You’re Back? You were gone? Who are you? Who’s on first? (Third Base!)

Hey guys, I’m back.

What?  You didn’t know I had gone?  Oh, ok.

Well, I was, gone that is.  Now I’m back.  Ok, so now you’re caught up.

I went home for the weekend, for a family gathering.  This is the one we host every year and hoards of relatives swarm to our farm in the middle of nowhere/middle of everywhere.  Okay, just kidding, we don’t have that many relatives.  It’s always fun though, and it’s always nice to see the fam who mostly live in Ancaster and around Hamilton there, so I don’t see them very often.  I got caught up on some of the news, ate a lot, drank lots of punch (my mom’s famous for it haha), watched the little tykes run around/wrestle/play games/fall all over the place, ate a lot, watched about two minutes of The Little Mermaid before the little tykes got bored and continued with their aforementioned activities, oh and did I mention I ate a lot?  Well, yes, yes I did.  I’m pretty sure I gained five pounds by the end of the night.

Why am I telling you this?  I forget.

No matter, I’ll just tell you what else I did recently.  I submitted a few photos to a friend of a friend for use in a documentary film done by Career Services at Queen’s University.  I did some coaching today, then got a whackload of fruit when I went grocery shopping.  Umm, clearly I haven’t done much other than go home and come back.  I’ve started working with the music program Audacity to put together a track Echo Lane (the band I’m in) might work on later, and found another recording from a while ago that I kinda like and might fiddle around with a bit.  I love being able to do things with that program, though I’m still pretty new to it, so I find myself troubleshooting a fair portion of the time.

The band (a.k.a. Echo Lane a.k.a. Mike and I) has been planning to put together an EP, or a full-length CD.  We’re still thinking about how things will work, considering I’ll be in Barrie in less than two weeks, and he’ll still be here in Kingston.  Like I pointed out to him though, already when we record things, we tend to send most of our stuff back and forth via the net already so hopefully it won’t be too much of a problem.  Since I’ll be in classes and whatnot with group project responsibilities etc. during the year, I made him promise to try to come visit.  Hopefully anything that needs sorting out can be done then.  We’re still not sure if we want a 4-song EP or a full-length, or maybe something in between.  If you have suggestions, let’s hear ’em.

Today I had the unique experience of describing what a sloth is to a group of girls ranging in age from 5 to 9 or so.  Think about it; you pretty much have to demonstrate a sloth to do its species justice.  I love making a fool of myself to kids, and I think they like it too  😉

I have Google Analytics, and I love the program.  It satisfies my stalkerish tendencies 😉 haha, well, honestly, it kinda does.  I love finding out where the people who visit my site are from, what kinds of entries are read, etc., etc., and it’s the perfect program for that.  I’ve noticed lately there have been a couple of “returning visitors” who have been visiting with some regularity (or at least there have been a few in those specific areas who have been alternating or something), and I wanted to say hi and thanks to my Etobicoke and Burlington friends 😀 I hope sometime you’ll leave me a comment and introduce yourselves, because I love the interaction that stems from such random discoveries.  I hope you like what you read, and if there is ever anything you’d like to see more of, just let me know and I’ll do my best to keep you interested in coming back 🙂

Well, I think the nap fairies have come to pay me a visit, so I shall retire for the afternoon.  Have a great day everyone!

P.S.  In reference to my title, here’s a lil’ classic comedy for my baseball fans or anyone who likes a good laugh 🙂

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My Spontaneous Field Trip

Today I went to Miller Hall’s geology museum, just for a visit. It’s been a while since I’ve been, and seeing as I pulled another all-nighter last night, it was raining, and the lights looked so inviting, I figured it was about time.

I started off by looking at the selection of rocks and minerals used in Geology class for first year engineers, which involved a little wistful reflection of those times so many years ago when we had to perform all the tests on the samples to determine their properties and later their names. I always have loved Geology, but I was going through so much during that time, I couldn’t even enjoy it then. 😦 I moved on to the end of the hall, where they had a few little samples of random rocks, and then I backtracked to my favourite part: the collection of meteorites. I had my music on high, and just immersed myself. It was wonderful. Peaceful. There’s also the additional effect it has on me, based on feelings I have toward nature (see the post directly below this for more info on that), so it was really a good mental break.
   
I then moved to the main room, where there appeared to be a class trip for some French-speaking kids, maybe grade 5 or so. I turned my music up and toured around, stopping at some of my favourites — the tall amethyst sliced-in-half-geode, galena, pyrite, azurite, the gorgeous chalcopyrite, molybdenum, smithsonite, sodalite, tourmaline, and of course all kinds of quartz….. and yes, I did just go to a random minerals site alphabetically 🙂 There were, of course, many others, but far be it from me to remember what they were. I’m always kind of surprised they don’t have (or maybe I just can’t find it) one of my favourites, lab-made bismuth. I had one once, and it disappeared somewhere, but it had what I just found out is called “hopper” qualities — where basically the mineral forms an empty cube without a top, and then stacks these box-like structures all over itself in really neat designs. It’s also got some iridescence going on, which is always pretty neat. Oh, and there was ulexite, which I love to look at because it has fiber-optic properties. Very cool.
      
I love just going to places like that randomly, it’s so inspirational and relaxing at the same time. It was also nice to see some of the children fascinated in the minerals, while the others ran around yelling. Haha, I guess it brought me back to my youth….. not a bad place to visit every once in a while….. 🙂

What the Night Brings

It occurs to me that not a lot of people pull all-nighters.  I find it, well, good I guess.  They’re sometimes enjoyable…… but they have their moments.  Like, tonight, I stayed up (well I’m still up), and was working (the not-so-fun kind of all-nighters), but I luckily caught up on my junk so that makes me feel good.  However, I had a few fun experiences with my body hating me.  Here are a couple things that may happen to you if you pull an all-nighter, and you shouldn’t be surprised if they do:

• shaking.  Just general shaking in different parts of your body.  Tonight it was my left hand.
• weird popping feeling in your eye.  I don’t know what this is.
• random numbness, usually from sitting at a computer for long periods of time banging my head against the desk.
• dehydration.  It’s easy to forget to drink when you can barely remember to open your eyes.  (Also comes in the opposite form, when you’re obsessively drinking something to try and keep yourself awake.)
• hunger from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m.
• random activity cravings.  Like suddenly wanting to go swimming, even though you haven’t in months.
• random food cravings.  Like clam chowder.
• sudden understanding of your pet.  It’s like we’re at the same intelligence level…..
• sudden ability to clean.  You might not have been the best before, but you’re Industrial Strength now……
• sudden memory recovery…… of all the e-mails you haven’t yet replied to.  Don’t be alarmed if you feel this crucial to complete immediately.  It’s normal.
• chest pains.  Yep!  Just as fun as they sound!
• waking up when you didn’t know you were asleep.  The best is when you’re holding something like a hair dryer or book, because you freak out when you wake up and you freak out again as you drop something.  (Bonus: when you’re on the bus, and you wake up with a jolt, having flung your arms wildly, only to get strange looks from the people around you/people you hit)
• brain pains.  You know how diagrams show the different sections of your brain and what they’re used for?  Well you just exploded the Common Sense one.  Congratulations!  You’re now among the other 90% of the population.  😛

I hope you’ve learned your lesson, because I sure haven’t…… Umm, what am I talking about again?  I should go.  I think I have an e-mail to write.  It’s for my cat.

Clips

Here are some clips of things I saved looooooooong ago.

sleepy sleepy quiet and weepy
wand’ring, floating over land
turn me o’er so you can’t see me
i don’t think you’d understand            

My horns have shifted still I hold my head up where are you my angel whose smile lifts me up..i need you but i don’t need anyone

i’d like a pancake pillow upon which i’d sleep, to silence the sizzle with rest in the deep          [this was initiated because I’d often thought pancakes would make great pillows…..] 

             

from the boy who wonders to the man who thinks and a father who knows….. 
         to the man who snuggles with a dream when in reality grasps only a wrinkled sheet          

        

       

it’s all about the ducks. except the part that’s all about the sea turtles.

       

                        

when my cat is staring at my coat, i wonder what he’s thinking

when my cat is staring at the powerbar cord an inch from his face, i wonder what he’s thinking

when my cat is staring at the bare wall an inch from his face, i wonder what he’s thinking

    

how I love my half orange. Almost as much as my little fluffy thing.  Almost as much as my magic mouse.           [??!!]

          

         

knowledge sought on the subject of that which is disliked yields a greater appreciation of life

      

ahh to be a jangling bag of body parts…..                   [again:  ??!!]

     

neko o tabemasu! taihen oishii desu!

a lost crumpet in a sea full of breadstuff                                                              [followed by:]
i think that metaphor was more complicated than it was worth…..!                  [haha]

   

i’m a sexy vixen ;)….. and I just fell down the stairs. 

        

darn you, Glosette raisins! you will single-handedly beat my will-power to bits….. very yummy, chocolatey, raisiny bits…..                                                                                                                          [my weakness is chocolate, so sue me! ha]

              

seeding started: check. litterbox cleaned: check. shower: check. studying: ….. what do you think?

fast/junk food diet: check. extra 10 pounds from procrastinating: priceless.

       

note to tummy: please stop craving cinnaparts when you are stuffed and hurty

          

           

I held a shell up to the Sun

brushed away the hardened sand

sending light into the water

and I was calm

I took a flower in my hand

let the dew drip from the petals

into my open palm

and I was calm

           

            

So there you have it…… an amalgamation of random notes, messages, insights, outsights.  haha

I’m not entirely sure why I decided to do this, but once I started, I couldn’t seem to stop.  Well, there you go! 

Hanging On (2005)

I cannot say I’m pleased
repetition is, however, foreseeable
and I did not foresee
a failure on my part for feeling
the rudimentary error of my species
a mistake Mother Nature corrected with the others
and hoping
a moronic faux-pas in this century
if I collapse, you’ll understand
for I’ve forgotten what is new
and I’ll remember the old
all over again so it is once more fresh and disturbed

tiny speckled thoughts of random
tear me away into bliss
but sharp jabs in my side remind me
such cringing should be my guest
it heralds not impossibility
and speaks with the ancient eyes
so why do I feel so lost and helpless
when my stage continues to grow
and my crowd fights it out amongst themselves
this mantle is silent but near implosion
with albums of fear and hatred and ignorance
weighing down on the chance for sustainment
but bricks are strong
and though the weight is mighty
it keeps me afloat somehow
my worries only feelings
those rancid add-ons to our faulty line

Copyright L.M. 2007.