am i the only one who has a default song? a default song is the song that you… duh… default to, if you don’t have a song stuck in your head. that way, you still have something to sing. i have no choice about my default song. in a way, it’s the ultimate song-stuck-in-my-head experience. occaisionally, other songs override it, temporarily, but when they pass, it’s right back to that song. and i’m powerless to change it. i know it changed a few years ago, but i can’t even remember what it used to be.
my default song? The Lumberjack song from Monty Python. best part – i screw up the lyrics. for years, it’s my default song, and i still work all night and sleep all day. plus, i forget some lyrics entirely.
i cannot be the only one who has a default song, stuck in their head. am i?
Monthly Archives: September 2003
Wow. It’s a big rock. I can’t wait to tell my friends. They don’t have a rock this big.
i have a confession to make. or maybe i don’t need to confess anything… i can just be open about it. there is no guilt or shame. therefore, it’s not a confession. here it is… i, despite the fact i don’t like professional wrestling and against my better judgement, have decided i am a fan of The Rock. and in being so, i was unavoidably drawn to the new movie The Rundown. after announcing this to evildeb, i found that she, too, was inexplicably drawn to it. so we went to see it last night. and let me tell you… it was FUNNY!! we laughed out loud in several places. we enjoyed it very much. there was mucho muy fighting going on. really good fighting . a lot of tree or treebranch-fu. trees were used in many violent and painful ways, in this movie. every fight, fall and tumble hurt to watch. a lot. and stifler and the rock had good chemistry. the rock did a great job, at all of it, the action and the humor. and there were many funny parts.
evildeb and i gave it a B. a solid, very entertained B. but, evilD said, and this is true, grading on the curve of what we EXPECTED it got an A+. a big fat punching A plus to the solar plexus. thought it would be crap. turned out to be delightful. we enjoyed it much more than underworld. which turned out to be only mediocre. maybe slightly less.
go away, monkey!!
Goodbye! We give up! You win. We’ve left you a huge fuck off horse…as per usual.
i’m having a bad day here, people. and i think i know why. i learned, from the animal planet, that sharks have a sixth sense, electroreception. it’s the ability to sense electrical signals. all living things emit electrical signals, and sharks can sense where these are coming from. so, for example, you are swimming in the ocean, your muscles are putting off electrical signals as they move, shark senses these, and eats your sorry ass. anyway, i think i have this. electroreception. and i am picking up on the electrical signals of everyone around me. and it’s jamming my circuitry. making me kind of manic and squirrelly.
lisa comments: I am very behind and I’m trying to catch up on blogs. I am very disappointed not to see any Eddie pictures here.
what kind of pictures did you want, exactly, lisa? you mean pictures that i might have taken myself, of eddie, or just pictures of him in general? because i never saw him off stage to take any pictures. in reality, i’m not a very good stalker. i’m more of a “‘oh the show’s over?’ leave people to their own business after that” kind of girl. but if you want some pictures of him, i can certainly find some for you. in fact, it would be MY PLEASURE. i’ll do that as soon as i get home. later.
Did anyone else just go to a scary visual place?
i’ve been messing with my website a bit today. consequently, i broke some stuff on my style sheet, and it took me forever to figure out what i did wrong. truth-be-told, i still don’t know what i did to fix it. golive fixed it for me. i think. anyway, it’s apple’s fault. and i mean that in a good way. word on the street is that panther is ready to go GM anyday. the rumors put the release at oct. 24th. but who listens to rumors? i do. so i’m getting ready for panther. my computer, at home, is a bit of a mess. it needs some serious organization. and a major backup done. so i was digging through some of the older junk, and i found a bunch of stuff i decided i might as well put up. some of it’s just because it cracks me up. consequently, i got no organizing done.
what was my point? oh yeah, because of panther, i was messing about with the website. and that’s when i broke my style sheet. which i had to fix. so i didn’t get as much done as i wanted. i did put one thing up. this is a page from a design i was messing with a long long time ago, for uberbrain.com. back when the vision for uberbrain was much more elaborate. the reason i am putting it up, is because i like the roll over portraits i did. they make me laugh. so does the scary email.
oh, speaking of software releases.
You know what this’ll cost you? Thirty days… hath September, April, June, and Montana, all the rest have cold weather, except in the summer, which isn’t often.
it’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood today. when i was driving over the bridge, i had a crystal clear view of the olympics. and on my way home, i’m sure i’ll have an amazing view of mt. ranier. whenever i drive across lake washington, on a morning like today, i realize why i live here. why i came back 15 years ago, and why i never want to live anywhere else. i belong here.
well, that’s sweet. enough of that crap. here, where i work, we create these tests, for users of our software. that way, they can take these tests and say “look at me, i’m an EXPERT at this software. yay me!” often, members of my team assist in the creation of this test. it’s a big deal. so today, we were tech reviewing some of the questions that have been written. the questions were displayed up on the wall, and dr. stevil, evildeb and i were present to review. whenever you get dr. stevil, evildeb and i in a room together, chaos ensues. it’s why people usually enjoy working with us, and sometimes find it frustrating as well. it’s evildeb’s fault. she’s very argumentative. in a 2 hour and 45 minute time span, she either argued with us, or bossed us around, 18 times. i kept count. and she has two counts of delusional thinking. we’ll be at this again on monday, the reviewing. it will be interesting to see her final count.
here is a self portrait of me thinking, trying to remember the correct way to use a feature i never use, in a prerelease version of the software.
i have pigtails in my hair today, they look exactly like that.
earlier today, i conducted a test, to see how long it would take me to write 1667 words. if you divided the 50,000 words by 30 days, that would be the daily word count. i’m getting ready for NaNoWriMo, as you can tell. well, i didn’t have enough time to finish 1667 words, before i got interrupted. however, i did manage to write about 40% of the total words needed in 24 minutes. totally doable. i was writing a story about my mo¸r mo¸r’s motel, and her hidden haunted catacombs. i’ll post it on jodiferous when it’s done. maybe i’ll even find some pictures. most people agree, when they hear the stories about the motel, that my mo¸r mo¸r kicked ass. and so did her motel.
it might be time for me to go home now. i think so!
thank god for loon…
for giving me more distractions.
i asked the magic 8 ball and these are the answers.
will i marry eddie izzard? [i’m still in post show afterglow, as you can see.]
Without A Doubt. [nice!]
will i ever meet a real live Ranger? [character in janet evanovich book, not a park ranger, or something.]
It is Certain. [sweet!]
ok, then, when we meet, will we have hot sweaty monkey sex?
It is Certain. [YEEEESSSS!!]
will i become a best selling author?
Without A Doubt.
so there you go… i have some pretty good things to look forward to, don’t i?
Do you have any control over how creepy you allow yourself to get?
evildeb sits right next to me now. in the next cube. she talks to herself all the time. i’d forgotten. “ok, that one still crashes.” “it doesn’t SAY you need to hit the preview button first….” it’s funny. also, it’s handy. you can ignore her when she talks to you and just say that you thought she was talking to herself.
you’ll be glad to know that i finished all my tech docs yesterday. all the ones that were due. i was sooo happy. i didn’t even have to stay late to do it. mostly it’s because two of them turned out to be incredibly easy. well, easier than i expected. but i didn’t know that ahead of time. it could have sucked. but it didn’t.
so i have two main sources for my dr. pepper, in the morning. option A, my preferred source. it’s 20 cents cheaper. they sell lotto tickets, and the cups are paper. and option B, where the cups are plastic and there are no lottery tickets. additionally, the clerk at option B had become a little creepy, as of late. not a lot, but enough to make me avoid option B, because i didn’t feel like doing all that talking first thing in the morning. why do i even go to option B? well, first, it’s good to have a back up, in case option A runs out of dr.pepper syrup, or ice or something. and second, the hostess chocolate baby donnette delivery schedule. chocolate babies are best when fresh. the baby donut delivery date for option A is friday. i don’t know what option B is, but i usually go there on around weds or thursday, to see if i can hit it. ok, the whole point of this story is not to demonstrate what a complete dork i am, but rather to say that this morning i found out that option B clerk is transferring to another store, further south. which is kinda nice for me.
now that that’s out, i realize how mundane and boring that is. but not much else has happened to write about. this morning i saw a guy walking his dog across the street, to gasworks park. it was a little dog. and it was SO EXCITED that it crossed the street almost primarily on it’s hind legs, doing a happy puppy dance. i swear it’s front paws didn’t touch the ground. it was cute.
that’s it. all i got. maybe i should just go out and find a new personality quiz. 🙂
I’m a bloodsucking fiend! Look at my outfit!
two tech docs down, two more to go. one easy, and one infused with the tedium of HELL!!
what constitutes an “outfit?” over the weekend, fee’s sister was at her house, changing for the eddie izzard show. *pause… think of eddie. deep sigh.* anyway, aaishya [while i am not entirely sure i am spelling the name correctly, it is true that it starts with a bunch of vowels in a row] was putting on some jeans. some ANNE TAYLOR jeans. because she’s posh. they had some scallopy things along the bottom of the leg. and creases. because she irons her jeans. again, she’s posh. so she tells us how the anne taylor sales girl talked her into buying the matching denim jacket. which, fee and remarked, made what she was wearing “an outfit.”
evildeb said that what i was wearing today came damn close to “an outfit.” but i disagree. i just match. see, i am wearing a long sleeved red tshirt, levi’s, and navy blue suede converse star sneakers. but the kicker is, i have my family tartan in my hair. i have a scrunchie made out of my tartan. which is red, with blue and white. so it matches. it’s not an OUTFIT because i did not buy any of these pieces together. they are four separate elements that happen to match.
not an outfit. not an outfit at all.
edit: i also have a navy blue hoodie. but i ALWAYS have that. that navy blue hoodie is E.O. as in i wear it Every Other day, practically.
I’m tired of dating silly, immature little boys. I’d like to meet a sophisticated older guy with a special affinity for rabbits.
having a hard time writing today. because i am way way way way tired. don’t know why. i slept and everything last night. maybe i’m not meant to sleep.
so, i have learned from loon that i am:
You’re a unicorn of a different color. You’re your
own person…err, unicorn, andyou aren’t afraid
to be different. Go you! Unfortunately, you are
also utterly insane.
What Kind of Unicorn are YOU? (no, really..its cool- with graphics!)
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which really should be no surprise to anyone. especially the utterly insane part. loon is also a unicorn of a different color. which may be why, out of dozens and dozens of people in the fan fiction yahoo group, we found each other.
i learned from judy that i am:
-Perfect- You’re the perfect girlfriend. Which means you’re rare or that you cheated 😛 You’re the kind of chick that can hang out with your boyfriend’s friends and be silly. You don’t care about presents or about going to fancy placed. Hell, you just like to hang out. You’re just happy being around your boyfriend.
What Kind of Girlfriend Are You?
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so is judy. and romy. so it’s definitely an ¸berthing. now if they are unicorns of a different color, and loon is a perfect girlfriend, it might be that loon is uber and doesn’t know it. she might have accidentally picked up on ¸berbrain waves. due to blog commenting proximity.
hey… if i am the perfect girlfriend, how come i don’t have a boyfriend? i must be too intimidating with my perfection.
i am so avoiding writing technical documents right now. can you tell? too bad they are due today.
sometimes, i like to spin around and around and around in my chair, until everything remains swirly for a while afterwards. am i alone in this?
I meditate diligently every morning. The subject is love and peace. I quit after three seconds.
i have four technical documents due to editing by the end of the day tomorrow. i did the easiest one first. and now, i am working on the worst one. the most tedious one. and it’s a mother fucker. i can say that, because it’s my blog. i’m allowed to use potty language on my own blog.
i had fun at fee’s this weekend. you could probably read some details at potato farm. eddie was awesome, and he did some stuff he did not do in the seattle show. and the same stuff was done differently anyway. plus he was wearing a skirt and fishnet stockings. which was different. the skirt had a looooong slit all the way up. and was sparkly. which is nice. we were in the very very very back row. row O. but we had bee-nocks.
also, i had my tarot cards read by fee’s friend marcus. i would have to say that about 6 out of the 10 cards were reversed. which he read in the traditional “reversed card” manner. of course, all the negative cards were upright. what’s funny is, all my cards were about money, and sacrifice, and life style changes, and loss of material possessions. but it was also about wealth coming from an unexpected source. hmmmm…. lottery?
response to fee: of course i am picky!! look at who signs my paycheck? duh! i’m not saying i could do better, but we are used to a pretty high standard when it comes to photoshop skills around here. again… duh!
since we mentioned tarot, let’s pick a voyager card of the day, shall we?
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The cup as a container symbolizes the management of your feelings, resulting in emotional equilibrium. Emotional stability, like the river, means going with the natural flow of your feelings. Yet, like the duck vase, ride on top of these emotional waters, particularly during the blues and the unexpected twists and bogs in the river of life. This requires a meditative state of mind and heart, to be feeling and apart from your feelings as you acknowledge them without judgment.
Equilibrium derives from emotional self sufficiency, an inner reservoir of emotional vitality that enables you to be sunny (yellow flowers) in the coldest of times. The ever full cups of the mountain watershed and flowering cactus plant, even in the driest and prickliest of conditions, symbolize this spring of life within you.
this is a two card. i like two cards. they are preistess cards. mental. reflective. feminine. balanced. cool.