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volterator) wrote2012-02-07 09:15 pm
volterator) wrote2012-02-07 09:15 pm
So that answers that question.
18.30 - 18.40 Got in from work, no one else was home. Dog didn't bother to come look at me so I stood in the doorway to the bedroom and glared at her. The dog remained insouciantly cuddled up in the dark on the bed. Spent the next five minutes shouting her while I put my coat and bag away and turned on my computer to check email. Since this wasn't raising the dog from her bed I decided I'd conduct an experiment and went in the kitchen. While in the process of doing these things I continued to shout for the dog. I cut a couple of slices of giraffe bread, noting its lack of resemblance to a tiger, and went to the fridge to look for sandwich fillings. Selected a block of crumbly Cheshire which I put on a plate next to the bread, was again struck by how unfeline the slices of bread were. Realising that a decisive moment had been reached I took a deep breath in anticipatory excitement, made additionally gratifying by the rich dairy aroma of Cheshire cheese which I had unwrapped and that was now in the open air. Unwrapping the cheese was the crux of my experiment. I aimed, by letting the smell diffuse into the house, to get the dog to come running up to me, begging for cheese. She came in like a showbiz phony. I turned on her - she was a mercenary, a slattern and a hump. I gave her cheese.
1840-19.15 Commented online about a livejournal friend's remark that you can tell how a woman is in bed by how she dances and a man by how (and what) he eats. This is brilliant, and one opinion I trust when it comes to judging other people. A mind that can makes observations like that is one whose ideas you can watch. Talked to Steve on IM, discussed new Skyrim high-res textures. Talked to parents who had returned. Talked further about the mechanics of Skyrim. Wrote the first part of this bit of writing.
19.15-19.20 Wrote the preceding part of this piece of writing.
19-20-19.25 Looked at the web. Saw that Daisy Lowe was in a magazine. Wondered again that Daisy Lowe would have gone out with a man whose face had quite as many knees in it as Matt Smith.
19.25-19.30 Looked at a piece of pizza from Sainsbury's. Looked like a nice piece of pizza and I deemed it lush with cheese. In my reverie I fancied that extruded meat product floated upon it like imitation lily pads processed from the bodies of his enemies by a dark lord set adrift on molten lava. Speculated that eating it would probably be more satisfying than describing it.
19.30-19.47 Began to read Cat Valente's guest post about Star Trek Deep Space Nine on Charlie's Diary. Became distracted by recursive reading of things I'd written, Steve pasted in a piece from the Something Awful forums about the behaviour of a forum poster's horse who used to get drunk on fermenting apples; a happy drunk that used to nuzzle them in the back until they scratched its ears. Ultimately, if I had to speculate, it is the pattern of behaviour you see me settling into here which may hold the secret to why I don't have any free time to do anything else. Simultaneously I wrote about the things I was doing.
Thought, I have a long night to get through, I can't continue to go over everything in this level of detail. Was quietly amused that I just quoted something but then became neurotic about the fact that I'd been going over the same ground all day and vowed both to delete it from the writing and not explain it, and did neither. Worried now that I was becoming lost in the recursive fugue that plagues all my writing I ended the sentence.
20.00 Since giving up drinking in the week I reflected on why I've given up drinking in the week. Scratching my stomach reminded me why and I turned gratefully to my pint of water. Attempts to download the Skyrim high-res textures were being thwarted at this point by the hundreds of thousands of steam users simultaneously trying to do the same thing. Download timer said "game will be ready to play in approximately 1 day."
20.05 Had started to just hang around online and type about it. Continued to read Cat Valente's blog post again, something which should have taken ten minutes in total but had become distributed over an hour. Noted this section about how the 90s conception of the future provides a world that is already past-tense to us two decades later and placed it below as it is relevant to any discussion of how I spend my time:
"[B]ecause of the lack of a social network, it is possible to be alone in the Star Trek world in a way which I would have to deliberately take action to achieve in my world. Even when we are alone, most of us check a number of communication vectors and leave them live--Twitter, email, text messages, Facebook, our blogs, Reddit, news feeds. We are a baby hivemind spinning our training wheels. To be alone as profoundly (to me) as Sisko, Kira, and the rest often are, I would have to make a decision to shut down all of those streams."
20.14 I wanted to listen to music. I could do this easily and choose from a massive, legally obtained selection of music whenever I'm at my computer because I subscribe to Spotify. I thought about signing into Star Wars The Old Republic. To do both these things at once I would have muted the in-game music and put on the subtitles, which would have undermined my full enjoyment of and immersion in the game, and by playing the game I'd also be distracted largely from the enjoyment and immersion in the music. I decided to sack it off and listen to Spotify.
20.24 Ten minutes of putting that into words and typing it out meant I had only just at by this time, started Spotify. Clicked on the new Justice EP on the front page. I still like Justice, after having originally being introduced to them by a friend on MSN about four years ago and subsequently putting them on a mix CD for Melissa. That CD became in part an impetus for the Victoria music exchange which she hosted sometimes for two years in 2008 and 2009. I was at this point struck by and happy with the excellence of my headphones and was immediately engaged and cheered by both the music and the presentation of the music. Spent the next fifteen minutes listening, and not doing anything else, and still the story goes on and on.
20.42 Had lost my copy of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I'd put it down a week ago to read Sherlock Holmes on the Kindle and since then had removed my old bed and brought in a new bed so might have put the book somewhere out of the way. I figured it would turn up so went back to music. Was reminded by the Rick Rubin remix on this EP that I'd talked to Steve about how a song on Metallica's last album that had come on in the pub sounded like something he'd done because I recognised the production on the drums from The Mars Volta's first record; thought I'd write this down.
20.48 Heard the Justice EP so thought I'd listen to Stevie Wonder after saying that I needed to hear some more of his stuff besides Talking Book earlier in the day. Still ended up listening to Superstition first. Struck by how it's a properly recorded song because it doesn't have that peaked loudness bullshit you get in modern music. There are dynamics, which always makes music feel more engaging and acoustic for me. Maybe Your Baby has everything really and it's easy to appreciate Stevie.
20.49-21.05 Edited and rewrote all of the above into a more finished shape. Two and a half hours passed at home at this point, have eaten a slice of pizza and thought and done the things that I've written about above.
1840-19.15 Commented online about a livejournal friend's remark that you can tell how a woman is in bed by how she dances and a man by how (and what) he eats. This is brilliant, and one opinion I trust when it comes to judging other people. A mind that can makes observations like that is one whose ideas you can watch. Talked to Steve on IM, discussed new Skyrim high-res textures. Talked to parents who had returned. Talked further about the mechanics of Skyrim. Wrote the first part of this bit of writing.
19.15-19.20 Wrote the preceding part of this piece of writing.
19-20-19.25 Looked at the web. Saw that Daisy Lowe was in a magazine. Wondered again that Daisy Lowe would have gone out with a man whose face had quite as many knees in it as Matt Smith.
19.25-19.30 Looked at a piece of pizza from Sainsbury's. Looked like a nice piece of pizza and I deemed it lush with cheese. In my reverie I fancied that extruded meat product floated upon it like imitation lily pads processed from the bodies of his enemies by a dark lord set adrift on molten lava. Speculated that eating it would probably be more satisfying than describing it.
19.30-19.47 Began to read Cat Valente's guest post about Star Trek Deep Space Nine on Charlie's Diary. Became distracted by recursive reading of things I'd written, Steve pasted in a piece from the Something Awful forums about the behaviour of a forum poster's horse who used to get drunk on fermenting apples; a happy drunk that used to nuzzle them in the back until they scratched its ears. Ultimately, if I had to speculate, it is the pattern of behaviour you see me settling into here which may hold the secret to why I don't have any free time to do anything else. Simultaneously I wrote about the things I was doing.
Thought, I have a long night to get through, I can't continue to go over everything in this level of detail. Was quietly amused that I just quoted something but then became neurotic about the fact that I'd been going over the same ground all day and vowed both to delete it from the writing and not explain it, and did neither. Worried now that I was becoming lost in the recursive fugue that plagues all my writing I ended the sentence.
20.00 Since giving up drinking in the week I reflected on why I've given up drinking in the week. Scratching my stomach reminded me why and I turned gratefully to my pint of water. Attempts to download the Skyrim high-res textures were being thwarted at this point by the hundreds of thousands of steam users simultaneously trying to do the same thing. Download timer said "game will be ready to play in approximately 1 day."
20.05 Had started to just hang around online and type about it. Continued to read Cat Valente's blog post again, something which should have taken ten minutes in total but had become distributed over an hour. Noted this section about how the 90s conception of the future provides a world that is already past-tense to us two decades later and placed it below as it is relevant to any discussion of how I spend my time:
"[B]ecause of the lack of a social network, it is possible to be alone in the Star Trek world in a way which I would have to deliberately take action to achieve in my world. Even when we are alone, most of us check a number of communication vectors and leave them live--Twitter, email, text messages, Facebook, our blogs, Reddit, news feeds. We are a baby hivemind spinning our training wheels. To be alone as profoundly (to me) as Sisko, Kira, and the rest often are, I would have to make a decision to shut down all of those streams."
20.14 I wanted to listen to music. I could do this easily and choose from a massive, legally obtained selection of music whenever I'm at my computer because I subscribe to Spotify. I thought about signing into Star Wars The Old Republic. To do both these things at once I would have muted the in-game music and put on the subtitles, which would have undermined my full enjoyment of and immersion in the game, and by playing the game I'd also be distracted largely from the enjoyment and immersion in the music. I decided to sack it off and listen to Spotify.
20.24 Ten minutes of putting that into words and typing it out meant I had only just at by this time, started Spotify. Clicked on the new Justice EP on the front page. I still like Justice, after having originally being introduced to them by a friend on MSN about four years ago and subsequently putting them on a mix CD for Melissa. That CD became in part an impetus for the Victoria music exchange which she hosted sometimes for two years in 2008 and 2009. I was at this point struck by and happy with the excellence of my headphones and was immediately engaged and cheered by both the music and the presentation of the music. Spent the next fifteen minutes listening, and not doing anything else, and still the story goes on and on.
20.42 Had lost my copy of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I'd put it down a week ago to read Sherlock Holmes on the Kindle and since then had removed my old bed and brought in a new bed so might have put the book somewhere out of the way. I figured it would turn up so went back to music. Was reminded by the Rick Rubin remix on this EP that I'd talked to Steve about how a song on Metallica's last album that had come on in the pub sounded like something he'd done because I recognised the production on the drums from The Mars Volta's first record; thought I'd write this down.
20.48 Heard the Justice EP so thought I'd listen to Stevie Wonder after saying that I needed to hear some more of his stuff besides Talking Book earlier in the day. Still ended up listening to Superstition first. Struck by how it's a properly recorded song because it doesn't have that peaked loudness bullshit you get in modern music. There are dynamics, which always makes music feel more engaging and acoustic for me. Maybe Your Baby has everything really and it's easy to appreciate Stevie.
20.49-21.05 Edited and rewrote all of the above into a more finished shape. Two and a half hours passed at home at this point, have eaten a slice of pizza and thought and done the things that I've written about above.
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