The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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Lurking and stimming.....

Lurking and larfing...

I will set aside any thought of making a living with art. Never was any damned good at mathematics, it was the one subject where I had to work really hard to get a decent mark.

Gromit's shotgun-wedding pic: ... and the bridesmaid has her own cannon? No, by heck, that's the bride!

Five pages to go!

Lurking and looking for someone I can do this to......

Haha.. how do you make a tissue dance? Put a little boogie in it.

I totally agree about woman in picture being angry. And also about how ridiculous the man looks in the context of the title.

I used to draw faces, by the hundred, little and large, and loved creating whole stories in my head about who they were, etc, based on the minutest aspects of their expression.

Suddenly realise that I look lots at mouths for info. And now wonder whether the fact that I always left the eyes unfilled in, just sockets and lids, until last, after everything else was in place, and alive, has something to do with AS.

I used to like greek/classical statues because their eyes are often just orbs with a dot/hole for the pupil.

I have thousands of faces cut out of magazines etc, because I find them so fascinating. Also pics of houses, interiors etc, because I love looking at them and "feeling" who lives in them. Also because I don't often see other people's houses. Would love to be invisible or a fly on a wall, so that could go into people's houses and watch.

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It's been good to talk with all of you again. I'm back in the salt mine this week, so it looks like I'd better concentrate on work for the time being. I have managed to make my district manager mad - she was told about the operatic phone call I made to my boss. She drove to the pharmacy this morning to talk to me about it at the end of my shift, but I was busy helping patients and forgot that she was there. I just now remembered that I forgot her as I sat down to type that it's been good to talk to all of you again.

Oh well. Operatic phone calls and blowing off the district manager - that can't be too bad, right?
(I'd better unplug my phone so that their phone calls won't disturb my sleep. )

ok, in their wisdom "they" scheduled a "homeland security" exercise. they advertised it widely. if going near the hospital, they said, be prepared for stops and to be questioned as to the reason you are there. this is a full-blown anti-terrorist exercise. (funny, it looks like a "dog and pony show" for public consumption, to me.)

ok, we drive to the hospital area (kid still working in that general area for the next few weeks, til the new job starts). pass gaggles of cops at roadblocks. they're all drinking grande starbucks coffee, eating donuts (no, really!), chatting and laughing. they kind of smile at us as we pass through. didn't even bother to wave us through, nobody manning the checkpoints.

get closer to the hospital. the mega-zillion dollar copshop trailer is set up, lot of canopies, several tv news crews interviewing various people. several small gaggles of men in badly-fitted black business suits (geee, i wonder who THEY were - looking pastey-ish - needed a san diego tan, i guess ) standing around talking to each other.

was supposed to start at 7. we went through at 7:10. kid says she's just now hearing helicopters. i'm hearing helicopters as well. but i'm near miramar, so i ~always~ hear helicopters. they're also supposed to be doing this thing up here at another hospital. you know, like out of a bad movie. marines charging off the big helicopter to secure the building, etc. - makes me think of that scene in "the blues brothers" where they're rappelling down the building in downtown chicago going "hut hut hut hut hut".....

when i was dropping the kid off, there were tons of cops everywhere, as expected. all standing around drinking their coffee or lattes or whatever. at the front of the complex, anyway. we drove around the back, where it sort of backs up onto the drop-off off the mesa? where anyone and their kid brother could climb up the trails made by the transients who sleep farther down the hill towards the valley live, and just walk into the buildings in the back of the complex, the ones that are connected by tunnels (i believe) to most of the other buildings? not a cop in sight back there.

just up where the media is.

oy. wonder how much THIS little exercise cost the taxpayers (in a state that is already in serious fiscal crisis)... and how much good it does to have the cops practice standing at barricades to drink their coffee and eat their donuts?

from one of my favorite movies 'the science of sleep' Michel Gondry.
(in french it is actually the science of dreams (la science des rêves)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYTpmPNoiGQ

the machine that goes 1 second back in time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFfwY1FJjmI

...gonna have to check that movie out, if it is available here.
...keys, keys, keys... ...bosses, bosses, bosses...
I need a time machine too to correct all my brain slippages lately (will need more than a one second time-frame though). Yeah, I'm pretty safe. Plus, all the cops that could arrest me for commiting bad opera are in San Diego drinking coffee. Plus - I'll sick richie's boogie man on anyone that messes with me.

Lurking.....