The College Experience ~ Spring '07

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Zombie Apocalypse
Creating With Your Heart Day
Saint Anthony of Padua Feast Day
Birthday - Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (actresses)

 

What I Learned This Term:

 

• The average life span of a house rabbit is 10-12 years. (I knew this, but now I have learned it.)
• In comic art a good way to keep effect lines focused is to stick a tack at the focal point and rotate the straight edge around it.
• Superman originally couldn’t fly; he would jump around like a flea. I had wondered about that because of the “able to leap tall buildings” bit, which seemed a little redundant if you could go sailing off through the ionosphere whenever you wanted to.
• Subway sandwiches actually aren’t bad.
• Budgies glow in the dark.
• In linguistic subgrouping, shared innovation shows a closer relationship between languages than shared retention.
• Wraparound pants are the coolest pants in the world. And they can help you with your worldbuilding projects!
• There are two styles for wedging clay: the Western, also called “ramshead,” and the Eastern, or “chrysanthemum.” The second terms refer to the shapes the clay takes on.
• I use “Fucking” as both an honorific and as a sign of derision. For examples, I give you: Sigourney Fucking Weaver versus Paris Fucking Hilton.
• Patrick Fucking Stewart does the voice of Adventure in The Pagemaster, one of my favorite animated movies. This reinforces my theory that classically trained actors are filthy filthy whores. They’ll take any paycheck you offer them. And that’s awesome.
• People interpret the word “diet” to mean “please offer me a disapproving opinion without noticing any of the other words in the sentence.”
• Cobalt can undergo reversible oxygenation, meaning that it can work as a metalloprotein. Dweijidŕ, Ghiltrol, say hello to your blue blood.
• There is one thing I can do better left-handed: I can pull clay into long, thin strips. I always wind up with little knobs and thin bits when I do it right-handed. Presumably this means I can also milk a cow better, since the motion’s almost identical, but we will have to study that further before we know for sure.
• Originally, the word for apron was napron, but people saying a napron eventually started hearing it as an apron.
• Linguists have actually discussed whether languages have “masculine” or “feminine” characteristics (I’m looking at you, Otto Jesperson).
• The answer to the question “If I decide to make a career out of standing on rubber balls balancing tea trays and vases on my nose while swinging a hula hoop on my hips, what is my first step?” is: Wuqiao Acrobatics School.
• You know you’re not cut out to watch porn when your first thought after the movie ends is, “Hey, that subplot with the dirty maid and the guy in the cravat and enormous platforms didn’t go anywhere.”
• You should definitely make sure to hug your rabbit before you leave after spring break, because you’ll feel slightly better about it when she dies before you get back for summer vacation.
• Either I really do have Jubilee’s mutant power of blowing up electronics, or every iPod in the Universe is a piece of shit.
• It is actually possible to upstage Johnny Depp as a pirate.
• It takes a month to get some psychiatrists to do paperwork.
• Fraggle Rock stands the test of time. Rugrats doesn’t.

Comments

[cjtremlett.livejournal.com]

Whee, yet another reason to hate Otto Fucking Jesperson!

A napron, eh?

[pennyfeather.livejournal.com]

I can snap better with my left hand. Why? I do not know.

Your posts are so interesting. I always learn something! Which proves that I, in fact, do not know everything.

And on that note, off to finals!

Re: A napron, eh?

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

Me too! the snapping thing. It's v. strange.

your icon is gorgeous.

[spotweld.livejournal.com]

You know you’re not cut out to watch porn when
I think that just disqualifies you from directing it.

It is actually possible to upstage Johnny Depp as a pirate.
It helps if you have squid-parts though =P

[childthursday.livejournal.com]

Wow. Your semester was a lot more productive then mine. I will be refering to aprons as naprons from now on.

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

I can't work scissors left handed, and I'm a leftie mostly. I also cannot knit leftie, though my method is nothing short of weird.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Also: originally, Superman did not have adopted parents. He was found by a passing motorist and raised in an orphanage, and "Clark Kent" was simply an assumed name. This was the version around the time the Fleischer Studios Superman cartoons were made. Ma & Pa Kent were a retcon.

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

Now that, I did not know. I did know about the leaping buildings bit. And I hear he was vaguely based on the title character in a pulp sci-fi novel called "Gladiator", but I haven't read it yet. (I am not, as such, a comic geek myself, but I am close friends with enough of them that I try to keep up on the trivia).

[shadesofmauve]

I just read that oranges were like aprons (A norange - an orange).

More importantly, I love wrap pants and I want to know how they helped your world-building.

I'm sorry about your bunny. Mine died while I was at school, too. :(

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

Indeed (as to noranges).

Also, "pea" and "cherry" are both back-formations. The original "pease" and "cherise" were both singular words, but people assumed they were plural!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Hence in Spanish, orange = naranja.

My alien character, Dweiji (an arhode--sort of humanoid with fur, four arms, and digitigrade legs) saw these pants lying around in my mind and put them on, noting that she had a lot like them. Apparently, women from her region of Kalkupu wear them.

And thanks for the condolences. I'll miss her.

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

lol!

I like Subway.

Budgies glow!?! er... how?

wraparound pants are cool, if frustrating to remove in order to use the toilet. Not sure how they help on projects, though...

And who upstaged Depp as a pirate? I'll believe it fairly easily, mind you, I'm just curious because I can't quite think of anyone right now...

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Not actually the dark ... budgies glow under UV light. Their little foreheads light up under UV. Has something to do with mating.

An alien character of mine, Dweiji (of the same species as Ghil, arhode) saw the wraparound pants lying around in my mind and said, "Hey! Those are like the pants people wear where I'm from!" And she put them on. Thus, women of the Rredir region of Kalkupu may wear wraparound pants. (They all wear few and loose clothes, because they're fuzzy.) And all you have to do is untie the back and pull it down like a flap to use the toilet with minimal fuss!

Geoffrey Rush kicks Johnny Depp's ass. AND Bill Nighy, but mostly Geoffrey Rush. He seemed to get his entire inspiration for pirate-acting from Saturday morning cartoons.