Okay. Think Positive. Not Cocky, Just Positive. (Also a meme)

[wolven7]

Tool - [Crawl Away]--- I've just completed what feels like the 18 billionth draft of my thesis prospectus, to be sent to Dr. Renick, later today. Naturalism, philosophy, magic, religious studies and the occult; let's have a conversation.

Tool - [Swamp Song]--- I would like to take this moment to mention, for anyone wondering: Why I Will Not Compromise Or Hide My Posts. Anyone working with me, currently, knows enough about me to recognise what they're getting. Any potential employer should know what they're getting. All of it. And if they they make their decision based solely on the half-reflective contents of my online journal? I probably didn't want to work for them, anyway.

Tool - [Undertow]--- Meme, from tsarina_bomba:

1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song. Or your favorite kind of sandwich. Something random. Whatever you like.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.

1. How are you liking the new apartment?
Liking it okay. It's a bit smaller than that to which we'd been used, but it serves fine. It's also in a pretty good area, so that works.

2. How have you guys been? I miss you guys. I can't wait till I live up on that side of town.
We're doing pretty well. Restless, antsy, working, school. The usual.

3. How's the grand scheme going?
Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better.

4. Do I still get Australia?
No one else has asked for it, or taken it by force, so yeah, you do.

5. If you had a choice of starvation or marshmallow creme, which would you choose?
Even if it were not anathema to my very sense of propriety and decorum, i think solely eating marshmallow creme, to survive, would cause me to vomit, profusely, eventually.

That's it. I'm done.

Holla if ya hear me.

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[hametsunosaturn.livejournal.com]

So long ago, another life
I can feel your heartbeat
It's not a dream, remember us
I could see it in your eyes
We'll find our place in time
A place in time, beyond the sun
We'll find our place in time
A place in time to call our own

Great song.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

1) You get One special ability. What is it?

2) What is your clearest dream memory?

3) Ideal date scenario?

4) Favourite children's book?

5) If you could smell one scent, for the rest of your life, what would it be?

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

I wonder; is familial arrogance really a bad thing?

[wolven.livejournal.com]

1) What's your current favourite band?

2) If you couldn't have one of either pepperoni, bacon or green peppers, on a pizza, ever again, which one would you choose?

3) Favourite fictional character, and why?

4) Least favourite author on the occult?

5) Favourite work of your own?

[sadistic-apollo.livejournal.com]

Faith is an automatic door.
belief is a chair.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

1) And what do you believe?

2) How much of yourself do you show, at a given time?

3) Favourite book, at the moment?

4) Who's your real life hero?

5) What are you going to do with your life?

[raoin.livejournal.com]

i dont like sandwiches.
i like mashed avocado on multi-grain crackers with aged gouda cheese.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

1) Why don't you like sandwiches?

2) Favourite episode of Angel, thus far?

3) If you could only ever eat one food, for the rest of your life, what would it be?

4) Describe a perfect day. No you can't spend it napping.

5) If you couldn't nap, what would you do?

[firebirdgrrl.livejournal.com]

My favorite sandwich--fried oyster from Casamentos. Didn't even have to think:)

That sounds like a good sandwich...

[wolven.livejournal.com]

1) Do you have any over-arching goal to your magical practice?

2) What started you in your practice?

3) What's your dream job?

4) Favourite musical artist, at the moment?

5) What's your best day, thus far?

[tsarina-bomba.livejournal.com]

captain planet, he's our hero, gonna take pollution down to zero...

[wolven.livejournal.com]

1) What's the one thing you most want to learn?

2) Favourite television show?

3) Best book, ever?

4) Worst dream you can remember, if different than the other?

5) Strangest recent experience?

[tsarina-bomba.livejournal.com]

1. Magic. I really and truly want to learn how to make things happen.
2. Must I? Let me give you the list and you can interchange them. West Wing, Scrubs, Psych, Heroes, Arrested Development, Lost.
3.

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1. Magic. I really and truly want to learn how to make things happen.
2. Must I? Let me give you the list and you can interchange them. West Wing, Scrubs, Psych, Heroes, Arrested Development, Lost.
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4. This man standing over my bed made of shadows, with a fedora and a trenchcoat, all shadows, suffocating me. Ironically I woke up and had an asthma attack.
5. A lot of things fall in line with me recently, and it's a bit odd that they all happen within a week of each other.

[teididh.livejournal.com]

I'm secretly afraid I'm just never gonna get this classical guitar thing...

[wolven.livejournal.com]

1) What are you doing with yourself and why?

2) Who's you favourite guitarist?

3) What do you want for people, and yourself?

4) Favourite movie?

5) What are you reading?

hmm...

[theatreannie.livejournal.com]

nothing clears a room full of guys more quickly than a commercial for vagasil.

Re: hmm...

[wolven.livejournal.com]

1) What drew you to theater?

2) How's married life?

3) What is your least favourite character trait, in yourself?

4) What form of intoxication do you prefer, and why?

5) Favourite show of which you've been a part?

[thurisazshole.livejournal.com]

i get migraines 3 times a week, prescription drugs don't help. only a few Excedrin migraine and a coke help.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

1) Do you subscribe to a particular magical "paradigm?"

2) If yes, what is it?

3) What is the most significant book in your life?

4) Favourite song?

5) What was your last best dream?

[thurisazshole.livejournal.com]

1. yes. its vague.

2. if it works for you, use it to its (and your) best potential. my only rule, you must learn from it. if you stop learning from a method, start using another. there are an infinite number of patterns in the magical method, you'll never run out of lessons unless you want and choose to.

3. it was the journey between two books. candide. mostly its the cynicism and humor of satire that caught me. those two aspects, gleaned from the work, helped me through a time in my life where i needed something to make me laugh, other than myself. :P i read that just after reading the book of abramelin. go figure hehe.

4. its between two. manowar - swords in the wind - it just resonates with me, almost like how one can shamanistic tones in some drum circles. - and NiN, down in it. i was listening to it one day and realized that i didn't want to be controlled by my coke habit. i wrote a letter to trent thanking him. he responded in kind. nifty geek, he.

5. recurring dream ever since i can remember. it comes usually as a "warning" of sorts, that i'll hit another spiritual plataeu on my path sometimes soon. its a sort of coming of age rite, very native, very shamanistic (of the earth).. over the years, it has progressed, at each step something new in the dream/vision. - had another last night. *smile*

[salrushdy.livejournal.com]

Now just to be certain let's be sure to set the record straight
I could use an angel but I don't intend to split up the take
Never go for treason but I got reasons that don't warrant debate
My acts intact and in fact you're not all that
You act sure
but youre uncertain
cuz next time
It could be curtains

Evangeline
Conspirator so fine
lend me your faith cuz mine is broken
Compared to mine
what is your crime Evangeline

[wolven.livejournal.com]

1) What draws you to physics?

2) Do you hate metaphysics?

3) Best book you've read, in the past two months?

4) What movie changed your life?

5) What are you looking for?

[salrushdy.livejournal.com]

1.desire to be different(I was about 10 then), children around hated it.
for me it(physics) was attribute of "tough" man,
thus I am not physicist from God perhaps
2.I hate unproper use of this term. People suffer from lack of understanding of modern science, since intuition doesn't work here. They start blah blah about metaphysics, that's what I hate.
My favorite author is Cortazar, he is Lord of metaphysics.
3.Reread
Reflections on Moral Prejudices by Nietzshe, felt pity for him mostly, but it is srtill strong shit
4.Movie can change your life, man?
"Amoras Perras" is a good one
5.Dunno, man

[cailement.livejournal.com]

"Leaf followed him meekily. The smell of the gray fungus was still everywhere in her nose and mouth. She could taste it and she could remember the terrible pressure in her head when it was establishing itself--"

--Garth Nix, "Keys to the Kingdom, Book 5, Lady Friday" page 122. Randomly picked, off the shelf, from the pages, and from the page.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

1) Why Japan[ese]?

2) Are you still practicing?

3) What are your plans for the next three years?

4) Last sandwich you ate, and why?

5) You can do One thing, barring turning that one thing into infinite things. Other than that, time, money, history are not a factor. What do you do.

[cailement.livejournal.com]

1)Why Japan[ese]?
Because of Sailor Moon. Then because it was somewhere between really hard and really easy all at the same time. Like it took practice, but I felt *GOOD* when I Got It. And unlike Astronomy, which also took practice and I was good at, it opened up all kinds of *different* interesting worlds, stories, people. And it would be something that I could actively do in my spare time outside of being stuck in a room doing equations or just using my telescope once in a blue moon. Pardon the pun. And because it’s a culture that is both beautiful and that I understand (I think). And because it seemed like a good idea at the time. I’ll tell you how that turns out after I stop panicking. Japanese itself is just a code, though. This inserts for that, and it doesn’t always mean exactly what that means, and I really like that. I like codes. If it wasn’t so damn hard for me to remember shit I would probably try to learn a few more languages.

2) Are you still practicing?
Hell, yes. You’re not the first person to ask me that. It’s kinda weird to me that people think they need to ask. But then, most of *that* group started saying that they never really believed in the first place and that they could never do magic anyway or any of that nonsense. Which is kinda how I always felt towards ye olde Catholicism, and shit, I can still See and I can still Feel, and why the fuck would I want to turn my back on all that and pretend it never happened? Cuz it did. And is. That that’s just peachy.

3) What are your plans for the next three years?
Go to Japan. Become better at Japanese. Come back. Be a certified teacher in the state of Georgia. Continue my current relationship. Hopefully begin a legal domestic partnership. Keep the relationships with people that I have now, perhaps make some more (but it’s so hard to find people as fucked up as I am). Let what’s to come come and adapt accordingly.

4) Last sandwich you ate, and why?
Does honey on bread count as a sandwich? Cuz I didn’t feel like dirtying a knife to get the peanut butter, and we were camping and we didn’t buy jelly.

5) You can do One thing, barring turning that one thing into infinite things. Other than that, time, money, history are not a factor. What do you do.
Continue. Because I like it here. I want to make the whole universe continue without big bads happening. Little bads are necessary, but I really don’t want the big ones so much. I’m not sure if that counts as cheating or not, though. And the way I worded it it would probably mean that I would die and use my life force to sustain the universe, and that would suck, but there ya go.

[momentai.livejournal.com]

nevermind.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

1) Why not?

2) Why'd you go to Detroit?

3) Favourite Transformer?

4) Favourite Voltron Lion?

5) Current musical obsession?