Gratuitous Icon Post, and a "random thoughts" post to go with it.

[capri0mni]

(random thoughts which just happen to include a community rec -- calapine started it, and it is shiny with black and white goodness)

• Here is an icon I made, using only a low-rez picture I grabbed off the 'Nets, and the MS-Paint program that came loaded on my Windows98 machine. Considering the limitations of the tools I was working with, I think it came out pretty good good enough. It was inspired by the "Which Doctor Who Character Are You?" meme (which I caught from tinyturtle, and posted in two_love). I got Two as an answer because: a) I really am short (two inches shorter than snowgrouse, iirc, even when standing up), b) when confronted with monsters, I'd run, and, most important, c) recorder music really is brilliant.
  
  

I may use this icon for all random thoughts posts because, when I'm not thinking of anything in particular, some form of "tootily, tootily, tootily, toot!" really is going through my head. The other morning, just before I woke up, my dream had a 3 or 4 second tune that sounded like a bridge from some old English ballad in the background -- and it played in my head, over and over, all day after I woke up.

• I can't help but notice that my post here about Quakers and writing met with a deafening silence. It could just be that there was nothing really to say about that subject. But I can't help but wonder if my recent posts about Quakerism (there've been a few), are wierding out friends who've known me a while as a proud and unapologetic Pagan. After all, in terms of public perception, the two groups couldn't be further apart on the religious spectrum. The most recent number I've seen for Quakers in America is 200,000 -- roughly half the most recent estimate I've seen for Pagans in America. So a hybrid between the two has got to be as wierd and as rare as a jackalope.
  
  I'm thinking of sitting down and retracing my theological steps that I took from Quakerism to Paganism and agnosticism between the ages of 6 and 42. I may post it here, when I'm done, so let me know if you'd rather be spared and I'll make a custom f'list for it.



• Speaking of recent posts, I've been doodling around in that LJ Dungeon Adventure thingy, and there's one thing I can't figure out. Maybe one of you can: What determines the number of Hit Points you're awarded in the beginning, and can you increase them? Everything else, I get, I think.



• The first knuckle (up from the palm) on my right-hand ring finger has been sore for a couple of days, and I don't know why. :-/



• I hate (with a passion, mind you) junk mail. It has no redeming value whatsoever. It clogs up the mailbox, probably takes a metric buttload of fossil fuels and chemicals to produce, a good 75% is not recyclable, and gods only know how much CO2 is dumped into the air getting rid of the stuff. Really, I wish there was a national no-mail list for direct marketing, just like the no-call list. Do Not Mail Your Advertisements To Me. If I want or need something, I will go looking for it, and I will see your "Special Holiday Sale -- This Week Only" signs when I get there. Really. I won't be able to miss them.



• Maybe I should make a jackalope icon (or maybe a Chimera)?

That is all.

Comments

[indefatigable42.livejournal.com]

I'm finding the Quakerism posts to be very informative, as I know very little about Quakers other than Anna Sewell. ^^

I guess I'm in one of those moods where I don't say anything when I don't have anything to say, and I need to make a point of telling people when I find their posts interesting. :P

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and I get in moods where I panic (needlessly) that I've fallen off the Earth (figuratively speaking).

I fully understand the "Don't say anything if you don't have anything to say" moods, though. Silence is a central tenet of Quakerism, after all.

Speaking of Sewall -- do you like Virginia Woolf? Because, following a couple of steps from a link someone gave me in reply to that "Friendly Writing" post (in quakers), I found this (http://www.quaker.org/fqa/types/t21-woolf.html) article on how Virginia Woolf's Quaker aunt encouraged her to be a writer in the first place.

[indefatigable42.livejournal.com]

Ooh, interesting. I haven't read much of Woolf. I liked Orlando.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

I haven't read Orlando; I was first introduced to Woolf's work in a "Women Writers" course in college. We read two works of hers: To the Lighthouse and A Room of One's Own (a thinly veiled fictionalized autobiography and allegory/treatise on women's rights, and what we need to do to protect them).

Of all the books in that course, Woolf's were the only ones I kept, instead of selling back to the university bookstore.

[brassfire.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I haven't commented but I'm reading and find the Quaker stuff interesting. :)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

And I've been reading your posts, too. I haven't said anything because I can't think of anything helpful, but I've been thinking good thoughts in your direction.

[brassfire.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks. :)

[scarfman]

Actually qtrhorserider and I have been attending meeting irregularly since the same month AKOTAS launched. But I genuinely sought out a personal angle on that post to comment on it and genuinely had nothing to say. Did read it though.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Most of my brain realizes that's the main reason I don't get comments ('cause I do the same thing), but the other day, my thoughts were infected with an I-Wonder worm, and it's just been spreading ever since, so I finally decided to say something.

A bit of Burns'* "The greatest gift that God ha' gae us," I guess.

*(Robbie, not Magommery [sp?], that is)

Excellent...

[brassfire.livejournal.com]

Montgomery

Re: Excellent...

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Thanks. My spelling is the first thing to go, when I get hungry, and I hadn't eaten anything since my bowl of cheerios this morning...