Tock's Scrapbook - Eccentric Ramblings

[Iris Timandre]

Dear Tock,

I miss logging into the chat and seeing "Tock tackles Iris"

<3

[Wart]

THANK YOU!

My mother's worked for just about every large cell phone company in the US at some time or another, so I've gotten to hear about a lot of instances just like the Netflix example.

The biggest personal experience I've had with the whole principle is probably with the local theatre in my town. My freshman year of highschool the directors there would come and teach drama classes throughout the year doing everything from character creation and development to improv and panta-miming to taking two weeks to listen to Les Miserables.
My last two years though, they only came for auditions for a couple shows and we'd barely have time to rehearse, then the show, and drama was over. It sucked because that "original" class who'd gotten all of that teaching and training has since completely left, leaving a small group of kids who know little to nothing about acting and likely won't get much of a chance to learn.

The theaters just gotten a lot busier with bigger more frequent gigs, and since you don't exactly get much profit from a highschool play... As much as I'd like to hope they want to focus on spreading the art through the city and the youth there's just a lot more money to be made by investing time in people like comedians or professionals who will bring in a bigger crowd.


Speaking of which I should be leaving right now to go play assistant director... >.>
*rushes off*

[Verilian]

My best friend works in the ER as a surgical technician. She has some stressful stories, but also some (disturbingly) hilarious ones. Such as when they had to perform an amputation in the middle of the night, and she walked the patients amputated foot across the table.

[Minerva Agatha Zipporah]

I couldn't handle that sort of job. I used to have a friend who was an OB/GYN, and she sometimes had to work in the ER (doing things like, treating a pregnant woman who'd been in a car accident, etc). She would sometimes share stories of still births and such, and it was rather sad.

I highly respect people like that. I know I wouldn't have it in me to do such a job. Same with police or firemen, etc. I'm glad we've got people out there who can do such things.

[Minerva Agatha Zipporah]

So, apparently some crazy lady decided, all on her own, without bothering to ask anyone from the Church, to try and restore a century-old oil painting of Christ. A painting on a column inside the church. And she wasn't a professional artist. Wasn't hired to do it. Just thought it would be a good idea to make alterations to a one hundred year old piece of art.

Someone in the article was quoting as calling her results "a crayon sketch of a very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic."

So. Yeah. Stupid people in this world.

[Pauk]

I'm almost done with the Matty's CS. 9 days to go until fall!

[Minerva Agatha Zipporah]

Yaaaaaay!

That should be like, the FIRST thread I start up in fall. We should plot...

One thing I know for sure is, the first time she sees him should be in his animal form *nods*. Just because the reactions will be so epic!

[Alori Sai]

Tock does enjoy her kelvics, doesn't she?

[Minerva Agatha Zipporah]

>.>
<.<

Occasionally...

[Minerva Agatha Zipporah]

Just saw the new Total Recall movie.

Here is my review:

It still had the chick with three boobs.

That is all.