The Ramblings of Elyse

Yes, I have another vlog for you.

I actually did this one a couple of weeks ago and didn't upload it for some strange reason or I thought it wasn't very interesting but then I figured, no one has told me I'm uninteresting and it really amuses me. So enjoy.


There is another one to go up in the next or so.
That one features a preview of what's upcoming next on Elyse's Adventures Talking to the Camera.

Yeah, I'll eventually get around to making actual videos with proper editing and stuff, but you know, Lazy.

I think the begining of this is my favourite...





Procrasinating VIA GUITAR! from Super Flyse on Vimeo.

That and I love the screen caps of those.
I just want to know how to change them.


Enjoy.
Please comment. I need external validation.

Yes, yes I am. Sorry gang.

That being said, when one of my friends die, I have permission to change his status to "is dead." I currently don't have his password, so the conversation then went to the fact his dying words will be his facebook password.

I don't have a plan like that.
Maybe I should invest in one.

Though, I'll just accept someone writing a blog about how much they hated me and how they are super glad I'm gone.
If it is a vlog that features the Final Countdown, I shall resurrect myself, high five you, punch you, consider eating your brains, and the return to my grave to rest in peace.

If you didn't get the song from Once More from Feeling in your head, I have failed as a person.

Which is my segue!
Yeah, see what I did?
Yeah, that's how I roll...

Long ago, I promised a Spike Hate vlog!

No, it's not ready yet, but day I had a promising start to this.

After having an awesome day of sleep, NHL and packages that feature cowbells! That thing is loud AND AWESOME!!
I started to play around with my computer.

What exactly did I do?
I messed around with recording stuff! Yeah!
Which is interesting since I was recording myself... That is just weird and my software is not the right software I need for it. But still, not the point!

After messing with recording, I moved onto finally uploading the video of Chris' wedding.
Which my favourite parts include just my commentary about various things. It is VERY amusing.

As I was doing this, which was a long process since my camera was deciding to not connect to the computer. I fixed it up.
Still having problems with my iMovie, but I'll move on.

I got there in the end and I came to the conclusion, that maybe to make my vlog about the Spike hatred I don't need my traditional partner in crime in these things AND NOT have all the writing reversed, coz that's important if I want signs for some reason.

So, huzzah!
Looking like this vlog won't be a Mary Egan Production... Or unless, I just still use the name when flying solo.

Now I'm conflicted.

Ok, I'll just put it for a vote:
Should the Spike Angry rant being a Mary Egan Production, a Double Thumper Production or it doesn't matter since it will be just Elyse in front of a wall talking about the hatred of Spike?

Ok... I'm going to have to include some dramatic recreations and make it a production...

Damn, that wasn't planned.

Oh well...

That's a tangent.

Have you missed it?

There has been a lot of Buffy lately.

There was another blog I've been meaning to write...

And dammit, I wasted all my good words on Buffy.


It is a sad day for my muse.

Maybe, just maybe it I wait long enough it will come back to me.

I ramble a lot, it's only recently that there have been some themes to these ramblings. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
I'm not the theme based person, I just sit at my computer open up a window and start typing.

I just hope for the best, which is generally insightful and life changing, but am happy with kind of amusing and filled the time, otherwise what else is the internet useful for?

I've been kind of worried lately, I think I've gone and got me a life.
I mean between the working and the studying I have no time! NO TIME! Today, I even tried to spend my break at uni napping and not harassing Rob in the library. What has become of me?

It's mainly the work.
For 2 weeks every three months, I have me a second job. It involves harassing people. It's funnily enough very similar how I got my current job. I think I must be very good at ringing people and getting information out of them.

This week is the survey week. It's also exam week. The exams I'm worried about are next week. That's not to say I'm not worried about tomorrow's exams, just less worried.
Panic never does any good.
Except if I feel a need for some attention, then well, WOO! PANIC!

Wow... that was bitter...

Umm...
So yeah...

This life thing.
It's new and confusing and I'm not sure I care for it.

How do I make it go away?

I think I may start off with some random thoughts.

1. Australia, please hire some commentators that know something about the Winter Olympics.

2. How do my glasses get so dirty and why am I incapable of cleaning them? Seriously, can someone answer it for me. It's really annoying and it brings me shame that Lex will be all "What did you do?"

3. Swing covers of rock songs may have won my favourite type of covers. Sorry, Ska.

4. Where did my sunglasses go?
I don't like this back up pair, which is why I stopped wearing them.

5. I miss Jose el Basso.

6. I think I can curl for Australia. I don't have an aim to make the Winter Olympics, just the Australian team to be all like "Yeah, I played for Australia. What up."

7. I would phrase it exactly like that.

8. Ordering things online should come with a confirmation email to save Deus Cake scenarios.

9. Deus is actually Latin for God. Or it might just be god. Oh, I should know this.

10. Deus ex Machina is a literary device meaning god from the machine, which is pretty much the magic bullet. It is a sign of very poor story telling and it is a term that if I'm feeling pretentious I'll pull it out when I continue my Buffy themed writings. I'm looking at you, Chosen.
Fuck you.

11. Seriously, what is the deal with my glasses?

12. There is a guy that I work with and my life aim to have his job. He is the guy that does our audio mixes. Yeah, my goal... To have his job.
He is currently running the audio control room in Vancouver for Foxtel's coverage or is it Nine's coverage?
Either way he is in Vancouver.

I have now decided that, out of all the things I want to work at, it's the Winter Olympics I want to work at the most.
Even though, it would be crazy stressful and what not, but come on, working at the Witner Olympics?
That shit is bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

13. Having goals and career aspirations is new and weird and I don't think I care much for it.

14. Maybe I should have put this into point form as opposed to numbering.

15. Apparently they are making a Lego Movie. I'm not sure how that will work, could be interesting.

16. I meant to mention more about the cake story, well, no, I just wanted to say that I can only spell two in English. What is two in Italian? Dues? No... hmmm...
I could Google it, but what do you think I do at work all day?

Yes, Google things.

And swear at the printer.

17. I get to teach someone how to use iMovie on Monday. I also happened to mention something about my own video projects I've editted on iMovie.

No! That is bad!
I don't think I want people I work with to see some of those videos.
No matter how hilarious I think they are.

18. I think I'm going to stop at 25, like that thing was going around Facebook ages ago, but you know, not about me because who wants to know about that?

19. I'm a Sagittarius.

20. I think it is hilarious the Norwegian Men's Curling Team's Pants have a Facebook fan page.
They are awesome pants, the fan page also includes a link if anyone wants to buy their own pair.

21. I actually was going to write something properly about the Winter Olympics.
That clearly worked out well.

22. I probably should clean my room.

23. And put up my Canadian flag, even though it is still cut from WYD.
The story of why it was cut was they thought it would affect my breathing or something. I don't really know, I was unconscious at the time and upon regaining conscious my first statement was "Where's my beret?" followed quickly by "Did they cut my flag?"

Apparently these aren't the questions I'm meant to ask. Who knew?

24. In jokes are the most awesome thing ever.

25. If I could be enlightening, there would be something awesome here, but alas, I'm too lazy to google things.

Good night.

I'm a rambler, not really a ranter even though that's the word I prefer.
It's a dictionary thing, rant normally has some kind of anger behind it. I have been known to rant but more often I ramble.

Some people have a one track mind, my mind has many, many, many tracks that can randomly change all the time, it's like the conductor dude is really the caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland. I'm talking the Disney cartoon version, so that name is correct.

Thus, comes to my point. Damn, I hate titles.

Titles are something I am just terrible at writing, I mean the name of my non-existent musical (sorry Davey) is "Dock Side Story" (sorry Davey). It's not even cleverly stolen. I am objecting to my own terrible plagiarism.

Then we have, the names. I'm also terrible at naming things. I will give you some examples. Dock Side Story, all names basically stolen from Anne Rice's Vampire books, I don't know what the series is called, the LeStat guy and Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Often with a combination except for Jean-Pierre and Jacques which is stolen from a recruit of a weekend I was Godsquading and we just liked to repeat his name over and over again, as well as Jacques, the Beaver from Bear in the Big Blue House... and other things. Jacques was also the doctor on BitBBH. That doesn't work. Noted.
So yeah, stolen! Badly!

MY names of my musical instruments... Patrick Joe (not stolen, but made it up on the spot. It didn't well), Jose El Basso basically "Joseph the Bass", heehee! Felix Gaston, stolen from the musical. Noting that I have a country of origin theme happening... Anglo, Spanish and French, next will be German or it will be "Wilhelm von Schnitzel". It's just fun to say.

It's all I can really think of, normally I don't have to name things and if I do, there are many tenuous links on something rather obvious. It's a skill, a tedious skill.

So it all comes back to, what's the deal with these titles?
Clearly, I am too much of a rambler (it's the name of the blog dammit!) to actually be able to stay on one kind of topic. Especially since I am at work and technically should be you know, working!

And yet, forced to title things.

On another note.
I plan to go home and format and stuff.
Yeah, overhaul!

I call it "Extreme Makeover- Internet Style". It's not, not much will actually change since I have no designing skillz, but we'll see what I can do.

No commentary on the adventures of my spellcheck, because spellcheck fails me at this point in time.
It makes me sad too.

I don't think it is hear that I have the title as the battle wages on between Elyse and other things or maybe I've been watching too many episodes of Chuck.

I was just internet stalking Lexi and was reading something in her blog about comments and the dos and don'ts, and one of them was about swearing.

I personally think swearing looks funny in text, seriously, it looks really weird. So much so that I try not to swear on the internet and as a result I have had a few people convinced that either I don't swear or am offended by swearing.
My personal favourite example of this is when Davey informed me that Adam made a comment about having never me swear, of which Davey scoffed at.
Not that long after we had a picnic day thing with the ultimate Westies and cards were played.
Nothing makes me swear quite like cards and the comment when walking back to the station "I can't believe I thought you didn't swear".
Hilarious.

Old story though, shame.

But Elyse vs Tone.
Tone is everything, communication isn't really about the words, that's only 10%. It's the tone and body language that communicate so much more.
Sarcasm is dead in text and then the difference between hot anger and cold fury?
Can't really tell the difference.
And it's an important difference.

I had a fairly Antioch central weekend with renew and on Friday night I got to play bad cop to keep people in the non-sleeping room quite so people could sleep.
I was in the corridor, neither asleep or being that loud. Ok, I was being a little loud.
I am pretty much always loud and am often told to use my inside voice, they say it a lot. I don't think they've caught on that I don't really have an inside voice, but yeah, so carrying on and I got to do the yelling at them to shut up.
On about the third attempt of telling them to be quite, my calm rationality had all but departed so it was time to crack out my angry yelling.
My angry yelling is very easy to realise because of the massive tonal shift from my loudness to my angry voice.
I yelled, and then before I had left the room I then yelled again that "I hadn't even left the fucking room yet".
This yelling freaked out Mary, and may have keep her a little paranoid that I was going to come back and yell at them again.
It's the fine line, but yeah, the tone.

On the internet, it just isn't all that possible. It is the major side of text, at least in books there is the narrative of "I haven't left the room yet" Elyse roared as the noise in the room increased rapidly. Even plays have stage directions, but any of this stuff?
Forums, MSN, blogs.
Nope, it's just impossible to tell.

It makes me sad.
Words seem really empty without the passion and emotion behind them.
Tones. They are important.

I really should work.