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Tuesday, 7 August 2012 13:01What's been up with me! So many things!
Seanan got me into collecting & trading Disney pins! It is ALL SEANAN'S FAULT I TELL YOU. So I have a new expensive hobby. But but PRETTY SHINY THINGS. There is a great forum to talk pins with other addicts and trade and buy and sell things, and I've been spending a lot of time there. One day I hope to go to a pin trading event, but most of them are all near the parks. I've got a Disney Pins set up on my Flickr page now, to document my ever growing pin boards and lanyards. :) They just have SO MANY beautiful shiny things! (They have pins for ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONALS DAY. Seriously, they have something for *everyone*!)
The crows have been bringing their juveniles around, which is adorable! They're all cute and skinny and gawky and sound like they are cawing through kazoos. (Seriously, before their voices change that's how they sound.) CWAHH! CWAHH!
Also for a while in their early lives they spend a lot of time following adults around and cawing at them to get fed, CWAHHH, with their mouths hanging open. Even if there's food RIGHT THERE, they will caw at the adults to feed them. The other day I was feeding some and there was a juvenile doing this, mouth open, CWAHH! CWAHH! CWAHH! and all of a sudden the adult just shoved a cheez-it in the juvenile's mouth like FINE HERE SHUT UP ALREADY and it was so sudden that the juvenile didn't have time to stop cawing, so it sounded like CWAHH! CWAHH! CWMMMPHMMPH and I laughed for like a full minute. Crows cawing with their mouths full: always hilarious.
I've been watching some of the BBC coverage of the Olympics online thanks to a handy little app. I've also been watching some of the NBC coverage when I needed my laptop to not look like it had a UK IP address. Y'know what's nice about the BBC? They're not DICKS ABOUT ALL THE OTHER COUNTRIES.
God, the opening ceremonies, we started making a game of "what snarky comment will Costas make about THIS country?" Sometimes they were just such wildly inappropriate things, like when Madagascar came out in the parade of nations, they mentioned THE DISNEY MOVIE MADAGASCAR. Like SERIOUSLY YOU THINK THAT'S COLOR COMMENTARY ABOUT THAT COUNTRY? "Hey, once Disney made a movie by that title!" We started making stuff up after that. "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. You know, I like drinks made with grenadine." "Sao Tome and Principe; as you know, Saotome is the family name of the anime character Ranma." "And here comes Turkey, which Americans like to eat for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner!" But honestly we could not come up with anything more ridiculous than Costas did.
A low point was Sunday when I heard a commentator, discussing a situation in which Kenyan athletes had won races that no Kenyan had ever won before, declare, "It's like an Arab Spring for Kenya!" OH GOD SHUT THE FUCK UP NOW. Dear NBC: "Arab Spring" does not mean "whenever good things happen to foreign brown people." Ugh ugh ugh.
So yes, it's the Beeb for me, where one of the show jumping commentators apologized for his previous day's comment in which he had been rude to a horse.
This weekend is GeekGirlCon! We have a concert! I am TERRIFIED! Okay, I'm always terrified. But we're gonna have fun, because we always have fun! Come on down and get your geek on and say hi, won't you?
Seanan got me into collecting & trading Disney pins! It is ALL SEANAN'S FAULT I TELL YOU. So I have a new expensive hobby. But but PRETTY SHINY THINGS. There is a great forum to talk pins with other addicts and trade and buy and sell things, and I've been spending a lot of time there. One day I hope to go to a pin trading event, but most of them are all near the parks. I've got a Disney Pins set up on my Flickr page now, to document my ever growing pin boards and lanyards. :) They just have SO MANY beautiful shiny things! (They have pins for ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONALS DAY. Seriously, they have something for *everyone*!)
The crows have been bringing their juveniles around, which is adorable! They're all cute and skinny and gawky and sound like they are cawing through kazoos. (Seriously, before their voices change that's how they sound.) CWAHH! CWAHH!
Also for a while in their early lives they spend a lot of time following adults around and cawing at them to get fed, CWAHHH, with their mouths hanging open. Even if there's food RIGHT THERE, they will caw at the adults to feed them. The other day I was feeding some and there was a juvenile doing this, mouth open, CWAHH! CWAHH! CWAHH! and all of a sudden the adult just shoved a cheez-it in the juvenile's mouth like FINE HERE SHUT UP ALREADY and it was so sudden that the juvenile didn't have time to stop cawing, so it sounded like CWAHH! CWAHH! CWMMMPHMMPH and I laughed for like a full minute. Crows cawing with their mouths full: always hilarious.
I've been watching some of the BBC coverage of the Olympics online thanks to a handy little app. I've also been watching some of the NBC coverage when I needed my laptop to not look like it had a UK IP address. Y'know what's nice about the BBC? They're not DICKS ABOUT ALL THE OTHER COUNTRIES.
God, the opening ceremonies, we started making a game of "what snarky comment will Costas make about THIS country?" Sometimes they were just such wildly inappropriate things, like when Madagascar came out in the parade of nations, they mentioned THE DISNEY MOVIE MADAGASCAR. Like SERIOUSLY YOU THINK THAT'S COLOR COMMENTARY ABOUT THAT COUNTRY? "Hey, once Disney made a movie by that title!" We started making stuff up after that. "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. You know, I like drinks made with grenadine." "Sao Tome and Principe; as you know, Saotome is the family name of the anime character Ranma." "And here comes Turkey, which Americans like to eat for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner!" But honestly we could not come up with anything more ridiculous than Costas did.
A low point was Sunday when I heard a commentator, discussing a situation in which Kenyan athletes had won races that no Kenyan had ever won before, declare, "It's like an Arab Spring for Kenya!" OH GOD SHUT THE FUCK UP NOW. Dear NBC: "Arab Spring" does not mean "whenever good things happen to foreign brown people." Ugh ugh ugh.
So yes, it's the Beeb for me, where one of the show jumping commentators apologized for his previous day's comment in which he had been rude to a horse.
This weekend is GeekGirlCon! We have a concert! I am TERRIFIED! Okay, I'm always terrified. But we're gonna have fun, because we always have fun! Come on down and get your geek on and say hi, won't you?
