randomness

[rivendellrose]

I've had "Not a Virgin" by Poe stuck in my head all day long. I love the song, but... not this much.

Picked up a bunch of new books at the library today after returning Fast Girls by Emily White. Will be updating the reading list tonight, after I've finished the last few pages of A Short History of Nearly Everything. Most of my reading has been getting put aside for the B5 extravaganza of the last few weeks, so... I'm a little behind. But I have plenty of good books to be working on, so hopefully I'll be back to them soon.

We (the office) are going to a soccer game (Real Madrid vs. DC United) on the 9th of August. Not being so much of the sports-fan type, I wasn't totally enthused about this to start, but... it does sound fun. Especially since it's the big guys, so to speak - the name David Beckham has meaning even for a non-sports person like me. ;)

Lastly, being introduced first thing in the morning to a very nice businessman named Nondo, and then having to repeat the name something like four times without slipping into fandom-default was... exciting. Almost as exciting as the time I somehow transposed the name "Lance" into "Slain" while trying to transfer someone. I have no idea how that happened, but I had the giggles about it the whole rest of the day.

Update, now with even more randomness!: The day of my graduation, I had a really interesting talk with my grandparents on mom's side about that side's family history. Turns out that in the mid-19th century, part of the family were well-off plantation owners in Virginia. I searched the name, came up with a ton of relevant hits, and ended up posting to a geneaology site trying to track the marriage from the Claytor family to the next step in my direct line, my maternal great-grandma. I just got a response. Now that I have full names, I can actually go further with this and try to figure out if they're the right names. I'm so going at this crab-wise and bass-ackwards, but I'm giddy with just getting names to work with.

Comments

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Hunh. I thought Beckers wasn't playing for Madrid any more.
I'm so behind.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I'm only functioning on what the boss tells me, but at least as far as he knows, Beckham is still on. *Shrugs*

[maho-kiwi.livejournal.com]

I think he's still on..
I only think this, of course, because Jeff is going NUTSO over this game -- he just found out monday that it's going to be in Seattle, so he needed to hurry up and order merchandise for it. >->

But he keeps mentioning Beckham, so I assume he's going to be there..

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yeep. Lots of Madrid and DC merchandise in your future, I guess, huh?

And I'm oddly pleased about Beckham. Possibly because he's the only pro soccer player whose name I actually recognize. ;)

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

I've been pretty interested in soccer this year, from what I understand, he's still on the team, but has resigned from being Captain any longer. *I think*
How cool that you get to go, it should be a great game!

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

Lance into Slain is pretty amazing. I would love to hear the thought process that took you from one name to the other!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

It wasn't a process. He said Lance, my brain said Slain. I told Monica Slain, she went "bwuh?" but took the call anyway... and when she got off, she laughed and said "his name is Lance."

And I spent the rest of the day petrified that I was going into early senility or late-onset dyslexia, one or the other. :P

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

And I spent the rest of the day petrified that I was going into early senility or late-onset dyslexia, one or the other.
HeeHee.....Probably just as simple as your good old Vegas ear rot though.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

No, it was a mental thing. I hear these things, they just go in one ear and out the other. Like a lot of times I'll focus too hard on getting one part of someone's name right, and then totally forget the other part. :P

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

Hi, I just talked to Kaylee, she would like the three of us to spend a saturday together soon. She's going to see when she has to be the evening "feeder" at the kennel, so she knows what week she can't do it. When would you be available/like to do it?

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Whenever, just let me know in advance so I don't make plans. Er... at some point in the very-near future, I think Dad was planning on me going out boating with them, but I don't actually know what weekend. So... I should figure that out. o_O

But that'd be awesome!

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

Ooh, boating. fun!!!

[bluerose16.livejournal.com]

I love that song to obscene levels. No, really. But the only thing I've had stuck in my head all week is I Think I Love You. It happens. XD

:D BOOKS! Books are love. I need to finish my summer reading, though. That is less fun. It's not a book, it's a 120-page "literary essay". Read: shit.

Oh, sports are much more fun in person than on TV and all that. ^^

*__* I find genealogy and all that stuff to be really, paralysingly boring. Which is weird, as I am such a history whore. But I'm glad you are liking it.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I'm totally with you on the love, it was just killing me earlier, with being a constant presence in my brain. *Headdesk*

Books are totally love. Except the ones that are boring. I actually kind of like literary essays (...English major, that's my only excuse...), but even the good ones aren't as good as a normal book.

This is what I'm hoping. And, if nothing else, it's free!

It depends, for me. I have no skill at it whatsoever, but I kind of enjoy it whenever I do manage to weasel some tiny little fragment of information out.

[pat-t.livejournal.com]

Lol, when I think of "Not a Virgin" I think of the Highlander vid by that name with that song. It *so* fits Duncan. *g*

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Oh my. I haven't seen that vid yet, but it definitely sounds like something that would fit!

[miss-arel.livejournal.com]

having to repeat the name something like four times without slipping into fandom-default was... exciting.

Try calling your patient "Miss Turner" without slipping into Barbossa-voice. Big fun. XD

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

*Sporfles* Oh yeah. Our fandom lives don't interfere with our real lives at all, no sir. >_>

[(Anonymous)]

Nope. Not a bit. :D (If this lady wasn't, like, 40, it would've been even harder to resist the temptation. ^^)

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