tiny bright spark
Aug. 11th, 2015 08:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaI don't know if you people read The Illustrated Guide To Law but there's some cool stuff about memory and specifically how we remember faces. Ever since I started sketching random people, I've been looking at the shape of their facial features and of their face itself. Jewelry and tattoos are great if you want to remember someone.
It's weird, I can never remember eye color. Or birthdays, for that matter. Unless they're something significant. Halloween is a good birthday but the worst is around Christmas.
Also, I learned that H.G. Wells outlived Adolf Hitler and therefore was alive at the same time Christopher Priest was.
Katie says I'm sounding better, and I think I know why: because it's all on my fucking skin now. The good news is that I don't have strep or pneumonia, the bad news is that I have a viral infection of some sorts and that means I have to wait it out.
She named her adopted pet rat Radagast, because she couldn't resist the pun, even though the rat Radagast is white, not brown. I don't remember Radagast at all except for when Saruman mocked him, calling himself Saruman Ring-Maker, Saruman of Many Colors. And I only know about him because I have this book of paintings from Tolkien's lore with passages from the books.
Radagast is the one who told Gandalf about the Nazgul riding again. He's a really obscure character in the books but he appears a lot more in the Hobbit movies, which I haven't seen.
I haven't read the Lord of the Rings since the 20th century. In fact, I don't think Emma (Hungarian, not Swedish) was alive when I read the Hobbit. Actually, Lord of the Rings is what got me into fantasy. I'd say adult fantasy, but I don't want to know about anyone's interpretation of that phrase. Anyways, from there, I moved on to things like Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn and The Black Company.
Chelsea says that dogs should have the lifespan of a parrot.
She told me about some Senegal parrots speaking in glossolalia. It's her lifelong dream to own a parrot, and, yes, they live a long time. Some of the larger ones can live up to a century.
Justin said a University Physics textbook the wildlife center had lying around looked intimidating, like it was the Necronomicon or bound in human skin.
Katie brought up this professor who looked scary and knew he looked scary so in the first few days, he would rave in half English half German and then he turned out to be really nice.
Justin wonders why anyone would teach if they're clearly bitter about their lives.
Steroids have a lot of nasty side effects, like dampening the immune system, and if it turns out the inflammation was caused by an infection, steroids make things worse, and that's why we try to avoid steroids whenever possible.
Someone brought in a woodchuck.
burning question: there were eight dogs locked in her car and none of them helped her?
It's weird, I can never remember eye color. Or birthdays, for that matter. Unless they're something significant. Halloween is a good birthday but the worst is around Christmas.
Also, I learned that H.G. Wells outlived Adolf Hitler and therefore was alive at the same time Christopher Priest was.
Katie says I'm sounding better, and I think I know why: because it's all on my fucking skin now. The good news is that I don't have strep or pneumonia, the bad news is that I have a viral infection of some sorts and that means I have to wait it out.
She named her adopted pet rat Radagast, because she couldn't resist the pun, even though the rat Radagast is white, not brown. I don't remember Radagast at all except for when Saruman mocked him, calling himself Saruman Ring-Maker, Saruman of Many Colors. And I only know about him because I have this book of paintings from Tolkien's lore with passages from the books.
Radagast is the one who told Gandalf about the Nazgul riding again. He's a really obscure character in the books but he appears a lot more in the Hobbit movies, which I haven't seen.
I haven't read the Lord of the Rings since the 20th century. In fact, I don't think Emma (Hungarian, not Swedish) was alive when I read the Hobbit. Actually, Lord of the Rings is what got me into fantasy. I'd say adult fantasy, but I don't want to know about anyone's interpretation of that phrase. Anyways, from there, I moved on to things like Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn and The Black Company.
Chelsea says that dogs should have the lifespan of a parrot.
She told me about some Senegal parrots speaking in glossolalia. It's her lifelong dream to own a parrot, and, yes, they live a long time. Some of the larger ones can live up to a century.
Justin said a University Physics textbook the wildlife center had lying around looked intimidating, like it was the Necronomicon or bound in human skin.
Katie brought up this professor who looked scary and knew he looked scary so in the first few days, he would rave in half English half German and then he turned out to be really nice.
Justin wonders why anyone would teach if they're clearly bitter about their lives.
Steroids have a lot of nasty side effects, like dampening the immune system, and if it turns out the inflammation was caused by an infection, steroids make things worse, and that's why we try to avoid steroids whenever possible.
Someone brought in a woodchuck.
burning question: there were eight dogs locked in her car and none of them helped her?
