This Is The Thread Where We Have An Announcement To Make...

[Brynn]

Those ants of yours are depressing.

[Brynn]

Oh, and btw, slots still open for Acting II ages 10-14 beginning Oct. 8 at the Multnomah Art Center. My usual students in this class all signed up for the play I'm directing, so this particular class is in danger of being canceled.
I need about 12 kids and a miracle, thanks for asking :)

Yes, I want to have my cake and eat it too. I'm a great teacher, and I do not want to become a grocery checker just yet. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm thinking that an employee discount at a food supply source makes good sense these days.

Go ahead - put me on "ignore" - at least it's not cafepresse linkage to ugly t-shirts. Although in this economy I might just try that too. Stay tuned.

[MoJoRiSin]

the first load is now in the washer (lights)

[lukkucairi]

I'm tired.

[Frieda]

my lungs hurt!

[zero]

now you're just angling for more *RUBS*

[Brynn]

I'm eating linguine and clams.

1 stick of butter
Lots of olive oil
1 head of smashed garlic
1 bottle of white wine (minus a glass to cook by)
1 bunch of chopped scallions
1 bunch of chopped parsley
1 cup of juice from the clams
3 cans of whole baby clams
Juice of 2 or 3 lemons
1 package of linguine
Parmesan cheese
Salt
Pepper

[trisherina]

(ponders if clams are allowed)

(decides not to test)

(envies Brynn)

[Jack Flanders]

^^ She's eating it because someone else cooked it. She's busy with "Writing!!!"

[Klynne]

Wish me luck! Her name is Layla, but her nick name is Puppy Poo. We start class this week. She is a handful for being two pounds.


She seriously gets mad about certain things, most definitely about being told "NO" She is starting to listen now. Thank God. It is like having a kid.

[Jack Flanders]

Luck and congrats!! :D

[Frieda]

Wish me luck! Her name is Layla, but her nick name is Puppy Poo. We start class this week. She is a handful for being two pounds.


She seriously gets mad about certain things, most definitely about being told "NO" She is starting to listen now. Thank God. It is like having a kid.

pics! :D

[lukkucairi]

up at 4am again with a head full of dreams

[lukkucairi]

I think I'm going to have to go and visit my mother a lot sooner than I was planning

she's really stubborn but I can kind of tell from the last few phone calls that her health is slipping, and she's not wanting to tell me about it - the chemo is beginning to really drag her down

I figure it'll be better to go sooner and help support her now than to wait until November and have her feeling really bad when I get there :(

[Marcus Bales]

Hyakujo's Fox is the new Dictionary Game judge!

[madasacutsnake]

I just had two kookaburras on my decking for the first time ever and one of them let me hand feed it. Wow.

[Marcus Bales]

Now Madasacutsnake types left-handed only, but it was worth it!

[Jack Flanders]

I just had two kookaburras on my decking for the first time ever and one of them let me hand feed it. Wow.

How effin cool is that!!! What did you feed them? I am so impressed!!!

[madasacutsnake]

Just before I lost my hand:

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c22/madasacutsnake/kook4.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c22/madasacutsnake/kook2.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c22/madasacutsnake/kook3.jpg

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Now Madasacutsnake types left-handed only, but it was worth it!

but that's nothing new, if you know what I mean

[Marcus Bales]

Birds. And little birds at that. Christ, and here I was imagining a kookaburra looked more like this:

http://img403.imageshack.us/i/morgresize.jpg/#q=dnd monsters

[Odbe]

^^^Nice photos! They're so pretty :D I'm impressed they let you hand feed them, ours have never got past glaring at us from a very safe distance.

Speaking of photos, my announcement is that I have finally got my major artwork well and truly finished and photographed and sorted out. The lockup date was 7th of September and I'm now emailing out the photos, which almost do it justice.

I thought I would feel a massive sense of relief and/or accomplishment and it would feel very strange after 9 months of work but it sort of just trailed off then it was done. I did keep having moments where I expected to go and work on it then remembered with a start.

If anyone wants the photos please send me your email address through PM.
I'm still thinking about putting them online.
The photos I've got (one's a close up) are 1.5MB together, if that's too big let me know.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Home at last! I was welcomed by the smell of a dead gerbil and the sight of three dead plants, resulting from the diligent care of my niece.

[Jack Flanders]

^ welcome back!!! :) details of your holiday, please!!!

[Frieda]

i'm an aunt! it's official! :D

[lukkucairi]

^ :D:D

[β cyg]

i'm an aunt! it's official! :D

i hope this doesn't mean that aunt frieda can't be my aunt anymore

[Odbe]

Today was my last day of school. Forever. Hasn't really hit me yet.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

and so ends the best days of your life... uh I mean

CONGRATULATIONS ODBE! :D

what's next?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^ & ^^ Holidays, I hope.

[madasacutsnake]

Cool. Now you get to conquer the world.

[Coffee]

Woot...Gratz Grad!

[Stephi_B]

Today was my last day of school. Forever. Hasn't really hit me yet.

Whoohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D

[Odbe]

Next is final exams :p But no more sitting in class, stealing chalk, rebounding pencils off the fans etc. Also goodbye to a lot of odious adolescents and their effluvia. The downside, it'll be harder to keep in touch with friends, but at least we have our hyper-connected techno-world.

[lukkucairi]

^ congratumalations!

the right ones will stay in touch, don't worry :)

[Brynn]

That's really true - and so will the wrong ones sometimes too :)
My heartiest congratulations, Odbe. No mean feat.

[madasacutsnake]

Also goodbye to a lot of odious adolescents and their effluvia.

You're, like, sixteen, right? :)

[Odbe]

Seventeen, yeah. ;)

[Max Headroom]

I have a ticket to see "Evil Dead, The Musical" at the end of the month in the "Splatter Zone."

I also have a ticket to see U2 that same week, and to be honest, I'm more excited about the splatter.....

[Brynn]

A record number of students signed up for my production class, and I have just enough students for the other class now so that it won't be cancelled. So happy! Crossing my fingers for just two or three students more for the smaller class....

[Jack Flanders]

^ Congrats!!! Those kids are lucky to have you as an instructor. That should keep you busy and away from Bejeweled. It's even more crackish. God help me.

[MoJoRiSin]

Yes Brynn, congratulations !!
>>I am sending good karma your way so that the needed students will become manifest. :)

tell me again though

Multnomah Arts Center
"acting" after that i am drawing a blank other than the fact that my daughter is too old ??
http://www.multnomahartscenter.org/schedule/fall-2009/fall-2009.pdf

[lukkucairi]

I'm on the Island again :p

[Klynne]

My three month old puppy poo (Layla) is doing great. Classes have really helped. She can sit, stay, lay down, and come when called. She is cute.

[Jack Flanders]

:) Layla!! What does she look like?

[Klynne]

Like a little fox. Fox shaped head, her fur is cream and orange. Black eyes, and always smiling. She is about 3 lbs.

[Jack Flanders]

She sounds beautiful!

[Klynne]

Thanks JF she is. A blessing to me. She has given me the opportunity to meet every single elderly person and child in my neighborhood when we take walks. For some reason she loves everyone over 70 and anyone under 12. She does love all people but is drawn to the elderly and young.

[Klynne]

Sadly enough, an ambulance pulled up tonight, and one of our elderly neighbors was taken off in it. Give out good vibes for Layla's friend Bob.

[Klynne]

Bob is fine. Well as fine as he can be. He is back home with his wife Jessie. Just some adjustments to his new medication. Whew.

[Jack Flanders]

Good wishes for Bob and Jessie. And you - you're a good neighbor. I'm sure they appreciate that.

[Klynne]

Miss Prissy Pants (aka Layla) does not like to go on walks in the rain, or pee outside at all when it is raining. She will go inside on her pee pads. It is going to be a loooong autumn and winter with her. Still love her.

[Klynne]

Good wishes for Bob and Jessie. And you - you're a good neighbor. I'm sure they appreciate that.


Thank you JF. Wanted to see them today, but did not get the chance. I will see them tomorrow.

[brightpearl]

I'd like to announce the solution to all of Klynne's problems, as seen on tv.
http://litfuseblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/picture-37-550x462.jpg

[Frieda]

i can't friggin' breathe and i HAT asthma!

not enough air to walk a staircase
not enough air to go and get groceries
not enough air to sing along with jack peñate
not enough air to LAUGH

dammit.

[Klynne]

I am sorry Frieda. I hope this gets better for you.:(

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

not enough air to sing along with jack peñate

Oi :(

[lukkucairi]

I'm going for a walk.

[Frieda]

^^ and ^^^ thanks guys, breathing is a little bit better today! :)

still not enough to sing along with jack peñate, but it`s a start!

[Stephi_B]

My nodule! It is cool! Not cold, no, no :p it is cool :D and "quite likely harmless" :):):):) says my nodule reader (yon nuclear prof doc you remember?), but to make sure he wants to check for an autonomous adenoma (cool name ;)) and fine-needle-biopsy (yuck! eek!) my cool nodule on Nov 16.... so the news are, like, semicool so far....

[lukkucairi]

^wow, I'm pleased for your nodule-news :eek:

^^frieds, please breathe better! I've been having my own issues the past little while - sea air just aggravates things...

[brightpearl]

Ask people to guess how many moles you have in a paper bag. (http://www.ehow.com/how_2181979_celebrate-mole-day.html)

[Frieda]

this week SUCKED

[lukkucairi]

^ yeah, it was a hard one over here too - still going at it.

I would like to announce that it's my 5th marriage anniversary with my husband and we're having a party this weekend :)

if for some reason you're in SLC you're welcome to come by ;)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

this week SUCKED

I concur.

[lukkucairi]

I miss auntie aubrey and I wonder how the twins are doing.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^ Have a quick peek at them on flickr. They've recently celebrated their first birthday and look really cute.

[Jack Flanders]

^^ I noticed last week that she was on reading posts.
^How would I find the pix? and hello!!!

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^ PMed you.

[lukkucairi]

^ me too plz?

[Jack Flanders]

OMG they are soooo cute!!!!!! Lukku - I just PMed you with the web site. Enjoy!!!

[Jack Flanders]

You're welcome!!! :)

[Peregrine]

Holy crap. Has it been a year already?

[lukkucairi]

^indeed!

Just talked to Mum - she's back in the hospital with a lung infection and anemia. She's had a blood transfusion of two units and is on an antibiotic and is getting her energy back now.

Phoo - it's been a hard day.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^ Ow. :(






I've just spilled a litre of water in my living room. My hands stink of stale rags.

[brightpearl]

I just explained epigenetics to a bunch of 8-yr-olds without using the words "methyl group" even once.

It was SO MUCH fun.
:D

I think I might be a geek.

[lukkucairi]

^ I would like to announce that I've spent way too much time on facebook:

I read that post and automatically looked for the "like" button :p

[brightpearl]

I keep smelling pipe tobacco, but I can't figure out where it's coming from.

[lukkucairi]

I would like to announce that I'm finally ready to go to sleep now.

[brightpearl]

^Sweet dreams, Pinky.
Try to take good care of yourself.
Have some chocolate.

[lukkucairi]

I would like to announce that I'm finally ready to go to sleep now.

I would like to announce that I would like to reannounce that I'm finally ready to go to sleep now.

[Marcus Bales]

I'd like to announce that it's about time, too.

[Stephi_B]

I'd like to announce that

http://www.nataliedee.com/051907/full-of-birds.jpg

:)

[Frieda]

^did you eat too many eggs?

[Peregrine]

Is anyone else reminded of that scene from Cool Hand Luke?

[MoJoRiSin]

i thought of
1. huge head
2.hard to find hats big enough
3.going crazy because electrial storn is larger than others
4 man i see dep. res IvE
5he is the one that loves everyone
then i thought of this
"Well sweetheart when you grow up and marry a man with the last name of eggs then you will be Lyn Hamman-eggs.

[Stephi_B]

^did you eat too many eggs?

that too :D

plus it did tickle me from the inside as if there were many, many lil birds inside me :)

(and then in the Germanies we ask "Can it be that you have a bird?" and point a finger to the head, if we want to tell someone that (s)he may not have all cups on her/his cupboard - I think in the Englishes such ppl who have birds and missing cups rather have bats in the belfry - methinks, however, bats can tickle too)

Today I wanna announce that:


boss gave me a contract till Dec 31 :):):):)

biopsies do SUKK :mad::mad::mad: :mad:
and they do hurt MORE and LONGER and CREEPIER than the needle with which one takes blood from the vene, yes it DOES (and the doctor and his two assistants LIED to me about these matters and I will never again let them near my neck with suck devices!!!!

[lukkucairi]

^ ow ow ow ow ow :(

[Brynn]

"Well sweetheart when you grow up and marry a man with the last name of eggs then you will be Lyn Hamman-eggs.:)

And now, time for my announcement:
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[Odbe]

I'd like to announce that while out and about I spotted a car with a numberplate that said YSA :)

[lukkucairi]

^ :D

[brightpearl]

I get to see my friend Jane tomorrow.
:)

[lukkucairi]

I would like to announce that my husband came 3rd overall in the 5th Annual VFW Pinewood Derby.

he got a trophy and all :p
http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs005.snc3/11267_188119827413_511972413_3456454_6035296_n.jpg

[Marcus Bales]

I would like to announce that I find it entirely charming to imagine all those retired tough guys using fifteen thousand dollars apiece worth of sophisticated tools to carefully craft a toy car for nothing more than the joy of chaffing other retired tough guys as one noses out the other at the end of a gravity ramp.

[lukkucairi]

I would like to announce the runner-up for Best In Show:

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs005.snc3/11267_188099972413_511972413_3456235_8132304_n.jpg

note that the cavewoman is not stalking Gumby - she's actually hunting the caterpillar in the center of the assemblage :)

[brightpearl]

my stomach hurts.
:(

[lukkucairi]

^ on behalf of zero, I advise you to give it a rub

[Odbe]

Off to have adventures, see you in a couple of weeks :D

[Stephi_B]

I'd like to announce a healing bussi on Perla's stomach & that I'm curious what Odbe's adventures will be :)

[brightpearl]

^Thanks. :)
It's getting better. Too much carboxylic acid, hahahaha.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

it's december already

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

http://mariyas.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/bored.jpg

[Stephi_B]

I quasi sure have a job :):):) (could have signed it right away last Fri, but I said: "gotta sleep about it" => go there again on the 15th)

However, it's, at least for the first time, on a freelancer basis (YES!! there is something like freelance teachers!! didn't know that until last Fri) so I'll either have to live with 980€/month (my rent is already 460!!) or figure me out a second and third job - plus I don't get paid during school vacations, national holidays etc => I need something fix till Easter.
But the headmaster has given me an option on that fix thing (still a time-contract, but as an employee which makes things WAY easier) with paid vacations and excused sickness later-on (I will point on that thing again next week before I sign and tell her my Easter ultimate ;)), plus she'd fight for me to properly enter the teacher thing (is quite complicated as a side-entry, there's another PhDed dude at this school, a physicist, trying since 1.5 years now to get into the proper teacher ways => it's totally crazy we are more than qualified - at least in the subject(s) we teach (AND in the motivation!! they look at me everyway with awe and wonder when I say I wanna be "a teacher" - I heard the word "overqualified" MUCH often recently) - and (proper) teachers in our subject(s) are quasi non-available (particularly in Berlin which cannot pay much and does not take teachers in priviledged state service status anymore), nevertheless the bureaucracy sets weird rules (no unlimited position in a school before you've passed the teacher "Referendar" procedure - but a finished teacher "Referendar" procedure to get an unlimited position in a school at all :mad:)

So I'll go for that and try to find maybe a few more hours - it is a 8x(2x45min)/week thing I quasi sure got - in a nearby school (there actually is one close to that who MAY need someone for chemistry, I learn about that this week. Plus I'll bartend o the weekend (:):) actually).

Yeah and then maybe some private extra-teaching thing (for kids whose parents have money) - but that is sorta difficult to get into => pinning notes on street lamp post kind of thing - and not a thing to survive the 6 weeks of summer vacation (and the twice 2 week vacations before that on Easter and Pentecost)

Anyway, I already met some of my maybe future students (from the higher grades which I'm mainly to teach) - also the school speaker - and they were so sweet: they wanted to have me as their teacher ("Do you want to have our class in physics?? Please!!!!!") right away ("What? Only in January.... But, OK, as long you come!! ....you really come to teach us? Really! Cool!!") and one of them actually asked "Can I take you home with me now to explain me everything?? I need all of those subjects you teach!!" :):) - mewants to teach them very very!!
Under this freelance job I won't have (a) regular subject(s) (say: chemistry and physics for the higher grades) but a "project" which basically means extra-teaching in chemistry, physics, maths, biology, informatics to fill the holes in the school's lesson schedule (they have an "emergency schedule" atm for the dramatic lack of teachers => they fill the school day - 8h-16h30 with lots of "empty hours" and "projects" to keep the kids inside the school for it's a rough neighbourhood (not that it's THAT save for them inside, the headmaster told me something about drug dealing, violence etc => one of the main reasons why she first wants to test me with this loose freelance thing, she told me of a young female teacher - for German and biology - studied in the proper school ways with superduper grades who (without any troubles as certain real scientists with PhDs.... - the headmaster, a nice young woman, who has her job there now only since 2 months either, thinks this system svcks) started her "Referendar" thing, but ran away (almost literally!) 3 weeks later and not even appeared again in person at this school to annul her contract, she did that by letter via the main administration.... Ya, well, that happens if they send 23, 24 y/o girls fresh from university and most definitely from a "good" neighbourhood or even from very-outside-of-the-Berlinies areas to the deepest Kreuzbergies :p
Me on the contrary I don't fear the deepest Kreuzbergies (or Neuköllns for that matter where I also sent my emails => nothing yet, maybe they still sit in awe and wonder over my application form ;D) and I even managed (after insisting) to have some not-so-nice behaving (according to the headmaster this be the middle grades - this is a "common highschool" not divided into the three strains of education - low level up to 9th grade, middle level up to 10th grade, high level up to 12/13th grade - we mainly have in the Germanies, so those who still have to and those who further want to attend school are mixed together - methinks this actually better - with the still-have-to's concentrated in the middle grades - were also puberty is generally hitting ppl the toughest xD) kiddies tell me the direction to the headmasters office - in a definitely unnice way (They "welcomed" my approach with "Oh, noooo!!!" and wtf looks before I even had asked anything) but they DID tell me in the end :P (the headmaster laughed her ass off upon my description and commented it with "that's sweet!", hihi)

[Frieda]

^:)

how about if you fill those extra hours till 16:30 with a science project where you teach them a bit more about stuff they care about.. like CO2 rockets and fizzing cola bottles and soldering radios/led light rc controlled bugs and other neat stuff?

[Stephi_B]

^this very morning I was thinking about the mentos+coke fountain and such matters :D (boron acid is neat too - you spill it on the lab table and light it => cool green flames wavering across the table but not burning the table)
Of course I have to give them help to become fit in the curriculum for exams, or guide them in projects, talk/report preparations/research for the official classes, but there may be some cool experiments or an excursion (to BESSY the electron synchrotron maybe - synchrotrons rock :))

[Hyakujo's Fox]

I'm having an affair with Tiger Woods. PM me $50 for details.

[brightpearl]

^Oh, you can't fool me into thinking you're shallow, hfoxy.
I know you love him for his mind (http://www.amazon.com/Get-Grip-Physics-John-Gribbin/dp/0760737487).

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/pictures/2009/12/4/1259928098175/Tiger-Woodss-car-with-Get-002.jpg

[Stephi_B]

^^No more than 20€ Mr H Fox - unless there's some extraordinarily poetical dirtiness included in yours affairs - then you get 5€ extra ;)

I announce: Got a call this morning and now I have second job :) :) :) :) 10 schoolhours/week, regular chemistry and maths classes AND a FIX contract till at least summer (so I'll survive :) the school vacations with some brakeeping etc) and the clue - the schools are just like 2 blocks apart AND the (vice-)directors are matey-matey and so they'll coordinate the class schedules such that it fits for me ("it will be a task, but don't you worry, me and Mr ... [the vice-director of school#1] will figure it out, I'll see him this week" said the director of school#2 (also a woman like in school #1 - she sounds nice&cool on the phone => I got quasi-hired this time on the phone and I'm supposed to fill out all the paper work already ere the commission comes together)

So cool :) :) :) :)

[lukkucairi]

^ hooray!

:D

[Stephi_B]

^:D

& then I haven't announced yet that I bought myself a pair of duckie earrings! I was hopping down my street in the rain - on the way to the subway - when I noticed a) I hadnie put on any earrings and b) I was standing next to the lil designer shop with the funny-cool stuff made by two girls and c) that there are BRIGHT YELLOW RUBBER DUCKIE SHAPED PLASTIC EARRINGS in the display which are NEW! and I have to have! .... I even hopped up and down my street in the rain as I still had get myself money from the bank before I could have them - and now the plastic rubber duckies dangle on my ears and I know a PRATY where they'll perfectly fit the theme :D

Finally I'd like to announce: universe I LOVE you!! :)

[zero]

... I was hopping down my street in the rain - on the way to the subway - when I noticed ... I hadnie put on any earrings ...

i HAT when that happens!!


and stephanie this recent spate of announcements of yours does give me a happy right in the face

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Next year I'll send my Christmas cards in August. Beware!

:o

[lukkucairi]

Finally I'd like to announce: universe I LOVE you!! :)

I'd like to announce that I second this announcement :)

[Brynn]

I'd like to announce that my robot monkey metal mother with spikes for nips now has a beautiful fake fur covering that I am clinging to happily as I sip a watery sustenance from a tube. In other words, the tech rehearsal did not go as badly as it did the other night :)

[lukkucairi]

^ wow, Skinner really got to you! :eek:

nevertheless, congrats ;)

[Marcus Bales]

I stole "robot monkey metal mother with spikes for nips now has a beautiful fake fur covering" for a definition in TDG.

[brightpearl]

I would like to announce that I have had enough of genetics and organic chemistry to last me a lifetime.

I HAT finals.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2602/3807285884_56a143b1e9.jpg

[Frieda]

the tree is up!!

[lukkucairi]

^ http://www.zefrank.com/bulletin_new/images/icons/icon14.gif

[brightpearl]

The tiny little tree is up, but it only has one decoration on it...a reindeer my son made out of brown felt, pipecleaners, and a toilet paper tube.

[MoJoRiSin]

While everyone is decorating your tree i have started to work on the tree topper (i did a web search to find one made out of a sheet of paper but the instructions *+video* !! for this popped up) I should have it ready by tomorrow, but waiting until Christmas Eve to have the tree ready was a family tradition (back in my day santa brought the tree with him)
Anyway Merry XMas brightpearl! : )
http://images.marthastewart.com/images/content/tv/martha_stewart_show/show_photos/4051_4100//4058_120308_treetopper_l.jpg

[Brynn]

^ I have one of those birdie ornaments - bought it for a buck at a Christmas bazaar once :)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I'm getting sick and I wake up at impossible times. I wish it was Saturday.

[lukkucairi]

i am not celebrating xmas this year -

we will get back to that sort of thing in 2010

[lukkucairi]

I can't stop waking up at 5:30 a.m. - even though there's no reason for me to.

[brightpearl]

http://images.oddlyspecific.com/oddlyspecific/2009/12/129053355454439960.jpg

[Odbe]

"Illegal", eh? :P
Well, it's a silly thing to do anyway.

[Odbe]

Oh and hi all.

[Marcus Bales]

5:30 am is when I start to imagine Lukku naked, illuminated only by her laptop scree... No! No it's not! That's when I'm thinking of a tropic isle with sea and surf and sun and not Lukku naked, illum ... argghhhh!

[lukkucairi]

I'd like to announce I've put a piece of gaffer's tape over the built in webcam on my laptop :rolleyes:

[brightpearl]

'Lo Odbe.
Nice trip?
Find any megatherium toes?

[Odbe]

I'd like to announce that I've finally had enough sleep to write about my wonderful adventures of the last couple of weeks.

I've been down in Melbourne for MiDFur, the Aussie convention for furries. For those unfamiliar, furries are a fandom/subculture based around anthropomorphic animals, which is right up my alley. I haven't actually been to such a meetup before, but I figured that with people who dress up like animalpeople, I couldn't go wrong.

So I painted my face, made some fluffy ears and a tail, went along to MiDFur and HAD A VERY FUN TIME. Meeting and hanging out with simply awesome people with awesome interests was simply awesome. I also ditched my dignity and ravepartydanced, discovering that it's good fun (especially with a tail to wave around).


Photos on my flickr. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/7377763@N07/tags/midfur/page2/)


After that I wandered around Melbourne and surrounds in a daze for another couple weeks, visiting various relatives. I arrived back in time to get my school results, with marks of http://www.zefrank.com/bulletin_new/images/icons/icon14.gifhappysuccess culminating in a university entrance score of do-whatever-course-you-want.

[lukkucairi]

:D ^ awesome :D

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^^ Wohoo!


Two o'clock and all is well... except for the fact that I'm up and wide awake again.

[Marcus Bales]

I've decided I'm going to work today, after all.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

There. I did it again. :(

[lukkucairi]

well, I managed to sleep in until 6:30 a.m. the past two days, but I broke my streak this morning - been awake since 4:30 with no apparent need for more rest.

[Marcus Bales]

well, I managed to sleep in until 6:30 a.m. the past two days, but I broke my streak this morning - been awake since 4:30 with no apparent need for more rest.

So what are you wearing?

NO! No! Bad imagination! Bad!

[Frieda]

fwking blizzard outside :eek: wtf happened to global warming??

[lukkucairi]

3:30 this time :confused:

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^ so what do you do with so much surplus time?

[lukkucairi]

blinky lights :p

I finished one project almost completely and went back to bed at 7am thinking about the next one :)

to my great relief I got another couple of hours of sleep!

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Oh, nice! You've used your free surplus-time coupon wisely.:)

A similar thing is happening to me, I wake up at about two a.m., can't fall asleep, mop around the rooms till 4, go to bed and sleep for an hour or two. Maybe it's the GLOBAL BLIZZARD messing with our sleep patterns! I should've posted this in the Fifth Horseman thread...

[lukkucairi]

ooh ooh ooh! I got to sleep in until 5:45 today ;)

I'm looking after the Bean today - she tells me that tigers eat doughnuts, and I believe her.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

There's cookie dough in the fridge, some on my chin, too and hectolitres of sauerkraut soup cooling off on the cooker. I'm pleased with myself. :p

[Marcus Bales]

I've finished walking the dog, fed him and the cats, and am about half way through a satirical poem inspired by a phrase someone used on facebook yesterday.

[Odbe]

I'm announcing that I went for a swim at the beach today, felt something itching in my ear, stuck my finger in and pulled out a teeny live crab.
:eek: :D
Made my day!

[Jack Flanders]

^ Sorry, that's an ew - ick moment for me. But glad (?) you liked it.

[jasmina]

Hello everyone I'm baaaaackkkkk

Hope xmas was lovely?

[jasmina]

oh I forgot my announcement... I'm running the London marathon soon... eeeek

[Frieda]

it's never as bad as it seems-- sometimes it's worse.

[lukkucairi]

oh I forgot my announcement... I'm running the London marathon soon... eeeek

:D

awesome

:D

I would like to announce that my basement is being Trevored

oh my, but it will be beautiful when we're done!

[Frieda]

^is that some sort of innuendo? :confused:

[Marcus Bales]

I would like to announce that my basement is being Trevored

Dude, that is like juncaceous, dude.

[Jack Flanders]

Hey Brynn - I'm making a blueberry pie soon!

[Brynn]

I heart you. You always know just waht to say to me, like a ninja parent who has mastered the gentle art of distraction.

[Jack Flanders]

AWWW!! I heart you too!! Check out my Bejeweled score!! :D

[Brynn]

Byotch. You know I can't break 125,000 with a touchpad. :mad: Cheater. I'm going to go try now, that's my damn announce-ma-thing.

[Odbe]

Hey guys it's next year over here :D
Happy new year!

[lukkucairi]

^ HNY Odds!

(several days late :p )

I would like to announce that vitamin D3 seems to make all the difference.

[Brynn]

Avatar would have been better in 3-D, but I refuse to pay $15 for a movie ticket.

[Brynn]

And one more thing: snuggies are for girls, mankets are for guys (http://pictureisunrelated.com/2010/01/05/snuggies-are-for-girls-mankets-are-for-guys/).

[MoJoRiSin]

^ :D:D:D

[Odbe]

Going to a summer school workshop in yon big-shot art school! :D See you in a week!

[Marcus Bales]

I'm going to work.

[Frieda]

i might, that is MIGHT just get a raise in march. i really hope so.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

give it a rub, Frieda!

[Marcus Bales]

You get it, if you’re reading this --
Unless some prof decreed it;
If so you’d probably rather piss
On poetry than read it.

That’s fine – move on: it’s accrual
Accounting, then, for you,
Or something like it, and on to duel
With life without a clue.

But you – the one who’s part seen through
The hash your teachers make
Of art, who hope the business view
Is some absurd mistake,

It’s you I want to talk to here
Where we few reminiscers
Still pass it on and persevere:
Ignore the ****ing pissers.

[Brynn]

^From the sublime to the ridiculous, this morning I'm accompanying a class of sixth graders to a waste water treatment facility.

[Odbe]

^ Is that excursion to teach them that life outside of school is also boring and smelly? :rolleyes:

[Stephi_B]

^you been to the wrong school :p smelly: sort of yes and in many different ways, but boring no - this afternoon some of the small ones (grade 7?) threw themselves against the doors in the nature sciences wing - that made one helluva noise! :D
(at first I thought the chemicals storage room may have self-afflamed itself & exploded => the long-established chemistry teachers (and even more so the physics teachers who think chemistry teachers do strange, dangerous things), expect it to do so one day or the other, you see, but none makes any fuss about it... but that's OK with me (so I won't make any fuss about it - and walk in & out of the storage room fast and say a little prayer every time ;)), it will mostly destroy the physics collection - "my" chemistry+biology collection is quite save, behind a thick wall - I checked that :D)

[Stephi_B]

oh and my announcement:

chaos is cool!

:)

[lukkucairi]

I am in the Bahamas :p

my friend Linda is wearing multiple layers because it's soooooo cold...about 70F ;)

[Marcus Bales]

Cleveland, OH

27°F

Current: Clear
Wind: S at 9 mph
Humidity: 69%

[brightpearl]

The stupid application is finally done.

[Marcus Bales]

I made a stupid application once, but they wrote back to say that the mere fact of my application demonstrated my already adequate stupidity.

[Stephi_B]

I have not one, but two "teacher names" already:


grade 11 starts calling me "Frau B" or "Doktor B" (a boy in the math class, I had to spontaneously overtake yesterday, tried it out cautiously, looking at me questioningly until I nodded - they're sooooo sweet :) maybe I can get them in maths & physics as a regular teacher) with B pronounced English (you know such that is sounds cool :cool:)
the notorious middle grade (9th? 10th?) boys call me "Brille" (glasses) - which is waaaaay better than the neat little street word some of them used (upon which I showed them my whole hand - figuring they'd know which finger's meant for them :p)

[lukkucairi]

this is not NEARLY as hard as I was afraid it might be :)

[lukkucairi]

my Aunt Sheila is dying of Alzheimer's, and she's happy all the time. it's kind of inspiring, but I also kind of want to cry right now.

[brightpearl]

^A friend of mine had this same story over Christmas.

My heart aches for you and Frieda and Jacks.
I watched my mother die a couple of times several years ago. I got her back, but I still remember what it was like.

And with my grandmother I was not so lucky as to keep her. There isn't anyone I miss more. She lost a baby herself, her only child at the time. When I miss her, I think of how, though the weight was heavy her whole life, she did learn to carry it in time.

xo.

[brightpearl]

Trying out the new crock pot.

[Odbe]

I'm going to Uni! :D

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^ http://bowtielaw.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/handshake.jpg

CONGRATULATIONS!

[Hyakujo's Fox]

way to go odbe!

[MoJoRiSin]

HAPPY UNI-VERSE! ODBE : )

^of course now i am thinking of something that made me laugh today
just a sec while i scan it in ....

[Odbe]

Thanks guys! :D I'm much excited. The course is for an unusual degree, called a Bachelor of Natural History Illustration, but quite suited to my particular bio-nerdity+artiness.

[Stephi_B]

^you go odbe! :):)

[Stephi_B]

oh and announce-i-do:

i have climbed up the career ladder, now i am no longer just this extra hour helping me kids in all sorts of subjects (in addition to maths, all nature sciences, english, german and advice in all matters that may occur - good books, good music, how to handle nasty ppl / understand the opposite sex.... :)) quasi-teacher, i.e. Naaaaaaachhiiiiiiiiilfelehrerin (as a certain student representant - who actually attended my extra-hours only to (a) look what's happening and (b) once to eat noodles with his mate in a quiet place - used to yell across the 200m corridors before he developed as a new habit(?? ....anyway NOW, i am prepared ;)) to sort of jump on my back on the electric stairs in the subway station in order to hug me in such a rough footballer (that is soccer player for los non-britaineros) fashion that's a wee bit breathtaking/destabilising ;))
no, no, no, my new official status is:

:cool: illegal math teacher :cool:

(yo!)

(for with the sort of contract i have until feb 8 i'm not really legally allowed to really teach proper classes (two of them to be exact) in a proper subject (math) - but who cares, legal is for losers :p)

[madasacutsnake]

Yay Stephi.

Wow odbe, way to go!

[brightpearl]

Those are some lucky kiddos, Stephi.
And Oh-bebe, if I had known one could get such a degree, I would've gotten one myself.
Both of you rock my socks with vicarious yippeees.

As for my own announcement, the crock pot was a success. My freezer is now full of 7 bean soup. This is the first time I have been able to cook beans until they're soft...I finally read that if you have calcium-hardened water, it complexes with the pectin in the skin of the bean, and they never cook properly. I used distilled water, and it worked like a charm. My happiness about this is disproportional to its relative importance, but I suppose we should take joy where we find it.

[Odbe]

Stephi, it gives me a happy just knowing you're out there teaching :) Good teachers are SO important, you might never see a sign of it but have made a big difference for a kid who needs a cool person and not just an authoritarian.

Pearl, I also get a second-hand-happy from your wee discovery, kitchen science is exciting :cool:

Also, announce-me I'm learning a wee bit of German from a book and tape, it's slow going and bemusing but satisfying when something sticks. The die-nouns and das-nouns and der-nouns confuse me no end. It makes me wonder, who gets to decide their genders? When a new noun is created, for example if someone makes a new gadget like the iPod or a new we-don't-know-what like the Snuggie, how do you know what kind it is?

[zero]

... my new official status is:

:cool: illegal math teacher :cool:

(yo!)



stephanie i've been saving this at the back of my toy cupboard for ages now i know why

http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles/57520/projects/161784/575201230114649.png

[Stephi_B]

stephanie i've been saving this at the back of my toy cupboard for ages now i know why

http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles/57520/projects/161784/575201230114649.png


:):):)

yes!

[Stephi_B]

Stephi, it gives me a happy just knowing you're out there teaching :) Good teachers are SO important, you might never see a sign of it but have made a big difference for a kid who needs a cool person and not just an authoritarian.


:):):)

the really wonderful thing about my kids is that they directly let me know and feel what and how i just did :)

that with der-die-das - i think that just happens, someone (say from the new product's advertisement firm) starts it, maybe because it sounds "fitting" - at least i've never heard that a bunch of linguists sits over the articles for new words :D (for then they'd never get an article i fear ;)) - then everyone uses it, and it enters the Duden (the big book that harbours our whole words inside it's friendly yellow covers :)) thus.

the spelling of new/foreign words causes the major fuss mostly. and now, after all the (re-)reforms (to make everything about writing german simpler) no one knows anymore how to spell ketchup :rolleyes:

[Stephi_B]

oh, and however it's spelled, ketchup goes with both der or das - just like butter has der and die as (in this case a regional thing, methinks) choice - wonderful confusion :), you see!

anyway, do study it, if it feels good/fun to you :) it's worth it in any case - and one never knows how life runs. i just have it almost daily that now i can need many/most of the things i learnt/experienced on the go ("etwas aufschnappen" is the fitful verb for that) or without a "goal".

[Coffee]

Woot...nice job stephi and odbe. Gratz to u both.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

My scanner healed itself so I don't have to take it to the scanner-doctor!

Two weeks ago it went out of order just like that - one day it was scanning happily, the next day it refused to cooperate. It sent off wrong messages after initialising: like document loaded and feeder jam and similar ones when I clearly didn't load any document. Anyway, I disconnected it from my pc and then connected it again, but to no avail.

So I tried to install it on my laptop, but it has Vista, not XP, so I couldn't find it (haha!), although it produced the sample 'Congratulations, if you can read this page you have successfully installed your printer' page.

Frustrated, I tried to connect it back to my pc - and a miracle! It works again. :)

[Jack Flanders]

^ YAY!!! :) I like when machines self-heal!!!

[MoJoRiSin]

^ YES! YAY! YSA : )!

^^Ysa, the next time your printer goes haywire
try this ::
programs>accessories>system tools >system restore
then follow the simple directions to restore your computer to an earlier date when the printer worked (you will not loose any files) this usually works
and will just take a couple of minutes...
this is a fyi only....

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^^ :D :D ME TOO! :D :D

^ :confused: I don't have a 'system restore' option. Someone has probably stolen it!!! My enemies have surely been nibbling at my computer. :rolleyes:

[lukkucairi]

wow, I've been out of the loop for a long time :o

congrats all around and I can't wait to try that distilled-water bean trick thingy :p

I would like to announce that I am STILL surviving this 2-week excursion with my mother, both of us are, quite nicely :)

I go home on Wednesday, as does she...

[madasacutsnake]

Also, announce-me I'm learning a wee bit of German from a book and tape, it's slow going and bemusing but satisfying when something sticks. The die-nouns and das-nouns and der-nouns confuse me no end. It makes me wonder, who gets to decide their genders? When a new noun is created, for example if someone makes a new gadget like the iPod or a new we-don't-know-what like the Snuggie, how do you know what kind it is?

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[MoJoRiSin]

^ please forgive me Ysa
what meant was
if you have windows XP..... blah blah blah
please ignore.....

the *enemies* are the ones that would want you to purchase a new printer
(in my humble opinion)

[Odbe]

^^Ah of course, you just lift its leg.
Thank you for your kind assistance in this matter.

[Marcus Bales]

I'm really sorry for the smegma post in the One Word thread.

[Brynn]

^ and now here. Well done! So glad I checked in...
*shakes head and decides against a grinning emoticon

[brightpearl]

^At least he didn't post it in the ice cream thread.

But oh, wait...
Jack already did. (http://www.zefrank.com/bulletin_new/showpost.php?p=346466&postcount=267)
:)

[Brynn]

it's an acquired taste I suppose

[12"razormix]

..what IS the point of posting the picture of a dirty dick? :confused:

[12"razormix]

some sort of literary wit that i'm not privy to?

[Brynn]

Hmmm. Words have power.

[brightpearl]

^
Oh, good heavens. Good show I hadn't clicked on that.
:eek:

Er, just to be clear, my link up above is just to Jack's old post where she beat Marcus to the punch.
Not a photo. Especially not that sort of photo. I can't really see myself covering STDs in the study hall. At least, not this virtual one. :rolleyes:

I wouldn't have thought you had it in you, Jacks. You seem so ladylike otherwise. :D

[Frieda]

do i need to delete a goatse somewhere? tell me where it is and i will get rid of it.

[trisherina]

Marcus posted a link to an unsavoury photo in one word>, adding an order of magnitude to the already ambient squick-factor.

[Frieda]

there, gone.

this wasn't even a goatse but a deliberate post-- needless to say there's no images like that allowed here on this bulletin board. this is not a pornography bulletin board. i strongly urge you to think twice before you post.

last warning for marcus bales.

[Frieda]

also, this is the first time i've ever removed a penis while having breakfast.

[Jack Flanders]

Er, just to be clear, my link up above is just to Jack's old post where she beat Marcus to the punch.
Not a photo. Especially not that sort of photo. I can't really see myself covering STDs in the study hall. At least, not this virtual one. :rolleyes:

I wouldn't have thought you had it in you, Jacks. You seem so ladylike otherwise. :D

I'd forgotten about that old post. Heh!! My dear, Pearly, you'd be surprised.;)

[Brynn]

Ew. I guess I was pretty stupid to comment on it here in the first place because I actually didn't notice any link or picture - just reacting to the word here.

[brightpearl]

also, this is the first time i've ever removed a penis while having breakfast.

:D
Thank you for your continual and benevolent efforts at upkeep, Freeds. I hope it has been easier since the banishment of the spambots.

[Marcus Bales]

also, this is the first time i've ever removed a penis while having breakfast.

Ah, well, then, until now you simply haven't LIVED.

[Jack Flanders]

Thank you Marcus. My breakfast will never be the same now that I've read that. :mad:

[Marcus Bales]

Try the bean soup. (thwack thwack) Is this thing on? I'll be here all week. Please don't forget to tip the wait staff!

[brightpearl]

I got new glasses for the first time in 5 years.

http://eyeglasses.go-optic.com/DFRAMES/IMAGES/AUSTJB36.jpg

It's nice to be able to see again, but I also secretly hope they make me look kind of hip.

Probably I should have gotten the purple ones.

[Odbe]

^I like them. I think they look very hip :)

[Marcus Bales]

http://cm1.theinsider.com/media/0/103/80/tina_fey_sarah_palin_2.0.0.0x0.300x400.jpeg

Pearla Fey

[Frieda]

i won the haggle award at the work programme's business negotiations training. i'm both proud and ashamed about those evil mastermind manipulation skills.

at least i've found a way to deploy my dark side in a socially accepted manner. or something. :rolleyes:

[Zyle]

Announcements. Hmm. I'm not dead! It's been a while though...


Welcome, Zyle.
You last visited: 12-03-2006 at 11:10 PM


And I haven't posted since 2003... woah. Hi if there's anyone who remembers me! :cool:
<-- Oh, and I really don't look anything like that any more...

[Jack Flanders]

^ welcome back! and glad you're not dead!

[Frieda]

hey zyle! that really is a long time ago! good to see you here, how are you??

[Odbe]

I don't remember you because you left just before I joined, but I'm pleased to meet you :)

[Zyle]

hey zyle! that really is a long time ago! good to see you here, how are you??

Good thanks! Still trying to learn Dutch, hehe. The boyfriend moved over to England about 4.5 years ago :) How are you doing?


Nice to meet you Jack and Odbe!

[Coffee]

\o/ zyle!

Welcome back.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Hey Zyle,

nice crocheted bag :)

[brightpearl]

Yah, that bag belongs in the Thread Thread...
...or the ice cream thread?
Crochet would make a nice flavor.

[xfox]

zyle's back! It's bubbling!!

[trisherina]

Hey, look at you, Zyle! :eek:

[Zyle]

Hi guys :D

Hey Zyle,

nice crocheted bag :)
Thank you! :)

[Hyakujo's Fox]

And I haven't posted since 2003... woah. Hi if there's anyone who remembers me! :cool:

Hmmm, your previous last post was two hours before my very first post, so I guess that means I can almost remember you.

[brightpearl]

^Maybe you've gone through a wormhole and you're each other's grandfathers!
:eek:

[funkytuba]

OMG! It's Zyle!

[Odbe]

Today is my last day ever living here.

[brightpearl]

I nearly broke my finger earlier, but I gave it a rub and like magic it is now okay.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I nearly burned down my kitchen watching ice skating and forgetting about tea. But all was saved through a magic rub!

[Jack Flanders]

I punched a porch window out 2 hrs. ago to express my anger at two male cats fighting next to my house who were screeching at one another and fighting over some slutty biotch (it's mating season and there are lots of fertile feral cats around.) I thought I was just tapping the window. After I got the bleeding to stop and realized that my finger was not going to fall off, I decided that rubbing it would not be a good thing.

I also had been watching ice skating and was distracted!!

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I hope you didn't miss Lysacek, he skated like a poem...

[Jack Flanders]

Nope!! He was beautiful!!

[zero]

... I punched a porch window ... bleeding...


next time don't give it a punch - give it a rub.

[Brynn]

I feel inspired.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/space/article7030242.ece

[lukkucairi]

I don't wanna go to the gym :mad:

wah. :mad:

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I don't want to go to Bratislava. I don't want to talk and act as somebody important. Yet I'm leaving in about 20 minutes. Oh, and I don't want to get carsick. :mad: