Contradictory Trillium and Other Oddities
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soc_puppetYargh! -_- Ms. Wiebner handed out parts for Pachelbel's Canon to the viola section today >E (The rest of the class got theirs earlier, while the violas were having a sectional ^^;) I hate hate HATE the Pachelbel! I know the parents love it because it's something the entiere East-side student orchestra plays together (that's elementary, junior and senior highs, BTW, and around here that's also a fair lot of kids), I know that people in general love it because it's a popular wedding march, I know we only have to play it once a year and then we get to put it away in a dusty back office for a really long time; I still hate it >E The viola part is really long and really, really boring >_< All we've got is quarter notes (except for three measures of the damn piece, in which we actually get two eighth notes each!!!!111!!1! gasp!) and at the tempo Pachelbel is usually played at (so the violins don't kill themselves with the 16th and 32nd notes) they're played as _half notes_ >_< Worse, we don't get a chance to rest during the entire piece; by the time it's over, my arms are about ready to fall off! To add insult to injury, Hannah tells me that, in the _original_, the viola part is much more interesting to play >E Why can't we play that instead, huh? Or at least write down a violin part or something! I'd be willing to learn treble clef for this, really I would! It would be a great excuse!
RL friends who know me in orchestra, you've heard this before. In the event that I get married (ignoring the 30% chance (give or take) that I won't be able to due to sexuality, thank-you-very-much current government >E >E >E) I refuse to have this played at my wedding. If my mother-in-law-to-be _insists_ on it, I will elope. If I am caught/prevented from eloping, I will go behind the backs of whoever is in charge of the music and arrange for the quartet (or pianist or organist or whatever) to play it at a more _reasonable_ speed, even if it means I'll be forcing my bridesmaids to _run_ down the aisle! I will do whatever is in my power to hear that song played at such an unreasonably slow pace at my wedding.
Orchestra has, probably without meaning to, instilled a permanent loathing of that song in me.
Ah, I feel better getting that out ^__^ Anyway, much hate for Pachelbel's Canon. Much hate indeed.
Today, for the first time in years, someone called me a boy to my face XD I'm female, I was born female, but it's not always very obvious. I'm irritatingly tall (anyone know how to trade inches?), and not particularly well endowed. I've been growing my hair out since about 10th grade, but for a few years I had it cut rather short, which didn't help ^^; I also recall two events wherein I was mistaken for male _before_ I got it cut off. (I'm rather sad to have missed my chance to shave my head and pass it off as sympathy; Mom had breast cancer when I was in 7th grade, but at the time I wanted to keep my hair and gloat ^^;) I've femmed up a bit since the percieved gender issues, but not a terrible amount. So yeah, someone called me a boy, and it made me very amused =D
A quote from Patricia C. Wrede's Calling on Dragons:
"I'm confused," Killer said. "And all this talk about eating is making me hungry. Somebody explain it all so we can have lunch."
"You can't have lunch," Trouble said. "You're insubstantial."
"So somebody fix me, and then we can have lunch," Killer said.
"I'm confused, too," Brandel said. "Even if I'm not particularly hungry."
Yeah. That amused me.
To all that haven't read them, I reccomend the books. Fairy Tale parodies they are, with a tall, dark-haired princess (at last! ^_^ <3) instead of... regular sized and blonde. Quite amusing, they are. Quick reads, too. Pick 'em up from the library or borrow 'em from a friend or something.
Finally, the title article! Contradictory Trillium!
...I'm mostly posting about this here to remind myself to ask Mr. Koepnick about cloning it, but it's pretty interesting in itself ^_^
Dad's a bit of a gardening buff, especially where woodland/prarie plants are concerned. Trillium is a woodland plant (monocot, and that's about all I remember from the short botany unit we did in Advanced Bio last year ^^;;;) with three leaves (hence the name ^_~) growing directly out of a stem (kinda like May Apples, if you're familiar with those). From these in turn grows a small, three-petaled dark red bloom. Leaves are dark green with small splashes of lighter green. Shiny on top. About six inches tall (I think). Leaves not very broad. I think that's about it ^^;
*spends a good twenty minutes looking for an image on google*
...Um, T. Gracile looks about right, but damned if I can swear by it. *mutters things about plant identification* Any botany students out there who could help me? No? Ah, well.
Anyway, this particular specimen of trillium is growing in our back yard, shaded by apple trees. Dad transplanted it from the woods somewhere. It is contradictory trillium because, instead of the usual three leaves from whence it gets its name, this specimen has four ^_~ Dad wants to find a way to cultivate it, and I think it's a great idea. Which is why I want to talk to Mr. Koepnick about that plant cloning method on Monday. Somebody try and help me remember?
RL friends who know me in orchestra, you've heard this before. In the event that I get married (ignoring the 30% chance (give or take) that I won't be able to due to sexuality, thank-you-very-much current government >E >E >E) I refuse to have this played at my wedding. If my mother-in-law-to-be _insists_ on it, I will elope. If I am caught/prevented from eloping, I will go behind the backs of whoever is in charge of the music and arrange for the quartet (or pianist or organist or whatever) to play it at a more _reasonable_ speed, even if it means I'll be forcing my bridesmaids to _run_ down the aisle! I will do whatever is in my power to hear that song played at such an unreasonably slow pace at my wedding.
Orchestra has, probably without meaning to, instilled a permanent loathing of that song in me.
Ah, I feel better getting that out ^__^ Anyway, much hate for Pachelbel's Canon. Much hate indeed.
Today, for the first time in years, someone called me a boy to my face XD I'm female, I was born female, but it's not always very obvious. I'm irritatingly tall (anyone know how to trade inches?), and not particularly well endowed. I've been growing my hair out since about 10th grade, but for a few years I had it cut rather short, which didn't help ^^; I also recall two events wherein I was mistaken for male _before_ I got it cut off. (I'm rather sad to have missed my chance to shave my head and pass it off as sympathy; Mom had breast cancer when I was in 7th grade, but at the time I wanted to keep my hair and gloat ^^;) I've femmed up a bit since the percieved gender issues, but not a terrible amount. So yeah, someone called me a boy, and it made me very amused =D
A quote from Patricia C. Wrede's Calling on Dragons:
"I'm confused," Killer said. "And all this talk about eating is making me hungry. Somebody explain it all so we can have lunch."
"You can't have lunch," Trouble said. "You're insubstantial."
"So somebody fix me, and then we can have lunch," Killer said.
"I'm confused, too," Brandel said. "Even if I'm not particularly hungry."
Yeah. That amused me.
To all that haven't read them, I reccomend the books. Fairy Tale parodies they are, with a tall, dark-haired princess (at last! ^_^ <3) instead of... regular sized and blonde. Quite amusing, they are. Quick reads, too. Pick 'em up from the library or borrow 'em from a friend or something.
Finally, the title article! Contradictory Trillium!
...I'm mostly posting about this here to remind myself to ask Mr. Koepnick about cloning it, but it's pretty interesting in itself ^_^
Dad's a bit of a gardening buff, especially where woodland/prarie plants are concerned. Trillium is a woodland plant (monocot, and that's about all I remember from the short botany unit we did in Advanced Bio last year ^^;;;) with three leaves (hence the name ^_~) growing directly out of a stem (kinda like May Apples, if you're familiar with those). From these in turn grows a small, three-petaled dark red bloom. Leaves are dark green with small splashes of lighter green. Shiny on top. About six inches tall (I think). Leaves not very broad. I think that's about it ^^;
*spends a good twenty minutes looking for an image on google*
...Um, T. Gracile looks about right, but damned if I can swear by it. *mutters things about plant identification* Any botany students out there who could help me? No? Ah, well.
Anyway, this particular specimen of trillium is growing in our back yard, shaded by apple trees. Dad transplanted it from the woods somewhere. It is contradictory trillium because, instead of the usual three leaves from whence it gets its name, this specimen has four ^_~ Dad wants to find a way to cultivate it, and I think it's a great idea. Which is why I want to talk to Mr. Koepnick about that plant cloning method on Monday. Somebody try and help me remember?
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Date: 2005-04-16 07:09 am (UTC)Yeah, hate it when that happens :P
Was once asked my a male classmate (and one of my few good friends in my class), if I thought Britney Spears was hot... To witch I answered; "Dude, I'm a girl!" (not meaning to offensive against lesbians or bisexuals, of course).
The response was most amusing. The entire group of friends looked at me and asked; "You ARE?"
The funniest part is, they were serious... Guess they had forgotten they had a girl in their group... I have mainly been friends with boys for as long as I can remember.
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Date: 2005-04-16 11:52 am (UTC)*falls off her chair, laughing* The mental picture! *howls with laughter*
Though I don't know why everybody is thinking about their wedding *hides from classmate wanting to know how she wants her wedding to be*
I'm way too much of a tomboy to think about that ^.^;;;
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Date: 2005-04-17 01:42 am (UTC)And yes, forcing ones bridesmaids to run down the aisle is a very nice mental picture indeed >D Of course, I'd probably try and make it my _only_ evil against my bridesmaids, but still. (I'm still not thinking of it much myself, except in abstract terms when something will come up to remind me of it--like the Pachelbel =_=, or right-wing conservatives >P)
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Date: 2005-04-16 07:21 am (UTC)Trillium...... are you familiar with Richter's Herbs? Canadian company, with damn near EVERY herb on the planet available. I found two entries for 'trillium', but this one is what sounds like what you have: http://www.richters.com/Web_store/web_store.cgi?product=X1389&cart_id=3456081.19365 Richter's is just a fantastic company; I've grown herbs since I was a kid, and I've bought plants from them before.
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Date: 2005-04-17 01:47 am (UTC)That does seem about right. Still not sure, though, and it'll be almost moot point if we can manage to cultivate the Contradictory Trillium ^_^ Ah, mutations; how I love thee <3 Particularly the four-leafed variety.
*thinks about the huge collection of four-leaf-clovers she has smooshed in random books* *takes both that and the Contradictory Trillium into account* *sweatdrops* ...Maybe Scott McNeal was right; I _do_ have a mutant yard...
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