Strange in a Stranger Land

Damn I haven't posted here in a long time. I blame Facebook.

For everyone else, I got into the University of Washington and started classes there this fall as a Restoration Ecology Major in the School of Forestry. (Thanks meowse for all your help with my personal statement)

I'm busy, I'm in the progress of success, I miss people I haven't seen recently...

I have to confess I'm late to the party. Every time I accidentally watch Kill Bill I like it more. Fine fine, maybe the general public can be right.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAKELAND, Fla. -- An eighth-grader was suspended from riding the school bus for three days after being accused of passing gas. The bus driver wrote on a misbehavior form that a 15-year-old teen passing gas on the bus Monday to make the other children laugh, creating a stench so bad that it was difficult to breathe. The bus driver handed the teen the suspension form the next day.

Polk County school officials said there's no rule against flatulence, but there are rules against causing a disturbance on the bus.

The teen said he wasn't the one passing gas.

Whether he did it or not, he might have gotten off easy. A 13-year-old student at a Stuart school was arrested in November after authorities said he broke wind in class.

Lovely day mostly in bed and positive views to the future.

So Friday my phone started doing weird things after I had it in the bathroom while I was in the tub. And before anyone asks, I did not drop it in the tub.

I waited for what I figured was some condensation to dry out. It was still trying to record memos for all buttons, so I decided to take the thing apart. A little bit later with the help of my old dead chip phone, I had isolated the problem to the keypad itself. Much cursing later, I discovered I couldn't actually remove the old key pad to replace the one in the new phone. So I figure I'll just put the new chip in the old phone body... But somewhere along the line I hook up all the pieces of the new phone just because and find it is now totally recovered and working perfectly. *sigh*

At least it's working now. Time for another bath I think.

I bought a whole salmon the other day($3.99/lb!) and a napa cabbage because, um, well, I felt that I should.

Introducing tonight's dinner:

Salmon baked with blood orange slices, a white wine reduction with scallions, and a bit of butter.

Served with:

Psuedo stir fry of napa cabbage, snow peas, carrots, celery, mushrooms, scallions, and slivered almonds, with a sauce of soy, ginger, garlic, a little sugar, cheyenne pepper, and some ponzu sauce I found in the fridge.


YUM! (I'm not sure these two dishes really go together but I never the less declare this a win)

Aw man the text is a funny color. It's there I promise.

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can throw them singing through the fog and dark and mist did you hear me call
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I could play with this for a long time, I think.

Yay!






Also for those I haven't shown this to at some point or another.

pumpkin + apple + walnuts = yum

http://snowclones.org/

When in doubt rehash something that already exists.

2nd printing signed woodstock poster, matted and framed - $300 obo

Gibson Acoustic 1964 LG-0 with orginal case. Good condition, some finish scratches, 3/4 or student size, has orginal case, great sound, new strings. - $650 obo

I've been pondering personality recently. This is motivated by a person in my life who I respect and admire and by a job interview I had. I greatly admire the both the personality and action of people who work in social and humanitarian fields. I believe it's necessary, laudable, and valuable. It definitely takes a special kind of person. A person that I am not and don't know if I could be.

It gets a bit into the nature/nurture question. How much of who we are is innate and how much is learning and choice? Can a person choose to feel validated by something, can they learn to be? Is it better to pursue your own gifts to the fullest or aim for your mediocre best in an area you think has more value? Is societal good more important than personal satisfaction? I'm sure for some people the course of action is the same for either one and the path is simple. All parts of society are important to making it a vibrant whole. But, is some who makes it their life to help the homeless more important than some who creates art? To be sure if everyone goes in to social work, we live in a dull world with no food.

Maybe it's not really about society but personal value systems. How do you reconcile placing more value on the life work of others than your own? Not everyone is wonderful, not everyone enriches our world... What if you can't be the kind of person you value? Self centered navel gazing idiots are far to plentiful in this world. How do you balance being your self against "contributing"? If some breeder goes out and lives their life for their own enjoyment; car, house, kids, career; what did they bring to society? Is it the kids? Did they serve society by raising great kids, average kids, any kind of kids? They sat in their unimportant jobs and got paid for what? They helped run the servers for one more cookie cutter e-commerce site? Was this a life well lived? Oh but they had a hobby... they painted... they were and "artist" but no one ever saw the paintings, they were average boring painting, dumbed into a thrift store when they died... now did they contribute? They gave some money to a charity, so long as it didn't impact their way of life.... did they contribute? They made a grand gesture of serving at the soup kitchen when little Joey didn't have a little league game and they didn't have errands on the weekend and they weren't on vacation... how about now?

What makes a life well lived? What makes it something that improved the world they lived in? If you care and never make an impact did that fact that you care matter or was it just meaningless twattle that helped you feel better about yourself? "But at least I care." Yeah but what did you do about it?

What if I just don't care about some of the things I say I value?

2nd printing of the famous woodstock poster, matted and framed, in perfect condition, signed and numbered.

Signed by Arnold Skolnick, Country Joe McDonald, Grace Slick, Wavy Gravy, Richie Haven, and Carlos Santana.

$500 OBO

I've grown tired sitting here, waiting for... Manna? The nothing? any some thing?

Sleep calls. Night.