that the fireflies are the Ember People," Harry said. Harry felt very tired.
Helen put her hand on Harry's shoulder and said, "Every time a boy and girl exchange their first breathless kiss, an Ember child comes into being in a burst of light."
"Yep," Harry said. "The Ember People. It is in their interest , as a race, to encourage human love. A whole tribe of cupids. In the origional story, their fate was just a little different. An Ember child would burst into flame when a human boy and girl kissed for the first time. Human passion murdered the Ember folk. Quite a different perspective, wouldn't you say?"
Just a little insight to the Ember. *grin*
ooooooo.....annachie......i like! thank you! i like me ever so much more when something lovely like that is around. *grin* and i get to go home soon!
ember, who is too blissed by words sometimes
Grey, you may consider yourself well thought of!
Jingle, make it stop!!!!!!!! I feel like I'm shouting involuntarily...
Finally got my constitution back up to speed, so more wiritings will hopefully follow.
Mab's blessings, everybody...
Well, its back to normal on my end... whatever normal is...
lemme give it a try.... *grin*
copy/pasting 10 times ALWAYS works!! *LOL*
BEADS!! Jingle if you don't have any room I don't think that Angel and I would pass up on the offer! I hope everyone is doing well! Got to go and study my Japanese!
Ah! Beads! Reminds me I have a craft show in July! What am I still doing on the computer? (mental note: get to work, get to work...)
bandaids for my soul:
Almost. ^_~ Let's make that http://www.storypeople.com
Siddikins? What will you be selling at this craft show? (You can't just make oblique comments like that and wander off, you know...;) )
Siddikins?? *grin*
I wandered, alright. Didn't get anything done, but I wandered. :-P
Umm, jewelry, cloth dolls(hand sewn), Super Sculpey stuff(flutes, beads, jewelry, cute little animals.)anything I can do with beads, hopefully some sculpey figurines or dolls...I want to do t-shirts, but I don't know if I'm going to be able to...Its the 200th anniversary of my town, and there's a weeklong celebration, so we'll be set up for an entire week. Then there's the normal July craft show at the end of that week, so we'll be set up in two places on that Friday. Fun. Hopefully I'll have some sort of a notebook computer by then so I can write!
i GOTTA stop using editors to make pages! my coding SUCKS these days!
riddle:
I channel the invisible flash
the visible flash may undo me
Not a clue; but then, I stumbled over "what turns everythong around but never moves itself?" just recently. Felt really stupid when I figured it out, too.
my mum just called me at work. yesterday was my dad's birthday AND now the birthday of my second nephew!!! i am soooooo excited about him being born! so i thought i'd just throw that on the board. share my good news. he *is* having some blood problems, so if folks could send the elfling their good thoughts or prayers, that would be absolutely lovely (start his life with as much magic as possible.....)
anyhow, hope all have peachy days......gotta see if i can make it through the day without whining to the board *grin*
aunty em
*snicker*
a television?
So Ember, did your brother name this one after me?
dear mr. annachie: while it was his dearest wish, as he loves your name and wants nothing more than to have *someone* with that name in the family, he settled on naming the darling after the grandpas. guess it's up to me to keep tht name in the family, eh :-P
(andrew shane, in case you wanted to know, dear friend. not a bad choice.....)
ember
feisty and off work!!! woohoo!
Hey, emberella(sorry, couldn't resist), congrats on the new family member!
Been working on a new page... check it out, its okay, but not anything horribly special...Sid and Petersons...
sid, who isn't doing too badly with this html stuff.
oh yeah, the guestbook doesn't work. haven't gone so far as to figure that out yet.
guestbook works now. please comment!
my my siderella *snicker* we make it look like you and i have nothing better to do than run around the list and the board....wanna come over to my apartment and play with my legos?
yep. bored at work
did you know that clinton declared 1998 the year of the ocean? picked that up thumbing through a federal register. nice little proclomation about how important oceans are.....thought it was a nice gesture.......
someone wanna be nice and give me the url for sticky's place? have lost it......
and it will give me something to do besides bugging the rest of you......
anyone else here heard robby robertson (i think that's his name). his recent album is something like "the secret underworld of redboy".......and i'm wondering if his stuff all sounds like this "unbound" song i keep hearing.......
Sure, I'll come over. :-) Where are you? I'm in Ohio, so I think it'll be quite a drive... What?!? You get bored at work also? I'm almost always bored at work. sigh. I have never heard of Robby Robertson, sorry.
back to work...
The thing I hate about shared housing is that if my roommates want to have a drunken bacchanal and invite my ex-fiance and his wench to the party, my options are to sit here and suffer it, or be kicked out of my house for the duration of the party. I just thought I'd mope at people who might offer me sympathy. Here, all I get is lectures on why I ought to play nice with hypocritical and treacherous heartbreakers. :-(
(Testing that line-break thing) Other than that, my life is happily quiet. And the Teahouse Kuan Yin has this amazing tea called Wu-Wei that is very nice. Just the thing with which to drown my sorrows.
poor did... *sending luv yer way*
'Play nice?' Piffle! Though, I do think living well is the best revenge. IMHO, anyone who qualifies as a hypocritical and treacherous heartbreaker isn't worth the time spent radiating malice at them. Of course, there *are* times when that's easier said than done...
Trying the line-break thing myself... Nephews! woohoo! Congratulations!
Annachie, I've been meaning to ask you this for ages: where *does* yer name come from?
I've been musing about doing a wee book project (Microscopic fine art press =) and I'd come across an old email from a friend with a gob of quotes from Sakya Pandita Panghspa, a Tibetan Lama who almost single handedly conquered the Mongols via befriending Kubalai Khan. "If you wish to harm an enemy, possess yourself of virtue, for it will burn in your enemy's thoughts (and increase your merit.)" Or even "Gentleness conquers the gentle, Gentleness conquers the fierce gentleness accomplishes everything gentleness is sharpness the wise ones say." now I gotta get dressed and go to work. tk
didi, you talking about racine? the person has never been polite to me or my cohorts. in fact, you and ember seem to be the only people associated with seattle that encourage any warm feelings for that part of the world. you deserve much better treatment.
(groggily pulling out the dusty soap box)
it is my opinion (open to debate...) that associates who invite 'uncomfortable feelings' people over and expect one to be 'okay' with it are simply associates and not friends. especially if they throw a party without consideration of how you feel about a party in the first place. didi, i like you, and i'm going to hen at you on this. you don't need friends like that. nobody does.
oh, the answer to the riddle: power lines
my dearest didi: though you have heard my thoughts before, here i go again. your roommates are pigs. and i once again offer to beat them into tiny bits of flesh and bone for you. you pay rent. you live there. put on the attitude. remind them that they don't rent the whole house and can stay in their part. cause as much as that evil ex (yes, angel, the one you think it is) has been like a brother sometimes, your roommates have no right to have people over that you have let them know you are very uncomfortable with. in fact, a roommate of mine doing that would be grounds for murderous acts. seriously, those two losers are not real friends (not half the cool friend *i* am!) and you need to hurry and live where they are not!
hey angel, wanna help me mount a war party?
DiDi-nastynasty roommatey types got cars that need er, um, additions to their paint jobs? The flock sides up next to you and nods with understanding. Drink your tea lady and many friendly cups will raised to you. Such home sharing is never an easy; that is most likely why so many familes get so very sick of each other and then years later, recall they care about each other...years and miles later usually... Sid-page is cool but beyound my knowlege is the how of all that. Angel-bonk head with open hand, i do. Congrats to Embershine! Having the new life about to help celebrate the spring! It really was spring down there. Your city gave me a pleasent rainings coolish welcome. The crows looked tiny and delicate after all the big ole raven types up here. Hope to hear from you more and catch you when next i get through your neck of the northwestwoods. How many of us are mulling over the travels to the Rave? Sticks-thank you for the Story People, gave me smiles...and er, picture?...maybeyes? thankthankthankYOU!
oh, stuff about local corvids...the odd golden brown raven, that this one was ranting on about months ago, finally lost its camera shyness and made it into the paper. Not my photos but a comely shot none the less. Was good to see him there anyhow; there were a few folks that thought I had let my imagination fly away with me until they saw him for themselves! And sadly....Angel, the power lines took one out too. I so do wish They would think about the wing span of the local birds when they put those things in the flight paths! was a nasty scene I'm afraid and nothing to be done for the feathered one...Tea water tea for the way of things sometimes
Cat>> My name was taken from a old Celtic song called Annachie Gordon. Loreena McKennitt did a wonderful job of redoing the song if you are interested. Ember's brother and I share the same name IRL, so I'm waiting for him to name a son 'after me'.
I've got a new e-mail address. Both my brothers wanted e-mail addresses, and the best way to accomidate the situation was to aquire an Identity Pack at netcom. I now have seven e-mail addresses, 30mb of disk space, and my own domain name, all for less than what I was paying for the standard service (my brothers also got a price break too). I still have my other addy and it will forward any messages, but I'll be using this one from now on.
not allowed to do this at the school library, which is why I am thrilled to. ember, they must be stopped. Didi, I hope things look up. Better hop off before I get caught again.
Angel, you rule breaker, you! *grin* wow, everybody jumps on when I'm not here!! Corva! Welcome back(I presume you are back?) Didi, sympathies. Annachie, that's one of my favorite songs, btw. That and umm, the other one on that CD, what's it called? my mind is blank. The one about the guy dying and the girl seeing him... on the moors... darn it, blank mind still.
Didi!!!!! ::huggles:: Sorry love they sound like rats an' ya know what rats are for don't ya?
::grins that fangy grin her feline prowess causing her to hunker down and get ready for the pounce::
Sorry 'bout the shoutin' fonts guys....::giggles::
And please, Anyone....and I do mean anyone, who really wants a load of inexpensive (read cheap) plastic doodads and beads from Mardi Gras just let me know via email an' I will happily (read joyfully ecstatic) send them your way.
I haven't had a day since then when I haven't nearly tripped and killed myself on a pair of them cuz the kidling has this fascination for taking them ALL out of the bags and strewing them across the floor, he says: "but mom they pretty an' make awesome pictures with the rug."
::giggles:: my little Van Gogh....jus' hope he keeps both his ears.
Okies...love ya one an' all...be safe an' well an' may Faeries light ye Path....gotta jingle!!!!
::skips off jingling loudly then trips over a painted coconut and several strands of plastic death::
wow bummer...(party thing with ex...) I think I missed a big chunk of the story. I thought it was like a local friend of mine's house where there are certain ANNUAL parties, (people who live there know the schedual and all participate, if they want to...) and the ex simply presumed he was invited. If it was "let's have a party" and a house member protested... that's not good to have the party then, and worse to invite someone that she's decided not to associate with. In my limited experience though (did I post the customer from hell bit on the mailing list last night?) it does no good to run away from annoying/"feel bad" people when thrown into social situations. Every time I've done that things turn around to that person's favor. (ie: in one case of my own, I was read the "riot act" for being hostile to a "guest" when I'd merely desired to make myself scarce... ) I was really really careful yesterday to let my anger dissapate so I could show the customer-from-hell who verbally assaulted me last week, who I really am. (a human being! that's what I am... handle with care...) I didn't have the option of taking that part of the day off, or dissapearing so I wouldn't have to see her. (and I've gotten a sense that there is something much more vital in my prayers for her mental health. )
sid: finally saw where you said you are from ohio. had a co-conspirator there......*he* managed to come play legos with me.....so i think you just need to get your priorities straight......*snicker*
annachie: while this may be the only baby *they* can have, one of the rest of us is bound to name a baby after you, as we are quite fond of the name.....and i will make note of new email address....though you never respond *sigh* i am sooooo forsaken *gothic hand to forehead swoon*
angel: yes, covert is a rush. we need to create our own company so we needn't be covert....and i think you should come here and help me stop the party....i have a feeling we would be a scary combination......*grin*
oh and sid, of course we'r ehere when *you* aren't....just think about it....*smug grin* (you know you love me!!!) and i know the loreena song you mean.....can't remember the title either......but most her stuff is just great and sad and ethereal......
jingle: expect mail. i lovelovelove baubles and pretties.....like the crow from nimh....
time for ember to slink back into the shadows of the Man........just let me know when you want murders committed didi!
Sid>> Do you mean 'Standing Stones' on the Parallel Dreams album?
Wow! Trying to catch up on email and everything else. All things wild at work-- wish I could get on here from there, but it's probably a good thing that I can't. Too much to do there, too little time to do it, but it "has to be done." Sheesh. Personally, I'm not sure I see the economic advantage in having a bunch of stressed out, strung out, burned out employees-- but at least their basic unwillingness to pay overtime means I do get to have days off, still.
Also, I don't seem to be on the mailing list anymore... Claris (or somebody) can you check on that? I haven't gotten b-town email in weeks, and I'm going into withdrawal. You know, fingers shaking, muscle tics, wild & wide-eyed stare... Oh, wait, that's normal. Anyhow, someone *please* tell me how to get back onto the list!
Thanks, & Mab's Blessings on everyone,
--Cat
i think i've changed my mind. i don't want to be a librarian anymore. i'll just skip comps tomorrow and stay in bed. No, I have a better idea. I'll come in and take comps and say exactly what I think. I'll be brilliantly mad! Yes! (Grey screams dramatically and staggers off, chanting, "NISO, ANSI, MARC, FOIA. NISO, ANSI, MARC, FOIA...")
er, grey, nice grey good grey(said in soothing tones)um, what can we do to make it better? Sounds to this one like lotsa craziness goin' round and round. Has not made it up here yet, maybe alaska is out of range? Hang in there all! Spring is springing down there, no? Cat-it has been very quiet for all the list, needing a jump start perhaps. Ember-legos?!? and wooden blocks too? Wheeeee!!!!! Annachie, perhaps you ought warn the single gals what your song tells of...The Bear is learing about guessing games right now, think a youngish version of Twenty Questions, and very gleeful. Back to him now - better things to come for all, am i wishing!
Yes, Annachie, that's it. Thanks! Grey, lots of luck. Really. Hope everything goes well. Ember, what kind of legos do you have? I have some of the castle series... Cat, hope you get back on! Trinlay, I know what you mean about those customers... We get them all the time. But ours never come back and apologize.
well, she still didn't exactly applogize, but she DID bring munchies... =) and was actually NICE to the person who got her on the phone today. (gasp! maybe this prayer stuff DOES work.) ;) better be careful, someone might decide I'm a witch...even though I'm heavier than a duck.
I have fifteen minutes so I will try to pack a ton of info in as I can. Trin, while it is good to be civil, sometimes it is not appropriate. My example being: last Sat. when I really should have been studying, I went to a LARP (live-action role-playing). At this LARP was somebody I knew to be a convicted child molester. Nobody else knew this. I could not be nice, I could not allow myself to create a scene, either. He chased me down as he knew me and was all happy-smiles. I could not be nice and I was so angry I was near tears because I could not beat him up on the spot. I *knew* I couldn't do anything. I wanted to leave, then I saw there were two kids there. So, I had to just look him in the eyes and say "Stay away from me." Then I stayed with the kids. The point is: he was being 'nice' and if I was nice back it would have been a bad situation. Some dead-beats (child molesters or alcoholics or liars) will be nice to get in your space, the only way to defeat that is to tell them to get away or avoid them.
(sliding the soap box out for anybody else's use)
I hope to be able to handle stuff on the mailing list soon, I just haven't had time. Also, Claris? Could you pleeeez send me the specifics on subscribing so I can get NRL hooked up, he has little info and I thought I might be able to do it for him by sending him a form and just having him delete a symbol here and there before he sends it out again. I have more to talk about but I'm a minute past time. Haere ra.
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