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| Sometimes I miss being in school. And sometimes I wish I had a school-aged child (elementary-middle school...I'd say high school, but they're assholes). I only have this wish to help them with their homework and meld their highly malleable minds.
I'm sure I was some sort of dictator in a previous life. But a good one. Like Tito.
Anyhow, I just miss thinking for thinking's sake. I mean, sure I day dream about things like--an example, something I was thinking about the other day. If you could be a creature (a known, real, currently not extinct creature) that was the size of a human, what would you want to be? Like human-sized dog? A human-sized gold fish? A human-sized flea? I came up with spider. And yes, I weighed pros and cons to my choice for about 45 minutes. A close second was a cockroach--but let's face it. Cockroaches are gross.
That kind of 'thinking' that I've been doing is totally lame. And non-productive. A lot of the 'thinking' that one does in school is also boarder-line lame and non-productive, but at least other people are in the thick of it with you. My internal conversation about human-sized animals was exactly that, internal. Whereas I recall getting into silly debates about where the Pilgrims SHOULD'VE settled. That was fun. I like that part of school.
My niece (8th grade) entered the history contest last year...or history bee or challenge or whatever the fuck it was called. The general theme was 'exploration' and she chose Sir Francis Drake. Good choice. This year she would like to do it again and the general theme is 'technology'. Her 'history' teacher (she's in a the 'gifted' program at school which i happen to feel is a bunch of bullshit and that she should take a regular history class with everyone else, but whatever) suggested, or rather stated, that they would be covering the years 1890-1970 for the remainder of the year, so they should look at technology within those years.
I'm not sure if shes chosen a topic, but whoa! My mother said they were open to ideas (they being my niece and her mother--my sister). There was A LOT of technological advancements during those years. I, personally, want her to choose Tesla (Nikola, not the rock band), and his over-all importance regarding electricity. But other ideas have been interstate freeways, Margaret Sanger (um, abortion may be too heavy of a topic for an 8th grader, but it was my mother's suggestion), Telephone, Radio, Nuclear Power....
What would you choose??
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| Any NYC Xangas still reading this? Rachael?! Jessica?!?! Other people I know i'm forgetting in nyc ?!?!
Or anyone planning on being in NYC Dec 2nd? It's a Wed, just fyi.
Why? Because I got a special invite to attend a video premiere of one of my favorite Austin bands that have roots/connections in New York. When I got the invite I seriously thought about flying there for it, but given my upcoming trip to Australia...gotta save the money.
They're good. Really good. Really fun. Really nice. I'm sure my name could get changed to your name so you could attend freely (otherwise there's a cover charge). So if interested...let me know.
That's all. More regular blog soon. Obviously, I'm not doing the blog every day thing. Kudos to those that are.
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| Not only have I not blogged (nor read/replied to your posts), i just literally wrote "bad, zangan, bad".
Bad, indeed.
I have somewhat of an excuse. Been kinda busy. I mean, sure I've been busy--but really I've had busier times in my life when Ive managed to get more done and keep up with all this silly (it's not that silly) internet business.
Plus since I'm kind of trying to make a go of an internet business (go Etsy!), I should, you know--do something about that.
The good news being--one reason I've been avoiding the internet is that I actually sold A LOT of jewelry this summer thanks to my regular gig at the Farmer's Market as well as working some wineries. But now it's 'off' season for that sort of thing, so I gotta amp up my internet activities to promote that page.
And I'm totally not writing this to make any of you feel like you need to support me in that endeavor--i'm just typing out loud (although some of you HAVE supported me in that endeavor--and I thank you kindly). But can I just promote the awesome folks at etsy. I don't have much christmas shopping to do this year, but I've decided I'm only buying stuff from folks at etsy or local crafters. Local economy, yo--even if that means local internet economy.
What else? I worked 'crush' for a winery this year--crush being harvest of sorts. I did pick grapes for them, but mostly 'crush' involves, yes, crushing the grapes.
That was fun and horrible at the same time. Actually, it wasn't horrible at all--just long days in cold weather with wet clothes. That being the horrible part. The work itself was easy and I really got on with my coworkers and the winery owners well.
Almost finished the shed that Juan helped me put up back in spring. Yay. At this rate...I'll be making cheese in 5 years.
Bought a plane ticket to go to Australia. A really wacky-spur of the moment type decision. So spur of the moment, bought the ticket, then realized I needed to send my passport in to get renewed, and needed do so with EXPEDITE!!! written all over the package.
Planning. Something I'm not that good at.
Nevertheless, I'm off to OZ for a month. I'm totally winging it--so we'll see how it goes.
And, finally--nope. Never named the ram. The contest is still on.
Hope you're all well.
Love,
Fodon
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Applicable names thus far:
Rasputin
Lior
Ronan
Ramma-lamma-ding-dong
Dirk
Sir Ramsey
Ray C. Lewis
Randy
Vince Ferragamo
Paul
Puck
Buck Wild
if you've made suggestions and do not see the name on the list--there are reasons for it. Too long, too similar to other animals, can't bring myself to name animals after cars...and Chester--man. Chester. He actually does look like a Chester and it may indeed be the perfect name, but can't do it. An old high school friend's nick-name was Chester--probably why the Ram seems like chester to me, actually--but it'd be too weird calling him chester. mutual friends would probably think I've lost it. Well, they probably think that already--but let's not give them any more reasons for it, shall we?
Anyhow, I gotta get this narrowed down. I not entirely sure how I'm going to do this--so if anyone has suggestions on that as well, I'm all ears. To name Lina von Lambykins I put up a simple voting box. But I may, indeed take this vote to the street (farmer's market). Or...I may just put all these names into a box (including submissions from the farmer's market) and pull one out of the hat (or, um box--but not THAT box, sickos) and the winner gets a prize?
But what if he ends up with a stupid name then...eh? So ideas, folks! I appreciate it...and now you may continue the debate amongst yourselves....
I'm happy no one has suggest Rambo--do you know how many rams are named Rambo? Yes 3 million.
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| Whoa...where the hell have I been? Rhetorical question, because you cannot answer it, obviously.
I've been busy--but in that non-exciting-little-to-show-for-it kind of busy. Probably doing stupid things with my spare time rather than productive things. Trying to work on that a little bit.
Anyhow, I am now the proud owner of a very proud ram-lamb ( Juan has suggested that I buy the domain name 'ram-lamb.com'). He needs a name. Someone at the farmer's market yesterday suggest I have some sort of raffle/idea box for the name there. Not a bad idea--but perhaps I should start here. Although I fear I've been absent enough that few, if any of ya, are reading me. It also seems that many of YOU have dissapeared as well. I got on xanga expecting to feel bombarded with subscriptions. Ahem, not really.
Where have all the people gone?
Ram name ideas. Please.
I'll post a picture soon...for the time being unbiased name suggestions will have to do.
EDIT:
Hahaha...you're all winners in my book. Ramma-lamma-ding-dong! Randy (thought of that myself--he is randy)....anyhow, keep em comming. I literally just wrote 'keep em cumming'....something's wrong with me.
Meanwhile, photo:
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