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  • Jul. 4th, 2009 at 10:36 AM
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[info]stoneth, for this:


Happy Fireworks Day, everybody!

Another Dream

  • Jun. 25th, 2009 at 10:55 AM
Blue Man alone
I had another dream about Laken last night. No, not one of THOSE dreams, ya sicko! Most of the dream was the two of us going to Goodwill. Just hanging out, being some kind of friends.

Another point for Freud's wish fulfillment hypothesis of dreams, I guess. That's pretty much the only part of his psychology with which I remotely agree.

Wonder how Kaze's been lately...

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  • Jun. 24th, 2009 at 4:24 PM
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Stayin' Alive

  • Jun. 20th, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Tod gecko
I went up to Cherry Creek Mall today, cuz that's where the GM for the Johnny Rockets at Park Meadows also works. I filled out a new app and gave her a fresh, new copy of my résumé.

Basically, if I get hired they don't know where to train me.

Cherry Creek: Sitdown; manager does the cashiering
Park Meadows: Food court, so there are cashiers but no servers, and no one to train me on cashier.

It's complicated, so pray for me. I also filled out apps at Build-A-Bear, who's going to make phone calls next week, and Waldenbooks, who's hiring for the holiday rush kinda soon.

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Writer's Block: Local Favorite

  • Jun. 19th, 2009 at 2:30 PM
Tod gecko

What's your favorite thing to show out-of-town guests when they come to visit?

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Even though it's in Denver instead of Aurora, I love taking people to the 16th Street Mall.
All kinds of crazy people and things can be found there. Even furries! )

1 Point for Freud.

  • Jun. 19th, 2009 at 12:16 PM
masks
So a bunch of us furrs were walking down the street. Every so often I would run, flap my wings, and get a few inches of lift. [info]laken_steeljaw noticed one of these attempts and laughed. I saw a raven up ahead to my right on a median and said  "Hey, Laken! It's your sister!" Again she laughed.

After a while we all went through the opening of a fence into a wooded area. Laken stopped me and said, "Look, Ian, if you want to be friends again, you gotta go 2 things. 1: Respect my beliefs as a therian, and 2: Stop being such a prude. We cool?"

"Yes," I replied. So we went about our day.

Soon after that I woke up.

Dang it.

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  • Jun. 13th, 2009 at 11:27 PM
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NARF!

  • Jun. 13th, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Rimou gecko
www.facebook.com/ianthegeckoman

Oh yeah, I have an audition for a locally produced feature film at 1 this afternoon.

New poem I'm working on, "Commute"

  • Jun. 11th, 2009 at 12:49 PM
Tod gecko
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“My alarm clock
is not a little black box
with angry red numerical eyes
and a buzzing Reveille.
It is the glowing orange sky
that greets your bowl of corn flakes,
accompanied by the growing roar of cars
as they grumble and moan,
anxious and desperate
to forget me.

My ride is a fraction of theirs.
Half the wheels,
and even less seats,
No windshields,
but a windbreaker.

My laptop,
the top of my lap.
My eternal lap
that never rests
so my legs can start their shift.
In it I hold my little billboard,
so small you need to look
into my eyes
to read it,
but so big
that you change lanes
or turn your ahead
away.

Your pocket change
is my paycheck.
Your leftovers,
my six o’clock dinner.
Your co-workers have resumés.
Mine have rap sheets.

I push my chair
from underneath the bunk bed bridge
to the lip of the driveway
where the massive metallic stampede
tramples me.
Every one of you has seen me.

I am a celebrity.
But where’s my walk of fame?
My stars
are up there,
in that great big blanket
that tucks me in
beneath the bunk bed bridge,
that blanket
big enough to cover
all of us
who make that same commute.”

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holycrapscary!

  • Jun. 10th, 2009 at 10:28 AM
OMG!
I had another anxiety attack yesterday morning that lasted for a little over an hour.

Everything seemed to be pissing me off: less than one serving's amount of protein powder in the bucket; friends came by my house earlier than I was ready, so I scrambled to make lunch; worrying about getting a job so I don't spend all my con money.

So I had many of the same tweaks and twitches and stuff that I did about a year and a half ago. I had to excuse myself from Bible study with Gabe to get some fresh air outside on the steps of the Tivoli facing west. I was crying, shaking...and praying. Gabe came & prayed with me, then a couple police officers came by and escorted me to the campus health center. The place doesn't take my insurance, so they put me on with my doc. He suggested a short-term prescription for Adavan, but I wanted to give it a day to see if things got better, and to avoid dropping more cash. While in the office, my pulse fluctuated from 72 to about 95, but my blood pressure was normal.

I left after a while, still twitchy, and went to the Tivoli to eat lunch before my communicaton and diversity class. The twitches were gone by about 1.

I'm better now. Y'know, valerian root kinda sucks.



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On the Job Hunt

  • Jun. 5th, 2009 at 11:42 AM
1930s
The interview with Teatulia went well...up until the point where I said I don't have a car of my own for transporting stuff to demos and farmer's markets. I suppose I could borrow Mom's car.

I updated my severely outdated SnagAJob profile and filled out 3 apps online yesterday: Laser Quest, Micro Center, and Toys R Us, the last of which was maybe the fourth time I've applied there now.

King Soopers hasn't had a labor dispute yet, and I've yet to hear from Elitch Gardens, Regal Cinemas, and In-Motion.

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3 New Personal Rules for Internet Usage.

  • Jun. 4th, 2009 at 4:29 PM
Tod gecko
1. NO using IE to view sites blocked in Firefox.
2. NO using the lappy AT ALL around mealtimes.
3. NO compulsive mesaage checking.

Jun. 2nd, 2009

  • 10:54 AM
WAR KITTENS?
I'm back from the road trip to & from Minnesota for Chad & Esther's wedding. Bryce, Ben & I left Denver at about 6:45 Friday morning and got into Annandale at 10:45. We hung around for an hour before going to bed in one of Chad's family's trailers. They're really nice, hospitable folks.

I actually slept really well in MN, as in one continuous "block" of sleep without waking up a few times during the night. It was probably a combination of travel tiredness and the elevation; Annandale's at about 1,000 feet above sea level. I thought I'd sleep really well once I came back home, but I slept as badly as I usually do. =\

You can view all my pics from the trip here.

I did a little bit of driving myself, from North Platte to Ogallala, Nebraska on the way back. We had to take a detour through North Platte cuz of construction, so there was a bunch of stop-and-go driving for a while. I would have continued to Julesburg on this side of the border but I was tired & I didn't want to spend a couple more bucks on an energy drink.


My friend Alec is in town this week. Some of you may remember us "breaking up" our friendship about a year and a half ago. Well, I first started getting in contact with him again sometime last year after the flooding in Iowa. We gradually started talking more & more on Facebook, and I invited him here after he said he wanted to take a trip somewhere. Planning the thing was awkward: not reminding my mom, oversleeping for meeting Alec at Union Station...but we'll find stuff to do. I'll take him to Brandon's anime/boba tea shop sometime this week, as well as the furmeet. We've moved on from the drama; I guess it's easier when you're online friends, but it's still good.

Alec brought his Weighted Companion Cube plushie and his Sega Dreamcast; he introduced me to a synaesthetic game called Rez. The best way I can explain it is a cross between the movie TRON and the game Audiosurf.

I got hired as a temp at King Soopers in case of a labor dispute. A couple of my friends hate me for being a scab, and others don't care either way. A job's a job; even if it is for a couple weeks that's still my share of a month's rent and some con money.

I think that's all I have to say for now.

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  • May. 31st, 2009 at 9:23 PM
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  • May. 28th, 2009 at 12:18 AM
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Oh, heck no!

  • May. 27th, 2009 at 12:36 PM
facepaw
There's a bill that just passed both houses of the Texas state leiglature that would require theatrical lighting designers to be licensed as an electrician, architect, engineer, landscape architect, or interior designer:
http://www.jimonlight.com/tags/texas-house-bill-2649/

At no point did they consult any lighting designers during the process of drafting this bill (no pun intended), nor is there any provision for establishing a licensure for lighting designers.
Tod gecko
I go to the Goodwill store every Sunday after church since they're in the same plaza. I occasionally find something good: Moon Boots, plushies, T-shirts, The Cheat hoodies...

This week I came across this:

I'd heard a little bit of Gregorian chant before growing up, and again in Music Appreciation this past semester. It's so pure, so elegant...just a multitude of voices honoring God, praising Him, asking His forgiveness...wow. I love this stuff!

Most Terrible Archer

  • May. 24th, 2009 at 10:43 AM
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“I've just...felt a lot of anxiety lately. A little bit of it was about school, but I got my grades in on Friday; they turned out well. I'm up to 3.42. I got 2 A's, an A- & a C+, so that's good.

Most of the anxiety's just me being impatient about letting friendships and relationships heal. I'm trying really hard not to freak out about it. I did freak out in the car driving home from the furmeet last night, because I forgot how to turn on the windshield wipers and it was raining hard. I freaked out--actually screamed. But then I flipped the thing absent-mindedly & the wipers came on. That was a relief.

I just need to clear my head this week. Go out on my bike, find a quiet place...bring a book, maybe my Bible, too...and just read. All this Internet stuff is clogging up my mind; I'm spending too much time on there.

If you guys wanna hang out, that's cool. Pool at my apartment complex opens tomorrow, I believe. So if you wanna hang out there, go to a place to eat, go to the park, wherever. Give me a call or whatever. See you guys later.”

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Fantastic!

  • May. 23rd, 2009 at 2:21 PM
WAR KITTENS?
Nuggets-Lakers series is tied 1-1, with Game 3 tonight and Game 4 on Monday. Ironically, because of Game 4, a WWE event has been moved to Los Angeles. XD

Yesterday we FINALLY shot the sanatorium scenes for "White Death". As a patient, my role was to walk around slowly and cough occasionally. Our director brought in a medical consultant to teach us how to cough correctly; as TB is mostly a lung infection, the cough is much deeper than the kind you get from a cold. Apparently I was so good that the consultant joked that he wanted to take a skin sample from me! XD

Last night I had another dream involving at least one online friend. I think it means that I need to spend less time online and more time with real life friends.  )
I had another dream in which Tom & I were trying to escape from a political rally where a bunch of Jehovah's Witnesses were nominating their presidential candidate. We eventually got to Village Inn for the furmeet but instead hung out in the parking lot, on the Better Bodies side. Timber joined us for a while, then I said I had to go home early and sleep, even though it was only sunset.

Job search stats:
-InMotion: Still no idea who to call
-McDonald's: Applied Tuesday, nothing new
-The Curtis: Applied Wednesday, also nothing new
-UA Colorado Center movie theatre: Big sign said NOW HIRING. The ticket booth clerk said to go to their website...but there were no listings for anything in Colorado. So either the website hasn't been updated yet, or the local people are liars.
-Elitch Gardens: Still waiting.

Anyone wanna hire me?

Got another bike today. Bicycle Village was having a "bike swap" that turned out to be a consignment sale, so while I didn't get rid of the Schwinn I did snag a mountain bike from a company called Sterling for $20. Dad's going to put the Schwinn on Craigslist since we don't have room for 2 bikes at my place. $75 OBO and it's yours.

I'll leave you with a quote from my dad:
"Clear your calendar for next May. And make sure you have a passport."

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