| I knew this would be weird by the time I was done. |
[Mar. 5th, 2009|01:58 pm] |
Meme stolen from the Pickled Minx.
:Cinderella::
[ ] One of your parents is dead
[ ] You are expected to do a lot of chores
[x] You love to dress up
[x] You love animals
[ ] You are waiting patiently for your Prince Charming
[ ] Your mom is really strict
[ ] You have sisters who seem kind of jealous of you
[x] You’re afraid to speak your mind sometimes
[ ] You have left your shoes at a friend’s house before
[ ] You have blonde hair
TOTAL: 3
::Belle::
[x] You’ve kissed someone your friends didn’t like
[x] You’ve been lost in the forest
[x] You love to read
[ ] You are not shy at all, and not afraid to speak your mind
[x] One of your family members is a bit weird
[x] You have done volunteer work
[x] You have a wild imagination
[x] You don't mind if you have to take care of people in need
[ ] You’ve had guys like you only because they think you’re pretty
[ ] You’ve rejected at least one person when they’ve asked you out.
TOTAL: 7
::Jasmine::
[ ] Your dad is very rich
[ x] You are very clever
[ ] You’ve been with someone way different from you
[x] You’re unique and different from everyone else
[x] You’d never marry someone just because they were rich
[ ] You have set a lot of goals for yourself
[x] You don’t have a lot of friends
[x] You’re independent
[ ] You are wealthy
[ ] Your parents try to control your life
TOTAL: 5
::Ariel::
[ ] Your parents expect a lot from you
[ ] You really try to follow the rules, but it’s hard for you
[ ] You’re a bit of a trouble maker
[ ] You’re the youngest in your family or in the last 2
[ ] You have a lot of sisters
[ ] You collect something
[x] You have/had long hair
[x] You have/had a pet fish
[ ] You’re extremely curious
[ ] You believe everything people tell you/you’re a bit gullible
TOTAL: 2
::Snow White::
[ ] You know that you’re beautiful
[ ] Sometimes it seems like your mom is jealous of you.
[ ] You’ve been close to death
[ ] You have at least seven good friends
[ ] You’ve had food poisoning
[ ] You have/had short hair
[x] You get along with almost everyone
[ ] All of your friends are different
[ ] You love to have a good time
[ ] You’re happier when you’re out of the house than in
TOTAL: 1
::Mulan::
[ ] You can be a tomboy sometimes. (I knew being male this meme would get ridiculous)
[ ] People wish you could be a bit more girly
[x] You’ve pretended to be someone you’re not (vampires ftw!)
[ ] You’ve had a physical fight with someone
[ ] You have/had considered running away from home
[ ] Your parents try to plan your life out
[ ] A lot of your friends are boys.
[ ] You sometimes find yourself in bad situations
[x] You love your family so much that you’d do anything to protect them.
TOTAL: 2
::Aurora::
[x] You live/have lived with someone other than your parents
[ ] You almost died at a very young age
[x] You are gentle, loving, and/or thoughtful
[ ] You have a decent singing voice
[x] You like to sleep in late on the weekends
[ ] You spend most of your time outside
[ ] You’re adopted
[x] You’re very romantic
[ ] Pink is one of your favorite colors
TOTAL: 4
::Pocahontas::
[ ] You love to walk around and explore big cities
[ ] You are more spiritual than religious
[ ] You’ve been in an interracial relationship
[x] One of your family members is dead
[x] Your parents are very protective of you
[ ] Someone you know has been in war
[x] You love nature
[x] You have/had black hair
[ ] You would love to move somewhere exotic and beautiful
[ ] You’re very adventurous
TOTAL: 4 |
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| (no subject) |
[Feb. 23rd, 2009|11:46 am] |
Association Meme, via: Owlmoose
Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.
My responses to Owlmoose’s associations with me:
1. Doctor Who
Well yeah. I think there's kind of a double-whammy for me. You've got the offbeat silly; and you've got the righteous indigantion. I think I really fell in love (metaphorically of course) with David Tenant when I saw his reaction to the Prime Minister's decision to shoot down an alien ship _after_ the Doctor had driven them away. "The man who never would."
2. Roleplaying
...which I don't know that I really have an outlet for in Texas. To some degree, I think I managed to channel these energies into writing. And this program more than any other I _know_ brought kids into the library. Now if we could just get ourselves staffed again maybe I could get that started again.
3. Forensics (the speech kind, not the CSI kind)
What always puzzled me--about college speech in particular--was you'd think with my background in acting & overal hammish tendencies that I would have obviously been leaning toward more interp events, but it kept being Public Address events I competed in.
4. Books
The flipside, I suppose, of "I'm reading a lot more now that I have to spend hours daily on busses" is now that I have a car again, I'm not reading as much. Dirty truth about silver linings? Anyway, enjoyed the new Ender book. Enjoyed Pratchett's latest. Enjoyed the first couple books in the new vampire braincandy series I finally got around to reading. Will eventually give Twilight another try--probably after the broohaha has died down a little.
5. California
Well yeah. Y'all don't get your house in order I'll never make it back. But if you ever walk through Hendy woods... the scent of pine & eucalyptis in the air... Of course you can say that about anywhere. Really it's all about family.
Hope I did this right. If there even is a right. Eh. |
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| Okay... I remember these sorts of things... |
[Feb. 21st, 2009|08:25 am] |
Stolen from Hunter of the Twilight, Hunter…
1. Go to Wikipedia and ask it for a random article. The title of the article you get is the name of your band.
2. Go to the Random Quotations Page. The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page are the title of your album.
3. Go to Flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”. Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
Band: Type 0 String Theory
Album: The wings of a wren
Album Cover : http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcmillend/3280746429/ |
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| New England? |
[Feb. 20th, 2009|08:53 am] |
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Trying to recall... I don't know anyone in New England do I? Pennsylvania yes... Australia... But New England? |
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| What is this livejournal of which you speak? |
[Feb. 19th, 2009|07:20 pm] |
My last post was in August. I have really, for all intents and purposes, forgotten that this environment even exists.
And I ask myself--is this a good thing?
Or would it be better to be more active here? To blog myself, if you will, out into the world randomly and actually--well I don't know what--but...
Or is it just that I'm bored because my political simulation is in the middle of elections & I'm stuck in limbo?
It's probably about time I changed my avatar. I've had this same one since time immemorial.
*ponders* |
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| Does anyone know who this is? |
[Aug. 14th, 2008|03:51 pm] |
I honestly don't know if this is the picture of an actor or a sports figure or a political figure or what...
But does anyone have any idea who this is a picture of?
Thanks in advance.
-me |
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| 2 stories |
[Dec. 24th, 2007|04:16 pm] |
Not having a car, I walked down to the 99 cent store--of which was born two anecdotes.
1.
On the way there I walked by a bus stop as the bus arrived. I could have got on but thought 'is it really worth paying a dollar for the sake of such a short walk. It wasn't. I let the bus go past. When I got to the next stop the bus was sitting there--evidently the driver had popped out for a needed break. I laughed to myself what a great story it would make if I actually got to my destination before the bus did. I didn't, but it was still amusing.
2.
On the way back I was maybe 2/3 - 3/4 of the way home when I saw a 99 cent store shopping cart in the middle of the sidewalk. I really don't think of myself as someone who would take a shopping cart away from the store--but if it's already this far away the extra distance to my home wouldn't make a difference. Plus I had a bag of canned goods which was weighing heavily on my shoulder. I didn't take the cart. But I was amused nonetheless. It is my blessing and my curse that I can draw philo-moral dilemmas out of the most unimportant and ludicrous things. |
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| blue vegetables |
[Oct. 18th, 2007|06:29 am] |
can anyone think of any blue vegetables?
or white vegetarian dishes? |
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| KOLing again |
[Sep. 21st, 2007|09:30 pm] |
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Never enough time... No time to do enough reading. No time to research cover letters and resumes. No time to plan a senatorial campaign for USGS. No time for all the thing I need to do. So of course I'm rejoining the Kingdom Of Loathing (www.kingdomofloathing.com) None shall stand before the might of Conan the Librarian! Aaaaaaaa! |
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| Okay--7th doctor is cool but... |
[Sep. 11th, 2007|02:23 pm] |
My score on The Which Doctor Who Are You? Test: The Seventh Doctor
(You scored 38% intelligence, 48% compassion, 35% sense of humor, and 0% weirdness!) 
You're a well-rounded "multi-purpose" kind of Time Lord. You enjoy a laugh every now and then, but you know when to stop fooling around and become indignant, devious, compassionate, or just downright unpredictable at the appropriate times. Your turn-ons include question marks, trilled rrrr's, and people who enjoy a good doff of the hat every now and then. Your turn-offs include burnt toast, train stations, unrequited love, and metallo-organic creatures who like to plunder Earth in search of powerful, ancient artifacts that will give them dominion over the cosmos. This happens more often than one might think. Link: The Which Doctor Who Are You? Test
(OkCupid Free Online Dating)
Less than 50% compassion?
0% weirdness?
I'm not even thrilled with the relatively low humor and intelligence. I mean come on.
Plus I object to the lack of a "righteous indignation category".
Righteous indignation is such a central theme, especially for the likes of pertwee and tennet. "I could destroy you with one word. No not one, six."
edit: Although in retrospect the description listed works for me. |
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| Okay, this looks fun. But what is LULZ? |
[Apr. 9th, 2007|09:25 am] |
THE TV KEYWORD MEME!
[01] -- Go to IMDB.com and look up your 10 favorite TV shows.
[02] -- Post three official IMDB "Plot Keywords" for these 10 picks.
[03] -- LULZ @ THE KEYWORDS!
[04] -- Have your friends guess the show names.
1. Paranormal, luck, photography--Okay this was "Strange Luck", a pretty obscure show I guess, at least in light of the fact that it didn't really 'make it'
Dates: 1995-1996
Cast: D. B. Sweeney
2. Flashback sequence, police, murder, pharmaceuticals, photographic memory, best friends, police chief, father son relationship, psychic
3. Manic, class prejudice, snob, evil landowner, south west england, cult tv, hotel, southwest england, sitcom, disgruntled hotel manager
4. Renegade, exile, military, pacifism, gadget, scarf, eccentric, scientist hero, bumbling hero, robot dog, brigadier
Hint: this is a trick question. Or one of the others is.
5. Legal, eccentric, ethics, mad cow disease, defense attorney, cigar smoking--this has been guessed but the title wasn't identified.
6. Doctor, medical, new york, bronx, sticom, character name in title
cast: Ted Danson
7. War room, marriage, office politics "The West Wing"--identified by Owlmoose
8. Extraterrestrial, satire, telephone "Doctor Who"--identified by Owlmoose
9. Breaking the fourth wall, spoof, world domination "Animaniacs"--identified by Lapis1
10. San fransisco California, character name in title, title spoken by character "Monk"--identified by Lapis1 |
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| The Classic Dilemma |
[Feb. 22nd, 2007|12:30 pm] |
My library has a classics section.
Every now and then I wonder whether that does more harm than good. When one is searching for a given book, it creates one more place to have to check. (The Outsiders? Lord of the Rings? I don’t know. Let’s look in YA fiction. No? Adult fiction? Science Fiction? Classics?)
The very term ‘classics’ is so ephemeral. We have two copies of ‘100 Years of Solitude’ in the Adult Fiction section. On the side of the book the publishers have written ‘perennial classics’. We’re pretty inconsistent about Ayn Rand, and it’s anybody’s guess whether a given copy of a given book of hers is considered ‘Classic’ or ‘Adult Fiction’. And it just strikes me as weird to walk to 822.33 Sha and not find a single Shakespeare play because they’re all in the Classics section.
So what I keep asking myself is a) should we even have a classics section and b) what function should it serve? If the Classics section exists it ought to help make _something_ easier. I could see arguments for finding out what kids need to read for area schools and making that list into a classics section. I’m open to other ideas of how to solidify the amorphous concept of ‘what qualifies as a classic’. But if the classics section just exists because it’s ‘what is done’…
So anyway, librarians, library users, anyone with ideas or input—what are your thoughts? |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 21st, 2006|02:58 pm] |
This isn't fanfic, because there isn't really a fandom for it to fic in. So it is whatever it is. Read it or not. I welcome constructive criticism.
( A Conservatory in Crimson ) |
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| Answer from myspace questionaire. |
[Oct. 9th, 2006|05:05 pm] |
A friend posed one of those myspace questionaires and one of the answers felt sufficiently me that...
Well here it is, read it ignore it. Whatever.
Re: what is my philosophy of life.
I believe that compassion is a survival skill. I believe that one can make an incredible difference in the world just by bringing a smile into other people's days. I believe that just because someone else chooses to be nasty is no reason to let them dictate your attitude. I believe that unconditional love is a far more effective child-rearing tool than punishment. I believe that I could go on forever, but I believe I'll stop here for now. |
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| Clinging to hope. |
[Sep. 11th, 2006|10:50 am] |
I think I've ranted here before about my hope for the future, that in the long run things can and will get better; that our history is one of progress away from slavery, away from bigotry, away from societal calcifications.
And then there are moments I just have to throw up my hands.
One of my co-workers who is sweet, cheerful, funny, jovial, kind--and you can see it shining clearly in her face--arrived at work this morning having stoped at a gas station where someone told her 'get out, terrorist', based I assume on ethnicity.
After several minutes of just being generally furious I have decided to vent into the void of L-space. There are so many implications so many...
I don't know. I'm angry. I'm tearing up a bit. I need to start work in a few minutes.
Sorry to bother y'all.
I'll get a grip back on my hope in a minute. |
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| Brain development and societal trends. |
[Aug. 10th, 2006|01:10 pm] |
So I was reading this article about how the brain develops all these neural pathways while you're in your early teens and then starts shutting down the ones you don't use.
And I started to think about television--started to become widespread (I'm thinking America) in the mid 50's and by the time those kids were voting 25 years later there's this conservative shift. Were kids that grew up with television more prepared for a philosophy of receptively obeying authority figures instead of thinking things through themselves? And if so, what are the implications for future political developments as kids that grew up with the internet begin replacing kids that grew up with television as voters?
And if I don't stop now I'm liable to seguey into a rant about the idiocy of standardized testing driving schools to teach testtaking instead of thinking. |
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