Mind Dump

October 19, 2008 at 12:21 pm · Filed under Stuff

Mind dump, because I’m too spastic to type a real entry today.

• The time/season-disorientation I expected has finally hit. It’s almost Halloween, and my mind is still stuck in June. Very strange.
• Met & chatted with a random Obruni in Cape Coast on Saturday; he’s been overlanding all over West Africa since June. Definitely fueled my ever-changing COS-trip dreams.
• I made biscuits and gravy for breakfast today - with no fridge, no milk, no oven. I am awesome.
• On an unrelated note (really! My food is safe, my water yesterday wasn’t), it’s been an “ORS-tastic” day. Fun.
• It’s amazing how such days have become just another part of living in Africa.
• I’m trying to dry limes, and I think it’s working. YAY!
• I’ve felt very MacGuyver this week: added a spring and latch to my screen door, built a drying rack, and made a bunch of new candleholders with nails and tomato paste tins. All materials cannibalised from rubbish heaps on campus. My housemate is in awe of my hammer+leatherman+recycling skills. I’m changing the world one trash pile at a time!
• My cat eats too much sugar. This is bad for her teeth and my sanity. I can has hyperactivity?!
• Every line of poetry, every awestruck utterance, every attempt at descriptive language, that has ever been meant to describe a starry sky: was written with last night’s sky in mind. It was awesome in the best sense of the word.
• Speaking of hyperactive cats: there’s a gecko on my wall right now, and Yosh is trying to attack it.
• I walked out of every class this week either immensely happy with the world, or completely crushed and disappointed. Very Six Flags.
• More on class drama in a future post. I really do have about 3 half-written entries, so I’m not completely full of you-know-what.
• Photos uploading as I type this - busy day at Cape yesterday.
• I. Love. Maps.
• Long hikes. I’ve been obsessing on them for a while. Originally considered either the LT or possibly the AT as viable post-Ghana options. Now I’m thinking a little more exotic. Too early to plan, you say? Never!
• Obviously, I’ve been doing a lot of travel-dreaming this week.

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I have no voice.

June 9, 2006 at 11:46 am · Filed under Stuff

Well, actually, I do now. But if I were not such a damn dirty procrastinator, this would’ve been posted a day or two ago — and then it would also have been true. So NYAH.

So yeah. Went to a seriously excellent concert last Tuesday. Yes indeedy, That Day — but not, thank the gods, That Band. It was a curiously mixed double headline of NIN and Bauhaus — wrongly advertised as “NIN with special guest Bauhaus” (don’t EVEN get me started); I fully expected to be dissapointed and only get a scant few songs out of the venerable old Brits. Not so! Score for a great deal: two headlining acts, two full sets! /me is a happy camper.

Shanon is too. I think. Except his car suxx0rs.

Anyhow: I officially am a fan of the incredibly-horribly-named “Verizon Wireless Music Center” in Birmingham. Very cool outdoor venue. I imagine it would suck given the proper (improper) weather, but we were lucky, and likewise it was teh awesome. Also, moonrise + lyrical spontaneity = badass.

– make your own map (no fair counting anything you haven’t slept in)–

I am woefully Grey. Suck. Note to self: remedy post-haste. On the other hand, I know One who should be incredibly Red. In the spirit of complete and utter memery, I dub thee Tagged, Sir.

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