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How do the writers of 'The Red Room' and 'The Signalman' create fear and tension in the reader?
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English Coursework How do the writers of 'The Red Room' and 'The Signalman' create fear and tension in the reader? Both stories are examples of gothic horror, although 'The Red Room' is a more typical model. I say this due to the several gothic elements included in the story. One example of a typical gothic element is the inclusion of a pursued protagonist. In The Red Room, the protagonist is quite a stereotypical type as at the beginning of the story he totally rejects the idea of anything supernatural..." Eight and twenty years, I have lived, and never a ghost have I seen as yet". Then, by the end of the story he is being 'bullied' by darkness and runs away in fright! Another typical element of gothic horror used in this story is an emphasis on terrifying the reader. Throughout the story the author lays emphasis on terror by including many scary moments. One example of a scary moment is when the protagonist is walking to the red room. On the way through the corridors he sees something that appears to be crouching down. At first the reader thinks that there is someone there to attack the protagonist. Further on though you realise that it is just a simple Ganymede and Eagle statue. Another example of emphasis on terror used on the reader is shown when the protagonist is in the red room and the candles unexplainably go out one by one. This leads the protagonist and reader through a frantic couple of minutes in which he tries to relight the candles that had gone out. A further typical element of gothic horror is the use of archaic settings. In horror stories, archaic settings include settings such as castles, monasteries, dungeons and medieval architecture which are very much used to create a disturbing and tense atmosphere. In 'The Red Room' the setting is in a castle, which is very old. ...read more.
On the other hand, the tension in 'The Signalman' is intermittent which is the sort of tension structure that has no particular flow and has 'breaks'. Right at the beginning of the story, the traveller looks down towards the signal man who reacts very strangely. The purpose of this point could be to mislead the reader into thinking that the signalman is someone scary and abnormal. As the story continues, the traveller observes many things about the signalman. He concludes that he is very good at his job. This basic analysis on the signalman makes him seem like the 'good guy', which is important as it allows more sympathy for him when he dies. Further on in the story, the signalman talks of his doubts of the traveller because of the calling 'Holloa! Below there! The waving and the red light. The purpose of this in the story is the linkage of different sections of the story as well as creating a mysterious link between the natural world and the super natural. At this point the reader should be further inclined into the story, which sets the tempo at a high point. As the story advances the tension begins to get to one of its highest points. This is when the signalman hints at something which is troubling him, but wont mention what the troublesome factor is. The reason for this point being very high in tension is that the reader is intrigued and curious and wants to know what it is that's troubling the signalman. As the story carries on, the traveller leaves the signalman for the night. This provides a brief relief from the tension, which becomes low once more. However, as the story continues, with the traveller meeting the signalman once more the tension begins to rise yet again. The reason for this dramatic increase in tempo is that the signalman finally tells the traveller the chilling tale of the ghost by the tunnel and the accidents that are linked to its warnings. ...read more.
Another example of personification is used to describe the shadow of a candle being blown out, "Its shadow fell". Another use of personifying the shadows in this story is displayed when the protagonist relights one of the candles, "The black shadow sprang back to its place". The shadows have almost taken on a life of their own and pursue the protagonist to the last, "The shadows seem to take another step towards me". The personification of shadows builds up until the protagonist is eventually enclosed and engulfed in the shadows. The description of the signalman's 'lonesome' post, through its language, help to create further tension and fear within the reader. The phrase, "dripping wet wall of jagged stone" includes words that are usually associated with hell or a grave. I think, between the two stories, the signalman has more relevance to people today. The dilemma facing the signalman is a psychological one. To be more specific, the signalman is faced with the sighting of a spectore. Each time he sees the spectore, it warns him of an oncoming accident. The daunting prospect of this predicament is that the signalman basically carries the burden of many peoples life on his shoulders; this is because he says he cannot tell people of the warnings and troubles of his situation as they might think he was insane. I think that in today's times, many people may be able relate to the signalman's psychological imprisonment. This is because in these times, many people may be able to relate to these psychological issues. Of course these issues may root from problems such as loneliness, drug addiction and so on rather than ghost sighting. However, the root of the Signalman's issues come from him believing, that if he told anyone, they would not believe him and could may as well think that he was insane. We can say that this case of loneliness and feeling of other people not understanding is a vital psychological blow to the signalman and very relevant to people even today who don't know where to turn for help. ?? ?? ?? ?? 2 1 ...read more.
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I like when its hot. I like driving with my windows down – its a must! I like sitting by the river all the time. I like to be spontaneous. I don't lock my doors unless its night…not that it matters because I keep my bedroom window open. I don't lock my car. I speak my mind. My way is the best way. I like to race and I refuse to lose. I'm super competitive. I don't think 5 pets is too many. I chose my restaurants because of the drinks, not the food. I get emotionally involved with books and TV. I have an obsession with animal jewelry. I don't like alcohol, but I can party it up like its 1999. I can listen to metal and oldies on the same CD. My Friday nights usually consist of playing cards or board games. I eat things past the expiration date. I spend too much money and don't clean often enough. I put others before myself even when its bad for me. I'm stubborn to the end. I like to share, but I hate when people touch and move my stuff. I love to cook, I love to sew, and I love to wear dresses, however I am not girly. I am a woman, but if you think there is something I can't do, you are wrong. I'm not a feminist. I don't carry pepper spray. I love walking alone or with someone. I love walking at night and I love creepy places like alleys. I like being in seclusion, but I love my friends. I love to cuddle, but some times I need my space. I don't like to use air conditioning, and I feel wrong using a colander. I prefer to make all of my food from scratch, but I love going out to eat. I would do anything for my friends. I give my food and my money to strangers. I love gnomes, and I love to paint. I can't stand when people don't use their blinker. I'm passionate about driving. I wish I could be in school forever. I love to read, and I love grammar. I'm crazy, and I'm careless, but you know what?
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The aim of using this mobile articulated robotic system is monitor different types of regions within the area of interest, ranging from wide open spaces to smaller and irregular regions behind narrow gaps. In the first part of the thesis, the robot system design is presented in detail, including the kinematic systems of the omni-wheeled mobile platform and the 6-DOF robotic arm, estimation of the biases in parameters of these kinematic systems, the sensors and calibration of their parameters. These parameters are important for the sensor fusion utilized in the next part of the thesis, where two operation modes are proposed to retain the camera pose when the visual SLAM algorithms fail due to variety of the region types. In the second part, an integrated sensor data fusion, odometry and SLAM scheme is developed, where the camera poses are estimated using forward kinematic equations of the robotic arm and fused to the visual SLAM and odometry algorithms. A modified wavefront algorithm with reduced computational complexity is used to find the shortest path to reach the identified goal points. Finally, a dynamic control scheme is developed for path tracking and motion control of the mobile platform and the robot arm, with sub-systems in the form of PD controllers and extended Kalman filters. The overall system design is physically implemented on a prototype integrated mobile robot platform and successfully tested in real-time. 2018-06-21T00:00:00Z Public participation in the Geoweb era: Geosocial media use in local government http://hdl.handle.net/10012/13433 Public participation in the Geoweb era: Geosocial media use in local government Zhang, Shanqi Advances in spatially enabled information and communication technologies (ICTs) have provided governments with the potential to enhance public participation and to collaborate with citizens. 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Two sets of material properties were identified that corresponded to the lower age of the experimental test samples (younger than 50 years old (YO)) and the higher age of the test samples (older than 70 YO). The available constitutive models in a commercial finite element code (LS-DYNA) were reviewed and the constitutive models that best represent the cortical and trabecular bone responses were analyzed. As there were no single constitutive model available that included all the key properties of hard tissues, asymmetric and anisotropic elastic-plastic (cortical) and crushable foam (trabecular) models were evaluated. Single element simulations were performed to verify the constitutive models. A functional spinal unit (FSU) model was extracted from a detailed 50th percentile HBM (Global Human Body Models Consortium (GHBMC) M50-O v4.3) and a centric compression simulation was performed to identify the best performing constitutive model compared to experimental data. 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A while ago, I started a series which I didn't finish. This was called the "Monster Hunter Retrospective". I've decided to continue this retrospective, but instead of doing it in the same way as before, these will be more straightforward reviews. So, I hope you all enjoy these reviews as much as I have writing them! I thought that since I had already covered the first generation, I may as move onto the second one. So, today I'm going to talk about the penultimate game of the second generation of Monster Hunter. Today, I'm going to talk about Monster Hunter Freedom: Unite!
Background Information
Monster Hunter 2 was initially released in 2006, 2 years after the first game's release. Monster Hunter 2 was never brought stateside, but it's portable expansions were! The first of which was Monster Hunter 2 Freedom which unfortunately trimmed some of the features of its console counterpart. Thankfully, all these features were brought back for its expanded re-release: Freedom Unite
Freedom Unite is often considered one of the best games in the series, alongside 4 Ultimate. Freedom Unite was released in North America back in 2009 for the Playstation Portable. This version unfortunately didn't do very well, due to the lack of online play and beginner-unfriendly gameplay. Despite this, the game still has a solid fan-base and remains a classic in the eyes of many PSP owners.
Monster Hunter is a game series that lacks a narrative for most of its games. Despite that, this game does give us tiny snippets to get us interested in hunting these monsters. In the opening scene of this game, our character is attacked by a vicious wyvern known as Tigrex. Tigrex thrashes my character and knocks him off a mountain, only for him to awaken in the neighboring village of Kokoto. This is about as deep the plot goes, to be honest. You'll be sent after many monsters in the game, until facing and defeating Tigrex. From there, you continue to hunt bigger and stronger monsters. It's nothing deep, but it is enough to get you invested in what you are doing.
Monster Hunter 2 plays very similar to Monster Hunter 1 in almost every way. It's still about killing monsters, collecting parts to build new gear, and then killing newer and stronger monsters. The game is a hack 'n' slash game, but with a large focus on strategy. As with any Monster Hunter game, simply hacking with your sword won't guarantee your victory. You have several weapon types that work better on certain monsters and with certain builds.
The game features a ton of different weapons, from the mighty Great-Sword to the nimble Dual-Blades, there's a weapon to suit everybody's play-style. Gameplay mostly involves your hunter venturing into a particular area in order to hunt monsters (as the name implies), gather items, steal eggs from their nests, or even capture large monsters. You can craft new armor and weapons for your hunter to use by completing hunts, thus allowing you take on even harder quests.
If there is any major complaint I have with the gameplay, it's the staggering difficulty. This game is not beginner-friendly in the slightest, the tutorials don't even touch you every aspect of the game! On top of this, the game lacks any online support, so you're stuck playing through the game on your own. This can be circumvented if you have friends also own PSPs, but since few people owned them, I was stuck playing on my own most of the time.
This game introduced some new elements that took a bit of the stress away. For example, you now had sidekicks known as "Palicos", which are these tiny adorable cat-people that follow you into and quests and help you fight monsters. Of course, they aren't as strong as you and usually can't take more than a few hits without retreating. Still, they provide a distraction in a boss fight when you are trying to heal or use a whetstone to sharpen your weapon.
Armor upgrading has been fine-tuned, when compared to the original game. In the first generation of Monster Hunter, you needed to acquire items to upgrade your armor, just like your weapons. Luckily, Capcom realized how tedious this feature was for grinding, and made it so all you need to upgrade armor is Armor Spheres. You can also now craft special gems that grant bonuses when you sock them into your armor and weapons. My favorite new feature is the inclusion of a day and night cycle. Certain monsters will only come out at certain times of the day, and going to an area at night may change certain things. For example, going into the desert at night results in the temperature changing from blistering hot to freezing cold. It's a small change, but it's something that I like as it adds more to the world.
And what would Monster Hunter be without a bunch of new monsters to hunt? The developers really went all out on these new monsters, as some of them rank as my all-time favorites. You have the fire-y and majestic dragon known as the Teostra, or the lightning-ape Rajang. The game also introduces some wyverns with supernatural or unique abilities, like the Kushala Daora that calls upon the power of wind to knock you off your feet or the floating Lovecraftian horror known as Yama Tsukami. In all honestly, this game probably has the best selection of any Monster Hunter game I've ever played. Couple this with the insanely brutal difficulty, and you've got a game that could consume years-worth of free time!
Aside from the features I've mentioned, there isn't a lot of changes to the gameplay or combat here. This isn't a terrible thing, as the combat is still the most entertaining part. Sadly, the game still suffers from just feeling a bit slow. It lacks the more action-oriented features of later games like 3 or 4. While the game is still a pure hack-and-slash, it is challenging and requires a lot from the player. It's very difficult to learn and even more difficult to master, but totally worth it all the same.
Something I didn't enjoy too much with the game was the early levels. The game starts off kind of slow, and continually puts you against weaker or smaller monsters until you reach 3 or 4 stars. You mainly fight larger versions of smaller monsters, and there's no way to skip the starting tutorial bits. Likewise, you won't encounter some of the big set-piece bosses until much later in the game. Another issue with the game is its infamous amount of grinding, which is more infuriating with the limited multiplayer options. Later games alleviated a lot of the grinding, but it's more noticeable in the earlier portable titles. Regardless, I found the gameplay in this game to be fairly enjoyable, despite the somewhat slow combat and amount of grinding.
Visual Stimuli
The graphics for this title are pretty nice, especially for a PSP game. It may not look super great now, but for the time it was pretty good stuff. Monsters have unique enough designs; some of the new ones in particular have some of my favorite designs in the series! The music is fantastic as always, really capturing the essence of exploring the wilderness to track down monsters. The track that plays whenever you enter the first area just strikes at my heart and fills me with utter joy and nostalgia. There's no voice-acting in this game, instead characters just grunt when you talk to them. It reminds me a bit of Banjo & Kazooie, to be honest. All in all, I found the production values of this game to be pretty good!
In Summation
This is a game that's not for the feint of heart. Difficult, time-consuming, somewhat tedious, kind of unfair, all perfect descriptors for this game. However, if you put the time and effort into this game, I think you can really find yourself like I do! It's definitely one of the hardest MH games to get into, especially when compared to games that would come later. If you can get past the more hardcore grind-y elements, the lack of online multiplayer, and the slow beginning, than I think you're going to have yourself a fun and very long adventure. With that, I can definitely say this game is as sweet as syrup, and deserving of an 8.5/10. Happy hunting and have fun!


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With his article …on pimping your browser, Stephen Fry will have prompted a spate of people to try out new 'skins' on their Firefox browsers – including me. I looked at the themes before, in fact only a few days ago, but what always put me off going for any of the Firefox add-ons is the message "unsigned… you should only install software from sources that you trust."
My mother…? That rather limits my options!
This time I decided if those themes on the Firefox page were fine for Stephen Fry, they were fine for me… (cue all those techy guys to snort even more). If anything goes wrong, though, I won't blame him – I'll blame myself for finally giving way to temptation.
I downloaded a bundle of Firefox themes from the Mozilla site and went through them, one by one. Most of them were too grey. What is it about the colour grey?? I don't mind silvery ones if they do have a bit of a shine to them, but flat grey or even pale grey mixed with white has always struck me as rather dreich.
But look who's blogging – you only need to glance at (my past Blogigo) theme and my other one on the Blogspot to realize that grey doesn't have a lot of place in my life. (I wish they would come up with some nicer-coloured Nav bars in Blogger – the other three are even worse).
It doesn't stop with the web… I don't use plain white pages in my general applications if I can avoid it. Ages ago I went into the Firefox preferences, clicked on the Content tab and changed the page colour to a soft violet blue. Sometimes it shows up behind web pages. I tinted my MS Word documents on the PC (I can't remember how) but couldn't figure out how to do it on the Mac. (There's a 'blue backgrounds, white text' option, but that's too far the other way!) All my Eudora emails arrive in a lovely shade of cornflower blue.
For me white is too bright, black is too dark, and grey is too… um… (trying to be polite as it's just struck me that a lot of my favourite sites use white and grey.
My favourite Firefox 'skin' or theme so far is CloudGnome. But I've just spotted another theme that somehow I missed the first time round, so don't assume that is my final choice..
Comments for this entry (during its previous life on Blogigo):
1. Pacian wrote at Dec 9, 2007 at 11:25: Have poked around with the skins for Opera, but am actually not that bothered. On the other hand, I've definitely toned down the garish default colours of Windows XP.
2. Diddums wrote at Dec 10, 2007 at 00:39: I wasn't fond of those either – pretty plastic.


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|Gothic/industrial/synthpop dance party, open since November 2002. We feature weekly guest DJs, vendors, and a drawing for recent CDs. The Meeting Place also offers a late-night (until 2:00 a.m.) sandwich and burger menu if you get hungry, and there's free cake most weeks to celebrate special occasions such as birthdays and anniversaries for our loyal patrons. Midnight attracts a broad range of people (age, race, sexual orientation) and prides itself on the friendly atmosphere (Scratch Magazine once labeled us a virtual gothic edition of Cheers).
|DJs :
|Phae, London, St. Aspartame, & Liebchen
|Cover :
|$5, first 12 people admitted free
|Door Policy :
|18+ to dance, 21+ to drink. No dress code. Proper ID required.
|Drinks :
|Midnight has a full bar. We feature $2.00 shot specials all night and offer 2-for-1 drinks from 9:00-10:00 p.m. Bottled water is also available.
|Directions :
|On L Street NW, between 17th Street & Connecticut Avenue NW; 1/2 block from the Farragut North Metro stop (Red Line); approx. 4 blocks north of the White House. E-mail for specific directions (firstname.lastname@example.com) or check the link on our website (http://www.dcmidnight.com).
|Phone :
|202-293-7755 (Sats. after 8:15 p.m.)
|Website :
Information provided by Scott Royce (promoter) < scottroyce @ msn.com >
Last updated on 12/29/2005.
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When twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world, linguistics professor Louise Banks is tasked with interpreting the language of the apparent alien visitors.
Stars Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker
Nominated for: Best Picture, Director, Cinematography, Film Editing, Adapted Screenplay, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Production Design
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WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people, and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.
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Third day (July 7th) – Rain Dance Kobe
by Dandy H & Bro.
Hello Mister,
I am going to tell you about Kobe, as I said before we have no appointment here, since the weather is nice (the only rainy day on our trip,which is on hot summer) so we decided to take a walk in this city.
Here we found a lot of small denim shop and vintage leather goods shop in Sannomiya district.
Realizing that we've got a lot luggage so first of all we storing our baggage in Sannomiya public locker room.
Not far away from JR (Japan Railway) station ,there is a shopping road called Kobe Motomachi. We did not know how long does this road takes, but we have spend more than an hours walking without ever finding the end of Motomachi.
On the other side of Motomachi is also a shopping alley, believe it or not that shopping alley (looks like not promising place to find a good quality items) sells Vintage boots (Red wing,Wolverine, etc.) and Japanese denim (Studio D'Artisan).
On the other side of Motomachi, we found a small shop selling The Flathead, the shop called Piece of Me,which the first Flat head store we have found in Japan.
Just beside Motomachi, there is a small China town in Kobe, which is very beautiful and relaxing, but the rain gone bad, so we can not walk further to the China town
Then we were going to take a look back to the Motomachi and looking for some food, the view is beautiful and we have a lot of selection of food to eat,
Soon after we finished our lunch we are going to the train station (to pick up our luggage) and go to our next destination, Okayama.
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So today the tank got some new additions! I picked up a couple of ORA Ocellaris Clown Fish ($30/ea) and two zoanthid frags ($20/ea). The zoanthids (radio active dragon eye and one other that I'm not quite sure about) are still working on opening up, but the clownies seem to be taking to their new home quite well. I look forward to adding some more soft coral so they've got something to swim through/live in.
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Tank Update (Clean Up Crew)
So two days ago (a couple days after using Dr Tim's One and Only) I had a ton of brown algie growing in the tank, probably from the all the newly growing stuff in the tank. I did some water tests, and my water looked good, so I went to the store and picked up a clean-up crew. I got 4 little crabs, 4 glass margarita snails, and 4 nassarius snails. They've been cruising around in the tank the last few days and starting to get everything cleaned up. I'm going to test my tank again tomorrow and if all looks well, I'll do a little water change, and throw in some clownies.
I'm excited!
Tank Update (Dr Tim's One and Only)
Last night on the way home I went to pick up some Dr Tims One and Only and 'his' Ammonia solution to get the nitrogen cycle started in the tank. I've currently got that going, and HOPE that it'll finish by this weekend. I've also been putting a bit of salt directly in the tank to raise the salinity (which would be a HORRIBLE idea if I had any livestock in it). Last night when I checked before I went to bed, I was up to around 1.020 so we're getting closer. Hopefully by tomorrow we'll be at around 1.023 or so.
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So Thursday I decided I was just going to jump in and setup a saltwater tank. I can read all I want, but until I actually apply what I've read and try some stuff, I'll never really learn.
I was lucky enough to have a buddy (Jim D.) who had two 10 gal tanks that he didn't use anymore and his wife was trying to get rid of for him. He was kind enough to just give them to me along with a bunch of other assorted things that were too small for his big tanks. He gave me two small powerheads, some carbon, a filter, a thermometer, some sand, about 8 gal of saltwater, 5gal of R.O. water, and a bunch of other assorted stuff.
On the way home from Jim's house I swung by a saltwater fish store and picked up a light (AquaticLife 20″ T5 HO), a water testing kit (API), some cheesecloth bags for the carbon, about 10 lbs of live rock, and a refractometer.
When I got home started to assemble everything. First I rinsed off the tank with water from the tap. Then I washed it out with distilled white vinegar. Then rinsed it out with R.O. water. After I toweled it dry, I added the sand, and then filled it about half way with saltwater. I added my live rock, and then filled the tank the rest of the way. I threw my lights on and went to add the filter when I realized it was cracked about in half. Luckily the local pet smart was still open and had some saltwater supplies (fiter, salt, a stupid piece of reflective paper to put behind the tank, etc). I got home, got all of that rinsed off and in the tank, and now it's just humming away.
I gave the water a quick test and ammonia, nitrate, and nitrite levels are perfect, but my Ph is low (about 7.4) so I'll probably have to test again in a couple of days and see if it's changed at all. If not, I'll get some water additives and see what I can do about it. My salinity is also a bit low (at around 1.017), but I'll watch the tank for the next couple days and as water evaporates, I'll fill it up with saltwater to attempt to get that to about where it should be.
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He uses a Viair Reverse Osmosis Water Fileter. $67 new. You'll need something that removes at least 95% of all dissolved solids
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You'll want 4-5 watts/gal. New Lights from HOPAR are $200. He used 4 x 54 watt t5 tubes with reflectors. 2 x 10,000k tubes, 1 x 6,000k tube, and 1 x actinic blue tube.
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He uses a Primz protein skimmer (hang on tank style). $150 new, $60 used.
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Flippy's been a bad influence…
Hello my lovely ones!
It's been far too long, and while I would love to blame the Flipster, it's not really her fault for my lack of posting. It was grad school that demanded all my attention, leaving me feeling blah when it came to blogging. All my snark seemed directed towards school, and I do hope that my bipolar prof truly enjoyed the novel I left for her on the evaluation forms. I had a sheet of paper filled w/ notes about her craptastic teaching, for fear I would forget what I wanted to say when evaluation time came around.
But now school is done for the summer and I can now continue my drinking w/o the nagging feeling that I should be doing homework, and hopefully direct my snark to the interwebz where it belongs. After meeting some new bloggy peeps and hanging with the usual suspects (thanks LiLu!), I'm feeling more bloggy inspiration than I have in a while. Which may or may not have something to do w/ being flashed by our lovely hostess.
Plus this summer is shaping up to be a busy one, filled with blog fodder. Every weekend in May, June and July has been booked. Here's a quick rundown:
A Baptist wedding in West Virginia.
Cinco de Mayo piggie roast!!
An awesome picnic/cookout
NO SANGRIA LEFT BEHIND!!!! Barcelona!!! MommaPithy!!! Sangria!!
A trip to Camden yards to pop Flippy's Natty Boh cherry.
Spectacular, Spectacular: A 30th birthday celebration for all things Pithy. (yeah, all I have so far is the name, and even that will probably change. I suck my planning my bdays)
A visit from the Sex Therapist)
Losing my skin virginity (tm Sex Therapist) and getting my tattoo!!
A quickie trip to Colombia (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) for a coosin's wedding. Uncle Pithy will be there. Hi-larity will ensue.
See? Jam packed with bloggy goodies. Add some happy hours to the mix and this year will no doubt be known as The Year of the Drink.
7 Responses to "Flippy's been a bad influence…"
Great to meet you!
It was great meeting you too!
When you said natty boh i thought you meant the beer, Natty.
I am so glad I was wrong.
Natty Light? I never heard of it till I started my current job. There's only one beer w. the name Natty in my book. Even if I don't really like it.
you can only blame bloggyFAIL on me if you help me pick out my own non-first tattoo.
the sentence above is proof that people shouldn't really miss my incoherent writing.
so you want "Pithy is Awesome" written across your buttocks?
Hooray for not being in DC to enjoy fun things…F You Los Angeles.
We let your kind visit, y'know.
"A Baptist wedding in West Virginia."
Can I PLEASE be your date to this?! I promise to keep my panties on…
Heee, totally except I don't think you'd want to trade your trip to NYC this weekend for Banjos, Baptists and Bubbas. And I really don't think you could keep your panties on once they started playing Amazing Grace. It's a panty melter.


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Such a review can ultimately result in a parts recall. Parker said he knew of no special problems with Mazdas.
The crash occurred at 2 a.m. April 8 when a 1993 Mazda MX6 driven by Jeremy Fulton, 21, crashed into a canal bank parallel to U.S. 441 at Homeland Road.
Fulton's roommate and passenger, Deborah Brown, 24, of Royal Palm Beach, died at the scene.
"She had multiple chest, head and internal injuries," said Doug Jenkins, an investigator for the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner's Office.
The 1993 MX6 does not have a passenger-side airbag; 1994 models do.
But Palm Beach County Sheriff's traffic homicide investigators think that the seat belt material, which was supposed to brace Brown from shoulder to side, either broke or unraveled near the buckling point.
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Our life with two kids is beyond full, in almost every way. Yet,
having gained so much in adopting our two little ones, it can be easy
to neglect the important act of grieving what we have lost. Having
Jada and Aaron fills the void of not having children, but it does not
fill the void of not having children biologically; Jada and Aaron
gaining us as parents does not take away what each of them lost before
joining us.
We will never know who Jada's biological parents are, never know their
medical history, never know the circumstances by which she became
orphaned. We may not ever be able to connect Aaron to his biological
parents, and his story is complicated enough that it is in some sense
easier to deal with the unknownness of Jada's situation than it is to
deal with Aaron's. Aaron got good care from day one, but Jada was
left alone in the cold at age three days, and spent the next seven
plus months after that in an orphanage in an industrially polluted
town; time will tell if there is any residual damage. As much as our
kids may pick up our mannerisms, there is no shared DNA, no directly
seeing our physical features or mental abilities in them. As they get
older, their adoptedness will be an issue that they will wrestle with
and no doubt struggle with, no matter how much we help them accept
themselves, and that is a hard and tumultuous road that we simply
cannot shield them from but will have to walk with them down.
It has been said that if we could change the past, we ought not want
to, because God's plan is perfect, and in changing even one thing
would mean settling for something less than the best that He has baked
for us. I believe that to the core of my being, even and especially
when it comes to our kids. I feel unspeakably rich and am completely
without regret when it comes to how my family has been assembled. But
I also know that while God is good and His provision is perfect, it is
not without loss to grieve, even in the midst of gain to celebrate.


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I keep them up my sleeves
like silk scarves
like flashing coins
like onion skinned old letters
I disguise them
blend them into the fabric of my living day
like raven feathers in the dark
and sometimes
sometimes I grow bold
and hand you one
a treasure
a curiosity
and I shake a little
where the trembling only shows itself in the hitching of my pulse
hoping you will see it shine
see it tumble
and you will love its fire
and its color and look at me with gladness
with understanding
and say yes
yes I see it
and smile….
But like a child hating its playpen
you smash it
crush it beneath heavy words like duty
and obligation
that march in straight lines down narrow paths
Can't you join me?
just for a moment…..
can't you try and see the poems in the spiderwebs?
I could read them to you
will you listen?
Or will you turn and scan the sky restlessly
searching for the cloud you know must be there
to mar the blue perfection.
Sighing when you find one
your proof of the fractured
the flawed
a stain
And yet a cloud so perfect
such a compliment to the wide sky
that painters weep to view it and with joyful thumbs
smudge ivory on to their canvas.
And I quietly
with scarcely shaking hands
thread the scarves back into my sleeves
still the light with hushed promises
let it fade back into Pandoras cabinet
and wait …
until my pulse smooths
and another window cracks slightly open
Maybe this next time
we can read the poems together
and celebrate the spiders insight
eyes brimming over with their brilliance
Maybe this next time
the magic will be enough
to illumine the sideways staircases
tucked along the narrow paths
and bright enough to penetrate the disguise.


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A week or so ago, my friend Liz from Things I Love About Austin called me and said, "You won something!"
I don't really ever win things, so I told her that wasn't so, and she said in fact that it was. I believed it once I saw this post by the Milwaukee Cupcake Queen. A new (awesome) baking group I joined, Iron Cupcake Earth (and for which I must make this month's challenge, probably Friday so's to give some of the goodies to friends at our weekly gathering), had a drawing for anyone who referred a new Iron Cupcake member to the group. I had referred Liz and won, and I am pretty sure that rules.
And TODAY my lovely exciting packages came!
First, from The Glass Chef artist Peggy Festerling came an adorable, adorable glass cupcake necklace. The photographs of this cannot possibly do its cuteness and artistry justice, but I will share nonetheless.
I opened this package to a lovely handwritten note by The Glass Chef herself!
The necklace came in a prettily wrapped box with several business cards. Check out Peggy's Etsy site – it's all this fantastic, I swear. I'd try to eat this necklace if I didn't want to keep it so much. Forever. I may never take it off.
I still feel like nothing does this piece of jewelry justice, but man. I love to get mail anyhow, but this is really something to get excited about!
My second package, which also arrived today, also came with a lovely handwritten note from Jessie Oleson of Cakespy.com:
I then realized there were an array of cards for neat etsy shops and independent design stuff in general in there – AND buttons. Buttons too! Buttons and cards and a note and a shirt! Holy cow. I feel lucky!
Look at that! Isn't it thrilling? Aren't you excited? I sure am. If you couldn't tell. If this doesn't convince you to visit Jessie, too, I don't know what will. FUN! Fun! Fun. FUN I SAY.
I am one lucky girl today! Two fantastic artists sent me some of their fantastic art. Thank you so much, Iron Cupcake! Thank you so much, Glass Chef! Thank you so much, Cakespy! Y'all (yep, I'm from Texas) made my day, unquestionably.
Here's the necklace nestled against my chestpiece (I love them together!):
And here's me wearing my swank new t-shirt, too!
I also would like to point out, for the record, that I'm not as generally underwhelmed or ironic as I look. I'm just unphotogenic.


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Fires demand causes and prompt renewals. Commemorating fires and their destructive effects involves commemorating restoration.
I've visited many monuments but only last weekend visited for the first time as an adult I went to see The Monument. Now a Grade I listed monument, it was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Dr Robert Hooke, and built between 1671 and 1677. This is the Monument to the Great Fire of London. Its unnamed status as 'The Monument' defines its incomparable significance for London, marking an end for the old city and a new beginning for the new city following the disasterous fire of 1666. In turn, it gives its name to the street and Underground station adjacent.
The candle-like form comprises of a Doric column of Portland Stone topped by a viewing platform, drum and copper urn. Brass fire emits from it the urn, denoting the Great Fire. The classical illusions also embody concepts of death and renewal, as found in contemporaneous funerary monuments in churches and cathedrals of the late 17th century across England and beyond. A phoenix was originally planned for the top of the monument. Fire is also evoked by the dragons at the corners at the top of its base.
Location and height are deployed to make a combined significance: it is 202 feet high, and 202 feet from the agreed starting point of the Great Fire in Pudding Lane on 2 Sept 1666. Situated at the junction of Monument Street and Fish Street Hill, around the base there are three Latin inscriptions (North, East and South) and an elaborate sculptured panel to the west.
The northern panel commemorates the fire itself and the distance of the fire's start from the Monument. The 'swiftness and noise' of the fire is emphasised, destroying 89 churches, gates, the Guildhall, public edicies, hospitals, schools, libraries and 15,200 houses, 400 streets of the 26 wards. The geographical spread of the fire is then described and its demise on the third day. Indeed, the text has had an interesting biography of its own, originally blaming Catholics for the fire and augmented in 1681, it was augmented with the phase '(but Popish frenzy, which through such horrors is not yet quenched'). They were then deleted following Catholic Emancipation in 1830.
The commemoration of the Monument itself is inscribed on the eastern panel.
To the south, they commemorate the fire in the context of King Charles II's actions following the conflagration, including the rebuilding and redesign of the city, building in stone and brick, and the construction of sewers. The speed and completeness of the rebuilding 'in three short years' is the emphasis, and the raising of the monument itself as a 'perpetual memorial to posterity.'
The sculptured panel shows the Duke of York (James) with King Charles surrounded by liberty, science and architecture directing the process of architecture.
311 steps allow you to ascend to a viewing gallery. Initially one would have had clear views through the city: today it is restricted by modern high-rise buildings, particularly to the north. The original aim was for it to be a place for Royal Society experiments, later it became an attraction and viewing point.
One accidental death and 6 suicides took place from The Monument until it was enclosed in an iron cage in 1842.
The Monument is nowadays distills commemoration in relation to two fires: the Great Fire and the fire-bombing of London in the Blitz, when St Paul's and The Monument acquired patriotic connotations and embodied resistence in the face of aerial assault.
Today, the Monument remains a tourist attraction and embodies the social, political and religious history of London, as well as memorialising the Great Fire and the city's subsequent restoration.


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The God of Small Things
Today I finished the most boring book ever.. just to have the revelation of a great book at the very end of it.. for those interested is called The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
I don't trust the rays… What if they burn? I will not enjoy the metamorphosis of a Phoenix, I'll remain dead. Gone. Forever. Who would miss me, I wonder..


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I feel like I've spent more time in the car than the workshop over the past couple of weeks but all for very good reasons.
This week I was reunited with the other Prince's Foundation Apprentices that built our Doocot for our Graduation back at Dumfries House. It was fantastic to see everyone again and find out what they're all up to since I saw them last. Our lovely little Doocot has weathered in a bit now but still looks as gorgeous as when we left it in October. Official photos from the ceremony aren't out yet so there's no proof that we did actually meet Prince Charles...I shall post them when I have them! We also bumped into one of this year's apprentices whilst wondering around the workshop, a familiar face as Michael was part of the Summer School section last year.
And from Prince Charles to another Charlie, I stopped by Master Carver Charlie Oldham in Frome for a catch up and some carving advice. I also got to have a cuddle with Murphy the Poodle once he remembered who I was. Scary to think that it was nearly 10 months ago that I was there for my placement, felt like I'd never been away! Here's a few ornamental mouldings that I was looking at in Charlie's workshop …
So in amongst all that travelling I haven't managed to get many carvings actually finished although plenty of pieces are underway. This is one of three children's room door signs that I did manage to complete. Plenty of pretty flowers and butterflies to brighten little Esme's door!


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"Long ago, at many times
and in many ways,
God spoke to our fathers
by the prophets, but in these last days
he has spoken to us
by His Son,
whom he appointed the heir
of all things,
through whom also
he created the world."
Do you see what I see? We often sing popular Christmas carols at this time of year without much thought to the meaning behind the words. Songs of miracles, goodwill, humility and grace. Songs of Life. Songs of our Savior. The way I see it, Jesus Christ was a real human man who was born on earth in a miraculous way. He is also fully God. Such reality is a mystery to me…but I never want the wonder to grow cold. So, this year tell the Story. Find anyone who will listen and tell them the truth about the amazing gift that God gave to all of humanity. Tell them the Story that's never old…when Love came down at Christmas.
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