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Mar. 19th, 2011 09:51 pmFairbanks trip is almost over. Had a great time! I ate at the Bakery Restaurant and had the Bon Jour Skillet which sounds like a Pepe LePew being bonked on the head, but was completely delicious. Saturday was so gorgeous I mostly just drove around listening to the radio (college towns have good radio stations) and looking at stuff.
The moon Saturday was AWESOME. Seriously, I nearly got stuck in the snow in a cemetery on a hill to get a picture of the bigger-than-my-head moon because it was so incredible.
The only two downsides are that the hotel’s free wifi is a mysterious, free-floating apparition that you must roam the hallways to find, and that the rental car does a thing I hate. Every time the car slides (and Fairbanks has a candy-coating of ice a few inches thick this time of year so most starts slide a little), a bright yellow skidding car logo flashes at me and I end up yelling “Dude, I KNOW!” at the dashboard.
Meanwhile, I’m trying to pay more attention to things around me. Take more note of details and the like. I read that artsyville will sometimes use things she overhears in public as art-fodder, so I thought I would at least try to eavesdrop a little. It’s harder than I thought. I got voices of my own and they drown out a lot of the outside noise. But I tried!
Overheard at the restaurant:
Blue is not a secondary color! What makes blue??
This is my deathstar!
(in tones of great indignation from the kitchen) They want hash browns AND season fries??
(adults using the complimentary crayons) I tried to use white to make it ‘shade’ better, but it wouldn’t ‘blend’. *
Wanna see something stupid or really funny?
(in a girly falsetto) I was looking forward to tangerine!
Corn-on-the-cob is a flavor!
Let. Me. Make. The graph!
They just shattered every time he got shot. (someone’s teeth)
It was more red than green. Kind of a faux-green.
And my personal favorite:
I am so angry that I’m just going to make an aura of daisies! Or better yet, tulips! SO FURIOUS! TULIPS!
I don’t even care what the context for that one was!
*I have to admit, when I snuck a peek, it was a decent rendering of a flame trail behind a rocket ship.
The moon Saturday was AWESOME. Seriously, I nearly got stuck in the snow in a cemetery on a hill to get a picture of the bigger-than-my-head moon because it was so incredible.
The only two downsides are that the hotel’s free wifi is a mysterious, free-floating apparition that you must roam the hallways to find, and that the rental car does a thing I hate. Every time the car slides (and Fairbanks has a candy-coating of ice a few inches thick this time of year so most starts slide a little), a bright yellow skidding car logo flashes at me and I end up yelling “Dude, I KNOW!” at the dashboard.
Meanwhile, I’m trying to pay more attention to things around me. Take more note of details and the like. I read that artsyville will sometimes use things she overhears in public as art-fodder, so I thought I would at least try to eavesdrop a little. It’s harder than I thought. I got voices of my own and they drown out a lot of the outside noise. But I tried!
Overheard at the restaurant:
Blue is not a secondary color! What makes blue??
This is my deathstar!
(in tones of great indignation from the kitchen) They want hash browns AND season fries??
(adults using the complimentary crayons) I tried to use white to make it ‘shade’ better, but it wouldn’t ‘blend’. *
Wanna see something stupid or really funny?
(in a girly falsetto) I was looking forward to tangerine!
Corn-on-the-cob is a flavor!
Let. Me. Make. The graph!
They just shattered every time he got shot. (someone’s teeth)
It was more red than green. Kind of a faux-green.
And my personal favorite:
I am so angry that I’m just going to make an aura of daisies! Or better yet, tulips! SO FURIOUS! TULIPS!
I don’t even care what the context for that one was!
*I have to admit, when I snuck a peek, it was a decent rendering of a flame trail behind a rocket ship.