22 feb 02
it’s usually the little things in life that put a smile on your face. i’m talking specifically about the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue arriving in my mailbox. omfg @ Yamila Diaz-Rahi.
since i bet Tegan will soon read this blog for the first time, i should mention how exquisite it was today in soc. to bash emo with a girl. we agreed that Dashboard are wussbags. she also made fun of an emo kid on her hallway.
i took an evening nap today for the second day running. those kind of put you in this strange, disconnected limbo between day and night. your mind doesn’t reset itself to normal until the next morning.
i have a paper due for Thursday comparing Paul Radin’s The Winnebago and E.E. Evans-Pritchard’s The Nuer. i think i’ll compare their descriptions of warfare, and here’s a tidbit from Radin’s description of the Winnebago that certainly caught my attention…
“When a war party surprised a lodge in which there were children they generally killed them, cut off their heads, pried open their mouths so as to give them the appearance of laughing, and then placed the heads on their bodies again and arranged them against the door, so that when their father came home he would find them greeting him as usual. A brave warrior would never flinch at such a sight, but would prepare a meal as usual and speak to the children as if they were alive and offer them something to eat. Only then would he bury them. Immediately after they had been buried he would go on the warpath to revenge them.”
(Raind, Paul. The Winnebago. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. pp. 113.)
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maybe the only good thing about having my page temporarily on Geocities is their convenient little “site statistics” monitor. i’m too lazy to ever run my logs normally, but it’s cute to see who visits my site.
anyway, i saw that a couple of people were getting to my page from an entry on priderice.net. now this is the site that i spoke rather disparagingly of a few days ago, calling it a “Photoshop-and-iframe” site, but at the same time admitting that most of my negativity probably came from my own jealousy.
i subsequently talked to the webmaster of priderice on e-mail and IM and found the lad to be quite personable. i should note that in his post he got the wrong idea of why my temporary page is up; it’s not to design the Photoshop site, but rather because my linux server is down right now.