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I had a great day today; it would've easily been the best day of my break if I <\/font>didn't<\/i><\/font> get sick. We saw Shutter together, and , well, I have to say, I tend not to see horror movies not because I dislike being scared, but because more than most bad movies, I don't want to watch bad horror movies (unless they're really funny). Shutter was a spectacular horror movie though. We really enjoyed it~ <3 I have to go recommend you see it~ -^~-<\/font><\/p> Oh, and today I was finally taught how to braid hair. ^^; It's so simple i feel sort of foolish~
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Allow me to be a nerd<\/i> here. I've been practicing my chess. I'm getting better. I won't say I'm good, but I don't think I'm especially bad any more. My father and I have set up a little table in the hall outside of our rooms, and whenever we pass it, we make a move and write down on the white board what we did. Thusly, there's all the time in the world to think<\/i>. So it's not great at making me think faster, but it's good at developing tactics and strategy, and honestly, I'll focus on faster after I have it down at all. Learn how to do something well before learning how to do something fast, right?
Well, I think the game is going pretty well. I presently control the center as black, while white is cramped. Let me say this right now: chess brings out the worst in me, I think. When I play chess, I believe I begin to think in the same sort of way Yagami Light does: vicious plotting. I've downright capitalized on one mistake my father made during the opening.
Here's the moves we've gone through thus far
1) e4 e5 (open game)
2) Nc3 Nf6 (Vienna game)
3) Bc4 (I don't understand this move) Nxe4 (potential for Frankenstein - Dracula variation?)
4) Bxf7+ (I don't understand this move either) Kxf7
5) Nxe4 d4
6) Qf3+ Ke8
7) Ng3 Nc3
8) Ne2 g6
9( d3 Bc4
10) Nc3 Be6
11) Kg1 Rf8
13) Qe2 b6
14) a3 a5
And that leaves us where we are. I don't really understand 3) Bc4 unless you're going to move into Frankenstein-Dracula, which didn't happen. What are the potential adventages of 3) Bc4 in the first place, let alone Bf7 without anything to support it? Sure, he avoided 4) ... d5 to fork the bishop and the knight, but I still took the center of the board, and have managed to maintain that fairly well, having a good deal of open space while cramping his, I think.<\/i><\/div>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:lichifruit:112958","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/lichifruit.livejournal.com\/112958.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/lichifruit.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=112958"}}],"title":"lichifruit @ 2008-03-13T09:39:00","published":"2008-03-13T16:53:02Z","updated":"2008-03-13T16:53:02Z","category":{"@attributes":{"term":"mama_drama"}},"content":"I know some people who can really<\/i> talk an ear off, like, \"shut up up already\" or who won't ever let you get into the conversation, but no one is really worse at this than my mother. She rants and rants and rants<\/i>, and she wonders why people don't want to talk with her sometimes. It's because she doesn't let them talk, and because she spends most of her time complaining. Keeping in mind that she talked my ear off last night, and I was kind of annoyed with her for it, when she contacted me via the intercom this morning, I reached for a stopwatch and a pencil and paper on my night stand.
According to the clock on my night stand, the conversation began at 9:16 AM. The conversation went until 9:29 AM, a total of 23 minutes. Using the stop watch, I kept track of the amount of time I vocalized anything in the conversation, which was 2 minutes and 13.76 seconds, or roughly 10% of the conversation.
Keep in mind, I try to say things, and she interrupts me and keeps ranting, and if I call her on it, it turns into an argument.
Also, though I do get chances to talk, but she doesn't really talk about things I have any interest in. It is mostly complaints which I really can do nothing about. Speaking of complaints, over the course of that 23 minutes, counting making the same complaints at different times in the conversation ( didn't hear it the first time, damn it?), she made a total of 37 complaints, which means she makes at least one complaint every minute, and often two.
Now I know this isn't scientific or anything. I haven't clearly defined what a complaint was, and I could try and talk more if I really wanted to, but... I don't want to. More often than not, those little chats suck the enthusiasm for life out of me.
I sure am glad I bounce back into that enthusiasm so easily. The power of having good things and people in your life to think about. I'll feel better within an hour.
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Pattern drafting went great yesterday. I never realized that shirring and princess line bodices were so easy. ^^; I was a little afraid they might be harder. But it went well. I've got an interesting idea for a lolita dress using a princess line bodice from waist to shoulder, using the center piece as a contrasting material, and then having the waist of the side piece shirred.
I've also drafted a pattern block for Royce last night, so I can start using it to make miniature test garments for things I sew to test my patterns and get sewing practice on something before doing the larger project.
I'm going to buy some muslin today, I think.
As an entirely side note, i think that some of the names of \"people\" who send you spam are hilarious. \"Monopoli Surprise\" ? XD My spam mail filter is almost like a Phoenix Wright name generator. I swear, if I ever, for any reason, want an unconvincing psuedonym, I'm totally checking my spam."}]}