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yamamanamaI thought I'd have to clarify that this title is based on the literary definition of ravish, which is to enrapture or fill with intense delight or overwhelm with emotion.
I don't even have to tell you that I have no idea what Ian Watson meant when he picked that chapter title.
But I don't because it could go either way. On St. Kitts, vervet monkeys are raiding resorts in order to steal sweet-tasting alcoholic beverages, and they do this with more or less the same ratio as humans in societies where alcoholism isn't proscribed or shunned.
To summarize, just watch the video
Although they're not doing it by force most of the time, but by subterfuge.
Taylor said something about a temple in India where monkeys get hammered (I'm not sure that was the word she chose) on overripe fruits or something. And it's "kinda sad" because they "fall down and die sometimes."
She gets it. Monkeys are frigging awesome.
Susan pointed out that she didn't say anything about catnip, though. It's because monkeys are frigging awesome.
Non-primates don't tend to get addicted. They might get drugged and feel happy about it for a while but their brains are never going to connect the drugs with the feelings of pleasure. In fact, the reason vets use ketamine is because it interferes with the creation of memories and thus the patient won't hate the vet afterwards. It's rarely used (legitimately) in humans. It probably has a higher potential for abuse than marijuana or LSD.
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And there was a cat that Chichi said looked really young and I thought was merely underfed, and it ran away from us, and, oh yeah, there are some stray cats on campus, and they might be spayed/neutered and microchipped.
Don't even ask me her name. I think it might be Caitlin but I'm not entirely sure. Maybe it started with an A. But anyway, she has a cat ring that I thought looked like a lioness, and she's like "I don't know what's up with its expression."
Cats have dopey expressions anyway.
She wants a house with forty cats so she could have a cat mosh pit or something.
Her portrait came out rather good.
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I'm not entirely satisfied with my portrait of Jessica but she likes it. It's definitely Beckmannesque, now that I think about it. I wasn't able to do one of Skyla or Taylor, because Skyla was wearing a hat and I wasn't able to compare Taylor's hair (swirls of violet and pale lime and blonde) with the hair colors of my portraits until class was over, because she was probably out looking for cats or something.
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Kristian imitated a cat, possibly a cat high on catnip. I don't quite remember why.
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There are apparently catnip soap bubbles. I can only imagine what would happen.
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I swear, even if class was canceled, I'd make an entry because there was a squirrel trying to pull a bag of smartfood popcorn out of the garbage bag.
I just wouldn't call it ravished.
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I didn't mention this but for the next eight weeks or so I'm going to be posting entries all rapid-fire like.
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burning question: how do you cock up a game with a hoverboard in it?
I don't even have to tell you that I have no idea what Ian Watson meant when he picked that chapter title.
But I don't because it could go either way. On St. Kitts, vervet monkeys are raiding resorts in order to steal sweet-tasting alcoholic beverages, and they do this with more or less the same ratio as humans in societies where alcoholism isn't proscribed or shunned.
To summarize, just watch the video
Although they're not doing it by force most of the time, but by subterfuge.
Taylor said something about a temple in India where monkeys get hammered (I'm not sure that was the word she chose) on overripe fruits or something. And it's "kinda sad" because they "fall down and die sometimes."
She gets it. Monkeys are frigging awesome.
Susan pointed out that she didn't say anything about catnip, though. It's because monkeys are frigging awesome.
Non-primates don't tend to get addicted. They might get drugged and feel happy about it for a while but their brains are never going to connect the drugs with the feelings of pleasure. In fact, the reason vets use ketamine is because it interferes with the creation of memories and thus the patient won't hate the vet afterwards. It's rarely used (legitimately) in humans. It probably has a higher potential for abuse than marijuana or LSD.
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And there was a cat that Chichi said looked really young and I thought was merely underfed, and it ran away from us, and, oh yeah, there are some stray cats on campus, and they might be spayed/neutered and microchipped.
Don't even ask me her name. I think it might be Caitlin but I'm not entirely sure. Maybe it started with an A. But anyway, she has a cat ring that I thought looked like a lioness, and she's like "I don't know what's up with its expression."
Cats have dopey expressions anyway.
She wants a house with forty cats so she could have a cat mosh pit or something.
Her portrait came out rather good.
***
I'm not entirely satisfied with my portrait of Jessica but she likes it. It's definitely Beckmannesque, now that I think about it. I wasn't able to do one of Skyla or Taylor, because Skyla was wearing a hat and I wasn't able to compare Taylor's hair (swirls of violet and pale lime and blonde) with the hair colors of my portraits until class was over, because she was probably out looking for cats or something.
***
Kristian imitated a cat, possibly a cat high on catnip. I don't quite remember why.
***
There are apparently catnip soap bubbles. I can only imagine what would happen.
***
I swear, even if class was canceled, I'd make an entry because there was a squirrel trying to pull a bag of smartfood popcorn out of the garbage bag.
I just wouldn't call it ravished.
***
I didn't mention this but for the next eight weeks or so I'm going to be posting entries all rapid-fire like.
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burning question: how do you cock up a game with a hoverboard in it?
