Speaking of movies: Synchro and I watched Infinity War last night.
Excellent.
That is all.
I saw it on Tuesday. I loved it.
Use spoiler tags please. :-)
When you go into detail I mean.
Hmmm... may be a Pacific thing. We use "starkers" all the time.I've never heard the term "starkers" in and of itself. "Stark naked", yes. "Stark raving mad", sure. Of course I've heard that one, and probably more often than statistical probability would indicate. I'm not entirely sure why. But "starkers", while it makes sense, is not one I've ran across until now.
It is a common phrase or saying down our way.
But not for the reasons you might imagine.
Really, there are some weird gaps in my literary background as far as most English teachers go. I'd never read Lord of the Flies, Huckleberry Finn or The Great Gatsby until I had to teach them. My high school teachers made some odd choices in that regard.
I haven't read them either. I think my roommates left The Great Gatsby, though...
Yep, it's here, though it could also be one of my parents book that survived The Great Mold Purge of 2015.
I admit to being continually surprised at how many kids seem to enjoy Gatsby.
Everyone is a terrible person. Everyone. Everyone.
Well, you answered yourself "why".
I almost took someone out in Fortnite.
I really, really wonder at just why so much of the literary canon is so danged depressing. You can pretty much state off the bat that if you read it in English class, someone's gonna be dead. It's like Disney movies and parents, really.
Because literature is by definition depressing. If it's fun to read then it's 'why are you wasting your time on that drivel'. At least that's what I've gathered over the years. ;)
Counterpoint - Shakespearean comedies and Oscar Wilde are considered literature.
Now I took someone out! Crawling all pathetically and everything.
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I have spent so much time knitting while supervising the kidlet's homework over the last couple of weeks that I am almost done with the shawl I started less than two weeks ago. Normally a project like that takes at least a couple months. Well, at least I get something out of it. It's not like I really do anything to help with the homework. I literally just sit in the same room as him and tell him to get back on task every time he gets distracted. We do this for hours because he does homework at the speed of a sloth on ambien. But I think we finally got him caught up in all his classes....I hope. Dreading what I'll find in power school later, tbh.
Edit: I'm not kidding about the sloth thing. I swear every afternoon is like being caught in the DMV scene in Zootopia ;P
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Counterpoint - Shakespearean comedies and Oscar Wilde are considered literature.
But they never actually teach the comedies!
Or Oscar Wilde for that matter........so yeah, all my English classes seem to have been designed to stamp out any happiness, hope, or love of reading that the students might have foolishly brought with them to start with....
Hmm. I need to go to the store and get ingredients for dinner. But this means I need to decide what I want to make for dinner. Decisions, decisions
Counterpoint - Shakespearean comedies and Oscar Wilde are considered literature.But they never actually teach the comedies!
Or Oscar Wilde for that matter........so yeah, all my English classes seem to have been designed to stamp out any happiness, hope, or love of reading that the students might have foolishly brought with them to start with....
Huh! We read Wilde my senior year (The Importance of Being Earnest).
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I was also one that never got to ever have anything but the tragedies in my high school years.
But by then it was too late, I had already learned that as long as I read outside the list of books required by the school in junior high and high school, books were and are a wonderland of fantastical stories the likes of which with real life cannot truly compete.
It's only when I had to put down the actual fun books and read the stuff that was actually being graded that it was drudgery.
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With a few exceptions. I loved and read the heck out of To Kill a Mockingbird, I Am the Cheese, and My Side of the Mountain, which were all required at one point or another as tested reading in high school.
I was home schooled, so other than To Kill A Mockingbird, The Warren Commission, and The Hobbit, I had free reign.
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Well, we're (mostly) packed, the car is (mostly) loaded, and we're just waiting for the kids to get out of school and Shiro to get his butt up here and we're off! (Carpools around here are 2 people per vehicle, so for the 5 of us since we need to cars anyway, it's quite literally faster for Shiro to come north 35 miles out of his way just to get a passenger so he can use the carpool lane going east to I-5. Sad.)
EDIT: Oh, for what you ask? Bats in the Sun, of course!
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...might be the only things I was assigned to read in high school that didn't involve someone dying or coping with death. The Odyssey, I guess, if you don't count unnamed crew getting killed by sea monsters...
...?
The mowing down of the suitors, in a hail of bow-fire, sword slashes and spear stabbings?
The hanging of twelve of the household slaves/maids, because they either sided with the suitors or slept with them?
The mutilation (and death? can't remember) of the goat-herder (something something, can't remember his name either)
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Still great book! lots of heroics and a propper fully fledged main character!
In case anyone is missing me work firewalled paizo finally so I'll be sparse at best.
Grumble, grumble...stupid controlling workplace! :(
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I was a copious drinker in my early to mid 20s until I figured out that prescribed medication is much better at alleviating/suppressing my anxiety disorder. Giving yourself a combination near migraine and near panic attack because you're worried about bizarre, highly improbable contraindications from taking your newly-prescribed anti-anxiety medication is apparently a huge DUH! symptom.I know the feeling, tangentially. When I had my panic attack and ended up overnight in the hospital due to mistaking it for a heart attack, something I'd been dreading (mostly pointlessly, I could do for better health overall admittedly) for years, I got prescribed an anti-anxiety medication that, combined with melatonin supplements, has made my sleep schedule so so so much more stable.
The funny thing is once the adrenaline is burnt off and then the shakes stop, is if I stop moving, I'll nod off like I've been hit by a tranquilizer dart.
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If spiders produced light like fireflies, nights would be 10x more beautiful and 1,000,000x more terrifying.
Go outside with a good flashlight, holding it next to your head so the beam is projecting from right at your eye level. You should spot teeny green lights all around you in the grass and shrubbery. Every one of those spots of light is a set of 6 to 8 eyes aimed back at you.
Watching.
Waiting.
Edit: Now with GIF
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If spiders produced light like fireflies, nights would be 10x more beautiful and 1,000,000x more terrifying.Go outside with a good flashlight, holding it next to your head so the beam is projecting from right at your eye level. You should spot teeny green lights all around you in the grass and shrubbery. Every one of those spots of light is a set of 6 to 8 eyes aimed back at you.
Watching.
Waiting.
<wave>
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Dang it, my goatee has officially become a beard.
If you're looking to part with it, there's a decent market for beard sproutlings.
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I remember that thread. It started out a lot of fun, and then it got really hostile.
In case anyone is missing me work firewalled paizo finally so I'll be sparse at best.
Can you get here via google? Worked for me for RPGnet, then after the first time I just have to start typing into the address bar and click the address for one of the specific forums.
(Don't know why; I guess my company literally just firewalled the front page?)
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The Great Gatsby reads like a train wrack in a slow motion...
Each page feels like "will it all crash now? what about now? maybe in five pages then?"
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"Do you know why I run so fast in my puma shoes? Because the puma symbol is really a cheetah!" - Tiny T-Rex on why he's so fast in his new shoes.
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In case anyone is missing me work firewalled paizo finally so I'll be sparse at best.Can you get here via google? Worked for me for RPGnet, then after the first time I just have to start typing into the address bar and click the address for one of the specific forums.
(Don't know why; I guess my company literally just firewalled the front page?)
Huh I'll try that tonight. I'm also considering starting to bring my laptop to work. Probably after I start doing editing to my book.
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I had a bad week at work. It is may 4th. So i drank 4 beers and watched rogue one.
I am not drunk. I am going to game and watch aggretsuko and have a sapporo black while I do so.
Definitely a wrack. It also becomes much better when the manure hits the fan. I was cringing reading about the toxic relations between unsympathetic characters...
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Meh. June's Humble Monthly main unlock is Destiny 2 which I am not particularly interested in - online (yuck), probably requiring more powerful computer than my laptop... I will probably pause for Humble Monthly for June... Only to discover afterwards the unrevealed games were something I'd like to get in the first place.
I should write something to get enough money on my PayPal for Battletech...
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I had a bad week at work. It is may 4th. So i drank 4 beers and watched rogue one.
I am not drunk. I am going to game and watch aggretsuko and have a sapporo black while I do so.
Meh I know the feeling...
Had a rough week too, so been slurping Cognac most of the evening while preparing next weeks game, perusing parody hentai (found some great Wizard of Oz and Dark souls stuff) and gaming a bit on the stationary...So yea, everything is a bit buzzy right now ^^
Should be hitting the sack now, though I'm not really that tired...Stupid being a night-personality instead of a day.
Might do a bit of reading, then try to get a few hours of sleep.
I should write something to get enough money on my PayPal for Battletech...
Been wondering if I should pick it up too...
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I had a relaxed week at work but a not so good one at home. My cable TV supplier offered to give me another fiber optic line at home for free for 2 years if I continue with cable TV(which I will since I want to watch Animal Planet) and my mom has been complaining that since the current Fibre optic internet is under my brother's name what's going to happen if it breaks down, etc.
Well if someone's giving me a new internet line, which he claims that can coexist with my current one, for free, who am I to say no to backup internet lines in case our current one fails.
Then my mom starts asking me, why did you have to accept their internet line, what happens if it clashes with our existing one...
Look, you complain there's a problem then when I come up with a solution, you complain some more. What am I supposed to do about that?
Our old dog has stopped eating, stopped barking, and stopped taking his medicine. ;_; I think we're coming up on the end.
The Great Gatsby reads like a train wrack in a slow motion...
Each page feels like "will it all crash now? what about now? maybe in five pages then?"
All I remember about TGG is thinking Thank GOD he's dead!
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Then she goes what if the installation of the new line causes our old one not to work. OH FOR Fks sake if you're going to imagine the world is going to come to an end with every change then nothing is going to ever get done.
I'm the kind of cat, if you have a problem, go out and fix it don't sit at home and complain.
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I am on my way to the cable TV guy because I need to ask why they've increased my subscription fees by $4 and also to reschedule the date they are doing the installation. So yes, I practice what I preach. I've tried calling them the better part of yesterday and they weren't picking up the phone so I'm hauling my @ss over to speak to them.
I should write something to get enough money on my PayPal for Battletech...Been wondering if I should pick it up too...
In my case it's not if, it's when. I am too fond of tabletop Battletech to not get it.
I had a bad week at work. It is may 4th. So i drank 4 beers and watched rogue one.
I am not drunk. I am going to game and watch aggretsuko and have a sapporo black while I do so.Meh I know the feeling...
Had a rough week too, so been slurping Cognac most of the evening while preparing next weeks game, perusing parody hentai (found some great Wizard of Oz and Dark souls stuff) and gaming a bit on the stationary...
So yea, everything is a bit buzzy right now ^^
Should be hitting the sack now, though I'm not really that tired...Stupid being a night-personality instead of a day.
Might do a bit of reading, then try to get a few hours of sleep.I should write something to get enough money on my PayPal for Battletech...Been wondering if I should pick it up too...
dark souls h is pretty run of the mill, but wizard of oz? Old school. Nice.
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Our old dog has stopped eating, stopped barking, and stopped taking his medicine. ;_; I think we're coming up on the end.
if it is his time, make sure he knows you love him before the end. May he go easy when he does go, and may he rest peacefully.