ROLLING ^_^ THREAD

1. I've almost finished the incredibly hellish stored procedure/DLL rewrites needed to finish integrating a new search engine into our application!

2. Mr. Que giving me awesome ideas for things to do with my iPhone!

3. an A (reduced to a B+ for lateness, but ya know.. still) for a paper i wrote and an oral presentation on the Codex Seraphinianus, which i thought was a piece of shit, but apparently was not ^_^

4. I got into a Tempest Keep raid yesterday!

what is that??

this: http://www.wowwiki.com/Eye_%28Tempest_Keep%29

its when furries get together and talk about their feelings.

hahaha damnit xpost

I STILL SUPPORT YOUR OPENNESS AND BRAVERY HI DERE

OHHHHHH

IM DUMBFOUNDDED --- NEW CAR IS REDDAY ^_^

6. already posted this on lingjack overbertdrive's thread but: i'm well on my way to writing a pretty decent essay and actually handing it in on time!! WAHOO. also: minor improvements in diet seemed to be making me feel less mental about schoolwork, so yay ^_^

7. boredom led me to make chocolate chip cookies and they are warm and gooey (and also the kids and A. will love me for them)

8. Possesion of new car :])

9. High-caffeine gym supplement is making me ^_^ for no discernible reason

10. there is a baby dainty green tree frog sitting on top of my gate, it is as small as a magic bean but has a bold facial expression, i think it doesn't know how very little it is <3<3

more on the 'bold facial expression' please

11. I HAS PAID OFF MY HECS DEBT

12. The first birthday present has come in... LOL PS3 WTF THX FOLX

I can't tell if that is a positive review or not!

IT IS SUPER POSITIVE

In that case YAY!

13. I have a book list for school!

14. first proof printed for letterpress-printed postcards - success!

please tell everything about postcard, rubyredd?

Hey HI DERE, plz to encourage your parents to send me an xbox 360 for my birthday ok thx bye

15. Part 2 has arrived.... WTF limited edition of Rock Band????!?!!? WAY

GOT MY GMAIL ACCOUNT BACK.

It seems one ebay seller got fucked over by this fucking guy.

lxy: I WAS HOPING SOMEONE WOULD ASK THAT!
actually it is super boring, but i'm super excited. i'm doing a class at uni on book-making history and learning how to letterpress print. our practical printing project is this:
choose from one of the standard postcard sizes; design a p/c for a real or invented client and audience - using paper of your choosing, one ink (black only) and no more than 15 words and no images; must include budget for projection of a 100-edition, explanation of concept, diary of development etc etc...

so my idea was to use the guerilla poetics project as our client, with the notion that our PCs would be a kind of promotion of an antipodean branch of the GPP, trying to expose undiscovered NZ poets. so the PCs would be placed in suitable books in both the uni library and bookstore (the same way GPP operates).

i will post pics when we have the final product printed on monday, but the text is:
although 'caution' is not a dog,
we implore you to exercise it.
[poet's name - friend of girl in my group who is weirdo]

www.guerillapoetics.org

we're using super nice paper, with a special overlay that will be held in place with a kind of rivet. and the idea was all mine! and i also made everyone agree to use garamond (we could only work from a list of about 10 fonts), because i love it so much and it's also the typeface in the GPP reader....

OMG i'm so sorry this is pretty boring :/

and way long

(xpost to Dan) hmmmm, I don't know what that even is, but obviously you like it.

I don't suppose your parents have always wanted you to have a sister, Dan. They could adopt me! Cuz my birthday is next month, and really, right now I'd be happy if I just had a decent pencil sharpener.

Rubyredd, I will look forward to seeing your pictures of your project!

http://www.rockband.com/

wau wau wau wau wau it has the guitar, the mic and the drums with it wau

Well, even if we can't see you, we should be able to hear you clearly. ;)

17. just got an email from one of the dudes who runs the GPP, and he is interested in ACTUALLY PAYING ME TO PRINT THE POSTCARDS FOR REALZ

AWESOME!

yeah he was really impressed with my idea, and wants to do it here in NZ. don't know if i'll have the time or opportunity to actually do it, but still... and it's good to be making some connections for when i actually go out and try to apprentice myself to some poor old printer.

Sounds cool... I hope you get to actually do it!

ruby, thanks! it's NOT boring, it's totally cool! i am intrigued, and i hope the guy will pay you lots to make them for real.

(and secretly, selfishly i wish i could get one in the mail.)

lxy if you webmail me your address i will send you one; we're supposed to only print off 10 but i'm gonna do a few extras. i definitely won't get paid lots to do the job for the GPP - they're a non-profit organisation so i'd only charge for materials and studio rental, but it would be an excellent thing for my cv, and i really love what they're doing.

RR, i will! thanks thanks!!!

18. Fighting through the sicko to go see an 8:00 showing of Cloverfield tonight excitement woot

I don't even know what Cloverfield is, BUT have fun! And take your Advil!

(ahem, but don't mix Tylenol and booze, that is not a good plan, dude)

19. JUST SAW CLOVERFIELD AND IT WAS FUCKING AWESOME

20. my secret name for sara is night nurse

That sounds incredibly sinister, and therefore I approve.

http://www.americanartarchives.com/cohen_for_men_only_all_night_nurse.jpg

1st GIS for "night nurse"

There are others

before you find out where it's from it's important that you know i like you.

xp

lolololol

Okay, first of all I am not blonde.

97. 25/25 on my first paper for nursing school, which kind of makes up for the fact that I am having a horrible time finding references for a totally different assignment

congrats.

and yes, i do drink. not well, but with great enthusiasm.

if remy drinks, then remy will have a chance to enjoy a nipsy russell while in town

xpost awesome, enthusiasm is all we could ask

nipsy rusell = the one with habeneros Y/N

last weekend we didn't have the proper ingredients for a nipsy russell (still had the booze and the habenero) so we subbed all manner of strange canned "beverages" from the asian market for the grapefruit juice.

of course we had to rename it, so it was initially christened the "Kurt Russell". After drinking it, we dubbed it the "Big Trouble In Little China"

xpost Y

hoo boy

also - thanks remy! My perfectionist streak is totally gratified right now

xpost to John hahahahaha

Asian "beverages" are so weird.

"Asian" beverages are so weird.
Asian "beverages" are so weird.
Asian beverages "are" so weird.
Asian beverages are "so" weird.
Asian beverages are so "weird".

Now write a haiku about them

Kimchee beverages
Effervescent spicyness
Leads to farts of doom

okay, hilarious!

PERFECT

97. N3N4 W0LF0RD? IN MY MYSPACE FRIENDS????

WAHT

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=265698740

THIS IS HER BAND

This means something.

(Remy, you realize we are having drinks on Saturday down here and then again at the end of the month in SF.)

More HSTNGS ppl we graduated with turning up online.

Oh cool!

I haven't looked at my myspace page for, like, 3 weeks; I should really do that.

keep not looking at it? yes, you should

Tom, you may have a point there.

I hadn't looked for 3 MONTHS; I found out shortly afterwards that a bot was posting filthy bulletins to all of my friends.

And since of course everyone assumed it was business as usual nobody said anything.

(I kid. Or do I?)

Dammit, now I'm bummed that I missed the filthy messages somehow ;_;

EVERYONE GETS FILTHY MESSAGES EXCEPT ME

(I should really consider taking a nap, shouldn't I)

There was one that was titled something like "filth d0g p0rn". UH

Okay, now I don't feel so bitter about missing it.

98. MMMMMMM FREE LUNCH BBQ

99. there's a ray caesar exhibition coming up in toronto, so jordan emailed a guy who works for his company and lives in toronto, and offered him $100 to go to the show and get any flyers/programs/etc for me. still no reply, since guy probably thinks jordan is a weirdo, but it made me ^_^

100. got an a+ on my ridic satirical art proj

101. graduation present #2 (picked by jordan but officially from his parents): a micro portfolio of 32 cards by wicked awesome japanese artist naoto hattori (it's signed AND numbered!). here is one of his many cool paintings:

http://naotohattori.com/prints/images/idolize.jpg

102. Crazy ass house woman called the realtor we had make the offer and is hyper-apologetic and somewhat humbled which means maybe perhaps new house for low dollars reallllll soon.

which would also mean that my rekkerds would be released from prison into their natural habitat which is REAL LOUD ALL OVER MY HOUSE YEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!

john did u guys just call up a realtor and start having them show you around or how did you go about it? i realize you buying a house in minnesota and me looking at condos in the capital of the fucking nation may be slightly different in some ways but I got 0 XP in this

K4l1 was referred to the dude by her parents, and i swear to god having a "buying agent" is about the best thing ever, basically an informed realty hardman. Also, they can often force the seller to pay their commision and most of the closing costs, which makes them FREE realty hardman.

srsly, this guy has not only spotted shit like slight chimney leans, but also taught me a shit ton about all the things that can be fucked up about a house/require irritating regular and expensive attention (hi dere shake siding) that i never would have seen or known about in a million years

oh yeah, and the right dude has the temperment of a pitbull. one thing though, a bunch of these people basically walk you around and talk about how awesome what you are looking at is, because they want to score their commission as quickly as possible. You want the guy that's willing to crawl into the attic and say WTF THESE CEILING JOISTS OMG

Awesome news John! Sounds like Seller Lady may be beginning to face reality.

Also expect me to grill you on all this next time we buy/sell a house (NOT anytime soon).

YAY!

my jim woodring orignial!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2151/2317618504_078acc724e_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2145/2316809969_b93ae716a7.jpg

if you haven't seen this animated version of pushpaw/pupshaw/frank, it's really freakin cool:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=brHZ69DsfQI&feature=related

Aw to picture.

103. iPhone = mine

Rubyredd, that is really cute!

Ned, I am jealous!!!

more presents for me!

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d111/hotkizzle/Set.jpg

the luke chueh mini print set, signed and numbered, limited to 500. from jordan of course. really really super nice postcard sized giclees. i want to mount them in a really deep box frame.

just to clarify: i AM spoiled rotten by jordan, but i DO give him cool gifts too! and technically this wasn't actually a 'gift'.. he bought for 'us' but he's letting me have it till i come to the states.

Awww - those are totally cool!

105. Just got simultaneous news from my cousin and my mother letting me know that a different cousin is expecting her first baby. So happy for them - AND happy to get good news again. LOVE THE GOOD NEWS, PEOPLE

106. So we got the kids a Wii for Xmas. We tried it out tonight (to make sure that it works, ha) - weirdly fun. Yay, I am looking forward to Christmas now!

Those prints are great.

Sara somehow I suspect "We got the kids a Wii for Christmas" will soon become "we got ourselves a Wii for The Third Week Of July."