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]

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.