JT

1. Sorry to be missing Investiture--Yay Princess Gillian and Prince Leotulf! But really, SCA money needs to be rationed carefully. Next event...probably Boar's Hunt.
2. Really want to throw a workshop day at my house, with a fitting workshop, a commedia/improv workshop, a Making Cool SCA things workshop (Spoons and tablets are my idea) and finish it with a Madrigal Sing Thing and Chow Time. I think I could set up to have enough room, between the garage, the living room, and the back area. I'd like to do it relatively soon. Anyone up for it?
3. Hubba Hubba Review ROCKED. WOW! Twightlight Vixen Review, with the giant baby blue feather fans, was titillating and gracious. Fromagique was fantastique and fun! The two areal acts reminded me of Gene Kelley and Fred Astaire--one powerful and strong and very muscular/body, the other smooth and graceful and effortless and elegant and doing planks without showing strain..OMG!
And the gogo girls were totally working it...and the crowd dressed up so fun! I need to dress better next time. And go more often than once a year.
4. Missed the Sister's Bingo due to contract work. :( Good to have work, but need to get the schedule set firmer.
5. The rain has washed the sky so clear/the mountains look so crisp and near/the market has both food and art/for a day, walking, eating, being there is a great start.

Hello. My name is John Schmidt. (Hello John) I am a Gleek.
I wait for Thursday, when I can watch the show on my computer at home, and then I do. I sing along with the songs. I identify with all the male characters, archetypes as they are. I recognize myself in all the situations, and am astounded by the clear emotional response that floods me from this obvious melodrama.

I am a Gleek. I sang in High School, but didn't get into the Madrigals (looks and money, I was a better singer than at least half of the bass section.) I worked with the blind kids in the choir. I was a drama and choir geek in school.

I am a Gleek. I go into schools now, and recognize the intensity of the experience of new things for the students, their first big crush that might be consummated, competition on the edge of adulthood, emotions so new and strong they burst out or warp you. I have met every archetype in GLEE while I was teaching, and seen that they, too, are complicated human beings full of thought and emotion and warmth and pettyness and yes, I have had a student advise me on my skincare regimen.

I am a Gleek.

Leave a response saying "Resistance is Futile" and I'll ask you 5 questions. Answer in your journal, inviting others to be asked questions by you, if you wish.

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After MONTHS of no work I have gotten a spate of subbing, and a big writing project. And while the subbing is easy, the writing project is very hard to engage on, and I have spent HOURS and DAYS staring at the computer not getting things done.

HOURS and DAYS.

But I did get to watch "Mean Girls" and "Ghandi", contemplate ethos, and find THIS amazing cartoon:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1827871374?bctid=19506702001

Which is Niel Gaiman paired with Gahan Wilson, and is excellent. Also, too much GLEE has been watched, and the voice thing they use (Auto Tune) duly noted.

Onward...

Went to 5 Rhythms dance tonight. Tried to clear the air with a few people going in, no one picked up phone. Go in, change out, start dancing. Stretch out...lot of sore spots. Get dancing. Friend shows, say hi, we hug. She asks me what you can dance to a particular piece of music (rag cakewalk). I tell her, about 7 words total. Guy comes over, puts his hand on my shoulder, says "Can you take your conversation to the side?" WTF? Whatever. Ok, I'm obviously off center.

So, take a short break, get a drink of water, come back on the floor, start getting back into the rhythm. Moving away from dude flailing to the left of me, start to turn away, he throws arm spastically up and back and smacks me in the face, left cheekbone and eye. I see red for a second, walk off, figure I'm done.

What is it with me in this last week? I've been hit more than in the last 4 months, taken more injuries, had more friends ignore requests or push them, had 3 job possibilities fall through...what is it? What is the message here?

Or is it time to go for the 7 deadly sins in earnest, and start working on Anger and Envy again?

Like I could.

It's NaNoWriMo month, and I'm...not. I need to have something closer to NaJoGo month, but it's tempting to listen to the muse.

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http://i.usatoday.net/tech/graphics/iss_timeline/flash.htm

Time lapse animation of the growth of the Space Station.

Chart a course to the moon:
http://quest.nasa.gov/challenges/lcross3/index.html

The resources available these days amaze me.

Geared Paper Heart sculpture:
http://www.core77.com/blog/materials/amazing_geared_wooden_heart_kinetic_sculpture_11661.asp

The kinetic sculptures between HP and Kaiser on Tantau in Cupertino, which must have been spinning today! I need to go write the artist's name down.

Santa Clara County master gardner's site rocks:
http://www.mastergardeners.org/scc.html

Randomness!

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However, perhaps the whole ethos of the Lunaticks can be summed up by a quote from a letter Darwin wrote to Boulton, apologizing for having to miss a meeting: "Lord, what invention, what wit, what rhetoric, metaphysical, mechanical, and pyrotechnical, will be on the wing, bandied like a shuttlecock from one to another of your troup of philosophers."

--Erasumus Darwin, physician, grandfather to Charles Darwin, founder of the Lunar Society of Birmingham aka the Lunaticks. They met every Sunday closest to the full moon for dinner and discussion.

Not too deep, just places/spaces/faces I'd like to be/have been/work towards being.

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http://www.pankineticexpo.com/

April 2010

Literary analysis of Norse feasts 9-12th century: Meat, Fish, no chicken
http://www.sca.org.au/st_florians/university/library/articles-howtos/9-12C_Norse_Food_AR070604.htm
I suspect that much was lost in the multiple translations.

Knowledge:
www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/vikfood.html

Huh: Cool how to make wax tablets article
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/tablets.html


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1. Spit roast eggs: Really, honestly, need a frame to make this work, and a larger spit. But Jeannette did roasted eggs, and they were great...

2. Chestnuts: Open fire? Nope. Chestnuts burn to cinders! But a hot grill will work.

3. You can't spit roast a frozen chicken.

4. Cabbage potage works better with a little salt.

5. Jeannette's cooking RAWKS!
Raclette? A+ Bread? A (burnt a little, tasted great.)

Raclette:
http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/raclette.htm

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Valor: heroism: the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle);

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Great idea. Tea!

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Just a whine, pass on...

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Radio broadcast: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/09/limbaugh-on-obama-nobel-p_n_315661.html

My letter:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargazy_pie

This weekend, somehow, with all of the things occuring, ended up being discussions of art. Which leads me to 3 comments (it's a Monday, 5 is too many, oops, that makes it four...)

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