The Life Experience ~ Summer '06

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Things I learned this summer:

 

• The LDS church’s Salt Lake Temple has a special waiting room for underage Mormons and heathens.
• Sincerity goes a long way toward selling people things.
• The Star Wars approach to trilogies seems to have set a precedent, although its best legacies are swashbuckliness and mythic magnificence.
• My mother’s old friend was not only married to a pinup artist; she was also a model for pinups.
• Camisole racks are evil.
• Hank does blush purple.
• There are all sorts of possible ways I could structure my alien hospital, but it required a lot of study of an overview of medicine.
• It is considered possible to create universes in laboratories.
• Admitting you like a Lifetime channel original series is harder than mentioning you like the Justice League.
• If there are two possible orientations for stereoisomers, all life on Earth uses only one, and no one knows why.  Whatever the hell that means.
• There used to be sabretoothed kangaroos in Australia, which is a truly wonderful visual.
• When Mom tells a story about her past, it involves a specific anecdote; Dad’s childhood stories involve a lot of statistics and general overviews of who lived where, how he got to school, etc.
• My cuzzins still think about me.
• Headaches are interesting.  The best name for a headache is 'crash migraine.'  And the meanest headache ever is really a cruelty of nature: it's a splitting migraine you get whenever you reach the point of orgasm.
• Sometimes you don’t realize how well-know a person is until they get killed.
• Sin City doesn’t make any more sense if you watch it again.
• All fig trees are pollinated by wasps, who in some species of fig die and then when you eat figs you're eating teeny tiny almost microscopic baby wasps.
• You will never eat figs again.
• Apparently it’s perfectly acceptable when getting a pedicure to not socially inteact at all with the person you’re making scrub your ugly feet.
• If a song has the word ‘jive’ in it, I will hate it with a burning passion.
• ‘Prosopagnosia’ is the medical term for face-blindness, which is an inability (of varying) to recognize faces. I may have a very mild form of this, which makes retail kind of hard and explains why I always have trouble watching any movie or show where there are a bunch of guys in uniforms.*
• Las Vegas is actually really, really fun if you have money and ignore the casinos.
• Damn, magicians are observant.
• Mac King’s grandmother apparently made a lot of couches into suits.
• Dead bugs are easier to wear than live ones.
• Some summers aren’t as fun as others.

Tomorrow I’m off to Eugene again to do more college.  Liz says she’s setting up the Fortress of Terror pretty well, and I’m bringing loads of stuff with which to fill it.  But while we got a great promotion from Comcast, it may be a week and a half before I get the internet in my house. Unless they come sooner. But given how busy I’ma be, I’ll probably hardly miss it.


*Seriously, why don't those guys wear name tags?

Comments

[gryfindormia.livejournal.com]

For someone who grew up in SLC you didn't know about the special room? I was in there for a friend's wedding. I felt really tempted to start forcing my way through rooms, pretending I was mildly retarded and yelling "ARE YOU THERE GOD, IT'S ME MARGARET!".

SABERTOOTH KANGAROOS?!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I managed to avoid Mormon weddings until this summer. God, they're boring.

[gryfindormia.livejournal.com]

I couldn't, wish I could.

YES THEY ARE. I have no fucking idea in the world why they think that a wedding reception where everyone line up like cattle to see the bride/groom/their parents and then line up for punch on the way out is fun and memorable. If I ever get married, there will be a band/professional DJ, lots of drink, lots of dance until godawful hours of the morning, and I'm sure as hell not going to "receive" guests like that.

I tried dancing at my friend's wedding reception in a ward basketball court last December, she wanted us to and I was more than happy to oblige, but her psycho conservative in-laws gave us the look of death and later told her it "wasn't appropriate", even though they had a stereo playing some mix CD with old dance hits.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I was the bridesmaid at this one. Thank the gods I was manning the guestbook because it gave me something to do. God, and the punch ~ it was fizzy white grape juice and no water. God I was thirsty.

My wedding plan features matching tattoos on our butts and a trip to Raging Waters, but not necessarily in that order.

Oh, and sabre-toothed kangaroos.

[gondolinchick01.livejournal.com]

I became disillusioned with Mormon weddings at a young age. Did they serve those stupid little mints with the temple stamped on them? The ones that taste like mint-flavored bars of soap? I hate those.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Say, I think I recognize your icon and wanted to let you know that the creator is ironychan. She had an entry recently asking people not to use her icons without permission, and for her readers to let anyone using her icons unwittingly know about that. (The wives of Henry VIII are hers, too.) I'm pretty sure you credit icons when you know who they are, so I thought I'd give you the heads-up that she's a bit sensitive and you might want to ask her if you can use them.

You DO have very good taste in icons, though. ;)

[gryfindormia.livejournal.com]

Oh, I thought she said she was okay with that in a post a while back (and my bad, I forgot to credit though I know full well they're her's), but I might be wrong. Thanks for the warning.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

No problem. She had a rant about people using those two specifically somewhere along the way, but she may have changed her mind while I wasn't paying attention. I just thought I'd make sure. That's me ~ vigilante for justice! :P

[gryfindormia.livejournal.com]

I'm too lazy to go back and find the post, so I took them down. I wish I had skillz!1 to do this stuff, I had ideas similiar to that for icons a long, long time ago.

[blackbyrd2.livejournal.com]

"ARE YOU THERE GOD, IT'S ME MARGARET!"

LMAO. Seriously; It's around here somewhere, I know it. I just can't find it.

[cjtremlett.livejournal.com]

Interesting. You're the second person on my list to bring up face-blindness in the last week or so. My sister is face-blind.

And I love the saber-toothed kangaroos!

[(Anonymous)]

I had to look up 'stereoisomers.'

Did you watch the Primetime Medical Mysteries show that had interviews with people who have prosopagnosia? if you didn't, then it's just really coincidental that you mentioned it right after I'd seen a show on it.

Yay Stuff!
~Liz

[blackbyrd2.livejournal.com]

wb to you too, although, did you ever leave?

[blackbyrd2.livejournal.com]

wb to Oregon, you. :)

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Sin City does make sense if you read the stories separately instead of watching them all scrambled around as in a blender like the movie.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

I learned about prosopagnosia from having read Jane Goodall's Reason For Hope. I've watched entire movies with white men in uniforms after which I've had no idea what went on in them because I literally had no idea which character was which at any point in the movie. If a woman I've seen every week for three years changes her haircut, I can't recognize her on the street.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Oh, good, I'm not the only one!

I don't think I'm VERY face-blind, but I think I'm slightly below average. I often remember people I've just met by their clothes first, and then I gradually come to recognize the face. This didn't help at the clothing store I worked at, because I'd open up a couple of dressing rooms and then they'd change and I'd have no idea which person was which.