A city by the beach down by La Jolla

So, I went back to CA. Many years after the first visit (see archives). I was in a city that came up in one of the DVDs.

I met up with people who knew worked with Vivian and Joe. That was pretty cool. We talked about avoidance reduction, and the fact that stuttering's ok.

I brought up the blanket of acceptance, rather than the defeatist suggestion that it's just throwing in the towel that was suggested in academia recently. Pah to that!

Today back over this side of the water and still struggling with time, I found some notes today that I made years ago. Possibly during the first trip where me and the Prof met Vivian.

For voluntary stuttering on vowels... you can prolong them too sometimes, there are leaps of faith that you have to take. But it's ok, it's a curb not a cliff that you're jumping off.

Another more general one...

Don't worry about letting it go.

We hold on to stuff, carry it with us. It's ok to let it go too. Easier said than done for me.

San Diego

mad for:

1. everything being AWESOME (even tho the lady who said that wasn't there)
2. being a fan of Marc
3. legroom caused by infants
4. Daisy
5. hanging with the guys and cancellation
6. more DVDs on the way
7. a city down by the beach near La Jolla
8. Mexicans with wooden lightsabers (blue)
9. straightforward trolleys going round the bend
10. free drinks magic cards that duplicated
11. awards' ceremonie's apostrophes' eroor
12. 249 employees (was 250, see #11)
13. speechie Oscars
14. buying a blazer
15. sincerity
16. fish tacos
17. fish tacos
18. fish
19. tacos
20. a rhyme for how much water weighs
21. girls with biblical names yet newfangled attitudes
22. sliders
23. otters
24. being international
25. hotel living
26. "passenger pog, that's p-o-g-u-e"
27. speaking up in class
28. craft beer
29. international MANSIG
30. being greeted like a dignitary
31. 1-800-GOT-BAIL
32. the antipodeans

not mad for:

1. smoking the wrong way round
2. the knock on effect of being a fan of Marc (being late)
3. luggage malfunction and explosive bananas at critical security point.
4. not getting certain texts
5. asking questions like a foreigner
6. keycard reminders
7. all night bells all night long.
8. struggling to be Macca under pressure (thumbs down)
9. blazers
10. small appetites
11. side plates that last 3 meals
12. being timeless
13. zoo depression (lack of hi5ing animals)
14. Mariah Carey.
15. lack of touristy tat shop
16. my lack of post vocalic /r/ and not being understood.

well i guess...

it doesn't matter anymore.

right now

it's all quite beautifully pointless.

getting into this...

...is taking longer that i'd thought... ¡exclamation!

do or do not. there is no try.

note to self.

you kiss by the book

Just back from being on tour with...

'You Kiss By The Book'

Here's a vague account of what went on!

Mad for;
1. Being on tour (and having the right badge)
2. Surviving trying times
3. Masks and the approximate numerical value of the craic
4. Strobing for rocking out
5. Orfo
6. Hefty DJs feat. the Carpenters
7. The Hi-B and double vay double vay double vay ou l’internet
8. Guards who suggest €1 shopping trolleys for next time
9. Sleeping on the floor
10. Free starters after the main course
11. Bullseye on the first dart.
12. Girls who get the words right eventually then take over the stage
13. Your father I am
14. Barry’s tea (what else?)
15. Ear plugs!
16. Limerick luxury
17. The church of Blek
18. Retro footie shirts (made in communist Ireland)
19. Steak or shark?
20. Pissing like a chook and variants on a kissing by the book theme
21. The faint unfulfilled hope of exploring city centres
22. Making a road movie
23. Being a country gentleman for a few days

Not mad for;
1. Uninvited guests (who incidentally fail to live up to initial descriptions)
2. Skidding (x2)
3. Too many burgers
4. Pedestrianisation of useful thoroughfares before 6.30 p.m.
5. Best before/worst after pistachios
6. Pay to play? NO WAY! Fun curtailers
7. Really big holes in ears
8. Raw fish, white wine and perhaps something else – rules are there to help.
9. Early closing and terrible pub music
10. Being grouped with the self proclaimed dregs of Corcaigh, like.
11. Still being rubbish at darts after a promising start
12. Batteries dying just when things are about to get interesting
13. The sound engineer who was on a promise
14. Spelks from an electronic instrument
15. Forgetting to have pizza

sequestered

i can't believe i've only just found this word!

i wonder what lexical fun awaits...