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Monday, January 17, 2011
What the heck CCBC?
So, earlier today I got a call saying that my classes that are meant to start Tuesday are postponed til the 21st of February. This on account of the fancy new building not being ready yet.
Ok, so I am taking carpentry classes at a community collage trade school. As a step in my grand plan of eventually owning my own farm. I already have the skills to be an apprentice I'm just getting that silly paperwork that says I do (grrr).
That is all great and whatnot, I mean, I generally don't count myself as a complainer (so you know some complaining is about to go down) but what the heck guys!? You call me two days before classes are set to start telling me they wont start til over a month from now? When I told folks they were said things like, "lucky you! I have to go back Wednesday it blows." If I was going to normal school collage then perhaps I would agree. School does sometimes blow. I did sometimes enjoy the material but there was always that time when all your papers and projects would line up on the same weekend... bleeeh.
However, this school fits me just fine and apart from the long days and sore back, I enjoy the work and they give us a lot of freedom on our projects (Last term I got to build a working trebuchet). So, toward the end of this vacation I was really starting to look forward to heading back.
Raw. Wicked raw.
Ok, so I am taking carpentry classes at a community collage trade school. As a step in my grand plan of eventually owning my own farm. I already have the skills to be an apprentice I'm just getting that silly paperwork that says I do (grrr).
That is all great and whatnot, I mean, I generally don't count myself as a complainer (so you know some complaining is about to go down) but what the heck guys!? You call me two days before classes are set to start telling me they wont start til over a month from now? When I told folks they were said things like, "lucky you! I have to go back Wednesday it blows." If I was going to normal school collage then perhaps I would agree. School does sometimes blow. I did sometimes enjoy the material but there was always that time when all your papers and projects would line up on the same weekend... bleeeh.
However, this school fits me just fine and apart from the long days and sore back, I enjoy the work and they give us a lot of freedom on our projects (Last term I got to build a working trebuchet). So, toward the end of this vacation I was really starting to look forward to heading back.
Raw. Wicked raw.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Nerdy Music Ruined My Life
Ok, so I completely blame my sister for this, but my latest music jams have been incredibly nerdy (and incredibly awesome!). Mostly this band called Ministry of Magic... yes I have succumbed to 'wizard rock' (grah I feel weird even typing it). So far, this has been the only Harry Potter music I listen to. My sister has tried to get me to listen to them and I just wrote them off until, knowing my love for Luna Lovegood, she sent me a song by them about her called Lovegood. It all went downhill from there, I became a huge dorky fan and as it turned out my sister gave me their latest album for Christmas and It frustrates me how utterly AMAZING it is.
As if that wasn't bad enough, I have been converted to another nerd band with a member from Ministry of Magic and singer from another 'wizard rock' band to form ALL CAPS. and let me tell you they rock my wool socks off.
I've been recently hooked on this one song by ALL CAPS called "World of Warcraft Ruined My Life". Now although, I haven't had the privilege of playing World of Warcraft I have had experience with life-sucking games like it (cough cough Morrowind). The music video they made for it just brought back the memories of girlfriends complaining about my wasted time plying those games.
Now it is moot whether or not I feel that time was actually wasted. It has already happened, and I am sure at that moment I was having the time of my life slaying monsters and fighting the unread.
I will post the lyrics below.
*Interesting note to this. Kristina started playing World of Warcraft two days after filming this video you can see her confession here .
World of Warcraft Ruined My Life - ALL CAPS
Bag of cheetos on my left and a rockstar on my right
I'm meeting my guild in Ironforge tonight
My cell phone is ringing and it's probably my girl
I let it go to voicemail cause I've entered the World
Listen, I don't wanna nag you but
you've gotta stop playing this game
you've been walking around as that stupid cow
for the past eleven days
I'm losing my boyfriend to World of Warcraft
He said he loved me and I thought it would last
We used to go out but now I'm just here waiting
He never calls back he is too busy raiding
I hate that stupid game
I don't have a problem I feel totally fine
but I've just gotta kill Onyxia for the hundredth time
My cow might look stupid but he's an engineer
how could you not love him with all his epic gear
With level 450 cooking
and level 450 fishing
Baby I don't wanna be a pest
but you haven't showered in a week
you've been running around a made up town
for at least a thousand days
I'm losing my boyfriend to World of Warcraft
He said he loved me and I thought it would last
We used to go out but now I'm just here waiting
He never calls back he is too busy raiding
I hate that stupid game
What happened to you honey
you've hit a new low
all the gold you farm in your game
couldn't buy me a rose
but baby I am telling you
I'll quit after tonight
after tonight
As if that wasn't bad enough, I have been converted to another nerd band with a member from Ministry of Magic and singer from another 'wizard rock' band to form ALL CAPS. and let me tell you they rock my wool socks off.
I've been recently hooked on this one song by ALL CAPS called "World of Warcraft Ruined My Life". Now although, I haven't had the privilege of playing World of Warcraft I have had experience with life-sucking games like it (cough cough Morrowind). The music video they made for it just brought back the memories of girlfriends complaining about my wasted time plying those games.
Now it is moot whether or not I feel that time was actually wasted. It has already happened, and I am sure at that moment I was having the time of my life slaying monsters and fighting the unread.
I will post the lyrics below.
*Interesting note to this. Kristina started playing World of Warcraft two days after filming this video you can see her confession here .
World of Warcraft Ruined My Life - ALL CAPS
Bag of cheetos on my left and a rockstar on my right
I'm meeting my guild in Ironforge tonight
My cell phone is ringing and it's probably my girl
I let it go to voicemail cause I've entered the World
Listen, I don't wanna nag you but
you've gotta stop playing this game
you've been walking around as that stupid cow
for the past eleven days
I'm losing my boyfriend to World of Warcraft
He said he loved me and I thought it would last
We used to go out but now I'm just here waiting
He never calls back he is too busy raiding
I hate that stupid game
I don't have a problem I feel totally fine
but I've just gotta kill Onyxia for the hundredth time
My cow might look stupid but he's an engineer
how could you not love him with all his epic gear
With level 450 cooking
and level 450 fishing
Baby I don't wanna be a pest
but you haven't showered in a week
you've been running around a made up town
for at least a thousand days
I'm losing my boyfriend to World of Warcraft
He said he loved me and I thought it would last
We used to go out but now I'm just here waiting
He never calls back he is too busy raiding
I hate that stupid game
What happened to you honey
you've hit a new low
all the gold you farm in your game
couldn't buy me a rose
but baby I am telling you
I'll quit after tonight
after tonight
Friday, January 7, 2011
Yes, I did it.
It is the new year and I have given in to peer pressure and made my first solo blog. I am a writer for A Voice of One's Own But I figured the raw, cranky, and lazy Three Feathers could live here, post my stories, plays, ideas, and vomit political ideology.
So, It is the new year! Happy 2011 folks. It is January and the ground is not covered in pretty snow... I miss The north and I miss snow.
Last year at this time I was living in Vail, Colorado surrounded by piles and piles of lovely fluffy precipitation. I didn't snowboard at all this year and probably won't. But, Baltimore ain't that bad, granted it is a city and I would prefer to be in norther New England where the air is crisp... and breathable. But here I can finish trade school and my bachelors as well. So, hopefully I will be finished with this city once and for all in about 3-4 years... but perhaps sooner if I find the means to complete my undergrad up north.
What Three Feathers? You're 23 and you still haven't finished your undergrad?!?!?
Yes, well, bit of a story there. I went to collage when I graduated high school like most folks but two years in still didn't know what I wanted to do with my life and (aside from my three roommates) very much disliked the place I was. So of the four roommates, two of us dropped out and one graduated that year. So after messing around doing nothing, I started working on a farm on a whim and The rest of the story I can quote directly to you from my first entry in A Voice of One's Own:
"... [from then on] I want[ed] to be a farmer. I love digging my hands into rich, healthy soil. This is something I would never have thought remotely desirable shortly before I found myself doing it. After I left school I had no idea what I was going to do with my life or more importantly what I wanted to do with it. I was offered a position on a farm and I took it thinking it was a good in-between job because I had landscaped for years and worked briefly on a farm during high school; so I figured it was something I could deal with while I sorted things out. It was here I fell in love with the earth in the most amazing way. I always considered myself an environmentalist but it wasn’t until this time I felt the closest to the classical understanding of Gaia, the ancient Greek word and divine being of earth. I hadn’t realized what beauty there was in the cycle of plants and animals. I guess I always knew it intellectually but I hadn’t actually felt it until then. My boss and mentor’s philosophy was that we were stewards of the land. He showed me the patterns and the natural cycles taking place and when we let them take place we would benefit most. This meant considering and taking care of everything; including the soil and surrounding forest, as well as our plants and animals.
I’m afraid I might have lost you, so I’ll paraphrase Michael Pollan, from his book The Botany of Desire, in which he talks about how one spring he was in his garden planting potatoes, watching the bees take advantage of the blossoming apple trees. It was then he realizes that he is just like those bees. The bees don’t know or care that they are pollinating the trees and flowers, they assume they are getting the best deal; after all they are in it for the nectar. Just as the bees are in this larger system so are we. It is naive for us to assume we are ever in control of the earth, we are merely contributors to this larger system we may never fully see or understand. When we grow food for ourselves in the most beneficial way, we are promoting the rest of this system. So, It is in our own interest to be stewards, we need to stop removing ourselves from our picture of earth and realize we are children of Gaia.
One July night a few other farm hands and I returned from a bonfire party and decided to spend the rest of the night in one of our fields. Staring at the sky, being held up by the ground I had a major encounter with the infinite. The only way I can describe it is as a “holy shit” moment. When you are so overcome you can only put forth those very limited and unflattering words, even in your head. Laying on the ground with fellow “land stewards”, surrounded by living things we helped raise, it was hard not to feel the miracle we were participating in. I had found my bliss."
So Thats it, I still want to finish my undergrad for myself but I discovered what I want to do with my life, and it took dropping out of college to do it. I'm not encouraging everyone to drop out of school all I am saying is that in my personal case I felt I needed to do so in order for these events to transpire the way they did.
Well I'll leave you with that. Peace, Love, and Hope.
-Three Feathers
So, It is the new year! Happy 2011 folks. It is January and the ground is not covered in pretty snow... I miss The north and I miss snow.
Last year at this time I was living in Vail, Colorado surrounded by piles and piles of lovely fluffy precipitation. I didn't snowboard at all this year and probably won't. But, Baltimore ain't that bad, granted it is a city and I would prefer to be in norther New England where the air is crisp... and breathable. But here I can finish trade school and my bachelors as well. So, hopefully I will be finished with this city once and for all in about 3-4 years... but perhaps sooner if I find the means to complete my undergrad up north.
What Three Feathers? You're 23 and you still haven't finished your undergrad?!?!?
Yes, well, bit of a story there. I went to collage when I graduated high school like most folks but two years in still didn't know what I wanted to do with my life and (aside from my three roommates) very much disliked the place I was. So of the four roommates, two of us dropped out and one graduated that year. So after messing around doing nothing, I started working on a farm on a whim and The rest of the story I can quote directly to you from my first entry in A Voice of One's Own:
"... [from then on] I want[ed] to be a farmer. I love digging my hands into rich, healthy soil. This is something I would never have thought remotely desirable shortly before I found myself doing it. After I left school I had no idea what I was going to do with my life or more importantly what I wanted to do with it. I was offered a position on a farm and I took it thinking it was a good in-between job because I had landscaped for years and worked briefly on a farm during high school; so I figured it was something I could deal with while I sorted things out. It was here I fell in love with the earth in the most amazing way. I always considered myself an environmentalist but it wasn’t until this time I felt the closest to the classical understanding of Gaia, the ancient Greek word and divine being of earth. I hadn’t realized what beauty there was in the cycle of plants and animals. I guess I always knew it intellectually but I hadn’t actually felt it until then. My boss and mentor’s philosophy was that we were stewards of the land. He showed me the patterns and the natural cycles taking place and when we let them take place we would benefit most. This meant considering and taking care of everything; including the soil and surrounding forest, as well as our plants and animals.
I’m afraid I might have lost you, so I’ll paraphrase Michael Pollan, from his book The Botany of Desire, in which he talks about how one spring he was in his garden planting potatoes, watching the bees take advantage of the blossoming apple trees. It was then he realizes that he is just like those bees. The bees don’t know or care that they are pollinating the trees and flowers, they assume they are getting the best deal; after all they are in it for the nectar. Just as the bees are in this larger system so are we. It is naive for us to assume we are ever in control of the earth, we are merely contributors to this larger system we may never fully see or understand. When we grow food for ourselves in the most beneficial way, we are promoting the rest of this system. So, It is in our own interest to be stewards, we need to stop removing ourselves from our picture of earth and realize we are children of Gaia.
One July night a few other farm hands and I returned from a bonfire party and decided to spend the rest of the night in one of our fields. Staring at the sky, being held up by the ground I had a major encounter with the infinite. The only way I can describe it is as a “holy shit” moment. When you are so overcome you can only put forth those very limited and unflattering words, even in your head. Laying on the ground with fellow “land stewards”, surrounded by living things we helped raise, it was hard not to feel the miracle we were participating in. I had found my bliss."
So Thats it, I still want to finish my undergrad for myself but I discovered what I want to do with my life, and it took dropping out of college to do it. I'm not encouraging everyone to drop out of school all I am saying is that in my personal case I felt I needed to do so in order for these events to transpire the way they did.
Well I'll leave you with that. Peace, Love, and Hope.
-Three Feathers
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