What's the Buzz?
So, after a rather wacky day, night, and subsequent day I find myself sitting in Vikki's room, listening to Jesus Christ Superstar and singing along with Vikki and Stephen, updating my blog on her old clunky laptop (which, I will note with amusement, may bluescreen if you touch or move the pcmcia wireless card). I will now attempt to explain how it is I came to be here.
No, there is too much. I will sum up.
So, last night, after my first full day back at Hampshire, Vikki came over and we decided to watch some Doctor Who episodes that I had missed out on and drink delicious hot cocoa. We watched The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances, which were both fantastic episodes (the first appearance of Captain Jack!). They also turned out to be surprisingly creepy and during my subsequent discussion time with Vikki I kept getting flashes of images of zombie-like children in gas masks and other such unsavory visuals. After a very excited discussion that ranged from queer issues to open source ideals (two subjects that come up a lot with us), I checked my clock to find that it was 4:30 in the morning. I then decided that I might as well wait until sunrise to assuage my fears and allow me to sleep. So we had some adventures in linux consisting of me procuring a really badass music player called ncmpc that uses the Music Player Daemon, which runs from the command line. It was very exciting, and I was somewhat delirious due to lack of sleep.
When the sun finally rose I collapsed into bed and the last thing I remember is worrying that I wouldn't be able to get to sleep. I woke up at around 11:50, threw on some pajama pants and proceeded to tool around with settings on my shiny new music player which then prompted me to start reorganizing my music folders, which was definitely a good thing. Eventually, after lots of random screwing around (changing my background and generally customizing UI options) I drank some Earl Grey to calm down and actually got some work done, which was undoubtedly a good thing.
I also established a daily They Might Be Giants delivery service with Marie, which consists of me sending her one TMBG song per day until she has the entire discography. I figured this was a good way to get her addicted to Giants. For some reason, TMBG, more than any other band I know, while not appealing to all listeners, does seem to form a ridiculously devoted fanbase of rabid, slobbering geek accolytes examples of which include: myself, my dear friend Vikki, and Emily Fogarty. I'm hoping to welcome Marie into the fold sometime soon. I was also very pleased with the daily delivery service idea because it reminds me of something that TMBG would actually do. It seems to be very much in the vein of dial-a-song, which is sadly no longer in operation.
At any rate, after a couple more hours of listening to music, playing WoW, reading A Clash of Kings, and eating various foodstuffs, I realized that I had not yet been outside my room for any extended period of time and this was around 7:30. So I ate some food and made arrangements to escape. I visited with Alice and looked at her costume designs then came to Vikki's room. Then began the silliness with Jesus Christ Superstar and blogging. And that has been my weekend. I'm excited for Kempy visiting tomorrow. I will now leave you with some quotes from peter in relation to his Elder Scrolls experiences today:
"It's a corrupt world where everyone's got a price--and it's usually around nine gold."
"I've been playing Oblivion all day, I don't have time. I got a house and a horse!"
No, there is too much. I will sum up.
So, last night, after my first full day back at Hampshire, Vikki came over and we decided to watch some Doctor Who episodes that I had missed out on and drink delicious hot cocoa. We watched The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances, which were both fantastic episodes (the first appearance of Captain Jack!). They also turned out to be surprisingly creepy and during my subsequent discussion time with Vikki I kept getting flashes of images of zombie-like children in gas masks and other such unsavory visuals. After a very excited discussion that ranged from queer issues to open source ideals (two subjects that come up a lot with us), I checked my clock to find that it was 4:30 in the morning. I then decided that I might as well wait until sunrise to assuage my fears and allow me to sleep. So we had some adventures in linux consisting of me procuring a really badass music player called ncmpc that uses the Music Player Daemon, which runs from the command line. It was very exciting, and I was somewhat delirious due to lack of sleep.
When the sun finally rose I collapsed into bed and the last thing I remember is worrying that I wouldn't be able to get to sleep. I woke up at around 11:50, threw on some pajama pants and proceeded to tool around with settings on my shiny new music player which then prompted me to start reorganizing my music folders, which was definitely a good thing. Eventually, after lots of random screwing around (changing my background and generally customizing UI options) I drank some Earl Grey to calm down and actually got some work done, which was undoubtedly a good thing.
I also established a daily They Might Be Giants delivery service with Marie, which consists of me sending her one TMBG song per day until she has the entire discography. I figured this was a good way to get her addicted to Giants. For some reason, TMBG, more than any other band I know, while not appealing to all listeners, does seem to form a ridiculously devoted fanbase of rabid, slobbering geek accolytes examples of which include: myself, my dear friend Vikki, and Emily Fogarty. I'm hoping to welcome Marie into the fold sometime soon. I was also very pleased with the daily delivery service idea because it reminds me of something that TMBG would actually do. It seems to be very much in the vein of dial-a-song, which is sadly no longer in operation.
At any rate, after a couple more hours of listening to music, playing WoW, reading A Clash of Kings, and eating various foodstuffs, I realized that I had not yet been outside my room for any extended period of time and this was around 7:30. So I ate some food and made arrangements to escape. I visited with Alice and looked at her costume designs then came to Vikki's room. Then began the silliness with Jesus Christ Superstar and blogging. And that has been my weekend. I'm excited for Kempy visiting tomorrow. I will now leave you with some quotes from peter in relation to his Elder Scrolls experiences today:
"It's a corrupt world where everyone's got a price--and it's usually around nine gold."
"I've been playing Oblivion all day, I don't have time. I got a house and a horse!"
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