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"Sui Generis" Playlist

These are the songs to which I've been listening for the past couple of weeks without end, whilst writing "Sui Generis."

( cut for courtesy )

The playlist will most likely be retired once the chapter is complete and I'll return to my more generic Vampire playlist used for the entire book.

Grass, Man, Grass! ~~and other stuff~~

I have to cut it today. As I've said before, I'd rather be smoking it. But, since I have none to smoke and way too much to cut, I'll be mowing instead of toking. Life is unfair, yes it is, yes it is. Our sunset begins at 8:32 DST, so I'm going out at 7:30 to use the lawn tractor first. I'll be thirty minutes on that, doing Uncle Michael's back yard, the field, and my front yard. Then I'll get out the push mower and do the trimming of the front yard and all of the back yard. I should be finished up a little before 9 PM, if I don't stop to mop sweat or drink anything cool and refreshing.

Words are insufficient in expressing my hatred for Summer and all things related. It needs to go away. The Earth needs to be knocked off Her axis to where we're hardly exposed to the sun at all. Yeah, it'll mean certain death for us all, but at least we'll die cooler than this inferno.

The school thing wasn't a go today, so I'm having to split it up between tomorrow morning and Thursday morning. Ain't that grand? Bah! After I leave there tomorrow, I've got to swing by Llew's work so he can use my computer for a PowerPoint project. None of the equipment or computers they have at work have that capability, so he came to me. I'm also due to go visit Llew at home tomorrow after work. There may be some serious naughtiness to write about after tomorrow night so, if you want on my 'naughty filter,' let me know. If not, you're good.

I had a bowl of cheerios for supper. It's too hot to eat anything even remotely warm. The cheerios hit the spot in a way that I never imagined. I feel fulfilled and energised after having ingested approximately one cup of "doughnut seeds." If they'd been the Honey Nut Cheerios, I think I would have burst out into the yard to sing like Julie Andrews in the mountains of Austria. Yeah. That dramatic.

Aunt Tudi just thumbed her nose at me after I told her to shut her pie-hole, so I promptly flipped her a bird. Family togetherness and love: that's what it's all about.

Twenty-five minutes until I have to go out and be microwaved by the giant ball of fire in the sky.

The Lawn Is Conquered (for another 4 days...)

But not without a large cost to my physical well-being and my sanity. As I write this, my left knee cap is once again transforming into a hub cap. Ow. Just....OW. About two-thirds of the way through the task, I had to stop and replenish my liquids and decided to take some pics of how hideous I am when I mow the grass.

( behold the sweaty, red-faced, freak o'nature )

That last picture captures perfectly how stymied I really was by then. Once I was actually finished, I had to wring out my pony-tails before I could come in. I was that sweaty. And I had grass bits stuck all over me. And I itched all over. And I was blowing red mud outta my nose. But I finished right before 9 PM, as I predicted. By the time I hobbled in, twilight was giving over to night and the shower was calling my name.

Now I'm squeaky clean, but my face is still red and I'm still a little stymied. I....HATE....SUMMER....

Tagged by the most bodacious moad_terran_hq

A Random Fact Meme
Rules: if you're tagged you must list 6 random facts about yourself, then tag 6 people to do this meme.

1. I legally have three mothers: Aunt Tudi, who legally adopted me when I was 10 ~~ The Mother Unit, who is my biological mother and who passed many quirky genes on to me, like the Kung Fu gene and the Bald Man gene ~~ and the Stepmother Unit, who married my Father Unit in 1980 if memory serves. They also very easily represent Maiden (Aunt Tudi), Mother (the Mother Unit), and Crone (Stepmother Unit), but I didn't realise that until I began studying Goddess spirituality.


2. I collect masks, especially tribal masks.


3. When I was 6 years old, I pulled the wings off a fly. To this day, I suffer horrific guilt over that act and will probably do penance for it for the rest of my life. Even writing about it here just makes me want to ask a member of Opus Dei to give me forty whacks.


4. I was a virgin until the age of 30. I'd never been kissed until I was 29.


5. I would rather be hit on the head with a sledgehammer than go shopping for clothes.


6. I love to swing in playground swings.

Alrighty, now I tag six of you people.

1. killtest


2. dr_nebula


3. wikkidpixie


4. helenangel


5. quoth_the_maven


6. bayberrybush

For forth and meme, comrades!