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seandc(Do not adjust your set... we have control of the vertical I'm just backdating this since I wrote most of it yesterday, and is all relevant to yesterday.)
So, today was PROSH Day - when the students of UWA roam the streets selling a spoof newspaper for charity filled with uni humour and the abandon to write the it's-what-we're-all-thinking sketches (I wouldn't let our more innocent friends read it though *covers a certain pair of eyes*).
But anyway, the main part of PROSH day is the array of costumes the PROSHers parade around in while selling the "passports to the city". On the platform at the bus station were a pair of orange-and-black tiger-people (didn't see them at first, just spotted the c-girl making her way down the crowds as I was thinking of going up to the concourse). On the way through town on the other bus I spotted: living statues, a slumber party, a British explorer (I didn't know the pith helmet came with footy shorts), Pac-man, punk rockers and rappers, foreign officials, cops, hula girls, mad scientists (ok, they may have been normal scientists, but where's the fun in not being mad scientists?), a caveman, Willy Wonka and a squad of Oompa-Loompas, and a wide selection of capes, flags and boas amongst those who didn't go in for a specific costume.
On the way home I spotted a trio of red-capped parrots in a low pencil-pine - very shy birds, so hard to see in the trees before they fly away. On the way in though the bus is going by a new way, up and across the end of a bridge (built up over a natural depression). But this did bring up at perfect level with a Banksia tree down the bank, with a flock of black cockatoos, who flew off directly level with our windows.
Just call me sensei - got another prac student, have been bamboozling him with interlibrary loans, and the vastly exciting world of watching me search databases for a reference question. Of course, this is just in the spaces when S isn't around, since I'm meant to be doing mainly records stuff (or sudden switchboard shifts for [Zapp Brannigan voice] a mano-a-computer struggle for supremacy! The computers and software are old, and some functions need... persuading).
Ok, so I'm late jumping on this bandwagon again, I didn't feel like posting at the time everyone else was...
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 161.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
"It was at this stage that Lance Corporal Bernard Gordon took the initiative for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross."
From Victoria Cross : Australia's finest and the battles they fought, by Anthony Staunton. 2005 (3rd) edition.
Careful now.
Borrowed from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
justace:
Answer this quiz like it was 10 years ago...
1) How old were you: 16
2) What grade were you in: 12
3) Where did you go to school: Northam Senior High School sux
4) Where did you work: Nowhere if I could help it *ba-dum-tish*
5) Where did you live: Um... I think by April we'd just moved... yes, were were in Beverley already, in Dawson Street. That house started with a four-room cottage about a hundred years ago, and they just added layers out back over the years. My room had windows in three walls, and only one of them was outside! There was also a massive deep garage with old kitchen fittings in it.
6) How was your hair style: Long and thick - only 100 miles from my barber...
7) Did you wear braces: No. Who am I, Urkel? *heh-heh-heh-heh-heh snort
snort*
8) Did you wear contacts: *shudder* No
9) Did you wear glasses: No. Only the occasional goggles in science. And as we know "The goggles do nothing!"
10) Who was your best friend(s): Friends? Ok, I'm not that bad. Probably Russell, Miko, Dazza and The Sarge. Just don't ask me for an enemies list, or we'll be here all night!
11) Who was your boyfriend/girlfriend: *raises eyebrow* Even then I fully knew my place *mutters darkly, hardened criminals scurry away*
12) Who was your celebrity crush: Not sure I had one at the time. Lost in the mists of time and lack of alcohol.
13) Who was your regular-person crush: N/A for this timeframe.
14) Were you a virgin: Unless my memory is worse than I think, yes.
15) How many piercings did you have: None
16) How many tattoos did you have: Only whatever I'd written on my hand that day.
17) What was your favorite band/singer/rapper: I liked the Saturday Night Rock show on the radio (playing 50s/60s/70s) better than the regular stuff (although there was more of it during the regular day than the city stations). I still missed the variety of having more than one station though.
18) Had you smoked a cigarette yet: No, and had no plans to.
19) Had you gotten drunk or high yet: No, I already knew I didn't like the taste of the booze.
20) Had you driven yet: No. I was already studying for my learner's permit, and under the law of the time I could've gone in March (16yrs, 9mo), but Dad got me to wait until I was 17 so he could teach me himself, and then I had to wait another month until the July school holidays, just
so I wouldn't miss a day of school! (I considered taking my written test FAR more important than going to that [Sideshow Bob voice]dank, putrid, urine-soaked hell-hole...)
21) If so which car: The DeLorean, duh.
22) Which of your pets were still alive: Then Rusty the dog was still alive (she'd be dead by year's end), a big ginger cat called Fluff (if you saw his coat you'd understand) although Mum called him Flower, assorted chooks, and with the house we were adopted by the previous tenants' cat, Reverend (so called for he was all black, apart from one white patch resembling a clerical collar).
23) Looking back, are you where you thought you would be in 2006:
Absolutely not. For starters I'm still alive. And secondly, if you'd told me I'd've ended up working for the Education Department I'd've laughed in your face. Or assumed you were yet another "funny special person starting with A" getting a laugh at my expense.
24)If you could change one thing from the past 10 years what would it be:
"Dear Dad, here's Grey's Sports Almanack 1995-2005... and can some of this money be spent on a driving instructor? And someone to put the frighteners on certain school chums? With extreme prejudice?"
Prophecied and not at all hinted at byinanna_ishtar:
Three Names You Go By
1. Sean
2. DC
3. I'm sorry I didn't catch your name...
Three Parts of Your Heritage
1. Scottish
2. Cornish
3. Irish
Three Things That Scare You
1. Meetings
2. People
3. Eight foot tall armour plated alien killing machines
Three of Your Everyday Essentials
1. Computer
2. Cynicism
3. More sleep
Three Things You Are Wearing Right Now
1. Torn t-shirt
2. Shorts
3. Socks
Three of Your Favorite Bands or Musical Artists (at the moment)
1. The
2. Usual
3. Suspects
Three Things You Want in a Relationship (other than real Love)
1. Rea... oh, can't have that *sniffle* - High adventure?
2. A meeting of the minds (ye gods, scary thought)
3. Not having to pinch myself against it all being a dream...
Three Truths about you
1. I'm an imperfect perfectionist
2. This causes me to be my own harshest critic
3. I still expect everyone outside to turn and attack.
Three Physical Things that you find attractive.
1. Brunettes
2. Sudden smile
3. Superpowers are a plus *is thwapped with a batarang* or skills to be a superheroine without actually needing the powers...
Your Favourite Hobbies
1. Computer
2. Comics
3. DVD
Three things you really want badly
I don't know, I'm really *good* at wanting stuff, bad doesn't come into it :D
Where would you go on a vacation
1. Bed.
2. Forbidden Planet, London
3. Scotland
Things You Want to Do Before You Die
1. Win lotto
2. Stay in any ruts I can
3. Find immortality serum
Three Things You Are Thinking About Now
1. They voted out the wrong person in Idol - there's a shock...
2. Need extra time on Sat'dee to fit in comics *and* dvds *and* lawnmowing (oh, gotta do my Previews order tonight too)
3. Still no Rachel Grey statue or anything *grumble*
Three people you haven't talked to in awhile
1. Everyone
Three websites you visit a lot
1. Livejournal.com
2. Qualitycomics.com.au
3. Wikipedia
Three cars you own/owned
1. 1:36 scaled 1981 DeLorean DMC-12, BTTF1 style time machine with the
lightning rod and mini-Doc
2. 1:21 sacled 1959 Cadillac Meteor-Miller ambulance ("Ecto-1")
3. 1:18 scaled 1981 DeLorean DMC-12, BTTF3 style time machine with
whitewall tyres and hood-ornament time circuits.
Three pets you had/have
1. Rowan (first dog)
2. Samson (first cat)
3. Random goldfish (actually 18 month survivors in an outside pond of a place we moved into - they survived and with no more than extra clean water and breadcrumbs thrived along with the little water beetles)
Favorite Sports
1. Air guitar
2. Remote-control archery (you try lining up the transmitter beam with the sensor)
3. Orbital skydiving
Three People who will fill this out (Is this meant to be a hint?)
inanna_ishtar... oh wait...
vesta_sgc... oh wait...
ummm...
Three things you did last night
1. Ate a twist for tea
2. Was scared by someone's memory - and it wasn't Rachel for once! :O
3. Watched the first half of a little Ghostbusters ep called "The Boogieman Cometh" (streaming file, I must be mad... sooo worth it though!)
So, today was PROSH Day - when the students of UWA roam the streets selling a spoof newspaper for charity filled with uni humour and the abandon to write the it's-what-we're-all-thinking sketches (I wouldn't let our more innocent friends read it though *covers a certain pair of eyes*).
But anyway, the main part of PROSH day is the array of costumes the PROSHers parade around in while selling the "passports to the city". On the platform at the bus station were a pair of orange-and-black tiger-people (didn't see them at first, just spotted the c-girl making her way down the crowds as I was thinking of going up to the concourse). On the way through town on the other bus I spotted: living statues, a slumber party, a British explorer (I didn't know the pith helmet came with footy shorts), Pac-man, punk rockers and rappers, foreign officials, cops, hula girls, mad scientists (ok, they may have been normal scientists, but where's the fun in not being mad scientists?), a caveman, Willy Wonka and a squad of Oompa-Loompas, and a wide selection of capes, flags and boas amongst those who didn't go in for a specific costume.
On the way home I spotted a trio of red-capped parrots in a low pencil-pine - very shy birds, so hard to see in the trees before they fly away. On the way in though the bus is going by a new way, up and across the end of a bridge (built up over a natural depression). But this did bring up at perfect level with a Banksia tree down the bank, with a flock of black cockatoos, who flew off directly level with our windows.
Just call me sensei - got another prac student, have been bamboozling him with interlibrary loans, and the vastly exciting world of watching me search databases for a reference question. Of course, this is just in the spaces when S isn't around, since I'm meant to be doing mainly records stuff (or sudden switchboard shifts for [Zapp Brannigan voice] a mano-a-computer struggle for supremacy! The computers and software are old, and some functions need... persuading).
Ok, so I'm late jumping on this bandwagon again, I didn't feel like posting at the time everyone else was...
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 161.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
"It was at this stage that Lance Corporal Bernard Gordon took the initiative for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross."
From Victoria Cross : Australia's finest and the battles they fought, by Anthony Staunton. 2005 (3rd) edition.
Careful now.
Borrowed from
justace:Answer this quiz like it was 10 years ago...
1) How old were you: 16
2) What grade were you in: 12
3) Where did you go to school: Northam Senior High School sux
4) Where did you work: Nowhere if I could help it *ba-dum-tish*
5) Where did you live: Um... I think by April we'd just moved... yes, were were in Beverley already, in Dawson Street. That house started with a four-room cottage about a hundred years ago, and they just added layers out back over the years. My room had windows in three walls, and only one of them was outside! There was also a massive deep garage with old kitchen fittings in it.
6) How was your hair style: Long and thick - only 100 miles from my barber...
7) Did you wear braces: No. Who am I, Urkel? *heh-heh-heh-heh-heh snort
snort*
8) Did you wear contacts: *shudder* No
9) Did you wear glasses: No. Only the occasional goggles in science. And as we know "The goggles do nothing!"
10) Who was your best friend(s): Friends? Ok, I'm not that bad. Probably Russell, Miko, Dazza and The Sarge. Just don't ask me for an enemies list, or we'll be here all night!
11) Who was your boyfriend/girlfriend: *raises eyebrow* Even then I fully knew my place *mutters darkly, hardened criminals scurry away*
12) Who was your celebrity crush: Not sure I had one at the time. Lost in the mists of time and lack of alcohol.
13) Who was your regular-person crush: N/A for this timeframe.
14) Were you a virgin: Unless my memory is worse than I think, yes.
15) How many piercings did you have: None
16) How many tattoos did you have: Only whatever I'd written on my hand that day.
17) What was your favorite band/singer/rapper: I liked the Saturday Night Rock show on the radio (playing 50s/60s/70s) better than the regular stuff (although there was more of it during the regular day than the city stations). I still missed the variety of having more than one station though.
18) Had you smoked a cigarette yet: No, and had no plans to.
19) Had you gotten drunk or high yet: No, I already knew I didn't like the taste of the booze.
20) Had you driven yet: No. I was already studying for my learner's permit, and under the law of the time I could've gone in March (16yrs, 9mo), but Dad got me to wait until I was 17 so he could teach me himself, and then I had to wait another month until the July school holidays, just
so I wouldn't miss a day of school! (I considered taking my written test FAR more important than going to that [Sideshow Bob voice]dank, putrid, urine-soaked hell-hole...)
21) If so which car: The DeLorean, duh.
22) Which of your pets were still alive: Then Rusty the dog was still alive (she'd be dead by year's end), a big ginger cat called Fluff (if you saw his coat you'd understand) although Mum called him Flower, assorted chooks, and with the house we were adopted by the previous tenants' cat, Reverend (so called for he was all black, apart from one white patch resembling a clerical collar).
23) Looking back, are you where you thought you would be in 2006:
Absolutely not. For starters I'm still alive. And secondly, if you'd told me I'd've ended up working for the Education Department I'd've laughed in your face. Or assumed you were yet another "funny special person starting with A" getting a laugh at my expense.
24)If you could change one thing from the past 10 years what would it be:
"Dear Dad, here's Grey's Sports Almanack 1995-2005... and can some of this money be spent on a driving instructor? And someone to put the frighteners on certain school chums? With extreme prejudice?"
Prophecied and not at all hinted at by
inanna_ishtar:Three Names You Go By
1. Sean
2. DC
3. I'm sorry I didn't catch your name...
Three Parts of Your Heritage
1. Scottish
2. Cornish
3. Irish
Three Things That Scare You
1. Meetings
2. People
3. Eight foot tall armour plated alien killing machines
Three of Your Everyday Essentials
1. Computer
2. Cynicism
3. More sleep
Three Things You Are Wearing Right Now
1. Torn t-shirt
2. Shorts
3. Socks
Three of Your Favorite Bands or Musical Artists (at the moment)
1. The
2. Usual
3. Suspects
Three Things You Want in a Relationship (other than real Love)
1. Rea... oh, can't have that *sniffle* - High adventure?
2. A meeting of the minds (ye gods, scary thought)
3. Not having to pinch myself against it all being a dream...
Three Truths about you
1. I'm an imperfect perfectionist
2. This causes me to be my own harshest critic
3. I still expect everyone outside to turn and attack.
Three Physical Things that you find attractive.
1. Brunettes
2. Sudden smile
3. Superpowers are a plus *is thwapped with a batarang* or skills to be a superheroine without actually needing the powers...
Your Favourite Hobbies
1. Computer
2. Comics
3. DVD
Three things you really want badly
I don't know, I'm really *good* at wanting stuff, bad doesn't come into it :D
Where would you go on a vacation
1. Bed.
2. Forbidden Planet, London
3. Scotland
Things You Want to Do Before You Die
1. Win lotto
2. Stay in any ruts I can
3. Find immortality serum
Three Things You Are Thinking About Now
1. They voted out the wrong person in Idol - there's a shock...
2. Need extra time on Sat'dee to fit in comics *and* dvds *and* lawnmowing (oh, gotta do my Previews order tonight too)
3. Still no Rachel Grey statue or anything *grumble*
Three people you haven't talked to in awhile
1. Everyone
Three websites you visit a lot
1. Livejournal.com
2. Qualitycomics.com.au
3. Wikipedia
Three cars you own/owned
1. 1:36 scaled 1981 DeLorean DMC-12, BTTF1 style time machine with the
lightning rod and mini-Doc
2. 1:21 sacled 1959 Cadillac Meteor-Miller ambulance ("Ecto-1")
3. 1:18 scaled 1981 DeLorean DMC-12, BTTF3 style time machine with
whitewall tyres and hood-ornament time circuits.
Three pets you had/have
1. Rowan (first dog)
2. Samson (first cat)
3. Random goldfish (actually 18 month survivors in an outside pond of a place we moved into - they survived and with no more than extra clean water and breadcrumbs thrived along with the little water beetles)
Favorite Sports
1. Air guitar
2. Remote-control archery (you try lining up the transmitter beam with the sensor)
3. Orbital skydiving
Three People who will fill this out (Is this meant to be a hint?)
inanna_ishtar... oh wait...vesta_sgc... oh wait...ummm...
Three things you did last night
1. Ate a twist for tea
2. Was scared by someone's memory - and it wasn't Rachel for once! :O
3. Watched the first half of a little Ghostbusters ep called "The Boogieman Cometh" (streaming file, I must be mad... sooo worth it though!)
