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before and after
Jul. 19th, 2003 04:07 amThis entry shall contain two parts, the first of which I was working on this afternoon, and the second of which, I didn't start in on until 3:22 in the AM.
The Rudnick is getting cabin fever again... it's time for him to figure out something clever to do aside from making LJ posts in the third person...
... just a moment. *adjusts to first person*
So I've been hanging around in the house, reading, looking around online, messing with a bit of coding, running, and working out at the gym in the evenings... and I think I'm sufficiently summered at this point (although the running isn't quite where it should be... I'll pick up the distance in this next month) -- I don't know what to be doing here in Tallahassee. I could be running with the cross country team from highschool, but even last year, I was pretty much the only alumnus that did the morning runs regularly (and I was gone for most of the summer, but when I was home, I was out with the HS kids)... and thinking about that, it feels like maybe it should be time to move on and let the highschoolers be highschoolers on their own. But on the other hand, I don't know who else I should be running with, and I know I'm welcome...
I've been looking through the slides for last semester's CS4600 in eager anticipation of taking that in the fall. Although I think it's Sven Koenig teaching it next. He seems pretty cool, though -- I mean, he keeps newts! The notes for Thad Starner's version (Thad is also a beast -- he's the Wearables guy at Tech) were all in PDF, and I was trying to figure out how to rotate them to have the right orientation, because for whatever reason, they were rotated 90 degrees clockwise... so after playing with acrobat and imagemagick and convert and all of that crap, I ended up just flipping my monitor sideways.
... and now it's thunderstorming outside -- and I'd like to be out running. The rain, I don't mind at all, but I generally don't make it a practice of being out in the woods when there's thunder and lightning. Maybe it'll subside.
And tonight, The Intoxicators are doing a show at the American Legion Hall (right next to Black Dog) -- perhaps somebody else wants to go to that. Everybody loves surf rock, right? :)
So it was thunderstorming, and I thought that it might be nice to take a book and sit out on the screened-in porch and read a book... so for a while, I did that. The dogs were getting really nervous, and at first I thought that they couldn't decide if they wanted to be inside or on the porch with me, so I let them in and out a few times... but it turned out that Clover (our wonderful, loyal, loving 12-year-old black lab) didn't want me to be out where the thunder was so loud, and she was trying to keep me inside. Eventually, I figured this out, and she calmed down when she'd gotten me back in the house. So I sat inside and read, instead. This was a very loud thunderstorm.
Later on in the evening (once the storm had subsided), I went for a run around the lake and then swam for a while, and that felt good -- I didn't end up going to the gym today... but after I swam, I decided, following my earlier train of reasoning and cabin-fever, that it was time to get out of the house. So I packed up the book I'd been reading (the AI textbook Brett gave me... it may well be the book the diagrams in those CS4600 notes come from) and, lacking any other sort of plan, I headed out for Black Dog. Sara S. opted not to come, because it was already ... 9PM. 9PM? Who's ready for bed at 9? I pointed out that she likely didn't get up until noon, and she didn't offer any particular explanation.
So I showed up at black dog and proceded to do that whole Reading A Book And Drinking Coffee In Public thing for a while. After not too terribly long, I overheard a young lady nearby telling somebody or another about OAF (the Organic Artists Forum, a group of crazy creative kids that Brett (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zip4096)hangs out with at FSU -- they apparently have meetings at 8:27 in the evenings), and I struck up a conversation, and she introduced herself as Kallie (or maybe "Kali", but that would be slightly more unsettling) and told me about her dealings with the OAF-ites and how she knows and loves Brett (because everybody knows and loves Brett at FSU, I get the impression)... and then said that she was headed out to the People Chasing People show at the Beta Bar. Apparently tonight was their farewell show, and she knew one of the members of said band (because she worked at Black Dog, and so did he), so... she was going, and she suggested that I do as well.
Shortly thereafter, I ran into Garrett (he was then introduced to Kallie/Kali), who was just showing up at Black Dog, and we discussed this possibility briefly, and opted to head over to see what was going on.
So we showed up at the Beta Bar, and there was a band playing (but not People Chasing People), and we hung around and socialized a bit (mostly on the deck outside), and Kallie/Kali introduced me to this young lady Sarah M. (who is not Sara S.), who ended up being really fascinating... she's apparently all polyglot-like (speaks Spanish and French and a bit of German and rather a lot of ... Mandarin. Oh my goodness.) and plays the drums in a band (and wears a drum key strung onto a necklace) and is all into running and lifting, and is a vegan. I was impressed :) She's short, has a definite "little and cute" sort of thing going on (with light brown hair pulled back into a ponytail with a few stray strands and cool smallish hornrim glasses), and speaks with a semi-detached softness and a level tone which could be interpreted as sardonic. We talked about languages and going places and being places and running and protein (which was how we backed into the whole veggie-ness thing -- I was asking what sort of protein she does, for running and lifting purposes, and she said, "Well, I was in Publix in the Vegan section, looking at whey-free protein powders..."). And she's from a 600-inhabitant town in New Hampshire, is studying International Affairs, and prompted the phone-number exchange herself. Yowza. :*)
So I was well pleased :)
I also spoke with this guy who was asking why, if I didn't smoke, I hung out at a place like the Beta Bar. He was telling me about how he's all chemically screwed up (he listed a number of psychological maladies), and how he feels like he can only maintain his mood with a combination of caffeine and nicotine... and apparently, he feels, for the most part, like a detatched observer, when he was down (which was how he was then, feeling down) and as such, he didn't mind at all that I was pretty direct about asking him not to smoke right next to me.
Ah, and the drummer for one of the opening bands had a t-shirt with Sabretooth on it (that was a darn cool tshirt), and I commented about that, and we had a discussion about comic books for a little bit -- he didn't know about the whole Weapon X series they'd been doing for the past few months, but he'd read the Wolverine Origin...
People Chasing People, I enjoyed. They were a lot of fun to watch (the bass player especially -- he was super-animated, bouncing all over the stange and getting all of these strange facial expressions), and musically, they were pretty well interesting... a lot of their songs had that kinda progressive, simultaneously loud and ambient-noise quality. Like it's fairly musically complex at the same time as feeling semi-repetitive and like a big wall of sound. It was like halfway between rock and an Aphex Twin soundscape... sometimes. Sometimes, they were just a fun rock 'n' roll band that would do songs that would switch time signatures and tempos (they did a bunch of songs in 6/8, which is just a cool time signature, if a time signature can be said to be cool)... and the audience was really getting into it. They had some bottles of alcohol up on stage, and people in the front row would occasionally raise their cups and get some of whatever it was the band had (one of them looked like champagne) poured in. They had some electronic equipment up on stage, and something that looked ... almost like a theremin? It might've been one. It was making some weird noises, and the bass player seemed to be operating it.
After the show, Garrett and myself headed off to Waffle House, and we dined, and then I popped back home, wrote for a while, and then passed out. Tomorrow, I'll get up early and go run, then head over to the paternal unit's house...
And that, as they say, was that!
The Rudnick is getting cabin fever again... it's time for him to figure out something clever to do aside from making LJ posts in the third person...
... just a moment. *adjusts to first person*
So I've been hanging around in the house, reading, looking around online, messing with a bit of coding, running, and working out at the gym in the evenings... and I think I'm sufficiently summered at this point (although the running isn't quite where it should be... I'll pick up the distance in this next month) -- I don't know what to be doing here in Tallahassee. I could be running with the cross country team from highschool, but even last year, I was pretty much the only alumnus that did the morning runs regularly (and I was gone for most of the summer, but when I was home, I was out with the HS kids)... and thinking about that, it feels like maybe it should be time to move on and let the highschoolers be highschoolers on their own. But on the other hand, I don't know who else I should be running with, and I know I'm welcome...
I've been looking through the slides for last semester's CS4600 in eager anticipation of taking that in the fall. Although I think it's Sven Koenig teaching it next. He seems pretty cool, though -- I mean, he keeps newts! The notes for Thad Starner's version (Thad is also a beast -- he's the Wearables guy at Tech) were all in PDF, and I was trying to figure out how to rotate them to have the right orientation, because for whatever reason, they were rotated 90 degrees clockwise... so after playing with acrobat and imagemagick and convert and all of that crap, I ended up just flipping my monitor sideways.
... and now it's thunderstorming outside -- and I'd like to be out running. The rain, I don't mind at all, but I generally don't make it a practice of being out in the woods when there's thunder and lightning. Maybe it'll subside.
And tonight, The Intoxicators are doing a show at the American Legion Hall (right next to Black Dog) -- perhaps somebody else wants to go to that. Everybody loves surf rock, right? :)
So it was thunderstorming, and I thought that it might be nice to take a book and sit out on the screened-in porch and read a book... so for a while, I did that. The dogs were getting really nervous, and at first I thought that they couldn't decide if they wanted to be inside or on the porch with me, so I let them in and out a few times... but it turned out that Clover (our wonderful, loyal, loving 12-year-old black lab) didn't want me to be out where the thunder was so loud, and she was trying to keep me inside. Eventually, I figured this out, and she calmed down when she'd gotten me back in the house. So I sat inside and read, instead. This was a very loud thunderstorm.
Later on in the evening (once the storm had subsided), I went for a run around the lake and then swam for a while, and that felt good -- I didn't end up going to the gym today... but after I swam, I decided, following my earlier train of reasoning and cabin-fever, that it was time to get out of the house. So I packed up the book I'd been reading (the AI textbook Brett gave me... it may well be the book the diagrams in those CS4600 notes come from) and, lacking any other sort of plan, I headed out for Black Dog. Sara S. opted not to come, because it was already ... 9PM. 9PM? Who's ready for bed at 9? I pointed out that she likely didn't get up until noon, and she didn't offer any particular explanation.
So I showed up at black dog and proceded to do that whole Reading A Book And Drinking Coffee In Public thing for a while. After not too terribly long, I overheard a young lady nearby telling somebody or another about OAF (the Organic Artists Forum, a group of crazy creative kids that Brett (
zip4096)hangs out with at FSU -- they apparently have meetings at 8:27 in the evenings), and I struck up a conversation, and she introduced herself as Kallie (or maybe "Kali", but that would be slightly more unsettling) and told me about her dealings with the OAF-ites and how she knows and loves Brett (because everybody knows and loves Brett at FSU, I get the impression)... and then said that she was headed out to the People Chasing People show at the Beta Bar. Apparently tonight was their farewell show, and she knew one of the members of said band (because she worked at Black Dog, and so did he), so... she was going, and she suggested that I do as well.Shortly thereafter, I ran into Garrett (he was then introduced to Kallie/Kali), who was just showing up at Black Dog, and we discussed this possibility briefly, and opted to head over to see what was going on.
So we showed up at the Beta Bar, and there was a band playing (but not People Chasing People), and we hung around and socialized a bit (mostly on the deck outside), and Kallie/Kali introduced me to this young lady Sarah M. (who is not Sara S.), who ended up being really fascinating... she's apparently all polyglot-like (speaks Spanish and French and a bit of German and rather a lot of ... Mandarin. Oh my goodness.) and plays the drums in a band (and wears a drum key strung onto a necklace) and is all into running and lifting, and is a vegan. I was impressed :) She's short, has a definite "little and cute" sort of thing going on (with light brown hair pulled back into a ponytail with a few stray strands and cool smallish hornrim glasses), and speaks with a semi-detached softness and a level tone which could be interpreted as sardonic. We talked about languages and going places and being places and running and protein (which was how we backed into the whole veggie-ness thing -- I was asking what sort of protein she does, for running and lifting purposes, and she said, "Well, I was in Publix in the Vegan section, looking at whey-free protein powders..."). And she's from a 600-inhabitant town in New Hampshire, is studying International Affairs, and prompted the phone-number exchange herself. Yowza. :*)
So I was well pleased :)
I also spoke with this guy who was asking why, if I didn't smoke, I hung out at a place like the Beta Bar. He was telling me about how he's all chemically screwed up (he listed a number of psychological maladies), and how he feels like he can only maintain his mood with a combination of caffeine and nicotine... and apparently, he feels, for the most part, like a detatched observer, when he was down (which was how he was then, feeling down) and as such, he didn't mind at all that I was pretty direct about asking him not to smoke right next to me.
Ah, and the drummer for one of the opening bands had a t-shirt with Sabretooth on it (that was a darn cool tshirt), and I commented about that, and we had a discussion about comic books for a little bit -- he didn't know about the whole Weapon X series they'd been doing for the past few months, but he'd read the Wolverine Origin...
People Chasing People, I enjoyed. They were a lot of fun to watch (the bass player especially -- he was super-animated, bouncing all over the stange and getting all of these strange facial expressions), and musically, they were pretty well interesting... a lot of their songs had that kinda progressive, simultaneously loud and ambient-noise quality. Like it's fairly musically complex at the same time as feeling semi-repetitive and like a big wall of sound. It was like halfway between rock and an Aphex Twin soundscape... sometimes. Sometimes, they were just a fun rock 'n' roll band that would do songs that would switch time signatures and tempos (they did a bunch of songs in 6/8, which is just a cool time signature, if a time signature can be said to be cool)... and the audience was really getting into it. They had some bottles of alcohol up on stage, and people in the front row would occasionally raise their cups and get some of whatever it was the band had (one of them looked like champagne) poured in. They had some electronic equipment up on stage, and something that looked ... almost like a theremin? It might've been one. It was making some weird noises, and the bass player seemed to be operating it.
After the show, Garrett and myself headed off to Waffle House, and we dined, and then I popped back home, wrote for a while, and then passed out. Tomorrow, I'll get up early and go run, then head over to the paternal unit's house...
And that, as they say, was that!
