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So the preview performance of my play was last night. Invitation only, mostly friends and family. Which in this case meant my grandmother and one of my friends with her family. The worst thing that happened was that I spilled Sprite on my overalls backstage, so it would have looked like I maybe wet myself were it not for the second-best thing that happened, which was the hair dryer they had in the ladies' dressing/makeup/rouge room. The best thing that happened was that my kissing scenes scared my friend's little sister away from me for life.
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Hence, lowered activity. Not that you noticed. (, in case you couldn’t tell. I’m not so insecure as to care whether people here miss me or not, nor to dislike those people for failing to miss me.) Anyway, my paternal grandmother is dying. I’m coping just fine right now (probably because she’s not likely to die for another couple months, hence there is no immediacy) but other members of my immediate and extended families are not. So, prayers and whatever-it-is-you-non-praying-folks-prefer-to-do please. But I don’t mean to depress you. That’s not my style. So how about some wonderful news: You’re unique! Just like everybody else! Except whichever young female celebrity is in trouble this week! Because I get them confused even when I do bother to pay attention! BACONWAFFLE NOM NOM NOM That’s my style. Actually, no, it isn’t. Because as soon as I claim to have a style, I either have to lock into it forever or else keep changing it, and so it is on the whole much simpler to do without the thing altogether. So for future reference, I don’t have a style, mkay? My style is to not have a style. Also, randomness and paradoxes and seriousness and stuff. And inscrutability. I do ramble on, don't I? I saw I Am Legend, and then proceeded to entertain myself by imagining what I would do if, like Dr. Neville, I was immune to the Crippen virus. Probably sequester myself on one of Washington’s many tiny coastal islands and raid stores for food and Lego by day. And then create a huge space city, as well as some of those lethal X-Pod-chucking Mindstorms arms I heard about to repel zombies and things if needed. Also explosions. My play goes well. I’ve rationalized away the kissing stuff well enough that it doesn’t bother me. My friends’ reactions were/are/will be interesting, though. In the world of academics, I qualified for the Running Start program at the local community college. Good thing, too, since I’m due to be finished with my high school stuffs soon. Summed up for those of you who don’t have it in your states, Running Start gives me two years of college for free, except for books and transportation. Ah, transportation...That’s the only problem I have with it. The campus is 15 miles away, I won’t get my own car until after college, and the bus is often too late to be trustworthy. But one of my best friends is doing it too, so booyah! <3 naked mole rats. No, the aforementioned friend is not a naked mole rat. She is a human bean. Being. Read Dahl’s The BFG, will you? And keep up with the random references to totally unrelated novels, TV shows, ideologies, etc., and my life, kthx. Or just smile, slowly back away, and quietly reach for a straitjacket. You know who you are. A NET team is coming to our parish. NET is a teen-oriented ministry staffed by young adults, who travel around the country in teams of ten or so. The events are great fun, and we haven’t had one at our parish in a couple years. Problem is, I’ll have to leave hours early for my play. <_> Yay Portal. Do want merchandise. Also, I saw this awesome Weighted Companion Cube cave racer. And a hilarious mimed cave racer. And speaking of cave racers, I built like eleven, seven hyoomin and four frog. But you’ll have to wait for individual pics. Also, want to read a good book? Check out Doug TenNapel’s Creature Tech. It’s this awesome graphic novel with totally black-and-white art and space eels and diabolically British ghosts and aliens and rednecks and CIA-trained mantids and WIN for a variety of other reasons as well. SHCCB results and prize will be up eventually. Thanks to my heightened inactivity, I have all sorts of catching-up to do on the computer with Internets. This laptop no has Internets, but I am free to type on it for hours on end. Hence, (hence hence hence) Atypically Long Real-Life-Related Entries such as this one, copied from Internetless Laptop to The Little Transfer Floppy That Could (Only After Much Reformatting) and from The Little Transfer Floppy That Could (Only After Much Reformatting) to my grandma’s PC (which, unlike ours, has a floppy drive) and finally e-mailed to me and blogged. Also, something happened to confirm my suspicions that yes, there are girls (or at least one) out there with whom I seriously would not mind spending the rest of my life. A bit of an epiphany, if you will...Now to wait, and see where life takes us. Should be a good deal, I reckon. 8D
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I bought Portal. Don't expect me to be bloggy or posty or PMmy as much for the next few weeks. Post in Anula's topic, raise awareness, etc., etc. Miss Emily says keep the airwaves free, and keep America free, too! Random play quote, etc., etc.
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An Interesting Coincidence appeared! Interesting Coincidence used 3rd-Place Win Twice in a Row! Not that I consider it a curse or anything. In fact, I'm rather surprised I did so well. My entry can be found here if you want to read it. If you don't, click this instead. Now I just need to make sure Anula doesn't do too well if she gets to the finals.
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Or rather, the illusion of freedom. Also, here's what I've got assembled right now MOCwise. Oh, and about those kissing scenes? The ones in that play whose script is lurking beneath my license? Resistance was futile. Go ahead and scream. Also, I think I'd like to buy this Portal game I keep hearing about. Any thoughts on that?
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This entry reminded me that I, too got a staff invite once. I've refrained from mentioning it because I didn't want to sound boastful or anything, but I figured it'd be safe to mention it now, seeing as it's the one day nobody will believe me. So yeah, Toaraga once asked me if I'd like to be a Blog Assistant, but since I told him I could only be on about six hours a week (albeit fairly consistently) the job went to Valenti instead. Really. ... What, you don't believe me?
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Yes, that's technically incorrect, as it's really only my girlfriend who's pregnant, but I am most certainly the father, so the kid'll have 1/2 my genes, anyway. We just found out Sunday, and then, most unfortunately, my parents also found out, so now I'm typing this from a library computer while Paige is trying to apply for passports to Canada, or else Alaska. As you can imagine, they're not too pleased. I wouldn't have wanted it this way either since we're not yet married, but our love is strong, and I'm confident we shall endure. If you don't hear from me for a while, well, don't be surprised. All you need is love, right? Oh, and the baby's due in October. With any luck, it might fall on my birthday! Rejoice! APRIL FOOLS'!!! I don't even have a girlfriend. Really. Outrageousness FTW! Edit: Broke into an old guy's house to publish this 'cause I set it to publish as draft earlier..
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Yes, apparently so. I got a call out of the blue from my aunt, who's big on acting and storytelling, sayig she'd seen me perform at the family campout last year and would I like to read for a production of The Voice of the Prairie since they were short one cast member. So veni, legi, vici, and now I'm set to play the part of young Davey Quinn. I've got to say, I'm a little afraid, since I've never done anything like this before. I'm still not sure what prompted me to say yes, but reading Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest in all its awesomeness likely had something to do with it. So yeah, this should be interesting. Not quite the comedy play I was hoping for, but interesting nonetheless... And kissing scenes. Oh dear. Did I mention the kissing scenes?
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Yet another case of the title having absolutely no bearing on the entry proper. So, here’s what I did while taking my self-imposed break from the computer: I saw a Wii in person for the first time (They’re much smaller than I thought), got baby powder spilled all over several of my Bionicle sets and parts drawers by a mischievous sibling or siblings unknown, watched Season One of Smallville in less than 24 hours, began what will undoubtedly become the arduous process of sorting all my System by part, started eight MOCs, (Out of which I finished six, the two remaining WIPs being a Mistika revamp and a Larsonesque vignette) wrote precisely one chapter for my epic and pretty much finished a shorter scific story for creative writing, singlehandedly saved our toilet from your basic fate worse than death, almost swatted a police officer with the right side mirror of our van, and did all sorts of other things that, if mentioned, would probably bore you even further than the above highlights already have, or have not as the case may be. So, anything terribly exciting or interesting happen BZPwise while I was offline? I’ve already gathered that we have had some new staff (Congragoodlucktions to them!) and a BBCC, but other than that I am largely ignorant of recent events.
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Not permanently, of course. But now that the contest is over, I'm going to take a step back from BZP, and indeed the Internet at large. My fellow Catholics (and a few others, I'm sure) should be able to guess why. So, I'll tie up a few loose ends tomorrow, then leave until sometime around the end of March. Perhaps I shall use the time to work on my epic...I really ought to get another chapter so I'll have something to fall back on. Also, watch for a trading topic to be posted upon my return. Bunburyism FTW! No. G-Force will not be making any appearances either. That is all. Ciao!
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No, I'm not just referring to the choking hazard that the smaller pieces pose. I sliced a 1 x 1 "headlight" brick across my fingers, and it bled for hours. Oh, and those Super Bowl people? Dead to me. D-E-A-D. Those turlingdromes did not air a single Hitchhikery commercial. The only cool things were the Prince Caspian and Iron Man trailers and a couple other commercials which still weren't as good as last year's. Of course, I left for youth group at the beginning of the third quarter, so I might have missed some awesome commercial or something. Let me know if I did.
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Namely, Isaac Joseph McArpysLastName, with the proud future godparent: He so cute. Born January 27th at 6:55 am, 9 lbs, 2 oz., 22 inches long. Celebrate! Edit: Also...
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So last night my mom thought she was going into labor... The midwife, midwife's assistant, and my mom's friend from church came over... I hauled innumerable pots of boiling water up the stairs to refill the tepid birthing tub... I mass-spammed an "Our Mom's in labor" e-mail to, like, everyone... And the baby didn't actually come out. So I stayed up until 1am for nothing. Still, jolly good practice for when the kid does come. I like being an assistant... *wants a shark with a frickin' laser beam on its head* *is somehow tired* *imitates Bunda* AtA
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So, a non-BBCC-related entry...Firstly, I'd like to know if would you rather see pictures of me: Eating Vamprah?With a Martian escaping from my nose?With Tridax pods over my eyes and looking quite scary?Anyway, I figured I'd better blog about that party before I forgot about it, so here goes. Regrettably, I am unable to provide pictures of my awesome costume (and believe me, I definitely stood out from everyone else there), because my friends who have the camera with all the good pictures of me as Ace Ventura went to Wisconsin for their great-grandmother's 100th birthday without sending me any pics beforehand. Anyway, here's how the party went: Firstly, for those of you who might have perceived this to be a party with loud rock music, spasmodic "dancing", and obnoxious teens thrashing about and occasionally having crises, let me dispel your illusions. This was a nice, civilized party with ballroom dancing, polite conversation, etc., etc. I did spice things up a little bit by walking the Ace walk, spouting Pythonisms, and vaulting over one of the speakers, but it was mostly just a bunch (~60?) of good peoples having good, clean fun. That and MYSTERY... This year we were invited to take part in a murder mystery (hence the requirement to dress up as detectives), and one of the ways to get clews was to dance with somebody. So, the Sheriff of someplace-in-medieval-England (One of the more distinctive characters there, besides myself and my IT classmate's Inspector Clouseau) got up on the stage and taught everyone the most basic steps of a few different dances. You would not believe how energetically some people can do the Polka. I'm pretty well in shape from soccer and all, but keeping up with some of those people would have been tricksy to say the least. Also, one of my girl*SPACE*friends kept trying to lead when I was supposed to. Not surprising, given her personality... Anyway, I did dance with some girls, but it was done only to attain clews. Really. </lifeentry> Original Date: 1:12:08
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Today is, as we all know, a very important day: My sixth anniversary as a member of this site. *pokes Faxon spinny* Since it gets heard rather infrequently in my personal bubble of awareness, this event is as good an excuse as any to thank the staff for all the work they put into keeping this site up to code, kicking around the more unruly members, and dispensing sage advice free of charge. Also, thanks to all the members who make this site the fun, interesting, weird, and llama-flavored place that it is. BZP is easily the best online community I've ever been a part of, and I hope it stays that way for the next six years at least. Now, partly to celebrate the occasion and partly because I was growing tired of my old name, I've changed my name to Arpy.* I might change it back in 30 days, or I might not. We'll see. Also: Fun with shadow leeches! May the møøse be with us all. Arpy *N.B.: Yes, it's spelled Arpy, but it's pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove. Original Date: 1;9;08;
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As I believe I have mentioned precisely once before, my mom is expecting our family’s eighth child (Those of you who would like to duel me for the BZPer With the Most Immediate Family Members Award, it’s spiked cudgels at dawn.) sometime in mid-to-late January. As the birth has drawn closer, we’ve been bouncing names about. My mom (Who is obsessed with the Irish for some reason despite the complete lack of Irishness in our ancestry (see Stats-->) and has stuck at least three of us with Celtic or Gaelic names) likes Seamus, my dad is okay with pretty much everything except Seamus, and I still can’t understand why I can’t name it Otto Baat. I mean, I am going to be the kid’s godparent… *Lethargic “Yayyy” in the style of Holy Grail emits from the surrounding populace* Otto Baat? Get it? , I know. Maybe it’ll be a girl and save us the trouble. Also, I posted my BBCC 47 entry, Craniopod NOD. It remains to be seen whether it’s quite as awesome as I thought it was at 12:45am after getting home from that party. Some certainly think so, but unfortunately those who may condemn its body for not being “custom” or “original” enough seem to be the people who constitute the majority of second-wave BBCC voters. However, I followed through quite nicely with my vision of it, and my peers quite like it, so I’m okay with any fallout that may result from being content to *gasp!* use prefabricated limbs for their intended purpose. Arpy
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Tonight was the most fun I've had in months, maybe even since BrickCon. I'll post Mondayish with pictures and more about the party, but I need to go to bed, like, now. I want to be in good form for when I tell my parents that I *gasp!* actually asked some girls to dance rather than wallflowering my way around the room. I've actually done that before, but they don't believe me. I've got to lose this meek and mild-mannered alter-ego of mine... Arpy
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Yes folks, here it is once again, from the blog that brought you last years entry which was of the same sort. No corrections spelling corrections, no grammatical bickeings, and dang this is tricksy. Watch as these timestamped tidbits get increasingly less coherent! I'll edi thtis every now and then so by the time I go to sleep you'll have a nice heaping off semi crazy ramblings for your viewing pleasure. BZP would be so much more interesting if everyoe would do this,. oh yeah, timestamp right now is [12:38]. I spent most of the evening snacking on nacho cheese doritos w/sour cream ()yummeh! and Mountain Dew while having a mini-Monty Python marathon with my grandma's portable DVD player. then I got on the computer, then I darted outside to check out the fireworks show (I love our new neighbors) 12:52] and I forgot the toher bracket oh well. I would like to add that I'm also not going t back to delete or cross out stuff,otherise .. um, I think I sort of said this already. I'm such a noob, in fact there's a n inverse relationship between sleep deprivation and silliness.Did you know that? anyway yeah, since I've forbidden msyelf to go back, my thoguhts come out much more poorly organized. Like fresh out of the box.it is now [1:00]. Hay CF I think I had something to tell you...[1:01} maybe I'll email you. Yes, I will. [1:08] uploading pics of my faabulous MOCs. I have two frgspacers and a H.A.U. thingy. Nui-Rama and Mantax are still on hold, but I've got a delightful swooshy red ship that only needs a few red 1 x 1 technic bricks with holes. [1:14] WHAT RHYMES WITH BORG?!?! Like, real words please. [1:23 ] nveem, I can just use approximate rhymes. [1:25] **ventures out of blogland to explore other bits of BZP* [1:31[ That was fun. [1:31:] Finally getting aorun to reading BrickJournal 9. [1:51]: WWANT. [1:55] Yeah, so I'd best be off to bed soon. We got invited to a New Year's Day brunch by some friends, so I'd'm not going to try to break my previous record this year. I want to make sure I can maintain conversation with my friends without falling aleep or anything. I'll be fine with five hrs, right? [2:01] Still not as bad as my friend who stayed up all most all Sat. and Sun. night playing Risk. people can get downright suicidal when you have a merciless fanatical game-player (board-game-playerhtat is) keeping you on taks. ""Oops! My entire army was obliterated by the Deceptiocon army. Pity." [2:03 ]I had something witty to say, but I've forgotten what it--never mind: TenNapel is win! I <3 creature Tech. Actually not all that witty. Hello, bruce [2:05] I am the Bishop of east Anglia, remain calm!! [2:067] Hee. [2;08] yay 2008! three months till I can get my license to drive... [2:09] and e-- new BBC!!! **checks out BBC forum [2:10] aww. nothing. **would like a #46 redo [2:11] the internet seems singularly boring at this time of night. I think I ill go to bed now. Vive la frogspace!!! a..um, never mind, I'll make topics tomorrow--no, Wedmesday. *ribbit* [2:12]no, [2:35] Bed. Righto! I got sidetracked there. oh well.Ni! Arpy no I--GAH! Original date: 1.1.08
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…frankincense, myrrh—three kinds of aftershave lotion: frankincense, myrrh, sandalwood—four kinds of aftershave lotion! Frankincense— Um, yes. Anyway, that thing last entry was just a random stress attack which I thankfully got over with before Christmas. I seem to get them every now and then, usually whenever the List of Things I Need to Do reaches critical mass, which isn’t all that often. It was also alleviated by the shopping trip I took the day after Christmas, wherein I hit every thrift store within a 20-mile radius to get stuff for my AWESOME costume for a party to which I am invited. *backtracks* You see, every year I am invited to a birthday party for this girl whom I met at one of my friend’s birthday parties a couple years ago. They’re always quite fun, and most of my friends get invited too, so ‘s all good. For this year’s party, we are required to dress up as fictional detectives. I already have the Hawaiian shirt, a white tank, and some hideous pajama bottoms, and I just need the right belt and shades. The obnoxious attitude and mannerisms shouldn’t be too hard either. Arpy
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My little brother just knocked over the zarking Christmas tree. >.< Goodbye to like, all of our fragile ornaments and stuff. Plus I'm majorly stressing out over what seems to be my continual failure to get things done in what I consider to be a timely fashion, or indeed at all. So yeah, not feeling terribly Christmas-happy, but that shouldn't stop you. Have a good one. Arpy
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For those of you who didn't get the title, rent Mr. Bean's Holiday immediately. My family and I enjoyed it rather a lot. It's one of those movies that makes me want to travel to the setting (France, in this case) for a vacation immediately, not unlike LotR. Anyway, to my regular readers (Yes, I know you're out there), I apologize for not having blogged for the last nine days (an unforgivably long time, I know). It's just that first I was feeling really lazy, then I got the cold which I had been trying to avoid since Thanksgiving, which contributed even more to the laziness and mental stagnation (not really conducive to blogging even remotely thoughful entries) then I got better and had a bunch of stuff I needed to do. But now, the celebration of the Feast of St. Nicholas (who presumably looked like this, only not so small and plastic.) gives me an excuse to unload my list of gifts on an unsuspecting populace. You see, in our family we do all our gift-giving on St. Nick's day, so as to leave Christmas free for us to focus on its true meaning and all (Plus my Mom is half Dutch, so there's that whole heritage thing). It's a bit inconvenient since my giftage is out of sync with 99.9% of the rest of the country, but it's always fun when people ask me what gifts I got for Christmas and I tell them I didn't. So, here's what I got: Bionicle Legends#8: Downfall (Backordered, actually) The Bad Catholic's Guide to Good Living (Hilarious) Nacho Cheese Doritos (Which with sour cream becomes my snack of choice) Assorted Candies (All of which I've already consumed) Transformers: The Score (Pretty much win) A new CD player (No shuffle function?) Lego Star Wars I (To share w/sibs) A puzzle book published by Life magazine, the precise name of which escapes my sleep-addled brain $27 from my grandparents Plus I miiight be getting Tanma and Photok when they become available (I seem to be using my parentheses quite a lot...Maybe they're the new ellipsises?). Happy Sinterklaas! Arpy
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I entered that Short Story Contest. It's my first Bionicle fanfic in ages, but I hope to write more, so criticisms are welcome, especially the pineapple-flavored ones. But yeah, I think I nailed Takua's fun-loving personality, and I integrated the picture pretty well IMHO. So, check it out if you have a few temporal units to spare! The smiley is the link. The link is the smiley. The Matrix has you. There is no escape. Oh, and the results from SHCCA will be up later this week. *is still lazy* Arpy
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Today I experienced the joy of having someone else steal my destined parking space for the first time. Annoying as that may be, it's nowhere near as harrowing (Yes, I use words like "harrowing". Get over it.) as the extremely harrowing experience of last night, when I drove our huge 15-passenger van all the way to the other town. I. Hate. Driving-that-van. Unfortunately, we only have two cars, and since the Century is my dad's work car, it looks like I might actually have to buy my own car the way I wasn't planning to. I had hoped to utilize public transportation to get where I want to go, then when I needed to ferry likkle sibs around I'd take the van. But since I hate driving that van (as I believe I have mentioned before), I'll have to start saving for a new car in addition to all that other stuff. I'm thinking a custom licence plate... NCC-1701 or PATUARA or ARPYWNZ or something. Two other things: 1. SHCCA (see below) ends Monday. I know some of you *coughbundacough* are plotting to enter, so...um...enter. Yes. 2. The Polls should be up today. Vote! I mean, if you're older than 18 and you didn't vote in the real elections earlier this month, you can get karmic møøse cookies if you vote in this contest's polls! Or if you failed to vote in class elections or whatever, you can make up for it! C'mon! 8D Also, extra KMCs to anyone who votes for my entry. 'Thisyl, the bet is still on. Arpy
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This has been one of those days of the sort where I get out of bed and spend the entire day bouncing around town. Right now, I have spent an estimated 96% of my day away from home. This is because a bunch of people canceled their refereeing appointments at the last minute, leaving me to call lines for three of the Junior Soccer League playoff games (Not that I'm complaining--I get paid due to their playoffness.). I wish I had been able to play this year, but Driver's Ed took priority. Hopefully I'll be able try out for high school soccer in spring. Now, off to my sister's championship game... Arpy
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Live! From The Corner Of A Room 20 Miles Away From My House
Arpy posted a blog entry in blogs_blog_154
Greeting, earthlings! I'm typing this from the portable unit at our parish school, where I've spent the morning setting up the new computer lab with some other computer-oriented people. We unpacked and assembled 24 computers, (It's a Dell...and another Dell...and another Dell...*dies from box cutter duel wounds*), got them up and running, then I pimped out the desktops of half the admin accounts (Read: copied the "Moon Flower" desktop into Paint and inverted the colors) and spent over an hour configuring all the accounts so the kindergarteners can't accidentally delete io.sys or something. It's a good thing these units aren't running Vista, else I might actually be jealous.* It's also weird working with IE6 again... Arpy *NOT.