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Made trigonometry or algebra or something unbearable because instead of getting of getting into a groove of slaving through irritating numbers and equations, I was tasked with the less-time-consuming, but more-impossible, duty of switching back and forth between a graphing calculator and the paper where I was making notes. Sorry, that's just now how my mind works.
(I'm aware this is an extremely narrow view of the answer, and it doesn't take into account things like the distractions of television and radio, the ability to go to school half an hour away by automobile, the ability to wear a T-shirt with a meaningful logo on it in the middle of winter, the fact that were it not for technology I might not have survived my own birth, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera...)
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The Vanda is an unusual variety of orchid with typical "air" roots. The natural habitat of the Vanda reaches from India and Sri Lanka to the North of Australia. In 1613 the Vanda orchid was first discovered by Alvin Semodo and was given the name "tiao hua", which means air plant as they grow and flower with their roots in open air. These so called air roots work like sponges and can take up a lot of water in very little time. The roots also enable the plant to anchor itself to the tree on which it grows and therefore the Vanda orchid does not need soil to survive. The plant flowers many times during the year without having a real season and the flowers themselves last for many weeks.
Anco is a specialist in growing Vanda's and have positioned themselves as global market leader. The Anco Orchid stands for high quality Vanda's that comes in many different colours. It takes approximately 6 years for a Vanda to mature and flower, so the first 5 years the Anco Orchids are grown in Thailand. After being transported they are looked after for another year in the Dutch nursery before they are ready for sale.
Care instructions: The Anco Orchid flowers best when indoors in a clean vase. Half fill the vase twice a week with lukewarm water to let the plant drink properly. Empty the vase after 30 minutes. Optimum temperature 17 - 28 C. / Give the plant as much sunlight as possible but avoid direct sun during the summer. Add plant food to the water once a month.
www.ancoorchidee.nl
Okay, really? Fine. It's Civilization, plus those DS games where you need to draw something (that Pac Man game that came out a long time ago, Drawn to Life, that game where you draw runes, countless minigames...), and/or that one game where you draw your own monster or whatever (Magic Pengel?).
THAT'S what synaesthesia is? Fuck that! I don't have synaesfuckingthesia! I just have SENSES and EMPATHY and INSIGHT. Furthermore, letters, numbers, and words actually have those associative properties! It's not my synaesthetic fault if someone's such a dumb jock philistine that they don't know what's up (and mistakenly draw left arrows red in my GPS).
Utahraptor=Jonathan if he were the same age as me and this were a few years ago.
Drom... ...I can't spell her name, AND I don't know who I know who's like her.
Analysis over!!
It segued with some facility into this creepy zombie town in some Sims game.
And then there was another part that was a CG Star Wars movie, but it wasn't doofy or for kids. It followed the story of this really cool Separatist commander who was some race that wasn't in Star Wars canon, that looked like a weird sea anemone thing... or that's what his head was--it was just this weird, vagina-like orifice, no eyes, no humanoid features--and the rest of his body was either badass armor or a shell (it was hard to tell), but from the shoulders down he looked pretty humanoid (but again, it was hard to tell). The world he was on was also more interesting than most of the stuff I'm aware of in Star Wars canon. Edit: Also he and his subordinates talked and acted like characters from Final Fantasy XII. Actually, now that I recall that, I'm pretty sure that his manner, his weird head/helmet, and his weird body/armor were all inspired by the Archadian Judges Magister.
2. Treacherous Three - At the Party
3. Big Daddy Kane - Set It Off
4. Organized Konfusion - Prisoners of War
5. Main Source - Lookin at the Front Door
6. Black Sheep - Strobelight Honey
7. Ozomatli - Cut Chemist Suite
8. Kurtis Blow - I Gotta Dance
9. 5-3 Federation - Zelda Rap
10. Sage Francis - Video Game Freestyle
11. Lucy Pearl w/ Talib Kweli - Don't Mess With My Man (remix)
12. Grandmaster Caz - MC's Delight
13. Busdriver w/ Abstract Rude - Get on the Bus
14. Run-DMC - Jam Master Jay
15. Gang Starr - Full Clip
16. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Men at Work
17. Eyedea - Infrared Roses
18. Juice Crew All-Stars - The Symphony
Who was 'T-Rex'? We know of his interest in 'them quote books' [sic], and we can assume he found demonstrative pronouns a challenge. Ignore that last bit! I meant to write that we know T-Rex was awesome and I wish I were like him. Anyway it's really too bad he couldn't talk well! Hold on, I meant to write that he COULD! For more TRUE FACTS, turn to page 45. Astute readers will note this book only goes to page 40. Screw you, dude! Attention readers! Only read the good sentences!!
Michael Pollan - In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
The idea your afterlife is whatever you spend your life believing it'll be (or something like that).
What if you don't believe in an afterlife, and you get there, and there's nothing there, but you're still conscious of it?
( Eva, you might not want to read any more. I'm exhausted so I don't give such a shit, but you might be getting enough rest and fear might feel fresh and debilitating to you still. The rest of you, spoiler alert. )
Another part of the dream was Papa wanted me to get him a fighting robot from some anime--he wanted a mech and he wanted me to get myself one so we could merge our mecha and boost their strength exponentially--typical mecha anime shit. So I did a bunch of research and figured that some Getter Robo or Giant Robo or something would be the best, and then I had to ask Graham where in London I could get such a thing, and he told me that the disposable phone I've been using has an application that can summon one. So I got a phone for my dad (or a Blackberry or something) and had a really rough time teaching him how to use it, because I was having a hard time myself figuring out the application (because this phone sucks), et cetera et cetera.
Another part of the dream was what is becoming a recurring nightmare here, and somehow I wound up being Adrian's understudy.
Edit: Some other part of the dream was that somebody was heartbreakingly sad and I couldn't help and I felt bad about it, which means that I probably COULD have helped. Mike Grant? Zach Weber? James Meador? Someone like that. Maybe some dreambination of the three, and maybe some other people I'm not thinking about right now.
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