cosmic_celery

Wow, look, a post.

1. Find a sentence / stanza / paragraph from a book / poem / what have you that you adore.
2. Write it out, along with the name of the source and the author's name, using your usual handwriting (and for extra points, your favourite pen)
3. Scan it / take a picture of it / etc. and post it in the comments.
4. Copy this to your journal

I wouldn't say that I adore this poem especially, but I do adore Robert Creeley, and it's a great example of his work.

( Under zee cut )

Payback if I've asked you to write a drabble. Or if I haven't.

Meme stolen from many people:

Pick a character from my pup list - and a prompt from below and I'll attempt to write you a drabble.

-Playful
-Murderous
-Flailing
-Incarcerated
-Deviant
-Ill
-Intoxicated
-Wildly inappropriate
-Eloquent
-Cooking
-Over-protective
-Wanker
-Silly
-Romantic
-Silent treatment
-Bedtime
-Jealous
-Inquisitive
-Confused
-Sexy
-Angry
-Dorky
-Working
-Needs a hug
-Choose your own

Here's the "when you see this, post a poem in your journal" meme. For this, you need to know that a grackle is a bird, and it sounds like THIS.

Theory of Beauty (Grackles On Montrose)
by Mark Doty

Eight o'clock, warm Houston night,
and in the parking lot the grackles
hold forth royally, in thick trees

on the lip of traffic, and either
they're oblivious to the street-rush
and come-and-go at the Kroger

or else they actually like it, our hurry
a useful counter to their tintinnabulation.
Now one's doing the Really Creaky Hinge,

making it last a long time;
now Drop the Tin Can, glissando,
then Limping Siren, then it's back

to the Hinge done with a caesura
midstream, so it becomes a Recalcitrant Double Entry.
What are they up to, these late, randy singers,

who seem to shiver the whole tree in pleasure
when somebody gets off a really fierce line,
pirate aerial deejays remixing their sonics

above the median strip all up and down
the block from here to the Taco Cabana?
They sample Bad Brakes, they do

Tea Kettle in Hell, Slidewhistle
into Car Alarm, Firecracker with a Bright Report,
and every feathered body --
how many of them are there,

obscured by dense green?
seems to cackle over that one,
incendiary rippling, pure delight,

imperious, impure singing:
traffic in tongues, polyglot,
expansive, awry.

THE HONESTY MEME

So, go be honest with me, especially if I'm constantly annoying you or something.
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I started school today. I've been really intensely anxious this past week. I suppose it's a result of doing all my classes online last semester. I haven't really been around people I don't know in months...and now it's just completely jarring to be around so many. My first class in the morning is physics (physics phyyysics physics) which on one hand is really interesting to me. On the other hand, it seems like it's going to be tons of work and is going to involve math that I'm not entirely comfortable with. (Yes, I'm really very awful at most math.) I sat front and center which should both get me to pay attention and scare the shit out of me on a daily basis.

The other class I attended today was my Self Defense class that I'm taking with Mom. It's the same teacher that taught the T'ai Chi class, which is alright. He talked for a while today about different types of predators. A lot of it just seems common sense to me. Look around, be aware of your surroundings, most attackers are someone the victim already knows, that sort of thing. I'm not sure if Mom's going to do very well in the class because she can't really hit the pads and things without it hurting her (though he said it would be fine). Her and her Doctor have been trying to figure out a new medication to deal with her pain issues (she has rheumatoid arthritis), but the stuff they just put her on was making her feel sick, so their going to try something else.

Not sure how that's going to work out, especially since my Grandma in going in for a surgery next week. She has a big growth on one of her ovaries that they're going to go in and remove because it's causing some problems for her. The whole idea scares the shit out of me. She's tough as nails, but she's also almost 90 years old.

...And because most of my post was a bummer:

I've been on a Smiths kick this week and had the following conversation with mom:

Her: That guy has a really unique voice.
Me: It's Morrissey.
Her: ...Van Morrissey?

Tomorrow I've got my physics lab (with a different teacher than the lectures), mythology and British lit. We'll see how it goes. But...I'm signing off now as I've got to be awake in a few hours. Man, this early rising is going to take some getting used to.

(Scheduled pimpage for my help_haiti bidding thread HERE (still at $10), and act_three for the Fitz read-a-long. Check 'em out, dudes.)

Snatched from several people:

The first ten (or so) people to comment in this post get to request that I write a drabble of any pairing/character of their choosing. In return, they have to can, if they so wish, post this in their journal.

1. dragonessa24 requested some TARDIS with Fitz, which I was thinking of writing about anyway :3
2. hobbit_feets requested Ianto/Fitz/John from our fobwatchery storyline. Shagging.
3. brewsternorth requested Eight, Aziraphale, Fitz and Crowley in whatever permutation I so desire.
4. 4you_blue_jway requested the Rani with whatever Doctor.
5. mertondingle is wonderfully predictable and wants some Fitz/Ianto.
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10.

(I don't promise drabbles of exactly 100 words. I was never one for exactness.)

whhyyyy not

☀ cheer up, sunshine! ☀

Just finished my final for World History and got it turned in. Have a few minor things left to do still for classes, but they're small. Sooooo yes.

I've created two new RP accounts (wth am I doing? I already have a bunch I don't play!). Also, I put all my characters up in my profile so it's easier for me to get to 'em.

One is kode_boy, Kode from the EDAs (well, Interference, specifically) and the other is not_so_mad, the Hatter from Siffys new Alice movie thing. I didn't even like the movie quite a lot, but I'm interested in his character before Alice shows up (and not even in an 'oooh he's mine, bitch' sort of way). He's apparently working both sides of the lines, all the while managing to be pretty well off...which is surprising for a guy with his personality. So I'm going to flesh out his past a bit, I think. We'll see.



SECONDLY: I feel like doing a bit of uploading, but I don't want to do that "pick a number and I'll give you a song" meme, so I'm creating a new one!

Post here with a character's name, and I'll upload you a song that reminds me of them. (Characters I'm familiar with would be nice. Pick your rp characters if you want. Or random others. Whatever.)