a service for the dead
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yamamanamaMiranda (and Désireé, whom we are all familiar with by now, and Cody, who says he met me once) showed up and it's raining so I'm making a reference to Stations of the Tide. Cody and Miranda both think June should be a lot nicer.
Cody says "if your girlfriend cheats on you, don't break her TV." I'll keep that advice in mind.
I'm going to assume (I'm allowed to assume; you're already an ass, Shadowdancer Duskstar*) that he is speaking from experience and I'm imagining Tommy Wiseau in the room, throwing a cathode ray TV out the window. Eveybedy betray me I fed up wit dis warld. He's going to watch The Room with Miranda, or has probably already watched The Room when I posted this. I swear, in that scene where he's like "I did not hit her, I dihd naat," he accidentally left the camera running while rehearsing his lines.
It never gets any easier but you get stronger.
Also, he said that sometimes it's hard to stay friends with the people you fall in love with, and I think that way sometimes, but it's a lot different when you're friends with someone first vs. crushing on them vs. you think they're crushing on you (or maybe they are) and you lose contact (you know who you are).
Miranda, meanwhile, griped about how expensive motels are. And I said that, hey, we have so many foreclosures and shit going on, and the homeless problem is getting worse, so maybe we should pay people to fix up abandoned houses or buildings and they can live in them.
Cody has two last names due to a series of bureaucratic snafus, and has to keep track of what ID he uses. I think Cody may be telepathic because I was talking about a woman I sketched back when Emma had those sketchbook pages on display and he knew exactly who I was talking about. I'm pretty sure her name is Samantha, though. He called her Shannon.
If you're a teenage girl on tumblr you get a lot of anonymous messages, he says.
Sometimes I feel like Tumblr would make a great image repository.
But I prefer livejournal because of interaction.
*by the way, she didn't remove the line about the woman on the red line calling my drawing of her beautiful when I thought she would. Of course, we're talking about someone who said this: I’m on record for thinking Vox is actually too nice at times.
Which is, yeah, nope.
Get this: one of the interns is Jamaican, Russian, Polish, English, Indian, Native American, and Spanish. Also, she's Jewish. People have a lot of fun guessing what she is.
One of the interns is named Eden and someone thought she meant she was eating. We're at the point where there are about twenty different people. It will calm down in July.
We have a coyote which we are going to transfer as soon as we can, orphaned crows, new baby owls, a wood duckling, more ducklings and goslings than I've ever seen at the wildlife center. Someone said they had a penguin for us. Unless it's an escapee from the Aquarium, nope. If they meant a puffin, okay, probably not, but okay. If they meant a great auk, nope, definitely nope.
Ha! I didn't know thumbnails on imgur are a thing. They're pretty big otherwise.
A mockingbird died and Yvonne said she knew it was dead because it was on its back.
We (me and a girl with a Thor's hammer necklace. Guess who I'm going to blame for the storms? Her) showed some people (a woman with blue tips in her hair and her kid) the baby ducks and raccoons.
Odin, she says, is the god of everything. As well as the rival spy organization to ISIS.
***
Wow, Facebook is messed up.
a. I can't get to messages from the main page. So if I want to send a message, I have to put in the url for the message page. This is important because Emma might finally get this mural going, even if the other Emma wasn't around today. I hope she didn't disappear permanently. She said she had nothing better to do than to come to the widlife center and hang around with the reptiles, but maybe something came up. I don't know.
b. I can't get to any other pages from the messages.
c. I wonder if eventually I won't be able to send messages period.
d. Christine says she can't find me via Facebook and I really have no idea why. I'm going to assume that other people don't know I exist either and that's why I always have to initiate things.
e. Oh, NOW I'm getting e-mail notifications again. Yay. I'm sure we sacrificed something for that. I'm sure it's the fact that videos play when your cursor is nearby, because it's definitely not the thing with maps.
f. Hey, we don't believe in accurate directions. This is nothing new, hey, when Emma had that concert back in March and I was like "my heart just pooped its pants," what I didn't tell you is that the page for the venue kept redirecting to Sears and the directions on the concert page were completely inaccurate. I'm thinking of going to a thing but I'm afraid I'll end up in Timbuktu. Hey, at least Azawad has good music.
***
I was going to update on Thursday or Friday, but I didn't see Emma, I saw a woman in a panda t-shirt. But as of May 28, 2015, Station Eleven, which was snubbed in favor of the #sadpuppies' garbage, is not out in paperback, but is available in hardcover and is filed under M as in Mancy. I was thinking that Amazon has a tendency to state the release date as later than the actual release date, and the release date according to Amazon is June 2, so, hey, worth a try, right? I couldn't find The Goblin Emperor, which got on the Hugo ballot despite the efforts of various cut-rate writers and their minions, who somehow manage to be more cut-rate. There's a mass market paperback. It might have been sold out, I don't know. It seems like a pretty popular novel, and the award nomination probably helps. There's a paperback but Amazon pretends it doesn't exist. Stretching out the window helps but I don't fill my entire screen with Safari pages. I didn't bother looking for Luminous Chaos.
I also had a thought, and it was as follows: If Hera let me rule Asia, there would be about 45 despots suddenly out of power, and they'd be trying to kill me, and so would their supporters, and there are multiple civil wars and restive regions to deal with, and Russia would be pissed off because they lost a good chunk of their territory and most of their resources, and they're going to try to take it back, and Egypt lost the Sinai, and Australia lost some detention centers, and I'm sure Russia would give some incentives to their former allies in Asia to help them take Asian Russia back. No, Hera, I don't think I'll be taking your gift.
Unless she meant Anatolia. In which case, my answer is "nope."
Burning question: Do you think anyone in Australia would even notice if they lost the Cocos (Keeling) Islands?
Cody says "if your girlfriend cheats on you, don't break her TV." I'll keep that advice in mind.
I'm going to assume (I'm allowed to assume; you're already an ass, Shadowdancer Duskstar*) that he is speaking from experience and I'm imagining Tommy Wiseau in the room, throwing a cathode ray TV out the window. Eveybedy betray me I fed up wit dis warld. He's going to watch The Room with Miranda, or has probably already watched The Room when I posted this. I swear, in that scene where he's like "I did not hit her, I dihd naat," he accidentally left the camera running while rehearsing his lines.
It never gets any easier but you get stronger.
Also, he said that sometimes it's hard to stay friends with the people you fall in love with, and I think that way sometimes, but it's a lot different when you're friends with someone first vs. crushing on them vs. you think they're crushing on you (or maybe they are) and you lose contact (you know who you are).
Miranda, meanwhile, griped about how expensive motels are. And I said that, hey, we have so many foreclosures and shit going on, and the homeless problem is getting worse, so maybe we should pay people to fix up abandoned houses or buildings and they can live in them.
Cody has two last names due to a series of bureaucratic snafus, and has to keep track of what ID he uses. I think Cody may be telepathic because I was talking about a woman I sketched back when Emma had those sketchbook pages on display and he knew exactly who I was talking about. I'm pretty sure her name is Samantha, though. He called her Shannon.
If you're a teenage girl on tumblr you get a lot of anonymous messages, he says.
Sometimes I feel like Tumblr would make a great image repository.
But I prefer livejournal because of interaction.
*by the way, she didn't remove the line about the woman on the red line calling my drawing of her beautiful when I thought she would. Of course, we're talking about someone who said this: I’m on record for thinking Vox is actually too nice at times.
Which is, yeah, nope.
Get this: one of the interns is Jamaican, Russian, Polish, English, Indian, Native American, and Spanish. Also, she's Jewish. People have a lot of fun guessing what she is.
One of the interns is named Eden and someone thought she meant she was eating. We're at the point where there are about twenty different people. It will calm down in July.
We have a coyote which we are going to transfer as soon as we can, orphaned crows, new baby owls, a wood duckling, more ducklings and goslings than I've ever seen at the wildlife center. Someone said they had a penguin for us. Unless it's an escapee from the Aquarium, nope. If they meant a puffin, okay, probably not, but okay. If they meant a great auk, nope, definitely nope.
Ha! I didn't know thumbnails on imgur are a thing. They're pretty big otherwise.
A mockingbird died and Yvonne said she knew it was dead because it was on its back.
We (me and a girl with a Thor's hammer necklace. Guess who I'm going to blame for the storms? Her) showed some people (a woman with blue tips in her hair and her kid) the baby ducks and raccoons.
Odin, she says, is the god of everything. As well as the rival spy organization to ISIS.
***
Wow, Facebook is messed up.
a. I can't get to messages from the main page. So if I want to send a message, I have to put in the url for the message page. This is important because Emma might finally get this mural going, even if the other Emma wasn't around today. I hope she didn't disappear permanently. She said she had nothing better to do than to come to the widlife center and hang around with the reptiles, but maybe something came up. I don't know.
b. I can't get to any other pages from the messages.
c. I wonder if eventually I won't be able to send messages period.
d. Christine says she can't find me via Facebook and I really have no idea why. I'm going to assume that other people don't know I exist either and that's why I always have to initiate things.
e. Oh, NOW I'm getting e-mail notifications again. Yay. I'm sure we sacrificed something for that. I'm sure it's the fact that videos play when your cursor is nearby, because it's definitely not the thing with maps.
f. Hey, we don't believe in accurate directions. This is nothing new, hey, when Emma had that concert back in March and I was like "my heart just pooped its pants," what I didn't tell you is that the page for the venue kept redirecting to Sears and the directions on the concert page were completely inaccurate. I'm thinking of going to a thing but I'm afraid I'll end up in Timbuktu. Hey, at least Azawad has good music.
***
I was going to update on Thursday or Friday, but I didn't see Emma, I saw a woman in a panda t-shirt. But as of May 28, 2015, Station Eleven, which was snubbed in favor of the #sadpuppies' garbage, is not out in paperback, but is available in hardcover and is filed under M as in Mancy. I was thinking that Amazon has a tendency to state the release date as later than the actual release date, and the release date according to Amazon is June 2, so, hey, worth a try, right? I couldn't find The Goblin Emperor, which got on the Hugo ballot despite the efforts of various cut-rate writers and their minions, who somehow manage to be more cut-rate. There's a mass market paperback. It might have been sold out, I don't know. It seems like a pretty popular novel, and the award nomination probably helps. There's a paperback but Amazon pretends it doesn't exist. Stretching out the window helps but I don't fill my entire screen with Safari pages. I didn't bother looking for Luminous Chaos.
I also had a thought, and it was as follows: If Hera let me rule Asia, there would be about 45 despots suddenly out of power, and they'd be trying to kill me, and so would their supporters, and there are multiple civil wars and restive regions to deal with, and Russia would be pissed off because they lost a good chunk of their territory and most of their resources, and they're going to try to take it back, and Egypt lost the Sinai, and Australia lost some detention centers, and I'm sure Russia would give some incentives to their former allies in Asia to help them take Asian Russia back. No, Hera, I don't think I'll be taking your gift.
Unless she meant Anatolia. In which case, my answer is "nope."
Burning question: Do you think anyone in Australia would even notice if they lost the Cocos (Keeling) Islands?
