Mar. 11th, 2005

evile: (clutter)

    Mar. 11, 2005

     

     

    I read A's latest RP post from HFSCR, then went looking in google
    for "Satarma" which she is claiming her character to be.

    I found, amazingly, her exact words (unattributed) from some kind of
    world of darkness game thingy.

    hm.

    http://www.blackdays.net/NbN/charcreation/romelements.html

    Spirit:
    Such Rom are the rarest of the claimed. These Rom are known for their
    long memories, and the Blood always seems to run strong among such
    folk. Blessed with at least a small amount of magic, these Rom have a
    remarkable understanding of human nature and the true consequences of
    people's actions. Many of these Rom become the wise ones of their
    families, while others become matchmakers or historians, committing
    tremendous amounts of knowledge to memory.

    Spirit-kissed Rom are called Satarma. Satarma may choose their
    special Blood Affinity from any of the four types of Romani Magic.

    Satarma may spend two points of Willpower to temporarily increase
    their skill in any form of magic by one point. This increase lasts
    for one scene, and it can even enable a Satarma to increase her
    ability above her Blood Purity level. Although this effect is not
    cumulative, a Satarma may use another two points of Willpower to
    increase a second magical speciality (if they have one) during the
    same scene.


    http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Labyrinth/5040/bloodmasks/gypsycr
    eation.html

    Dance of Knives: Because of the power of the blood in your veins you
    are able to move at speeds faster than the normal human. By expending
    a level of this affinity you may make an additional attack during the
    normal action phase for every level possesed by the Gypsy. This does
    not give a Gypsy any celerity actions. The first additional action
    will take place on the Swiftness action, providing that any Celerity
    is called. All addtional actions will take place once Celerity has
    finished. A Gypsy may never take a rating of this affinity higher
    than their blood purity level.

evile: (clutter)

 

    Mar. 11, 2005

     

     

    evile: TGIF!!! I bet you're excited :)
    SkyeDS: indeed
    SkyeDS: who's been plagiarizing?
    evile: nobody you know :)
    SkyeDS: <liked the reference to Wilde, I have always loved Wilde and
    Austen best of that era
    SkyeDS: am very happy with the spate of Wilde movies and Austen
    movies recently
    SkyeDS: trying to acquire them as the funds are available
    evile: *nod*
    SkyeDS: Ideal Husband was just precious (Jeremy Northam, the woman
    that played Galadriel, Blanchett? and that Murdoch fellow)
    evile: I like her.
    SkyeDS: and the Importance of Being Earnest with Mark Firth (Bridget
    Jones Diary and Pride & Prejudice- Austen)
    SkyeDS: and also the funny Murdoch fellow
    SkyeDS: omg she was so gorgeous in ideal husband
    SkyeDS: and Julianne moore was in it
    SkyeDS: and minnie driver
    SkyeDS: and they were posing for an artist, nude, with greek hoplite
    helmets, crests and shields
    evile: Julianne Moore is interesting; I am not sure what I think of
    Minnie Driver yet.
    SkyeDS: they were all great in Ideal Husband I thought
    SkyeDS: was just curious about the plagiarizing as I am putting the
    finishing touches of my documentation for Period Parrots
    evile: That's going to be fun :)
    SkyeDS: internet = more places to plagiarize from.
    SkyeDS: what's neat about this is I can tie in Sir Francis Drake, who
    is period, and visited South America, and is a far distant forebear
    of my father's. The SCA should love that.
    evile: neat ;)
    SkyeDS: actually Daddy's forebear = Captain Robert Drake, who was I
    believe Francis brother
    SkyeDS: have you mentioned to this person that they're plagiarizing,
    or do you think they will take the hint from your lyrics. love those
    lyrics, never heard them.
    SkyeDS: I don't know why people purport to love songs and you ask
    them the meaning of the lyrics and they don't even listen to the
    lyrics
    evile: it's not anyone I know that well, so probably won't bother to
    call them on it. Not worth it to me.
    SkyeDS: the last creative thing I wrote was so stream of
    consciousness, it wasn't even funny, and some English teacher ought
    to bitch slap me and then shoot me in the face with a shotgun
    SkyeDS: but the HFS kids, they don't care
    SkyeDS: and I don't mean it was William Faulkner stream of
    consciousness either
    evile: *shrug* as long as it moves the story line foward and/or
    mentions the 'stars' of the story, I think RP writing standards have
    been observed.
    SkyeDS: it was a lot of introduction and exposition and I just wanted
    to get it out of the way
    SkyeDS: I don't expect to be winning a pulitzer any time soon for my
    rp
    SkyeDS: although I used to spend a LOT of time and effort polishing
    my white wolf writing, it was an outlet
    SkyeDS: I get poetic with my prose, I have been praised and
    criticized for that
    evile: It just bugs teh hell out of me when people quote stuff in
    their LJ's and don't bother to attribute their source. I know it's
    not formal writing, but stuff gets quoted requoted metaquoted and if
    the original writer wasn't hte author, it's not fair to keep
    attributing it to them.
    SkyeDS: I remember you telling me to put my name on my poems so
    people knew they were mine
    SkyeDS: that's a good idea. I just kind of figured people would know
    they were mine, since they're obviously not "professional quality"
    evile: I just think it's always a good idea to mention your sources,
    if you got it from somewhere else.
    SkyeDS: hehe I couldn't imagine anyone thinking my silly scribblings
    and bibblings would have come from anybody else (and the one poem
    that was someone else's, obviously much better than mine, the
    Cartwright poem, which had his name and dates on it)
    SkyeDS: if someone feels the need to borrow my silliness and credit
    themselves for it, they be pretty desperate.
    SkyeDS: but borrowing from canonical work and not crediting it is so
    stupid, how do people figure they aren't going to get caught at that
    evile: *shrug* I know people who quote comedians all the time and
    don't credit the original writer.
    SkyeDS: that's even more stupid. as more people I would wager are
    familiar with comedic routines than with the classics nowadays
    evile: no tellin.
    SkyeDS: in the 8th grade our little group that went to every honors
    class together had completely memorized every last word of Bill
    Cosby's Himself
    SkyeDS: we were in science class and reciting all the bones in the
    body from memory
    SkyeDS: and every time one of us had to be up there reciting from
    memory the rest of us would be doing like Chocolate Cake in the back
    of the room and giggling and being distractive
    SkyeDS: I recently borrowed from Cosby to make a new Arthur story -
    what Arthur likes best about stories is the same as songs, he wants
    to hear his name lots
    evile: *nodnod*
    SkyeDS: "How Arthur came to be King Bird ~ the Sword and the Stone" ~
    ala Bill Cosby
    evile: hehe
    SkyeDS: Bye Bye, Bird, I have to forage away from the Kingdom now,
    don't mess with the sword in the stone, be a good bird, ok? sugars.
    SkyeDS: So sineater leaves, and Arthur goes to remove the Sword from the
    Stone
    evile: aww,
    SkyeDS: And sineater comes back to the Kingdom after a long hard day of
    foraging, and there Arthur is, playing with his Sword
    SkyeDS: And sineater said, what did I tell you about the Sword in the
    Stone?
    SkyeDS: and Arthur said, Bad boy. Stop it. Cut it out. Let go.
    You KNOW better.
    SkyeDS: Say you're sorry.
    SkyeDS: And sineater said, didn't I tell you not to play with the Sword
    in the Stone?
    SkyeDS: And ARthur said, Pardon?
    SkyeDS: And sineater repeated himself, and Arthur said, I love you!
    SkyeDS: So sineater said, that's MY sword, give it back. And Arthur
    said, HaHa.
    SkyeDS: (end of story)
    evile: hee, cute.
    SkyeDS: I haven't figured out yet where to incorporate Arthur
    classics like sineater is a big bird, Would you like to buy a bird, and
    We're all going to die.
    evile: heh.
    SkyeDS: anyway, that's an amalgamation of the sword in the stone, and
    Bill Cosby's routine about his child and his coke
    SkyeDS: and of course some of Arthur's favorite riffs
    SkyeDS: you know Arthur gets the Pardon? and then I love you! from
    sineater
    SkyeDS: because if you ask sineater a question he doesn't want to answer,
    the first tack he uses is to pretend he didn't hear you
    SkyeDS: and if you repeat yourself so that he does hear you, he then
    changes the subject.
    evile: heh.
    SkyeDS: I came home one day and asked if Arthur had been a good bird
    and sineater said he had been a brat
    SkyeDS: so I asked Arthur, were you a brat today, and Arthur said,
    Pardon?
    SkyeDS: and I said, have you been a brat today. and Arthur said, I
    love you!
    SkyeDS: it didn't take it long to hit me that he sounded just like
    sineater in both instances.
    evile: not bad for a brain smaller than a walnut.
    SkyeDS: three year old intelligence used to get whatever the two year
    old is motivated for emotionally.
    SkyeDS: they do parrot behavior more than they mimic words.
    SkyeDS: one of the more well known behaviorists was called in to
    figure out why this blue and gold had suddenly started physically
    terrorizing this married woman
    SkyeDS: and come to find out, the bird was bonded to the husband, and
    watched the husband abuse her.
    SkyeDS: (well, duh)
    evile: sad.
    SkyeDS: let's see. I"m not going to do anything about my husband
    abusing me, but I'm going to call in and spend money on a behaviorist
    to tell me what to do about the bird also abusing me.
    evile: a lot of abused people go into a really different headspace,
    it's a self protective thing.
    SkyeDS: I know my priorities are fucked up, but I felt worse for the
    bird
    SkyeDS: as I feel worse for kids than I do adults
    SkyeDS: adults can get themselves out of shit. if they don't for
    whatever reason they don't, but they can
    SkyeDS: kids and animals can't.
    evile: exactly.
    SkyeDS: we had a rash of extraneous stupidity from clients yesterday
    SkyeDS: I wonder how some of these people continue to live and
    breathe when they obviously are too stupid to accomplish those things
    on their own.
    evile: that's a hassle.
    SkyeDS: client: may I speak to Mr. Barton? I transfer them to Hugh,
    and they get Hugh all upset because they've gotten "a notice to
    appear in court on March 16"
    SkyeDS: Hugh says I doubt that, fax me the notice
    SkyeDS: the notice, as it turns out, is for an informal settlement
    conference (which is NOT court, it isn't even SOAH), and it's dated
    for April 16, not March 16 (we're both gone March 16 for vacation)
    SkyeDS: and to top that off April 16 is a Saturday ROFL
    SkyeDS: I told Hugh he should be grateful that at least his secretary
    reads better than that.
    evile: wow.
    SkyeDS: I've been telling Hugh for a long time that part of our New
    Client INformation Package ought to include something to the effect
    that "procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency
    on ours"
    SkyeDS: and so now I figure we should expand that to, "inability to
    read for comprehension on your part does not constitute an emergency
    on ours"
    evile: seems fair
    SkyeDS: I felt bad you know about missing the lesson last Friday
    SkyeDS: so Justina wanted it Monday, and Monday it would have been
    but it rained
    SkyeDS: then she wanted it Thursday, so Thursday it was.
    SkyeDS: then she called at 5 pm on Tuesday to see if I could do it
    like right then.
    SkyeDS: (called work mind you_
    SkyeDS: and I said, um no, I'm at work in Austin and I"m not leaving
    for another hour and a half
    SkyeDS: so then she calls Wednesday to change it to Friday, when she
    knows we're leaving for Houston right after work, and then driving
    all the way to Mississippi, putting serious hours on the road
    SkyeDS: and I said, ok, on the following conditions:
    evile: wow...what is her deal?
    SkyeDS: 1) if you aren't here by 6:30, tough
    SkyeDS: 2) bring cash with you
    SkyeDS: 3) don't drop him off in order to go get cash or your
    checkbook. I'm not willing to babysit him one single minute past end
    of lesson like I normally do without complaint, because as well you
    already know, I'm leaving.
    SkyeDS: if they aren't at the ranch by 6:30, we're loading up and
    leaving right then.
    SkyeDS: if she is there at 6:30 and goes to leave, she'll have to
    take Marshall with her.
    evile: sounds fair
    SkyeDS: I do NOT want Marshall on my hands at 7:31 pm
    SkyeDS: if I cannot avoid that he is, I'm going to put him in the
    truck and call her on our way out and say where do you want me to
    leave him.
    evile: wow.
    SkyeDS: I feel guilty about missing the lesson but this has the
    potential of going way too far.
    evile: *nod*
    SkyeDS: and I"m not fucking around with him either.
    SkyeDS: they're getting exactly one hour of my professional time, no
    more and no less
    SkyeDS: if I get " I'm scared" out of him, he will pet/brush the
    horse for one solid hour and then leave
    evile: sounds like a win win.
    SkyeDS: <mean bitch, not fucking around today
    evile: I do think there's a difference between being a 'mean bitch'
    and stating your boundaries firmly and sticking to them.
    evile: nice does not equal doormat.
    SkyeDS: I really can't figure out my reputation
    SkyeDS: largely it seems people think I'm difficult to deal with
    SkyeDS: I personally know I am not only not difficult, but I don't
    have boundaries like I should have because I'm a lways trying to make
    people happy
    SkyeDS: and then these people who say I'm difficult to deal with, who
    in truth are so accustomed to me playing willow the wisp
    SkyeDS: then say I'm even more difficult to deal with when I do try
    to establish boundaries.
    evile: well, I figure it's mostly like training an animal. You say
    no, keep saying no firmly (no anger or temper, just firm), until the
    new behavior is engrained and does not need to constantly be
    reinforced
    SkyeDS: too, I don't use lesson money to pay the bills
    SkyeDS: lesson money is spending allowance
    SkyeDS: no skin off my nose if I lose a client whose being
    unreasonable
    evile: what I've seen happen (not with you per se but in general) is
    that a new boundary is expressed, the boundary is transgressed, there
    are no consequences for the transgressor. The transgressor starts
    walking all over the boundary-setter, and there continue to be no
    consequences.
    SkyeDS: bidness person gotta figure out how much things are worth to
    their bidness
    evile: Finally one day the boundary setter explodes all over the
    transgressor, and the transgressor is shocked, surprised, and hurt
    because "i've been treating you like this for days/weeks/months/years
    and you never said anything"
    SkyeDS: hence why I wish people would quit using confrontational
    synonymously with combative
    SkyeDS: that is exactly what lack of confrontation brings about
    SkyeDS: an ultimate explosion and combat.
    SkyeDS: I'm a bidness person, I know exactly what's worth what to me,
    and these are my boundaries.
    SkyeDS: You don't like it, I'm not going to be hurt if you take yer
    bidness elsewhere, good luck to you.
    SkyeDS: (Justina, especially, will need it)
    evile: *nod*
    SkyeDS: actually, if I don't set boundaries with training, I won't be
    able to train anyone else's horses at all
    SkyeDS: the whole reason I got out of it was really my own lack of
    boundaries
    SkyeDS: I couldn't stand watching someone destroy 6 days of work in 6
    hours
    SkyeDS: Randy and I talked about that
    SkyeDS: the jist of it was, not in these words but, figure out your
    boundaries, tell people what they are, if they don't like it, they
    can do bidness with someone else.
    SkyeDS: what a novel concept. I can say no.
    SkyeDS: although I have to admit, saying no is almost as much torture
    still as having to put my foot down and make unpopular decisions.
    evile: I never have a hard time saying no, initially. But once I've
    said yes once, I have a hard time going and saying no later on. (ie:
    giving rides to polydinner, and stopping after a few months once it
    becomes apparent that the person isn't grateful and isn't going to
    pay gas money and is starting to expect it as a right rather than
    recognize it as a favor)
    SkyeDS: nodnod, habit
    evile: person in question invited themselves along to Excalibur
    Saturday. I am still trying to figure out the best way to tell him it
    ain't gonna happen
    SkyeDS: would something on the lines of "sorry, can't do it, wish I
    could, but I can't, maybe better luck next time"?
    evile: No I think I really need to make him understand that he's
    asking a favor and people have a right to say no.
    evile: He's a nice guy, funny, etc. but I need to enforce a boundary
    now or else I'm going to blow up at him and that will be the end of
    that. Not fair to either of us.
    SkyeDS: nodnod
    evile: I gave him the opportunity to chip in for gas $ last night and
    he weaseled out of it. It's his parents credit card anyway, so why is
    he being so stingy with it?
    SkyeDS: I don't know him well enough to begin to hazard a guess
    evile: I guess he wants to feel like he owes his parents as little as
    possible...
    evile: this is one of those grand opportunities to use the truth as a
    can opener rather than a sledgehammer. I hope I don't fuck it up.
    SkyeDS: Hugh just complimented me again on my ability to soothe
    clients ruffled feathers
    SkyeDS: I told him I really value those compliments highly, because
    a) I know I'm completely socially inept and b) I'm very high strung
    myself, so it's a real effort for me to deal with high strung clients
    evile: good for you :)
    SkyeDS: I say all that because, I have no good advice to offer you
    for not fucking up
    SkyeDS: just emotional support for whatever that's worth
    evile: thanks :)
    evile: sometimes it's good just to have someone to blow off steam
    with...helps to lay out what's frustrating me, and figure out what
    can be said/done to make it better.
    SkyeDS: sounding board. Good Thing (tm)
    evile: *nod* exactly. I appreciate it.
    SkyeDS: <hugs> :D
    evile: *hugs* Thank you :)
    evile: Lots of good things to look forward to. No sense dwelling on
    the small irritations.
    SkyeDS: I'm cramping and tired and about to bleed. This is good
    because it means I"m not pregnant.
    SkyeDS: I drive 120+ miles every day. This is good because I have a
    job to drive to.
    evile: *nod*
    SkyeDS: I can go to the bathroom, which is good, because dialysis
    SUCKS
    SkyeDS: and I'm going on the first real vacation I've had in I can't
    remember how long, and I have a memory like an elephant.
    SkyeDS: and it's picture perfect outside.
    SkyeDS: and I love my children, and I love my men.
    evile: Y'all are going to have a great time at the sca event :)
    SkyeDS: normally my pay periods are 11 days
    SkyeDS: sometimes more, sometimes less
    SkyeDS: this is going to put equal holes in two checks rather than
    one big hole in one check
    evile: *nod*
    SkyeDS: and the second check would have been a very unusual 14 day
    pay period
    SkyeDS: excuse me, 12 day pay period
    SkyeDS: and I don't feel as bad, missing 3 days from a 12 day period,
    as from an 11 day or less period.
    evile: true.
    SkyeDS: I decided we were doing war because I don't care what our
    finances look like, we're paying ourselves first, dammit
    SkyeDS: and you know what, it isn't going to kill us
    SkyeDS: it isn't even going to hurt much
    evile: that's good.
    SkyeDS: I watch you. I learn.
    evile: ...Ok. I guess that's good....
    SkyeDS: I can pay for this in cash. Even t hough the kids are behind
    on their rent.
    SkyeDS: I have $300 on plastic ina ddition to cash in case of
    emergency, but I don't plan to use it otherwise.
    evile: cash is good.
    SkyeDS: and I bet you're a happier person because you treat yourself
    to vacations. Like Vegas etc.
    SkyeDS: you spend money on yourself, you're happy because of it, and
    you're financially responsible at the same time, ergo it must be
    possible to do all those things at once.
    evile: I sure hope so...
    evile: 2005 is the year I finally kill my plastic debt. I've got a
    plan & trying hard to stick with it.
    SkyeDS: I was doing good. I got set back. When the setback goes
    away, as it will, and as it already is in progress of doing, I will
    go back to doing good again
    evile: *nod*
    SkyeDS: (ie putting money in savings and paying double on cards)
    evile: It's theoretically possible I could get out of debt quicker,
    BUT I would have to stop doing ANYTHING other than paying bills...and
    I know that makes me depressed and unfunctional. So I will go slower
    on paying debts, save money, and spend a little here and there on
    things that make my life worth living.
    SkyeDS: that works really well for you, and that's why I'm emulating
    it.
    SkyeDS: and i was SO proud of me for six months
    evile: I hope it works for both of us, then :)
    SkyeDS: and it enabled me to deal with a setback that would have put
    me against an immovable wall had I NOT been good for six months
    evile: *nod* Yup. I enjoy having a cushion, "just in case" and then
    if the just in case doesn't happen, more $ for me to play!
    SkyeDS: when I'm cheap I'm very cheap, and when I decide to blow a
    wad, I blow a huge one.
    SkyeDS: "why did you spend x # hundreds of dollars on native costume
    from Egypt?"
    SkyeDS: because I could :)
    evile: heh. there ya go.
    SkyeDS: I don't know if anyone's ever guilt tripped you or tried
    about your trips and other pleasures, but you don't seem to let it
    get you down or stop you.
    evile: The nice thing about being an adult and having a job is that
    nobody gets to tell me how to spend my money. After I take care of
    my obligations to the household, the rest is for me to do with as I
    please.
    SkyeDS: damn straight. we can eat dessert first if we want to.
    evile: hee. ABSOLUTELY.
    SkyeDS: Imina go slipsliding into my grave with adult beverage in one
    hand and something sweet in the other whoopin and hollerin thank you.
    evile: *grinz*
    SkyeDS: I was doing some research on Epicurus the other day, and I
    shouldn't have been surprised, but Epicurean Hedonism is grossly
    misused term now.
    evile: imagine that :P
    SkyeDS: way cool fonts page: http://fonts.lordkyl.net/fonts.php?
    category=9&page=1
    evile: I have Altenburg somewhere.
    evile: OMG, I love felisviolaceous' new user icon. She is so incredibly
    gorgeous. Too bad she's got such a lousy personality.
    http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/25993115/3402080
    (thenakedredhead on LJ)
    SkyeDS: look at her with the mute button engaged ;P
    evile: easier said than done. girl is LOUD.
    SkyeDS: earplugs :)
    SkyeDS: or, alternatively, encase your ears between a pair of
    desirable thighs
    SkyeDS: <ducks and runs.
    evile: heh.
    SkyeDS: I know, bad Skye, bad, bad
    evile: If I ever did a scene with her the first thing I'd whip out is
    a ball gag.
    evile: I think she has it in her head that everyone spends time with
    her BECAUSE of her loudness, rather than in spite of it.
    evile: I was hoping she'd settle down as she spent more time with scrith
    (and ladydreamtime) but that doesn't seem to be happening.
    SkyeDS: Ladydreamtime = fascinating. So is Kulilinei.
    evile: I like them both an awful lot.
    SkyeDS: you surround yourself with exotic, exalted personages.
    evile: I do meet cool people. :)
    evile: I had to apologize to everyone at poly dinner last night, for
    being so totally nasty
    SkyeDS: ther ear emuch better MG's to have big groups at.
    SkyeDS: even Rundberg is better than downtown
    SkyeDS: and there's a lovely one on 183/Anderson Mill
    evile: Yeah. The one at 183 was the one Chance meant when she
    suggested it.
    SkyeDS: Hugh left his cell phone here
    SkyeDS: I have instructions to call him when an important thing
    happens, and his cell phone is here
    evile: uh oh. Did he already leave for his vacay?
    SkyeDS: plus his wife wants to change their lpans and I can't tell him
    SkyeDS: because his cell phone is here
    evile: dang...
    SkyeDS: and I don't think he remembers at all that I need to get to
    the SOS today before 5.
    SkyeDS: I foresee a note in his chair in the very near future.
    evile: oh dear.
    evile: We just got totally caught up & I've got half an hour to kill.
    Browsing igourmet.com is dangerous yet fun
    evile: Cavalia's next stop is Toronto, apparently...thats' only a
    $300 plane ticket...
    evile: *sigh* I just love window shopping :)
    SkyeDS: HUGS, need to go now
    SkyeDS: wind to your wings :)
    evile: have a wonderful trip!
    SkyeDS: grazie belleza :)

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