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soldaribusy-tofu!
133 posts
Location: montreal: bagel capital

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My name is andy (short for andrea),and I've been so lucky to be on this earth for the past 25 years, lately mostly in North America, but hoping to make more world-wide appearances soon.



Right now I live in Quebec city, but I'm moving back to Montreal sometime before the new year to play catch with an old dream of mine: I've been accepted at university to learn how to be an architect! So I'm packing my few belongings to go tackle the challenges of being a full time student... I hear this has something to do with the combination of beeing poor, eating unhealthy foods, and not sleeping enough, but I'll be the judge ot that.



I am a vegetarian unicycling poi person who has no grudge against marmite, no addiction to nutella, and no preference for the colour pink.


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I like the simple things in life; the feel of sun on my skin, the taste of a fresh, ripe strawberry, the wind in my hair, the sound of falling snow, the satisfaction of having done a lot at the end of a long day, taking walks with my two fantastic dogs, trying-out new recipes, but there are too many things in life I like to share them all here. When I'm not packing my boxes or playing with my poi, I like to play guitar, watch cha, sword-fight, play D&D, or go-out with my friends... though I have the sneaky suspicion that I won't have much time for this all once I'm back at being a full time student.



I can't say I have a favorite book, I've read so many and loved many of them
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here are just a few: Le Parfum, The God of Small Things, Ender's Game, American Gods (Neil Gaiman is so very great!).

Here are some of the movies I would recommend to people who have not yet seen them: Pather Panchali, Punch Drunk Love, Adaptation, Le Fabuleux Destin Amélie Poulain, Brazil, Spirited Away, Waking Life (soooooo much cooler on big screen), le Huitème Jour, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Jésus de Montreal, Magnolia, and Dr. Strangelove. There are so many more that are well worth mentioning, but the list gets too long.



People I would have loved to meet, but due to the current unavailability of time travel, are just names of people I admire: M. Gandhi, E.E. Cummings, L. da Vinci, S. Ray Vaughan, F. Chopin. There must be more, but I can't think of them right now.



Spinny stuff: I've been poiing since July and have had so much fin doing it that I'm teaching it to all those who are willing to invest the time and practice.



Short anecdote: I have recently (yesterday) experimented with staff and am finding it much to my liking. After working on the full rotation in each hand and passing for about 20 minutes, I tried doing a palm spin - which Malcolm describes as such an easy an obvious move - and it turned out most wonderful... the first 3 times, but then I dropped it on my head and it hurt pretty hard. Anywho: all this to say I am glad to now be joining such a cool staff community.

there is no better way to say I love you than with the gift of a spatula!

SpitFireGOLD Member
Mand's Girl....and The Not So Shy One
2,723 posts
Location: Calgary, Alberta Canada

Posted:
'allo 'allo and welcome.

Chocolate covered strawberries can be found in my thread. Pounce has...lots of stuff (a tad R rated) in her thread. Lightning has a hooka goin' at the moment too....

In other words, feel free to drop in on any of us!

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Solitude sometimes speaks to you, and you should listen.

spritieSILVER Member
Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA

Posted:
Hola, and welcome to the madness... beerchug

Ender's game was a very good book, and I must admit that D&D is loads of fun to play.

Hope you enjoy the staff...it really is a neat toy although I seem to have gravitated more towards poi these days. It was my first love.
MikeGinnyGOLD Member
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA

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Wow, we have so much in common!

A vegetarian who loves to cook!

Ender's Game. I was so pissed off at my friend who introduced me to that book right in the middle of midterms. Darned near failed me out of school, it did.

Waking Life. I'm STILL working on lucid dreaming. But none of the usual tricks work for me. Doesn't help that I can read in my dreams. Also doesn't help that on the one or two occasions that I've actually realized I was in a dream, I instantly woke up (drat!).

I tried to get into D&D in college and really liked it, but I just don't have the time or the community for it around here. Too bad because it's really fun.

How about M.C. Escher? Would you like to meet him? I think he'd be fun. But DaVinci would be awesome. And I'd love to meet Chopin and slip him some antibiotics. Imagine how much more music he could have made...

So architecture, huh? My cousin is an architect. Mostly he designs large structures for public use like malls and stuff. But he's starting to design his own house and the sketches I've seen so far are...well let's just say I want him to design my house.

-Mike

Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella



A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura

vanizeSILVER Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA

Posted:
greetings earthling soldari! wave

you wold seem to have excellent taste. In fact, it appears we have much in common. One place we do differ though - I take great pride in looking back on a long day of loafing around (just wish I got to do it more often!)

I am starting to get this vision in my head of of the D&D players on HoP getting together for a week long dungeon crawl. that would be cool.

-v-

Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!

SpitFireGOLD Member
Mand's Girl....and The Not So Shy One
2,723 posts
Location: Calgary, Alberta Canada

Posted:
oooh that could be cool!

A dear friend of mine and his mates play Vampire the Masquerade, but they use the streets of their home town instead of a map...I thought that'd be cool.

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Solitude sometimes speaks to you, and you should listen.

MikeGinnyGOLD Member
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA

Posted:
Van, why stop halfway? Why not some live action D&D?

-Mike

Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella



A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura

SpitFireGOLD Member
Mand's Girl....and The Not So Shy One
2,723 posts
Location: Calgary, Alberta Canada

Posted:
Hmm...I've never done live action. I knew a guy who did do it, and enjoyed it...

Solitude sometimes speaks to you, and you should listen.

soldaribusy-tofu!
133 posts
Location: montreal: bagel capital

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How about M.C. Escher? Would you like to meet him?

How could I leave him out! The things he drew were so fantastic, I must have at least two of his posters at my place, I love his original use of perspective to create impossible spaces... ah truly a genius, another person I'll never get to meet *sigh*



Lucid dreaming is fun when I get to do it. Right now I'm a bit more focussed on remembering my dreams: the amazing stories that go on in there are often beyond imagination. And speaking of a dungeon crawl, I once had a crazy D&D adventure in a dream: I never had any of those cool items in 'real-life'.

there is no better way to say I love you than with the gift of a spatula!

soldaribusy-tofu!
133 posts
Location: montreal: bagel capital

Posted:
Ahhh! LARPing... It's either very cool or very bad. You need a good scenario and a good team of animators to make it feel real. But when it's well done, OH, what a sweet experience!

I'll be glad to animate if we do have a HoP LARP... only trouble is getting together on a terrain with the proper infrastructures. Unlike taking part in a Vampire LARP, the terrasse of the old train station, or the second floor of a private club doesn't really work as a setting... unless we have a ubbidea Cyberpunk game! biggrin

there is no better way to say I love you than with the gift of a spatula!

pounceSILVER Member
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA

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'ello! wave ya, what spitfire said. ubblol please stop by my thread if you'd like some r-rated fun or if you even ever have the urge to shout out a naughty word. there are plenty of cool people on here, too many to list, so just meet us all! and you are quite right, neil gaiman is so very great. i'm quite fond of his stuff. have you seen the BBC miniseries they did on neverwhere? it was recently released on DVD too. quite nice i have to say.

i just noticed i said "quite" quite a bit. hmmm......

newho, please remove your shoes at the door biggrin

ta! wave

I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.

**giggles**

vanizeSILVER Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA

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have you seen the BBC miniseries they did on neverwhere? it was recently released on DVD too. quite nice i have to say.




really and truely?!? oh my. now I have something for my Xmas list! yeay!

-v-

Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!

pounceSILVER Member
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA

Posted:
ya....you can order it on a&e online



comes with commentary and an interview with neil gaiman biggrin

I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.

**giggles**

telicI don't want a title.
940 posts

Posted:
Soldari, I adore your interests. Very glad you're around. hug

Egads, I haven't RPd in a million billion years. Always preferred tabletop to LARP, though, when I did.

Mm, Ender's Game... ubblove

I saw the Neverwhere BBC thing at a comic con years back, where I first heard Gaiman do a reading. Fantastic stuff! Must.. get.. DVD.

E pluribus unum, baby.

vanizeSILVER Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA

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Mm, Ender's Game...



Ender's game is definitely my favorite of Card's books. My sister's favorite is Xenocide (which was quite good), but Ender's Game spoke more directly towards me as a tale of expectations placed on a child. I also quite liked Ender's Shadow, though I must say I didn't get so fully wrapped up in it since I didn't identify with Bean as much and he seemed more supernatural.

I realy must get around to reading more Neil Gaiman.

I too prefer table top action to live action. I even try to limit use of figures as much as possible, as I find it severly interfers with my brains ability to paint the scenes in my minds eye. But I'm also a bit of a tactics and stategy freak, so figures are occasionally indispensible for that (and as a GM, I generally let this side get the better of me). But theoretically I'd rather let the imaginations of my players run wild. I only see arragning live action as further restricting it. Also makes things such that they must be well planned around available resources. I like things to be much looser than that. Besides, it is hard enough to arrange for 6 people to get together around a table, much less organize anything extravegent for live play, which is probably beyond my capabilities to organize. It would be fun to do now and then though if someone else were responsible for setting it up.

-v-

Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!

GnorBRONZE Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
5,814 posts
Location: Perth, Australia

Posted:
Does that mean you a really sexy French Canadian accent........

Welocome to HoP... hug hug hug hug hug

Is it the Truth?
Is it Fair to all concerned?
Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendships?
Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?

Im in a lonely battle with the world with a fish to match the chip on my shoulder. Gnu in Binnu in a cnu

soldaribusy-tofu!
133 posts
Location: montreal: bagel capital

Posted:
Yez, I can speek wiz a sexi frinch akzent eef you la-ike wink

As for the neverwhere BBC series I thought it was... erm enjoyable. I recommend renting it rather than acquiring it. I must say I had imagined the characters quite differently, espescially Door and Arthur. Thought the Marquis de Carabas is so very... him!

Then there's LARP vs tabletop. I prefer tabletop myself... I even travel 600km (trip to Montreal and back) every two weeks to go partake in an über-cool D&D campaign. LARPing is different, very different. I just remember having 10 life tags, losing one and then all the others become so important! And the noises of the woods at night when you're hiding from monsters that are just a few feet from you. But like I said, they can either be really cool or pretty bad.

Also I thought I'd share that my poi have fled. I think it has something to do with a combination of me doing the 'ugly' (7bt weave) and trying out staff and liking it. So if you see two 'Alf' looking stuffed toys at the end of an arm length of chain with leather double grips, please tell them to come home and that I miss them! If they say anything about beeing ever neglected, it isn't true, THEY LIE I TELL YOU. ubbcrying

there is no better way to say I love you than with the gift of a spatula!

pounceSILVER Member
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA

Posted:
well i doubt any place would have neverwhere for you to rent it in the first place. at least not in the states. the UK might tho, i dunno. but i enjoyed it very much. was worth buying it for me.

I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.

**giggles**

soldaribusy-tofu!
133 posts
Location: montreal: bagel capital

Posted:
My DVD rental store has it umm I guess I'm just pampered! tongue
But I haven't watched it in a while, so I could be wrong about it not beeing worth the buy. rolleyes you can always get a friend to buy it and watch it at their place biggrin . I'll buy it and you guys can come visit.. yes? no?

there is no better way to say I love you than with the gift of a spatula!

vanizeSILVER Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA

Posted:
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As for the neverwhere BBC series I thought it was... erm enjoyable. I recommend renting it rather than acquiring it. I must say I had imagined the characters quite differently, espescially Door and Arthur. Thought the Marquis de Carabas is so very... him!




I often find that the BBC makes casting choices that I regard as just plain wrong. But on the other hand, how much choice do they really have? (that is a legitimate question actually, as I have no idea).

-v-

Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!

telicI don't want a title.
940 posts

Posted:
In the States, the Neverwhere DVD is available through Netflix. (Hurray for Netflix! Nowadays I don't watch anything unless it magically appears in my mailbox.)

E pluribus unum, baby.

pounceSILVER Member
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA

Posted:
oh ya i forgot to reply to that part. the marquis was SO perfectly cast. i loved him. oh and mr. vandemar and mr. croup were well cast i thought.

I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.

**giggles**

soldaribusy-tofu!
133 posts
Location: montreal: bagel capital

Posted:
Seeing as everybody else has such a cool introduction thread, I've decided to make a few home improvements to my place:

So there's the velcro room, complete with various sizes of velcro-suits and a trampolineubbloco.

The study, with a wide array of good books, illustrated novels, and dvds. And a mini-bar (free drinks with valid ID) wink.

The pillow room - I think the name says it all - this is the place where pillow fights and sleep overs are welcome ubbrollsmile .

The ice-cream/sorbet/smoothie lab where other kinds of research is also encouraged (ei: you could as easily get a grant to do chocolate research)ubblove.

I figure since Lïghtnïng's cousin is already an architect, so he can design the plans while I learn, but before I ask him to, is there any thing else I should consider? Maybe a dream projector room... rolleyes

Anywho, I'm off for another 600km round trip to my D&D game and back. Don't trash the place too much while I'm gone spank

there is no better way to say I love you than with the gift of a spatula!

pounceSILVER Member
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA

Posted:
WOO-HOO!!!!

puts on velcro suit and runs at trampoline, jumping and doing a flip mid-air

**THWAP**

lands upside down on the wall

um, guys? i think i'm too light to get myself off of here!

struggles to no avail

yup. stuck.

**giggles**

help? any help here? please? hello? anyone? i'll be your sexual slave! hello?

hello?

anyone?

bueller?

bueller?

oohhhh, the blood is rushing to my head.

**giggles**

I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.

**giggles**

GnorBRONZE Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
5,814 posts
Location: Perth, Australia

Posted:
youll be my sexy slave!!

Ha..I am here first to recue Pounce fron the velcro clutches
gnor dons her armour and gets her sword da da dum

Fear not Pounce I come to rescue you

gnor wrestles with pounce to get her down..

Is it the Truth?
Is it Fair to all concerned?
Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendships?
Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?

Im in a lonely battle with the world with a fish to match the chip on my shoulder. Gnu in Binnu in a cnu

pounceSILVER Member
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA

Posted:
oh phew! i figured more of the meaner, henna and magic marker painting people would have left me there

**giggles**

thanks gnor!!!

I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.

**giggles**

telicI don't want a title.
940 posts

Posted:
::plans on doing all her napping in Soldari's pillow room::

::puts a set of flannel pajamas, a silk nighty, and her plushie Nietzsche in a safe corner of the pillow room to wait for naptime::

E pluribus unum, baby.

MikeGinnyGOLD Member
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA

Posted:
*quietly fingering a permanent marker while waiting for Regyt to fall asleep*

-Mike

Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella



A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura

soldaribusy-tofu!
133 posts
Location: montreal: bagel capital

Posted:
I need to rant. *takes a deep breath*


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This week-end I went to Montreal to go make room in my parent's basement to store my furniture till I find a decent appartment and to go out game with friends. So I get to the bus station to buy me a ticket, and I realise I've left all my bank/credit cards at home. Luckily I had cash on me, just enough to buy a bus ticket (I had 62 cents left-over). I get to Montreal at around midnight and none of my friends are reacheable on their cell phones, so I go home, and walk the dogs. The rest of my week-end goes fine (more or less; I don't find any x-mas presents for any one, and even if I did, I couldn't buy much with 62¢). The real bummer is when I get back. So my ex-roomate cashes my birthday check for me and I head off to the bus station, buy my ticket, and get on the bus at quarter past midnight; so far so good.

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Because of the crazy snow storm, we're at half-way point at around 2, at quarter past 3, I wake-up. The bus is still, all the lights are out, the bus driver is gone. At first I think we made it to Quebec city really fast, and that the bus driver had forgotten to check if there were still people left. So I look outside and find that we are stopped on the side of some small road near a telephone cabin. I look around and everybody is sleeping in the bus. I figure the bus driver is taking a leak and go back to sleep. One hour later I wake up: same telephone cabin outside the window the woman in the front is awake.

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So she tells me that because of the snow storm the driver couldn't see anything and decided to take a small road instead of the highway (does this make sense to you?) and that his windshiel-wippers were so full of ice that things had gotten worse and that we were waiting for another bus. The bus gets there at 6 am. I am pissed off as hell and so are the rest of the 20 or so passangers. Two hours later I am in Quebec city. I hardly have time to drop my stuff off at my place and come back to work.

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And so this is my rant about a *%$!#@ bus driver who took the bus in the middle of butt-f*ck nowhere... ?%*#$!!!!

*gasp* I feel better now. Still tired and racked though.

there is no better way to say I love you than with the gift of a spatula!

soldaribusy-tofu!
133 posts
Location: montreal: bagel capital

Posted:
Everything in my life seems to be going well! Or rather the good outwheighs the bad and this makes me happy ubbrollsmile

Bad things:
1)The lazy winter that can't make-up it's mind on wether to rain or snow (looks like I won't be snow-boarding any time soon ubbcrying),
2)I haven't made any x-mas gifts for anyone yet,
3)my socks are wet.

Good things:
1)I've found my poi (or rather they've been returned) ubblove,
2)my big brother is back from the 'States' for the a whole 3 weeks (!!!) biggrin,
3)Ned Goold, one of my favorite jazz performers is coming to Quebec and I've got tickets,
4)my boss said it was fine if I didn't come in for the holidays or ever after,
5)I found someone to take-over my appartment,
6)my boxes are almost all packed
6a)and my father has agreed to come-up to Quebec city to move my stuff.

Thought I'd share the joy cause there's plenty to pass around!

there is no better way to say I love you than with the gift of a spatula!

pounceSILVER Member
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA

Posted:
i wonder why you put the "states" in quotation marks? does that mean we really don't exist but are just a metaphor of sorts?

looks around getting scared that maybe she really isn't here

I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.

**giggles**

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