amid timebound waves
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yamamanama28 days until the vernal equinox
I'd be lying if I said I think this fimbulvinter will end before Ascension Day. Atlas Lab and Post Modern Authors are playing an acoustic set tomorrow night and I think I'm going to bail out on it because I'm not willing to brave shuttle buses and snow and ice and rain and I think I'm going to the wildlife center on Friday again because that morass that is every road in New England is going to turn into Lake Bresha.
On the bright side, the risk of a Nazi invasion of New England is zero.
Food in dreams: beans floating in "harissa" and some scraps of lettuce in a bread roll. I wanted dolmas but for some reason they wouldn't give me any. It's a metaphor for how I have to go to Pita if I want dolmas.
Art in dreams: giant sculptures of red stone, covered in braided colorful wool.
Désirée dreamt that she took her cats to an amusement park, lost them on one of the rides, and ended up with her sister's cat and then she had more of them. Nina called it "mirror maze cloning" and suggests that we lay off the pork rinds before bed but she's no one to talk because she has really weird dreams.
Désireé says Emma has a lovely voice. I told her about how I first heard Trust Fall and her cover of Closer To Fine and didn't think much of them but the more I listen to Atlas Lab, the more I like her voice. She asked me if the man who said Emma was unattractive because she had short pink hair and a nose ring in a video had short hair, and told me that people expect a Barbie doll look. I'm not trying to turn this into a figurative peeing contest about looks but in my honest opinion, any group that has Shadowdancer Duskstar on their side has no right to talk about peoples' looks, whether they're Emma or Brianna Wu or Salome Fredericks. I'm still all kinds of perplexed about the hipster thing so if someone wants to explain that to me, do so.
Désirée has brilliant cerulean and ultramarine and turquoise streaks in her hair now.
She says Castellana sounds a bit like Jefferson Airplane.
She's heard Toe, but not Lusine or Odessa Chen. She has a friend who's really into Japanese culture and anime and stuff and likes Toe of all things.
As I remarked when spending one of the blizzard days listening to music Emma likes, it's nice to have friends who have similar tastes in music but don't like the same exact things so we can learn from each other. I discover most music on my own but it's awesome when I discover new things through other people.
One day Désirée looked up Brass Monkey because she had to know what the fuck the Beastie Boys were singing about and it turns out it's beer mixed with orange juice.
She turned Slipknot off because it's an acquired taste and there were others in the room. I told her I like Merzbow and that's even noisier than Slipknot and once someone called me a degenerate and a mental-defective and a sinner against cosmic law because I like Merzbow, but Merzbow is beautiful in its own way.
I told her about how Emma's been to Madagascar and how Rob wants to see Madagascar before they tear it all down, she says she wants to see the Great Barrier Reef before they kill it, I said it's too late to see Sana'a because literal Nazis are in control of Yemen, but there's still a chance to see Aden or Socotra.
She used a frisbee as a scraper to get the crusty hay off the mat. I used a broom. It worked pretty well after they soaked in nolvasan for a while.
All the grebes died, alas. I cleaned out a black duck's pool (Emma says their defense is splashing poopy water over you) and filled it up again. Black ducks look like exceptionally dark female mallards. I think I saw the bufflehead.
Brody says we keep records of what happens to each animal but nobody's actually compiled a list of the fate of each animal by type.
I asked Zofia if it was possible to distinguish between male calicos and female calicos by coat pattern alone and Courtney says you'll have to look at their sex organs, which, spoiler alert, you can't do with a photograph. Or, in other words, it can't be done.
One of our turtles is a cooter-painted hybrid with the coloration of a painted and the size of a cooter. Cooters and painted turtles are in the same family but not in the same.
Tortoises and turtles hiss when they're angry or territorial.
One of the garbage bags had the worst odor I've encountered in years. I don't know what it came from but I'm going to say it was chicks or possibly fish.
Zofia had an important bit of advice for me which I will share if it becomes relevant.
burning question: For a larf, I looked up The Grand Budapest Hotel on Movieguide, and it apparently has heavy nudity and sex but no foul language or violence. Did this guy watch the same Grand Budapest Hotel I did? Because it's definitely the other way around: profanity and a bit of cartoonish violence, very little sex or nudity.
I'd be lying if I said I think this fimbulvinter will end before Ascension Day. Atlas Lab and Post Modern Authors are playing an acoustic set tomorrow night and I think I'm going to bail out on it because I'm not willing to brave shuttle buses and snow and ice and rain and I think I'm going to the wildlife center on Friday again because that morass that is every road in New England is going to turn into Lake Bresha.
On the bright side, the risk of a Nazi invasion of New England is zero.
Food in dreams: beans floating in "harissa" and some scraps of lettuce in a bread roll. I wanted dolmas but for some reason they wouldn't give me any. It's a metaphor for how I have to go to Pita if I want dolmas.
Art in dreams: giant sculptures of red stone, covered in braided colorful wool.
Désirée dreamt that she took her cats to an amusement park, lost them on one of the rides, and ended up with her sister's cat and then she had more of them. Nina called it "mirror maze cloning" and suggests that we lay off the pork rinds before bed but she's no one to talk because she has really weird dreams.
Désireé says Emma has a lovely voice. I told her about how I first heard Trust Fall and her cover of Closer To Fine and didn't think much of them but the more I listen to Atlas Lab, the more I like her voice. She asked me if the man who said Emma was unattractive because she had short pink hair and a nose ring in a video had short hair, and told me that people expect a Barbie doll look. I'm not trying to turn this into a figurative peeing contest about looks but in my honest opinion, any group that has Shadowdancer Duskstar on their side has no right to talk about peoples' looks, whether they're Emma or Brianna Wu or Salome Fredericks. I'm still all kinds of perplexed about the hipster thing so if someone wants to explain that to me, do so.
Désirée has brilliant cerulean and ultramarine and turquoise streaks in her hair now.
She says Castellana sounds a bit like Jefferson Airplane.
She's heard Toe, but not Lusine or Odessa Chen. She has a friend who's really into Japanese culture and anime and stuff and likes Toe of all things.
As I remarked when spending one of the blizzard days listening to music Emma likes, it's nice to have friends who have similar tastes in music but don't like the same exact things so we can learn from each other. I discover most music on my own but it's awesome when I discover new things through other people.
One day Désirée looked up Brass Monkey because she had to know what the fuck the Beastie Boys were singing about and it turns out it's beer mixed with orange juice.
She turned Slipknot off because it's an acquired taste and there were others in the room. I told her I like Merzbow and that's even noisier than Slipknot and once someone called me a degenerate and a mental-defective and a sinner against cosmic law because I like Merzbow, but Merzbow is beautiful in its own way.
I told her about how Emma's been to Madagascar and how Rob wants to see Madagascar before they tear it all down, she says she wants to see the Great Barrier Reef before they kill it, I said it's too late to see Sana'a because literal Nazis are in control of Yemen, but there's still a chance to see Aden or Socotra.
She used a frisbee as a scraper to get the crusty hay off the mat. I used a broom. It worked pretty well after they soaked in nolvasan for a while.
All the grebes died, alas. I cleaned out a black duck's pool (Emma says their defense is splashing poopy water over you) and filled it up again. Black ducks look like exceptionally dark female mallards. I think I saw the bufflehead.
Brody says we keep records of what happens to each animal but nobody's actually compiled a list of the fate of each animal by type.
I asked Zofia if it was possible to distinguish between male calicos and female calicos by coat pattern alone and Courtney says you'll have to look at their sex organs, which, spoiler alert, you can't do with a photograph. Or, in other words, it can't be done.
One of our turtles is a cooter-painted hybrid with the coloration of a painted and the size of a cooter. Cooters and painted turtles are in the same family but not in the same.
Tortoises and turtles hiss when they're angry or territorial.
One of the garbage bags had the worst odor I've encountered in years. I don't know what it came from but I'm going to say it was chicks or possibly fish.
Zofia had an important bit of advice for me which I will share if it becomes relevant.
burning question: For a larf, I looked up The Grand Budapest Hotel on Movieguide, and it apparently has heavy nudity and sex but no foul language or violence. Did this guy watch the same Grand Budapest Hotel I did? Because it's definitely the other way around: profanity and a bit of cartoonish violence, very little sex or nudity.
