Random ruminations
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saxikathBeen a while since I updated. Some random things that have happened, tidbits I learned, and general braindump:
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(My alternates, next on the scores, were Shield Bearer, Sentry, or Hero.)
And one for you all, swiped fromthedan:
1. What do you call me?
2. What song makes you think of me, and why?
3. If you could give me one present, what would it be?
4. What one thing/event do you associate with me?
5. How well do you think you know me?
- Damn, but that was a long, tough Mystery Hunt. There were some brilliant puzzles and we had a lot of fun... but 67 hours? Sheesh.
- Damn, but ACRONYM rocks. We came within a couple hours and a few puzzles of winning, despite having not worked together as a whole group before. Nice job, guys.
- Quote of the Hunt, for me at least:
Me: "Oh my god, it's a phonetic cryptogram."
M/W: [makes flabbergasted face]tahnan asks what the face means, is it fear, or what?
M/W: "That's my brain leaving out the back door while my face distracts you." - Commuting by car is going to get old in a hurry. About an hour and a quarter each way. Manchester's a nice city, though, maybe I'll get to know it some.
- Things I learned: Don't leave liquid laundry detergent in the car in the winter. I swear there were bits of ice in it.
- I don't know that I've ever before today woken up to the radio telling me it was 3 degrees in Boston.
- I had my first-ever personal training session at the gym tonight. The trainer taught me a bunch of free-weight exercises and how to use some equipment I hadn't used before. And I have one more session to go. (Christmas gift from mom.)
- I'm sorry I missed Sweeney, it looks like it was cool.
- lj's servers are being annoying tonight.
- I need to start doing lots of crosswords to get ready for Stamford. My brochure came yesterday; quite glossy this year!
- I hope my first issue of The Enigma comes out okay. *twitch*
- I still haven't seen Two Towers. Or Chicago. I need to go to the movies!
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(My alternates, next on the scores, were Shield Bearer, Sentry, or Hero.)
And one for you all, swiped from
thedan:1. What do you call me?
2. What song makes you think of me, and why?
3. If you could give me one present, what would it be?
4. What one thing/event do you associate with me?
5. How well do you think you know me?
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Date: 2003-01-23 08:36 pm (UTC)Nah...Vubbalubbentubbine. That's it.
2. "Oh My Darling, Clementine". (Do you remember why?)
3. Hmmm...I dunno. A Scrabble set, maybe. I bet you're really good at Scrabble.
4. Crossword puzzles and Valentine's Day, of course. :-)
5. Not as well as I used to, I suppose. It's been a while.
(What is a phonetic cryptogram, by the way?)
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Date: 2003-01-24 06:35 am (UTC)Of course. :)
3. Hmmm...I dunno. A Scrabble set, maybe. I bet you're really good at Scrabble.
I would love a Scrabble set, as mine went missing some years ago. But actually, I'm not nearly as good at Scrabble as you'd expect given how word-puzzly I am generally.
(What is a phonetic cryptogram, by the way?)
It's like a regular cryptogram, except that each symbol (this one used an invented script) stands for a sound, rather than a letter. You can find the one from the Hunt here.
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Date: 2003-01-23 08:56 pm (UTC)2. What song makes you think of me, and why?
3. If you could give me one present, what would it be?
4. What one thing/event do you associate with me?
5. How well do you think you know me?
1. Kath
2. Anything by Alanis Morrisette
3. A plane ticket to Detroit
4. Revolving doors
5. Not as well as I used to, unfortunately.
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Date: 2003-01-24 06:28 am (UTC)Do I even want to know why? :)
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Date: 2003-01-24 08:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-24 01:43 am (UTC)1. Kath. Occasionally if the context calls for it, Kabeta.
2. You'll have to wait and see.
3. Remember that trip to London we talked about years ago?
4. Actually there are a couple...the time we went to the zoo on new year's day a couple of years ago, and of course the TCG parties.
5. Probably not very.
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Date: 2003-01-24 06:31 am (UTC)Well, that's nicely mysterious. :)
3. Remember that trip to London we talked about years ago?
Oh, I'd forgotten that conversation! But now that you mention it...
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Date: 2003-01-24 06:41 am (UTC)Kath or Kat.
2. What song makes you think of me, and why?
The finale from Iolanthe, for probably obvious reasons...:)
3. If you could give me one present, what would it be?
Tickets to the show of your choice on Broadway. Someday when I have money.
4. What one thing/event do you associate with me?
Throwing my stuffed leopard at you.
5. How well do you think you know me?
Not terribly well
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Date: 2003-01-24 08:20 am (UTC)*boggle* I don't have the remotest memory of this. When did it happen?
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Date: 2003-01-24 09:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-24 07:49 am (UTC)2. Anything I've heard you perform, certainly... but I fear the Buttercup numbers produce the strongest associations. *ducks and runs for cover*
3. Your Faerie Queene cloak (guess I'd have to steal it from Kate C. somehow).
4. I suppose "MITG&SP" is the overarching answer. To narrow it down more interestingly, let's say: Your writing all those brilliant G&S crosswords for our green room entertainment. I really missed them during Pirates!
5. Not as well as I'd like :-)
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Date: 2003-01-24 08:31 am (UTC)A great many things. Most recently, I think, "irrepressible."
2. What song makes you think of me, and why?
Again, several candidates here, but I'll go with Lavender, for reasons most people here could figure out with a little effort.
3. If you could give me one present, what would it be?
A stable and fulfilling job within your ZIP code?
4. What one thing/event do you associate with me?
There is no way I can narrow this down to one. As a major player in three separate stages of my life (so far), you can go ahead and take your pick of associations.
5. How well do you think you know me?
About as well as I know anyone I don't see on a weekly basis, I'd asy.
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Date: 2003-01-24 08:35 am (UTC)Something I don't think anyone else has ever called me. :)
A stable and fulfilling job within your ZIP code?
Sigh... a nice thought.
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Date: 2003-01-25 08:16 am (UTC)A propos of even less, what the heck does the ACRONYM tag do? I just noticed it in the list of usable tags in the list here...
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Date: 2003-01-24 09:21 am (UTC)2. Many, many, many. Right now, it's "Les Anges Dans Nos Campagnes", because someone was whistling it in the hall and you were the person I watched for the downbeat.
3. A job you loved that didn't screw you over on paychecks or require you to drive long distances.
4. Too many!! Random choice: writing the Supreme Hydrator sketch for last year's Hunt.
5. Not all that well yet, in spite of having known you for (by my standards) a relatively long time. Ask me again in another nine years. :)
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Date: 2003-01-24 09:56 am (UTC)Can it still truly be called "liquid laundry detergent" under those circumstances?
I haven't seen Two Towers either. Chicago was cool.
1. Kat
2. Well, sadly, "I'm called Little Buttercup." Your hack version. Ack! Davie's website is gone with his Athena account! Did anyone keep a copy of the lyrics from it? I should put it in the mitg&sp archives!
3. I'm terrible with presents. I tried giving you a job, but that trick never works for me.
4. I dunno. Probably Gondoliers more than anything else. Or maybe a certain comment involving the word "throttle," made after a Pirates rehearsal. :-)
5. Not particularly well - our encounters are all in Specific Context. I know you pretty well as a G&S afficianado, performer, and vocal director, and puzzle-maker, but I assume there's more to you than that.
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Date: 2003-01-24 12:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-24 12:33 pm (UTC)Hack Night lyrics
Date: 2003-01-24 11:13 pm (UTC)-Phantom
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HS&M Pinafore (play)
A Hack Night
Wed 14 November 2001
La Sala de Puerto Rico
These are the songs from Hack night.
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I'm called Little Buttercup
by Katherine Bryant
I'm called Little Buttercup,
Dear little Buttercup,
Tell me, what did I do wrong?
Oh, why is poor Buttercup,
Poor little Buttercup,
Stuck with this insipid song?
The words are all sappy;
The meter's not snappy;
The tune is annoying, to boot.
My props are distracting
My mind from my acting
And sailors who are just too cute.
It's driving me crazy!
My mind's going hazy --
I'll keep going nuts till it stops.
It's so bad, I'm thinking
Of coping by drinking
This excellent peppermint schnapps!
So tell little Buttercup,
Dear little Buttercup,
Gilbert, please give a reply;
Oh, tell little Buttercup,
Poor little Buttercup:
Why, Mr. Sullivan, why?
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He is at MIT
by David Euresti
He is at MIT,
For he's always problem setting,
and sleep he's never getting,
Since he goes to MIT
For he could've gone to Harvard,
or Princeton, Yale, or Stanford,
Or Perhaps the AFA.
But inspiste of opportunities,
to attend these universities
He remains at MIT,
He remains at MIT.
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The Hours Creep on Apace
by Bridget Copley
The hours creep on apace.
My guilty heart is ruing --
Ah, that I might undo
What Steph has got me doing --
Its folly it were easy to be showing,
What I am giving up, and whither going.
On the one hand,
E39, filled with linguistics lads and lasses,
Big conferences in distant Santa Cruz,
Rare languages, aspectual verb classes,
Rich Indonesian data sets for my dissertation,
And hopefully, a speedy graduation!
And on the other,
A dark rehearsal room in W20 with everybody singing,
Where directors yell, and clashing divas fume,
and Dick Deadeye overboard they are flinging,
Where moments to get work done are rarities,
And dinner is bad sushi from LaVerde's!
Amid this great cacophony,
Untiring and unknown,
We toil for Todd and Stephanie,
Till half the night has flown.
No PhD can they impart,
No fine commencement dress,
No fortune -- save this silly part,
And love of G&S!
And yet, I'm so behind, you know,
That if I choose to do this show,
To sing upon this set so pretty,
I'll have to lie to my committee.
Oh, god of love, and god of research, say
Which of you twain shall my poor heart obey?
Amid this great cacophony,
Untiring and unknown,
No PhD can they impart,
No fine commencement dress,
No fortune -- save this silly part,
And love of G&S!
Oh, god of love, and god of research, say
Which of you twain shall my poor heart obey?
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A British Tart
By Emily Hanna and Jacquie Felton
A British tart is a sordid soul
As cheap as a Mountain Dew
She never can resist a cute sailor when she's pissed
In fact she'll take a few
Re: Hack Night lyrics
Date: 2003-01-25 08:39 am (UTC)http://web.mit.edu/gsp/www/Archive/2001fall_pinafore/hacksongs.html
And thanks to Evan there are now character descriptions for Utopia, too.
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Date: 2003-01-24 10:24 am (UTC)Oh, and I was a Shield Bearer on the quiz (second: Retainer). Go figure.
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Date: 2003-01-24 11:08 am (UTC)