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Whirling Dervish

Kyle — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 04:48:54 +0000

Today, Luke and I rehearsed our class script (’cause we are teaching music together). As we said our lines, we walked/paced around in a circle. (it was better than standing still) As we were walking, I twirled a few times. Then I thought how long it’s been since I spun around rapidly (you know, enough to make one dizzy), then I thought of those whirling dervishes so I kept on spinning. After a few minutes of that (while Luke was saying his line), it came to my line so I had to stop to look at the script. Boy, I went to the floor after I stopped. After my brain came to a standstill, I got up and read my line. Soon after we finished, my stomach felt a little queezy. Funny ’cause I could do that forever in the past and have a normal feeling stomach afterwards.

Well, an hour two later, it finally felt fine.

Roses

Kyle — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:18:26 +0000

Today, it was time to prune the Ghanko (spelled something like that) tree ’cause it was just getting way too big and was hanging over the road ‘n all.

It was pretty easy to trim ’cause we had new saw blades so it cut easy. The branches were very long and shot out far. They were also kinda bouncy. When cutting the really long ones, I had to wait for the cars to pass before cutting it off. A couple times, there were a few harrowing moments (lawsuit wise). I was halfway through cutting a big one when, halfway through (which I believe I already mentioned), It broke off. Fortunately, there was a branch below that was going parrallel to it so it was fortunate that it was right below it. So, it was balancing on the branch and I was holding the butt of it so it wouldn’t fall. Once the car passed, I pushed it off the branch and it started to go into the road but it bounced back to the curb.

Anyway, after getting it pretty manageable, we noticed that or neighbor’s rose bush/tree (it was pretty high) was getting tangled in our bamboo so I went up and tried to take out the part that was going into our property but it was hard ’cause not only was it tangly, there were massive thorns on ‘em and I didn’t have gloves on. I cut off a big chunk which was a bit of a mistake. I tried to pull it down (’cause the rose branches were right above me. But it was stuck on bamboo and itself. I got the pole pruners to sever the little ‘uns which would hopefully loosen it a bit to bring it down. After getting a few pieces off, I swept ‘em to the side and went back to prune more. Then *snik!* Up went a 1/4″ thorn into my toe! That was annoying! Why don’t people plant the thornless kind!? I tell ya, when the barefoot look comes back into style, roses will be much less popular.

Anyway, I finished the rose tree and then cleaned off my foot. It felt fine after a while.

Found Sweatshirt

Kyle — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:20:02 +0000

It’s been getting warmer but downstairs, in the shop, it’s still nippy. I usually put on a sweatshirt, vest and long pants. Since I’m normally barefoot all the time, I figured I’d just toughen up and endure it downstairs. So I did that and I was fine but I noticed that even though I was fine and mainly sitting in one place, if I needed a straight-edge and all I had in my reach was a flimsy plastic ruler, I rationalized that it was good enough but I knew that since my feet were cold (the tops of my feet were fine but the cold linoleum sucks the heat right out of the soles of m’ feet), I didn’t want to get up and get the right tool for the job. So, I broke down (well, it wasn’t technically “breaking down” if I had a good reason) and went upstairs to get some shoes. Not closed shoes mind you! Sandals with socks.
Anyway, when I opened my warm-clothes drawer, I saw the sweatshirt that I thought was stolen at the Ugly Mug! Imagine that! I was so sure I brought that sweatshirt and took it off during the performance but I guess it was in my drawer the whole time!