A combination of things I can't be bothered telling everyone in person, and things I want to tell everyone whether they want to hear it or not.
I don't use this blog any more, have a look at my lj and dreamwidth: http://alias-sqbr.livejournal.com http://sqbr.dreamwidth.org
Not that my pages are perfect now, I've just dealt with all the little pages that were hanging about. The big ones are still kind of crap :) Sorry to bother you all with my spring-cleaning.
As further proof of my propheticness, a few days ago I dreamed I found myself unexpectedly at city west and got licorice from somewhere I wouldn't have expected, and the next day thats what happened! (In a completely different way, of course. Still psychic)
"Blue transparent perspex. Genetically engineered cells form tiny processing unit.
Acts like normal fish but cleaner. At the end of the dream I discovered a remote control,
but it was all in japanese!
When its jaw fell off a little message came up on the t.v. with instructions and
(the jaw joint) had tiny little turning things to close the jaw."
Some time around the begining of 2002 I bought a copy of "Newton", a very boring science magazine. In it was an article on electronic pets, with the photo on the right (I've flipped it for a better comparison):
Wierd eh? I like the jellyfish, I must say.
And in case you're wondering, I very rarely record my dreams, but I thought it was a cool idea.
And I geuss somebody agrees!
A week or so later "The Matrix:Reloaded" came out :)
(In case you're intersted as I woke up I decided it was more interesting if the aliens were in fact humans from the future who felt we as a race needed population control and a reason to band together so we didn't screw things up the way they did.)
I'm planning on cleaning out all the crud that I'd have put into my blog (rather than making a seperate page) if I'd had one so as a result odd things may appear here. Right now I'm up to "B" and we have a rather stream of consciousness entry from my diary (circa late '99) which I liked enough to put online:
Cam got me a graphics tablet! Woohoo!
No offense to the other fine presents I got this morning but my second favourite has to be the cactus flowering for the first time in the 3 3/4 years we've lived here.
Aslo, since I forgot to mention it before, they're reprinting Dorothy L. Sayers! Life is good. Even if it's hot.
His office is pretty typical, but there was a door saying "NeuroTuning (EEG Biofeedback)" and wierd flyers. I was eventually taken behind this door, and asked a bunch of questions like "Rate your quality of life" and "Have you ever thought someone was living in your ceiling?".
"Now", said the nurse (well, neurotherapist as it turns out) "If you just sit in this chair we'll attach some electrodes.."
"Uh..." says I, "I came in for throat problems."
"Oh" says the neurotherapist.
She gave me the test anyway since the doctor was busy and its covered by Medicare. It involved sitting in a chair watching the video to Coldplay's "The Scientist" with two electrodes on my head and wierd...thingies on my ears.
Thus, in lieu of a meme, we have
my Beck Brain Electricity Assessment (Well, not the whole thing, it's like seven pages)
On the way back opposite me were these two women:
who didn't know each other as far as I can tell. The Woman In Red had this exercise book crammed with close red text with no spaces in which she wrote frenetically, while the Woman In Blue sat quietly for most of the trip until suddenly grabbing a notebook and writing something which inspired me to scrawl a sketch myself and thus miss my stop!
I've had this incredible forboding feeling that something was going to happen to cast a shadow over my trying-to-get-rid-of-stress holiday. So I've decided to listen to my "Don't change the date of your picnic! Keep it the 28th!" feeling too. That and Phlebus is busy on the 5th. (Yes, I know, you're all busy on the 28th too, tell that to my Dark Sense Of Forboding)
I've watched almost all of Season 4 of Buffy, and I must say: (Spoiler warning, btw)
You think Riley is the annoying thing? Not, you know, the way they showed complete contempt for a certain unconventional relationship by completely glossing over its beginning and the presumably Buffy-esque levels of angst that must have gone with it. It's worse than the "Oh, yeah, and noone was surpised when they got together. Which they did." end to "Persuasion"! Though I must say he was kind of annoying, especially since I get the feeling the writers have no idea what Grad students actually do, apart from..*ahem*.."grading papers".
Anyway, bikkies!
I'm feeling a bit better after my stupid 3-weeks-with-a-sore-throat thing, too. Anyway, below is a copy of an email I sent to the unisfa list:
Anyone who knows me and would like to wish me well is welcome. Presents also welcome but not neccesary.
So:
What: 25th birthday picnic
Where: Kings Park womens memorial, just off Forrest Drive
Date: 28th November
Time: 11:30 and if you're late I'll eat all the nice food before you get
there. I'm talking 11:31 here, I get hungry!
What to bring: Food to share. A present if you like. Something to sit on.
And since people always forget: if you bring something that needs cutting/drinking, bring a knife/cups! I'll try to bring both too :)
If anyone wants advice on what to get me, see this site which may be down for a few days.
If theres any huge glaring problems (like a clash with something Everyone is going to) let me know :)
Anyway, enough whining, back to what you all really want to hear about: crochet! (And all the Planet UCC people go down to the next poster) I realised the reason all the cocheted snood patterns were so dorky is that anyone with half a clue knows that what people wore in the middle ages were called cauls and were basically hairnets, since crochet wasn't invented yet. So I bought a hairnet and Lo! I looked cool. I'll post pictures when I can be bothered.
Anyway, today I sat here all bored and Buffy-less and decided to look up a crochet pattern to do even though I was sure the end result would be something dorky and crap. And then I found...crocheted klein bottle hats!! Not to forget Mathematics Education in Fiber Arts and knitted topological shapes.
