Another hypomanic episode...

[cleolinda]

Dammit! My Fiction Press account got eaten! Probably because I never used it! Oh well. I was kind of antsy about having unpublished stuff online anyway. The only thing I wasn't sure I'd backed up was "The Two Tickets," and my Google-fu unearthed a backup here on my journal.

Anyway. I'm doing sort of a dual project at the moment--setting up the Cleoland wiki and going back and tagging all the LJ entries I was either too lazy to tag or that I wrote before the tagging system was in place. Given that there are at this moment 1700+ entries, this is kind of a daunting task, but I think it'll be fun. And yes, it's something I have to do myself (because, technically, I could allow other people to tag my own entries), because if nothing else I need to go through and skim the entries for things to put in the wiki--and also to make sure there's nothing public that should, on second thought, be made private. Actually, I was able to unlock an entry about family drama that probably needed to be locked at the time, but was written so vaguely that it's almost meaningless three years later, and can be enjoyed just for the lines

I want to put a sign on my door that has the Swiss flag on it and, in 18 languages,

Vendez-vous la folie ailleurs; nous avons suffisament ici-là.

Vende ústed la locura en otro sitio; aquí ya tenemos demasiado.

GO SELL CRAZY SOMEWHERE ELSE, WE'RE ALL STOCKED UP HERE.

The wiki, meanwhile, is going well. I just like setting up wikis, really. But I'm also starting to look at it as kind of a three-dimensional memoir; I can write about specific things at length and connect them to other ideas in a way that you just couldn't in a linear book. Which is simply to say, the wiki doesn't exist because I feel that I'm so important that there are things you're just burning to know. It's there because, as I mentioned yesterday, I wanted a place where I could link to an explanation of "Bad Cat" or "Potterdämmerung" or even various abbreviations that people wonder about ("IIRC," for example), and then secondly, a place where I can write about things for my own benefit.

(I've also gone through and written up annotations for some of the m15ms. That was fun.)

Meanwhile, I'm also finding old things I'd written and... well, mostly it's humbling, because a lot of my entries aren't very good. A lot of them have a manic, trying-too-hard quality (which isn't limited to the distant past, either), but c'est la vie. On the other hand, I'm finding things like The Most Awesome Thing That Ever Happened on Passions, which makes it all worthwhile.



121 killed as Baghdad market obliterated.

States challenge national driver's license.

Turner CEO apologizes for Boston scare.

Pope says compassion no excuse for euthanasia.

Arrest in fatal elevator fall at NY club.

Court rules in favor of cursing man.

Mysterious Wis. Wonder Spot soon to go.

Lab disaster may lead to new cancer drug.

Yale in a lather over steamy showers.

Students apologize for gang-themed party.

Teacher punished for slavery film clip.

PETA workers cleared of animal cruelty. Oh, the ironing.

Federline is 'sorry' about Super Bowl ad.

Women, not men, choose spouses on island.

Key Found to the Smell of the Sea.

Wild eagles attack paraglider.

From psammead: Man loses wife in card game, wife gains new husband.

New eco-friendly lipstick from Cargo, with shades designed by Evangeline Lilly (bright coral? Oh, honey), Lindsay Lohan, Maria Menounos (HISSSS), Mariska Hargitay and Sarah Chalke.

From skyblade: Pompeii as directed by Polanski.

Prince Caspian has been found! The actor is also in Stardust, apparently. Here's the thing, though: somehow, I woke up one day to a world in which I'm nearly thirty, and Prince Caspian is still only three years younger than me.

From rorqual: Muggle Quidditch. Yes, there are actual tournaments. Hee. And: "While the Snitch is a magical object within the canon of the Harry Potter Novels, in Muggle Quidditch the Snitch is most often a human being. The Snitch, after release, is usually allowed to roam an area beyond the playing field. When played on a college campus the range is often the entire campus."

Comments

[arpeggiodreams.livejournal.com]

I might have missed it, but if you haven't gone to see Pan's Labyrinth, GO NOW! It is so amazing, and the different Spanish accents are to die for (there's a Catalan accent, and an Aragonese accent, and... drool). I saw it yesterday and I am in loff.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I know, I know! I keep trying to go see it and just haven't made it yet.

[greenwitch.livejournal.com]

Okay, that lost-wife-in-a-poker-game-thing?

AWESOME.

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

But in a lot of instances, that manic quality is what takes an otherwise mildly amusing entry into the realm of absolute hilarity.

[arpeggiodreams.livejournal.com]

Just don't eat beforehand. Eat after the movie.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I will admit, the "I JUST SAW DERAILED EEEE CAFFEINE" entry is pure mania. But it also managed to not try too hard, somehow.

[rufus.livejournal.com]

Prince Caspian = Phwoarr.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Federline is 'sorry' about Super Bowl ad.

There. Fixed it.

[kilted.livejournal.com]

The college I was going to go to (University of Evansville) apparently has a Quidditch team... I love that there are real teams.

[pescivendolo.livejournal.com]

Speaking of Passions, I just remembered (again) that the whole reason I found your journal and friended you was because of the Days of Our lives recaps. Man, I should go back and read some of those again. Those were absolutely hilarious! I mean, when Crazy Jan kidnapped Shawn-Douglas and wore the old lady costume to seduce him while he was tied to the bed? Quality. TV.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Is the sudden need to go back through old entries related to LJ's recent announcement that they'll be introducing a search feature soon? Because I just started doing the same thing, for that reason.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

They are? Huh, I didn't know. No, I've just been really slack about tagging entries, and then there are the entries that were written before tags, and it's really hard to assemble a list of entries about the Secret Life of Dolls if all your doll entries aren't tagged.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Awww. That's one of those things I wish I could have kept doing, but the five-days-a-week thing was exhausting. That, and there was just a point where I wasn't even watching anymore. Also going in the wiki: something about the phenomenon wherein I start recapping something all gung-ho and then fizzle out without ever finishing a series.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Heh.

TAG! You're it!
*runs*

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Oh, and for the wiki? Don't forget about Cleoism (http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/86878.html)! Or the Nancy Drew outline! Or beergnets!

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

Oh man, Shawn D. in the fucking cage >_<

A Shawn D. barechested in a cage, puts all of DAYS fans in a rage. (http://education.yahoo.com/reference/quotations/quote/17491)

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

It's a pity about the Wonder Spot in Wisconsin. I went to one of those mystery spots near Mammoth Cave in central Kentucky, and it was freaking awesome.

[derangeddarling.livejournal.com]

I don't have anything pressing to say, but I seem to have fallen off the comment bangwagon lately and i didn't want to let myself go back to lurking, so hi.

I love this wiki idea. Since I have start reading you I have been introduced to so many fun and interesting resources, and I feel like a Cleo wiki is just going to be a big barrel of fun. And give me access perhaps to things that occurred before I started reading.

[demonqueen666.livejournal.com]

...I just spent about two minutes doing the "Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing??" stare at your icon XD

[demonqueen666.livejournal.com]

The Snitch, after release, is usually allowed to roam an area beyond the playing field. When played on a college campus the range is often the entire campus.

I'm sure it doesn't actually turn out like this, but that description led me to picture a person flailing across campus with a mob in hot pursuit.

[mokeyhokey.livejournal.com]

There's nothing more awkward than reading your old journal entries. I went and tagged all of my entries about a year ago, and "OH GOD I'M A MORON" was a frequent thought in my head.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh. All three are already in there.

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

The Longest Run-On Sentence In History Dream Sequence springs to mind, as well.

[greenwitch.livejournal.com]

Bwah! :D

[bluebren.livejournal.com]

"Unlike Wizard Quidditch, where all positions are played in the air on magical flying brooms, Muggle Quidditch is played primarily on the ground"

The matter-of-factness... it... I am slain.

Awwww

[xander77.livejournal.com]

The MWWS thing is sad. They really don't have a different place to put their roads?

Oh, and is the Peta thing really news to anyone?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1913999390200944075&q=pen+teller+peta&hl=en

Also...

[xander77.livejournal.com]

forgive the stupidity, but am I missing the difference between a wiki and a FAQ, with the project you're about to embrak on being the latter?

[crimsnfirestorm.livejournal.com]

Same here! Although the person in my mind was like, spraypainted gold and wearing wings. And then reality intervened and I realized that's probably not how it goes.

[sunihiroku.livejournal.com]

A hypomanic episode is always fun...until things get rowdy and someone gets hurt, heh.

[sunihiroku.livejournal.com]

Oh, I forgot to mention that the reason I used this icon was because I drew it in Photoshop with a mouse when I was having a 8 hour long hypomanic episode. I was supposed to go out with my friends to a casino night our dorm was having, but I started drawing on a whim and I literally did not move from my chair for about six hours, not to drink water or have dinner or go to the bathroom or anything. It was fun!

[jeeperstseepers.livejournal.com]

Dude, did you see that Diane Duane posted about you? That's so cool.

Coolest Thing Ever!

[purpleivey.livejournal.com]

Muggle Quidditch! This is too cool! The best part is the college I went to (I still live here too) has gothic-revival architecture, a lot of fog, and an academic honour society that wears long black academic robes to class. All we need now is a Quidditch team, and we'll be a mini Hogwarts! : D

[xander77.livejournal.com]

The link provided by the noble clelinda one, or the "carless chedar" (which I still don't get)?

[mercat.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I've been out to one in South Dakota, and it was a lot of fun. (Though it's really sad, just going from that article, how many people can't make a fairly educated guess at how it works...)

[mercat.livejournal.com]

See I was scarred by a yellow, streaking college male.

Scary, yet hilarious and possibly likely. =P

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee, yeah. We've talked a couple of times on LJ--I can't remember if she's commented over here or not. But yeah, she's good people.

[word-herder.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you've seen it; perhaps you haven't. I do know it has made the e-mail rounds. But just in case you haven't...

My husband sent this to me today--it's a video of a cat. All I can say is...well, actually, there are no good words to describe it without giving away what it is. Suffice it to say that I lost count at 5 because I was laughing so hard. (I couldn't get it to play on QuickTime on my Mac, but it played on my husband's Dell with Windows media player just fine.)

http://www.venango.com/Ralph/waterleakproblem.wmv

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

I was a teenager at the time, and I thought it was completely obvious how it worked. I didn't think there was supposed to be a big mystery about it at all. Then again, maybe I'm too smart for my own good.

[ellaafleck.livejournal.com]

Muggle Quidditch? I totally invented that years ago. Here's how you make the snitch: You take an 8 year old with ADD, dress him in yellow, hop him up on Mountain Dew, and set him loose. The hilarity to follow.

[bardintraining.livejournal.com]

The poker thing sounds like it could be the pitch line for a really bad romantic comedy.

Or, when slightly skewed, the pitch line for Benny & Joon, which just turned out to be awesome, so...depends on execution style, I guess.

[skitz-phenom.livejournal.com]

Oh, the news about the Wonder Spot makes me so sad. Being rather limited of funds at the time, my Hubby and I honeymooned in Wis. Dells. The best day we had was when we just drove around and stopped at all of the little wierd and out of the way touristy places. The Wonder Spot was definitely one of the most memorable.

[mercat.livejournal.com]

Yeah... It was pretty obvious it was just an optical illusion. I mean, as soon as you walked in, the walls were eight feet high and slanted, and didn't exactly line up with the trees. =P

I really hope people were just saying they didn't know because they didn't want to, rather than not actually understanding. But it's good to know I wasn't the only one who could figure it out! =)

[zrath.livejournal.com]

"Vendez-vous la folie ailleurs; nous avons suffisament ici-là."

Which translates as "Are you selling the madness somewhere else; we have sufficiently here-there."

The correct version: "Allez vendre votre folie ailleurs; on est complet ici!"

This would be, but of course, in Continental French.
In Quebecois French, it would probably be something like
"Allez vendre la tabernac' folie autrepart; ici y'a plein!"
or something. It's like 18th Century cartoon French.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

This is why I stopped translating after I graduated from college. ; )

[emerybored.livejournal.com]

I LOVE this video. One, because it's a kitty... a very smart kitty. And, two, kitty looks almost exactly like mine. Except mine's a little heftier. What can I say? He's big boned. But certainly not as smart (thank goodness).

[maliekai.livejournal.com]

Seconded!

[maliekai.livejournal.com]

You're not the only one. I've had mine since I was like... seventeen? I was so whiny and boy-obsessed. Ohhh... how things haven't changed.