Made a new pic.
Take a look if you like. You may have to adjust your browser to resize images though, as it's quite large. I made it for my friend Maia, who's trying to make a magazine out of people's art and such, interviews with bands, and other random stuff.
I'm going to finish my laundry and then go to sleep. Fun. Today was no fun at all, and I'm sure tomorrow will be no different. If nothing else, it never hurts to be reasonably well-rested. You can take on the day and put up with the bullshit without feeling drowsy, sleepy, or lazy about anything in particular.
Pinot noir is yummy.
Jane Austen is outstanding. I'm slowly making my way through "Sense and Sensibility". It's not as if the story isn't good, it's just... Old-school English mannerisms and colloquial verbal exchanges make for some slow reading. I have to make sure I soak it all in. I'm reading this like most people (in Fayetteville, anyway) read The Bible... It's more or less how I read/watch/listen to everything.
It's fucking great though. I think the world would be much more interesting if people spoke as they did back then, carefully weighing and considering eveything that came out of their mouth, before uttering a single word. It's nice to me how people in those stories, for all their social niceties that are more or less irrelevant to the world we live in now... For all the things they say and the things they do that seem completely unnecessary, you can never say that they weren't clear about anything. You do have to make an effort though. It's 50/50. Yay.
I appreciate it when people go to the extra effort, take that extra step, and speak correctly. I'm a stickler for grammar and spelling. You don't have to speak loudly (I know I fucking don't, that's for sure), but it would be nice if people actually knew how to go about it correctly.
In mathematics, there are always short cuts to any solution, easy ways to do things that save time and effort, but you have to know how to do things longhand before you can do them shorthand. The same goes for speaking and writing, in my opinion. (Actually, that understanding works for a lot of things.) I wish I could put that on gigantic signs around Fayetteville. Ebonics and redneck drawls seem to be in season here, and in a big way. You try not to be judgmental about people, give everyone benefit of the doubt, only to be let down time and time again, not only by the "usual suspects", but by people who would seemingly know better... Educators, teachers, professors, lawyers and people in the legal field, doctors, people that you know had to have gone through rigorous testing in lengthy educational intitutions, yet seem to let it all slide as soon as it's no longer needed.
Speaking of teachers and educators, a teacher was putting books back on the shelves at work the other day, and she was being nice about everything, it's not as if she was bitching anyone out, but... Books go on the shelf in alphabetical order by the author's name. She asked how things were organized and she was told the same. She still fucked it up though. It's nice to know the people teaching little kids to read and write around here know their fucking alphabet and which letters go before which. In any bookstore or library, anywhere in the world, James Patterson will never be found with De Sade, Didion, and Dostoyevsky.
Irony. Bitching and moaning. Work. Sigh...
Anyway, good night. Bonne nuit. I hope everyone is well. I may post some more pics sometime, as soon as I get off my ass and get batteries for the camera.
-Chris-
Take a look if you like. You may have to adjust your browser to resize images though, as it's quite large. I made it for my friend Maia, who's trying to make a magazine out of people's art and such, interviews with bands, and other random stuff.
I'm going to finish my laundry and then go to sleep. Fun. Today was no fun at all, and I'm sure tomorrow will be no different. If nothing else, it never hurts to be reasonably well-rested. You can take on the day and put up with the bullshit without feeling drowsy, sleepy, or lazy about anything in particular.
Pinot noir is yummy.
Jane Austen is outstanding. I'm slowly making my way through "Sense and Sensibility". It's not as if the story isn't good, it's just... Old-school English mannerisms and colloquial verbal exchanges make for some slow reading. I have to make sure I soak it all in. I'm reading this like most people (in Fayetteville, anyway) read The Bible... It's more or less how I read/watch/listen to everything.
It's fucking great though. I think the world would be much more interesting if people spoke as they did back then, carefully weighing and considering eveything that came out of their mouth, before uttering a single word. It's nice to me how people in those stories, for all their social niceties that are more or less irrelevant to the world we live in now... For all the things they say and the things they do that seem completely unnecessary, you can never say that they weren't clear about anything. You do have to make an effort though. It's 50/50. Yay.
I appreciate it when people go to the extra effort, take that extra step, and speak correctly. I'm a stickler for grammar and spelling. You don't have to speak loudly (I know I fucking don't, that's for sure), but it would be nice if people actually knew how to go about it correctly.
In mathematics, there are always short cuts to any solution, easy ways to do things that save time and effort, but you have to know how to do things longhand before you can do them shorthand. The same goes for speaking and writing, in my opinion. (Actually, that understanding works for a lot of things.) I wish I could put that on gigantic signs around Fayetteville. Ebonics and redneck drawls seem to be in season here, and in a big way. You try not to be judgmental about people, give everyone benefit of the doubt, only to be let down time and time again, not only by the "usual suspects", but by people who would seemingly know better... Educators, teachers, professors, lawyers and people in the legal field, doctors, people that you know had to have gone through rigorous testing in lengthy educational intitutions, yet seem to let it all slide as soon as it's no longer needed.
Speaking of teachers and educators, a teacher was putting books back on the shelves at work the other day, and she was being nice about everything, it's not as if she was bitching anyone out, but... Books go on the shelf in alphabetical order by the author's name. She asked how things were organized and she was told the same. She still fucked it up though. It's nice to know the people teaching little kids to read and write around here know their fucking alphabet and which letters go before which. In any bookstore or library, anywhere in the world, James Patterson will never be found with De Sade, Didion, and Dostoyevsky.
Irony. Bitching and moaning. Work. Sigh...
Anyway, good night. Bonne nuit. I hope everyone is well. I may post some more pics sometime, as soon as I get off my ass and get batteries for the camera.
-Chris-
Holy crap I just picked up that book at a book sale....I am reading it next! And then onto Great Expectations...woot!
Yes, it is. May I ask if something specifically cause you to make this statement?