We paint our sins on the ceiling

This morning I carried the SG I was renting, in its giant hard case, over a distance of probably about a mile all told (in between trains). It weighed somewhere between 10 and 15 lbs. Intellectually, that's not very much.

Hello, machismo-related self-overestimation, my old friend. That feeling when you KNOW the collection of little bones in your hand and wrist are moving in directions they were never meant to go? Yeah, I can't recommend it. And of course I was a bright spark and switched off carrying it in either hand, though mostly in my left because it's less of a crisis when I can't feel or move my left hand, and now I have the feeling back but I wish I didn't... both of them just ACHE. Thoroughly wrenched. Plus my response time is wayyyy down: I think my top typing speed is about 20wpm. At least I didn't drop the thing. In conclusion, soft backpack-style gig bags are awesome and I am never doing that again.

On the bright side! I finished my cape at quarter to four yesterday morning, and wore it to work and school, and am wearing it again today. It is ungodly warm and fluffy and awesome and I love it. I was getting very tired of wearing so many coats that I couldn't keep a shoulder bag on. The next step, in a couple of days when I recover, is to knit matching gauntlets, because my wrists are still cold and nothing says "I really should have just made a sweater" like an elbow-length cape and matching gauntlets...

I think I'm going to make a second one in black. :D

Final thought: I am glad my Treksim character is a loner. This joint post thing is not working for me. I need to write exclusively with the people who are online frequently... seriously, why would you join a fast-paced textsim board if you can't manage to catch up once a day? Or am I being elitist and entitled and internet-privileged? I don't know. I do have a little bit of a Skwisgaar complex in re: being dragged down by cowriters who are not up to my standards. I am not feeling a sense of teamwork going on here, though.

Pip

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Question: I was up before noon, though not as early as I wanted to be. I have shelved cutting and recolouring my hair, and also making soup, but have figured out my cape pattern and can knit it all in one piece, which is what I was hoping, and have knit a skein and a half of yarn into it already. Have also done my reading for class tonight, but not any of the art I was hoping to get done (may yet manage another sketchcard though). Does this mean this actually counts as a productive morning?

Bah. I have two hours before I need to leave. I can totally get more done.

I would like the universe to know I am not a fan of this whole "school starting bloody early" thing.

But I shall have a bagel for dinner, so that will be nice.

Pip

I'm all new around here, so I figured that it would be polite to say hi. You'll hear more about me after I've found out how this Livejournal place works... But that's all, have a nice Monday, everyone!

You would think sleeping would be the one thing in normal human life LEAST likely to result in injury, wouldn't you? I mean, you just lie there. On a nice squashy surface. Therefore it is baffling to me that sleep is now a choice between hurting my back, hurting my neck, hurting my knees, or lying there going "why can't I fall asleep".

Or, I suppose, doing what I did last night, and ending up faceplanted into the mattress next to the lap desk with my computer on it. That hurt pretty much everything.

Ah well. Progress report on 2010:
- Have acquired new work shoes, and can take the Killer Monster Demon Shoes out back and shoot them.
- Have also acquired new Stompy Boots! I am going to treat these ones a little more gingerly than the last pair and hope they last me a little longer.
- Bought some big fluffy yarn with the intent of taking three or four days out of my knitting schedule and making myself an elbow-length high-collared capelet thing. Snag 1: I have no nice buttons (resolvable, medium/easy). Snag 2: I have no pattern and have never knitted anything that wasn't basically rectangular (resolvable, hoo boy hang on.) But the yarn is lovely cranberry/merlot/cherry heavyweight boucle and I am confident that just working with it will be fun enough that I won't mind having to spend a lot of time initially doing things wrong.
- After a day and a half of living on crackers and sugar water, am back on real people food and enjoying it thoroughly. I am never drinking that much ever again.
- Taught our supercilious guitar dept. floor manager how to do something work-related that he should already have known. I wish it had been "removing the stick from your ass", but hey, still felt pretty good.
- Have almost finished ExDec, which means it should clock in at about 3 months of pretty steady work. Oy.

All right. Out into the real world, where there is caffeine.

Pip

I am so fucking hungover owwwwwwww my head. Turns out everything I always did to not get hangovers, none of which I was capable of doing by the time I got home last night? Yeah, it works, and I feel VILE right now.

Other than that though, last night was awesome, and I was a good girl in all matters other than alcohol abuse.

Hahaha I actually thought I could do a real post, but no. Back to bed.

Pip

We're remembering "The Rev" through an article posted on our site:
http://www.iheartradio.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=104659&article=6516822&cmp=lj_av7x

D&D just wrapped up, a nice healthy 1.30am, I have work in the morning and am FULL of adrenalin. You know what's great about method acting? Sometimes even the basically unflappable cleric has to do something terribly exciting. Like, fight a giant black spider dragon with something like 150 hit points (seriously, thing was ungodly hard to kill), clear out its hoard, get a staff that makes people Do What I Ask Them Especially If I Ask Nicely (pretty much perfect and kind of cancels out my lack of a Charisma bonus), and discover that yes I am wearing a Cloak of Elemental Fire.

Oh, and then I got my heart shot out of my chest by some crazy wizard, who we promptly fed to our captain's pet tiger, and I was two levels short of being able to just regrow the thing, so we, uh, took the heart-in-a-box that our rogue was keeping under his bed (this was fine, he wasn't there but he likes me and would not want me to die) and cut me back open. And now I know what the heart was for, because we have a boat and that was apparently the Heart Of The Ship and now I am fine and the boat is fine but I really really object to people shooting holes in it. Also, wind in the sails? Kind of tickles.

I'M A NINTH LEVEL ELVEN CLERIC AND ALSO A BOAT. MADE OF FIRE.

Anyway, moral of the story: faking DIY heart transplant incisions with your imaginary holy ceremonial dagger can sometimes result in actual chest pain. I probably whacked my sternum too hard. :D

I am less excited about having discovered that school starts next Tuesday, and having discovered that I have the horrible Editing prof for Online Help, and having discovered that my Monday class starts at 6 and not 6.30 so I have to go in early on Monday mornings to balance out my hours. But I did do some very quality drawing tonight, so there's that.

LJ as message board - D, am assuming you really DID need to sleep. :D Hope you feel better. You will like what I've been up to very much indeed...

Pip

HIM Heartkiller Lyric Video

"Heartkiller", the brand new single from Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice", will be available in most of Europe Monday, December 7. US, Canada, Latin America, on December 8, Greece on December 10, in France on December 14, in the UK on February 1, and in Germany on February 5.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88SP2Gxsew8