Just so you know, I am going to leave nablopomo ‘09 incomplete on purpose. Maybe because I myself would rather read a superior blog or maybe as a lesson to myself about it being ok to let stuff slide.
I let it slide.
And Jenni’s #1 and #2 answers to the mixed tape trivia are right! Hooray!
Thank you and good night.
My teacher noted that I left out the word “..helped..” in my story. I think that was presumptuous; maybe I intended to write “..desired that they return from whence they came..”
The rehearsal was 2 days ago. What a hassle! What a group of people to have to work with! I screamed and yelled at everyone. Even TeacherT and TeacherB. What a perfect pair. Two egotistical, self important, stubborn, pains in the ass! TeacherB and his fundraisers. My nose is brown but it is the only way to get anywhere with certain people.
Ugh. Girl, you are so right. Certain people are just so unreasonable. But lemme ask you… how can you scream and yell at people and brown nose them too? Maybe something like…”YOU ARE SUCH A TALENTED AND SMART GOD DAMN ASSHOLE! I WISH I WAS YOU!!!”
Now M. is really nice. Funny I never noticed – but then I didn’t know him did I? A cancer. I always fall for the cancers and the aries. One’s good, one’s bad. I wish I’d be around in a few years from now – I could really fall. But as it is, it is how it is.
I don’t know; did you know you didn’t know him? You are so deep and profound. Why haven’t you won a prize yet?
It snowed and snowed. I still got to go to P.’s though. Good. “Who’s not coming?” The one person I wanted to see wasn’t going to make it. A. went and got him. But why? What a waste of time. It didn’t matter though because I got so high on natural endomorphs or whatever that I just danced and goofed and had a good time despite the underlying panic and let down. I guess I went insane. After he left, I crashed. BIGTIME! I dropped like a rock.
Oh, if you only knew just how much of a waste of time it all was. That boy you liked? He turned Mormon and you turned out Lesbo, so that would have been quite a match. But thank god for those endomorphs, no? Especially the natural ones. They can really liven up a party. BIGTIME!
S. and I talked. We never really had. Even at Whitesnake, or Stacey’s, or Math. We had a nice “chat.” H. and I talked too. Something we never do after being so close. She’s a lot different – more preppier like A. and S. (YUCK!). But inside she must be basically the same.
Don’t beat yourself up about it. It was probably real hard for you to hear each other “chatting” at Whitesnake, and you weren’t supposed to be having special “chats” in math class. And, yes, you are still right – preppies are YUCKY!
It was a great party!
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When I read that Polaroid instant cameras and film were being phased out I was bummed out. That was a well over a year ago. This post has been sitting in my pile of drafts since then, another thing for me to complain about.
It’s not that I am some big camera geek or anything. I just have a little nostalgia about the instant Polaroids. When I was growing up it was a real novelty for me, made even more special by the fact that my parents thought they were frivolous. It was rare that I got to take any pictures with one.
Ever contrary, I bought a One Step after college and this clunky, noisy object was my primary camera, the only camera I owned, for several years. From this period, the photos I have of friends, coworkers, grad school trips, pets, and girlfriends are all blotchy, smudgy Polaroids.
I was going to miss pictures like this:
& this:
& this:
And that last one is NSFW, by the way, in case you couldn’t tell.
This weekend I was cleaning out the desk in the basement when I found the camera. I flipped it on and tried to take a picture but nothing happened; so imagine my horror when I opened it and found film! OH NO! I may have just inadvertantly exposed the LAST POLAROID FILM I WOULD EVER HAVE. When I shut it back in, the camera turned on, just slow to ‘boot up’ I guess. I was able to take a test photo of piles of crap in the cellar. Oh crap. Was THAT the LAST POLAROID PHOTO I WOULD EVER TAKE? I think maybe there are one or two more left.
The question weighing on my mind now is what should I use the last of my film on…?
That’s what I was thinking yesterday. Today, I thought I would finish up this post. It caused me to do a little internetting about this issue and ain’t I happy to learn that a group is going to bring back the instant film cameras. Also, I’ve learned that there is a site with some very cool photographs in this ‘genre.’
Maybe my days of taking shitty photographs aren’t over yet!
Today was a very regular day in LizzieLou world.
I used my snooze alarm. I rode the bus to work. I was rained on. I sat at my desk. I shuffled papers and talked on the phone. I gabbed about baked goods, leather bars, immigration and food poisoning. I did not work on any blog posts. I mooched a ride home. I went to the yarn store. I rode my basement bike. I ate potato salad. I watched telly. I wrote this.
…Law…
Tonight’s update for my out of town reader(s), is to inform you that our local firebug/fuckwad has been apprehended, confessed(!), and plopped into jail for “knowingly and maliciously caus[ing] fire and explosion” and “terrorizing an entire community.” The local paper had a link to the prosecuting documents, e.g. certification for determination of probable cause, which were actually pretty interesting to read. One thing that was noted was that the “crimes were part of a common scheme or plan” and not all possible charges would be made because of the greater arson charges – that trump some of the lesser crimes that went along with the arson. It was also stated that these crimes were “contrary to the law and against the peace and dignity of the State of Washington.” (It’s a curious phrase, “peace and dignity,” but I kinda like it. That’s what we’re asking for isn’t it? A little peace and dignity?)
One thing that the reports did not cover was Why. One fire might have been set to cover up a robbery, but about all the others nothing was noted. There was a statement made by the perp about his arrest available as well and he didn’t say why either, and it seemed like no one asked. It is perhaps outside of the cause-effect-evidence-arrest sphere of the reports provided, or maybe there just wasn’t a why. Maybe all there was was ‘fire bad, me like.’
And, now I am all like ‘bad guy nabbed, me sleep better.’
…Order…
I don’t remember what it was that got me interested in Architeuthis, but reading Richard Ellis’ “Search for the Giant Squid” book a few years ago cemented it. Especially fascinating to me was that the giant squid have “eyes the size of dinner plates.” That’s HUGE! (And it is also why one of Weezie Meep’s nicknames is ‘Squid Peeps.’)
Loving the giant squid led me to seek out nature shows about the other squids and the rest of the family, or actually – I should say – class: the octopus, the cuttlefish, and to a lesser degree, no offense, the nautilus. I have seen some crazy things on the television, but what some of these cephalopods can do is really mind blowing. When I see hipsters wearing the “welcome squid overlords” tee-shirts, I hope they know that might not be a joke. There’s no more eating of calamari or octopus sashimi in our household. When I wanted to get a can of squid at the market because the label was so lovely, Lolly quickly reminded me that when They Come, they’ll just see that I have a can of their friends and won’t stop to consider that it is in appreciation of their fascinating visage. Although, there is cannibalism in that family so I don’t know that They’d be getting Their tentacles all in a bunch over it.
While my first love was Architeuthis, but I am now ever so smitten with the giant pacific octopus, sort of a local celebrity. I once saw video of this critter taking out a shark at the aquarium. I love all the octopuses actually. When I go on and on excitedly about the one that changes color and shape to mimic other fish, or the ones that climb out of their tanks to scuttle across the floor to eat a crab in another tank, or how the momma octopus stays for weeks in a cave blowing on her eggs, and how inside the eggs are teeny weeny octopuses that look just like the giant ones …my family of humans thinks I’ve gone a little insane.
Check out: this link to the Octopus Cam at the Smithsonian; and Wikipedia and see the links at the end of the entry which include the video of the shark-attack I mentioned.
Here is one more photo from the trips around the sound this fall. I thought I was taking a snazzy series of photos to make a big 360 panorama… but the lens cover didn’t open all the way and it was a little weird to put together. But the effect is kind of like magical tape that you can peep through and see another world. Or, like, a little of Olympia.
I think you can click here to see it LARGE: 
I hope that works so this whole post isn’t just a bust. (I’m having a little trouble with this revamped Wordpress.)
