goloptious wrote:
Hey, You!

How the heck are ya?

I'm fine. How are you?

stufsocker wrote:

Does Twitter link to LJ in such a way that your Tweets can be displayable? I'm trying to avoid becoming a twit.

There are applications that do that. They'd sum up the day/week tweets into a single LJ post. I think I'm redundant enough with Twitter updating Facebook.

How was the flight home?

It was okay. I didn't sleep though. :(

Was youlr Cali time productive?

More or less. My stuff was quite productive, but the project was delayed until this next week, but I'd already been in CA for 2 weeks and needed to get home, so I didn't extend my trip.

Any plans for this weekend?

I just got home from Cirque du Soliel. I have a cousin in town, so I will see him in the morning. Then a volunteer picnic for A Gift For Teaching. Then see my parents and stuff. And do laundry and clean house and pay bills, etc.

I just want to say hello to those of you who have been waiting for me to post on LJ. I haven't done it recently. It's a lot easier to blog in 140 characters. I don't know that I have anything to say here that most of you don't already know.

So, I'll take questions. Please leave any questions below, and I will do my best to answer them at some point in the near future.

Have a nice day.

Me

Support A Gift for Teaching! It's a wonderful organization!

http://agiftforteaching.org

Today, December 17th is Project for Awesome Day.

Basically, we're taking over YouTube by posting videos about charities to encourage people to get involved and donate or volunteer, or just spread awareness.

My video is here:
(please rate and comment!!)



More information can be found here:
Project for Awesome

or here:
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the rules:
01. answer each of the questions below using the (flickr) search engine.
02. choose a photo from the first three pages.
03. copy the URL of your favorite photo into (this) site
04. share with the world!

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Find the closest book.

* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST

"The transition was a tricky thing, though." - Lost Ate My Life: The Inside Story of a Fandom Like No Other by Amy Johnston and Jon Lachonis.

http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=62479&l=f5f0b&id=514012288

More to come later.

I am thinking of trying to be Ted Mosby for Halloween.

Right now, it would be a sports coat, button up shirt and t-shirt under. Jeans. Brown shoes. I considered red cowboy boots, but quickly unconsidered them. A bicycle horn, painted blue (because I can't find a french horn).

The t-shirt...I have a Star Wars shirt I could wear... maybe with a plaid button up if I don't wear the sports coat.


That, or I try to make a hanging chad costume.


Any input? I want something mostly simple after spending so much time on Alexander's.

There's going to be a Doctor Who convention here in Orlando in November...

www.hurricanewho.com

It seems like a pretty small event, but it's kind of cool to have here.

Alexander and I were driving to Publix today and drive past a comic book shop with a Doctor Who poster, so we went inside. They had a ton of Doctor Who toys and books and comics and stuff. Even a remote controlled K-9. They told us about the event.

Did I tell everyone that Alexander is going to be Doctor Who for Halloween? I have to make the suit though... I couldn't find a cheap suit for him, much less a pin striped one. So I found brown pinstripe suiting fabric at JoAnn Fabrics (40% off!) and am trying my hand at sewing. He's got some red converse, and a trenchcoat and the sonic screwdriver and some 3D glasses. The suit is all that stands in the way! We'll see how it comes out. I'll post pictures when (if) I get it done.


ETA: After 2 hours, I cut all the fabric for the suit coat. It's late so tomorrow, I will cut the fabric for the pants, and then start on the stitching part. So far, so good... :S

Visit http://www.morecowbell.dj and you can upload any song,and then add a mix of cowbell and Christopher Walken.

Out comes magic...

Matt through the years... a slideshow of all my yearbook photos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8upfRssN_7g

I just made my first vlog. It might be worth a laugh to see me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X11SWSlHfUk

(edited the link to work...)

Happy birthday, goloptious!!!!

Hope you have a wonderful day!

ATTN: speakerwiggin




This is the best I could do with manipulation... Next step would be to make Javi's head smaller so Ha-aans! can be bigger...

Poetry's Speakers
Write a short poem, and then write another from a different, perhaps opposing perspective.


The color draws me near
Not the red of the rose
But the yellow at the center
The first of the year.
Around me petals enclose
As I sample the nectar
The food I gather here
Will ease the woes
Of the brood after winter.


The brisk breeze carries a buzz
But I don't know what it is
A sound I do not know
And then I found out what it was
The buzzing sound was his
I'm unable to speak "no."
He does what he does
Taking from my anthers
Violated and left fallow.

I totally wanted to keep up with the writing and poetry exercises, but I failed miserably.

*sigh*

Today's exercise is to write a poem about what it might feel like to walk on the moon and maybe look up at the earth. This is what I came up with:

Drastic steps to silence sibilant, strident sound,
Noisome noises, all the discord of the earth.
Across the soft dust into dark, I bound
Though bathed in light, the quiet is worth
1/6th it’s weight in gold. The missing round
And blue orb brings a smile of mirth.
The pinnacle of peace is finally found.

The Mind's Palm Tree
In his poem "Of Mere Being," Wallace Stevens imagines a palm tree that stands at the end of the mind, "beyond the last thought." This tree symbolizes Steven's idea of heaven. What is the "beyond" that you imagine?
Using short, declarative sentences like Stevens's, write a poem that describes your own beyond, your own heaven.


My eyes close to quiet the light
and I concentrate on the music.
The notes make their own lights on the lids.

I see neither hands nor instruments
But I recognize the work.
The composer is playing his own symphony.

I long for instruments of my own
So I can layer in a harmony.
I am content to hum along.

The music stops. A strong hand grabs my own.
I am led onstage, and together
We create a beautiful song.