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I'm still trying to figure out exactly what precedes the awful headaches I get this time of year. This morning I woke up from a dream that started out being about some kind of haunted house, in which I was tasked with platformer videogame-style tasks centering around these evil snakes that lived in the basement. I had a familiar that was some kind of dung beetle, and it was always getting lost. After I went down to the basement the first time and ran away, I was met upstairs by someone who wanted to know if I was going to the Andrew Bird concert on Thursday. I said yes, and they did some kind of maniacal breakdown of the math, somehow proving that buying tickets would be evil. I ignored this, and from there somehow ended up on a giant stage in an orchestra, attempting to play my flute, with Andrew Bird directing. I hadn't been given any music, and I kept trying to ask him what we were playing, and whether we were going to tune our instruments first, but he wouldn't give me more than a fraction of a second of attention at a time, and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
deathscytheheck and the rest of the west-coasters were there, heckling me for joining the orchestra even though I'm a terrible singer.
I'm not sure this had anything to do with my headache. I think it may have more to do with the snow we've been getting. But I'm writing this down anyway, just in case. (It's also nearly the full moon, and more often than not these headaches line up with them in the spring and the fall. Which may or may not be a weirder cause than platformer videogame/failing at being in an orchestra dreams.) I'm just going to be grateful for now that it only took a two-hour nap after work to get this one down to a manageable pain level.
Aaaand I finally bought seeds today! We'll see if I can get anything big enough to live outside. In theory, I'll have some basil, tomatoes, peas, and a lot of sunflowers. I think it'd be fun to have the peas climb the sunflowers, but then they'd need a pretty big headstart, so I may just have the peas climb my railing. Is there anything else I should be growing, that'll bear fruit/be edible/be pretty before the end of August? I was going to do corn, to add to the "too tall to be grown on a porch" theme, but the next tenants would just get it.
deathscytheheck and the rest of the west-coasters were there, heckling me for joining the orchestra even though I'm a terrible singer. I'm not sure this had anything to do with my headache. I think it may have more to do with the snow we've been getting. But I'm writing this down anyway, just in case. (It's also nearly the full moon, and more often than not these headaches line up with them in the spring and the fall. Which may or may not be a weirder cause than platformer videogame/failing at being in an orchestra dreams.) I'm just going to be grateful for now that it only took a two-hour nap after work to get this one down to a manageable pain level.
Aaaand I finally bought seeds today! We'll see if I can get anything big enough to live outside. In theory, I'll have some basil, tomatoes, peas, and a lot of sunflowers. I think it'd be fun to have the peas climb the sunflowers, but then they'd need a pretty big headstart, so I may just have the peas climb my railing. Is there anything else I should be growing, that'll bear fruit/be edible/be pretty before the end of August? I was going to do corn, to add to the "too tall to be grown on a porch" theme, but the next tenants would just get it.
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And I apologize for my dream self heckling you, I would totally support your joining an orchestra, I think that'd be awesome. SO THERE. Angela, Lisa, and I are going to Decemberists in May which I'm falling over myself about, since it's been a year and a half and HOMG THEIR NEW CD IS SO GOOD AAAUGH.
I demand pics of your garden. I have to post the ones of mine soon. It's going nuts. For peas, I recommend sticks. Like, mine are in a 1' diameter black plastic planter and I made them a tepee of thin bamboo sticks that Home Depot sells for that purpose. Legumes like being planted close together so they support each other, so I've been planting ridiculous amounts of beans and peas all over the place, lol. And I'm going to do an experiment with slicing a hole in the bottom of one of the hanging basket planters I have and growing some beans upside down underneath either the tomatoes or herbs or something. Legumes apparently replenish nitrogen and/or phosphates, I can't remember which, but they give soil good stuff so yeah. Ha.
...I heard it's still snowing there. I am SO sorry. /pets/ Eurgh.
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Oh yes! Upside-down legumes would be awesome! (I'm preeeetty sure it's Nitrogen they restore, but it's been a long time since high school Bio.) I was admiring hanging baskets last time I wandered down to the hardware store. I may have to invest in one now...
I am slightly annoyed that the Decemberists aren't playing here on this tour. I need to hear Hazards of Love played live, all together in its proper entirety. Also, I want to see if Colin attempts to act parts of it out, because I pretty much know he will. (-;
Everyone here is making fun of me, because I boldly declared that we probably wouldn't have snow anymore after the 17th of March. And goshdarnit, I was right for like, two weeks. Stupid spiteful Chicago.
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...Seriously though, I'm sorry about your headache. AND THE SNOW. It's like, super warm and sunny and gorgeous here. Don't hate us too much, though, it's supposed to get continually colder and cloudier this week, ending with rain on the weekend.
And yaaaay you're having a crazy porch garden too! Definitely talk to Dar lots, she's the expert. I just sit back and watch the madness. And also the birds that come to eat our birdseed, awwww birdies.
In other news I've been rereading tons of Omg!Full Metal Alchemist and getting all nostalgic. (*luffs on Hughes and Hughesmunculus*)
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Oh no, rain! That must be so terrible for you guys! Pfffft. I can't really complain, though, because it brightened up today and was almost 50 by the time I left work.
My upstairs neighbor has a bird feeder, and even though it attracts really cute birds to my back porch, it also means my porch is constantly covered in sunflower seed casings. I plan to counteract this with actual sunflowers, and by the end of the summer I hope to have stolen all of her birds away to the superior, fresh sunflower seeds. ^_^
I did that a few days ago, actually, for no apparent reason other than being bored. It was really weird to re-read some of that stuff... and I miss Socrates.
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Bwahahahaha, that's right, you steal those birdies!
I go into fits of nostalgic re-reading every few months, and have pretty much since I was in the game long enough to get nostalgic for Logs and Threads of the Past. And yes, I miss Socrates a bunch, he was so precious! Geeky smart-ass homunculus that he was. ^_^ <3