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Because! All The Things!
Mar. 29th, 2013 09:15 pmThe weather is lovely today, so I took a walk, my first in a while. I might even have gotten some sun.
In no particular order, here are some various things:
Comets. I recently saw my fifth. Some people don't believe me when I say I saw comet Kohoutek in January, 1974, but I really did. I didn't see another till Hyakutake in March of 1996. Then Hale-Bopp in 1997, everyone saw that one, it was in the sky for months. Comet McNaught made a brief appearance in the the northern hemisphere in January, 2007, and Luke and I were lucky to catch it. Then it went around the sun and went ape-shit for people below the equator. A few months ago I started hearing about comet Pan-STARRS, and as soon as it was reported to be visible in our area, we went looking for it. It was pretty dinky, and you needed binoculars to see it, but that still counts in my book.
Hair. Getting long and driving me crazy, but I'm not ready to chop it off yet. I love how long it is, but I hate how it looks, if that even makes any sense..
Wiscon plans. I haz them. I'm flying into Madison on May 15th, nice and early so I can spend some extra time with the folks. Luke is busy with school, and won't be coming to Wiscon this year. That means no photo booth, unless someone else does it. I hope people still dress up on Sunday night, because I'm planning to! Also, I'm not going to do an LJ/Facebook party.
Wiscon is going to be weird and different for me. Most of the time I'm there, I'm just LOOKING for people, and when I don't find them, I had Luke to go off and do something with. Not this year.
There are a few people who I consider friends, yet I always get the sense that they are only letting me hang around them because the TRULY COOL people they'd rather be around haven't shown up yet. My company is tolerated, but not sought out. I feel like I have to beg to be included. It happened more than once last year. It's going to be a challenge to not feel that way when I'm at the con alone. Imposter syndrome, and a whole bunch of other things are at work here.
Another Wiscon challenge will actually BE the finding of people. I don't tweet, and I barely text.
Which I guess leads to: things I don't do, don't know how to do, or don't know anything about.
*I do not have an i-pod, or any i-device for that matter.
*I'm ashamed to admit I only get XKCD about half the time.
*I guess if I'm going to be able to find people, and find out about things at Wiscon, I'm going to have to learn to tweet. What the hell do you do?
Still on a massive autobiography kick. I'm keeping a list of everything I've read.
*Rob Lowe
*Evan Handler
*Carrie Fisher
*William Shatner, a fun read.
*Betty White, another fun read.
*John Lithgow, incredible book. I've always liked him in TV and movies, and didn't know anything about him as a person. I had no idea he was a Tony-winning Broadway star, as well as a very good writer.
*John Ritter, written by his widow.
*Alison Arngrim, better known as Nellie Oleson from Little House on the Prairie. Another incredible book, a harrowing Hollywood tale, very well written.
*Regis Philbin, why? I've been enjoying stories of how various famous people got their start, the folks they met and worked with in their early days. I don't much care for Regis Philbin, but he's someone who knew and worked with everybody, so why not..?
*Michael J. Fox, two books of his, actually.
*Penny Marshall
*Sissy Spacek
*Pam Grier
*Simon Pegg, a fun book, left me wishing he'd written more, and wishing I was more of a nerd.
Currently reading Walter Cronkite, who definitely has some stories, and tells them well.
Next up- Martin Sheen, Claudia Christian and Dick Van Dyke.
You know how you watch something on YouTube, and on the side are other related videos, and then you've gone down the rabbit hole, and suddenly it's hours later, and you've reconnected with bands you haven't seen in years. That happens to me a lot...
Anyway, this is one of my all-time very favorite songs, and I'd never seen this live version.
Another time, I'll tell tales about getting my nails done for the first time in years, how I was too chicken to sing karaoke (again), but had a great time anyway. Also, why our downstairs neighbor's boyfriend is a jerk.
In no particular order, here are some various things:
Comets. I recently saw my fifth. Some people don't believe me when I say I saw comet Kohoutek in January, 1974, but I really did. I didn't see another till Hyakutake in March of 1996. Then Hale-Bopp in 1997, everyone saw that one, it was in the sky for months. Comet McNaught made a brief appearance in the the northern hemisphere in January, 2007, and Luke and I were lucky to catch it. Then it went around the sun and went ape-shit for people below the equator. A few months ago I started hearing about comet Pan-STARRS, and as soon as it was reported to be visible in our area, we went looking for it. It was pretty dinky, and you needed binoculars to see it, but that still counts in my book.
Hair. Getting long and driving me crazy, but I'm not ready to chop it off yet. I love how long it is, but I hate how it looks, if that even makes any sense..
Wiscon plans. I haz them. I'm flying into Madison on May 15th, nice and early so I can spend some extra time with the folks. Luke is busy with school, and won't be coming to Wiscon this year. That means no photo booth, unless someone else does it. I hope people still dress up on Sunday night, because I'm planning to! Also, I'm not going to do an LJ/Facebook party.
Wiscon is going to be weird and different for me. Most of the time I'm there, I'm just LOOKING for people, and when I don't find them, I had Luke to go off and do something with. Not this year.
There are a few people who I consider friends, yet I always get the sense that they are only letting me hang around them because the TRULY COOL people they'd rather be around haven't shown up yet. My company is tolerated, but not sought out. I feel like I have to beg to be included. It happened more than once last year. It's going to be a challenge to not feel that way when I'm at the con alone. Imposter syndrome, and a whole bunch of other things are at work here.
Another Wiscon challenge will actually BE the finding of people. I don't tweet, and I barely text.
Which I guess leads to: things I don't do, don't know how to do, or don't know anything about.
*I do not have an i-pod, or any i-device for that matter.
*I'm ashamed to admit I only get XKCD about half the time.
*I guess if I'm going to be able to find people, and find out about things at Wiscon, I'm going to have to learn to tweet. What the hell do you do?
Still on a massive autobiography kick. I'm keeping a list of everything I've read.
*Rob Lowe
*Evan Handler
*Carrie Fisher
*William Shatner, a fun read.
*Betty White, another fun read.
*John Lithgow, incredible book. I've always liked him in TV and movies, and didn't know anything about him as a person. I had no idea he was a Tony-winning Broadway star, as well as a very good writer.
*John Ritter, written by his widow.
*Alison Arngrim, better known as Nellie Oleson from Little House on the Prairie. Another incredible book, a harrowing Hollywood tale, very well written.
*Regis Philbin, why? I've been enjoying stories of how various famous people got their start, the folks they met and worked with in their early days. I don't much care for Regis Philbin, but he's someone who knew and worked with everybody, so why not..?
*Michael J. Fox, two books of his, actually.
*Penny Marshall
*Sissy Spacek
*Pam Grier
*Simon Pegg, a fun book, left me wishing he'd written more, and wishing I was more of a nerd.
Currently reading Walter Cronkite, who definitely has some stories, and tells them well.
Next up- Martin Sheen, Claudia Christian and Dick Van Dyke.
You know how you watch something on YouTube, and on the side are other related videos, and then you've gone down the rabbit hole, and suddenly it's hours later, and you've reconnected with bands you haven't seen in years. That happens to me a lot...
Anyway, this is one of my all-time very favorite songs, and I'd never seen this live version.
Another time, I'll tell tales about getting my nails done for the first time in years, how I was too chicken to sing karaoke (again), but had a great time anyway. Also, why our downstairs neighbor's boyfriend is a jerk.
