Nothing to See Here

Posted on 10/28/2003 by alianora

Well, at least Monday is over. My paper is turned in, my presentation is done, and i had doublestuff oreos waiting at home for me.

i love doublestuff oreos.

when i was a kid, i did not eat oreos. no, i did not. i turned up my nose at the oreos. i ate hydrox instead. daddy did not eat oreos, and i was slavishly loyal to the father, so i did not eat oreos either.

hydrox were the original..and they were really good…but then…oreos, the evil interloper took over. and now, there are no more hydrox at all…*sniff*

others have discussed this problem, and the disappearence of the hydrox cookie…the formula was changed in an effort to compete with oreos..and now they have gone completely.

hydrox i could eat plain. by the handful. i can only eat doublestuf oreos, and i have to drown those in milk to do so.

why the hell did i start thinking about this? now im obsessed with finding out more about hydrox cookies…damn it.

i think i was planning on blaming my dad for my weird brand loyalties…like Heinz (neverEVER Hunts) Ketchup, Peter Pan Peanut Butter, LeSouer Peas, and other strange things..

excuse me, i have to go find out what happened to hydrox.

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Monday’s Litany of Pain

Posted on 10/27/2003 by alianora

Its Monday. Which means today already sucks.

I was up late last night finishing paper that is due tonight, along with a 20 minute presentation.

I set the time for my alarm, and fall into much needed sleep.

This morning, Im awoken by the bright sunlight streaming into the room, and by Brandus (who has the day off. bastage)muttering, “what time are you supposed to get up?”

I roll over and notice that my alarm (set for 6:45) did not go off and the clock is cheerfully telling me that it is 7:20.

Shit.

No clean jeans, no socks, clean or otherwise, shirt is clean, even though i wore it all day yesterday. No breakfast, no lunch, we have no food of any kind in the house. Except for spagettios, and i didnt have time to find the can opener.

Brandus has to drive me to school, because we are attempting to get my car fixed from the stupidity i inflicted on it.

I really want to curl up in a little ball on the floor and hide. And sleep. Man, do i want to go to sleep.

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My Mama’s a Ho, And Other Stories

Posted on 10/23/2003 by alianora

Whenever there are 2 or more special education teachers in a room, you are bound to get some interesting stories..

Student: My mama’s a ho.
Teacher: Why would you say something like that? Thats really mean.
Student: She has 8 kids. None of us has the same dad.
Teacher: Wow…your mama is a ho.

———-

Teacher: How do you sleep at night? Do you have nightmares?
Student: I sleep softly on my Sealy mattress.

———-

Teacher: I have a kid rubbing her own period blood in her hair.
Me: Nasty!
Teacher: Her mom said she would stop if we ignore it.
Me: You told her mom to go to hell, right?
Teacher: The principal did.

———-

Me: Tell me a little about yourself.
Student: Uh…um..
Me: Come on, who are you? What are you like?
Student: Well, I’m tall…

———-

Student: I heard that when it rained, its because God is crying. Why would he cry?
Brandus: Probably something you did.

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Another List

Posted on 10/23/2003 by alianora

I dont feel like doing a whole other 100 Things list, but im bored, and dont want to deal with children who are avoiding work right now. so im avoiding work to bring you this List of Random Talents.

1. I can roll my tongue.
2. I can pop all the joints in my fingers.
3. I can write my name with my feet.
4. I can write my name upside down with my left hand.
5. I can read upside down.
6. I can tell you “your mother is crazy in the bathroom” in spanish.
7. I can still sing most of the words to “Ice Ice Baby.”
8. I can recite to beginning of the Prologue of Canterbury Tales in Middle English. I learned it in high school, and now i cant forget it.
9. I can make toll house cookies without looking at the recipe
10. I can program a vcr.

what can you do? hmm?

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Hear Ye Hear Ye!

Posted on 10/22/2003 by alianora

It is with great pride (and some serious confusion) that i welcome you to the Spiral today. Please, sit down, make yourself comfortable, and I will tell you how the Spiral as we know it came to be.

The Spiral was originally, not the Spiral at all. It was Procrastination, a site started while the creator was attempting to get out of writing a paper. Which would have been well and good, only the creator was in Ireland for the summer during this time, knew nothing of html and came up with a generic, lousy layout with essentially nothing on it. Which she had to design while in ireland on a really picky network.

alia returned to the states, and discovered the joys of Netscape Composer, which did all the work of html for her. at this point, the first incarnation of Quote Chaos came into being. mainly quotes from friends and books, and a couple of sites that no longer exist.

The rest of the page at that time was boring and stupid.

At various points, things were added and subtracted, such as Paranoia, which was the Y2K game page, which no one but the creator thought was funny. Bansidhe, the list of all the books the creator had ever read, with links to them on amazon. Thursday, the tribute to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, that alia still insists will be completed one day. The Loony Bin, a section of Quote Chaos dedicated to Monty Python. All are now gone..or in limbo on alianora’s hard drive. D&E Publishing, in its first incarnation, no longer exists, but the writings do, and if anyone has any interest in reading stuff that is a)non fic related and b)pretty weird, please contact the writer at alia@silverspiral.net and let her know.

Somewhere along the line, Procrastination changed servers at least 4 times, and picked up a cjb address, so that visitors would not have to go to the trouble of learning the new address every time.

Finally, in a fit of frustration after the last free server decided to disappear and take Procrastination with it, the idea was born.

alia would buy her own domain name. and get real, paid for hosting. so that the site would not again disappear into oblivion.

2 years ago, on this day of October 22, alianora entered a multitude of names into the domain search at go daddy in an attempt to find anything that would fit her and still be available. “procrastination”, “paranoia”, all were taken. alia was getting concerned.

finally, alia’s attention was caught by the necklace she was wearing. it was a celtic triskal, and the design behind alia’s tattoo as well. “triskal” sounded stupid..but “spiral” would do. and, as silver is alia’s favorite color, and the color of both the necklace and the tattoo, “silver spiral” was entered into the domain search.

Success!

but then the search for a decent, cheap, reliable host started, and after several false starts (geocities? evil. yahoo? evil), our heroine discovers DKBHosting, and actually PAYS them to host her site.

In a stop gap manner, alia points the procrastination.cjb.net address to the silverspiral.net domain and uploads what is left of the tattered Procrastination.

Then, she sweats, and swears, and gets extremely frustrated while trying to come up with a cool new “spiral” layout. the lead graphic is designed (along with about 8 others), and the triskal is decided upon for an email link.

That was 2 years ago. the Spiral is still changing. as it was only a few months ago that b2 was installed and made the spiral into an actual blog instead of a journal and regular site.

So, basically, all of this is a really long, laborious way to say..

Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday, SilverSpiral!
Happy Birthday to you!

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