listy weekend

[jinian]

Naruto:
Things that I wish would happen:

1. Rock Lee: "Oh, Haruno Sakura? Yeah, she's really strong, isn't she? I had such a thing for her two years ago -- but I'm over it." (This never happens in manga at all that I have seen. I guess it's not common in any fiction. Examples?)


2. Anyone: "Oh, shit, this opponent is really strong. I will use my really strong jutsu immediately and kick his ass." *uses strongest attack*
   Enemy: *falls down*
   Audience: OMG that only took one chapter! WOOOOHOOOOO!

Relatedly, the good point about reading entire volumes of scans in one sitting is that the plot actually moves.

Naruto-Fair transition:
One of the pictures from the always-entertaining high school art show was Maito Gai, complete with thumbs-up and sparkle.

Puyallup Fair:

• Piglets large enough to look like real, hairy little pigs instead of cartoon pigs.


• Cows being washed with hose and brush, as if they were cars.


• Headache all day; no rides for me.


• Cheeseburger, elephant ear, strawberry shortcake, $3 bottle of Aquafina.


• Mutton Bustin': A child up to 6 years old and 60 pounds in weight attempts to cling to a sheep that desperately wants to be on the other side of the enclosure. This works possibly even less well than you think.


• Rabbits of adorability; yawning, with dark stripes down speckled white backs, superfloofed, big and small


• The expected amazing quilts, which are always even better than I remember


• The expected only-okay knits, which I always decide I should outdo next year


• The expected peculiar collections, ranging from totally commercial to animal-themed to really unusual (yellow-handled kitchen implements! of which someone took a photo to show her sister, who collects green-handled kitchen implements)


• Draft horse teams, including six very frisky black Shetland ponies, demonstrating their cart-pulling skills

Garden:

• Attempted generosity:
  
  • Ten Freecyclers wanted my oregano and lemon balm divisions
  
  
  • Three Freecyclers showed up
  
  
  • Zero Freecyclers said anything at all about not coming
  
  
  • One Freecycler sent a thank-you note


• Oregano:
  
  • Seven pots need homes
  
  
  • Two varieties still in herb patch: purple flowers, white flowers with pretty green bracts


• Primroses:
  
  • Divided, some into as many as five pieces
  
  
  • Surprisingly okay after the dry dry summer
  
  
  • Named "prim-" for "first" (not, as I guessed, "primavera", but meaning the same thing)


• Planted in the big dirt:
  
  • Japanese holly-fern (Cryptomium, currently sadder than when I bought it at half price)
  
  
  • Seedlings of the yellow corydalis of mystery
  
  
  • Anemonella thalictroides


• Confirmed lost to squirrels that dig in pots:
  
  • Dicentra cucullaria, two


• Discovered and stolen from digging squirrels:
  
  • A hazelnut. It was good.

Comments

[cheesepuppet.livejournal.com]

Ya'll must be hittin' those big-city fairs, 'cause our County Fair's Aquifina was only $2.50.

[elynne.livejournal.com]

Possibly, the tactic of reading the whole damn thing in one setting might also cause "Megatokyo" to be slightly less irritating to me. Maybe.

Small children trying to catch wild sheep = hilariously awesome. I tried doing it at 14 or therabouts, and it was hard enough then.

If you still have plants that would like to live with other people, I'd be happy to take a few and try relocating them to my yard. If you have dead plants that need doin' stuff with, I'm not so much up for that.

Also, hoping you are well, and happy, and such, and also thinking again that damn, I really should get my ass out of the house once in a while and go see you or something.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Megatokyo is definitely less annoying when read in large chunks. If nothing else, you can skip past the Dead Piro Days immediately.

They put the small children directly onto the sheep, like with broncos or bulls. It was really funny but too pathetic to watch for very long; if they hung on well, they got really ground into the dirt because the sheep was going faster! One little girl hung on all the way across the paddock, but then the sheep got to the other sheep and she fell off in the confused milling.

Oregano and lemon balm would like to live with you! And I'm in the U-District every day, just tell me when I can come by.

[tiassa]

That's one of the problems I have with Freecycle - it's great in theory, but when people don't show up without telling you they're not showing up and you spend the whole day at home because you're expecting someone to show up, it's just annoying.

[elynne.livejournal.com]

OMG, that's - cruel, putting small children onto the backs of sheep? That's... hilarious, but still cruel. :D :D

Glah, the problem with me is that I'm kersplackered, and "daytimes" aren't my ideal being-awake-times. Grah. Let's see, it's Tuesday now... ummm... would Wed. be good for you? That way, with any luck, I can wrench myself onto something resembling a day schedule, and you'll have at least a day's advance warning. ;)

[jinian.livejournal.com]

I'm busy with research during the most dayish part of the day, but I could come by tomorrow after 6 or so if that's okay for you.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

(By 6 I mean 1800 hours.)