Was I sleep-drinking or something?
Mar. 18th, 2008 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zhieI woke up today with a hangover.
Now, understandably this would make some sense in theory... I am part Irish... I like guinness... green is a good color...
Except, I worked from 10am to 10:30pm yesterday, rolled in with nachos and tacos past 11pm, set up an aquarium filter, watched a couple Apprentice episodes, bored Mark with more information than he ever needed about Erestor, Glorfindel, Celeborn, Galadriel, Fingon, Maedhros, Caranthir, and Haleth, read him part of the orc chapter of Unforgettable, and then crashed.
There wasn't even lemon-lime Kool-aid involved, let alone green beer.
So, I have a nacho hangover this morning, I guess. How messed up is that?
I am so pseudo-hungover, I've caught myself thinking in different languages. Including Sindarin. Mostly Sapnish and German, though. Er, Spanish, that is. This is going to be a very interesting day.
And, I had lectures at 8:20 and 9:15 this morning. Hopefully I at least amused the classes.
And before I forget...
INFO ON THE LJ STRIKE UNDER THE CUT... PASS IT ON
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Content Strike: Friday March 21
Mar. 16th, 2008 at 3:21 PM
The one-day content strike is on for this Friday, March 21, from midnight GMT to midnight GMT.
For 24 hours, we will not post or comment to LJ. Not in our own journals, not in communities. Not publicly, privately, or under friends-lock.
This is a protest that will have long-lasting effects, showing up forever in the daily posting statistics.
This is a protest that will not harm LJ in the long run, as leaving LJ might do.
This is a protest that will demonstrate the power of community, as all users unite to support Basic users and the concept of adfree space.
This is a protest that will educate the new owners that LJ is driven by user-created content.
How Can I Help?
DO post about this in your own LJ.
DO post and comment about it in appropriate communities.
DO remember that it's based on Greenwich Mean Time, which may not be your local time.
DO turn off LoudTwitter and your RSS feeds for 24 hours.
DO feel free to friend me for updates, and defriend when the strike is over.
DON'T forget to get permission from community mods before making an off-topic post or comment about the strike.
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Mark and I also had a lovely discussion trying to determine which was more Hitleresque: Feanor or Celegorm. It's the kind of fun you can only have on St. Paddy's Day. *shrugs* I wonder if that might have attributed to my current situation at all...
For the record, I've only got a little less than 1/8th Irish blood in me (ancestors who came from Kilkenny)... I'm such a peredhel...er, mutt... *shakes head*... Mark, on the other hand, is roughly 1/2, with a red beard he's quite proud of (he used to be more of a red head, but the years have made it go much darker).
Now, if great-grandma hadn't gone and shacked up with an Indian chief (as the story goes), I'd have quite a lot more blarney in me... or something like that. Sometime I'll have to abduct a photo of my grandma and her sibs for scanning purposes and post it... seven lil kiddles, six with red hair and freckles and one with a serious look, dark eyes and dark complexion. A story that gets rivaled only by the horse-theiving fiddler on my other grandma's side of the family (Unforgettable readers might see the similarities between that and a particular character), and the cavalry captain on grandpa's side.
Alright, time to get to work and play not-really-inebriated catalogging... this should be fun.
Now, understandably this would make some sense in theory... I am part Irish... I like guinness... green is a good color...
Except, I worked from 10am to 10:30pm yesterday, rolled in with nachos and tacos past 11pm, set up an aquarium filter, watched a couple Apprentice episodes, bored Mark with more information than he ever needed about Erestor, Glorfindel, Celeborn, Galadriel, Fingon, Maedhros, Caranthir, and Haleth, read him part of the orc chapter of Unforgettable, and then crashed.
There wasn't even lemon-lime Kool-aid involved, let alone green beer.
So, I have a nacho hangover this morning, I guess. How messed up is that?
I am so pseudo-hungover, I've caught myself thinking in different languages. Including Sindarin. Mostly Sapnish and German, though. Er, Spanish, that is. This is going to be a very interesting day.
And, I had lectures at 8:20 and 9:15 this morning. Hopefully I at least amused the classes.
And before I forget...
INFO ON THE LJ STRIKE UNDER THE CUT... PASS IT ON
The new owners of LJ (a Russian company) have decided to halt the creation of free no-ads accounts, and are also censoring the interest searchs on things like boys, girls, fanfic, etc. Web 2.0 is driven by the free, not the paid, content. LJ is going about this all wrong. So, here's the plan to protest all this:
Content Strike: Friday March 21
Mar. 16th, 2008 at 3:21 PM
The one-day content strike is on for this Friday, March 21, from midnight GMT to midnight GMT.
For 24 hours, we will not post or comment to LJ. Not in our own journals, not in communities. Not publicly, privately, or under friends-lock.
This is a protest that will have long-lasting effects, showing up forever in the daily posting statistics.
This is a protest that will not harm LJ in the long run, as leaving LJ might do.
This is a protest that will demonstrate the power of community, as all users unite to support Basic users and the concept of adfree space.
This is a protest that will educate the new owners that LJ is driven by user-created content.
How Can I Help?
DO post about this in your own LJ.
DO post and comment about it in appropriate communities.
DO remember that it's based on Greenwich Mean Time, which may not be your local time.
DO turn off LoudTwitter and your RSS feeds for 24 hours.
DO feel free to friend me for updates, and defriend when the strike is over.
DON'T forget to get permission from community mods before making an off-topic post or comment about the strike.
DON'T be spammy with your posts or comments about the strike.
DON'T forget to turn your LoudTwitter and RSS feeds back on when the strike is over.
Mark and I also had a lovely discussion trying to determine which was more Hitleresque: Feanor or Celegorm. It's the kind of fun you can only have on St. Paddy's Day. *shrugs* I wonder if that might have attributed to my current situation at all...
For the record, I've only got a little less than 1/8th Irish blood in me (ancestors who came from Kilkenny)... I'm such a peredhel...er, mutt... *shakes head*... Mark, on the other hand, is roughly 1/2, with a red beard he's quite proud of (he used to be more of a red head, but the years have made it go much darker).
Now, if great-grandma hadn't gone and shacked up with an Indian chief (as the story goes), I'd have quite a lot more blarney in me... or something like that. Sometime I'll have to abduct a photo of my grandma and her sibs for scanning purposes and post it... seven lil kiddles, six with red hair and freckles and one with a serious look, dark eyes and dark complexion. A story that gets rivaled only by the horse-theiving fiddler on my other grandma's side of the family (Unforgettable readers might see the similarities between that and a particular character), and the cavalry captain on grandpa's side.
Alright, time to get to work and play not-really-inebriated catalogging... this should be fun.
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Date: 2008-03-18 06:00 pm (UTC)*Hugs you*
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Date: 2008-03-22 02:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-22 04:06 pm (UTC)I believe it was my great-great-grandfather, who was the fiddler. He basically worked as a farmer, but played fiddle much better than he farmed. Anyhow, guy needed a horse at some point, don't recall if it was he couldn't afford it or couldn't find one to buy... anyhow, he ended up stealing one instead. Well, the guy he stole it from tracked him down pretty easily from what I understand, but instead of shooting him or having him arrested, he told my great-great-grandfather he could keep the horse if he married his daughter.
Now, I'm not sure what the deal was with the daughter, there's no explanation on that. Was it she was older than most? Had she been widdowed? Did she have a nasty temper or something? Whatever it was, great-great-grandad didn't mind it, or else really really needed the horse.
The cool thing about the stories on my grandma's side is that there are letters from the times that things happened that coraborate the stories. In the other parts of the family, not so much.
The part I really wish I knew more about is the Hungarian gypsies on my mom's side.