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Parched Corn and Hard-tak

Standard reenactment/encampment foods.   Easy and quick to make, filling, semi-healthy.  Also great for hiking trips.

This is the sweetest thing I've seen on this board EVER.

Meh.  I don't really enjoy this class.  I'm only taking it because it was there.  (also, I'm not really good at art-type-stuff)

I can't seem to find a major that I really enjoy, so I'm thinking of switching to Secondary Education.  I'd make a good high school English or History teacher.

That's the smurfiest thing ever!

Especially since I DELIVER NEWSPAPERS FOR A LIVING!  This will begin ASAP.

Actually, I'm pretty-well happy with the way things are right now.  Been busting my ass to get it this way, but it was totally worth it.  I should have my elder brother read this rant though. 

hey i'm really glad that a year after posting, some people are getting good things from this.

i think i stumbled across it years before that as well, before i met Discordia.

If I had been here a year ago, I probably would have read it then and said the same thing.

Actually, I've been pretty-well enjoying this thread. 

Reading it is probably the most educational thing I've done in over a week.  Philosophy is not something that I know much of anything about (unless you count Christian theology, which I know a great deal about), but I find it quite interesting.

(Thank my mother-in-law for surprising me with a new digital camera last night.)

awesome! does it have a video function for your other project maybe?

It does.  Though, I'm still afraid that my taping the meeting would be to conspicuous.

 

This brought to mind SOOOOOO many people. 

Actually, I used a facial primer first.  Great for avoiding perspiration.  My main concern is that my nose itches like crazy right now, and scratching it would screw up the salt. 

Okay.  I have an asshole teacher for my Theatrical Artistry class.  He decided since it's October, we should do something "fun". 

Thus, Aspects of Nature:  an exercise in stage makeup.  Each student picks something from a ridiculous pimp-hat that he likes to wear to class sometimes, and then we have to come up with an upper-face mask for that thing.  We wear our creation to class, and then he's going to put us each along the outer wall of the room, and we are to close our eyes and walk towards the center of the room, and trade our subject with the first person we bump into.

The catch is that we had to include things that we would normally have in/around our house. 

I drew "Ice". 



Doesn't show up as well as I would like in the picture, but down the bridge of my nose, I used rock salt and it had a nice effect.  It reacts weird to spirit gum (there was foaming and lots of stinging and crying), so I actually ended up basically painting hair gel onto my face, and sticking the salt crystals to it with a pair of tweezers.

(Thank my mother-in-law for surprising me with a new digital camera last night.)

It will be a pain in the ass to keep this crap on my face for another 6 hours.  I should have waited till later.  I still have to get dressed!

If I were remotely good at prose, I would participate.  However, it baffles me. 

I think that I lack the attention span for prose. I want to see the De Sade Tribute though.

Holy carp, Batman!

That's brilliant!

[incredible physical flexibility]

incredible physical flexibility

Please provide details.

For starters, I can bend over backward and kiss the floor. . .

Link my hands behind my back and pull them all the way over my head to the front. . .

Plus various other things that my husband would be very jealous about anyone else seeing and/or knowing about. 

ehh...it takes alot of patience and compassion to deal with someone who's old and knows they're dying. that's a scary thing for most people and frequently puts them in a mindset and provokes reactions that may not be entirely rational and which they would not normally have engaged in, and if you agree to take that work you kind of have to factor that into your thinking. there's no excuse for someone assaulting you physically, but it also doesn't sound like you have the best temperament for that kind of work. that's not a slam on you, it's an extraordinarily rare (and frequently otherwise pathologically disturbed) personality that is suited to caring for the dying.

This actually did make me feel better. <3