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Bloodsucking, friendship, ukuleles, frostbite, a dead poet and a rather unusual hat

Nov 15, 2007 18:47

Today I left school at the perfect time, which was quarter to four. This has, really fairly improbable for a whole bunch of reasons: my school officially ends at four; I have a lesson until four on a Thursday; I am not predisposed to skive gratuitously; I am even less disposed to skive off English lessons. It becomes somewhat less surprising ( Read more... )

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builtofsorrow November 19 2007, 00:33:21 UTC

Me: Do you know what doesn't look nice? Frostbite. Terrible for coordinating your accessories. First your extremities go red, then they go white, then they go blue, then they go black, and then they shrivel and rot and fall off. That doesn't look very nice.

You're fantastic.

I was discussing with my store manager the other day about how I'd named my iPod Algernon (after Algernon Moncrieff, naturally), and mentioned by way of partial explanation that I was madly in love with Oscar Wilde and that he and I were soul mates, and she thought he was some actor bloke. It was tragic. (That was in reference to you and Larkin & Eliot, if that wasn't clear, which I very much fear it wasn't.)

I have also not given blood in a rather long time, and I really ought, though it horrifies me slightly (but I'm fine as long as I don't think about it too much).

I also really, really need that iSkin.

anthon1 November 19 2007, 18:26:49 UTC

*bows and doffs hat* :DD

I feel that I should probably, at some point, look into the precise chromachronology (chronochromatography?) of frostbite just to satisfy my own curiosity, but that would probably require wading through reams of details about Science and Ickiness that I have neither the time nor the inclination nor the imaginary stomach to do now (and have several History essays instead). But zombifiying bodyparts are never really going to be particularly aesthetically pleasing to your standard fashion-conscious aesthete whatever their colour-scheme, so i feel that I can be firm in the general drift of my assertion.

That said, Alex does have enough scarves to be able to colour-coordinate with any exotically garish skin condition...

That is an awesome name for an iPod. :D My long-suffering and somewhat bricklike iRiver is named Tigris (because I am not only pretentious and vaguely Biblically an geopolitically aware but also rather unoriginal) but I think that at some point he is going to have to be replaced and I'm not sure ( ... )

builtofsorrow November 27 2007, 04:20:22 UTC

Belatedly, but.

Well, if Google & its results are to be trusted (which I for one say they are, for the most part), then I, for one fully support chromachronology. Anyway, history is more interesting, and after sitting through a graphic description of guinea worm at church yesterday, I am fully inclined to say that you are indeed right and no matter the scientific facts, any foray into unnatural skin shades is going to be far from aesthetically pleasing and even more difficult to match one's clothing with, no matter how many scarves one possesses.

Thank you! My Algy plays music both accurately and with wonderful expression, which is quite a good thing, and I am very fond of him. I don't even know what an iRiver is, but at least you know what & where the Tigris is. You could always dub its successor Volga, or even Danube (I do feel that one could really only listen to very specific types of music on anything named Volga ( ... )

anthon1 November 28 2007, 20:30:40 UTC

Worry not. In the olden days people had to wait weeks for letters even to arrive places, never mind replies. We're digital, now... :D

And eee, iconsquee!

Guinea worm at church? Do I want to know? :P And the history isn't so wonderful - British policy towards Germany 1933-6 and king's effectiveness as a leader 1955-63, neither of which are scintilating essays, really. Give me cake or death Philosophy or English any day... :P ( ... )

builtofsorrow November 28 2007, 21:11:20 UTC

This is true, of course. And now I have visions of miniature Pony Express riders delivering my e-mails.

Probably not (but I will tell you anyway!). Basically, the church I attend is attempting to discourage consumerism and is therefore encouraging people to spend a bit less and give the remainder of what would have been spent, which will be donated to a variety of different organisations; one of of which is an organisation that builds wells in Africa. So a bloke came on Sunday and talked about the wells that were built last year and how the villages that got them were changed, and I guess in this one village, their water source before the well was a swamp, so everyone had guinea worm, which he proceeded to describe in graphic detail ( ... )

anthon1 December 1 2007, 12:34:05 UTC

That would make an awesome xkcd strip, you know... :DOoh, lovely. :D (And entirely off topic but vaguely related to interesting colours as a result of misadventure, bits of my right arm are currently not only indigo through to violet with a stop-over in magenta but also red, yellow, and green. :D This is why one should never get oneself shut in a car door... :P ( ... )

builtofsorrow December 2 2007, 20:30:57 UTC

I do not read xkcd enough, but yes, it would.

Whyever did you allow yourself to get shut in a car door? 'Twas very foolish of you. (Not that I am one to speak, as I have, on multiple occasions, smacked myself in the face with doors that I was opening.) Really though, I do hope you're all right; I'm fairly certain green is never an ideal colour for one's extremities.

This is true, although I rarely buy CDs anymore as they are more expensive than simply buying albums off iTunes.

(I often feel that way when reading analyses or summaries of things, which is why I spent half my time in uni courses distressed over the fact that I was apparently missing things that were vitally important. But that is another story.)

Spontaneous combustion is very much an interesting way to die, and has the additional benefit of probably being relatively painless. (Cultural relativism makes my head hurt.) (Oh, no, I didn't think it was crucial; it is only a tragedy because I prefer dark chocolate. The darker the better. If you find a white ( ... )

anthon1 December 4 2007, 18:31:39 UTC

I was being chivalrous. :D:p (No, seriously. pleezpleezme went to visit a mutual friend of ours (although not the Mutual Friend encountered with Alex, although she knows him too, because it is a SMALL SMALL WORLD, ahem) ad I met her at a trains tation relatively nearby and we gave her a lift. I had driven to the station but my father was going to drive from because we were short on time and he drives a little faster than I do, and thus was no longer sitting in the front passenger seat. pleezpleezme got in the car and I realised that as Talldad is tall she would have no leg room, and so reached my arm in between the door and the frame to unlock the front door from the outside (and the inside at the same time :P) and about half a millisecond later pleezpleezme shut the door and I said - and I quote - 'argle', and she opened it again. (And then I teased her about it for the rest of the evening, because I am evil. Mwuahaha.)

(But how can you not see that Prufrock is actually all about the clash between capitalism and communism? It's all there in front of your eyes! &c ( ... )

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