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Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 ([personal profile] azurelunatic) wrote2011-11-14 02:26 am

Actual Vuvuzela

It takes me way too long to wind down from anything, especially because my brain needs to process stuff. I am missing months from when I have not processed properly.

I woke up sooner than I thought I would given my bedtime, but I was generally groggy until the time I actually should have woken up. Isn't that always the case with me? I'm no good to anyone until the time I should have been awake anyway, and only sometimes do I get to prop myself up with caffeine and fake it. I can act, sometimes, while all bleurgh. Sometimes. That does make things surreal for those around me.

The fun with [personal profile] cleverthylacine's phone started when it called me instead of wherever she was supposed to be calling for some errand. I saw that missed call and called my aunt to figure out what we were doing because I'd hoped to get some combination or other of JD/Ryan & Tif together to meet my sister. (Brain was not firing on all thrusters, and these days schedule coordination with Tif has been the low-effort thing. Must see the guys at some point soonish.) I learned that Tay's plan for the morning involved a hike up Telegraph Hill to watch the pretty birdies, and there was dinner. Plans for a craft sort of afternoon were quickly scrapped when I learned that Tif's phone call had been her phone's idea, but dinner was a go.

Eventually I got her picked up, we collected a gluten-free entree (plus dessert, and happy goat cheese) at Trader Joe's (and met some old buddies of hers), and there was dinner. Dinner and hilarity!

The major world-changing accomplishment of the night was introducing Tay to the concept of the vuvuzela. Tay has spent the past 10 years mostly avoiding the internet and seriously music-geeking, so she is both rather out of tune (heh) with pop culture (she was first introduced to Dragostea din Tei via the crappy song that samples it, through work radio, rather than on the internet or at a Thanksgiving celebration like many of the rest of us) and slightly alarmed that there was a musical instrument that she knew nothing of. She is already attempting to figure out interesting things to do with them.
flyingthesky: Corbin Bleu naked, with his arms crossed over his chest, in black and white. (gundam: wrong anime dude)

[personal profile] flyingthesky 2011-11-14 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
She sounds like my roommate who is about five years behind sometimes. She came home last semester extremely excited about "Chocolate Rain." I asked her where she had been in like. 2005 when that was cool.

Anyway I wish her more luck than my friend who attempted music with one.

(In his words: "It makes exactly one sound! One supremely annoying sound!")

[personal profile] ex_rising236 2011-11-14 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
If she figures out anything interesting to do with them that doesn't make me want to make them a part of a bonfire, she'll have my accolades. Seriously. I hate those things with more fury than hath hell itself, most of the time.

-Mair
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[personal profile] jd 2011-11-15 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
It sounded like a fun time; I was sad we weren't able to go.

These days, late night times on the other side of the bay can be a bit too much for us. Definitely call though, it makes it easier to arrange plans for spur-of-the-moment things. I'm hoping once we move, we'll feel more like going out more often. (We went to look for apartments on Saturday, so maybe there will be something soon.)

[identity profile] tamar.livejournal.com 2011-11-15 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
http://nos.nl/wk2010/video/165721-vuvuzelalol-bij-de-algerijnen.html

For some reason this was among last year's most hilarious tv moments. It's from the 2010 World Cup (Soccer) which took place in South Africa.
Never mind the Dutch speaking guys, they are not important. Let me know if you get a "not available at your location" and I'll upload it myself.