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Southern Hemisphere Hoodie-Hoo Day
UN International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition
Virgo Begins
Anniversary - First Man Powered Flight
Birthday - Gene Kelly (actor, dancer)

( ... You'll See My Dainty Toes. )

Heather, Mom, 妹, and I went and got pedicures (this is becoming a tradition, I guess) at a school for such things, and I think we entertained the ladies while it was going on. We carried on about Africa, Heather’s impending mission, the students’ reasons for going to this school, the stuff they learn in their classes, my purple feet,* Dad, and how Mom is a unicorn in disguise.** We even convinced Heather to get a color for hers—a nice mother-of-pearl.

Believe it or not, it’s unusual to ask for rainbow toes. But I was adamant about appeasing my inner seven-year-old. I love this color scheme—it’s weird and makes me think of the retro future, for some reason, with green space girls and clothes with rings. I will have the coolest feet in Kenya.

And since Liz, who knows me too well, guessed her present from the hint I gave her, now you can all see what it is. Unless you’re Emily, and then you will just have to live in suspense.

( Hank, Show Her What She's Won! )

*I think it has to do with how I sit on chairs, which cuts off my circulation halfway up my thigh, and my legs are so short that they swing over the edge anyway.

**Long story.

Current Mood: I need to sneeze
Current Music: Ethno Dance 2000 ~ Fun The Mental / Ja Sha Taan

Anniversary - Bikini
Independence Day (Algeria)
Independence Day (Venezuela)

Hey, everyone, check out my incredibly nerdy metaquote! What have I BEGUN?

Poor lychee-twist. Now she’s under even more pressure to comic that. But I did advertise her, after all.

I also decided to repost the other dork comment I made in the same entry the context is from, because it's something that strikes me every time I see Wolverine, and something I've been wanting to comment on anyway:

I always thought that if I had super-regenerative powers, I would be rather alarmingly cavalier about my body. I could just pierce the hell out of myself one day and scare my family, or experiment with even weirder body modifications. Or one day I could say to myself, "I wonder what brain damage feels like?" And can you imagine the potential for practical jokes? I'd throw myself under trucks and trains just to see the look on everybody's face. Or wrestle lions and bears. Safety precautions would not apply to me! Who needs safety goggles? Parachutes?--Pssh. Helmets would be pointless! Hell, I wouldn't even use POTHOLDERS!

And I'd routinely sell my blood and organs. Who cares? I can always regrow that kidney, after all.

I think there's a whole untapped potential that regenerative superheroes need to look into here. I want to see Wolverine answer the door at Halloween with an actual arrow jutting from his eyeball someday, dammit.

Someday I'll elaborate on how if I were Hank McCoy I'd routinely infect Wolverine with horrible diseases and then siphon off the antibodies he produced and use them to cure things like cancer and AIDS. But that would just be going over-the-top geeky, wouldn't it?

Current Mood: geeky
Current Music: Herman's Hermits ~ I Am Henry VIII, I Am

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.

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Rusted Root ~ Send Me On My Way

Liberty Day
National Puppy Day
Near Miss Day
UN World Meteorological Day
Republic Day (Pakistan)

The Dude’s Birthday!

Happy birthday, Dude!

He went home from his break on Sunday, and I got home yesterday. Damn Oregon and its own litte concept of space-time! Daaammmn yoooouu!

At least this year I am not charged with the upkeep of the traditional token of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that he receives on his birthdays.* Thanks, Hollywood.

But then, what the hell will I get him?!

*Seriously, besides my own piratical birthday themes, could there be anything cooler?

Current Mood: cheerful

Lupercalia
Remember the Maine Day
Susan B. Anthony Day
Birthday - Galileo Galilei (astronomer)

Scene: Archaeology class. My good buddy Jenny and her friend* are sitting in front of Amelia.

Professor: Now one of the big discussions of paleontology is whether Neanderthals were human.

Jenny: (quietly) How the hell can you not like Batman?

Professor: Today we’re going to watch a Nova program discussing that question.

Jenny’s Friend: I just think that superheroes should have super powers.

Movie: (dramatic music) The mystery of the Neanderthal is one that affects all of us, for how can we understand ourselves if we don’t know our ancestors?

Jenny’s Friend: I’ll give you Spiderman, because he makes gadgets …

Jenny: Batman does that too! He’s intelligent!

Movie: Neanderthal-human hybrid?

Jenny’s Friend: He’s just rich!

Movie: Ape-man! Human! Elisabeth Daynés! Boule! DNA! Racial typecasting! Occipital bun! Brow ridges!

Jenny: Batmobile! Ninja training! Outwitting bad guys!

Jenny’s Friend: Vengeance! Outsourcing! Useless angst!

All: Controversy! Controversy!

The world may never get the answers.

*One of those contrary, argumentative, and narcissistic personalities that I find insufferable. Likes to argue, except that he ony pays attention to his own side of the argument because he’s convinced he’s always right. He must have some good qualities if Jenny likes him, but I'm going to stay far away from him when I can, or there will be sparks, and not the happy kind.

Current Mood: amused

Congress Assembles Day
Drinking Straw Day
Earth at Perihelion
National Write to Congress Day
Birthday - J.R.R. Tolkien (author)
Admission Day (Alaska)

Scene: Downstairs, late at night. Or possibly early in the morning, depending on how you look at it. Amelia is fooling around reading and writing; the Dude is playing through Ultimate Alliance, with all the Marvel superheroes, for the second time.

The Dude: Right, off to Mephisto’s realm to choose who lives and who dies. It’s a choice between Jean Grey and Nightcrawler.

Amelia: You’re going to try to not kill Nightcrawler, aren’t you?

The Dude: Yeah, I killed him last time and broke the X-Men. This time I’m going to try it with Jean.

Amelia: (considers this) Well, Jean can take it.

The Dude: Exactly! I mean, she’s done this sort of thing before, after all, and it hasn’t had too many ill effects on her.

Also, upon hearing Loki for the first time, Amelia’s comment was: “You know, he sounds like the kind of guy who says ‘muahaha’ a lot.”

Current Mood: creative
Current Music: Cirque du Soleil ~ Tzelma (O)

Is it weird that today's Digger put a lump in my throat?

Poor Ed ... Maybe we'll finally find out what he did.

Politically-minded geeks away!

All of them seem about right to me, at least the ones I know. Green Arrow's summation is my favorite.

All hail

gwalla for providing the link.

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Israel Kamakawiwo'ole ~ Margarita

National Grouch Day
Simchat Torah (Jewish)
Sunday School Teacher Appreciation Day
White Cane Safety Day
Wishbones for Pets (10/15-11/30)

Ye survey!

Don't even ask what I did today. Just remind me to thank the Dude profusely for lending me his X-Men cartoon DVDs. And to throw out the massive number of pizza boxes.

Also, my new catch phrase is "It is now time for hot Norwegian sex" in a deep, accented monotone. Because "Liam Neeson kills cats with hammers!" may not be an accurate phrase.

And now!

( Click and Read My Clever Answers! )

Current Mood: content
Current Music: David Byrne ~ The Rose Tattoo

The consensus for Amelia’s Mutant Power is that I am able to learn languages at the speed of light. Fair enough. Anyone who’s surprised, raise your hand.

Ha ha! I kid, of course. This is the internet. I can’t actually see you right now! That’s

gondolinchick01’s mutant power!* Instead, I am going to tell you some of the mutant powers I came up with for myself:

· Super-quick absorption of languages

· The ability to know exactly which word is on the tip of Mom's tongue

· Paradox—specifically, that of being bigger than 妹 even though I’m almost a foot shorter.

· This was my original idea: the ability to create, or see into, small, self-contained, populated universes, like a cross between Atrus and those crazy scientists in Japan. Unfortunately, going along with the “useless mutant power” motif, there is no way to actually get to these universes, making them difficult to manipulate fully and impossible to use to any advantage.

What got it started was my longtime gag of the statistical probability that for every mutant with a really flashy, handy, and diverse power, there is at least one other mutant with a really small, piddly, and/or pointless one, like turning random things orange, blinking to change channels, being empathically attuned to all moths everywhere (not controlling them, just knowing what they feel like) or growing hair on any part of your body spontaneously. And that led me to a long time survey of the Stupid Mutant Powers.

So far, my favorite, which apparently Liz won title to: the ability to give anybody within a certain range a spontaneous orgasm. This could actually come in useful against bad guys:

Sinister: Ha ha! I will now activate the Death Machine and WIPE OUT ALL LIFE ON EARTH, leaving my super race to take ooooOOOAAAAAAWWWWOOOWWW—

Liz: Get him, Cyclops!**

BLAM!

Sinister: …

Cyclops: Great job, everyone! Get him a cigarette and send him off to jail!

Some things just don’t deserve the thought people give them, huh?

*She tells me that one of you is wearing boxers with pigs on them right now.

**You know, the interesting thing about Cyclops is that he’s actually quite badass. He can blow holes in walls, for gods’ sakes, and he’s like twice the size of Wolverine in the cartoon. And yet he’s still a weenie. It’s interesting how that works out.

Current Mood: weird
Current Music: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

By the way, I am now a badge-carrying X-Man. Really. I have a badge. It came in the mail with a book about pirates, several pictures of Super Mario’s hat, and a Xeroxed bit of vileness the likes of which can never, ever be explained, not even by the person who successfully explained this.

Which, of course, brings us to my next question*: What is my mutant power?

I submit it to y’all. Anyone willing to supply me with a mutant power? Or am I gonna have to come up with one myself?

And while I’m at it, what are yours?

As of now, you are unleashed. Go for it. I await with breathless curiosity.

*My new status as an X-Man brought me to it, I mean. The rest of the package raised other questions, but a lot of them had to do with what Emily and I are smoking.

Current Mood: content
Current Music: McVaffe ~ The Darkness And The Light (OC Remix)

The Date to Create
Happiness Happens
Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbors' Porch Night
Farmers Day (Tanzania)
Festival of Hungry Ghosts (China) (Amelia sez: This has to be the best name for a festival EVER.)

“Where do you get henchmen anyway? Can you just pick up 12-packs of them at Costco?”

Todays quote brought to you by The Incredibles. I love the way they have things in there that obviously drove all of these animators and directors—who are all impressively geeky—crazy about other superheroes. There is a presence of annoying insects in the jungle, the grunts with the visors have matching raccoon tans, they explain how heroes get their super suits, capes actually are a liability in this universe, and I think Frozone’s old suit fades. And the simple, day-to-day affairs make a wonderful impression in this movie, too. Frozone’s wife misplaces his super suit, Helen checks her messages after the epic battle to see how the babysitter is doing, the heroes argue about how to get to the financial district where the gigantic killer robot is. And, of course, the entire final battle is a family fighting over a remote control. I also love how much they make fun of the Secret Identity business.

I also have always thought it's interesting which powers each character has. The young hyper boy has super speed, the mother of the family can stretch herself very thin, the father is tough and strong and invulnerable, the junior high girl can turn invisible and make force fields to protect herself, and the baby has a stunning lineup of potential. I could write a whole commentary on that, but for now I’ll leave it at that.

Partly that’s because the next few weeks look painfully busy. I’ve got several long shifts of work and then I’m off to the Empire of Denver to dump the Dude at his school and maybe visit Josh while I’m there. So I may be scarce for a little while, but fear not! I’ll be back and going strong soon enough.

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Cheb Mami ~ Viens Habibi

Children's Awareness Memorial Day
National Cancer Survivors Day
Pentecost (Christian)
UN International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
Whitsunday
Day of the Rice God (Japan)
Flag Day (Finland)

You ever have one of those nice quiet days when you’re lounging around on the couch reading a really good book, and your stupid cat decides that the best place to sit is right where the book is and it proceeds to park its cat ass on your chest and purr happily and go to sleep and sometimes drool like a dumbass, and you have to crane your neck and hold your arms up and sort of look around the cat to get to the next page?

Just be very, very glad it’s not a fangirl.

*ahem* Yes, well, aside from my choice of sleeping space this does look rather like me when I’m out cold, even down to my comical wonders-of-technology sleep mask that I use to block out light although it also has a battery powered array of soothing noises you can play but I never do because they’re just too noisy. Emily made sure to use that ridiculous monstrosity as a reference when drawing. She made me do it! I swear!

We’re definitely going just a bit too far with this, but caffeine and summer and late weekend nights watching the latter two Alien movies* do strange things to one’s sense of humor, not to mention decency. But now we have this horrible list of daft scenarios and Emily has all this paper and these markers and this talent that just has to go SOMEWHERE and … yeah, you know how it is.

Next, Emily plans to give him a bath.

God help us all.

*Which suck. But as a fan, Emily expressed an interest in seeing them even if they are bad. But they seem to have warped our brains.

Current Mood: weird
Current Music: Seatbelts ~ Tank! (Cowboy Bebop)

International Jazz Day
Anniversary - Cellophane Tape
Birthday - Vincent Price (actor)
Birthday - Wild Bill Hickock (frontiersman)

What, who, me, in love with the big blue furry GrammerBeast? Ha ha! Where do you get your ideas?

Ha ha!

Ha …

Current Mood: he's fluffy!

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And If I Take Off Both My Socks ...

More Questions That Need Answering

The College Experience ~ Spring '07

Hero in a Half Shell

The Great Debate

JEEEEAN!

(no subject)

I Am What I Am

Watchin Ur Toonz

And As Long As I'm Being Weird ...

The Last Post Before Bed Is All Emily's Fault

Quote of the Day

Again With The Fluffy, And Sincere Apologies To All That Is Good And Decent As Well As To Stan Lee

All I Have To Say About X3