Fictionalize Yourself

[Alex P]

Wow, so, sorry for being ignorant, what do you do my old almond tree buddy o mine

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

The "old almond tree buddy" composes, "helps" the lyricist (by, um, "inspiring" her), plays keyboards on occasion and is kinda the "Mick Jagger" of the group (you know, the lead vocals.) He's the "face", the "front man" of the group. Speaking of "inspiring the lyricist", excuse me for a second...

Sakuya, if your going to inspire another song, please go someplace private. Thank you. I don't think you want the :kitty:s to intrude in their own curiously painful fashion. I believe 105's empty right now.

Sorry about that. He was getting a bit frisky with Aine, his girlfriend and the group's lyricist.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[Alex P]

There sure is alot going on in that post lol.

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

We had an impromptu shindig on campus (no apartment neighbors! ) The GSA and the Anime Club provided some of the chow (as did people from the Japanese, Math, American Indian, LGBT, and the Ethnic Studies departments [the Navajo fry bread went over quite well with several of my guests as did the Chinese fish balls and the Hmong egg rolls].) Several of my guests exchanged recipes with the food providers (especially the fry bread.)

Here are a couple of the tunes we did (as performed by the original artists):

YouTube - Kenny Loggins & Stevie Nicks Whenever I call You Friend
YouTube - Blues Brothers - Rubber Biscuit

There were a few "gate crashers" but campus security took care of them before Wren "powered up" (fortunately!) I can't understand why one of the crashers hasn't been sent to jail for trespassing since he's been court ordered to stay the fook away (long story. )

Gotta go. Orihime looks like she's going to start cooking.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

*takes deep inhalation*

OKAY, EVERYBODY. LISTEN UP. We had more than 400 boxes of cold cereal and 200 loaves of unsliced baguettes we got last night for this week's breakfasts. How come we only have three and a half boxes of cereal and one baguette? Yuki, you are excused due to the fact you and your small family have your own boxes of Oaty Ohs for the little one, unless you've been giving her Cocoa Rocks to snack on as well.

Sorry about that. When one gets industrial size boxes of cereal and they are eaten up almost overnight... *sigh* Logistics, logistics, logistics. At least there haven't been any more "guests" dropping in besides a few of Astral's affiliates (long story.) We're getting our deliveries by semi now (the store's loaning it to us while they're in the neighborhood.) All we have to do is go over and pick out the stuff we want, and the semi delivers to the back door (sure beats mechas wrecking the local roads.) Excuse me a moment...

Nekoyashiki, Wren you want to play with Yuki's little one? Ask him. Neither he nor his wife bite. Okay, I'll go with you to inquire.

Sorry, gotta go again. I'll let you guys know who the culprits of the Grand Gorge are later.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

The snow spirits are having a field day today helping stuck motorists out (freaking out some of them by going outside sans outerwear [coats, hats, boots, gloves, etc.]) I have snow cones and iced tea for them (they are crazy, that they are.) The rest of my "guests" are staying indoors (they're saner, relatively speaking.)

To give you an idea how bad the weather is here, one of the deejays here has been stuck in the station's parking lots since 3 o'clock local time and she was told that she should expect roughly an 8 1/2 hour wait for assistance. Earlier today, a plow truck (lorry) was stuck, too, as well as a few busses. We have roughly between 8" and 14" of heavy snow. I'm staying in this weekend, especially since the weather forecasters are expecting more snow Sunday. () Isn't it supposed to be Spring?

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

A shot of whiskey, please, with a shot of vodka chaser. Thank you.

I got more "guests" drop in (I just wish some of my guests would leave) "drip drying" from the thunderstorm. At least they avoided the excitement from early Saturday morning (5:01 am Milwaukee time.) Yuki was quite at the neighbor who set off the smoke alarms throughout the complex (not to mention several of the other guests, including Ukitake [since the smoke set off a fit of uncontrolled coughing].)

The semi made another delivery last night, and one of the drivers brought Yuki's little one a plushie (quite a number of the adults had fun watching the little one playing with the purple walrus toy.) I think the kid has a bigger fan club than the father. Oh, excuse me for a minute...

Guys, we're having chili bread bowls for lunch, okay? Yuki, there's a kiddie spaghetti meal for your future heartbreaker since you know how I make chili. Or do you think a PB&J sandwich would be more palatable?

Better start dishing out chili cause the natives are getting restless. At least Yuu (one of the new guys) is lending a hand and not a foot like Orihime.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

I just realized something: a rather important holiday/festival is coming up in two weeks and I have to work out how to feed "the masses" (aka my guests.) The local "help" won't give me enough food due to the fact that I have too bloody many people to qualify (I believe the cut-off point is roughly 10 people in a household, and I surpassed that the first or second wave of guests.) Speaking of food, excuse me a moment...

Yoshida, Yuki asked me to thank you for the Hokkaido Snowman and the Fat Potato banks. He knows your appetite.

Luckily, things have been a bit quieter this weekend (knock wood) than last weekend. I'm getting the logistics of a huge seder worked out for around 250 people so I would know how many tables, chairs, etc. to rent and how much chow to purchase (I think some of these companies should give me a huge discount due to the volume I buy now.)

Gotta go. Too many "uncles" spoiling the kid.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[Pathless]

We've silenced the voices of nature. It's not that the wind says nothing. It is that we can't hear the wind over the ringing of our own industry.

The water speaks. Where are we?

The wind blew hard and quickly yesterday, trying to carve itself into our attention. I sat on a rock and listened. The wind blew. It tossed against my hooded head, licked my ear. It spoke in a language of trees and breezes. The hawks hung on the wind, rode its eddies and currents over me, circled. I watched. I sat and watched. I stretched out on the rock and moss and watched.

The plants push up through silence to speak sun languages. We are deaf to them.

When I put my hand to the Earth, it soothes my cells. It tells me this: you are of me, you are being taken care of.

The wind blows hard and cold. The rocks and the trees shelter me. I listen to the language of the wind over the land, and begin to understand.



[not entirely fictional and not entirely metaphorical]

[Ciel]

Originally Posted by Pathless

We've silenced the voices of nature. It's not that the wind says nothing. It is that we can't hear the wind over the ringing of our own industry.

The water speaks. Where are we?

The wind blew hard and quickly yesterday, trying to carve itself into our attention. I sat on a rock and listened. The wind blew. It tossed against my hooded head, licked my ear. It spoke in a language of trees and breezes. The hawks hung on the wind, rode its eddies and currents over me, circled. I watched. I sat and watched. I stretched out on the rock and moss and watched.

The plants push up through silence to speak sun languages. We are deaf to them.

When I put my hand to the Earth, it soothes my cells. It tells me this: you are of me, you are being taken care of.

The wind blows hard and cold. The rocks and the trees shelter me. I listen to the language of the wind over the land, and begin to understand.



[not entirely fictional and not entirely metaphorical]

Pathless, In your post I read the language of transcendence......

- c -

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

Found out I've got more than 300 "guests" (and more seem to arrive. *primal scream the likes nobody on the forum has ever heard, including around those who encounter rats/mice when "they" are severely afraid of those particular vermin*) One of the new guests is a cute little :kitty: with a rather, um, interesting name (she seems to like Liver Lunch and Fishy Feast :kitty: foods.) Excuse me for a minute....

Guys, please eat your burgers outside, or at least the buns. Thank you.

I'm back. The snow spirits are miserable (the weather's been too warm for them so they're staying indoors with the air conditioner on full blast, coldest setting.) They might go into what I call "reverse hibernation" since I don't recall the correct word for when an animal goes to sleep when the weather is too hot. They've invaded the Passover ice cream stash, which I don't mind too much, but I wish they would've washed out their dishes. Excuse me again.

Chii, you want some milk and Fishy Feast? I'll be right there.

Gotta go. Cute :kitty: is paging me.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

We're having homemade pizzas tonight (several jars of yeast "gave their lives" for the cause.) I guess that's a good way to get rid of the "I'm gonna KILL THAT B@ST@RD" urge from the news story about the Austrian male who kept his daughter locked up and committed several counts of incest ("fathered" the woman's six/seven children.) I mean, since the majority of my "guests" are proficient in the use of various weapons (mostly swords), and several are capable of combat-magic, it would not be pretty if they went berserk on the male. Excuse me for a moment...

You want the industrial size can of sliced olives and the industrial size jar of sliced mushrooms? They're underneath the sink. Okay. Olive oil is in the cabinet over the refrigerator. Fresh tomatoes are in the refrigerator, ready for slicing.

Gotta go. The "troops" need my attention.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

Yeah, you guessed it: more "guests". *fills tall glass with single malt Scotch and drinks down before refilling* If I get more guests without any of the current ones moving back to their initial realm, I'm going to start playing chicken with a freight train. At least several dorms and apartments are opening up around campus that are affiliated with the university (summer session's here.) Excuse me for a second...

Emda, please go with Nekoyashiki, Wren and Sakuya. They'll assist you with finding what is considered proper things for your status. A loincloth is too flattering on you and there are too many girls around here that might attack before you know it. If you want to repay them for their efforts, a couple of fish will do.

Chii's been rather busy looking cute (winning hearts around town, especially the vet staff where I bring the cattery.) She's got Nekoyashiki wrapped around her paw, but not too firmly (he still knows when to refuse to give her a bowl of Liver Lumps or Fishy Feast, but he'll let her walk all over him - literally.) She's also wrapped one of the newcomers around her grey tabby paw (poor Shinya had no chance against her innate "kawaii-ness" [cuteness].) Speak of the devil...

Chii, I know your bowl's been filled more than once with Liver Lumps and once with Fishy Feast. That's more than enough. Nekoyashiki? He's helping someone right now, but Shinya's here and more than happy to play with you. I'll let him know his presence has been requested.

*sigh* :kitty:s. Anyway, we have a pair of physicians (which is a blessing) and several other newcomers (many of the "veterans" have been helping out in acclimating the "newbies", which has helped me a bit) but we still have difficulties with some of the neighbors. *perks ears* Uh oh. Sounds like trouble. Excuse me...

Nova? Thanks.

Gotta go. Sorry.

Phyllis Sidhe Uaine