Tuesday's child is full of grace
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thistlechaserMonday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go.
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for a living,
But the child born on the Sabbath Day,
Is fair and wise and good and gay.
[Grayson|Hauser|Hyper] must have been born on Sunday. Ha ha! I so love abusing you three. :)
I can't figure out which day Sly would have been born on. 'Fair of face' might work, I guess. 'Full of grace' would probably get you stabbed. 'Full of woe'? He might bring woe, but he's not experiencing it himself... 'Has far to go' works best, I guess. He's got a lot of growing and learning to do.
Wait! We can actually look this up! (Here.) 2/15/86 is a... Saturday. 'Works hard for a living'. Well, um, not exactly. His life is sort of like a wild cat's: Lots of sleep and laziness punctuated by brief periods of high stress/very activeness.
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But anyway, this wasn't going to be a post about MUSH characters; I was looking for a good subject line, and came across that little rhyme. I had heard bits of it here and there, but never saw the whole thing before. It's kind of cool.
Headache, headache, headache. Wish I was at home, eating breakfast and watching cartoons. Don't want to be at work with no breakfast (after no dinner!) and lots of annoying work to do.
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How about a cute as heck kitten picture?
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And lastly, I better archive this here until I can move it to catlove. This week's challenge was "...simply that your character, for whatever reason, is conjuring a Patronus, and must find a happy memory to hold on to."
Title: Demonstration
Characters: Nearly Headless Nick
Not everyone knows that ghosts can do magic. There's no reason why they shouldn't be able to, not so long as they could while they were alive.
Sometimes people need convincing though.
"Okay, then show us!" dared Suzie, a cheerful Hufflepuff first year. Other youngsters of her house gathered close to watch.
Nearly Headless Nick smiled down at her. "Of course!"
Out came his wand (as ghostly as he), his eyes closing for a moment as he pictured one of his happiest (and most recent) memories:
Yesterday his approval to start a Nearly Headless Hunt arrived by ghost-post.
"Expecto Patronum!"
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Oh, I lied. One more thing. For the sharp-eyed readers out there: Yes, Google did finally index catlove! Yay! Amusingly, it was the day after I posted about them not indexing me, too. Happy happy is I!
Oddly, even the old search engine where I used to work has indexed me... That worries me a little. Either the last of the old team was finally laid off, or they're overworked, or the "Minister of Defense" was made to soften his blocking programs. We would never have indexed something with 'hot-hot-hot' in the domain name before!
Okay, maybe it's been two+ years since I worked there, but... I still think that the work (spam defense) was valuable, and I'm sad to think it's ended or has been weakened for those who had still been there when I left.
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go.
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for a living,
But the child born on the Sabbath Day,
Is fair and wise and good and gay.
[Grayson|Hauser|Hyper] must have been born on Sunday. Ha ha! I so love abusing you three. :)
I can't figure out which day Sly would have been born on. 'Fair of face' might work, I guess. 'Full of grace' would probably get you stabbed. 'Full of woe'? He might bring woe, but he's not experiencing it himself... 'Has far to go' works best, I guess. He's got a lot of growing and learning to do.
Wait! We can actually look this up! (Here.) 2/15/86 is a... Saturday. 'Works hard for a living'. Well, um, not exactly. His life is sort of like a wild cat's: Lots of sleep and laziness punctuated by brief periods of high stress/very activeness.
--------------
But anyway, this wasn't going to be a post about MUSH characters; I was looking for a good subject line, and came across that little rhyme. I had heard bits of it here and there, but never saw the whole thing before. It's kind of cool.
Headache, headache, headache. Wish I was at home, eating breakfast and watching cartoons. Don't want to be at work with no breakfast (after no dinner!) and lots of annoying work to do.
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How about a cute as heck kitten picture?
--------------
And lastly, I better archive this here until I can move it to catlove. This week's challenge was "...simply that your character, for whatever reason, is conjuring a Patronus, and must find a happy memory to hold on to."
Title: Demonstration
Characters: Nearly Headless Nick
Not everyone knows that ghosts can do magic. There's no reason why they shouldn't be able to, not so long as they could while they were alive.
Sometimes people need convincing though.
"Okay, then show us!" dared Suzie, a cheerful Hufflepuff first year. Other youngsters of her house gathered close to watch.
Nearly Headless Nick smiled down at her. "Of course!"
Out came his wand (as ghostly as he), his eyes closing for a moment as he pictured one of his happiest (and most recent) memories:
Yesterday his approval to start a Nearly Headless Hunt arrived by ghost-post.
"Expecto Patronum!"
----------
Oh, I lied. One more thing. For the sharp-eyed readers out there: Yes, Google did finally index catlove! Yay! Amusingly, it was the day after I posted about them not indexing me, too. Happy happy is I!
Oddly, even the old search engine where I used to work has indexed me... That worries me a little. Either the last of the old team was finally laid off, or they're overworked, or the "Minister of Defense" was made to soften his blocking programs. We would never have indexed something with 'hot-hot-hot' in the domain name before!
Okay, maybe it's been two+ years since I worked there, but... I still think that the work (spam defense) was valuable, and I'm sad to think it's ended or has been weakened for those who had still been there when I left.
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Date: 2003-04-15 03:08 pm (UTC)And I'm a child of Wednesday. I suppose that explains all the angst-RP. :)
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Date: 2003-04-15 08:41 pm (UTC)We just published a new index a couple weeks ago. I think they're crawling for the next index now. Might be a good time to submit the URL. The dashes probably don't help though :
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Date: 2003-04-15 09:30 pm (UTC)I think I was confused. I had thought that Clem was the first (and only) MoD... but I think maybe I joined up with the spam defense team right as he got the title, so I guess that's why I remember it that way. Glad he's still there! Do you know if Rob (his "understudy") is as well?
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Date: 2003-04-16 08:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-16 08:22 am (UTC)