do I know you from somewhere?

I remembered another one!

shlafe@aol.com — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:43:41 GMT

Again, from Wednesday's trivia:

What movie was the first sequel to win a Best Picture Oscar?

Trivia!

shlafe@aol.com — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:48:32 GMT

I've been going to Kazbor's for Wednesday Night Trivia. 'Tis fun. The group I'm with usually places in the top three, though usually with no help from me. :)

I rocked tonight, though - lots of pop culture questions. Lots of baseball, too. I didn't do so well on those.

So, for your amusement, here are the questions I remember. Can you answer them? Don't look 'em up!

1. How many home runs did Josh Hamilton hit during the first round of the Home Run Derby?
2. Who sang "Girl You Know It's True?"
3. Where did the Yankees play before Yankee Stadium?
4. Where do the Devil Rays play, and what were its other names? (Three names total)
5. What three states were independent republics before joining the United States?
6. Who was the hero in To Kill a Mockingbird?
7. What emperor leagalized Christianity?
8. What Great Lake is the smallest in surface area?

...more if I can think of 'em.

Man, I'm slacking today!

shlafe@aol.com — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:53:02 GMT

Happy Birthday, aberrant1! The critique group ain't the same without you.

Hee!

shlafe@aol.com — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:30:15 GMT

I read this in a book about mostly-unknown historical tidbits:

The Supreme Court ruled that the state of Missouri cannot discriminate against the Ku Klux Klan when it comes to groups that wants to participate in the adopt-a-highway program. The state erected a sign proclaming that stretch of highway was being cleaned by the Ku Klux Klan, and renamed the highway the Rosa Parks Freeway.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/rosapark.asp

dreams

shlafe@aol.com — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:14:16 GMT

for aberrant1:
I had a dream the other night. I was the omniscient presence instead of actually being in my dream, except for my feet. I don't remember much about it, only that you were the main character and it involved a guy named Tom Smith (yeah, go figure - only he didn't die). Plus my feet made an appearance, but I don't remember how or why.

I really wish I remembered it.

Pod people

shlafe@aol.com — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:01:27 GMT

Okay, still new at diving into the world of iPods.

Anyone want to recommend a (free) podcast for me? My interests are all superficial. :) I don't want politics, save the world, sports, video games.

So, whatcha got for me, peeps?

Question?

shlafe@aol.com — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:50:16 GMT

Can anyone tell me why some people answer their cell phones so they can ask if they can call the caller back?

If you can't talk, let it go to voicemail!

Hee!

shlafe@aol.com — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:33:54 GMT

I went to a friend's house the other day. This is a woman who I've seen only casually, but we decided to finally hang out.

When I got there, she offered me some "water or iced coffee."

I was so startled, I started to laugh. I swore she was about to say ice tea. I haven't been offered iced coffee since I moved south of the Mason Dixon line!! If I hadn't known she was from New York, this would have been a dead giveaway that she was a Yankee. :)

It smells just as sweet!!!

shlafe@aol.com — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:32:08 GMT

I have this silver flower necklace that I've worn countless times.

Today, THREE people (who have seen it many times before) told me how much they liked it.

What, was it invisible before? :)

peanut CAKE!

shlafe@aol.com — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:45:04 GMT

Happy birthday, snoopyto!

I is a commercial!

shlafe@aol.com — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:21:17 GMT

I was a walking iPod commercial over the weekend. The song Let the River Run has been going over and over and over in my mind, so I put on the headphones and listened to it while doing a lyrical dance in my kitchen. All I needed was my shadow to dance with me.

I've only had the iPod for a week or so, and I finally got around to organizing my playlists in iTunes. So I plugged in my iPod and it synched. I unplugged it. Then I realized I hadn't completely charged the battery. I cleared the checkboxes on all the songs so it wouldn't automatically synch my iPod again. And it didn't. It erased everything on my iPod instead. Which I didn't discover until I went to listen to tunes at work today.

*sigh*

What do you all use for song organization? And how to I get iTunes to stop trying to figure out what I want on my iPod?

Hee.

shlafe@aol.com — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:52:55 GMT

At the beginning of June, someone asked me for a document. I forgot to change out the copyright page, which she mentioned in an email. I responded with *facepalm* and the corrected document.

About two weeks later, she thanked everyone for their help on the project, and included this: If I have forgotten to name anyone in this “village”, please accept my apology for the oversight. I’ll express a new term I learned - *facepalm*.

Hee. I taught her something new!

THEN I got this: No one else in the room that day knew what it was, so we Googled it. I told my 20-year old daughter the story that afternoon on our way home and her reply “You don’t know what that means?!? I use that all the time. Geez, Mom, you’re so old!” I wanted to tell her to get out of the car (and I wasn’t going to slow down first).

You know, I'm really not surprised that no one in that office knew what it meant. But it was still funny. :)

stupid modern weapons

shlafe@aol.com — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:41:13 GMT

I can choreograph a fight scene with weapons. Swords, quarterstaffs, fists, it's all good. I could even choreograph a death if I had to.

But I'm trying to write a fight scene where a gun will make an appearance, and I can't do it!!! Gah!! And someone has to die, but I can't decide if he dies by gunshot wound, knife wound, or strangulation. I think gun makes the most sense, but I'd much rather they were using swords.

Na na na na...

shlafe@aol.com — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:49:36 GMT

na na na na... hey hey hey... GOOD BYE!

WHAT AN AWESOME GAME!!! Broke the 1975 record for most steals, ties the record for most three point shots (as of the time of this post), and goes down in history as biggest NBA finals blowout EVER.

GO CELTICS!!!!!

Man, the crowd is ROCKING!

\O/!!!!!!

help a writer!

shlafe@aol.com — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:58:02 GMT

I need an object in a bedroom that is big enough to hurt someone if said someone gets hit with it. It needs to be easily grabbed (so, no taking apart the headboard).

I don't want to use a vase, though I can.

I'm thinking alarm clock. Maybe a jewelry box?

Oh, come ON

shlafe@aol.com — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:07:36 GMT

.37: You fight back from a 14-pt deficit in the fourth quarter but you CAN'T PUT THEM AWAY???? BUTTERFINGERS.

OKay, 25 seconds left, more time than the shot clock, but down by four. It's not looking good.

Take off the damn sunglasses, Jack. You're inside.

Five point game. .8 second difference between time clock and shot clock, but Celtics ball.

.16: Bye, Ray. Thanks for the sacrifice.

Good god. How long does it take to play 40 seconds of basketball???

Okay, well, it would have been nice to win in five, but I'd rather they win on their home turf.

BEAT LA! BEAT LA!!!

Red, white, and blue CAKE

shlafe@aol.com — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:28:20 GMT

Happy Flag Day, aka the day of

gardenwaltz birth. :)

Happy Birthday!

barbershop!

shlafe@aol.com — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:58:37 GMT

I saw an ad in the paper for Divas Wanted, for women who like to sing. The group was offering free singing lessons for six weeks, with a concert at the end.

Well, I like to sing. And since not getting cast in Secret Garden, I have some extra time on my hands. I did a bit more research, and saw it was a Sweet Adelines group (gainesvillechorus.com). Okay. I've considered joining them in the past. My cousin sings with them in south Florida. Now's my chance for a six-week introduction.

Babershop singing was way weird for me. :) I'm used to SATB or SSA harmony. This was (in order of high to low) tenor, lead, baritone, and bass. Tenor was too high for me, which is such an odd thing for me to say!   I'm the girl who sings tenor when there's not enough men in a chorus. I could sing lead, but I wanted something different than normal melodies. Bass was too low, which is also a weird thing for me to say. I have a good, strong, low voice... just not that low. So, baritone it was.

I read music. I've been reading music since third grade. However, it was always in treble cleff. Baritone (and bass) is written in bass cleff, so when I saw what I automatically think of as a G, it was really a B. Needless to say, I was flat. A lot. We also didn't learn with a piano like I'm used to. We learned from one person in the section singing it a few times, and the rest of us joining in.

We're learning two songs - We are the boys from Old Florida (which is really hard to sing without feeling to need to wrap my arms around the people next to me and sway) and The Star Spangled Banner. And while I wish I could learn songs I don't already know, I think they chose those songs so people would only have to learn music, not words.

The last time I did a summer singing program, we sang a Catholic Mass. In Latin. To two different choral arrangements.

So, it was interesting. I don't think I'd like the group full time, but it's a nice way to pass some free time during the summer.

There was one woman there who worked backstage with me in The Wizard of Oz, and another woman who looked dang familiar (and me to her, too) but I couldn't place her. There were lots of new people, too.

If y'all want to come to the concert, I *believe* it's July 31. I won't be hurt if no one shows up. But it would be fun to put your arms around your neighbors and sway.

srsly?

shlafe@aol.com — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:45:28 GMT

I got carded for Lottery tickets again.

I *think* it was the same woman, so at least she's consistant.

Biologist CAKE

shlafe@aol.com — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:35:30 GMT

Happy Birthday,

swanner!

This amuses me

shlafe@aol.com — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:25:13 GMT

My TV died. I turn it on and get snow. I have since been told this is a $100 fix, but I thought, hmmmm... let's see if any of my coworkers have TVs they no longer want. So I posted on the bulletin board that I would bake cookies for someone in exchange for a TV.

I've gotten SIX TV offers so far. (though three are 19" and too small for my needs.)

I think it must be my cookies. :)

icons?

shlafe@aol.com — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:56:19 GMT

So, I can create icons if pictures, but I can't do it out of creativity.

And I needs me a romance or writing icon.

Anyone want to create one for me? Y'all know you have tons of time on your hands. :)

I don't need heaving bosoms and half-undressed men (unless it's JA). I'm thinking hearts and pencils.

Beat LA! Beat LA!

shlafe@aol.com — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:14:38 GMT

From Peter King's MMQB on cnnsi.com today:

e. I might watch some of the NBA series. At Fenway the other night, the crowd started the "Beat L.A.!'' chant, and it got pretty loud. People are into it.

Okay, my little Celtics - you blow a 20 point lead again, and I'm not going to be happy. K? K.

you know what this means...

shlafe@aol.com — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:26:01 GMT

It's Friday.

Entertain me, people! Help me make it to the weekend. :)

Gah! Cake

shlafe@aol.com — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:24:35 GMT

Happy Birthday,

danasdream. I hope the merriment of the past few days continued for you. :)