Transition Junction, What's Your Function?
Today one of the JTE's CDs was heard to include the original "Candle in the Wind," which my hardened soul prefers to the sap-leaking Diana tribute, if only because the metaphor makes better sense. Then it was followed by "Take Me Home, Country Roads," the song that at this point all but inspires me to physical violence. (My predecessor was from West Virginia, and this somehow led to the local assumption that this song should be played ad cephali explodicum.) Can't win 'em all, I guess.
Also, I had to write up a series of "inspirational phrases" for the second-years to use on New Year's cards. These things always take me forever to do, in part because I have to comb back through them carefully to make sure I didn't leave in any of my sarcastic entries. Mostly, though, it's just 'cause my natural cynacism overrides even my best efforts at smarm.
Look, a transition!
badger5 might be interested to note that her boom-there-went-my-eye character from Not Finland somehow morphed into an actual secondary character and lost half an ear. These things do happen. _feckless, I still have not wrought the exploding id, but with the sheer number of neuroses the characters are developing, it's only a matter of time. I'm pretty sure at least one superego has been beaten to within an inch of its life and locked in a supply closet.
Look, another transition!
Since I suspect that you folks have guessed as much as you intend to, here's the answers to the remaining entries on the song lyrics meme:
04. Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Fortune Faded"
06. Queen - "I Want It All" (Thanks to Brian, I have ungodly amounts of Queen.)
10. This comes from "Call Me Robin Hood," a number from Robin, Prince of Sherwood, an itty bitty British musical none of you have ever heard of because it has so far had only one run on the other side of the Atlantic, at a tiny college in southern Georgia. There are plans for it to open off-Broadway. Anyway, I have the recording of it because its single run was at my little college, and my mother asked me to split the CDs, which were both all one track, into individual songs for her. She has probably never listened to the fruits of my labor, but gee-golly-whiz, I spent all that time splitting up those beastly .wav files, and I'm keeping 'em. So, yeah, this is the one I expected no one to get. Don't feel bad. It's not even Googlable.
12. Blackmore's Night - "Morning Star"
13. Our Lady Peace - "Denied"
15. Portishead - "Undenied"
18. Linkin Park - "Points of Authority" (Thanks to my brother, I have a signficant amount of Linkin Park.)
25. My Little Pony - "Dressed Like a Dream" (This is from the "Escape from Catrina" special, which involves, among other things, shape-shifting interspecies love, a workers' revolt, and the introduction of the Bushwoolly hive-mind. It's not quite as whacked-out as some MLP stuff, but the magic lizard turning himself into a dark-green pony in a nurse's outfit is one of those things that really stays with you.)
On a side note, I'd be happy to Gmail any of the tracks to the curious/covetous/bored.
Anyway, I'm going to pack now. For real, this time. It's zero-hour. Rocket man.
...Or it would be, if I hadn't just learned that Thief lets you save mid-mission. Now I need to spend a while enjoying a much more freely experimental approach to getting beaten to death with hammers.
Note to self: If you decide to go back and do the first mission on Expert, just for kicks, don't think, "Gee, I wonder if I can steal this gong?" and completely undo an entire mission's worth of careful sneaking. On the stupidometer, that one ranks just above "Ha, ha, that idiot's just armed with a stick! He's not even swinging it at me! Ha, ha-- oh. Long bow." Maybe I should take a break for the ego-boost of conquering the world with Wales.
Look, Gladys! That's three transitions in one post! I sure wish we had the camera!
I burned my lower lip on my soup and have sort of a proto-blister. Arglesnap.
Also, I had to write up a series of "inspirational phrases" for the second-years to use on New Year's cards. These things always take me forever to do, in part because I have to comb back through them carefully to make sure I didn't leave in any of my sarcastic entries. Mostly, though, it's just 'cause my natural cynacism overrides even my best efforts at smarm.
Look, a transition!
badger5 might be interested to note that her boom-there-went-my-eye character from Not Finland somehow morphed into an actual secondary character and lost half an ear. These things do happen. _feckless, I still have not wrought the exploding id, but with the sheer number of neuroses the characters are developing, it's only a matter of time. I'm pretty sure at least one superego has been beaten to within an inch of its life and locked in a supply closet.
Look, another transition!
Since I suspect that you folks have guessed as much as you intend to, here's the answers to the remaining entries on the song lyrics meme:
04. Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Fortune Faded"
06. Queen - "I Want It All" (Thanks to Brian, I have ungodly amounts of Queen.)
10. This comes from "Call Me Robin Hood," a number from Robin, Prince of Sherwood, an itty bitty British musical none of you have ever heard of because it has so far had only one run on the other side of the Atlantic, at a tiny college in southern Georgia. There are plans for it to open off-Broadway. Anyway, I have the recording of it because its single run was at my little college, and my mother asked me to split the CDs, which were both all one track, into individual songs for her. She has probably never listened to the fruits of my labor, but gee-golly-whiz, I spent all that time splitting up those beastly .wav files, and I'm keeping 'em. So, yeah, this is the one I expected no one to get. Don't feel bad. It's not even Googlable.
12. Blackmore's Night - "Morning Star"
13. Our Lady Peace - "Denied"
15. Portishead - "Undenied"
18. Linkin Park - "Points of Authority" (Thanks to my brother, I have a signficant amount of Linkin Park.)
25. My Little Pony - "Dressed Like a Dream" (This is from the "Escape from Catrina" special, which involves, among other things, shape-shifting interspecies love, a workers' revolt, and the introduction of the Bushwoolly hive-mind. It's not quite as whacked-out as some MLP stuff, but the magic lizard turning himself into a dark-green pony in a nurse's outfit is one of those things that really stays with you.)
On a side note, I'd be happy to Gmail any of the tracks to the curious/covetous/bored.
Anyway, I'm going to pack now. For real, this time. It's zero-hour. Rocket man.
...Or it would be, if I hadn't just learned that Thief lets you save mid-mission. Now I need to spend a while enjoying a much more freely experimental approach to getting beaten to death with hammers.
Note to self: If you decide to go back and do the first mission on Expert, just for kicks, don't think, "Gee, I wonder if I can steal this gong?" and completely undo an entire mission's worth of careful sneaking. On the stupidometer, that one ranks just above "Ha, ha, that idiot's just armed with a stick! He's not even swinging it at me! Ha, ha-- oh. Long bow." Maybe I should take a break for the ego-boost of conquering the world with Wales.
Look, Gladys! That's three transitions in one post! I sure wish we had the camera!
I burned my lower lip on my soup and have sort of a proto-blister. Arglesnap.