Strange in a Stranger Land

evathedefiler @ 2009-10-26T19:44:00

2009-10-27T02:50:19Z

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...

evathedefiler @ 2009-10-26T19:43:00

2009-10-27T02:44:18Z

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.

This is what is wrong with us...

2009-03-24T20:23:40Z

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.

evathedefiler @ 2009-02-16T16:19:00

2009-02-17T03:05:44Z

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

evathedefiler @ 2009-02-02T18:05:00

2009-02-03T02:05:14Z

http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=397

Sometimes you just need to threaten things.

2009-02-02T01:41:18Z

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.

evathedefiler @ 2009-01-26T14:48:00

2009-01-26T22:56:40Z

Lookie what I found!

2009-01-20T04:03:07Z

Too funny not to sheep it around a little

2009-01-16T16:52:21Z

Successful dinner!

2009-01-12T03:59:10Z

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)

Haiku² for evathedefiler
world they lived in if you care matter or was it just meaningless
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want to say that i might want to be married like somehow i'd loose all
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explain about the goat i know i know the more normal i am
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and all you can do is watch them flow out of your fingers when you call
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can throw them singing through the fog and dark and mist did you hear me call
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evathedefiler @ 2008-12-22T09:04:00

2008-12-22T17:08:12Z

Yay!

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

evathedefiler @ 2008-12-19T00:00:00

2008-12-19T08:01:07Z

http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=320

evathedefiler @ 2008-12-17T13:50:00

2008-12-17T21:51:15Z

pumpkin + apple + walnuts = yum

evathedefiler @ 2008-12-16T18:37:00

2008-12-17T02:38:23Z

http://snowclones.org/

When in doubt rehash something that already exists.

sheep!

2008-12-05T18:27:15Z

Your rainbow is strongly shaded green and blue.

What is says about you: You are a tranquil person. You feel strong ties to nature and your mood changes with its cycles. You share hobbies with friends and like trying to fit into their routines. Those around you admire your fresh outlook and vitality.

Find the colors of your rainbow at spacefem.com.

Still flat broke - for sale

2008-08-13T17:56:35Z

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

evathedefiler @ 2008-07-21T14:35:00

2008-07-21T22:09:07Z

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?

I am the broke!

2008-07-17T03:09:01Z

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

evathedefiler @ 2008-07-15T00:29:00

2008-07-15T07:29:39Z

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

Sleep calls. Night.

evathedefiler @ 2008-07-14T07:35:00

2008-07-14T14:35:00Z

I was right in the middle of watching an piece of experimental alien theater.... and then the garbage truck went by and woke me up

I wanted to see where I was going with the idea damnit.

The ethereal in life

2008-07-14T00:58:53Z

In another profile, I say that I am trying to balance the mundane and the ethereal in my life. Most of the time it simply isn't true. I tend to be very good at living in the now, being grounded in the observable world. I'd even say to the point of being seriously predicable and staid. Practical and efficient oh yes. But every so often some thing changes, sometimes it's just the erratic wobble of the balance of my mind threatening to spin out of control. But that's a familiar madness.

More rarely and more thrilling is when a certain person brushes my life again and suddenly magic is real again. Suddenly I throb with the urge, the need to throw my mind against the skies and see what I find. To wind my thoughts like a slender glistening chain spinning and see how far I can throw them singing through the fog and dark and mist... Did you hear me call? Breathing is a pray, movement a religion. How could I forget to exist in this part of myself for so long. Grounded in the earth to call to the wind and feel it wrap around me most tenderly. The dull grey shore in winter, glowing clouds in an endless summer sky, the smell of frost and crisp leaves...

He's called me a silver spider and on days like this it is me more than any other name.

evathedefiler @ 2008-07-12T16:54:00

2008-07-12T23:57:52Z

Some people are water. Cold, sweet, smooth and heavy on a hot day... And all you can do is watch them flow out of your fingers when you try to get a sip.

Sometimes you find the past.

2008-07-11T07:31:57Z

Damn you Brendan! Under my skin again.

Salmon

2008-07-08T17:33:41Z

[20:21] LiterarySalmon: Beware the impostors.
[20:21] EvatheDefiler: impastos?
[20:22] LiterarySalmon: Are you there?
[20:22] EvatheDefiler: Hula hoops
[20:22] LiterarySalmon: Baby, we need to talk.
[20:22] EvatheDefiler: about the goat, I know I know
[20:22] LiterarySalmon: No, this isn't about the goat.
[20:23] EvatheDefiler: I said I wouldn't and I did
[20:23] LiterarySalmon: This is about you and I.
[20:23] EvatheDefiler: and your giant font?
[20:23] LiterarySalmon: Sorry about that.
[20:23] LiterarySalmon: It's the default.
[20:23] EvatheDefiler: meebo is your friend
[20:23] LiterarySalmon: But the topic I originally IMed you about.
[20:23] EvatheDefiler: It's my friend too
[20:24] LiterarySalmon: We can't see each other anymore.
[20:24] EvatheDefiler: I saw you?
[20:24] LiterarySalmon: Yesterday.
[20:24] LiterarySalmon: Our date.
[20:24] EvatheDefiler: Are you sure about that?
[20:25] LiterarySalmon: Yes.
[20:25] EvatheDefiler: I mean reality being what it is and all
[20:25] LiterarySalmon: I think it put the wrong thoughts in your head.
[20:25] LiterarySalmon: And I just don't need that in my life right now.
[20:25] LiterarySalmon: We need to break up.
[20:25] LiterarySalmon: I tried calling your phone to see if I could talk to you tonight, but you wouldn't answer.
[20:25] LiterarySalmon: I'm sorry I have to do this over IM, but I just can't take it anymore.
[20:26] EvatheDefiler: I don't think I've had a date in years
[20:26] EvatheDefiler: What's my name darling?
[20:26] LiterarySalmon: I've pushed your name from my memory.
[20:26] LiterarySalmon: The pain of thinking of you is just too much.
[20:28] EvatheDefiler: I'm aure.
[20:28] EvatheDefiler: Sure even
[20:28] EvatheDefiler: I suppose I can be content to be someone's painful burning flame of torment.
[20:29] EvatheDefiler: Consider your self free to feel that way if it makes you dance.
[20:30] LiterarySalmon: Thank you.
[20:30] LiterarySalmon: Just know that when I said I loved you, I meant it.
[20:33] EvatheDefiler: cheese
[20:34] LiterarySalmon: potatoes.
[20:34] EvatheDefiler: Sam ford
[20:34] LiterarySalmon: Erik Cole
[20:34] EvatheDefiler: dressage
[20:34] LiterarySalmon: how the hell did you get from Erik Cole to dressage?!
[20:35] EvatheDefiler: Haute ecole
[20:35] EvatheDefiler: to dressage
[20:35] LiterarySalmon: Monkey.
[20:35] EvatheDefiler: easy as pie
[20:35] LiterarySalmon: oh.
[20:35] LiterarySalmon: not easy for me.
[20:35] EvatheDefiler: bot?
[20:35] LiterarySalmon: the hell
[20:35] LiterarySalmon: OH MY GAWD
[20:35] EvatheDefiler: Lazyweb says you are
[20:35] LiterarySalmon: IMPOSTERS!
[20:35] LiterarySalmon: lazyweb?
[20:36] LiterarySalmon: ... is that the internet for the energetically handicapped?
[20:36] EvatheDefiler: information gathering for lazy
[20:36] LiterarySalmon: what does lazyweb say i am?
[20:36] EvatheDefiler: We're going to eat Salmon shortly
[20:36] EvatheDefiler: bot
[20:37] LiterarySalmon: ... is there an operator in here?
[20:37] EvatheDefiler: Only whimsy.
[20:37] LiterarySalmon: ?
[20:37] LiterarySalmon: whimsy?
[20:38] EvatheDefiler: If you can't catch the drift I'm throwing we can play a different game.
[20:38] LiterarySalmon: ... a different game sounds great
[20:38] LiterarySalmon: because im confused as hell
[20:38] LiterarySalmon: lol
[20:38] EvatheDefiler: Who are you?
[20:39] LiterarySalmon: your imaginary friend.
[20:39] LiterarySalmon: we used to play all the time when you were younger
[20:39] LiterarySalmon: but you seem to have forgotten about me.
[20:39] LiterarySalmon: i just wanted to check up on you. :-)

[20:40] EvatheDefiler: My imagination is fully funtional and anatomically correct.
[20:40] LiterarySalmon: you mean to tell me youve forgotten about me already?
[20:41] EvatheDefiler: It depends on who exactly I supposedly forgot.
[20:41] LiterarySalmon: me
[20:41] LiterarySalmon: your imaginary friend
[20:41] EvatheDefiler: and you are?
[20:41] LiterarySalmon: from your childhood!
[20:41] EvatheDefiler: I didn't have one really.
[20:41] EvatheDefiler: Imaginary horses maybe
[20:42] EvatheDefiler: but they never talked
[20:42] EvatheDefiler: or typed.
[20:42] LiterarySalmon: you just never gave me the chance to talk or type.
[20:43] EvatheDefiler: I mean there was that time in court.
[20:44] EvatheDefiler: And most certainly the time in the woods.
[20:44] LiterarySalmon: you werent ready to experience a talking horse.
[20:44] LiterarySalmon: but now that youre a little older, i feel its time to tell you that i can do ANYTHING
[20:44] LiterarySalmon: including talking and typing
[20:45] EvatheDefiler: But I was ready to playing pissing games with the little boys in the bedroom.
[20:45] EvatheDefiler: Can you piaffe?
[20:45] EvatheDefiler: I want to piaffe
[20:45] LiterarySalmon: i can, but i wont
[20:45] LiterarySalmon: right now is not a good time.
[20:46] EvatheDefiler: It's like toe socks for your brain.
[20:46] LiterarySalmon: as i said, right now is not a good time.
[20:46] LiterarySalmon: HOLY SHIT THEYRE ON TO ME!
[20:46] EvatheDefiler: The toads?
[20:46] LiterarySalmon: NO!
[20:46] LiterarySalmon: THE COPS!
[20:47] LiterarySalmon: THEYRE AT THE FRICKIN DOOR!
[20:47] LiterarySalmon: gotta go.
[20:47] LiterarySalmon: i gotta hide the drug money.
[20:47] EvatheDefiler: Well you are a horse
[20:47] EvatheDefiler: I mean mule
[20:47] EvatheDefiler: so sorry about the mix up..
[20:52] EvatheDefiler: Salmon is best served with a wine reduction and butter.
[20:53] LiterarySalmon: i dont care for fish, wine and butter or no wine and butter.
[20:53] EvatheDefiler: What about buttered wine?
[20:54] LiterarySalmon: im not much for alcoholic beverages either.
[20:54] EvatheDefiler: buttered sugar?
[20:55] LiterarySalmon: do you have some butter fettish or something?
[20:55] EvatheDefiler: I just like to run with a theme.
[20:55] LiterarySalmon: ah.
[20:55] EvatheDefiler: I can't figure out how many I've been through in thie conversation though.
[20:56] EvatheDefiler: Set out stalking and you end up tickling fish.
[20:56] LiterarySalmon: lol
[20:59] LiterarySalmon: wait a minute...
[20:59] LiterarySalmon: who exactly are you stalking
[21:00] EvatheDefiler: Ghosts
[21:00] LiterarySalmon: you believe in them?
[21:01] EvatheDefiler: Not per say. More a pretentious was to say people from my past.
[21:01] LiterarySalmon: ah.
[21:01] LiterarySalmon: OMG IM GONNA HAUNT YOU WHEN I DIE!
[21:01] LiterarySalmon: :-D
[21:02] EvatheDefiler: Good to know.
[21:03] EvatheDefiler: We're having Salmon for dinner.
[21:03] EvatheDefiler: funny really
[21:03] EvatheDefiler: But I'm not going to explain about the socks ok?
[21:03] LiterarySalmon: fine with me.
[21:03] LiterarySalmon: none of my business.
[21:04] LiterarySalmon: lol
[21:04] EvatheDefiler: Day or night
[21:04] LiterarySalmon: Night.
[21:04] EvatheDefiler: early or late
[21:05] LiterarySalmon: late.
[21:05] LiterarySalmon: what exactly are these questions for?
[21:05] EvatheDefiler: A, E or I
[21:05] LiterarySalmon: A
[21:05] EvatheDefiler: I like to poke things with a stick.
[21:06] EvatheDefiler: You must be person three...
[21:06] LiterarySalmon: I'm person 6 actually
[21:07] EvatheDefiler: Perhaps... hard to seperate different people and general insanity
[21:07] LiterarySalmon: i fall under the general insanity category.
[21:07] EvatheDefiler: How many time did they catch you?
[21:10] LiterarySalmon: 4.
[21:10] EvatheDefiler: They only caught me twice so far...
[21:11] EvatheDefiler: But that's because I wanted to be locked up.
[21:11] LiterarySalmon: ah.
[21:11] EvatheDefiler: The rest of the time no one was listening.
[21:11] LiterarySalmon: just needed a break from family?
[21:11] EvatheDefiler: The world in my head is better.
[21:11] LiterarySalmon: w0rd.
[21:11] LiterarySalmon: so much w0rd on that.
[21:11] EvatheDefiler: Still is but it's harder to get to these days.
[21:13] LiterarySalmon: not for me.
[21:13] EvatheDefiler: I like food.
[21:14] LiterarySalmon: i do too
[21:14] LiterarySalmon: do you have some
[21:15] EvatheDefiler: soon
[21:15] LiterarySalmon: share with me
[21:15] LiterarySalmon: ?
[21:16] EvatheDefiler: Have some fish?
[21:16] LiterarySalmon: eww.
[21:16] LiterarySalmon: i thought we discussed that already
[21:18] EvatheDefiler: Sorry. It's what I have.
[21:19] LiterarySalmon: oh.
[21:19] LiterarySalmon: poo.
[21:19] EvatheDefiler: ginger rice?
[21:19] LiterarySalmon: sure.
[21:20] EvatheDefiler: I like to say spumoni.
[21:27] EvatheDefiler: Spumoni!
[21:39] EvatheDefiler: To make room for the Tuna!
[21:41] EvatheDefiler: literarysalmon is now known as LiterarySalmon.
Monday, July 7, 2008 21:58:30
[21:58] EvatheDefiler: What's new pussycat?