To-Do this week

[featherynscale]

Yet another iteration of The List. Pass by, if you like.

EDIT: Alsö, thanks to daisydumont, I can now insert the Heavy Metäl Umlaut intö unsuspecting and undeserving wörds in LiveJournal. Wööt! I äm amüsed by small things.


Plan:
- Lammas Ritual, 7/30
- Birthday flaunt?

Schedule:
- Meetings for Lammas ritual planning (at least two)
- Haircut (very soon)

Shop for:
- Khakis
- Office decor (green, teal, or copper. Also could use some prints to hang)

Write:
- Transcript of Solstice ritual at General Assembly (soonest!)
- Lammas trance portion (soon)
- An article on Robert Anton Wilson pitched to the teeming masses.
- An essay/book chapter on personalizing myth.
- An essay/chapter on creating a policy on public ritual for pagan groups.
- Descriptions for kittenpants' pictures.
- Tolkien noir.
- Gunslinger/Priscilla, Queen of the Desert fanfic.
- A letter to my daughter, who has recently converted to Christianity and stopped speaking to me.
- The pie-throwing incident of Macon County, 1918.
- A news story about an outbreak in the metro.
- Something about a quantum dandelion.
- A new take on faeries/Faerie.

Edit:
- The Were-Children (soonest!)

Other Verbs:
Read - Remaining library books
Return or Renew - Aforementioned library books
Clean - Bedroom, upstairs bathroom, Den of Iniquity
Pack - Slacker Roommate J's stuff, and relocate same to garage
Change - Oil in Asmodeus
Dye - Bad khakis

Comments

Re: Buzzz job

[dreamalert.livejournal.com]

Makes phrenology easier.

Funny person. Funny shaped head. Hmm. I sink I see ein connectishun.

Quantum dandelion? No matter how many of them you dig up, in some parallel Universe your lawn is still full of them.

Re: Buzzz job

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Quantum dandelions: One minute your yard is free of them, the next, they're all there in full bloom. They pop into existence fully formed and ready to spread.

Also, I think it is in a Discworld book that there is a practitioner of phrenological therapy -- if the bumps on your head indicate personality traits, then you must be able to develop new personality traits by acquiring new bumps. Want to be an artist? I'll need the number 7 hammer...

phrenology

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

Hmm, sounds vaguely like Granny Weatherwax, but I'm not sure.

Re: phrenology

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

No, if it's actually in Discworld it's a bit character in Ankh-Morpork that you see briefly in connection with either the assassins or the thieves. Perhaps an assassin or a thief runs through their shop?

I don't remember. Perhaps I made it up. That happens every now and again.

Re: phrenology

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

Ah, of course, ask Google, Google points me to Wikipedia...

Terry Pratchett, in his Discworld series of books, describes the practice of Retrophrenology as the practice of altering someone's character by giving them bumps on the head. You can go into a shop in Ankh-Morpork and order an artistic temperament with a tendency to introspection. What you actually get is hit on the head with a large hammer, but it keeps the money in circulation and gives people something to do.

Re: phrenology

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia is full of useful information! Thank you for clearing that up for me. I often have trouble remembering if things really did happen, or if they hadn't actually happened, but I thought they should really hard.

Re: Buzzz job

[liquidfun.livejournal.com]

But if they're quantum dandelions, then they aren't REALLY in the yard until somebody observes them there, no? Until then, there is only some finite probability that any given spot in the yard does, or does not, have a quantum dandelion in it ... it is the act of observation that collapses the probability wave to a single state ...

AUGH!