Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

hm. "wo shuohua yi diandian zhongguo, duibuqi. Qing shuo yingwen huozhe eyu?"

okay this is cool. Mandarin is kinda logical, so people from Deguo speak dewen, people from Faguo speak fawen,etc. Naturally I want to say which languages I *can* sorta understand so... people for Russia, EYUOSI, speak EYU. And similarly everyone in immediate contact with China (riben, hanguo, yuenan) has older forms. Equivalent to how the Russian for China and Chinese -kitai/kitaiskii - reflects an empire which hasn't existed for over a thousand years.

the Erowid review for taking a shit

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Okay so a 16’ tall dire hobbit, but he had hairy feet and had biscuits with tea, and that still counts. So it was a very large hole in the ground, but it was still a hobbit hole, and that means comfort.

it took me years to realize the name of the old 60s vintage song is "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye," because despite the very clear diction of the chorus I kept parsing it as "Sayonara, sayonara, hey hey, goodbye."

Managed to work on two #drawings today

Indiana Jones and the Egregious Ethnic Stereotyping

but who would be the best fit to direct the movie adaptation of the Silmarillion? since it's a pretty safe bet that David Lynch has effectively retired I'm pretty sure that leaves it a toss up between Peter Chung and Lloyd Kaufman

I was a good boy, girl or whatever the hell gender I actually am and I cooked a fuckton of noodles instead of spending more money. VEGAN even.

https://gofund.me/654e4de6

fine, ain't like I have tons of money to throw at getting people the hell out of this crap situation but here, maybe someone else does.

video interview 2 done, no thanks to fuckin' Teams deciding that now was a great time to choke up. Hopefully I can troubleshoot Teams later and after video interview 3 I can fill my day with nothing but thoughts about D&D, MAYBE picking up more Mandarin, MAYBE getting congee or a big froofy crepe.

Today's gonna be another three (thankfully remote) interview day, and more than one interview trashes me out completely, but given my luck with interviews, it's not like this hurts my chances. And anyway, I got a good cup of coffee, a tiny amount of drawing time and I got to pet a couple of dogs.

definitely a morning worth of noticing that, if there's something which supports beliefs that I'm innately flawed, different and isolated from my peers, and about to be rejected, my intrusive thoughts will grab it and REALLY run with it.

wow, my stomach really did NOT like using the remaining olive tapenade on those vegan ravioli.

oops, apparently in addition to the sing along upstairs neighbors and the screaming kids upstairs neighbors (suspect these are the same folks) my other upstairs neighbor's practicing aikido again or something.

my upstairs neighbors are having another sing along party this evening. Because really what I need to propel me out of being sad is being pissed the fuck off. At least THIS time I don't have work tomorrow, but I still hope they're done before 1200 let alone 0200.

there must be something else
there must be something good
far away
far away from here
far away
far away from here
far away
far away from here
far away
far away from here,
and I'll be here for good.

not me having a crying jag to Tom Waits

not me following that up by listening to Two Coffins by Against Me

all the things I have yet to lose will someday be gone too
back into annihilation
all things must change maybe it's better off that way
I wish that you'd never change.

Sure, since I'm drinking;

She's my only true love
She's all that I think of
look here, in my wallet, that's her
she grew up on a farm, there's
a place on my arm
where I've written her name next to mine
See, I just can't live without her
and I'm her only boy
She grew up outside McHenry
in Johnsburg, Illinois