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Friday, September 27, 2002
Still Unreal The weather's still unreal... This is the longest Indian Summer I think we've ever had. And I don't care if the actual definition of an Indian Summer is something which happens much later... Here in the Pacific Northwest, this continued sunny, spring-like weather is *very* unusual! I like it... Will this ever turn back into a rain forest again, though? Moonie? I think I must really be going crazy now! :-) I think I'm going to start on a certain "powder" diet for a while... I've always scoffed at those. "People are crazy to use those things, and they're so expensive! They should just eat less if they want to diet..." Ha, well, now *I* am going to be one of those crazies! (Well, I am having some dental work ongoing right now - too many years of avoiding the hated dentist! ;-) - which makes it hard to eat my favorite crunchy fruit, apples... even though I'm carefully munching one now... So a powder based "nutritional" shake doesn't seem like too bad of an idea at the moment.) At least I didn't turn into a Moonie! They tried to get me, but they failed miserably. Of course. :-) Thursday, September 26, 2002
Cunning I think this is synonomous with being a good trickster? This is written about someone I had a long relationship with, and I wasn't totally aware of when I signed on: "They are also very cunning. Not always meaning or doing what they are saying." Wednesday, September 25, 2002
18 Billion Times  There are certain songs, like say Land Of The Loops' "I Dream In Stereo" which I enjoy listening to, when I'm in the mood for Loops. However, I can tell it's not a song I'd likely want to listen to 18 billion times, on my mobile sound system.... Why Am I Here? Oh that's right... I'm here to declare - - Land Of The Loops is flipping cool! So fun to listen to... Weird and rythmic. Much more clever than most (especially) modern reggae dub. Wait! This is supposed to be advice specific to me: "You must WAIT for what you want rather than aggressively seek it, for what you long for comes to you only if it is not actively sought." I've found this to be true. So, it pays to do nothing? Characters I think I'd like to have characters I could write for. The lead, a strong, sad character, "Life is depressing, punctuated by delusions of hope." ("Or is that really hope?" He thinks to himself. "How can one know?") Voluntary Habitual Sounds I don't think I ever would have guessed how annoying people clearing their throats can be. Hearing one guy who seems to frequent this area more and more clearing his throat in a most annoying odd, high-pitched and abbreviated way, made me think of others I hear all too often. (Mmmm, to be off in my cabin, in the woods, not a throat to be heard....) There's a woman who sometimes clears her throat, loudly, every three or four minutes. She's all around annoying. Then there's the guy who does a slow, fairly loud and lazy sounding throat clearing. Not all that often, but pretty maddening. Another woman has an only slightly annoying throat clearing sound. (She has a funny little half-cough too. It's not a heavy smoker's cough, as she doesn't smoke. I don't really know the purpose of her cough, it's very unusual. Not that often, but it's weird! Hmm, well she does a regular cough too, which isn't so bad. Luckily neither of those is very loud.) I think what really drives me nuts, is that these things come in spurts. A person won't clear their throat once. Once they get started, they'll do it again and again. Apparently it doesn't work very well. Tuesday, September 24, 2002
To Love Somebody It doesn't hurt to love somebody. At least I don't have to teach my heart to love. I love already! Malfunctioning! I hate sneezing. It feels like the body is malfunctioning. It's uncomfortable, unpredictable, and uncontrollable. (Edit: After a big lunch at Sweet Tomatoes, mmmm, I found myself yawning. Yawning is pretty hard to predict too. I don't mind it at all though, it's pretty relaxing. The opposite of sneezing!) Moon In The Morning Walking in this morning, a smile on my face, I looked up in the blue sky, to see the moon. The moon in the morning. Seems just as it should be. To Fly Mmm, I think this is my favorite sleeve I've ever constructed for a CDR. I brought my completed "Teach My Feet To Fly" compilation in for a final test listen, and put the sleeve directly in my line of vision. I think this is my favorite 1990's/2000's CDR I've made to date, too. It's really hard to say if this is partly because I've just made it. I'm too close to it to be objective, certainly. It's pretty much all stuff post-hard drive failure. So these represent fairly recent musical explorations and discoveries. The problem I have sometimes, with making compilations is, they're never fully "done." After the compilation takes shape, and even after I've replaced the tracks which don't fit or grew tiresome, it seems like I can continue to find a song or two that I want to fit onto that compilation. Finally this time, I had to stop it. I'm just saving similar songs I like a lot, and am thinking of a future followup to this CDR, with a similar flavor. Monday, September 23, 2002
Lunch What's that saying, "It's only lunch." True, and actually technically this doesn't really count. But hey, she said *yes*, anyway. I'll take it. |
