I was just thinking yesterday, on my 80-MILE BIKE RIDE, that I haven't done a good meme in a while. I found this at Slaminsky's today, so I done stoled it. Here goes:
1. Your cell phone? Fisher-Price (it's hyphenated. That makes it one word. Word.)
2. Your significant other? Perfect
3. Your hair? Boring
4. Your mother? Trying
5. Your father? Adorable
6. Your favourite thing? sculling
7. Your dream last night? bizarre
8. The room you're in? MESSY!
9. Your fear? Alone
10. What you're not? Organized
11. The last thing you did before logging on? Cook
12. Where did you grow up? Bumfuck
13. Favourite drink? weissbier
14. What are you wearing? shorts
15. Your TV? nonexistent
16. Your pet? Nazi
17. Your computer? paperweight
18. Favourite place? river
19. Your mood right now? worried
20. Missing someone? Pirate
21. Something you're not wearing? perfume
22. Love someone? Eternally
23. Your favorite color? green
24. Kids? sooooooon
25. Your life? good
26. Tagging? Everyone!
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Monday, July 28, 2008
Sunday, March 02, 2008
No, I'm not married yet
(You may resume breathing now, Nations.)
We had a great time in South Africa. I will tell you all about it tomorrow, but right now I am tired, and kind of tired of talking about it because I just spent 3 hours on the phone with my mom telling her all about it.
I'm feeling much better having had a mental break from all the wedding stuff. It's about to hit me in the head again full force, but at least I'm rested and I've had a chance to gird my loins. or something.
Here is something to make you happy, though: we bought my wedding ring! and here it is:
White gold, filigree all around, and 21 tiny, tiny diamonds to make it sparkle. Gold and diamonds both being cheap in SA, and the awesome buying power of the English pound on our side, we got a great deal on it. And it's perfect, and exactly what i wanted.
We still haven't picked out Pirate's ring yet. That's going to be a whole 'nother project. Silly sot has no idea what he wants, just that it has to be unusual.
Also, here is the meme that Da Nator hit me with:
1. Grab the nearest book of 123 pages or more.
2. Open it to page 123.
3. Find the first 5 sentences and write them down.
4. Then invite 5 friends to do the same.
So here are mine:
"Indeed, she also accepts lines with even less regular alliteration, such as 305, which she considers to be metrically satisfactory because of its alliterative linkage with both the previous and the following lines (304 alliterates on /b/ and the final stave of 305 (besekes) echoes this; 306 alliterates on /a/ and the second stave of 305 (Arthure) anticipates this):
Thane the burelyche beryn of Bretayne the lyttyll
Counsayles Sir Arthure and of hym besekys
To ansuere the alyenes wyth austeren wordes (304-306)
Or take, for example, the couplet found at 4151-2:
He es eldare than I and ende sall we bothen
He sall ferkke be-fore and I sall come aftyre
Hamel's note to this couplet reads: 'The alliterative pattern of these two lines is aa:ax/bb:xa; no emendation is necessary.' "
Look, I'm at my computer. Where I work. The nearest book was one I'm currently using in my research, which at the moment is a metrical study of Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess." The above exerpt is from "Studies in the Metre of Alliterative Verse" by Ad Putter (my supervisor), Judith Jefferson, and Myra Stokes, c. 2007.
Tagging: Miss Melville, Annie Rhiannon, Big Dave, Michael, and Murph.
We had a great time in South Africa. I will tell you all about it tomorrow, but right now I am tired, and kind of tired of talking about it because I just spent 3 hours on the phone with my mom telling her all about it.
I'm feeling much better having had a mental break from all the wedding stuff. It's about to hit me in the head again full force, but at least I'm rested and I've had a chance to gird my loins. or something.
Here is something to make you happy, though: we bought my wedding ring! and here it is:
White gold, filigree all around, and 21 tiny, tiny diamonds to make it sparkle. Gold and diamonds both being cheap in SA, and the awesome buying power of the English pound on our side, we got a great deal on it. And it's perfect, and exactly what i wanted.
We still haven't picked out Pirate's ring yet. That's going to be a whole 'nother project. Silly sot has no idea what he wants, just that it has to be unusual.
Also, here is the meme that Da Nator hit me with:
1. Grab the nearest book of 123 pages or more.
2. Open it to page 123.
3. Find the first 5 sentences and write them down.
4. Then invite 5 friends to do the same.
So here are mine:
"Indeed, she also accepts lines with even less regular alliteration, such as 305, which she considers to be metrically satisfactory because of its alliterative linkage with both the previous and the following lines (304 alliterates on /b/ and the final stave of 305 (besekes) echoes this; 306 alliterates on /a/ and the second stave of 305 (Arthure) anticipates this):
Thane the burelyche beryn of Bretayne the lyttyll
Counsayles Sir Arthure and of hym besekys
To ansuere the alyenes wyth austeren wordes (304-306)
Or take, for example, the couplet found at 4151-2:
He es eldare than I and ende sall we bothen
He sall ferkke be-fore and I sall come aftyre
Hamel's note to this couplet reads: 'The alliterative pattern of these two lines is aa:ax/bb:xa; no emendation is necessary.' "
Look, I'm at my computer. Where I work. The nearest book was one I'm currently using in my research, which at the moment is a metrical study of Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess." The above exerpt is from "Studies in the Metre of Alliterative Verse" by Ad Putter (my supervisor), Judith Jefferson, and Myra Stokes, c. 2007.
Tagging: Miss Melville, Annie Rhiannon, Big Dave, Michael, and Murph.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Cop out
Hi. I'm not back yet. I'm blogging from the parental home of the Pirate. This is just to say that we had a fabulous time. Details will be forthcoming.
In the meantime, I would like to suggest some entirely unoriginal entertainment. I know Billy and Spinsterella have done this, but I'll be buggered if I can find the right links in their archives. What I propose is that you all write a short post in the comments in the style of my writing. Pretend to be me. Write what you think my holiday blog post will be. When I get back I'll pick a weinner and send him/her something. Don't ask what, I havn't thought that far yet.
So for the next 48 hours you all get to be Chaucer's Bitch.
On you keyboard...
Get set...
Take the piss!
In the meantime, I would like to suggest some entirely unoriginal entertainment. I know Billy and Spinsterella have done this, but I'll be buggered if I can find the right links in their archives. What I propose is that you all write a short post in the comments in the style of my writing. Pretend to be me. Write what you think my holiday blog post will be. When I get back I'll pick a weinner and send him/her something. Don't ask what, I havn't thought that far yet.
So for the next 48 hours you all get to be Chaucer's Bitch.
On you keyboard...
Get set...
Take the piss!
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
10 authors
who should be bludgeoned about the head and shoulders until dead. even if they already are.
(a mememememe from First Nations)
1. John Gower (late 14th C), for being a self-righteous, moralizing cunt AND for being it in the most pedantic rhyming verse ever penned. His rhymes and meter are perfect. Never a dropped syllable, ever. Reading the Confession Amantis is like being hypnotized by the world's most arrogant metronome.
2. JK Rowling, for turning Harry Potter into the fucking messiah and making the whole thing another fucking Christian allegory. And for killing Fred Weasley.
3. Whoever wrote "Cheaper By The Dozen." I don't know who you are. We've never met. And I don't even remember the book. What I do remember is my mom yelling at me 4 times a week for 10 years to read the fucking thing. I managed to get through 3 chapters before I couldn't stand another word. The book itself probably wasn't that loathesome, but I can feel nothing but hatred for the author who penned the book my mom used as a torture device for the better part of a decade.
4. Aldous Huxley. Sort of. First time I read Brave New World I hated it. Second time I decided it might not completely suck. Third time I loved it. I guess Huxley is one of those writers who grows on you. Like mildew.
5. Ann Rice. The literary equivaltent of a 12-year-old wearing lipstick and high heels. She tries so hard to sound grown-up and sophisticated, but it's clearly an act.
6. Hemmingway. There's minamalist, and then there's half-finished. Hemmingway is the literary equivalent of the Eiffel Tower. Everyone says how great it is in public because that's what you're supposed to say and it's sacriligious to suggest otherwise, but ask someone in private and they'll admit it looks like the builders ran out of money min-construction. Hemmingway writes girders.
7. All Hollywood screen writers and sitcom writers.
8. Virginia Wolfe. Get over yourself.
9. All postmodernists. All of them.
and finally...
10. All copywriters and editors who can't punctuate correctly. Mere death is insufficient.
(a mememememe from First Nations)
1. John Gower (late 14th C), for being a self-righteous, moralizing cunt AND for being it in the most pedantic rhyming verse ever penned. His rhymes and meter are perfect. Never a dropped syllable, ever. Reading the Confession Amantis is like being hypnotized by the world's most arrogant metronome.
2. JK Rowling, for turning Harry Potter into the fucking messiah and making the whole thing another fucking Christian allegory. And for killing Fred Weasley.
3. Whoever wrote "Cheaper By The Dozen." I don't know who you are. We've never met. And I don't even remember the book. What I do remember is my mom yelling at me 4 times a week for 10 years to read the fucking thing. I managed to get through 3 chapters before I couldn't stand another word. The book itself probably wasn't that loathesome, but I can feel nothing but hatred for the author who penned the book my mom used as a torture device for the better part of a decade.
4. Aldous Huxley. Sort of. First time I read Brave New World I hated it. Second time I decided it might not completely suck. Third time I loved it. I guess Huxley is one of those writers who grows on you. Like mildew.
5. Ann Rice. The literary equivaltent of a 12-year-old wearing lipstick and high heels. She tries so hard to sound grown-up and sophisticated, but it's clearly an act.
6. Hemmingway. There's minamalist, and then there's half-finished. Hemmingway is the literary equivalent of the Eiffel Tower. Everyone says how great it is in public because that's what you're supposed to say and it's sacriligious to suggest otherwise, but ask someone in private and they'll admit it looks like the builders ran out of money min-construction. Hemmingway writes girders.
7. All Hollywood screen writers and sitcom writers.
8. Virginia Wolfe. Get over yourself.
9. All postmodernists. All of them.
and finally...
10. All copywriters and editors who can't punctuate correctly. Mere death is insufficient.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Eight Things
Got tagged by Joliet Jake (quite some time ago now) to do this meme. Sorry it's taken so long to getting around to it.
So here are 8 things about me you probably didn't already know:
1. Despite the outward appearance of ambition, I am incredibly lazy and rarely do more than just what's necessary to squeak by.
2. At the age of 16 I played a chorus girl and Egyptian whore in a small (but professional) production of Joeph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. (Not the one with Donny Osmond.)
3. I only drink malty beers. Too much hops is bleurgh.
4. One of my labia hangs much lower than the other.
5. I will eat anything once, and have tried osterich, emu, crocodile, kangaroo, and pigeon. The osterich was the best, followed by the 'roo and the croc. Am still trying to find a restaurant that serves rattlesnake.
6. I probably shouldn't have mentioned eating anyting right after describing my labia. oops.
7. My favorite smell is the mingled scent of dry leaves, wood smoke, seasoned oak, and apples.
8. I am a hypocrite because I think overpopulation is the biggest problem facing the world today, but I want (and plan to have) a huge family.
Tagging: Dave, LC, Herebe, Sal, GSE, Miss Melville, and Murph. Hop to it.
So here are 8 things about me you probably didn't already know:
1. Despite the outward appearance of ambition, I am incredibly lazy and rarely do more than just what's necessary to squeak by.
2. At the age of 16 I played a chorus girl and Egyptian whore in a small (but professional) production of Joeph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. (Not the one with Donny Osmond.)
3. I only drink malty beers. Too much hops is bleurgh.
4. One of my labia hangs much lower than the other.
5. I will eat anything once, and have tried osterich, emu, crocodile, kangaroo, and pigeon. The osterich was the best, followed by the 'roo and the croc. Am still trying to find a restaurant that serves rattlesnake.
6. I probably shouldn't have mentioned eating anyting right after describing my labia. oops.
7. My favorite smell is the mingled scent of dry leaves, wood smoke, seasoned oak, and apples.
8. I am a hypocrite because I think overpopulation is the biggest problem facing the world today, but I want (and plan to have) a huge family.
Tagging: Dave, LC, Herebe, Sal, GSE, Miss Melville, and Murph. Hop to it.
Monday, April 23, 2007
The latest MeMeMeMeMeMeMe!
Got this one from Llwetra...
(I wanted to do this whole meme as a photo meme, but discovered that all my batteries are dead so I can't take the necessary pictures. I may update later on with more pics, but I'm busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest, so realistically, probably not.)
1. PICK OUT A SCAR YOU HAVE, AND EXPLAIN HOW YOU GOT IT
I have scars on the knuckles on my right hand from learning how to scull. This is what they looked like before they were scars:
2. WAHT IS ON THE WALLS OF YOUR ROOM?
Bookshelves, fairy lights, photos of my family, a calendar...
...green paint, Impressionist artwork, and a really ugly light fixture.
3. WHAT DOES YOUR PHONE LOOK LIKE.
That's the most retarded questions I've ever seen in a meme. what the fuck does it matter what my phone looks like? It's got numbers on it. That's all you need to know.
4. WHAT MUSIC DO YOU LISTEN TO?
Oh, the usual... Meatloaf, Simon and Garfunkel, celtic rock, madrigals, 17th c. choral works, AC/DC...
5. WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT DESKTOP PICTURE?
This one of the Pirate skipping stones in a river:
6. WHAT DO YOU WANT MORE THAN ANYTHING RIGHT NOW?
Permission to live and work in the UK indefinately.
7. DO YOU SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE?
Yes, absolutely, unequivicolly. It's a matter of civil and human rights, and the last bastion of socially acceptable discrimination in the developed world. Homosexuals are the only group suffering more discimination than women at the hands of the Christian churches. It is the only government-sanctioned discrimination. The fact that the issue of gay marriage is still considered a genuine debate boggles my mind, but then, gun control is still a debate and that boggles my mind as well, so there you go. But what it comes to is this: we cannot claim to live in a fair, just, liberal, or free society until we grant gay people the same basic rights as everyone else. End of.
8. WHAT TIME WERE YOU BORN?
7:17 pm. I know this because a) my brother was born at 5:15 pm and mother considers this an amazing coicidence, and b) mom calls me every year on my birthday at exactly 7:17 pm to sing to me.
9. ARE YOUR PARENTS STILL TOGETHER?
Yep.
10. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO?
Sirens. And construction works. And shitehawks. Fucking shitehawks.
11. DO YOU GET SCARED OF THE DARK?
I've never been scared of the dark, only the stuff that may or may not be IN the dark because I can't see. But the dark itself is not scary.
12. THE LAST PERSON TO MAKE YOU CRY?
This guy:
(photo removed)
with joy.
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE COLOGNE / PERFUME?
(I'm so embarassed to admit this but it's...) *whispers* Jessica McClintock
(Sorry, GSE. I don't know much about perfume.)
14. WHAT KIND OF HAIR/EYE COLOUR DO YOU LIKE ON THE OPPOSITE SEX?
Hair: yes. or no. Long is good, bald is good, and so's everything in between.*
Eyes: 2, please
*All right, I'm a hypocrite. I try and sound all "I'm not superficial it doesn't matter what's on the outside I'm attracted to people's personalities," but really I like long hair, the longer and curlier the better, and red or strawberry-blonde hair is super-hot. Just goes to show you that the universe has a sense of humor, tho, because I fell in love with a man with straight, dark, 1/2-inch long hair. Go figure.
15. DO YOU LIKE PAIN KILLERS?
When I'm experiencing (certain kinds) of pain, I love them.
16. ARE YOU TOO SHY TO ASK SOMEONE OUT?
No.
17. FAVE PIZZA TOPPING?
Loads of sauce with loads of oregano. (Most of the pizzas here in the UK are served with the bare minimum of sauce -- about the same as how much toothpaste you use to brush your teeth -- and it's as well-seasoned as tomato catsup.) After that, good cheese (mozarella, ricotta, or goat cheese are all fine. Cheddar on pizza is NOT fine).
Once you've got good sauce and proper cheese, it can stay that way, or you can load it up with any combination of the following: BBQ chicken, brocolli, red peppers, onions (caramelized or raw), pepperoni, proschuitto, ham, canadian bacon, mushrooms, pineapple, black olives, and/or spinach. There are probably a few more things, but I can't think of any at the moment.
18. IF YOU COULD EAT ANYTHING RIGHT NOW, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
See question 12.
19. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU MADE MAD?
The ditz at the sport centre who didn't want to accept a payment from my credit card because it was more work for her than paying cash.
20. IS ANYONE IN LOVE WITH YOU?
I have good reason to think so. ;-p
(I wanted to do this whole meme as a photo meme, but discovered that all my batteries are dead so I can't take the necessary pictures. I may update later on with more pics, but I'm busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest, so realistically, probably not.)
1. PICK OUT A SCAR YOU HAVE, AND EXPLAIN HOW YOU GOT IT
I have scars on the knuckles on my right hand from learning how to scull. This is what they looked like before they were scars:
2. WAHT IS ON THE WALLS OF YOUR ROOM?
Bookshelves, fairy lights, photos of my family, a calendar...
...green paint, Impressionist artwork, and a really ugly light fixture.
3. WHAT DOES YOUR PHONE LOOK LIKE.
That's the most retarded questions I've ever seen in a meme. what the fuck does it matter what my phone looks like? It's got numbers on it. That's all you need to know.
4. WHAT MUSIC DO YOU LISTEN TO?
Oh, the usual... Meatloaf, Simon and Garfunkel, celtic rock, madrigals, 17th c. choral works, AC/DC...
5. WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT DESKTOP PICTURE?
This one of the Pirate skipping stones in a river:
6. WHAT DO YOU WANT MORE THAN ANYTHING RIGHT NOW?
Permission to live and work in the UK indefinately.
7. DO YOU SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE?
Yes, absolutely, unequivicolly. It's a matter of civil and human rights, and the last bastion of socially acceptable discrimination in the developed world. Homosexuals are the only group suffering more discimination than women at the hands of the Christian churches. It is the only government-sanctioned discrimination. The fact that the issue of gay marriage is still considered a genuine debate boggles my mind, but then, gun control is still a debate and that boggles my mind as well, so there you go. But what it comes to is this: we cannot claim to live in a fair, just, liberal, or free society until we grant gay people the same basic rights as everyone else. End of.
8. WHAT TIME WERE YOU BORN?
7:17 pm. I know this because a) my brother was born at 5:15 pm and mother considers this an amazing coicidence, and b) mom calls me every year on my birthday at exactly 7:17 pm to sing to me.
9. ARE YOUR PARENTS STILL TOGETHER?
Yep.
10. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO?
Sirens. And construction works. And shitehawks. Fucking shitehawks.
11. DO YOU GET SCARED OF THE DARK?
I've never been scared of the dark, only the stuff that may or may not be IN the dark because I can't see. But the dark itself is not scary.
12. THE LAST PERSON TO MAKE YOU CRY?
This guy:
(photo removed)
with joy.
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE COLOGNE / PERFUME?
(I'm so embarassed to admit this but it's...) *whispers* Jessica McClintock
(Sorry, GSE. I don't know much about perfume.)
14. WHAT KIND OF HAIR/EYE COLOUR DO YOU LIKE ON THE OPPOSITE SEX?
Hair: yes. or no. Long is good, bald is good, and so's everything in between.*
Eyes: 2, please
*All right, I'm a hypocrite. I try and sound all "I'm not superficial it doesn't matter what's on the outside I'm attracted to people's personalities," but really I like long hair, the longer and curlier the better, and red or strawberry-blonde hair is super-hot. Just goes to show you that the universe has a sense of humor, tho, because I fell in love with a man with straight, dark, 1/2-inch long hair. Go figure.
15. DO YOU LIKE PAIN KILLERS?
When I'm experiencing (certain kinds) of pain, I love them.
16. ARE YOU TOO SHY TO ASK SOMEONE OUT?
No.
17. FAVE PIZZA TOPPING?
Loads of sauce with loads of oregano. (Most of the pizzas here in the UK are served with the bare minimum of sauce -- about the same as how much toothpaste you use to brush your teeth -- and it's as well-seasoned as tomato catsup.) After that, good cheese (mozarella, ricotta, or goat cheese are all fine. Cheddar on pizza is NOT fine).
Once you've got good sauce and proper cheese, it can stay that way, or you can load it up with any combination of the following: BBQ chicken, brocolli, red peppers, onions (caramelized or raw), pepperoni, proschuitto, ham, canadian bacon, mushrooms, pineapple, black olives, and/or spinach. There are probably a few more things, but I can't think of any at the moment.
18. IF YOU COULD EAT ANYTHING RIGHT NOW, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
See question 12.
19. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU MADE MAD?
The ditz at the sport centre who didn't want to accept a payment from my credit card because it was more work for her than paying cash.
20. IS ANYONE IN LOVE WITH YOU?
I have good reason to think so. ;-p
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