Poking with Pictures:

Honest! I didn't do nothing with this picture but add "clouds" to the background. Why is a completely different story...

Oog.

Things are winding down. I'm tempted to quit this before June. Not because I'm sick of blogging, just because...oh, I don't know. I don't really know my own mind right now. I think it's because of leaving here. I'm being pretty honest with you, here. Life's been a bit of a bummer right about now. Not too bad, of course. But...ah, who knows? I wish I could just speed over the goodbyes and rewind life back to one of the two golden ages of our time here...

Drawing to a Close

Less'n a month, now, and I'll bid you farewell. Yes, it's May already, and in June it'll be about a month before. I started this blog back in January 2006, and it's been a long way. And even that is less time than I've been here; I've been here since August, 2005.

2005! Two years! So long ago, I thought that two years was forever. And now it just seems long, for it's an age in my life...ah, phooey, why am I talking about all this now? It's a whole month, yet.

So, although it's "21:01:11" by my computer's clock, I'll "wish you a' a good morning" because who knows what time you'll read this?

"maurn"?

I spent about fifteen minutes last night hunting for a Scots word that doesn't exist. It was a typo. I finally found the word; it's "maun". Which means, I think, "must". Let me think, just how does that make sense...?

"Though poor and poorer we must be"?

Actually, I think it does make sense. Never mind.

Universal Willie

"Willie" is this universal name in folk music, it seems. Willie is everybody from this handsome guy that every lady in the whole castle loves to the fellow who kills pretty Polly. And everything in-between, though I suppose Willie O' Winsbury would fit in the first category. Anyhow, it's like the name "Johnny", only Johnny is mostly a soldier (Johnnie Cope? No exception! The guy was a general! He was also a real person). What's with it? If only the most universal name for women in folk music wasn't Mary. I don't care for that name at all, really...

I'm Back!

I'm back from vacation where it seemed I did everything from dress up in a minority costume (Mosuo) to catch the stomach flu (not too bad).

And guess where I'm writing this?

The office computer!

One of these days, I'm going to look back on this and laugh hilariously. But right now I want to scream. Oh, well, "to everything there is a season"...and right now it's time for frustration. Then I can laugh.

P.S. I will post pictures of me in the horrible sunburn and beautiful outfit, but I won't post pictures of the stomach flu...are you glad?

Cool Resource!

This is an absolutely fabulous resource for Jacobite songs. Yeah, I know, you probably are thinking When will she stop talking about this? and by "you" I mean Mum, Daddy, and Grandma (who else reads this crazy thing?). Well, it's exhaustive. In fact, there's one song that is sometimes thought of as pertaining to the Jacobites but it doesn't really have to be (seems to me kind of like "Paul is Dead", huh?) and yet it's included "for the sake of exhaustiveness". Well, the exhaustiveness hasn't exhausted me yet. When can we get home to "Loshan" where I can learn all these tunes?

I better go now. Daddy will probably want to spank me for that horrible pun...