Cinnamon is delicious but only in moderation…. also most grocery store cinnamon is from a related but inferior plant called cassia. REAL cinnamon (ceylon cinnamon grown in india and sri lanka) has a different flavor, more light and sweet and interesting. Perfect for milk chocolate but more expensive also. :]
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The 2009 Rant, Vent, and Share thread
I don't know if mine was the real sort, but I suspect so. The place where I got it is… Well, hard to describe… They have massive bags of herbs and spices everywhere and everything else they sell is sort of one off interesting lots of stuff they import from all over the place. It's the sort of shop you go to get unusual food that you can't get anywhere else
I think Skull and Oz are the only people who made a habit of pronouncing it or mindthinking it with the L.How the F*** did you know that? O_O
As Custard said, I can read your mind. I'm like a prophet or somethin' man. I'm just good like that.
I think Art history has managed to do something I never thought possible. It took two of my favorite subjects and made them depressingly boring. I know I've said it before but they've taken it to a horrifying new level here. It's not even like the history of art or anything, it's more like "This is the history of what was going on in the world at that time, now here's some artists who were around at the time." Blech, boring as crap. I'd much rather discuss where and how movements got started and focus on the art part of it rather than the history like I've only done 10x before. On top of that, it's like the only thing that existed in my teacher's mind during the period from 1400 to 1600 is the Iberian peninsula, the low countries and Italy. All the continents of Asia, America, Africa and Australia were apparently invented by some scientist ( likely Italian ) around 1700.
swimtime dropping. i know there are some swimmers out there who will be like "mah gawd you is soooo slow" but i'm just beginning to swim faster. 500m in 1115. it's my own personal recorded record.
also i'm starving and running 4-6 miles tomorrow. i think i'll run 4 really quick and then 2 at a slower pace.
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i never thought of ozone as a micheal. you just don't seam micheal to me.
Dear Future Version of Me,-_______________-
I hope you made some good choices for yourself, and still have some friends around for
it. ( After all…our pipe dream was to be a jetsetter or president. ha )
Hopfully you at least have a girlfriend ( Or guy) now, and haven\'t turned back into
the \'annoying freshman\' or something.
Always keep it real and try to stop rolling your eyes at how stupid this letter sounds
now. Make something of yourself and I look foreword to being you one day-
shit.
It's a shame you can't send a message back in time telling yourself not to bother.
Although if that were possible, about half the world's population would commit retroactive suicide.
Dear Future Version of Me,-_______________-
I hope you made some good choices for yourself, and still have some friends around for
it. ( After all…our pipe dream was to be a jetsetter or president. ha )
Hopfully you at least have a girlfriend ( Or guy) now, and haven\'t turned back into
the \'annoying freshman\' or something.
Always keep it real and try to stop rolling your eyes at how stupid this letter sounds
now. Make something of yourself and I look foreword to being you one day-
shit.
It's a shame you can't send a message back in time telling yourself not to bother.
Although if that were possible, about half the world's population would commit retroactive suicide.
Dear Past Self: Please bring these notations to your attention.)
1. Don't start smoking again. It's gonna get expensive and wind up killing you.
2. The drinking? Yeah, it becomes a problem.
3. Learn photoshop; get into all that digital crap when it first comes out. Trust me, you'll thank me later.
4. Stick with the Jewish dude. He ends up bein' a way better catch, and as it turns out he doesn't mind that you're not a skinny, pretty, worry-free bimbo.
5. When they ask you, "Do you think you might harm yourself or someone else?", say no. Hospitals are bad.
6. Apply for grad schools or get a straight job lined up before you graduate. Really. This one turns out badly.
7. Stay on your medication, stupid. Just because you feel better doesn't mean you're "cured".
8. You'll survive the hurricane. Don't bother leaving- that kind of ruins your life for like, four years. Just stay out of the back of the house- it gets crushed by that tree.
9. That night where you drank the whole bottle of gin? Call a cab and go home.
Regards,
Hyena.
I just finished inking the new Chapter Page for the Prologue. It came out a LOT better than I anticipated. Still have to tone it.
Gonna work out in a few minutes, since I didn't do so yesterday, and then do Page 1.
And tone them both later!
Woo!
I'll probably scan them and letter them while I'm at it.
Dear Future Version of Me,-_______________-
I hope you made some good choices for yourself, and still have some friends around for
it. ( After all…our pipe dream was to be a jetsetter or president. ha )
Hopfully you at least have a girlfriend ( Or guy) now, and haven\'t turned back into
the \'annoying freshman\' or something.
Always keep it real and try to stop rolling your eyes at how stupid this letter sounds
now. Make something of yourself and I look foreword to being you one day-
shit.
It's a shame you can't send a message back in time telling yourself not to bother.
Although if that were possible, about half the world's population would commit retroactive suicide.
Dear Past Self: Please bring these notations to your attention.)
1. Don't start smoking again. It's gonna get expensive and wind up killing you.
2. The drinking? Yeah, it becomes a problem.
3. Learn photoshop; get into all that digital crap when it first comes out. Trust me, you'll thank me later.
4. Stick with the Jewish dude. He ends up bein' a way better catch, and as it turns out he doesn't mind that you're not a skinny, pretty, worry-free bimbo.
5. When they ask you, "Do you think you might harm yourself or someone else?", say no. Hospitals are bad.
6. Apply for grad schools or get a straight job lined up before you graduate. Really. This one turns out badly.
7. Stay on your medication, stupid. Just because you feel better doesn't mean you're "cured".
8. You'll survive the hurricane. Don't bother leaving- that kind of ruins your life for like, four years. Just stay out of the back of the house- it gets crushed by that tree.
9. That night where you drank the whole bottle of gin? Call a cab and go home.
Regards,
Hyena.
ooh, hyena, that sounds like some sort of tragic poem.
I have a time capsule somewhere, from 7th grade, that says "Do not open until 2005!!" but it has gotten lost in the sands of time…
here's my notes to Kristen Gudsnuk of 2000:
1. Don't go to the more expensive school because it's more prestigious. Go to the cheaper school because it's cheaper.
2. On second thought, go to neither. Go to art school, like you know you are secretly dying to do.
3. Don't be mean to the only boy who is nice to you.
4. Tell Mr. Romano to move you to a different seat in Social Studies. If he asks why, tell the truth.
5. Try harder in school.
6. Don't worry about not having a boyfriend. You won't get one until much, much later on, anyway, so may as well not beat yourself up about it.
7. Don't talk so much.
8. STOP WRITING TEEN ANGST POETRY!!
9. Don't put yourself in compromising situations.
10. If you don't like them, stop trying to convince yourself they're your friends.
alas, youth is wasted on the young.
retroactive
July 2002.
Dear self,
Write the Damn letter to him. the girl you're chasing after isn't for you, nor does she want anything to do with your damn manners and chivalry. The letter is your best option for a completely, and possibly happier future. The lack of the letter causes death and decay.
Alternate Future Self.
Post. Script.
Things aren't bad now, but if you don't send that letter, the next 5 years are gonna suck major penor.
4. Tell Mr. Romano to move you to a different seat in Social Studies. If he asks why, tell the truth.D: o? Why?
alas, youth is wasted on the young.
Good proverb
Okay 15-16 year old olivia,
1. Quit freaking out about being gay and feeling guilt imagining your boyfriends as girls, you'll break up with them eventually, it's all good
2. Stop dressing like a fucking troll
3. 'A' became really really hot junior year and was still really into you
4. Keep honing your douchebag funny, everyone fucking loves it and you're not above it.
5. No really 'A' became like so smoking fucking hot wtf
6. Don't start that webcomic 'plastic' i know you're bored but get into weed or party going like a normal person.
4. Tell Mr. Romano to move you to a different seat in Social Studies. If he asks why, tell the truth.D: o? Why?
ehh I had the Kid from Hell sitting next to me that year, and on the other side of me was a terrible crony of his. And they would tease me and *I* would get in trouble for disrupting class… real fair. For some reason (half-developed foolish child-pride?) I didn't want anyone to know so I never told on him/them.
and sounds like "A" is pretty fucking hot. Maybe an alternate #6 for your list should be "Re: 'A'… tap that."
PS Skullbie, how exactly does a troll dress? (last I checked, they're naked)
My life's a dimestore novel. Pulp drivel of the worst sort
cheap pulp fiction? hey at least that means you're gettin' some.
(on a side note, the one weekend I decide to visit my boyfriend and his parents are magically out of town the whole time… my monthly visitor attacks.)
Gettin' some? More like, one. Frickin' monogamy, man. Why did I ever agree to this?
And: S'ok, Hippie- I've had like, ten more years than you to rack up regrets. ;)
Also: RE: Skullbie's "A":
Hooooboy. I'm not even gonna start on the "regret list" of ones that, uh… got away. (read: shoulda, coulda, woulda, but didn't get with).
shoulda coulda wooda's?
november 2003
Dear me who didnt mail that letter out …f*ck tard. now you know why i said to. good luck living with that the rest of your life. here's a list of shoulda coulda woulda's:
1. that blonde chic in the band room….whatever you do, dont.
2. her friend is hotter and digs you. she won't speak up since the blonde likes you as well.
3. the chic that approached you at the football game? the smokin hot one? don't put her on a pedastool. she's going to lead you around till you graduate. then you get it. then you marry it. trust me, just skip the 2 years of fawning.
4. the girl at the concert? shoulda called her back
5. senior year, you get the blonde chic's new number….just dont.
6. the chic who's locker you've been next to for the last two years….no the one on the left….definatly try.
7. blonde…..JUST DONT.
Dear Little Ryu,
I love you!
Your awesome!
:D
Love, not little Ryu.
8D
I'd tell myself that.
Oh…I should probably put, "no homo" in there. Just so he doesn't think I turn gay.
Teehee, I think that's the best one so far.
But it's "you're" not "your." Don't embarass your younger self with bad grammar. :P
Ooh, writing letters to past selves. This concept is entertaining. Let's see.
Dear past high school me,
#1: Date the girl you made your best friend, not the one with tits. She was the cool one and the one you got along with better in the end.
#2: Start those damn college apps sooner, you don't want to end up stuck there.
#3: I know it sucks being there, but stay at community college for the full 2 years. That way you don't end up $40,000 in debt by junior year.
#4: That chick you should have dated before, don't skip out and disappear on her when the one with tits cheats. It might possibly end your friendship.
#5: Don't ask the one with the chest to marry you. You're too young to even think about it anyway. Better yet, go back and read #1 a few more times until it gets through that thick skull.
#6: Keep the comic, not only will it help with the anger and stress issues, it'll save your ass when it comes time to go to a full school.
#7: Expand #4, and stop disappearing on old friends altogether, just because you get the crap end of the stick in life.
#8: Don't get started telling stories to make it seem like you have a life. Yeah, it became fun to see what you could get people to believe, but Munchausen's Syndrome is a bitch to get rid of.
#9: Say f**k it. Get the mohawk, be a smart ass and go for the girls. Politeness, chivalry and shyness aren't going to help you much.
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Actually, that kinda felt oddly therapeutic for negativity. Helps make a few of the things I've been thinking about on and off in past months easier to break down into manageable chunks.
#9: Say f**k it. Get the mohawk, be a smart ass and go for the girls. Politeness, chivalry and shyness aren't going to help you much.I TOOOOOOOLD YOU SOOOOOOOO! About the 'hawk. But I'll agree with you on that last sentence, postscript. ;)
Actually, that kinda felt oddly therapeutic for negativity. Helps make a few of the things I've been thinking about on and off in past months easier to break down into manageable chunks.I think admitting that you have regrets- sometimes pretty severe ones- helps you get over it and on with it. Hooray for the confessional nature of internet anonymity.
Highschool Hyena… actually, she did alright. I was writin' to "Freshman year of college" Hyena. That was when I started f**kin' up. The difference between them two? Refer to #2 on my previous "letter".
On top of that, it's like the only thing that existed in my teacher's mind during the period from 1400 to 1600 is the Iberian peninsula, the low countries and Italy. All the continents of Asia, America, Africa and Australia were apparently invented by some scientist ( likely Italian ) around 1700.
Sounds like no one who wasn't ruled by a chinless Hapsburg existed before 1700. All the rest were Protestants or even worse English!
Africans, Asians and Native Americans have always been non-entities in Art History. They don't fit into the neat little time line. Silk clad or naked savages. After all they are not ruled by Hapsburgs like Spain, Italy and the Low Countries. And whatever you do don't say the "F" word. France. Don't say that!
This is why I loved teaching history. Making fun of how everyone else taught history. lol!
My art history teacher was a little old lady with a lot of slides of everything. But the thing was, she'd taken them ALL herself. All through her life she had travelled round the entire globe and recorded all these art treasures from mysterious stuff left over from ancient Greece and Mesopotamia to polychrome pot fragments from South America, to all those statues, buildings, paintings etc all over Europe. Photos of places you're not allowed to see anymore these days sometimes. She had slides of everything… I had to do a report on Lalique glassware and she had slides of all these different unique pieces.
The stuff she taught us about church design though the ages, with first-hand experience of the different Orthodox styles in Eastern Europe and Russ and the development of Mosque architecture was great.
And one of the coolest things was that the studio I had there was actually the classroom where she had been taught as a little girl.
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-Note to my past self:
*Buy another pair of tall uggboots with the good soles from Wombat Lodge. Don't leave it too late! …because the first ones will be the best pair you've ever owned but won't last forever. the shop will be knocked down and it'll be really, really hard to find another anywhere near as good!
*Don't drink that whole bottle of tequila after all the other stuff. That way you will keep your cool suede jacket (you will never find another as good as that), have a better time, and your friends will like you a lot more.
Eh, I'm fairly happy with most of my life choices.
3 pages again. I had enough time to draw a fourth one I guess, but I felt ok with having only three and reading something instead :)
On the other hand I wouldn't mind being much faster. Get this thing drawn and head towards another. It's kinda sad that I can write ten times faster than I can draw.
I'm still trying to figure out the order in which I want to draw these things. On one side I have crazy ideas like "the year of oneshots" (meaning 12 52-page color oneshots done in a space of a year), on the other side I want to draw these longer b&w stories too. And then there are those four color cycles that I want to do too, and that super long fantasy thing and… ehh, I don't know, haha. Whatever, if I can achieve consistent three pages a day and keep it up for a long time, I should be happy enough :)
Got only four hours of sleep today.
Of course Oz's "regret letter" would have to do with clothes! I remember you lamenting about that jacket, though. ;) In regards to that, I wish I hadn't have given away my pink "Courtney Love" dress in highschool. I still miss that thing!
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I'm tryin' to phase myself back into working on the comic. I've been extraordinarily involved with packing and the yard sale (which is tomorrow! I'm afraid no one will come- tryin' to get the word out, but a lot of my friends and associates are college folk what are out of town for the summer).
I've been nauseous every morning for weeks. I know I'm not preggers; there's just no way. But still it's troubling. I tend to have pretty severe "stress-related" stomach/intestinal issues (my little bro does too, oddly enough) and it's probably just that. Or the meds. But in the back of my mind, I'm like "OMG morning sickness!" :nervous: Maybe I oughta go ahead and get the ol' tubes tied. Eh. I'll wait 'til my sister in law has her kid. Just in case!
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