It's A Hard World

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Twelfth Night

 

*snorf*

 

Figures. I go back to school tomorrow and I’ve got a cold.

 

And in truly awful news, I just found out I can’t take the juggling class I was registered for.  It conflicts with one of my other classes. Curses!  I was finally going to learn how to keep three oranges in the air for a prolonged period of time, and my damn major intruded itself into my life.  Anthropology. Psh.  Why couldn’t I have majored in juggling?  It seems to have worked for Penn Jillette, right?  Right?

 

Perhaps I’ll take it up later in life and become a late-blooming artist, the Grandma Moses of tossing fruit around. “Amelia started juggling after college,” people will say, “and look where she is now!”*

 

Or I can just find a club or something.  But where’s the romance in that?

 

 

*With any luck, in one of my five fabulous palaces surrounded by boxes of chocolate and books and entertainment.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The same thing happened to me! Stupid classes. By the by, I did try to sign you up for juggling when classes first opened, but duckweb would not let me. Just so you don't think I bailed on you. And as for your cold, when you get here it's probably gonna get worse. The weather has been crap (cold, heavy rain, slush, and windy) and is planning to stay crap for the forseeable future.

[alexvdl.livejournal.com]

It was EIGHT here! And with wind chill -15!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Nah, I had to change my password earlier. Damn Duckweb.

But I'll be with you guys! Is that pizza still an offer?

[(Anonymous)]

Pizza is still a go, as far as I can figure. I never actually asked Emily or Josh, but that's cuz I have no idea when Josh gets in, and I think Emily is coming around 8pm(ish? last time I talked to her) But I am assuming they'll both go for it. If they are not around, that just means more pizza for us. What time are you coming in?

[alexvdl.livejournal.com]

Not a lot of romance in juggling, period, really...

I mean how often do you walk into the used bookstore and you see a man in tight leather pants, rippling chest muscles holding a girl in one hand and deftly keeping three knives in the air with the other.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

What the hell is romantic about tight leather pants, though?

I'm not talking romance like love or sex or novels, you goof! I'm talking about romance in the arty sense.

[alexvdl.livejournal.com]

I wish I could find some nice leather pants. Also a leather jacket with lambs wool collar. And HUGE SWORD that doubles as a gun.

Are unicycles romantic?

[childthursday.livejournal.com]

Juggling. Class.

I want to go to your school!

[(Anonymous)]

Our school also offers classes in ice skating, frisbee golf, ping pong, billards, trampoline, kayaking, and 14th century Italian swordfighting.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

All of which mentioned above are termed as PE clases, and NONE OF WHICH are at a time feasible for me to take them. BOO.

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

We can probably find people to teach you 14th c. Italian swordfighting. Talhoffer is very big in the historical combat circles these days.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

I sympathize. However, juggling is something that's easier to learn on your own than anthropology. You don't need a degree in juggling to get a job: you just need to be able to juggle. Not so with anthropology.

The coolest thing I've seen a juggler do was sculpt a dragon in clay while throwing it around with several other objects.

[elvenmoon.livejournal.com]

JUGGLING class? Awesome :D Wonder what the tests would be like.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a PE class ... I refer you to the above Anonymouse (Liz) and the list of other PE classes at UO.

[placetohide.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had to drop Korean for next term due to conflicts; it stinks when you can't take extra/for fun classes because you have to have, you know... a major. :[

I'm coming down with a cold, too--I blame it on back-to-school blues, harr harr.

[blackbyrd2.livejournal.com]

Allow me to share with you the book which taught me to juggle when I was some years older than you are now and some younger than I am now. It's also quite a nice book to read, and one which you would likely enjoy, what with the multiplicity of alien races involved;

Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg

[chibicharibdys.livejournal.com]

Aw, I have a cold too. D: