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last modified Dec 22, 2001 at 22:31


Thursday, February 28, 2002

all i thought of in seminar after a big mug of tea...

EUROPEAN!
GUPPY!
EUPHAMISM!!!!!

13827 | posted by AussieAri at 23:12 | 0 comments

Heg-kit?

I really can't believe this is a Frequently Asked Question...

13790 | posted by AussieAri at 17:17 | 3 comments

Wednesday, February 27, 2002

Things that go together.

Tool "Aenima" + Original "Fantasia"
Pink Floyd "Dark side of the Moon" + Technicolor "Wizard of Oz"
Pink Floyd "The Wall" + Disney's "Alice in Wonderland"
Moby "Play" + "Fantasia 2000"
Pink Floyd "Medal" + "Clock Work Orange"

13654 | posted by AussieAri at 20:00 | 7 comments

"Doo do, dOO, do-de-do" -Grr, Invader Zim

Phone Songs!

13636 | posted by AussieAri at 15:31 | 0 comments

Tuesday, February 26, 2002

Steal and deal.

I just dropped in on Cindy and Gus who were playing a Play Station Two game called Grand Theft Auto. This game is wickedly enjoyable in that you can do all number of horrible things and get away with them. Take hits, assault people taking their stuff, pick up whores for a policeman's ball, steal all kinds of cars, run over tons of pedestrians (who slide and yelp and such), shot people, run 'vigilante' and 'fireman' missions in vehicles that are not yours and earn cash for it. I think the best things i saw were a fire truck being thrown off a pier and a hooker running like hell from the shots he was firing.
Smut.

13528 | posted by AussieAri at 20:05 | 0 comments

CHARGE!

After a mild fencing workout due to Mr. Vanketesh being away with his new little baby, we used the absence of determinate sense to our folly. Eric and i did cavalry passes on bicycles last night in full fencing gear. We borrowed the bikes from the SAO and used the length of the upper cement walkway to pass one another on the right (sword side). Now- the main differences were:
a) Horses steer themselves and you can break with one hand unlike the bike i had with no left break.
b) A horse won't break your sword. Eric broke his saber blade in his bike wheels.
c) Your horse will not go down unless it is hit. Your bike will go down in you are hit. I wiped out once.
d) Saddles are far more secure than bike seats, as are horses for leaning.
e) Olympic fencing swords are extraordinarily lighter, more flexible and shorter, than old cavalry swords and so the old rule of 'block or cut' does not apply. Head Cut!

13485 | posted by AussieAri at 12:01 | 1 comments

ARI'S TO PHONIES

i don't necessarily know myself anymore, i just know i'm far too many shades.

13472 | posted by AussieAri at 8:34 | 0 comments

an obsessive spot to be in.

My seminar has a place i call "the spotted seat". On the wood table in front of the chain that is second from the end, are dots. 2mm-4mm in size, that look as if they were burnt in. Some of the dots have been connected by persons sitting there, nothing coherent has been formed. I can't stand to sit before it. All i do all seminar is stair and stair at the spots- trying to connect the dots to find something comprehensible. Some shapes that connect, or even an asymmetrical image. I can't though. Shapes emerge singularly and for the first time Chaos, an old comfort, mocks me more than the ancient Greek philosophers we read and i should be talking about.

13471 | posted by AussieAri at 8:32 | 0 comments

Ring Finger.

Aristotle keeps giving me the moral finger. It's ok though- it has a beautiful ring to it.

13469 | posted by AussieAri at 8:23 | 0 comments

Monday, February 25, 2002

I bid on this. *happy*

13329 | posted by AussieAri at 10:55 | 0 comments

Sloth loath

At around 2am this morning in Kirby an alarm began to beep. It did not stop. I'd had my ear plugs in most of the night so only became aware of it when i woke up. When I got up at 7am, it was still going strong. I followed it to the source- a maintenance closet beside the bathroom. A closet that we have not had access to since last semester (and they wonder why Kirby smells like preemptive death and is dirty?!?!), one that is locked and blocked by a very heavy door and new lock. !@#$@$%@#$%!!! I thought about hacking it open with my larger knives or kicking it in with my boot, but those doors are blasted expensive…Our dormant RA would not stir to stop it or was not in, even if you could hear it upstairs where he is.
Nicola woke up and asked from her bed what it was, she then said in a sleepy angelic voice, “That’s nice. Someone is going to die…” and fell asleep again. It wasn’t the fire alarm- and resetting the power probably wouldn’t have done anything. If this was a senior prank- as the boys upstairs are in some kind of war with them, Nicola is right. Wrath.

13327 | posted by AussieAri at 10:38 | 0 comments

After Glow

Last night Lucia and i tried a wine called La Bomba GRANDE. Perhaps the most un-P.C. thing i've seen in a while. We couldn't resist. It's produced in the rich virile fields of Los Alamos to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the labs. The winery is named after the Navaho word for 'white man'. It had a funny aftertaste that was more acidic than anything else, and while on the tongue it tingled and felt as if it was penetrating your tongue cells, all tingly.

I'll have to remember to carry around an odd bottle shaped thing warped completely in a brown paper bag soon. It will certainly confuse all my tutors if instead of a bottle of booze i pull out a chainmailed etched bottle filled with sea monkeys. Perhaps a hooka?

13326 | posted by AussieAri at 10:24 | 1 comments

Saturday, February 23, 2002

Nevergonnagetit, never gonna get it...

Last year some already published woman from Taos won this. Should i even try again?

13033 | posted by AussieAri at 12:45 | 1 comments

Friday, February 22, 2002

Sabotage.

On the fish pond's frozen surface has been put a sign that says "Shakespeare In Santa Fe." And it has a piece of paper with an arrow on it pointing down to the ice. So- I wrote "ON ICE" on a piece of paper and stuck it over the "In Santa Fe Part" Buhahahaha. Ah...i miss physical Monkey Wrenching.

12899 | posted by AussieAri at 15:48 | 0 comments

What a strange...

...jedi mind trick it's been.

This is not the Yoda you are attracted to.

12873 | posted by AussieAri at 11:59 | 1 comments

Reasons to go to Arizona:

1) Lesbian Lizards.
2) Chasing Lesbian Lizards.
3) Lesbian Leprechaun?

12865 | posted by AussieAri at 10:41 | 3 comments

qatlh tlhIngan Hol Dajatlhbe'

Lucia said i was the smallest female Klingon ever. So, seeking jackjaw to jackjaw (or maybe broken jaw) of Klingon Women, i found this. Yes, ok, maybe i'll have to send my picture in to this twisted graphically enhanced person for kicks.

12859 | posted by AussieAri at 9:56 | 0 comments

Shapes can scream, even if i can't hear them.

Yes, I'm trying to write a thesis. Once i have one i'm sure it will copulate like a lesbian lizard and i'll be Euclidian ridden...

12858 | posted by AussieAri at 9:41 | 4 comments

Wednesday, February 20, 2002

Progress.

After an hour and a half of stairing at Euclid Book XIII Prop. 13, i took out my frustration for another hour and a half by making this.

12652 | posted by AussieAri at 15:39 | 2 comments

Vivid Dreams

In between sips of martinis and Dr. Pepper (which do not go well in the waking world), Lady Lisa Lyon smiled at me.
In the waking world- She's almost disappeared from the face of the earth- apparently she's in LA now and watches C-Span alot.

12623 | posted by AussieAri at 9:47 | 3 comments

Monday, February 18, 2002

The Oly-hay Ible-bay

The Bible in Pig Latin.

12452 | posted by AussieAri at 12:23 | 3 comments

Sunday, February 17, 2002

How mean is the word 'lisp' to those that have one?

I know he wrote in French, and he didn't- but i keep thinking that Lavoisier, because of the printing/writing standards of the time, spoke with a lisp.

12380 | posted by AussieAri at 21:52 | 0 comments

Junk food.

Ginger candy, Pocky , Seaweed snack, White rabbit, Prawn Crackers, Umeboshi, chocolate koala.

Minties and Fantales, Redskins, Aero Bar, Jaffas, Strawberries and Cream, Sherbies, Violet crumble, Caramelo Koala, Cadbury flake, Mint Slice, Milk Arrowroot, Salt and Vinegar chips, Lucozade, Munchiro.

12341 | posted by AussieAri at 17:27 | 2 comments

Unfortunate.

Never read JTHM while eating scrambled eggs.

I was blowing my nose last night after Fashing and somehow one of the fortunes from the fortune cookies they had at the ball got caught up in the tissue. As i inhaled through my mouth so was the fortune inhalled. Commense mass hacking spitting drooling on the floor, near throwing up and stomach bile. Needless to say, i didn't choke to death- it was probably a stupid fortune anyway. Amy says that in some countries they copy out lines of holy text with special ink, boil the paper it's on and make you drink it when you're deathly ill. Hum...lucky?

12325 | posted by AussieAri at 15:49 | 0 comments

Saturday, February 16, 2002

Spiderbait!

Sunshine on my window, makes me happy, like i should be..

12231 | posted by AussieAri at 19:00 | 0 comments

I wore my UA skirt to dinner tonight. Kyle called it a kilt, i had to correct him about the pleats and other specifications. Having no nice skirts/dresses about, i've forgotten they're sometimes fun. Especially the breeze part.

12221 | posted by AussieAri at 16:55 | 0 comments

Spy and Lie

They installed new windows between the College Activities Office and the computer lab. They have surveillance cameras attached to them. Gggrrrrr. I do not like this.

12218 | posted by AussieAri at 16:41 | 0 comments

Why are people depicted playing harps (that are actually more like lyres) in heaven?

12217 | posted by AussieAri at 16:38 | 0 comments

Friday, February 15, 2002

In case you ever need to feel liberated...

Gnome Liberation

Barbie Liberation

Billboard Liberation

Reindeer Liberation
I don't know about you..but...i'm all liberated out...

12097 | posted by AussieAri at 10:04 | 1 comments

Filler Bunny.

I made a model of the intersection of five cubes. Never again, i drempt about dodecahedrons like the one in Phantom toolbooth helping me solve an SCA murder mystery. I got a free CD out of it in my dream and i saw and heard the beach.

Playing my guitar at sunset on the uppers balcony was amazing- except for the finger freezing part.

I wonder if i'm really made for Sabre fencing and then i look at things like this. If i could only find a light sabre like Darth Mauls. *sigh* the troubles of being a girl...

12058 | posted by AussieAri at 1:05 | 1 comments

Wednesday, February 13, 2002

Ceramics Graveyard

Follow the trail behind the suites/appartments that leads out to the main Atalaya trail and before it gets there, before the large dirt green water tower that makes ping, pzzwooow sounds when you throw rocks at it (one of my favorite sounds), off to the right, behind some 6-5 foot pinions is a little ditch space between the two sets of trees, with a chest sized rock marking it. There in the dirt, half covered, are bits of glazed oddly shaped, and seemingly useless, childlike inventions in clay. The clay used isn't high quality, but it's not paper clay either, a grey kind. Most have a similar signiture on them, RK something. Some have waffle prints on them, they all share some duplicated styles either in marking, shape, or glazing. Most are flat disks, cup attempts, one is a arm sized uneven rectangle. I think most of the pieces were deposited at the same time.

11921 | posted by AussieAri at 22:04 | 0 comments

In-vision.

I can't find Euclid in Braille. Poot. Or for that matter, a blind Johnny. Wow- they would be indispensable in math class.

11919 | posted by AussieAri at 21:50 | 2 comments

Is Mead is god's piss then Amaretto is angel?s spit.

11884 | posted by AussieAri at 14:01 | 3 comments

Tuesday, February 12, 2002

It's a Hoot...

At fencing work out last night a senior that also goes to waterpolo commented that she liked my Hooters Shirt. She then asked if i had worked there. "Hi, my name is Ariadne (something you don't even know of and couldn't pronounce correctly if you tried), wa' da' ya want?"

11785 | posted by AussieAri at 11:53 | 0 comments

Sunday, February 10, 2002

NunSence

I'd really like to see a movie about Nuns on safari.

11587 | posted by AussieAri at 17:56 | 1 comments

Things I learnt in Colorado this weekend:

Bingo is like bad death. You can't just let them tabulate up your win or loss and know what you got, but you can buy a machine that will count away the balls automatically for you at $30. Your winning numbers rarely comes up (and the staff are all very willing to hand out extra game papers) and everything is poorly colored- the hideously luminous ink you dob the boxes with (also good for bad hair or body art), the colors of the boxes. There?s a ritual and a serious service in it. Everyone there is obsessed with it and in less than a happy healthy state. There is an etiquette to it- you're frowned upon if you talk, especially if your speech contains word that begin with 'b' or 'bi', something I intend to made a long poem out of. There is no real socialization there but people sit in strained commissary watching little yellow and red lights goes off and move about (like an ambulance that's turned off it's siren because the patient is done for), squirming and sweating with anticipation.
Or Bingo is like purgatory- I can see someone getting trapped at midnight in a bingo hall with only enough cash to play one game but not enough for a cab ride and no one will take him home because they all don't like someone different who's blown in to their bingo hall with only so much money. So he has to keep playing and playing till he wins but he's so far in the hole that when he does win, it covers his tab with enough left over for a bag of greasy chips from the concession stand.

There is a book shop called Rosemary?s Baby in Denver.

Ft. Collins is the way I like a small city/town to be in this day/age. With mostly small shops that aren't huge chains, walking distance everything, and a college to muck around at (CSU is way too big for my tastes though). Little shops thin and tall that house old books and first copies too.

Not going to a 'Pretty in Pink' Sorority party at a dive called 'Johnny's place.' Is not a loss, though it may have been mildly amusing.

No one really knows why Agnostic Front is playing Ft. Collins two nights in a row.

The wind howls more and more like a banshee the further you are up in a building.

Xavier is still my favorite gender-neutral name.

You can drink a whole bottle of Pucker Sour Apple Liquor in one night and be ok.

Red and Green bell peppers aren't as bad as I thought they were, especially on pizza.

I like sun dried tomatoes.

I also get a kick out of foods of such a great mass or quantity you could kill someone with them- "I'll bludgeon you to death with my salami!!"

Just about every cat I met, regardless of gender or age, does like me.

It isn't red on white that evokes a feeling of dread and pain from me (the opposite); it's red on royal blue or blue jeans. Ugh!

A stray skinny dog eating out of the wood chip/trash pile of a pet food store isn't that ironic.

11572 | posted by AussieAri at 14:22 | 0 comments

Instead of what?

Bret drew a picture of a big penis saying, "I'm not economically feasible." I could have sworn i'd seen that somewhere- Bill Hicks maybe?

Depending on whose economy- national, small, 3rd world, 1st world, over or under populated, he's not feasible either. Or he is and penises aren't. Then there's an environmental economy, the funniest case- in which he isn't and the penis is.

Oh yeah, on a slightly opposed note of economical feasibility, Elishiba was telling me about Instead.

11567 | posted by AussieAri at 13:44 | 0 comments

Wednesday, February 6, 2002

lab poem...

Set free the machines!
Into nature, you are all released
Free as the day you were constructed
Grazing to now self contemplate
Integrated to deteriorate!

Metal to rust,
Chips from cogs
to dust.

11198 | posted by AussieAri at 23:01 | 0 comments

grey would be the colours...

If i had $1000 dollars to blow on clothing things, forget the hoity-toity places in Santa Fe! I'd take my money and spend it at the consignment stores here like Double Take! I found a beautiful form fitting light grey leather jacket and a small light tan authentic 40's bowler hat that fit me perfectly. Not to mention the lapis oval cufflinks, or the old style ink pot looking silver plated lighter.

I think i'll go as Dorian Grey to Halloween next year!

11196 | posted by AussieAri at 22:52 | 0 comments

exaggerations and patience.

I can't find blinking camouflage (what a great idea- fatigue attire is already a dead giveaway in society and in the wild blinking is)...guess I’m going to have to nick some lights and Colin's BDU's.

I realized after i woke up this morning that sometimes my dreams are current events i hadn't put myself into hadn’t fully considered. I don't get alot of news up here, and my Newsweek subscription has expired (hated the damn mag anyway..). I had only vaguely spoken with Lucia about what America is doing overseas now and what the Government is doing in this media black out. There's a striking resemblance in actions to McCarthyism.

I dreamt I was trying to find Kristin in a familiar place- Addison I think. She was supposedly visiting with her sister who had an apartment there. The place seemed deserted but well kept and when I got to the floor in the building she lived on, a guy with long hair was looking wearily at me. I walked about the square floor curiously and realized everywhere was being taped by small surveillance cameras placed randomly about. I finally found her apartment and knocked. She took a while to answer and I stood around looking at the cameras and the big open windows that ran the length of the floor. She eventually let me in after found, much to her relief, it was in fact me and not a stranger. She said Kristin was out but would be back soon. In the mean time she explained the paranoia about the place- an intellectual had been accosted in the apartment on the same floor by the Taliban and then by Police, who had killed him. After she explained this the weary strung out long black haired 20ish man who’d been watching me as I entered the floor knocked and came in. He looked a little relieved and happy to see I was not only a friend but was affected by the realization that this was the community in which the killing I’d vaguely heard about happened. It was not that I was like-minded, or open-minded or was trying to console him or was pissed off at the atrocity that he felt safe in this company. It was because I was listening and responding. He was the lover of the man that got killed.

I get the point subconscious, thanks.

11133 | posted by AussieAri at 10:31 | 1 comments

Time and Place type thing.

Yesterday i helped make Rieki a hat from a card frize tray. He works at the coffee shop and was is being driven mild- so he goes mad instead to avoid it. The hat said, CAR, TOP, HAT, JEWISH?, HELP. And on the day between Monday and Tuesday (also when God invented the t-shirt), i learnt about Not Wanting to Go to Toronto as Elishiba ate Pop Rocks to upset her stomach ache and Hobby Lobby made me queezy. I looked at Scott's pictures of people being drunk fucks swinging from the flagpole when it's flags were down and people repelling off the Fine Arts Building in the dark. Wonder if i can find a scanner on campus.

11130 | posted by AussieAri at 9:58 | 1 comments

Tuesday, February 5, 2002

Yous know..

...kindly call me on my B.S. when you hear it!

10902 | posted by AussieAri at 0:30 | 3 comments

Dramasticles

Sound and Fury, i saw them at Texas Rennaissance Fair two years ago. They preformed "Testicles and the Sack of Rome." The best Fakesperian stuff i've ever seen!

As a side affect..I found myself saying Theaetites and Hereclitus shortly there after though...

10901 | posted by AussieAri at 0:28 | 0 comments

Monday, February 4, 2002

random poem.

The understanding
from the meaning
of something written,
Is in blanks
between lines
and hides after the periods
Where it ends up crouching
in your mind.
Curled around the vowels-?
If it's plainly stated-
is it a footprint in the earth?
If it's blunt-
Is it a fossil?
Does this mysteriously function?

10819 | posted by AussieAri at 10:58 | 0 comments

I just made magnetically opposed thumbtacks?Cool! Maybe I could make a compass!

Last night Bill taught me how to stick fight, very fun. On Wednesday the Santa Fe Jui-Jitsu Academy is giving a workshop here!! It?s something i've always wanted to at least try- being small and all, I need leverage moves.

10818 | posted by AussieAri at 10:49 | 0 comments

ARI;S.TOTLE.

The nature of pop culture is that it is constantly bursting. A bunch of streaming hot air is feed from a bubble machine to inflate the blobby orb till it reaches far beyond a normal size. And a grinning usher in black flips the switch and cuts the general power. Pop culture only has archetypes accompanied by endless fitful fruitless trivia.

10817 | posted by AussieAri at 10:48 | 0 comments

What's warmer- a long sleeve shirt under a T-shirt or a T-shirt under a long sleeve? I'm inclined to think the later.

10795 | posted by AussieAri at 6:57 | 0 comments

Sunday, February 3, 2002

Strange girl.

Mirabai and i were discussing "Why do the best children story writers often go off and in turn write smuty, erotic, and/or violent pieces of adult content?" Does the writing of something for adolescents that they may not entirely comprehend by the audience raise the desire to write something graphic and perhaps doubious?

It's not as if the authors wrote the stories when they were children. I've seen the stories i wrote when i was a child! Some have forgiveness, happiness, games, pride, mysteriousness never explained and frightening things in them. You can't write a story from childhood once you've grown up. For one, you understand the words to plainly, there's no awe. I supose i'm on my way to illustrating and writing children's books. What were your childhood stories like? what did you write about?

10724 | posted by AussieAri at 15:51 | 1 comments

Poor man's weapon.

Last night at dinner Ian and i got into a duel of gloves in an empty space on the cafeteria floor. He got me a few times in the head (tall bugger) but i knocked his glove out of his hand (subsequently it landed in someone's food, who was much relieved that they didn't have to EAT the food.). The crowd goes wild. Then a security guard stops us, and asks for id, saying he?ll ?fine? us if we do anything like this again.

I realize a cafeteria is not the best place for a duel, however playful. This still seems to prove that in 'civilized' society, if you want to get beaten up, or are beating up with consent, or engage willingly in a fair duel, fight, challenge, or physical contest where harm can come, you?d better do it on your own with an abiding judge or some arse is going to rush in not knowing the reasons and stop you. Or..you better be a professional boxer in the ring. It may not be the healthiest of things to engage in but darn it- it has a reason however frivolous or foolish, for existing. It is not that might is right, but that challange is change and a choice is always reasuring.

10715 | posted by AussieAri at 14:43 | 0 comments

Dirty Laundry.

Doing your laundry as your tutor is doing his family laundry (he lives on campus, a dorm away from me) is quite odd. I never thought it would be something that happened at college (this isn't exactly ever college either) but dirty laundry needs to get cleaned.

Helping make and eat Dinner, watching relevent movies, reading text and researching with tutors certainly- maybe because I hadn't thought of this simple act that everyone responsible does I feel odd when presented with it. Better this than the Emperor?s clothes. Women are aloud to go about topless in New Mexico.

10714 | posted by AussieAri at 14:32 | 0 comments

Hock of lamb.

I can't find any info on Dental surgery for retractible canine fangs. I guess no commercial dentist would actually advertise that information...well..if they were American anyway.

10707 | posted by AussieAri at 13:25 | 0 comments

Saturday, February 2, 2002

Smells

I have a habit of smelling things. Even things i'm not about to eat.

This has happened to me every so often when i've had a long day but i'm not sick. I'll wake up and my hands, if my forearms will smell faintly of peanut butter (or more over the oil of peanut butter). As if it has been rubbed or soaked into them. Does anybody else get this? Could this be a result of my interesting body chemistry???

10545 | posted by AussieAri at 11:51 | 0 comments

Friday, February 1, 2002

Rorschach.

Got pictures of rabbit (i think he's paranoid now from having been around so much pot previously), gray scaled them and mirrored them. Admittedly, some do look very much like a bunny- but then they wouldn't be fun if they didn't.

Now if i can only figure out how to do feedback forms and that cgi stuff again...hurm.

10386 | posted by AussieAri at 17:31 | 0 comments

Highest concentration..

...of hotsprings in America! ooohhhh yes. Guess what i'm doing after lecture?

10385 | posted by AussieAri at 17:26 | 0 comments

An Oldschool Australian Tradition...

A PINCH AND A PUNCH FOR THE FIRST OF THE MONTH AND YOU CAN'T GET ME BACK TILL THE NEXT!!!

10345 | posted by AussieAri at 9:21 | 0 comments