Dream Propulsion Engineer

My pie is baking. That means that it's time for silly. Since I don't get to eat the pie until tomorrow.

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I think I may go to the Big Island Rendezvous on Friday evening so I don't have to drive down on Saturday. tmancer, if you have room, could I share your tent with you on Friday night?

Then Sunday is Canadian Thanksgiving! w00t!

Mmm... Pie...

Also, you (in MN) should all go see In the Shadow of the Moon at the Lagoon. It's a documentary about the Apollo program, with lots of really fantastic footage that you probably haven't seen before, and lots of interviews with Apollo astronauts. Michael Collins in particular is a laugh riot. It ends this Thursday (today, for most of you reading this), and you should drop whatever stupid Thursday plans you had and go see this instead. Face it- a Saturn V rocket just doesn't have the same effect if you watch it on your TV. And! World Space Week begins tomorrow, the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik. 50 fucking years. It's no wonder nobody seems to care anymore.

Seriously. It's a really amazing thing, space exploration. Go remind yourself of that. It is reassuring to see the awesome things that a bunch of monkeys can do, in the midst of everything less noble.

the hedge abides.

Ok, I think I'm caught up with everybody in regards to fivequestions and seventhings. *doublechecks* Yeah, done.

Now, I want to encourage people who got fivequestions from me to post the questions and answers on their journals, in the interest of perpetuating this pyramid scheme meme.

Also, I would like any fivequestionses from all y'all. crowgoddess is exempt, on account of her being a gimp. Who is moving to Texas. However, if she would be so kind as to back me up on the correct pluralization of "y'all" at some point when she is less broken, it would be greatly appreciated.

As for regular life, I spent a fantastic weekend in Northampton with Kacie- we took kayaks out on Paradise and admired her crazy apple seedlings growing inside her apple and mothered the seniors getting ready for senior ball and walked a bit and loved. It is shaky but good, and I got to exclaim over everyone and eat lots of food that I didn't have to buy or prepare or clean-up-after, and help Laura with her thesis presentation (talking science is fun!)

Now I've just paid my 6-month car insurance premium in full (first time that's happened). zillapook cut my hair last night, as it took literally actually I-timed-it fifteen minutes to comb my hair after my last shower. It's something like 4 inches shorter... I regret the loss of length, but it feels a darn sight better. Earlier this evening, I planned and did some research for our Girl Scout meeting, where we will be learning some camping skills (bandana tricks, trail signs, cloud types, orienteering, and setting up a tent).

This weekend I'll be spending Cinco de Mayo ('cos I'm sooo Mexican) locked into the NY State Museum with my Girl Sprouts, learning about local AmIndian tribes (mostly Iraquois, I believe). They let the survivors out around 10am, to stagger home. Hopefully you will hear from me then, as I am supposed to drive to Smith again that day, so that Laura and I can drive to Boston on Sunday. It's rather a graduation present that I'm chaffeuring her to Boston for some job interviews and apartment hunting, but we'll also get time to met up with Alex and maybe starcatsinging (and maybe pants_of_doom?) while there. Then back to Smith and then on to Albany, where I will arrive late on Monday evening, a tank of gas and some insanity later...

As for the amorphous future, there was an article in the Metroland about the Woman's Club of Albany, an institution that is almost a century old but nearly petered out a few years back. They're enjoying a revival of sorts lately, and I got the idea to see if they'd be interested in a Bead for Life beadwear party. This is the project on which Kacie worked while in Kampala, and a great group in general. I've been wanting to host a party, but the trouble is that most of the people that I know are poor and/or students, and it just wouldn't be successful. This would be a great group to host a party for, though. This won't be until after Sprouts is over for the summer, though.

As for free time, I'm enjoying the mass of Texas Ranch House this week. Good fun. Would be more fun if paddle2paddle was on it, though... Better than that Ian fool, that's for sure. I started but then put down a J. Robert Oppenheimer (see? he went by his middle name!) biography, just finished Libba Bray's new book, Rebel Angels (OMG YAF. piratehearts, have you read these? starcatsinging? crowgoddess?), tore through Chris Baldwin's first Little Dee collection, and I'm now reading Heinlein's Beyond this Horizon.

That was a lot of damn html. Phooey.

Oh, and I had weird dreams about The Boy last night, which were kind of haunting. I hope for a more normal day tomorrow.

the hedge abides.

Leave a comment on my livejournal and...
1. I'll respond with something random I like about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll name something we should do together.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (or just me).
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll leave you a quote that is somehow appropriate to you.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
8. If'n ya want, post it in your own journal and play too.

Also:

1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me." or something less insipid...
2. I will respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature (well not really creepy, but you know, I might ask you some tough questions) or maybe actually creepy. i'm a creepy girl.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions. you WILL update.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post. this is the real reason I asked for your addresses, kids. i've got them all written down, just waiting for noncompliance.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. a vicious cycle of cuteness and guilt.

Why? Because I need distractions from the presentation I'm putting together. I'm sorry, not "distractions," "productivity breaks."

Actually, I'm doing pretty well, but I didn't bring a lunch so I may as well get some dicking around on the internet out of the way.

the hedge abides.

To fit with my peculiar big happy hippie lovefest holiday cheer grumpiness, I present you this meme, which isn't hard to understand or follow. In the parlance of our times, I dig this shit bigtime. Yo.

Anyway, the meme follows:
Reply to this post, and I'll tell you one or a lot of reason[s] why I like/love/adore you. Then put this in your own journal, and spread the love.

As Micah said, it's okay if we don't know each other that well, I have at least one good reason for liking everyone on my friends list.

In other news, I just got a seasonal job at Macy's, gift wrapping in the cosmetics department. I get to play with shiny things and make expensive things pretty for people. It sounds silly, but I'm really looking forward to it.

the hedge abides.

Why? Because I have an hour-long incubation on this set of slides, and there's nobody here to talk to.

Take my darn quiz, already!

These are hard to make, difficult to judge. Now I will move on to making snowflakes out of tinfoil. Everybody take the quiz!

the hedge abides.

From my lyrics meme entry of a couple days ago, these are the songs that nobody has guessed yet.

4. I wanted you, from the first day I saw you. The Monkees- "We Were Made for Each Other" (nickiq)
7. There's a girl that you might know, she's a friend, at least I tell you so.
8. Paper moon and paper stars, meet me on the way to Mars, meet me on the way away from here.
10. Well, farewell to the streets of sorrow, and farewell you streets of pain.
13. Dixie road rash and the world's most obvious car crash. She went through 20 states but the one I hate came last. Common Rider- "Dixie Roadrash" (zillapook)
14. Save some face, you know you've only got one.
18. Well I believe I was wrong but baby now I know.

Admittedly, there's one on there that only zillapook has a baby bunny in a snowball's chance in hell of getting, and even then it's not bloody likely. But hey, that's the order in which they came up on my playlist!

( There's also a hint list hidden under this cut. )

the hedge abides.

I realise that I haven't updated in a while, yes. I also realise that I'm breaking that streak with a meme, but it's 8:22 pm and I'm still at work, so cut me some slack. I'm doing this one because it is very free-form, and because paddle2paddle tagged me for it, and nobody ever tags me so it's very exciting, in a grade-school picking-teams-in-PE sorta way.

( 20 things people (probably) don't know about me )

That was harder than it probably should've been, but I put a lot of thought into it, and I'd really like it if other people would do the same. In the spirit of things (really, the glee because I finally get to pick people), I tag: zillapook, alisgray, illcutyou, fee_b and omaha.

the hedge abides.