The Ramblings of Elyse

That title is a Simpsons reference. In case no one noticed.

So yesterday, Sam rang me to ask about a guitar she was selling on eBay and while conversing she mentioned she was also selling a sax. An Alto Sax?
Sounds pretty damn awesome.

Though, I have no idea how they ended up with so many musical instruments, but you know whatever.

So I've acquired an Alto Sax, unnamed thus far. I'm thinking it might become "Wilhelm Von Schnitzel". Saxes seem very German to me, ok, maybe not like a Violin, so maybe not. Nah, I do think of jazz, so maybe something cool and jazz like.
Hmmm... to ponder. I'll think about it.

I'm sure I'll think of something. Ok, I probably won't. I'm terrible with names.

My big problem when I played sax as a youngin', yes, I do know how to play. Can I play well? Not so much?
Do I remember all the notes? No.
Do I have any music? Possibly.

Now I have an excuse to start reading sheet music properly.
I'm just slow, I had a look at some theory lessons online. I know all that stuff, so it is way to frustrating to just re-learn it. I just need to practise.

And you know, learn more notes that "B,A,G, C and quite possibly F#.
I should look that up.

At least my mad recorder skillz should improve.

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.

Today, I cracked out for the first time my "I'm Blogging this" shirt.

The excellent photos will come soon, ok, maybe not on here but definitely on the internet. I call it facebook. Then again, I suppose I could use my flickr account for non-Buffy related motivators. Though, my BtVS motivators are hilarious.

I'm part of a Buffy forum, this is what we do. We call it Graphics!Crack. Like Magic!Crack but without the crappy plot lines.

Oh, right. Point.

So, tonight, we were hanging out with heroin, yeah we were, when James came across the most inspiring text I have ever read.

The inspirational story of Aaron Hoffman. It is beyond words.
In fact the only words I have for it is to tell you what the new Antioch theme will be.

The Story of Aaron Hoffman, our weekend will be dedicated to him with talks featuring how we should answer Aaron Hoffman's call, Med on life as Aaron Hoffman, Being Aaron Hoffman, God's Image aka Aaron Hoffman, Mission (to be Hoffman), Works of Aaron Hoffman.

Big dreams, we can only hope that we can fill the legendary shoes of Mr Aaron Hoffman, the Restaurant manager trainer of the year of 2008 at Hungry Jacks... I think, I don't know, I was also messing around on my laptop.

For the bio-pic, I'm thinking Tom Hanks as Aaron Hoffman, Dustin Huffman with Will Smith playing the arch-nemesis (spellcheck suggestions: archness, archbishop, archaeologists, archeologist)

And that dear faithful readers.. reader? Internet? Whatever....
Is the story of why I should be careful of the shirts I'm wearing combined with injokes as well as an outlet for rambling.

'til next time...

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.

So, I've tried using twitter. I just don't like it, plus as a rant who enjoys typing full words it doesn't work for me at all. I mean, my title is almost longer then what I'm allowed on Twitter. Yeah, I don't get the fuss and it's kind of hard to stalk other people and what use is a social network if not for stalking people?

I mean come on!

The internet is all about stalking, well, call it what you want.'
Facebook for starters, if you really wanted to stay in contact with people, you would have.

Well maybe not the internet, but social networks. In my facebook I have about 50 or so people I went to school with, most I haven't seen since school finished and if I have seen them it's been a chance meeting and sometimes we don't even acknowledge each other, though I always found that strange and it's not my fault if people run into me in Penrith on the way to uni and am not feeling socialable. It's a bus to Richmond where I have to wait around for an hour and a half. Wow, that was a while ago.

Other forms of internet things I'm all for, forums are awesome. The Forum obviously be the most awesome. May it rest in peace. I have nothing punny for that.

This is another blog coming at ya from work.
It is 4.38 and I'm the only person in the office.
Strange, but it makes me less paranoid.
We've lost the key to the office. I have spent the last hour looking for it.
Whoever lost it did a damn good job of it. We are also trying to work out WHO lost it, but have nothing.

On the reverse of all of that, I have a new computer to play with... at home. It's a MacBook and I need to adjust to all it's mac-ness.
I am calling it Mac, because most things need names and it is a Veronica Mars reference and named after Mac, because it's short for McKenzie. Word.
I'm not going to get a good chance to play with it before renew though because I have things to do on a computer I know and love for renew.
Making awesome nametags for one and then tomorrow night is finalising nametags and having a last meeting with James and then a music practise. Oh, I need to ring Jacob to get him to bring Felix so I have a guitar for said music practise. I'm really not up for taking Patrick Joe on the train really early.

Hmmm... writing crap. I've missed you.
'til next time non-existent readers (and procrastinating Davey!)

Elyse

It has been a while.
Quite a while?

So, for anyone who reads here and only here, I did finish the infamous photo challenge, the photos are on my Facebook, they are awesome.

I tend to rant a lot about books here.
I've read lots of books recently, it's hard to keep them all track. I should because I'm slightly interested to see who books I'll get through by the end of the year and I kind of want to get into triple digits.

That fricken Secret History is ruining my odds!

Then again, do the Chronicles of Narnia count as one book or seven? They were in the one volume.
I'd like to count them as seven, but they aren't very long.

It's very perplexing.

I have nothing interesting to say.
Good times. Great classic hits.