Entries for March, 2005

Skaldis

Yesterday I read a story wherein a woman (in a medieval-type fantasy setting) braided her hair. Today I was up early. This is all it takes to convince me that I too must braid my hair.

Except I was not content with a single braid. Oh no. I French-braided both hemispheres of my own head.

I had not realised my hair was getting quite this long. When I looked in the mirror, I had the urge to go around today introducing myself to random strangers. Not as Ree -- as "Skaldis, shieldmaiden of Midgaard!"

I just want to point out that Eric Meyer's Dakota spam is from North Dakota. Everybody knows South Dakotans would never stoop to spam. (If we're going to annoy tons of people, we just keep electing jackholes like Bill Janklow to do it for us.)

Ah, ambivalent state pride.

JJ rocks

I know it's got to be a bad sign to be so amused by my own writing past, but...

"It sounds like people are moving heavy tables across the floor of my brain!"

I heart my character so bad. She's adorkable!

polyhedron quiz

I am a d100

Take the quiz at dicepool.com

I really should have more to say for myself. Oh dear.

Had family around for the weekend. Learned more than I ever cared about the Spongebob Squarepants: The Movie video game, which is at least five syllables too long for a video game title. (But then, my choices are Tetris and Joust.) I polished my mother's bannisters for company. And the piano, china hutch, buffet, dinner table, antique desk, end tables, cabinets, and anything wooden within reach. Damn my height and attendant reach!

I never want to hold a polishing cloth again.

Weird to think I only have two living grandparents now. Two months ago I had three. It had been that way since I was four. Now I have two. No more specifying which grandpa, because there's only the one left, and only one grandma too.

Bah. Grief is blue-grey and aches. I want some perky pink fun.

...that is not what I meant. It may well be my desire, but that was not the way I meant to say anything.

From angsty to horndog in ten seconds: GO!

I feel blissfully random today. Odd, given the day's reading of orderly roleplay archives. One would assume random thought-jumping would accompany a multitasking day, not a day of reading a page, doing a chore, reading the next sequential page, doing the next sequential chore...

But then I do favour oddity in general.

Too many words, not enough sense. Wish me better luck for tomorrow. If I'm not coherent, at least I'm content.

spirit of emotion quiz

los
You are the Spirit of Innocence. Always with the
sweet smile of a child, you know how to have
good clean fun, you have a natural vunerability
about you, which makes you able to make friends
very well, as they are drawn instinctively by
the urge to protect you. But even though you
look as fragile as a child inside you are very
strong with your easy look on life. When you
get a partner (because there is no way you
cant!) your life will be perfect.


Which stunning spirit of emotion are you? NEW AND IMPROVED! (amazingly beautiful anime pics!)
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kind of soul quiz


I am truly passionate. Find your soul type at kelly.moranweb.com.


Me? Passionate? What about?

why I roleplay

I'd been thinking lately: Why do I roleplay? I'm not very good at it. I have yet to get the hang of anything interpersonal. Dwelling in my own head, sure, that I've got down pat.

I'd chuckled at some webcomics today, nothing hilarious. I wanted to giggle. I have stress to vent and if it's laugh or cry then I damn sure want to laugh.

I just checked the boards. Holy flipping shnikes. "Whoa" indeed. (Say it like Keanu; you know you wanna!)

That's why I roleplay. Because it makes me giggle (loudly, like the twit I am) and keeps me sane.

Thanks, Mommybear.

dancing quiz

EDIT: The problem I experienced has been fixed. Thanks Roy!

Dance the night away by karchan85
Name
What you Look like
The MusicR&B
Quiz created with MemeGen!


testing Memegen

(Follow me as I tweak Memegen HTML to work on Tabulas! Sort of.)

EDIT: Bug fixed. Thanks, Roy!

Illuminati

Gnomes of Zurich. Fnord.
The Gnomes of Zurich: He who dies with the most stuff wins. Fnord.

Which Illuminati are you?
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saying

Sometimes you read something that just slides into your being with all the sweet vigor of fresh strawberry. (My favourite!) Today's is a reminder from no less than Neil Gaiman that "said" is not dead.

I know I need to work on that in my own writing. I have an awful habit of doing this:

"Dialogue." Action, "dialogue."

Notice something wrong? I never attributed the speech to a character. D'oh! This sort of thing makes me cringe at roleplay archives and stew at myself, thinking I have no business permitting myself to type my own name. It's bad enough when I do it solo, but get five people roleplaying together who all have fear of "said" and it gets messy very quickly. Reading the poster ID helps, but some archives lack this and then my brain starts to cry because I can't even remember if that was my character talking or not.

That's more than I meant to say. Oh dear. But I said it. So saith Ree!

course weirdness

Okay. Something's wrong.

I'm totalling up my course plans for the summer. I take classes through a consortium, so when I find classes I want to take, I have to make sure the consortium offers them for my desired semester, that the credits are accepted at my college, and that the credits will transfer into my desired university.

Everything tranfers. I found a full course load I want and it all transfers 100% smoothly. I can even get uni-required classwork out of the way pre-uni. (That sounds funny: pre-uni. Hehehehe.) It's like it's freaking Meant To Be or something.

Well. I can handle that. It's just that last summer, I had to quest to find classes that would work for me. Now, with a slightly different plan in mind, everything just clicks.

It's weird. It's good but it's weird!

testing API

Oooh. I'm fond of w.bloggar and had been thinking it would be nifty if Tabulas used it. Then I wouldn't have to type into Opera and crash it anymore. And -- here we are. I shall have fun with this, I'm certain.

*pokes the Post button*

It lives! Sweeeeet. It doesn't crosspost, which is good -- it shouldn't unless told it via checkbox or something. Possibly that will come later. This will make it so much easier to edit entries. *does the Meposian dance of joy*

Hey! I have my w.bloggar spellcheck now! This is great. Of course I just tried to use it on this entry and got caught in a wave of my silly Reeish lingo, but the point is that next time I misspell or mistype "caffeine" maybe I can spellcheck and it will catch it.

(Had to use the browser to post this edit. Error said invalid at top of document; tried to copy-paste the error but was unable because it was in a Windows alert box. Eh, kinks to be worked out in time, I guess.)

zombie survival

This entry has bad HTML. I'm sorry.

(Zombies attack!)


[Yeah, I know what to do and I also have an idea where I screwed up. Would I actually act so wisely if I had to? Hell no. I'm too emotional to be that practical, or I think I am -- who really knows until the worst happens?]

I know I walk beyond my place
Summarily reject the space
That wants not me, I plainly see,
But what to do with such a case?

My writing reeks today. *glares at it and reads instead*

Neurotically Yours

germaine
You Are Germaine.
Woe is you. You have a creepy stalker after you,
and an abusive squirrel for a pet. You're the
epitomy of depressed poetry writeing, Morrissy
listening, purple haired goth chick.
Congratulations.


Which Neurotically Yours (Foamy) Character are you???
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[What? I take a quiz where half the possiblities are squirrels and I'm not one? Weird! Also: must watch more Foamy. He rules us all.]

poetree

Oh the magic cold and the magic strong
Doth twist her harshwise all day long.
Nay lad, don't fret, she'll come to yet,
-- the only rhyme I've got is "bong".

Yeaaaaaah. In other news, there is no caffeine in the house, my car is broken, and it's below freezing outside. I'm going to blame that last line on the lack of Djew because I can. (It's actually been on my desktop for weeks now, but shhh, they needn't know. I was looking for my zombie story; the way I'm giggling at this, though, I'm in no shape to work on zombies. Unless they live on cake or hair clippings instead of brains...)

belated Irish nameness

Your Irish Name Is...
Sinead McLoughlin
[*blink* ...'kay...]

but why not liquor down?

"Would you care for a drink?"

"Sure! I know you guys just wanna liquor me up, but that was my plan too!"

Hee. Flipside is fun.

daemon animal

Monkey Daemon
Your MONKEY DAEMON represents a nature that is
admired, detail-oriented, and full of
curiosity. Some people might call you
self-absorbed. You like to plan ahead, and hone
your various talents to perfection.


What Animal Would Your Daemon Settle As?
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element

P... Phosphorous
You scored 35 Mass, 42 Electronegativity, 24 Metal, and 70 Radioactivity!
You're high energy... really high. Unfortunately, you don't always put your energy to calm constructive use and sometimes let it all out in intense bursts. If your energy can be harnessed however, you will produce truly great things. I suggest you take up a job that runs you ragged... like opening and closing a Sodium-Potassium pump. Socially you ought to hang with a crowd that is even more social than you. If you don't, well... all those people who spontaneously combusted throughout history... you guessed it, phosphorous people who didn't have enough to occupy themselves. When picking friends make sure most of them rated high on the electronegativity scale... Chlorines, Oxygens and whatnot.



My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 48% on Mass
You scored higher than 81% on Electroneg
You scored higher than 5% on Metal
You scored higher than 94% on Radioactivity
Link: The Which Chemical Element Am I Test written by effataigus on Ok Cupid

who in 1400 A.D.

The Prioress
You scored 31% Cardinal, 66% Monk, 52% Lady, and 10% Knight!
You are a moral person and are also highly intellectual. You like your solitude but are also kind and helpful to those around you. Guided by a belief in the goodness of mankind you will likely be christened a saint after your life is over.


You scored high as both the Lady and the Monk. You can try again to get a more precise description of either the Monk or the lady, or you can be happy that you're an individual.




My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 48% on Cardinal
You scored higher than 90% on Monk
You scored higher than 58% on Lady
You scored higher than 1% on Knight
Link: The Who Would You Be in 1400 AD Test written by KnightlyKnave on Ok Cupid



[I can't help but wonder how a certain character of mine would rank in this. It would be quite funny if she came out highest in Cardinal and Monk, but of course she wouldn't. Heh. Her name, the only one she'll give -- is Lady Knight. ]

kind of friend





You Are A Good Friend









You're always willing to listen

Or lend a shoulder to cry on

You're there through thick and thin

Many people consider you their "best friend"!




mytho

(cut for big pic)
Selkie
You scored 40% Esotericism, 34% Power, and 44% Malevolence!
The shy Selkies are marine creatures in the shape of a seal. They can be found near the islands of Orkney and Shetland. A female can shed her skin and come ashore as a beautiful woman. When a man finds the skin, he can force the Selkie to be a good, if somewhat sad, wife. Should she ever recover the skin, she will immediately return to sea, leaving her husband behind. The male Selkies are responsible for storms and also for the sinking of ships, which is their way of avenging the hunting of seals.



My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 36% on Esotericism
You scored higher than 49% on Power
You scored higher than 81% on Malevolence
Link: The Mythological Profile Test written by LacedWithASmile on Ok Cupid

right or left brain

Very Righty
You scored 33 %Lefty and 71 %Righty!
You have a very strong right hemisphere bias, undoubtedly you are always late for appointments, very creative, and quite emotional. You should attempt to counter balance this with greater objectivity. This is a left brain dominated world, so you probably don't see eye to eye with most folk. You are almost certainly an impulsive person and dislike well planned out activities. You can almost certainly by hypnotised.



My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 1% on Lefty
You scored higher than 49% on Righty
You scored higher than 5% on Divergence
Link: The Left or Right Brain Test written by vincex on Ok Cupid


[That is absolutely me.]

X-Men

(Holy giant graphic, Batman!)

I was fully expecting Rogue, but this is pretty much my ideal, so...

bad day

Yesterday sucked. I went to uni town with three goals:

1. Sin had called saying he had some of my stuff and I needed to get it because he's moving. I couldn't imagine what, but I went anyway.

Result: No cars there, building locked, no lights on.

2. I heard a rumour the day before that only the best music and video game shop ever was closing. Went to check for myself.

Result: Sign said closed for good, building was empty.

3. My mom wanted me to grab the good root beer while I was in town, since we can only buy in there or further away from home.

Result: The store had no good root beer.

So I'm going to go play Zelda II now, because that's the one thing in my life that actually went right yesterday.

aches and pains

I'm just going to curse rapid-fire at my computer screen right now.

For the last week I've been experiencing hard pains and aches at seemingly random points in my body. I first noticed it in my calves, so I stopped wearing my new shoes and tried changing my sleeping position. Instead of going away, the pains just popped up in other places: shoulder, low back, and an extremely painful attempt to separate my index and middle fingers than brought tears of pain.

Today I was going through my usual stint of online news reading and I caught a throwaway comment. You know my damn neck gland? My thyroid condition? Okay, now guess what symptom I found hidden in the list.

Yup. "Pains, aches in joints, hands and feet."

KILL STAB DIE DIIIIIIIIE.

zeejay

I never could resist some good irreverence. Or irrelevance, for that matter, but today this is its most relevant.

For you, dear readers, I have two things today: a repeated quote from Futurama and a webcomic.

"Sweet Zombie Jesus!"

Whew, got that out of my system. Jaina may have a rant coming up on similar subjects. We shall see. She's been making lists of heresy in my head.

heat

Today was warm so I broke out my summer shorts. They're a bit tight. Better get back to summer size. I went for a walk to start on that task.

And found my inspiration.

Remember how it's warm here now? (Finally!) There's construction going on. Yes, right on my best walking route.

One of the guys had tattoos, and the one working on the roof had the kind of abs that make you want to wash your clothes by hand just to make use of that dazzling washboard.... hee.

Can't wait for tomorrow's walk.