Just what the world needs: My little pony characters turned into teenage girls with miniskirts.

Hm. Well, the animation is plate, but isn't bad. And this is different from Lum... how?



C

So last night Tara came back from a school trip to NYC at 11pm. And Bri stayed up to greet her. Sort of, she fell asleep by the back door and missed Tara coming in.

So I went downstairs to get her up to bed. I tried to pick her up, but then said "Wake up Bri, Tara's home". At which point Bri sat up, said TARA! and ran to the stairs to go up and see her. I got up and followed only to hear a serious *THUMP* as Bri fell down the steps, followed by a lot of crying.

Apparently Bri wasn't awake, got half way up the stairs, and either shut down or tripped on her blanket and fell down the stairs. We took care of her last night, her arm was ok but her wrist hurt from the fall. I slept in the room with her and she fell back asleep.

This morning she was still crying so we went to the hospital. HoCo general is a pretty good place, they checked her in, checked her out, gave her motrin stuff, and took X-rays. Sure enough she has a fractured radius and ulna right at the wrist in a way that everything is together but there is a bump on the side of the bone.

Poor thing. So they put her in a wrapped bandage, and we will be getting a cast in the next few days for a few weeks. Poor little Bri, she's fairly upset by the whole thing, but is doing much better once she saw her X-rays. She's a brave little girl, it's just kind of crazy.

I'm just glad it wasn't worse. And I wish I had just picked her up and carried her into bed. I forgot that kids can do things while asleep, and that my sister used to sleepwalk all the time. Sleep is a weird thing, no doubt.

She's ok now. Eating cookies. Points out what is important in life.

Tags: bri, family, health

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

We hit two museums today.

At the Dallas Museum of Art, we saw the big Chagall exhibition and the Britsh Museum's Greek sculpture exhibition. The Chagall show was great, with fantastic paintings and sculpture (I really enjoyed the Romanesque-influenced columnar-type sculptures) and some work he'd done for two ballets (Aleko and the Firebird), including the costumes that were the centerpiece of the exhibit. There were also a number of collages at the end that I couldn't get into, as well as some planning pieces for his ceiling at the Opera Garnier.

The Greek scuplture exhibit was interesting thematically but I was hoping for more classical works instead of Hellenistic and Roman reproductions. I liked the thematic organization, but the curation was just awful generally. The cards for each item told you in large bold letters what kind of thing it was and only then what the significance of the piece was. This was particularly annoying for rows of red-on-black pottery where the interest was in the mythological motifs in the imagery.

We also walked down to the Crow Collection to see some Asian art. The highlight of the several little exhibitions was the Japanese lacquers, since the downstairs area was in the middle of an installation and we'd seen the tantric art in the mezzanine.

Lunch was from the food trucks in the park next to the DMA. The park opened this spring and it was full of people and dogs on what we thought was a pleasant but hot day. The food was pretty good even by food snob Austin standards. It's definitely a perq to going downtown, even if it's not as cool as the museum cafe.

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Tags: 101 in 1001, museums
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: silence is golden

Fail.

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Ah well.

Tags: movies

So I watched the Amy's kitchen video, like about 40% of the Internet. And yes it's completely terrible. But I am sure it will put traffic through the roof at that restaurant, no point in thinking otherwise. It's like the viral anti-Abecrombe & Fitch videos, the only thing it winds up doing is driving more sales through completely free publicity.

Ah well :-) Also it looks like LJ is back again, which is nice. Backing up my journal here, I wish the old ljarchive could do comments, but it doesn't seem to work.

C

Tags: bad tv, life, thoughts

16 May 2013
the lonely is becoming a wall i cannot scale
choices i thought set in stone
no erasures allowed
no do - overs
are chafing
people say "yay you, well done"
i just stare and murmer
the equivalent of "aw shucks, ma'am"
i am uncomfortable with it
don't others do the same for people they love?
maybe not
i don't know
i said that you brought the lonely back for a maybe
i don't blame you
i am a faithful companion no longer seen
it's time for me to find a harley
it's time for me to find a bar
it's time for me to find a soft bed with a man in it
it's time for me

Current Mood: sad

Happy Birthday, texaslawchick!

Tags: birthday

I didn't strike off any items this fortnight. But we achieved the end of the spring semester of Michael's grad school. And I didn't kill anyone. Bonus!

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Although we didn't do any one-off items, we did buy a lot of concert tickets, and I'm working hard on exercising, reading, and seeing movies/DVDs. We're also due for some fun museum-seeing and such this next fortnight.

We sold my mother's car after the insurance was cancelled, and are lining up for our own car purchase, so that item may get knocked out as well.

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Tags: 101 in 1001
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Lager Rhythms: Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

Books:
- The Deadly Sisterhood: A Story of Women and Power in Renaissance Italy, by Leonie Frieda. I finished this, but I put it straight into the giveaway bag. Way too pop for my tastes, and I found the psychological interpretations made me question the author's take on the history.
- The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism, by Ross King. Taking a while to get into this but it's good. I've liked all Ross King's previous books that I've read. I put up with his psychologizing (he is pop) a lot better because he sources and footnotes a lot harder than Frieda.

Movies/TV
- Iron Man 3. Better than any third film in a series has a right to be. My only question after seeing all the resolutions at the end of this is "now what?". Also Rhodey >>>> everybody.
- Doctor Who: Nightmare in Silver: The Gaiman Cybermen episode. Genuinely scary in places (first time I've gasped in Who in ages) with the upgraded/upgrading Cyberman, but a bit undercut by Matt Smith doing his best Robin Williams impression. Also love the shout-outs to the historical stuff, particularly Tomb of the Cybermen. Also, I loved the ending.

Music:
- Battlefield Band, Room Enough for All. First album of the post Alan Reid era. Without Reid, they've definitely lost some of their adventurousness, but the level of musicianship is still incredible. I'd definitely see them in concert, but I think they're a bit more high church than they used to be, and I miss their previous incarnation.
- Fielded, Ninety Thirty Thirty. Picked this up on the basis of seeing her at SXSW this year. She was one of the highlights of a sick (physically, not awesome) season. The album is a showcase for her voice and either you'll like it or you won't. Obviously, I do.
- Savages, Silence Yourself. I've read a lot of Siouxsie comparisons and I can hear why. I like this sort of music in limited doses and this album is about right for it.

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Tags: books, movies, tv music, weekly media report
Current Music: cloeburner: Mister Blister by cloeburner

I started snickering then laughing until tears were running down my face.  It's good to love a show that's as twisted as I am.  :D

"He hasn't texted me back since last week when we sexted.  I think telling him I wanted to choke him with chains was a bit much for our first time."

Something tells me that Leoben hasn't texted Kara back because he's out buying every hardware store in the system out of chain.

Tags: random
Current Location: United States, Texas, Dallas
Current Mood: amused

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• Mon, 13:37: RT @JossActual: MY account! I got strong opinions! I'm gettin' POLITICAL! (Heads up, LEMURS.) And making wry observations about mundane s…
• Mon, 13:38: @JossActual: luckily for you, there are no color codes on twitter. Probably easier for Kiba, too #missedYouNumfar #WackyHijinksOnHorizon
• Mon, 19:10: Wondering why #facebook isn't updating to find Facebook app needs to be updated #1stworldproblems

Tags: twitter

Things still bats, no real other update.

C

Tags: work

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• Sun, 13:14: Well it only took 12 years... #disney @ Mickey & Friends Parking Structure http://t.co/ro7UHWz3Yd
• Sun, 13:43: I have been informed that wearing this is VERY important. #disneyland #poppedThatCherry @ Disneyland http://t.co/P4og00oS20
• Sun, 14:21: janeizjane that is all. ;) @ Tomorrowland http://t.co/kQAJ5ATk2N
• Sun, 14:31: It's #socialMedia #Minnie #disneyland @ Mickey's Toontown http://t.co/477jS8kkDK
• Sun, 14:42: Celebrity selfie!! derrickdiego this one's for you. #goofy #disneyland #toontown @ Goofy's Gas http://t.co/sXCn6VVvvp
• Sun, 15:25: The real power behind the mouse. #Minnie #disneyland @ Minnie's House http://t.co/v4ass2TMwC
• Sun, 15:39: #teacup or not to teacup?? #disney @ Mad Tea Party http://t.co/1PN31trsuA
• Sun, 15:42: Attempted teacup selfie upstaged by a #photobomb @ Mad Tea Party http://t.co/ZSTBb0pD9g
• Sun, 15:51: Lizzie: do you wanna try to pull the sword from the stone? @heroineaddct: oh like I need more… http://t.co/lwU2Qoo7NP
• Sun, 16:28: Pink...blue. Pink! Blue! #sleepingBeauty #disneyland @ Sleeping Beauty Castle http://t.co/qLVoDlKak4

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Tags: twitter

Revenge!

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Mark Watches is doing the The West Wing and I'm getting a kick out of watching him watch episodes for the first time. It had been a while since I watched and it's kind of fun both remembering a) how rapid-fire and lively the dialog is, and b)watching someone experience it for the first time. He's also watching random episodes of Stargate SG-1 have been commissioned and that's been pretty fun too. Supernatural is in the queue for him start watching sometime down the road. I don't really have any interest in that show. From my experience of watching stuff from the sidelines, I can only hope that the Harry Potter and Buffy fandoms have adequately prepared him for dealing with some of the, er, qualities that some of the SPN fans bring to the experience.

Tags: tv

So this evening I sat down and took a look at the total wreck that is my college "career". 2 years, one University that kicked me out for hacking and fucking in the music rooms, one and a half years at a community college that was about to kick me out because I got a real job and dumped my classes.

God I was great.

However in looking over the wreckage I did manage to pull out some interesting debris: I actually passed systems and circuits, physics, chemestry, engrish 101, comp sci II, and fortran/cobol. I even managed to pass Statistics/analysis and Calc I although I bombed Calc II three times in a row. Must have been a fucking spectacular record....

Point being though that I amassed 48 credits. And really I could cobble together an associates for Computer Science (information systems management) if I just took six courses. Engrish 102, Econ 201, 202, mgmt 105, and accounting 101,102. That's it. And I should be able to place out of mgmt 105 given my advanced knowledge of "shut the fuck up and involve HR with great care". That's management, by the way.

I know quicken, so I could probably pass accounting 1/2 in my sleep. I know how to write, so I could probably pass engrish 102. So if I took accounting 102 and Econ 202, tested out of accounting 101,econ 101, and mgmt 105 then I would um have 60+ credits and an associate's degree. Which is of course a joke, but it would be kind of funny.

If.

CZ

Tags: life, skool, work

• Sat, 21:16: OMG COOKIE!! #ernie #puggle #actionShot http://t.co/oqZuTB6Jdp
• Sat, 21:19: C is for cookie, that's good enough for me... #happy #puggle #imminentCanineSugarHigh http://t.co/j3JID1KGCs
• Sat, 21:37: janeizjane: Do you want a bottle with a giant cock? Me: no but now I want a picture to record that… http://t.co/Bua0hIzP0u
• Sun, 08:20: Happy Mother's Day, interwebs. I'm showing my love by falling asleep on mom's feet when we… http://t.co/ZQgebeCaAQ

Tags: twitter

212. Still somewhat low from 215. I do need to remember to eat more.

C

Tags: weight