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Because I'm tired and need to go to bed, but I'll leave you with some food for possible thought, or at least irreverent snickers......
There, are ya bored yet? Did I waste enough of your page space? Hey, maybe I should have hidden this under friendslock and LJ cut like the last entry, and then no one would have had to have a glimpse atall to waste their time from paying attention to someone so involutedly complex and sadistically enigmatic as myself.
Ah yes....I'm pissed 'cause the cyberworld is a vacuum when I'm most wanting people to read me loud and clear and convoluted alike. Perhaps I ought to write a few off-colour sonnets and fling them at the comment-bars of MySpace to see if anyone there ever listens atall.
By the way, I really think that people whom I friend (and this naturally applies vice versa) really ought to take a look at my journal and at least consider reciprocating. Why should everyone else in the world claim the prerogative to be ruder than I am?
Aye, now there's the rub........
There, are ya bored yet? Did I waste enough of your page space? Hey, maybe I should have hidden this under friendslock and LJ cut like the last entry, and then no one would have had to have a glimpse atall to waste their time from paying attention to someone so involutedly complex and sadistically enigmatic as myself.
Ah yes....I'm pissed 'cause the cyberworld is a vacuum when I'm most wanting people to read me loud and clear and convoluted alike. Perhaps I ought to write a few off-colour sonnets and fling them at the comment-bars of MySpace to see if anyone there ever listens atall.
By the way, I really think that people whom I friend (and this naturally applies vice versa) really ought to take a look at my journal and at least consider reciprocating. Why should everyone else in the world claim the prerogative to be ruder than I am?
Aye, now there's the rub........
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I'm sorry, love; I know you don't get the feedback you'd like from online. Hell, when it comes down to it, I should do more as well, both here and in our groups... :-*
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Class was rambunctious today....after going on about how many heads tall we are (I was told I was 16 heads tall :P), I told them part of their assignment was to draw a portrait (from life or photo) any way but right-side up. And in detail. And with care and not rushing. Mark kept saying he was finished when we were doing the first run of quick poses..."What do you mean by 'finished'?" I asked from my pose as I kept on counting. I told them to make use of every second, to look at me and not their paper to see if it 'looked right' -- I told Charlotte to scribble....she was frustrated and saying that she didn't know how to draw, and asking "Why am I even here if I don't know how to draw?"
Kids....you know, the good thing and the bad thing at that age (which I largely missed out on due to being homeschooled, though some of these kids are too) is that this is when kids start giving both help and criticism to each other very openly -- the whole fabric of socialization and peer-moderation is being woven. The other kids had the answer for Charlotte just like I did...it's not that you can't draw; this is all just to teach you to draw better. And I am making it pretty transparent to them that drawing well is not about teaching to what you think or say it ought to look like on the page, but what it looks like from the inside, the way you see it when you really look at what's in front of you. I'm trying to get them out of their assumptions....unlearning, unteaching, and then teaching the stuff that goes at the inside of every picture, not just the surface. It's a test, it's an experiment, it's me giving them a hard time so that they'll have no choice but to loosen up and sketch and scribble and capture what's there as directly as possible. Perfectionism at the surface level is a hard habit to break.
*sigh* Okay, that was my day teaching...I may post it onto my next entry, along with a bit of conversation from when I went to Trader Joe's after. Hint: it involves a bed.
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The class sounds marvelous; I wish I could attend. I can't wait to be able to share more of our lives together. And I do hope you post this; it's good to show people a little of what you do of a day, let them have a glimpse of the person behind the treatises and rants and memes.
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Nah, I'm not pissed at you either -- it's the people who never read me nor respond atall that I ponder unfriending, especially when you think they'd probably have some more definite reactions to me using Johnny Depp as a visual model for my vampire character (see previous entry)....ya know, kids these days, people my age or younger...honestly, I thought I might get a rise outta some of them.
Enh. You know, whenever I get frustrated and express it online, the only people who get worried about my temper and its ramifications are the ones who have little/nothing to worry about, 'cause I know 'em already and am not about to throw them away. It's the oblivious ones who tend to remain oblivious.
That said, I need to delete some people from a group I'm minding....maybe some others too. Time to get constructively vocal.
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I admit freely, sometimes you wax a little...educated...for me, and while I understand what you're saying, I find at times I'm somewhat less equiped to respond in kind. Sometimes I'm just too tired/lazy to formulate a decent reply (and that's actually pretty rare).
I get frustrated when I can't adequately verbalize myself, so I opt out. However, when I'm fully awake and energized, reading things you've written has brought out the educated person in me and I've responded as best I can. ^_^
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It's a bit of a 'guy thing', perhaps -- unless I can definitely say something about it that'll help or solve or clarify or whatever, then I'd rather not be shallowly-social or post just a "Me too" sorta reply. But I'll try to be more responsive where I can.
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I tend not to share too many deep thoughts of my own...hence my LJ tends to be rather superficial. I originally came here at the behest of a friend who had one, and I met some cool people...and here I am! I also have a couple of family members who read my public posts as a way of keeping up with my life. I've never been a diary keeper or one to share my innermost ponderings with random people. ^_^ I find that the more I care about something I'm saying (or writing), the less articulate I am, and the more convoluted and rambling I get. Most annoying. :P
Please don't feel that I was browbeating you into commenting. That was not my intention. ^_^ If I wasn't happy having you on my flist, you wouldn't be there! Rantings, educated ramblings, deep thoughts and annoyances or not. I like the way you think, and even if I feel I can't reply well (or don't have a reply) and then don't....know that I DO read every post you make. Sometimes tho, like you, I just don't know what I can add that would be worthwhile. ^_^
I do hope your mood picks up...and not because it bothers me or anything, but because I like to see my friends happy. ^_^
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(*snickers* Hell no it ain't, apart from the classic animated Halloween fare...)
I am vastly overeducated and undersecure....hooray for neuroses! But being as hyper-articulate as I am, I can very least spell them out in clear or semi-veiled -- or more often, excruciatingly heavy-veiled -- form so as to give the rest of the world a clue occasionally. If I feel like it. At the moment I feel like crossing John Wilmot with a cellphone spokesfigure....but that's but an idle thought, a passing whim....and I have had a wee drap of whiskey, so I'm inclined to be even more verbose and confusing than usual.
That said, anything that you ever feel inclined to toss into my menage, even matter if it rivals my own capacity for vagueness and ulterior preoccupations, is completely welcome. Even if it is just "Neat!".....though for my own part I can think of a rather wide range of emotional reactions to my artistic license there, including the sentiment that it ought to be revoked. But no, haven't gotten to that level yet. :P
'Convoluted and rambling' is my native tongue, at any rate.....really, would you expect that I'd have normal standards of polite social discourse...? Have no fear, I'm safely eccentric on that count. I share my deep thoughts in code and allusion, so that truly shallow minds won't catch even the shadow of what's really there.
Plus some of those online quizzes are just really kickass....:P
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You were home-schooled? I would love to hear your thoughts on that. I am very interested in home-schooling my future offspring. I don't like the way schools seem to be run these days. All the schools where I am now seem to be built with permanent metal-detectors. :( Besides all that...I don't like the way kids are being taught. A few issues I have in some subjects are largely due to the inadequacy of several of the teachers I had.
(For instance...not being "allowed" to take Trig because I had earned a C in Algebra II [the teacher was quite inadequate, everyone found out], BUT I was allowed to take Physics [an advanced class that I barely managed a D in].)
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So far as comments go, I suppose I could have taken off the LJ-cut in my next-to-latest entry so as to get more immediate reactions.....but then, I did say 'rear male nudity and extensive body art', right? I try to be discreet for whomever's sake, and nobody even notices I posted anything atall. I'm bloody frustrated that I can't get feedback on things I do when I flat-out ask for it, and it really makes me feel like I'm wasting my time when I share things that aren't just quizzes and shite....at least everyone knows those aren't "serious" posts, leastways not on the surface.
Enh....but if I have to beg and throw temper tantrums to get attention, then it's not worth bloody much when I finally get it, right...? Guess I'll just make a nice sculpted hedge around my pissed-off little world.... :-|
I'll be in a better mood later on. Hopefully.
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I did like that post with the tattoo...it was VERY cool. Aside from a one line comment saying, Whoa! Neato!, LOL...I wasn't sure what to add. I did want to comment on that little quiz thing you did with all the movie characters, but that was my fault, not only did I forget, but I doubted my ability to get any of the guesses right. Like a lot of people, I don't like to be wrong. ~_^
No worries...all moods pass in time. Hopefully something comes along that cheers you up! ^_^
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By the way, you did respond re the quiz/meme thingy (and mentioned Gerard Butler)....I just hadn't replied to your reply yet. Messy inbox, basically, plus an erratic home schedule. I wil reply, though......it bugs me when things don't get done.
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