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Thursday, December 30th, 2004
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I apologize in advance for any funky spellings, as I am hopped up on percacet right now...
So I went into the hospital on tuesday night with the most severe stomach pains I have ever had in my life, it felt as though someone were using a wire brush to scrape out my innards. They took some tests, got my x-rays, and came to the conclusion that it was severe gas and being extrememly backed-up that had caused the pain. The doctors gave me some pain medication and were going to let me go as soon as my blood tests came back. It turned out I had an abnormally high white blood cell count aling with an abnormal x-ray, so they kept me overnight untill the surgeon could come in a take a look the next day. The surgeon immediately concluded that it was appendicitis and I was dragged into surgery. They yanked out my appendix and had me stay the whole rest of the day there. I went home on thursday after a relatively pleasant hospital stay with some oxicodone in my pocket and a missing appendix. I have pent the last couple of days talking with friends who have dropped by to make sure I am ok, and not managing to play World of Warcfart despite my best efforts. Today I had to go back to the hospital because I woke up to find that my tonsils were touching the back of my tongue and my throat was terribly sore. I went into the doctor's office and was told it was just irritation from the tube they stuck down my throat during surgery.
As of right now I am sitting at home, waiting for the show tha tI am going to tonight to start, it will include Trilliam Green and Woodland, and is put on the the people who put on Faerie Worlds.
Well, thats all the dirt thats fit to dish, I hope all of you ahve your new-year's resolutions primed and ready. Happy new year all!
Life, Love, Villainy, and Velvet...
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Saturday, October 30th, 2004
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I watched the movie "Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind" last night at 1:30 a.m. If you have not seen this film I greatly suggest it, it is the best movie I have seen in a very long time.
Most often, movies entertain me, as that is what they have been created to do, entertain, occaisionally movies make me think, and once in a while movies truly make me feel. This movie did all of these things, but the thing that sets it appart from other movies is tha fact that it has affected me. I feel different after having watched that movie, it has given me a new perspective on my current situation.
At the moment I feel quite pensive and introverted, sorting through my thoughts, totally engrossed in them, I barely see the world around me. The world inside of me is taking precedence.
I consider myself a thinker by nature. I enjoy simply thinking as an activity in and of itsself. Recently this has been less true, I have been feeling and reacting and running away far more than actually thinking.
I do not know what this period of introspection will bring about in my life or in my self, but I value it for what it is.
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Saturday, October 9th, 2004
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My father's friend Dilan amkes me jealous. He its a mad scientists, as in he makes his own mirrors, blows and constructs his own lightbulbs, mixes his own chemical solutions, and own s two pule capassators strong enough to make an emp pulse that would shut down four blocks of electronics equipment. Not only that, but he is a mathmatician, and alchemist, a metallurgist, a computer programmer, and an avid philosopher.He has built hover devices using powerful magnets, and know what polished strontium looks like.
I anvy this man for his knowledge, his creativity, and his absolutely relaxed attitude towards existance. Oh well, perhaps one day I too shall be an evil genius.
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2004
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I just went in to school to pick up my schedule and change it around a little, an infuriating bureacratic process, none of my classes can be moved at all.
7 classes senior year:
1st period: 20th century history
2nd period: 20th century literature
3rd period: nothing
4th period: Ap Biology
5th period: Theory of Knowledge
6th period: psychology
7th period: honors pre-calculus
8th period: French 4
I get a three hour lunch one day and two lunches the other, its great.
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Saturday, August 7th, 2004
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you forgot something else at my place as well (besides your heart), let me give you a few hints:
the things you forgot are in a paper bag.
they are wrapped in paper towels.
one is green the other is blue.
one is shortish the other is longish.
I guess I will be sending you a care "package" sooner than I thought, as I would not want to strand you without those things.
Aside from that bit of entertainment, having Ravyn here was a blast, and was everything I could have hoped for (with the exception of a few of the to-be-expected hurdles). we spent the first day hanging out and playing mordheim which she quickly decided was a great game if the dice like you and a terrible one otherwise.
The second day we went up to FaerieWorlds, which was magical and fun and exciting beyond compare. there were great bands there like Solas, Trilliam Green and Woodland (the latter two including the best flutist I have ever heard in my life). the only disappointing band was Rasputina, even though I had hear so many good things about them, they seemed to stick out like a big angsty sore thumb at a joyous faerie celebration. Voltaire would have done much better.
Ravyn was dressed as a faeriewolf in a self-created mask (look to her journal for pictures) and got a million compliments, I was jus tyour run-of-the-mill elfen royalty. Thats ok, I looked good anyways, least thats what I tell myself.
The booths were geat as always with these sorts of events, with prices on shineys widely ranging from dirt cheap (a baseball sized smokey quartz sphere so clear that it doubles a a lense, which I bought for ravyn for a mere 30$) to absurdly expensive (nearly the same spere for 350$ at another booth). Brian and Wendy Froud were there and Ravyn was overjoyed to get them to sign her faeries book. We also got postcards signed by Amy Brown, who had a bit of an attitude problem.
The first night of the festival there was a fire ceremony to celebrate lughsana, and there were firedancers there that were higher caliber that nay I had ever seen. It was a man and a woman doing a very sexual trde-off and duo routine that was so impressive that at one point the guy was spinning his two full sized firestaffs around the woman who as also swinging her poi around him. It was one of the sexiest things I had ever seen.
Raven the magician was brilliant, his contact juggling was better than that in the Labirynth (even with the special effects), and his slight of hand was to die for. Not to mention that he really and truly acted like a ravyn all the time when he had his mask on.
Easily one of the higlights of the entire event was meeting our very own little motley of two changeling players and what I can only guess was thier enchanted mortal buddy. Of course they were all graphic artists and as such Ravyn basically went "squeee! draw in my sketchbook" and they obliged, I am sure that she will have her pictures up soon. I got to spend a very pleasant hour or so napping on soft capets in a covered area called the Casbah, listening to good folk music and hearing the artists chatter and draw alternatively.
We, our motley, met the co-creator of changleing and creator of mage Phil Bruccatto, who was showcasing his new game Deleria, which ahs been described by some other changeling developers as "changeling how it should have been done" Needless to say I bought a copy for myself after skimming through it, and from what little I have read it is awesome! In it you play normal mortals who wake up to realize that magic is a real and vibrant force in the world. I can't wait to play, though sadly I think I will have to wait untill I move to do so. We were even lucky enough to get him to run a demo game for us by the light of a dragon's breath (a statue breathing propane). It was great, I still remember the lesson of that game "If you get her too excited she collapses into a pile of frogs"
The only thing to bitch about was the food, overpriced and no meat to speak of. Bah!
Once we got back into town we hung out for a few more days, went to dinner with her father (a pleasure as always), saw "home on the range" (a severly weird film about heroic farm animals), and played some more Mordheim. all in all a good few days. Of course we walked around town and spent my money on stuff, but that sort of goes without saying ;).
Now I am all by my lonesome, and it is very sad. oh well, at least I have her back, it was so nice to curl up to her. hmmmm...
In other news I am in a rockin' changeling game playing a satyr nature hike guide witha penchant for heroism, more on that later.
Well, its late, I am worn out from posting, and I need sleep if I am to function out on the boffering feild tomorrow(today).
g'night y'all, I hope this satasfies those of you who had given up on my for my posting habits...
Life, Love ,Villainy, And Velvet...
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2004
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This dragote is now a proud employee of TNS intersearch incorporated. I came in to the interview and the woman hired me on the spot.
Job description: Telephone surveys to businesses and consumers.
Starting wages: 7.25$ per hour (8.75$ on weekends)
Hours: As many as I want, but a minimum of monday and friday 7/8/9:00 a.m.-1/3:00p.m. plus one other weekday at the same hours.
There you go Ravyn, 1 out of 2.
Life, Love, Villainy, and Velvet...
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Saturday, June 12th, 2004
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| T | Terrific | | I | Influential | | M | Mystical | | O | Odd | | T | Tender | | H | Honorable | | Y | Yummy | | | | M | Misunderstood | | A | Awkward | | R | Refreshing | | C | Casual | | R | Realistic | | O | Orderly | | F | Fantastic | | T | Tender |
Name Acronym Generator
From Go-Quiz.com
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- My relationship with my sister is fucked up.
- My grades are down from where they should be.
- I woke up at godawful hours this morning to go to the SAT.
- I did not sleep on thursday night in the interest of killing some of the homework that I had, I still have mountains more.
- My back hurts from getting my ass kicked on the boffering field.
- I have been sleeping alone.
- I am without a girlfriend at this very moment.
- Things are screwed up between me and Ravyn.
And yet for all of this, I had an honestly good day today. Thank you Coyote, I know you had a paw in this.
Love and hugs to everyone.
Life, Love, Villainy, And Velvet.
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004
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My sould is starving
My heart, body, and mind, are crumbling under the pain
I have the strange urge to write angsty poetry
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It's over.
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2004
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It had to end eventually... Ravyn left for home earlier today after a fantastic weekend together. I want to get to a point in our lives where there are no more goodbyes like these ones, where we can wake up each day and go to sleep each night to the other's face.
We figured stuff out as best as it could be, it still sucks, it still hurts, but I am about as satasfied as I will ever be with it. As long as everything works out in at least the general area of how we have it planned both of us will be happy in the long run.
Not entirely sure that I will be able to be in Idaho for Ravyn's and I's two-year anniversary, for entirely financial reasons, so she is considering coming up here. It is dreadfully important that we see one another on that day, and I hope with all my little heart that we are able to be together then. that, and she left her drum up here and I am pretty certain that she would not want to trust it to the postal system.
Grr...my long distance is out for a while due to payment troubles, that means less time to talk to Ravyn.
Life, Love, Villainy, And Velvet...
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This is a public service message from your friendly neighborhood Dragote:
Congress is considering intsituting a DRAFT! This draft will not just be for men either, it will be for BOTH SEXES. Not only that but the "Only Son" and "higher Education" loopholes will NO LONGER EXIST!
This is obviously a cause for concern for anyone who does not support our current actions in the middle east, as you may be forced to fight and die for a cause that you are staunchly against.
For better information on the subject as well as a link or two to see what you can do to stop this travesty of justice, explore this link:
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/alert/?alertid=5834001&content_dir=ua_congressorg
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Definitions have been my main consternation as of late, and the central theme of the past week as far as I can tell. Here are a few of them that have been causing me particular difficulty and have risen in importance of late:
Understanding: does it mean to simply know something on an intellectual level? to sympathize with something? to know the reasons behind something? or to agree with it completely?
The Self: how do you define who you REALLY are? I mean that "true self" that everyone is always talking about. Is it who you are when you are alone? Is it who you are when you are with those closest to you? How about how you veiw yourself? or maybe even what those who know you best believe is you?
Trust: Is it an implicit and absolute faith in something? Is it a level headed assesment of the situation that gives one confidence that a certain outcome is best for everyone and that therefore they will act accordingly? Or is it simply a word that people use to guilt-trip people into not asking questions?
Attraction: Is it to be drawn to somebody on any level? To desire somebody regardless of your current situation? does it lessen your desire for other people in your life? Can you love a person but not bet attracted to them? Similarly, can you love a person and be attracted to them but also be attracted to someone else?
Fate:Does it exist? Is it the only force of determination? are we just players on a grand stage for which the script has already been written? I hold personal choice to be a true and sacred things, but I believe also that fate is a powerful force in life, how can this be sresolved? I have direct evidence of both, but are they truly contradictory? and if so, at what level?
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I went out to the Celtic festival today, it was a beautiful warm and sunny day, lots of fun was had. I got to walk around alot, chat with Keegan, boffer a little, and even see Vince when he showed up briefly. There were many great vendors there selling tartans and broaches and haggis, and even one lady who was selling a cold iron dagger! I bought Elsbeth a mystery gift (hehehe) and successfully tossed a caber end over end. There were many utilikilts out today and there was great fun had by all.
Now, to bed...
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2004
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Pride: Corbin: His hair, his sword, and his skill at arms.
Wrath: Faolin: Need we say more?
Gluttony: Spoon: We all knew it.
Sloth: Priest: he a god damnned cat!
Greed: Robin: SHINIES!
Lust: (Dani): *Wink*
Envy: Liam: "I just want a wench..."
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Thursday, April 15th, 2004
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I got this off of my mate's journal, it told me to post it here, so I did, go me...
Quiz me.
I want everyone who reads this to ask me 3 questions, no more no less. Ask me anything you want. Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends (including myself) to ask you anything.
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2004
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I have just returned from my wonderful visit to Idaho, not that anyone would have known I left by the frequency with which I post.
The trip was wonderful, I got to experience what Ravyn calls her "normal life" and I have to say that I really like it, with the exception of having to sleep alone and in a cold basement as opposed to curled up in her arms that is. We basically hung out and lived her normal life for the better part of a week, going to school, shopping, and lots and lots of beading. I made a wind necklace that both Ravyn and the Android seem to like enough to sell. I spent most of my time showering presents on Ravyn and enjoying her presence in that general sense that you really ony get when feeling casual. She kicked my ass a warhammer...
The Flogging Molly concert was amazing, and I think I may have permenantly damaged my hearing, but at least it was for a worthy cause.
Now I am at home, without Ravyn, and wishing that I was with her again (or rather, that I had never left).
In other news, I finally got a real bed, and I really do like it, it is a queen size! Also, we have a puppy around the house (that my sister decided to name Pooka), it seems that a man walked up to her outside a grocery store while she was waiting for her friend to come out and asked her is she would watch the puppy while he went in. She waited there for an hour and he never showed up, now we have this absolutely adorable little grey and black puppy around the house. We have put out an ad in the newspaper reporting a found dog, in case it was stolen, but if nothing turns up then we will have another dog around...
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Saturday, March 6th, 2004
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Happy birthday to The Scotsman and the goat-legged feather-head, from the dragote and all of Coyote's brood!
"May Coyote bless your paths, guard your loves, and keep lit the fires of your hearts!"
I hope that this new year age will suit both of you better than the last, and with each year, have it suit you even better.
Love, Hugs, and a few sarcastic remarks to both of you!
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2004
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Yes, I know, I am a bad person afor not posting as often as I should, but I suppose I just don't find my life as interesting as everyone else does...
Ravyn's visit here was wonderful beyond telling and I hope to see her again in spring break. Not only that, but if I manage to make it up there, I will be able to see all of my good buddies in Lewiston and Moscow (and maybe fit a night of dreams and nightmares in there *gasp*). We spent a wonderful valentines day around the city, then in a hottub for an hour, and finally back at the house for a wonderful candlelit dinner for two. The weekend was mainly just going around town and seeing the wonderful store of eugene, and dicovering that Ravyn really enjoys the real game of life.
I have started boffering again, and have renounced magic alltogether, taking up the name of my patron and fighting with a simple sword and shield, I slew many and died gloriously! I have considered starting up a new house that has no spellcasters whatsoever, but that would be a time commitment that I am not willing to make at the moment. I think that I will start learing to play Mordheim, the games workshop skirmishing treasure hunters game, I will have the pirate warband, ARRR!!!
Not much else really going on, I am having lots of fun with my game, and they will soon feel the sting of having gone on this great adventure, and not having anyone remember it due to chronos. Muahahaha!Speaking of roleplaying, I cannot wait to be in Idaho so that I will get to play Will and people can keep wondering whose side he is on, not only that but I am practically drooling at the chance to play a mad king with a broken heart.
I just watched the screen actor's guild awards and the people I was hoping for won, Tim Robins (best supporting actor, mystic river), Tony Schaloub (best actor in a comedic series, monk) Johnny Depp (Best actor in a feature film, Pirates of the carribean) and the big one: The cast of Lord of the Rings (Best ensemble in a feature film, Lord of the Rings, Return of the King)
I think that I like my results, besides, both me and Ravyn agree that gold looks tacky on either of us:
Heart of Crystal
What is Your Heart REALLY Made of?
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Well, I suppose that really all the news that fit to print...
Life, Love, Villainy, And Velvet...
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2004
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Your wings are DRAGON wings. Massive and
covered in scales, they shimmer with strength
and magic. They are the most obvious display of
your power - though it runs equally throughout
your heart and mind. You are uncompromising and
grave, with a profound sense of justice. You
have firm ideas about what is right and what is
wrong and set out to fix what problems you can.
You realize that you are more capable of
dealing with life and evil than most, and as
such you see it as your responsibility to
protect those who cannot defend themselves. You
have existed since antiquity and as such you
are wise far beyond your years in this
lifetime. While you strive for fairness and
peace, if someone should steal from your cave
of treasure (though not all that glitters is
gold) or compromise the happiness of you or one
who is close to you - they have signed their
death warrant. You have a mighty vengeance and
will unleash it upon such people immediately
and mercilessly. Arguing with you is
useless...you rarely back down and are known
for holding firm in your beliefs. Sometimes you
feel intensely burdened with the troubles of
others...acting as a Guardian can get so
wearisome. But you never give up...you see it
as your life's mission. Often very introverted,
you can be so smart...it's scary. Such a
combination of intelligence, creativity, power,
beauty, and magic is often intimidating to
those around you - who are also unlikely to
understand you. Arrogant, proud, overserious,
and sometimes a bit greedy or obsessed with
whatever treasure you choose to pursue...you
have enchanted people for centuries, and will
continue to do so.
*~*~*Claim Your Wings - Pics and Long Answers*~*~*
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jubilant.