HFCS: effika’s blog

Going to have to borrow Paul’s Photoshop back-up again. I can’t ever seem to remember to keep my copy where I can find it.

I have been asked to grow a bunch of pretty-yet-poisonous plants for a small independant movie Ryan and David want to film. This is great! I love flowers. I’m like a little kid around them. Except without the urge to eat them. Right now I’m growing some sort of Rudbeckia. Rudbeckia is the genus for Black-Eyed Susans and the lot. Two of my plants are growing healthily and getting very tall. The other two are recovering from being in my mother’s care while I saw Ryan for a week. She used her “water-filled” spray bottle to water the seedlings… of course “water-filled” meant “conditioner-laced” and I thought I’d lost those two. They were the last to sprout, about a week behind the first two seeds. The bigger ones didn’t take it so hard, but all four plants were in grevious shock from their now-toxic soil. I had to do some quick transplanting. The two bigger ones recovered first. Just when I was about to give up hope for the little ones, they started sprouting new leaves and growing! I was so happy.

My dorm is in the East wing of the dormitory. The dormitory is shaped like an X, so I’ll either have great light, good light, or perpetual shadow. I do have promises from my friends to house my plants for me should they have better lighting conditions. This makes me happy. :-)

When I woke up I was in a pretty vulnerable mood (Bad dream involving being unable to find dress pants and losing my viola. All I could find was my trombone. I thought I’d fake it since I could transpose alto cleff to bass cleff. Then I couldn’t find my dress pants! Bad bad dream.). Today Ryan was angry b/c his Shenmue II (for the Dreamcast, no less) got mis-routed and wouldn’t be there until Tuesday… meaning no time to play it before he comes down on Wednesday for my birthday (it’s Thursday, the 25th). So we had a lot of bad juice flowing before he left for work and instead of running this evening I slept and had a good piece of cheesecake. After he got home I told him some things David had said about the script, and while doing that David called and I became a relay between the two. Working on the script helped us all feel a lot better. I even got Ryan to say he’ll help me wash my car while he’s down next week. :-)

I put the spare tire on the car today. Tomorrow, to a tire dealership!