a light aslant

p.s. yr interest of persnickety? sent me to dictionary.com

<3<3 it should be an interest of mine, too!

(cold&rainy here in the city.)

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i have persnicked myself into a corner
many, many times. we all know i am
nothing if not a snob :D

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hehe. oh how true! :P just kidding.

ooo turning it into a verb! i love it. what a versatile word. yr interests are fabulous, by the way.

argh. work = slow as molasses (although i imagine it's much the same for you). listening to yo la tengo and drinking copious amounts of caffeinated beverages: coffee and a can of diet coke right next to one another. both open and in the process of being drunk. (drank? rrah, the english language!)

what'd you think of my book choices? :) (thankyou again)

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interests = thank you :) they are fun. although i haven't updated them in quite a while.

work here is slow, too. i am playing around on e2 and working on a write-up about some renaissance italian architecture. it is so fun. there are endless things to be read there, i highly recommend it for pasttime pleasures.

i did like your book choices...i almost picked out for you the naomi shihab nye book you had on yr wishlist, because i adore naomi shihab nye. she is beautiful and graceful, i saw her read once. i do not know anything about walter ong; i have read 'zami' but that is all i know of lorde; i have read pieces of anais nin's biography but i know next to nothing about her other than that. she was one freaky lady.

i am trying to go off caffeine. mint tea with honey for me, and water. also, i have a jar of peanuts & raisins on my desk. i had a literature teacher once who called that 'brainfood' and made me eat a tiny handful every time we spoke in her office.

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yay for fun literature teachers! i tried to go off caffeine but had horrible headaches and found it hard to concentrate so i decided it wasn't worth it and that i enjoy my diet coke/ coffee far too much to give it up. yum! (besides, doesn't my coffee addiction make me worth my salt as a writer? ;))

how in the hoo-ha did you find my wishlist? i wasn't even sure it was still in existance. i should really make a new one, because i doubt it's updated. i actually have a Nye book that's wonderful, i bought it last summer and i used to read it in the cemetery under the trees. she's lovely, and terribly nice. we've conversed via email a few times. (long story, but she's related to nadia in a farfar off way by marriage)

i'm checking out e2, i need something to pass the time.

what else is going on?

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i looked up your name, silly girl! + penns grove, nj was a dead giveaway.

nothing, literally nothing is going on. i learned that the rosetta stone was discovered in 1799 (although not translated for another 20 years or so) and that during the renaissance, scholars believed that egyptian hieroglyphics represented ideas (like alchemists' symbols).

my username there is 'bluebird'...you can see my scratchpad where i'm working on the new writeup if you look me up. but maybe you have to create an account first.

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hee. i just created one.

i'm so confused by this site because there's just so much. but i'll get it !

i have the strange (or not so strange since i love them) hankering to listen to le tigre right now but i left my cds at my mum's place in jersey. boo!

hmmmmm. yay. and i'm glad you went with the gift certificate. :)

looking through old livejournals. my god, how different i was back then. & how depressing!

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yes...it took me about a week of reading through faqs and tutorials and lists of definitions etc to really get what it was all about. but it's also useful to just surf & surf around between nodes. every time i need an encyclopedic sort of bit of knowledge, i always use e2. people have put so much time & energy into putting up so much history & literature & everything. there is also a great deal of fiction & poetry & other assorted babblings.

(i prefer to think of older pieces of lj to be a less writerly time rather than a sadder time. <3 delusions.)

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good god, woman.

you're so brilliant. there's so much text here and information that it's almost overwhelming! (okay, so it's really overwhelming, but i seem to be picking up on the general gist of things pretty quickly).

hee, less writerly time. yes, i'll take that. :)

how do you decide what to do yr writeups on?

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you have to look for things that don't exist yet. like favorite books, or songs (i posted the lyrics to lodestar last night, i was shocked they weren't up already), or concepts. many people are using notes & ideas from classes, i suspect.

i have so far just used things that i have that i suspect are slightly obscure...like the palazzo i'm writing on right now, or the book i did before that. and then you can do other connecting node writeups to talk about various things in your original write-up that don't already have writeups. like the architect i'm writing about has a node, but no writeup, so i'll probably do him next. also when surfing around i look for stuff that i want to find but doesn't exist.

but you have to be careful...if you post a writeup that should be under a different node, or if you're just phrasing something a different way and someone's already done it, they'll delete yours. it requires a lot of background research. it's important to check & check & check your writeups. hard links (in the text) are important, but soft links (in the grey boxes at the bottom) are more important, kind of like "see also." they establish your node in a network of related information that gives it context.

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hee! so complicated. but i think it'll be a good challenge. happiness!

thankyou for introducing me to this. it makes me feel scholarly and smart and stuff. :)

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it is tres fun. the only drawback is learning to use capital letters correctly. All of the time. There is no tolerance for fuzzy grammar or punctuation or creative capitalization on Everything2. i can see why, though...it's like an encyclopedia, but bigger. there must be some consistency.

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what is yr username?

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persnickety!

haha. obsession of the day much?

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hehe. i totally suspected that's what you'd choose. there wasn't already a persnickety?

the week i made my account i got a message from a higher-up e2 person asking if i'd give it to someone else, because they'd "freed it up for them, and you snuck in." but i kept it as finders, keepers. but weird, eh? like bluebird was open for such a short time & i just happened to sneak in. weird. the girl who was supposed to get it is now named bluebird_is_sad ...i went to read her profile & she annoyed me, so i don't feel bad for not giving it up :P

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there was not one already! lucky me!

i'm glad you didn't give it up. finders keepers indeed. be not afraid of other people's bullying. :)

it just reminds me of the bukowski poem. 'there's a bluebird in my heart, but i won't let him get out, i'm too tough for him". something like that. it's one of my favourites.

by the by, i watched a bukowski documentary last week in my slam class. it was done by a friend of my professor's...the rough cut. it's going to be edited and submitted to sundance. how fun is that!

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it reminds me of

put a little bluebird in your soul
not to put too fine a point on it
say i'm the only bee in your bonnet

a bukowski documentary...very exciting. the documentary dan worked on for powderhouse productions on the tunnel under the atlantic is airing sometime soon on the discovery channel, on a series called 'extreme architecture.'

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extreme architecture! hee. that sounds like fun. remember the midget show? *makes a face*

hee. what's that from, those lines you quoted to me?

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they might be giants!

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ahhh. i don't listen to them. :)

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i don't normally
but kirk & eric played them
a lot on the marathon drive
to levelland for thanksgiving.

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glimmerkirk.livejournal.com

xo xo!

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xo!

ha ha.
oh you two.

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glimmerkirk.livejournal.com

who me? :)

(speaking of eric we'll go see him first thing when we get in to town ;) )

xo

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yes! we must have a farewell game
or two of cataan, i think.

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!

where did you hear of it (http://everything2.com)? (for i (http://everything2.com/?node_id=986265) am here!)

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from a now defunct lj'er i believe...

wow, you have been there a long time. i am so new at this.

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oh! yes; of course.
may i add you (plural!) to the family tree (http://everything2.com/?node=e2+family+tree)-thing? as dustfromamoth -> bluebird -> persnickety. & have any of you/they introduced anyone else, that you know?
( i like completeness! :) )

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jenn/persnickety is the first person i have told who has actually created an account, although there will probably be more, eventually. i have not seen the family tree thing...! every time i think i understand something about e2 is just gets bigger & bigger.

wait. is dustfromamoth artyesfoodno? i am everso confused.

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yes indeed.
we found each other by coincidence when she first started a livejournal.
how exciting!

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wow. so strange. i remember her mentioning e2 over a year ago and i thought, gee what a bizarre website, but now i'm back and i can't' get enough.

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and. i believe she (/users/artyesfoodno) is now here (/users/aliceinanything). though i haven't checked recently, & she may be there no longer.

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