Bluejay's Friends

8:15AM - stupid people leaving dog around

The people in 81 left a gray and white pit bull on their porch this morning and seem to not be home. He's been whining and howling all morning, and when I went outside to check the mail, I guess that was just too much excitement and he finally jumped the fence and came up to say hi to me.

I didn't really feel like touching him too much because he looks like he has some kind of skin disease. He's got patches of fur missing. Not really the cutest dog ever but very friendly.

I looked in their porch, and they've got a crate in there that's closed (with the dog not in there) and full of diarrea. Yuck! Another reason why I didn't want to touch this dog. Then there's lawn chairs in there which probably made it easy for him to jump out. He has a bowl of water in there but no food.

I was going to complain to the apartment office but they don't open until 9 am.

I ended up picking him up and putting him back in the porch (he was heavy!), and then I went and took a shower because I don't want to catch mange from him. Now he's wimpering again and I guess it's just a matter of time before he gets out again.

I just don't want him to get hit by a car. And he's a pit bull so I know not everyone will react the way I did seeing a pit bull running around. He even has the cropped ears to make him look mean, even though he was all tail-waggy and smiley when he jumped his fence to come play with me.

I gotta leave soon to be somewhere at 9 to pick up some equipment, but you think maybe when I get back I should call animal control? This dog is most certainly NOT being kept in a proper place.

11:17PM - Incommunicado

Hey gang - my phone has gone wonky. I can receive phone calls, but the screen is going in and out, which makes returning calls, reading texts or even seeing the missed calls a bit hard. Hopefully will have something new soon, but for now, please email if you need something.

5:49PM - What comes of boredom::New Favourite Quotations

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library." ~Jane Austen

"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them." ~Jane Austen

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a novel must be intolerably stupid." ~Jane Austen

2:48PM - tourney preparation

A nice, lazy Sunday. My family is back in southeast Texas and Dad and I slept in a little and went out to shoot this morning. Great practice, totally wonderful. Did some tuning at 30m with my backup bow and had some great ends at 70m. I really feel like I'm getting a grip on myself again. The phrase "releasing resistance" fits very well in my mind.

I'm going into town this afternoon and Wednesday to do some pre-trip shopping. I need some skinny-leg khakis to go with my boots that are hopefully going to be finished this week!! It's not ideal--I wish I'd had a couple weeks to break them in here at home first, but they are still custom-made cowboy boots and I will probably get them in time for England. The design is really kick ass, layered spirals in this sweet burgundy red-wine hue. I have classy little longhorns on the backs. Can't wait to see how they turn out and how they feel!

Also, Dad and I have been watching the tennis finals, very exciting! He's been teaching me the complex rules which I've always shrugged off. I think I have a better handle on them now, which is nice because in Beijing we have tickets to the Wheelchair Tennis finals. Anyway, I've noticed that the matches at Wimbledon keep getting called in the afternoons for rain. It's England, it's a given that it will be rainy and a little chilly even in July, so I knew this. But I might go by Academy and poke through some imitation underarmor longsleeves.

This is going to be a great month. A summer to remember.

10:12AM - Driving me crazy

Does anyone remember a music video where a girl goes to a dance in school and has her shawl torn off showing her deformed shoulder blades that were/become wings?

It's driving me crazy that I can't remember what song this was for.

8:47PM - Why had i not bothered to do this sooner

i don't know about y'all but grocery shopping is not fun - i'm trying (in vain) to have less of me either less pounds or more toned pounds and all the darn carbs at the store make me feel fat and ugly. if not for that there is the standing in line, and loading and unloading and for me  there is 3 flights of stairs i have to climb to get the damn things  to the house.....


to night i find all we have are carbs and i wanted protein i didn't want to run to the store and shop i worked all day - so i started looking  for a grocery delivery service here in town. and i found one www.austingrocer.com. i looked about and i could but for like 3 things never ever ever leave the house for groceries ever again ... how nice would that be- we still need to do some more looking in to it and see where they are getting them from but i think this could be a great thing

*Zen*

 also found http://dineondemandonline.reachlocal.net/ordering/restrnts/ for when we( by which i mean me since boys are never) tired of pizza

9:36AM - Really?

Not that I don't love them - for those of you who've read my story and those who will read it in the future, you know I have no compunctions about their use in fiction - but are we seriously talking about using zepplins?

Cause, if so...um...that's cool.

11:36PM

My sister is making me fat. She brought money from mom to do fun stuffs so we had lunch at Chuys and dinner at Star Seeds. Cholesterol owns my body.

3:40PM - July 5th BBQ!

Just a reminder, please feel free to begin showing up around 4pm. You may want to bring a chair as I really only have a dozen or so if I pull out everything I have (camping chairs and computer chairs included).

You are welcome to bring something to put on the grill, a side, a dessert, whatever you want.

I will be providing hamburgers, sausages, veggie hotdogs, portabello mushrooms (the last two are for vegetarians and vegans to have first choice of - then everyone else can have what's left), sodas, some margarita mixins, strawberry shortcake, salad, and whatever else I feel like making.

I look forward to seeing everyone!

11:49AM - The problem with perfectionism...

is that I have all these projects backing-up, waiting to be tweaked (photos of pallas, flipside, hawaii), made just so, before being shared or filed away as finished. Several of said projects are lj posts going back a few months now, not completed, but not abandoned either, as I continue processing significant events despite the demands of daily mundania, or in the case of my blessed life, the next significant event.

Pallas, Flipside, Hawaii pics and posts all piled up on top of each other before I could finish them and now I'm pushing them back for another 10 days as I prepare to go to the Alex Grey workshop, followed immediately by Lauren's UT orientation. It disturbs my sense of order to have so many things unfinished and yet I'm unwilling to let go of activities like photography and journalling that I love so much... just going to have to live with the fact that my life is much more spiral than straight line...

11:21PM - A knock knock joke for you

 

10:12PM - twitter from a nitwit

• 12:27 Just had an awesome swim! Nana and Granddad came and Dad took lots of high speed video and taught me a better kick turn. :D #
• 14:33 Mom is still insanely busy so I made everyone spinach romaine salads for lunch, and bowls of nectarines and blueberries. #
• 14:35 My aunt is giving me a very uneasy feeling. She is heavily medicated and has taken over my second floor. *retreats to office* #
• 16:41 Shooting quickly before we head out to the Oasis. #
• 17:56 Wow, I was shampooed, conditioned, dried, dressed, makeuped, jewelried, and out the door again 15 mins from my last arrow! #
• 19:09 This view is amazing. I live on the lake and even I think the Oasis has a kick ass view! :) #
• 19:37 Two margs later i'm pretty buzzed but bored to death and sleepy and sunset and fireworks are forever away. #
• 21:10 We left early. I would like to not be with my relatives right now. #

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5:35PM

OMG The Alamo is having an ABBA singalong on the 13th. Anyone?

I had a day of adventures. I went to the mall to buy pants, which is a lot easier now that I've started buying petites. At least it is once I find the petite section. Its never mixed in with regular women's clothes. Its always on the 3rd floor tucked behind housewares and tools, where you'd never think to go to look for pants. But thanks to the 4th of July sales I was able to get a couple pairs of work pants plus 2 pairs of nice sandals that could be worn with skirts in a business casual environment. Then I ran around with Rowan & Amanda, looked at rings at Things Celtic, looked at tents at Academy and had an all-around good time.

They sell FLDS chlidren's clothing online. Oh please let them be available in 5 years. I'm totally dressing up my children like little cult members. Oh man, best Halloween costume ever.

My sister comes to visit tomorrow!!!!

4:21PM - How I liked Hawai'i, in some kinda Prose-poem thing

The word Hawai'i now makes me think
 of hula skirts and smiling people.
Blue has a new definition.
 And though I grew up near the shores
 of the largest freshwater lakes in the world,
I now feel how light, warm, and wet 
Earth really is. Earth,
she's some kinda woman
Hawai'ian Islands are jewels she wears.
As a water sign I now identify
with a bigger manifestation
of my element... a  whole lot bigger. 
I'm starting to feel reminded of the moon
 but in the summer you rarely see her
 not realizing sometimes you don't realize it.
(it just depends on how late your out, or early your up)
 I feel like I'm in the summer of my life.
I'm starting the halfway point of a revolution.
I've accepted that my life is going to be hot for a while.
It's a good place to be.
That is what Hawaii was for me.
An epiphany of my past, present, and near future.

4:05PM - Mental Ramblings of a Sane man

Sane;

1. Of sound mind; mentally healthy: “their protector, the strongest and sanest of them all” (Pat Conroy).
2. Having or showing sound judgment; reasonable

Insanity is a sane reaction to an insane world.

Pandora utilizes an intelligent search algorithm to organize music in a manner predictable by user feedback. It could also easily be reversed to collect pure demographic data by applying an algorithm to the habitual consumer demographics of said music and apply the search to the user base, achieving yet another amazingly precise consumer indexing for reference by whom? Who actually would care what the next level of resolution achievable by further knowing your target audience? Who would actually need that? Do "They" care? Do they really exist!? Or are They just a legal entity? I was thinking about legal entities the other day and I realized that they tend to represent whole collectives of people working to a particular end. The way these companies are constructed is not unlike the common sub-cellular elements that exist in nature. Yet they act as both a primitive type of organization - in comparison to the organization that the human species itself acts on and toward all of natural order. Whoa! Natural Order. WTF! Okay. so.... I just realized I'm of the opinion that Natural Order is entirely subjective. Train of thought crashed five minutes late of 3:15 MST

4:10PM

Rain!!!!

12:57PM - Poised

I am waiting, energy gathered and stilled for the moment that is coming.

I've been ready for so long, that nervousness has fallen away and the deeper, subverbal currents of feeling are all that is left to my internal life.

There is no need to exaggerate nor possibilty of diminishing the size of what is coming. Some changes are susceptible to the whims of a perception driven by fear and hope. This one is too great for that - it is as undeniable as the hurricane or earthquake through which Nature reveals her full force. It is perfect and devastating in its power and inevitability.

Choices were made long ago to bring me into this great force's path. Some were before memories, others more recent. The last was an answer to a Call that did not require my understanding, only my trust. This will come now, if for no other reason than my desire of it being has become greater than my own entirety.

The only decision left to me at this moment is how desperately I will cling to what I was.

Could I have understood how fundamentally altering this would be? How its power would rip away my constructed bits of self like a wind stripping leaves from a tree? How its great current would scour my identity and leave only the basalt bedrock of what I am and am meant to be?

I will not hold on to what I was, but I will not seek to rid myself of it either. I will only let go and find out what is to be taken away and what is to be taken with me. I must risk the terrifying possiblity that there will be nothing left after this is done for the single hope that the uncompromising core of who I am will be found on the other side. This will either decimate me entirely or make my soul irrevocably manifest in the world.

Destiny is the undeniable force which draws us toward ourselves. To follow it, though, we must first let go of all we are.

10:48AM

Lesson of the internet: When searching for recipes, one should think twice before googling "cream pie."

12:59AM - Geekery stolen from Goo

http://www.helloquizzy.com/results/the-commonly-confused-words-test/?fromCGI=1&var_Beginner=14&var_Intermediate=14&var_Advanced=15&var_Expert=14

10:15PM - twitter from a nitwit

• 15:10 Today is going much better. Practice went so well I shot 106 arrows! Now at PT and later my first pedi with Laurel. :) #

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