Author: etoiline
Vote for Change
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Here’s the schedule for those concerts I told you about yesterday, and St. Louis is on a few of the stops. I don’t know if I’d go to any or not, but I thought that I would throw them out there.
I hate it when I get drawn into the web of surfing. I thought I would randomly look up some LJ sites with interest in Missouri (see previous entry for why I need friends) and now have about 15 windows open that I need to look through. Guh. And I’m supposed to do a data set today. And I have to do isolation tomorrow which means I have to come in on Saturday. Bleh. Just gotta time it right I guess. Phooey.
This place looks like it rocks. Too bad I’m being a tightfisted miser and saving money for things it seems I’ll never get because of stupid rent and loan and car insurance payments. Yeah. Those are much more important than new scents. Yeah.
Wow, I just said a lot of crap. Lunchtime?
Doesn’t someone want to go to Boston with me?
StandardMuseum of Science – Lord of the Rings Boston’s MoS is having the only exhibition of the LotR memoribilia and other such things related to the film in the US. I really want to go. It’s there until October…which incidentally is about the time when I should be in Kansas City for the renaissance festival…anyone interested in that?
Jesus, I need more friends. I don’t have anyone to go to the Moonlight Ramble with either, unless Leo or Alex change their minds. Sigh. This is where I missed out being an only child…no built-in trip buddies.
Hmmm,
StandardI hate politics
StandardBands Gather to Stump Against Bush
Just heard this on the Today show this morning as well. Should be pretty cool. I guess they’re hoping that some of their republican fans will come and be converted. I’d probably go just because it looks like there’s gonna be some good bands, like DMB and Dixie Chicks and James Taylor.
But on the bad side of politics…most of the people/things I voted for/against last night didn’t make it/pass. Suckage. McCaskill overturned Holden for the gubernatorial primary (Holden’s wife was a strong supporter of the arts, and who knows what will happen with McCaskill, who seems a bit of a witch with a b). Gephardt’s congress seat was still up in the air last night but it wasn’t between who I voted for and someone else, which is a shame. He was a WU teacher, too. Meh.
But the big sad sorry deal is that while Amendment 1 (the casino for Rockaway Beach) did not pass, Amendment 2, which would put A SINGLE LINE in the MO constitution saying marriage is between a man and a woman, passed. I think this is terribly silly, why do you need to put that line on paper when it’s already illegal for gay marriage in MO anyway? I just don’t think it’s right that the people in the capitol can say who you can call your partner. But I guess it’s the people’s choice: it passed overwhelmingly by a vote of 70-something percent. Guh. Stupid conservative people. I hate it when MO is a trendsetter in these ways. I love my state, I love being here, but man, some of the things that happen just make me want to leave. Don’t know where I’d go though…meh.
I’d love to get a paid LJ. I just don’t want to pay for it. yeah. I did get sorted into Ravenclaw, btw. Like it was a surprise. Now they’ve got to just let me into the common room…
well, I’m sort of whole brained…
StandardRight Brain |||||||||||| 42%
Left Brain |||||||||||||||| 62%
Left brain dominant individuals are more literal, articulate, and to the point. They are good at understanding directions and anything that is explicit and logical. They can have trouble comprehending emotions and abstract concepts, they can feel lost when things are not clear, doubting anything that is not stated and proven.
Right brain dominant individuals are more visual and intuitive. They are better at summarizing multiple points, picking up on what’s not said, visualizing things, and making things up. They can lack attention to detail, directness, and the ability to explain their ideas verbally, leaving them unable to communicate effectively.
Overall you appear to be Left Brain Dominant
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The ideal is to develop both your left and right brain. Many people identify their personality with being more right or left brained. “I am just not verbal” or “I just don’t like art”. The right and left brain are just functions to be utilized, they are not who you are. You are the manager, coach, architect, developer of your functions. No matter how developed one side of your mind is, if you have deficiencies in the other you will be functionally crippled. Right brain deficiencies inhibit your comprehension of life – who you are, where you stand, what’s the point. Left brain deficiencies will inhibit your ability to express yourself verbally to others, leaving you mute to the world.
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Brain Lateralization Test Results
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| Right Brain (42%) The right hemisphere is the visual, figurative, artistic, and intuitive side of the brain. Left Brain (62%) The left hemisphere is the logical, articulate, assertive, and practical side of the brain |
Are You Right or Left Brained?(word test)
personality tests by similarminds.com
gonna have to make a list
Standard…of all the things I want to buy. I’ve been pretty good lately at not spending money because a whole lot of things that required a bunch of cash have come up recently, so I’ve been saving…go me! But it just means that once I’ve finally saved enough, there’ll be a bunch of things that will deplete my account… like the Roswell Season 2 dvds, which I want not only because it’s Roswell, but because S2 contains the single best episode of all three seasons: the End of the World. And that’s the only episode that ever convinced me to write fanfic. Course, I can’t get the dvds until they’re released in October. Blah.
But I also want Ned Kelly and the Spidey 2 and King Arthur scores, all of which will have to wait until August 10, when Order of the Phoenix comes out in paperback. It doesn’t look like any Borders are having a midnight release, which is sad, but I bet I wouldn’t have gone anyway. So I’ll just go to Waldenbooks and use my discount AND coupon and save money. Yay.
but EEK! Elizabeth Haydon’s Elegy for a Lost Star came out yesterday! How did I miss that? Although I’ll just have to wait for it to come in at the library, because you know me, I won’t buy hardcover unless it’s severely reduced in price! The public library doesn’t have it yet but I’m 10th in line for the county library…nice to know that I’ve got more than one way of getting it! Mwahaha!
Yeah. Perhaps I should actually do some work today. Thank you, sorters! Hmm. Blue and yellow, eh? I like pastel blue and yellow together. When they’re not muted they can be a little too bold for my taste, but whatever…looks like I belong in ravenclaw 🙂
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Why is it even an issue?
StandardIn LKH’s Blog she talks about the amendment against gay marriage, which I think is a stupid idea in the first place…how can the government (or even just the representative of the people, as Ross put it) regulate WHO WE LOVE???? Anyway, LKH puts it better than I can. Me of the not so strong opinions. All I know is that if the Republicans or similar conservatives take control in the next election there will be no chance of me being able to work with stem cells because they’ll just flat out ban it. And not that I have very many gay friends but they won’t be happy if it passes and that makes me sad. And maybe it overgeneralizes things a bit, but stupid republicans. I don’t like them. Normally. I keep seeming to find guys that tend toward that side though. Alas.
I still haven’t decided if I’m going to vote tomorrow…I guess I will, it’s relatively important what with choosing a governor and the silly ‘misleading’ Amendment 1 to put a casino down south in Rockaway Beach…and the lovely Amendment 2:
Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended so that to be valid and recognized in this state, a marriage shall exist only between a man and a woman?
Seems so simple, doesn’t it? But so pervasive. Ugh. I should vote. Why oh why do they think this is right? I guess my democratic colors are showing.
I’ll shut up now. I love it when I sound like I have an opinion, but I’m terribly uncomfortable talking about it. Blah. Go vote. Tomorrow. Here’s a list of the Missouri ballot issues. Be informed, lord knows I’m not.
Happy Birthday, Harry! and Bourne again
StandardYes, it is indeed Harry Potter’s birthday. And yes, I know he’s a fictional character, but gosh darnit he’s one of my favorites. And I know I’m a little late, as it’s already tomorrow in Britain and nearly tomorrow here, but it’s the thought that counts, right? Here’s a little quickie I whipped up for my favorite boy wizard:
Incidentally it’s also HP author JK Rowling’s 39th birthday. Hmm. Wonder how she picked that date for her protagonist? I can’t wait for the Order of the Phoenix to come out in paperback on the 10th of august….maybe I’ll actually make it to a release party for this one. Maybe not. I find it strange that they didn’t try to release it around HP’s birthday like they did for GoF, but that’s publisher’s perogative I guess.
Saw the Bourne Supremacy with Ross last night. It was a fun movie, and the theater was nearly full even though it was the second weekend of release, so yay for Bourne. I thought it was good, probably better than the first, if a little more convoluted. They had you going ‘huh?” for quite a bit in the beginning, trying to figure out who’s killing whom and why, but the action sequences were great. Two car chases, wow. And I have to say, Karl Urban looked so much better in this one than in Chronicles of Riddick 😉 Two LotR alums in BS, actually…Bourne meets up with an assassin buddy of old and lo and behold it’s Marton Csokas or however you spell his last name, aka Celeborn-the-elf-of-the-few-words-and-husband-of-Galadriel. Also known as the anarchy-advocating rebel of xXx. and wtf! Marie!?! sigh. either there’s not going to be a sequel (which is stupid considering the aforementioned full theater), or they’re just going to invent it out of the whole cloth, being as they changed most of the plot of the second book. Oh, I know the first one wasn’t really like the book, stripped down, etc, and the books are infinitely better than the movies, but still. I admit I haven’t finished the second book and maybe there are more elements that I’m not aware of that they did include in the movie, but it sure seemed like they were veering off on their own tangent. That’s ok, I guess. Books are good when they can stand on their own. Ah well.
Ross and I talked…alot. I’m amazed at the breadth of the topics we discussed. Problem is I’m not all that good at discussion, what with not having too many strongly-held beliefs, whereas Ross is going to (Wash U, natch) law school in the fall. But it was interesting nonetheless. It’s fun to have conversations ranging from religion to politics to school to weather to old ladies cursing. And I had my first mocha Kalhua freeze (yes, a coffee drink!). I never drink coffee of any type (the smell used to make me sick, really) but it wasn’t bad. Mostly the bitterness was covered up by the mocha 😉 And I believe Ross when he says he isn’t normally a bad driver. He just happened to have some bad directions 😉
And Tim Schneider (my crush from middle school/highschool and the hs salutitorian) and his wife just had twin boys, so congrats to them. Apparently they were nine weeks early so send some prayers and well wishes their way!
Guess I better get this in before midnight, and finish my dinner. Toodles…
LA Song
StandardWell, here it is, finally…my John Mayer concert review…Admittedly yesterday I was busy, but I just really didn’t want to sit and type up the whole thing. So I’m doing it today while I have nothing better to do. I could be making a Harry Potter birthday icon, I suppose, but perhaps I’ll do that tomorrow…if I’m not at ShowMeCon, which I most likely won’t be…ah well, money issues…
Anyway…onto the musicy goodness.
Sooo…while I was on my way home to meet the aunt and cousin, all I heard on traffic was bad bad accidents on all the highways, so I was worried. But we apparently left at the right time, or took the (slightly back-roads) right way, since we didn’t hit any snags, just normal rushhour traffic. Yay! So we got there early enough to hit the restrooms 😉 and hear some random guy on the second stage (he sounded enough like JM that I was confused for a bit, but he was black, so no relation 😉 and he finished just as we managed to get in the gates, so I have no idea who he was) and get a cupful of free stuff, literally. Southwest Airlines was sponsoring the concert so they were giving away big plastic cups with stuff. And there was the obligatory free condom man 😉 He gave me two. Not sure what I should think about that. After enjoying a leisurely soft frozen lemonade, we took our seats.
DJ Logic started us off, but either his equipment was faulty or he was just randomly inserting scratching into popular songs I’ll never quite know, since I wasn’t really listening. It was really nice weather for the evening, suprisingly, but thankfully. The concert did start pretty soon after 7, which was nice…I guess Maroon 5 didn’t come on until about 7:45, and they played to sometime after 8:30, so a good set. Will have to check out their cd now, I guess. Yay. more things to spend money on *sarcasm* They have a very clever logo: an M with a V cutout in the middle. Get it? Maroon V? I liked it, and they played pretty well. Didn’t play the song from the Spidey2 soundtrack which I wouldn’t have minded seeing, but they did play the three hits they’ve got on the radio right now.
And then came the good stuff…John Mayer came on just about 9 pm. Amazing it was neither humid nor raining like they’d said it might be, so everything was perfect condition wise. Too bad the sound isn’t quite as good at outdoor concerts as it is indoors, because while you could hear the words of songs pretty well, whenever anyone was just talking it sounded like a blur of noise. Meh. But yeah, songs pretty. I followed my convention from the Josh Groban concert and made a setlist (with help from the official site and Scotty’s road journal):
Bigger than my body
No Such Thing prefaced by some 80s song that I can’t recall the title of
“This is playing the blues” A Blues Thing (because he’s heard people call some of his songs bluesy and wanted to set the record straight)
Come Back to Bed
New Deep (source of the title of his latest disc, Heavier Things)
Wheel (everyone’s favorite singalong)
Why Georgia with a side of Portable
Something’s Missing with a side of Home Life
My Stupid Mouth with a side of something I can’t remember
Old Love (an eric clapton tribute, I think. DeLa (his best bud/guitarist) had a big solo, and then he and JM did this great duet where DeLa stood behind JM and played JM’s guitar while JM played DeLa’s. Now that takes talent!)
Your Body is a Wonderland with a side of Signed Sealed Delivered and Maroon 5’s She Will Be Loved
Neon with a guitarist from Maroon 5 and JM playing a Macintosh Apple-stickered guitar (yay!)
Clarity
encore
LA Song (acoustic, JM only, a new song he’s working on for the next album. good stuff)
Great Indoors (acoustic, JM only)
Only Heart (JM and some of the band)
He ended sometime just before 11…all I know is that we were in the car at 11, so a nice long set. We left just as he was ending his last song, since Aunt Carol didn’t want to spend as much time in the car waiting in the parking lot. We still had to wait a long time, but you’ll hear about that later.
So, more thoughts: