Sat | January 13, 2007
Sixth Annual No Pants! Subway Ride
Improv Everywhere Mission: No Pants 2k6
I have never just cutted and pasted something, but I find this so perfect, as is the first part of the page in the link above (I didn't read beyond, as it's a bit excessive). But this must be preserved, instead of deleted from my emailbox. And it's tomorrow! Technically today!
Sixth Annual No Pants! Subway RideRequirements for Participation: 1) Willing to take pants off on subway; 2) Able to keep a straight face about it. This is a participatory event. Do not show up unless you plan to take your pants off. This includes news media.
Bring: A backpack and a metro card. Do not bring: A camera (don't worry we are taking pictures)
Wear: Normal winter clothes (hat, gloves, etc).
How it works: We will assemble in Foley Square at 3p. Please be on time. Feel free to be early.
When we're organized, we will all head down to the Brooklyn Bridge 6 Train stop together. Do not talk to others once you enter the subway system. No one knows each other. We will wait for a train to arrive on the uptown side of the tracks and all board our assigned cars (follow your team leader). A man with a megaphone will confirm that it is time to board the train. We may let one train go before entering to make sure everyone is ready.
Sit in the car as you normally would. Read a magazine or whatever you would normally do. Your team leader will have already divided you into smaller groups, assigning your group a specific stop where you will depants. Sit near your group.
As soon as the doors shut at the stop before yours, stand up and take your pants off and put them in your backpack. If you'd like to use a briefcase, purse, grocery bag, or whatever instead of a backpack that's fine too. You are responsible for your own pants and they should be with you at all times. If anyone asks you why you've removed your pants, tell them that they were "getting uncomfortable" (or something along those lines.)
Exit the train at your assigned stop and stand on the platform, pantless. This is a new change for No Pants 2k7. You will wait on the platform for the next 6 train to arrive. Stay in the exact same place on the platform so you enter the next train in the same car as you exited the last train.
When you enter, act as you normally would. You do not know any of the other pantless riders. If questioned, tell folks that you "forgot to wear pants" and yes you are "a little cold." Insist that it is a coincidence that others also forgot their pants. Be nice and friendly and normal.
We will exit the train at 125th street. Pay attention so you don't miss this stop. We will then repeat the mission back down to Brooklyn Bridge.
You can wear fun underwear if you like, but nothing that screams out "I wore this because I'm doing a silly stunt." Wear two pairs of underwear if it makes you feel more comfortable. Avoid wearing a thong or anything else that might offend people. Our aim is to make people laugh, not piss them off. If you haven't already, please take a moment to read the previous mission reports for the last five No Pants rides.
Meetup at Foley Square at the black sculpture/fountain
Between Centre and Lafayette, just north of Duane
Manhattan
3p sharp, over by 5:30p
Posted by Lily at 12:09 AM
Wed | November 29, 2006
peut-être
Maybe I will go to Starbucks tonight. But, recently I read that a frappuccino is like a Big Mac in a cup. So maybe I shouldn't go there. I have nowhere to go. Burger King? The cafe is closed. The library? Maybe. But. Starbucks is cozy.er. Maybe I will redesign a room in the house to be cosier than starbucks. Then. I can finally get something. done. Or. what. waste time deciding. if I stay home I might whittle away the time. on the web. If I go will I even bring my laptop. No. Just the french books. Tomorrow is Thursday. I will start a new project on Friday. So. I suppose. I have a couple of days off. I should do this editing for Kaps. And not check email so much. Life. has been better recently. But I am always afraid it won't last. So. When things go well. I just enjoy .them. Surreptitiously. Usually. things. are flawed. there is nothing. now. that is perfect. well. some. but. not really. I think that most people have a lot less dissatisfaction. than me. perhaps. i should make my life. more. normal. I should go see a movie. by myself. focus.
Posted by Lily at 05:27 PM
Tue | September 26, 2006
Je suis intoxiquée, c'est officiel
I have bought seven ponies on ebay:
7/3, Posey, '82 Earth pony, 4.99
7/12, Windy, '87 Magic Message pony, 15.99
7/15, Mirror Mirror, '87 Magic Message pony, 12.24
8/3, Masquerade, '85 Twinkle-Eyed pony, and Windy, '83 Unicorn, 10.05
8/6, Princess Tiffany, '87 Princess pony, 8.06
8/17, Applejack, '83 Earth pony, 5.70
Appropriately, the last one is Applejack, the original pony that I chose to be on my little "donate" button. It may not be the last one I buy, because I have just bid on three more. I am addicted. For the past few days I have checked a few times a day, and there have been days, periods, when I managed to not check, but I always come back. It is because it's so easy to pick up this information, that comes in little bits, on the listings. It appeals to a tendency to discriminate between small differences.
It's tricky to tell whether what you're buying is good quality or junk, or at what point inbetween. The good news is that I got a refund, surprisingly, without even really asking, for most of the worse-than-advertised ponies: Mirror Mirror, which I got from dot100dogs, and the two disgusting, mildewy ponies I got from Monster-Island-Collectibles.
In the former case, I emailed her a few weeks afterwards to mention that there were a few things wrong with it (a bit of hair cut at the root on the end of the mane; some of the paint come off the eyes; all-around frizzy hair) none of which were egregious, except for perhaps the hair, and yet I told her it bothered me because she had said it was in mint condition. At any rate she gave me a full refund. The downside of it was that she banned me from bidding on her auctions, which I discovered the next time I tried to bid on one of her items, a few days later. It seemed kind of extreme of her and I sent her a message asking her why, and she didn't respond. Dot100dogs has a lot of ponies up for sale so in addition to being kind of shocked I was disappointed that I wouldn't be able to buy anything else from her. Nonetheless there are so many people peddling My Little Ponies on ebay that it really doesn't matter.
In the latter case the toys (Masquerade and Windy unicorn) looked kind of questionable to begin with, but the description said that they would be okay with "a light washing." When I got them they reeked of mildew and even had bits of straw and junk stuck in them. So at that point I emailed all the sellers who had come up short, which was everyone up except the first person.
So that included Windy, the magenta Magic Message pony, from some person called dmwjsw6zm3. Now, anyone with a username like that is a red flag, but for some reason I ignored it and it turned out to be my worst decision. Although the other two people I messaged through ebay gave me immediate refunds, this person wanted me to send the pony back. It just seemed like too much trouble and I was like, never mind. The good thing about this junk is that if you never go crazy then you’re not tossing more than ten or fifteen bucks away at a time and you can just let it go.
Which brings me to one of the reasons ebay is addictive. Not only is there information to sort and pick up, on a million little clues, there is also the fascination of watching the auctions. Here are some notes of the priciest, most amazing auctions I've saw on ebay, a few weeks ago. I started to realize how crazy they were and took some notes over a few days. And unlike the auctions you hear about on The Tonight Show, for like, jesus-shaped toast, people are actually paying for these items.
Item # 120023995342, Aug-29-06 20:43:55 PDT
'88 Winged Pony, Moon Jumper, 22 bids, sold for $127.50 plus 3.75 shipping.
Bought by hudsonpelican, who has 198 feedbacks on ebay as of today, meaning s/he has gotten feed back for buying or selling to 198 different people. Sold by dot100dogs.
Item number: 230020083792, Aug-25-06 11:49:06 PDT
Baby Princess Sparkle, 107.50 plus 4.05 shipping. Sold by omeezponeez to david75432, who has 8 ratings. Omeezponeez has 2259 ratings, and dot100dogs has 2179.
Item number: 110011804848, Jul-27-06 20:44:31 PDT
'87 Mimic, sold for 100.95 + 3.75 from dot to jonquet1. Eight bids.
Those were the three highest sales on my "watching" list. That just means items that I bookmarked. Eventually I think the listings will expire and I won’t be able to see them anymore. Now I still can.
Then there were several that were sold for 70-80 dollars, and about an equal distribution in each price range below. This is out of the sixty-seven items I "watched." There are many more auctions, naturally, than the ones I selected.
It's interesting to note that a winged pony, Summer Wing, was sold by turtlefreek to dulcinea04, for 21.72 + 3.00 (Item number: 160022672411). I mean, two winged ponies (this Summer Wing and that Moon Jumper above), both excellent looking pictures, different seller. Dot's ponies cost more. That is something I picked up after about a month of surfing the mlp auctions. Which means that it's not a good idea to buy from her, because you're probably paying like five times more than you could if you watched others' auctions and bought their ponies. In fact if I were a seller, I'd post my ponies right after dot did, so that people would see them, and after losing the auction to some crazy person willing to pay a hundred dollars for a twenty dollar pony, and then they could get the same thing for less.
Although she blocked me as a bidder, at least she gave me a refund, no questions asked. She definitely has the account for it, with an average of a hundred dollars a day pouring in. Coincidentally after she blocked me her auction prices dipped a little, so I feel like she had some karma come to her as a result of her injudiciously dismissive behavior. But she's back up to speed now, I think, I mean I don't check her that much anymore, though I did for awhile-- she puts a handful of items up each day, that are 7 day auctions, meaning that she has auctions ending every night at around 9 or 10. Bidding for her starts at 9.99, with 3.75 shipping, which is fairly high. Most people start lower, lots start at like 0.99 or 1.99, something like that.
My current best pony came from miss sakura (who is kind of a poser because her name reveals she's not Asian, or maybe she is, some sort of anglicized Asian, after all she included a letter on nice stationery in her package, on cloud paper and font that just kind of seemed like an Asian thing to do, and about how she is donating her profits to god, I mean only crazy converted Asians are really believing in god like that). I got my Applejack from her, and I was somewhat hesitant because the picture had a greenish tinge to it, and was kind of dark, but it turned out to just be the picture. She doesn't look like she would be very friendly with returns, however, and she doesn't have as many selections.
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where to find mlp on ebay:
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the vintage (pre-1990) category
or do a search for "My Little Pony"
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sellers:
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dot100dogs: nice pix, recently replaced with wrapping paper background that isn't that nice. Lists almost every day. Bans you if you complain.
miss sakura: good stuff, not always flattering lighting.
omeezponeez: good pix. Every week or so will list some. Pictures taken at eye level, in a light box with a wall that lends a sense of space
babydoll84_uk: ships from UK
larock_d_t: an online ebay store called goose and gander
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buyers:
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hudsonpelican, 10stephanie77, hodgemo2: these buyers tend to like the same ponies as I do. I don't know what that means. They have all bought way more ponies than I have, however (of course).
gypsymerritt, mimicblossom, peacefulpearl: a few other buyers I've noticed.
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ponies
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Surprise: a light yellow pegasus with florescent yellow hair, and glittery silver balloons.
Quackers: a rare pony, white with rainbow hair, symbol is a yellow ducky with an umbrella.
Mimic: even rarer, a light yellow pony, parrot symbol.
Sparkle: in demand because apparently someone on the O.C. likes her. A white princess pony with turquoise hair. All the princess ponies have raised metal symbols.
Other types: pegasus, unicorn, earth, magic message, scented, UK, Italy
The whole time I am kind of wishing something would stop me from watching these auctions and buying more. I guess it's harmless. A couple of times I've overspent my paypal account and actually had cash siphoned away from my checking account as a result. But other than that it's money I got "paid" for writing movie reviews on tripmastermonkey, even though it really only covers the price of the ticket, I kind of think of it as getting paid. Then there's the sheer amount of time wasted on watching these auctions. But as long as I try to keep it restrained, and not check too often, perhaps it'll be okay. It is kind of a recreation. Instead of watching television I watch ebay.
All in moderation. Sometimes you bid just for something to do. You know you're not going to be the highest bidder, probably. Actually when I bid on Applejack, I figured someone would outbid me. Then I won and was nervous about it, but it turned out to be the best pony in my collection. She sits next to me, on my speaker, a little mascot. The others are under the coffee table. And one on my desk, and a last one on my bureau.
Sometimes you bid just because you like the buyer, you do them a little favor, start the bidding, on something you wouldn't mind having, but don't really want. That's why you bid early, half-hoping someone will outbid you. If you really wanted it, you would watch it til the last minute- and not start the bidding, because that only drives the price up- and bid within the last few hours.
I'd say there is enough pony action on ebay that you don't have to pay more than ten bucks for a pony, not including the average of $4 shipping. I'd say if you're careful you can get a bunch of ponies for an average of six bucks (including shipping would be ten bucks total). I got a Princess Tiffany with cut hair, cut bangs, for 8.06 including shipping.
It's all about the time. You have to look through these listings and figure out which ones have integrity. Sometimes you bid anyway even though it looks sketchy and get burned. And then your judgment gets better. I don't know why I switched to "you" at a certain point but I'm not about to go back and fix this. I just had to get rid of all these mlp thoughts that have accumulated in my head.
Posted by Lily at 08:55 PM
Sun | September 24, 2006
il fait des anagrammes
Internet Anagram Server / I, Rearrangement Servant
This is pretty cool. Some of my favorites for myself are "a hilly gnu," "un gay hill," and "hula lying." And since I am feeling low, "ha, ugly nil."
Posted by Lily at 01:24 AM
Fri | September 15, 2006
fantômes dans l'ordinateur
My computer is possessed. This is the third or fourth time I have been typing, and realized that the screen was so bright it was piercing my eyes. And I have adjusted the brightness to find it mysteriously at its max. It's not the kind of thing you change inadvertently. The "Fn" key is in the lower left of the keyboard and you have to hold that down and hit F7 several times to increase the brightness. No, my laptop decides to occasionally reset its brightness to max. Or maybe it's like a clock gradually running faster. Maybe it happens gradually. At any rate I haven't noticed it until I am sitting here wondering why I have a headache and then I realize the screen is really bright. So I suppose I will have to add periodic brightness checks to my routine.
On the bright side, my keyboard seems to have recovered, as far as v, c, b functionality.
Posted by Lily at 09:17 PM
Tue | September 12, 2006
pensées folles que j'ai eu tandis que je courais cet après-midi
- that I should run up that driveway and see what the back of that house looks like
- that I should go swimming in the pool behind the library, by climbing the fence at night
- that something would jump out of the brush, bordering the park behind the library, and suck me in
- that the cars were animals
Posted by Lily at 03:51 PM
Mon | September 04, 2006
une autre
Mignonne... une fille avec le même nom que moi a un blogger qui s’appellé comme lui. Comme nous... grande erreur, elle veut être un médecin. Au revoir, encore une autre.
Posted by Lily at 10:00 AM
Sun | September 03, 2006
je veux aller ici...
Roll and Dough - West Village - New York Magazine Restaurant Guide
This is why one must not surf the internet. However as this place is on West 3rd Street between 6th Av and MacDougal, I could conceivably be in that area. I don't know why, but I feel that I might. In which case it might not be a total waste, like staring at the U.S. Open draws was a few minutes ago.
Posted by Lily at 01:18 AM | comment
Lily said on Feb 6, 07 03:16 PM:
Actually I went here the last time I was in the village, it's right next to the West 4th Street stop by the basketball court. They were giving away free bao ze. I went in, but I don't think the place will be that successful, because it isn't homey.
Wed | August 23, 2006
je n'abandonnerai pas!
My laptop is humming and fanning like a storm's coming. It's nearly midnight... maybe I will just go to bed. But maybe I shouldn’t gie in so easily. So what if my laptop is falling apart? Let it fall.
I think that oer the next few months I will document the steady, ineitable demise of my fujitsu lifebook. Currently the c, v, and b keys don't work so well, but if I hit them hard they come through, eentually. I will just keep using the laptop while the keys die out one by one, and eentually what I am saying will become indecipherable. In the meantime no one will know why I am banging on my keyboard like a concert pianist.
Or perhaps the frustration will gradually pile up until one day I will need to spell something with a lot of c's, v's and b's and I will just lose it.
Yes we will see who breaks first...
Posted by Lily at 11:55 PM
Tue | August 01, 2006
le clavier cassé
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Posted by Lily at 09:34 PM
Thu | July 13, 2006
omg he emailed me back
So the other day when I wrote about John Lloyd Young, I also emailed him. Then I regretted it because it was stupid. But he emailed back! What a pick me up. It said,
Thank you! It's been quite a year. I'm still exhausted...JLY
He signs his name with his initials- a bit preppy. Uses ellipses... and puts two spaces after his periods, which is actually defunct style.
I am sure he sends this to everyone, but still, I will get all that I can out of it.
He replied from a different address, so it must be a forwarding address. He uses hotmail. His msn username is patterned after his other address. The timestamp, 23:22:44 -0400, indicates he is possibly up at around 11:30 at night.
At the end of the message is a link to his website. Which is where I originally got his email addess. And I got his home address, from the, um, alumni directory, and his domain name registration from a whois site.
I'm pretty resourceful... it's a good thing I'm not, like, evil.
Posted by Lily at 11:53 PM
Wed | July 12, 2006
things i'd like to clean
MY GLASSES. They are plastic frames, purple and blue. There are all these skin cells trapped between the lens and the frame. To get the lens out, the temperature of the plastic has to be raised slightly and evenly, in one of those beds of warm glass beads. It's pretty cool. The plastic expands, releasing the lens. I wonder whether I could get them cleaned anywhere, just as a favor, if I walked in and asked them if they would do it. Or if I would have to go back where I got them, years ago, on Fifth Avenue and 26th, by the Flatiron building, when I was working for A&G.
MY LAPTOP. Also has bits of skin cells trapped in all its little crevices. I have recently been using one of those air blasters to clean it... the first time I did that I got so many flakes out of it. Now I only get some. I know there's more though, and I would like a compact, powerful vacuum for the keyboard, like in the movie Gattaca.
Posted by Lily at 11:56 PM
Tue | July 11, 2006
My Little Ponies on Ebay
I finally got a My Little Pony. It took awhile because Ebay, like everything else, is way too complicated. I "lost" the first several "bids" I made for other ponies, due to "sniping," or also just not having enough yuppie cash to throw at the auction (on ebay you can win anything by brute force if you have enough money). So I got a pony from 1984, Posey, whom I vaguely remember. At first I just wanted to get Firefly or Windy, one of the ponies I had when I was a kid... but soon I realized this was a chance to get a new pony I had never had before. So I got one of the Earth ponies, as opposed to Firefly who was a pegasus, and Windy who was a unicorn. Posey is pastel yellow with white hair, and tulips on her rump.
What else... I now have all this knowledge about My Little Ponies that I don't really need because I'm not going to become a My Little Pony collector. Not just about My Little Ponies but who sells them, like this woman in Utah named Maxene, who goes by the username dot100dogs. She curls their hair and gives them a spiral on the mane that's a bit of a Hasidic look. Other sellers are omeezponeez and babydoll84_uk, and I'm sure I would start to recognize more sellers if I kept doing this.
There's something addictive about it, I mean I've killed a lot of time looking at these auctions, and I'm going to have to ease myself away from it. I'm kind of glad that I don't have more cash in my paypal account. Well, I have twenty dollars left. So I could get one more, or even two, if I buy shoddy, poorly advertised ones. Mostly I think I should appreciate my cute little Posey. What's weird is I recognize the smell of the plastic. It's faint but I definitely remember it.
Tonight I bid on Tic Tac Toe from '87, a bold yellow sparkle-eyed pony, and lost for like sixteen dollars. The pink sparkle-eyed pony was going for something like sixty bucks. I think there are a total of four or six sparkle-eyed ponies. Previously I bid on Butterscotch, an Earth pony from my time ('82-83), and Applejack, whom I remember. Applejack is a light orange Earth pony with freckles, one of only two ponies that had frekles on its face. The other was Bowtie, a blue pony with pink hair. Then there were these ponies that had tinsel mixed in with their hair. There was one called Princess Amber that I bid on.
Posted by Lily at 11:38 PM
Tue | June 27, 2006
The Etymology of Lacuna
Last night I went to a reading at the Half-King-- featuring Sebastian Junger, co-owner of the restaurant, journalist, and author of A Death in Belmont. During the Q&A a woman asked if he had a lacuna in his memory (Junger had talked about how it is possible for a murderer to not remember or misremember details of the crime, and how he himself misremembered something under a high-stress situation in Afghanistan). Junger said, "What? A lacuna?"
Some people looked knowingly, others had a haughty what-kind-of-word-is-that look on their faces. Heather asked me what a lacuna was. "A space, or a gap." Over dinner she asked me what I majored in and I said "biology," adding that that was how I knew the word lacuna. "I don't remember exactly, but it has to do with cells," I said. And I didn't remember, but I knew more than what I said. I knew it came from histology. I didn't say "histology" because that would lead to "what's histology?"
Histology, which I got a C in, for reasons unknown to me. I guess the official answer is that I'm stupid. And I didn't go to the professor's barbecue. I got two C's in college. Histology and Philosophy of Logic. I got a lot of B's, which sucked because all I did was study. Senior year I got sick of it and took everything pass/fail. The more I think of it the more I didn't like college. I try not to think of it.
Lacuna comes from histology, or it's a word I knew from histology. I can still picture that curved arrangement of cells, like stones around a tunnel. Also I thought it was the name of the company in Eternal Sunshine. And sure enough it was.
What is the word for "the history of how you know a word"? There should be a word for that.
Posted by Lily at 03:40 PM
Fri | June 23, 2006
Happy Birthday Invisible Cube!
In celebration of this blog's birthday, here is a picture of a cake. I also gave the site a makeover a week ago-- the cool squares background, the rounded edges, and several other little improvements. It took all day.
I got reimbursed for my travel expenses associated with the interview and review (see June 21). Finally there is enough money in my paypal to buy a pony. Technically I have already spent this money, on train tickets, but whatever. I placed a bid on a My Little Pony at Ebay.
Now that I am looking at this picture, I think it's not even a picture of a cake. I think it's a picture of a wax candle shaped like a cake.
Posted by Lily at 12:17 AM
Sun | June 18, 2006
cool cakes
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These cakes are cool. I have been reading about them. Mostly looking at the pictures. I am not the kind of person who plans and dreams about her wedding, but I do like to look at cakes. Cakes in general, wedding cakes included. I often stop at bakery windows. Come to think of it, there's a cake place in the village I should check out the next time I'm in the area. It's on Bleecker by Grove. There's also Magnolia up the street but that place is way more expensive than it is cool.
The flowers are made of sugar. They're edible but they're also often saved as mementos. Pansies are rare on cakes because they wilt. Not the ones on the cake- those are made of sugar- but the ones in the bouquet. People choose flowers for their cake to match the flowers at the wedding. I think that's pretty misguided, I mean some flowers look better on a cake. Red roses on a cake looks weird.
These designer cakes cost from six hundred to a thousand dollars. There are some celebrity chefs like this guy Ron Ben-Israel who makes the cakes at weddingcakes.com. Or he doesn't make them, he has his own little factory of diligent, underpaid laborers. It's on 42 Greene Street in Soho. They call it a bakery.
I don't think I'd get a designer cake that was featured in a magazine. It's just too expensive. I think one reason people spend so much on weddings is that they have no experience buying any of the things that go with the wedding, like fancy cakes. They don't have time to shop around and get to know the options and so they pay a lot for stuff that they might be able to get elsewhere for less.
Maybe it is a good idea to start researching so that I'll have less to do later. I could just wear a fancy dress instead of a wedding dress for my wedding. That would save like a thousand dollars right there. I could start to think about what we would eat and everything. I don't throw parties so I have no idea. If I had a wedding I don't think it would be very big. I think I would only invite my family and a few friends.
It's so sad that I will probably never see cakes like these. Maybe I should try to get myself invited to the wedding of a rich and spendthrift person. I wonder if I could do the cake-tasting thing just for fun. I would pretend I was getting married and then go to all these cake places and taste their cakes. And then just tell them, "sorry I'm going with some place else."
Man, if I could eat these cakes. Like Alice in Wonderland. For years I have wanted to eat those cakes. I think it has to do with how pretty they look, so smooth and well constructed, colorful.
Posted by Lily at 12:55 PM
Wed | January 18, 2006
against poetry
I have been reading poetry recently, and I think it is making me depressed.
I would not recommend anyone reading poetry.
Except my enemies. Also, I have noticed my thighs and ass getting fat.
Yet another reason not to read poetry.
Posted by Lily at 05:53 PM
Tue | December 20, 2005
disjunctive syntax
I don't know what disjunctive syntax is. I tried to google it just now. I didn't get that job and I thought, what can I do? I will finally figure out what disjunctive syntax is. I should have done so long ago, but I was writing sentences for Kaplan. I was writing evaluations of other people's sentences and why they weren't GRE sentences, and now I am wondering why I did all that thinking for them. No one cares. No one even notices. I make it look too easy. Stuff that is well-thought out and clear always looks easy and obvious. Like the layout of invisible cube. It has a hundred customizations just to make it look like this, like it's nothing.
Syntax is the way words are arranged in a sentence; I know that much. "Disjunctive" means "marked by breaks or disunity," according to merriam webster.com-- I think it is this second definition that is used in the phrase disjunctive syntax. I suppose it just means a sentence in which the way the words are arranged is unconventional.
I'm going in the wrong direction. No one cares what disjunctive syntax is. I was just thinking, I wonder if any of the GRE sentences have disjunctive syntax. Then I realized it really doesn't matter.
It is probably things like when the subject and verb are far separated.
Posted by Lily at 12:00 AM
Tue | October 11, 2005
picture of Lily
Ma inec in ochii tai,lal-la-lei/ Plange lumea dupa ei,lal-la-lei/ Esti un inger pe Pamant Despre tine cant si zi zi noapte,lal-la-lei/ Ma trezesc cu tine-n gand/ Despre tine vreau sa cant/ Melodia mea de dor/ Care place tuturor/ Nu raspunsi la SMS/ Eu iti scriu atat de des/ Poate m-am purtat urat/
Dar sa stii ca te-am iubit/ refren(2x)/ Ma inec in ochii/ tai,lal-la-lei/ Plange lumea dupa ei,lal-la-lei/ Esti un inger pe Pamant Despre tine cant si zi zi noapte,lal-la-lei// Daca mergi cu mine-n vis/ Am sa te invat sa razi/ Si-am sa-ti cant pana in zori/ Cantecelul meu de dor// Ma inec in ochii/ tai,lal-la-lei/ Plange lumea dupa ei,lal-la-lei/ Esti un inger pe Pamant Despre tine cant si zi zi noapte,lal-la-lei// Daca mergi cu mine-n vis/ Am sa te invat sa razi/ Si-am sa-ti cant pana in zori/ Cantecelul meu de dor//
Posted by Lily at 01:41 PM | comment
Thu | August 04, 2005
the man who would not say "spork"
I was at taco bell and this middle-aged man in front of me was picking up the order for himself and his two co-workers. At taco bell they ask you what kind of salsa you want, and then give you a spork, I guess if it looks like you'll need one (or perhaps if you order particular things, like a salad? I have never gotten one, at any rate). They gave this guy his salsa and one spork, and he said "can I have two more --of these?" He knew it was called a spork but he could not bring himself to say it.
I wonder if I, or most people, would have trouble saying the word spork. I have been imagining myself saying, "can I have a spork?" and I am getting used to it. I could pull it off. More likely I would start laughing, because there is something funny about the word "spork." Plus the utensil itself is funny looking. I don't think they would laugh along. They would find some way of ruining your order next time, because, you know, employees at fast food places don't like to see you happy.
Posted by Lily at 12:21 AM | comment
Michelle said on Feb 6, 07 03:16 PM:
Now who wouldn't find pleasure in saying spork. Just spit it out man...SPOOOORRRRRKKK!!
Fri | July 22, 2005
literary panhandling
I think my desk needs a My Little Pony on it to keep me going. However, I do not have enough funds in my paypal account ($6) to buy one from ebay. So I thought I'd see if I could take this my little pony picture and make it into a donate button.
Posted by Lily at 12:05 AM | comment
Sat | June 25, 2005
welcome to my new blog
So I've decided to blog here instead of at friendster. Someone told me that he was getting a message from friendster every time I posted. I don't want to email 50 people every time I post. So here I am.
I learned that Odille, which previously I had only known as a label of clothing at Anthropologie, is from Swan Lake. I watched part of that ballet on PBS at 4 am. I thought about E's pretentious friend whom we ran into at Whole Foods, and who said she was going to the ballet, but she pronounced it weirdly. I've never watched ballet on tv before, though I've run across it several times. It was actually kind of entertaining to watch the fluttering legs and connect the motion with emotion. And I liked the subject of deception and love.