Time, cameras and hummingbirds
Jul. 7th, 2003 10:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
same_sky"I sing like a hummingbird and, oh, I forgot that hummingbirds don't sing... it doesn't matter, really, you know what I mean.." - Adam Duritz, naturally.
The other day, we were shopping and had been walking around Barnes & Noble separately for a while. We can sometimes kill an hour in there and sometimes we're only in there for fifteen minutes before we're done. When I got done, I went to find Magnus. I walked up behind him, slipped my hand into his and, without even looking at each other or speaking, we immediately walked out the door and got in the car. It was extremely cool in that mind-reading sort of way. See? That's why we're hummingbirds. Makes perfect sense.
Okay. Time for a proper entry, as I've been very boring lately. I won't whine about work or bananas or being tired for the length of this entry. Note that I'm not promising not to whine, just not about those selected things. I thought I should add that, just in case.. ;)
You know what's terrifying? Anneurisms. Although I don't know anyone personally who's had one, the idea is really scary. And what brings this up, you might ask? Lewis Black, who happens to be one of our favorite comedians. He theorizes (pardon me for ruining the joke if you ever happen upon it on Comedy Central some night) that anneurisms are not unknown and unpredictable, but rather the result of someone saying something so stupid that you can't get it out of your head and so for a week you go about your business but inside you're constantly thinking "If it weren't for my horse I wouldn't have spent that year in college.. if it weren't for my horse if it weren't for my horse.." until finally you can't take it anymore and your head explodes.
So, yes, basically what I'm taking a month to get around to is that someone (in my real-world life) said something to me the other day that I just can't get out of my head. I can't and don't want to repeat it, for a variety of reasons involving confidentiality, and it's not really important what was said anyway. Just something mildly "uhh.. okay" that keeps popping into my head at inopportune times. It doesn't fit with anything I know of the world and so it just keeps popping back and I no longer know what to do with this cingular piece of weirdness. So I had to mention it. (And a year from now, I'm going to read through past entries and say.. "what the heck was I talking about?!" I hope.) Sorry for being vague.
I've been fascinated by the concept of time lately. I have a hard time with the idea of myself fitting into the flow. It's a little hard to explain what I mean, but I remember certain events very clearly from my past. Just silly little things, like sitting in various classrooms, swimming, an easter egg hunt, a particular day at church. And yet I'm sitting here right now typing this entry, and it will never be 9:49:27 pm on July 7, 2003 again for me, and ever-so-quickly, it'll be July 24th (random date meaning nothing in particular) and this moment will be so far past, and I'll remember it clearly (at least for a while) but then that'll fade and I'll probably remember absolutely nothing about this entire day in five years. (Other than that I wore a green shirt.. my memory is truly bizarre, and anyone who knows me will agree that that is exactly the sort of thing that I'd know in ten years.) Anyway. It just disturbs me how time moves forward. I've already finished the part of my life where I'm obligated to live with my parents and sit in elementary school classrooms, and that's perfectly excellent, but it makes me a little queasy when I realize that pretty soon it'll be me shaking my head, smiling at my kids and saying, "They grow up so fast.." When I get in moods like this, I kinda feel like my entire life has already been lived and all I have to look forward to is losing my memories of the past. Gaaah. That's hideously depressing. I'm barely 24. This should not bother me yet.
Speaking of being 24.. I realized the other day that I'm now the same age Magnus was when we met. There's five years between us. (This is part of what's prompted the freaking out about time, I think.. the other part being how much time I'm spending at work.) I'm not sure what that piece of information is good for, but it struck me as being odd. Part of me can't remember a time when he wasn't in my life, but mostly, I just can't believe that we've known each other for five years now. I think perhaps I need to stop obsessing about time now.
Oh, and the good news of the day is that we ordered our new digital camera! Minolta S414 (link goes to pdf file.) We were swamped with research when we decided to buy the camera, so we took the easy way out. This was our favorite of the limited selection of cameras at JCPenney. (Favorite as in.. we would have considered it even if it wasn't freeish.. it's gotten good reviews.) As you might remember, we ended up with $450 in free gift cards, which means that we're only going to spend $79 or so for this camera. JCPenney was much higher than anyone else, but we're still going to pay much less for it, so we can't really complain. Actually, we can complain, because they were such bitches to work with. You can't enter more than two gift cards when you order online. M sent an email to them and was told that he just needed to call in his order. We tried to call the order in, and as it turns out, you can't use more than two gift cards if you call it in, either. M stopped by a store today and they could take more than two gift cards, but they couldn't order anything from the online store. He got them to exchange the five cards for one, though, so it all worked out in the end. There's no way we would have ordered it from them after all this hassle if it hadn't been for the whole free money thing. :) Still. We're very excited, but it's supposed to take two weeks for it to arrive. *sigh* I'm feeling very impatient already. See above discussion of time.
I've also gotten into something potentially addictive. The computer scrapbooking site that got me into my new hobby has a gallery to upload your layouts, and when you do so, people comment on them and stuff. I'm so needy. *laugh* I've now finished eight layouts.. wish I was a little faster, but at least I'm having fun. :)
The other day, we were shopping and had been walking around Barnes & Noble separately for a while. We can sometimes kill an hour in there and sometimes we're only in there for fifteen minutes before we're done. When I got done, I went to find Magnus. I walked up behind him, slipped my hand into his and, without even looking at each other or speaking, we immediately walked out the door and got in the car. It was extremely cool in that mind-reading sort of way. See? That's why we're hummingbirds. Makes perfect sense.
Okay. Time for a proper entry, as I've been very boring lately. I won't whine about work or bananas or being tired for the length of this entry. Note that I'm not promising not to whine, just not about those selected things. I thought I should add that, just in case.. ;)
You know what's terrifying? Anneurisms. Although I don't know anyone personally who's had one, the idea is really scary. And what brings this up, you might ask? Lewis Black, who happens to be one of our favorite comedians. He theorizes (pardon me for ruining the joke if you ever happen upon it on Comedy Central some night) that anneurisms are not unknown and unpredictable, but rather the result of someone saying something so stupid that you can't get it out of your head and so for a week you go about your business but inside you're constantly thinking "If it weren't for my horse I wouldn't have spent that year in college.. if it weren't for my horse if it weren't for my horse.." until finally you can't take it anymore and your head explodes.
So, yes, basically what I'm taking a month to get around to is that someone (in my real-world life) said something to me the other day that I just can't get out of my head. I can't and don't want to repeat it, for a variety of reasons involving confidentiality, and it's not really important what was said anyway. Just something mildly "uhh.. okay" that keeps popping into my head at inopportune times. It doesn't fit with anything I know of the world and so it just keeps popping back and I no longer know what to do with this cingular piece of weirdness. So I had to mention it. (And a year from now, I'm going to read through past entries and say.. "what the heck was I talking about?!" I hope.) Sorry for being vague.
I've been fascinated by the concept of time lately. I have a hard time with the idea of myself fitting into the flow. It's a little hard to explain what I mean, but I remember certain events very clearly from my past. Just silly little things, like sitting in various classrooms, swimming, an easter egg hunt, a particular day at church. And yet I'm sitting here right now typing this entry, and it will never be 9:49:27 pm on July 7, 2003 again for me, and ever-so-quickly, it'll be July 24th (random date meaning nothing in particular) and this moment will be so far past, and I'll remember it clearly (at least for a while) but then that'll fade and I'll probably remember absolutely nothing about this entire day in five years. (Other than that I wore a green shirt.. my memory is truly bizarre, and anyone who knows me will agree that that is exactly the sort of thing that I'd know in ten years.) Anyway. It just disturbs me how time moves forward. I've already finished the part of my life where I'm obligated to live with my parents and sit in elementary school classrooms, and that's perfectly excellent, but it makes me a little queasy when I realize that pretty soon it'll be me shaking my head, smiling at my kids and saying, "They grow up so fast.." When I get in moods like this, I kinda feel like my entire life has already been lived and all I have to look forward to is losing my memories of the past. Gaaah. That's hideously depressing. I'm barely 24. This should not bother me yet.
Speaking of being 24.. I realized the other day that I'm now the same age Magnus was when we met. There's five years between us. (This is part of what's prompted the freaking out about time, I think.. the other part being how much time I'm spending at work.) I'm not sure what that piece of information is good for, but it struck me as being odd. Part of me can't remember a time when he wasn't in my life, but mostly, I just can't believe that we've known each other for five years now. I think perhaps I need to stop obsessing about time now.
Oh, and the good news of the day is that we ordered our new digital camera! Minolta S414 (link goes to pdf file.) We were swamped with research when we decided to buy the camera, so we took the easy way out. This was our favorite of the limited selection of cameras at JCPenney. (Favorite as in.. we would have considered it even if it wasn't freeish.. it's gotten good reviews.) As you might remember, we ended up with $450 in free gift cards, which means that we're only going to spend $79 or so for this camera. JCPenney was much higher than anyone else, but we're still going to pay much less for it, so we can't really complain. Actually, we can complain, because they were such bitches to work with. You can't enter more than two gift cards when you order online. M sent an email to them and was told that he just needed to call in his order. We tried to call the order in, and as it turns out, you can't use more than two gift cards if you call it in, either. M stopped by a store today and they could take more than two gift cards, but they couldn't order anything from the online store. He got them to exchange the five cards for one, though, so it all worked out in the end. There's no way we would have ordered it from them after all this hassle if it hadn't been for the whole free money thing. :) Still. We're very excited, but it's supposed to take two weeks for it to arrive. *sigh* I'm feeling very impatient already. See above discussion of time.
I've also gotten into something potentially addictive. The computer scrapbooking site that got me into my new hobby has a gallery to upload your layouts, and when you do so, people comment on them and stuff. I'm so needy. *laugh* I've now finished eight layouts.. wish I was a little faster, but at least I'm having fun. :)
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Date: 2003-07-08 05:55 pm (UTC)I'll try to stop stressing about things that make you stressy. *grin*
Thank you for feeding my ego! You looked in the scrapbook-bytes gallery, btw? Are you stalking me there like I stalked you at Amerikanska to get your email address? *cackle* :) I haven't uploaded the rest of my layouts there yet. I think I could spend hours just looking through the galleries there even if I wasn't planning on creating any pages of my own. There's some incredible talent hanging around that board.
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