Met with the family today for a tasty dinner after having slept for 11 hours.
Later that night, Phillip and I procured milk and cream from the Payless. You gotta love grocery stores in the middle of the night, you meet the best people in there.
While I was purchasing a quarter's worth of Skittles from a small-time candy machine by the door, a cadre of hippy types strolled in. They were all varrying shades of brown, in the hair and clothing. Which was odd, because I don't believe that Tie-Dye shirts start out that color.
They walked in and said a location and a time. I repeated it back to them, and they excitedly told me another locaitona and a different time, assuring me that both would be awesome. Somone is going to have to hang around Slater hill for all of Saturday, because I forgot what time they told me.
When we exited to the parking lot, we guessed that their car was the Short Bus with the puppies and the girls inside and the stenciled visage of Ronald McDonald on the back.
Im coming back to Troy tomorrow, and will shove off for Ann Arbor the next day.
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Friday, April 28, 2006
Day One In Indiana
I made it here without any problems, thanks to my Dad's directions and the google maps easy to read directions. God bless the internet! I made good time, leaving at around 9:30am or so, and arriving at 2:15pm. Nothing really to report along the way, except a small black pick-up truck with the word "JESUS" in giant red letters on it. It was hard to miss on account of the fact that I was behind him for 40 minutes or so.
Coming here to Indiana is always a treat. My grandfolks welcomed me so warmly, and within minutes I had food in my mouth (and I like food!).
I also spent a few hours talking my Grandpa Eddy, which is something I rarely have the chance to do. It was really a great time.
My cousin and his totally awesome lady-friend Susan swung by. We picked up this other dude Brian and proceeded to consume vast quantities of Dairy Queen. I must admit this was difficult for me, I couldn't down the brownie and nut chunks as fast as the other guys. I guess I am out of shape.
The only downside was loosing Susan's keys in the dark intermural sports fields. We probably spent about an hour looking for them, walking back and forth with heads bent like a line of pentient monks.
No dice on the keys though. We got the spare, and were able to get back. So all's well that ends well.
See, Phil? I did blog it, because I am a dork.
Coming here to Indiana is always a treat. My grandfolks welcomed me so warmly, and within minutes I had food in my mouth (and I like food!).
I also spent a few hours talking my Grandpa Eddy, which is something I rarely have the chance to do. It was really a great time.
My cousin and his totally awesome lady-friend Susan swung by. We picked up this other dude Brian and proceeded to consume vast quantities of Dairy Queen. I must admit this was difficult for me, I couldn't down the brownie and nut chunks as fast as the other guys. I guess I am out of shape.
The only downside was loosing Susan's keys in the dark intermural sports fields. We probably spent about an hour looking for them, walking back and forth with heads bent like a line of pentient monks.
No dice on the keys though. We got the spare, and were able to get back. So all's well that ends well.
See, Phil? I did blog it, because I am a dork.
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Sup Dogs
Yo.
I'm in Troy, but only briefly. I'm leaving for Indiana at some point come morning. It's a six hour drive, and there is some fear (at least in my mind) that I will not be able to make it. I've never been very good with directions, but I figure that I have been a passanger on this trip for nearly 20 years. I figure I should be able to handle it by now. I've done it before by my lonesome, but this is the first time I have tried taking this more direct route. Sadly, this way down to my Grandfolks will not take me past the totally awesome Vietnam Vets commune on 26. At least that's what I think it was...it was pretty wiggy either way.
Grades are starting to come in. Poetry yielded an A-, which I consider a victory considering some of the crap that I have been putting on my Prof. I'm sitting pretty with a B+ in botany, and this I suppose I really can't complain too much about. It was an easy class and I didn't really put a lot of work into the exam portion of the class (my plants are doing quite well though, thank you!). Im still waiting to hear about SciFi and German. I think at least a B will be coming from SciFi, and I am hoping the same for German, but I am a little nervous. Here's to hopin'.
The only interesting thing to report from my train ride to Troy was the arrival of a Bishop. Though I never saw the man, I did see his reception party which came in the form of two late middle-aged ladies with imobile hair and some kind of twead thing going on. One of them was talking about the Singles program available at her church to an older dude who said he hadn't had any religion in his life. It seems funny to me that we have come so far from Bishops arriving in embossed carriages with an entire enclave in their wake. Forget deliverence from divine retribution - our church offers very fulfilling programs for people who ain't got no spoouse.
Is this a bad thing? I'm not sure. Probably not. It's just kind of funny to me, a Bishop arriving by Amtrak. Reminds me of Mohammad arriving (finally) by cab. Or maybe one of them Seguay thingies.
I am traveling computer less and note-book less. The later simply because of forgetfulness. I'll be in contact, just email if you need anything.
See you in Lafayette!
I'm in Troy, but only briefly. I'm leaving for Indiana at some point come morning. It's a six hour drive, and there is some fear (at least in my mind) that I will not be able to make it. I've never been very good with directions, but I figure that I have been a passanger on this trip for nearly 20 years. I figure I should be able to handle it by now. I've done it before by my lonesome, but this is the first time I have tried taking this more direct route. Sadly, this way down to my Grandfolks will not take me past the totally awesome Vietnam Vets commune on 26. At least that's what I think it was...it was pretty wiggy either way.
Grades are starting to come in. Poetry yielded an A-, which I consider a victory considering some of the crap that I have been putting on my Prof. I'm sitting pretty with a B+ in botany, and this I suppose I really can't complain too much about. It was an easy class and I didn't really put a lot of work into the exam portion of the class (my plants are doing quite well though, thank you!). Im still waiting to hear about SciFi and German. I think at least a B will be coming from SciFi, and I am hoping the same for German, but I am a little nervous. Here's to hopin'.
The only interesting thing to report from my train ride to Troy was the arrival of a Bishop. Though I never saw the man, I did see his reception party which came in the form of two late middle-aged ladies with imobile hair and some kind of twead thing going on. One of them was talking about the Singles program available at her church to an older dude who said he hadn't had any religion in his life. It seems funny to me that we have come so far from Bishops arriving in embossed carriages with an entire enclave in their wake. Forget deliverence from divine retribution - our church offers very fulfilling programs for people who ain't got no spoouse.
Is this a bad thing? I'm not sure. Probably not. It's just kind of funny to me, a Bishop arriving by Amtrak. Reminds me of Mohammad arriving (finally) by cab. Or maybe one of them Seguay thingies.
I am traveling computer less and note-book less. The later simply because of forgetfulness. I'll be in contact, just email if you need anything.
See you in Lafayette!
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
I Am Going To Indiana
Sup, dogs.
I am going to Indiana to visit the extended family. Tomorrow, I will hopefully help in the shooting of the Dr. TV II sketch, "Ice Cream Parlor." But that all depends on what train I am taking to Troy.
At Troy I will relax in the loving glow of my immediate family. From there, I will procure my auto-mobile and drive the six or so hours to Indiana.
I'll be down there from Thursday to Saturday, it's short but I'd like to see my family before I start work on the first.
Which, after todays paperwork, I am completely hired for. It starts before 7am (guh...) monday monring. I better start getting more sleep...and a bike.
I am going to Indiana to visit the extended family. Tomorrow, I will hopefully help in the shooting of the Dr. TV II sketch, "Ice Cream Parlor." But that all depends on what train I am taking to Troy.
At Troy I will relax in the loving glow of my immediate family. From there, I will procure my auto-mobile and drive the six or so hours to Indiana.
I'll be down there from Thursday to Saturday, it's short but I'd like to see my family before I start work on the first.
Which, after todays paperwork, I am completely hired for. It starts before 7am (guh...) monday monring. I better start getting more sleep...and a bike.
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Betty Boop and Other Banned Cartoons
I have never really been one for Betty Boop cartoons, but some of these from the 1930's are really great. They have three things going for them, at least in my mind:
1. The animation is fantastic. It's fluid and amazingly consistent.
2. The cartoons are really, really weird.
3. Cab Calloway.
How can you possibly go wrong!? A quick search for Betty Boop (or Popeye, or any other old cartoon) will turn up some great stuff on YouTube.com
Here's a video google clip of one of the best ones, you can see the whole thing here.
1. The animation is fantastic. It's fluid and amazingly consistent.
2. The cartoons are really, really weird.
3. Cab Calloway.
How can you possibly go wrong!? A quick search for Betty Boop (or Popeye, or any other old cartoon) will turn up some great stuff on YouTube.com
Here's a video google clip of one of the best ones, you can see the whole thing here.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
The Final Throws
Right now I am wrapping up my last Sci-Fi paper, which has been an interesting experience to write. I've never done half as much drafting on anything before. This one has three complete drafts now, and I am feeling pretty good about it. Scared, yes, but feeling pretty good.
As a reflection of my interests, my Poetry class has a paper double the length and still only half done. Don't freak, because I wrote 4 solid well thought out pages in no time flat on sunday. So, Im not too worried.
Tomorrow is my last class, Scif Fi, and then that is it for this year. All in all, it was a good year. It had its shares of ups, and the downs were pretty intense I have to say. But here I am, still standing. I'm a little wobbly, but that's not too unusual.
The good news is that I have a line on a really good job. Basically I'll be doing what I did last year, but for the same pay. So, I really cannot complain, and I really hope this goes through.
Here's some fun stuff in the meantime, while I wait for classes to end:
Kid - A - Littles : A really bad-looking Jim Henson knock off. I don't think there is much else to say. It's wretched.
Ducklings : Adorable with their elusive smiles.
I just finished downloading every episode of The Prisoner, and I am nearly done with every episode of Twin Peaks. This is going to be a great summer!
As a reflection of my interests, my Poetry class has a paper double the length and still only half done. Don't freak, because I wrote 4 solid well thought out pages in no time flat on sunday. So, Im not too worried.
Tomorrow is my last class, Scif Fi, and then that is it for this year. All in all, it was a good year. It had its shares of ups, and the downs were pretty intense I have to say. But here I am, still standing. I'm a little wobbly, but that's not too unusual.
The good news is that I have a line on a really good job. Basically I'll be doing what I did last year, but for the same pay. So, I really cannot complain, and I really hope this goes through.
Here's some fun stuff in the meantime, while I wait for classes to end:
Kid - A - Littles : A really bad-looking Jim Henson knock off. I don't think there is much else to say. It's wretched.
Ducklings : Adorable with their elusive smiles.
I just finished downloading every episode of The Prisoner, and I am nearly done with every episode of Twin Peaks. This is going to be a great summer!
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Monday, April 10, 2006
Sunday, April 09, 2006
More Plants and ANGER!
I have so many new plants!
Two mint plants that have been here a while, two banzai plants (im not sure what they are, but i think one of them is Mytle) some moss, a living stone, an aloe, a hanging basket of Bridal Veils, and two ptoato plants.
Exciting! But I am running out of room for them...that's the only downside.
Oh, except that through my professor's infinite wisdom, a great many of my plants are infested. He thought it would be good to bring a plate full of soil from his yard and dump water on it - to demonstrate how it was contanimated.
BRILLIANT!
Now there are bugs all over the green house. I have grubs in a few of the pots - Im told that they are called Fungus Gnats, and I found an aphid on one of my potatoes today.
Im told that the best way to kill fungus gnats is to put chunks of potatoes in them, that's why the pots have chunks in them. Apparently the larva will crawl inside them and die.
Here's to hopin!
Two mint plants that have been here a while, two banzai plants (im not sure what they are, but i think one of them is Mytle) some moss, a living stone, an aloe, a hanging basket of Bridal Veils, and two ptoato plants.
Exciting! But I am running out of room for them...that's the only downside.
Oh, except that through my professor's infinite wisdom, a great many of my plants are infested. He thought it would be good to bring a plate full of soil from his yard and dump water on it - to demonstrate how it was contanimated.
BRILLIANT!
Now there are bugs all over the green house. I have grubs in a few of the pots - Im told that they are called Fungus Gnats, and I found an aphid on one of my potatoes today.
Im told that the best way to kill fungus gnats is to put chunks of potatoes in them, that's why the pots have chunks in them. Apparently the larva will crawl inside them and die.
Here's to hopin!
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Golden Apple and Registration
I saw my Sci-Fi teacher, Eric S. Rabkin, give a most excellent lecture today. He was awarded the Golden Apple award, which entitles him to some cash and school wide recognition, but the real prize is being able to give "your ideal last lecture" to a gathered audience in the historic Rackham auditorium.
The man is a genius, a simple google search will confirm that for you. His talk was equally fascinating. A Rabkin lecture is always difficult to try to explain to someone who was not there, but I will do my best because it was truly something special.
His primary thesis was that words can create meaning and affect the meaning of other words. (At least, I think that is what he was driving at. Believe me, at the time it all made sense) He took, as an example, two words and related them together. Such as Cranberries and Discombobulated. To eat cranberries, we must discombobulat them, was what a member of the audience (at Rabkin's behest) concluded. This now gives us a new meaning to the term discombobulated without violating the meaning of the word or anything of the sort.
Some really amazing stuff happened in between, and then we arrived at CUVWEBS. From a massive list of things he sought to do to improve his life and himself, he honed it down to 7 items.This is Rabkin's basic recpie for living better, and it goes like this:
C - Choose Goals
U - Use Time
V - Value People
W - Work Zestfully
E - Enjoy Life
B - Be Direct
S - Sleep Sufficiently
That is the amazing thing about Rabkin, he can speak for a great length of time about something very technical - in this case, linguistics - and then come back with something so personal, spiritual, and humanisitic that you are just struck dumb and end up wondering just what in the hell happened!
The second part to this story is registering for my classes. That happens in about 5 hours and some change. I declare my major next week - if everything, godwilling, goes right.
The man is a genius, a simple google search will confirm that for you. His talk was equally fascinating. A Rabkin lecture is always difficult to try to explain to someone who was not there, but I will do my best because it was truly something special.
His primary thesis was that words can create meaning and affect the meaning of other words. (At least, I think that is what he was driving at. Believe me, at the time it all made sense) He took, as an example, two words and related them together. Such as Cranberries and Discombobulated. To eat cranberries, we must discombobulat them, was what a member of the audience (at Rabkin's behest) concluded. This now gives us a new meaning to the term discombobulated without violating the meaning of the word or anything of the sort.
Some really amazing stuff happened in between, and then we arrived at CUVWEBS. From a massive list of things he sought to do to improve his life and himself, he honed it down to 7 items.This is Rabkin's basic recpie for living better, and it goes like this:
C - Choose Goals
U - Use Time
V - Value People
W - Work Zestfully
E - Enjoy Life
B - Be Direct
S - Sleep Sufficiently
That is the amazing thing about Rabkin, he can speak for a great length of time about something very technical - in this case, linguistics - and then come back with something so personal, spiritual, and humanisitic that you are just struck dumb and end up wondering just what in the hell happened!
The second part to this story is registering for my classes. That happens in about 5 hours and some change. I declare my major next week - if everything, godwilling, goes right.
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
It's Still Not Done!
Man, I am starting to feel really worn out.
Over the weekend, I spent an awful lot of time at the Gargoyle offices. I mean, a lot of time. I think I got about 10hrs of sleep total from Saturday morning to Monday morning. That's pretty not cool.
It wouldn't be so bad but we are still not done! What is up with this!? I am very serious about sending this issue off but MAN, it can be so frustrating!
But I am sure we will make it alright. We're the Gargoyle and this is what we do.
I've been having some trouble sleeping lately. The Sleep Paralysis is back, but the inability to fall asleep thing is new and annoying. I fell asleep for 2hours or so today in the Office and that helped a bit. Hopefully I'm all reset now.
Professor Eric Rabkin won the Golden Apple Award and will be giving his "Ideal Last Lecture" today! Im really excited to hear it. I have no idea what the topic is, only that at some point in it's creation it included Irish folk music. Exciting!
Ok, sleep time now.
Over the weekend, I spent an awful lot of time at the Gargoyle offices. I mean, a lot of time. I think I got about 10hrs of sleep total from Saturday morning to Monday morning. That's pretty not cool.
It wouldn't be so bad but we are still not done! What is up with this!? I am very serious about sending this issue off but MAN, it can be so frustrating!
But I am sure we will make it alright. We're the Gargoyle and this is what we do.
I've been having some trouble sleeping lately. The Sleep Paralysis is back, but the inability to fall asleep thing is new and annoying. I fell asleep for 2hours or so today in the Office and that helped a bit. Hopefully I'm all reset now.
Professor Eric Rabkin won the Golden Apple Award and will be giving his "Ideal Last Lecture" today! Im really excited to hear it. I have no idea what the topic is, only that at some point in it's creation it included Irish folk music. Exciting!
Ok, sleep time now.
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Gargoyle Production Is Going To Kill Me
Oh, we gain an hour.
How quaint.
I was very much up until nearly 5am this morning, and now I am awake again.
Gotta get breakfast, then go back to sleep.
We percevere.
How quaint.
I was very much up until nearly 5am this morning, and now I am awake again.
Gotta get breakfast, then go back to sleep.
We percevere.
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