i like a lot of different things, but i lean most towards the melancholic and the spare. i don’t like clutter much, not in music, buildings, clothes, food, writing. i’m not stubbornly minimalist, everything doesn’t have to be a white room and a black piano and a grey sky, but i like things that seem simple and true. but then sometimes simple and truthful can be found in things that sound bold and a bit messy. sorry this is such a dumb and embarrassing answer but i never know how to answer this question, i have trouble with it even when it is only me asking myself and there is nothing to defend or explain.
thank you, that is a wonderful answer.
i think so too
thank you, now i don’t feel so foolish.
we love minimalism. it’s a mantra and the magic word
estela, i’m “different” than those two because i don’t LOVE minimalism. maybe i love it sometimes, but not ALL the time. but then that’s kind of exactly what you said. but i do think your answer was great and not embarrassing.
hey estela did you dl an instant messenger program? if so, log on so we can chat.
only creeps IM
that’s not true
you’re right, that’s not true
i haven’t yet lingbert, but i will. i have to finish a big batch of work first though, i am way behind, and it’s made me behind on everything else. next week will be better.
what topics of conversation are you readying, lingbert?
i haven’t readied anything. i fear i’m going to be so unprepared when it happens.
i have very high standards.
that’s not true
should i use a different name for this, what is the protocol, can you help a duffer.
use whatever name you want! mine is completely different than lingbert.
if the IM name you want is taken you could go with ESTELA_AU_ROOLS
i bet that one’s not taken
ESTELA_OZ
GDAY_MATE
SHRIMP_ON_THE_BARBIE_69
KIWI_CUTIE_1973
XxXthatsnotaknifeXxX
esteladundee2303
feel free to use any of these by the way
XgoldcoasthoneyX
OoOvegemiteluvrOoO
marmite_4_pets
wittycomebaxxgurl
lilmissexcelsior
boomerangnaremoob
ok, i have got a new tragic name, thanks everyone for your loving assistance, and set up a meebo account, but now it wants me to select my im account, of which i don’t have one. should i pick yahoo, which i have an email acct for? or will i have to do even more than sign in there. or is there a better way. less than a minute my foot.
<3:)aw
when it asks you to choose an im account, just hit skip! i just created yet another account to test this out. when I started, it was 10:00. when i finished, it was 10:01.
then when it asks you to invite friends from your other account, hit cancel. you’re done
i am trying this right now.
ok, what do i do now?
in the window for your buddy list, there are 4 icons at the top. the one on the right is to start or join a chat group. click on that and then type in the name: estelol
for the chat room and hit join. that is where i am
sigh, maybe i have misunderstood meebo. i guess you have to sign on through one of the im services. if you already have yahoo, use that. i’m sorry for the confusion.
lingbert,
i keep fucking it up and now i have to go and pick up my dog. i will get back on this thread when i get back (in about an hour) and if you’re still here i’ll try again.
sorry, i’m sincerely trying to do this.
i do have a yahoo account (for ilx) so i’ll try signing onto messenger when i get back.
ok, well i just remembered that i have a yahoo account too. we can just chat through that. I don’t know if i’ll be up in an hour, but it is possible. sign on through meebo or just straight yahoo and it should work
ok i’m back, and signed into messenger.
and if it’s too late for today this is still progress.
ha i’m actually still up. but just for a bit longer. jammingjamjammy is my screen name on yahoo. add me as a buddy and im that shit.
i added you, it said you are offline.
i’m estelaisalei.
did you all ever chat?
i’m not sure. i might have been dreaming.
chat can take a person to a higher plain
i might have bored lingbert to sleep.
estela, did you dress your dog up for halloween?
no, i was a little bit tempted to but i was afraid it would compromise his dogtegrity.
Did you mean: dog tegrity
No standard web pages containing all your search terms were found.
Your search—dogtegrity—did not match any documents.
the other day i took my dog for a walk and a small boy of about six wearing a white shirt with rolled up sleeves and a smart vest appeared from behind a hedge and patted him, and then told me he lives in papua new guinea and that are hardly any dogs there and the ones you see usually only have two legs. i said, only two, and he said yes, and also the bees over there are so big they eat birds. he made a large circle with his hands to show me the average diameter of the bees. i put a frightened look on my face and he gave a nonchalant shrug, then his eyes landed on some jacaranda petals on the ground and he said its all right because if you ever see a bee coming all you have to do is stick a flower petal onto your leg and it makes them stay away. i thanked him for the tip. he said actually there are quite a few dogs over there but you mainly see them in the company of women who are about to take them out of the country. then he said he hoped his flight home wasn’t going to be bumpy. i said i was sure it wouldn’t be and he looked very relieved and then we parted ways.
how big was the diameter of the large bees?
whoa i guess you could say that expression “the birds and the bees” takes on a whole new dimension in PNG
the diameter was as big as his hands would go. i think everything he said was a lie except the bit about not liking turbulence. he was a corker, i laughed all the way home.
maybe he wasn’t even from papua new guinea
i was that boy, once
well then <3<3<3 to you.
lxy, i think he was from png, he had the slightly anglicised accent of an ex-pat. so that is two true things.
haha, jergins with your smart vest and your clever lies!
i was the 6 year old girl who always told the truth, all of it, all the time, to everyone, often in song. also i was always the first person on the block to introduce herself and welcome new neighbors.
i am not like that any more.
when i was six i wrote two stories, one was about an alien who went to school on the moon and the other was about a prairie dog and used thinly disguised versions of my friends as characters
when i was in elementary school (maybe 2nd grade?), i continuously bounced on my pogo ball from my house to my elementary school and back one weekend. i’m not sure how far it was. and i actually just went on google maps to find out how far. it seemed like much longer when i was a kid, and it’s only actually about a mile round trip. but still. also, wtf the city has google street view! but seattle still doesn’t. it was a trip seeing my old house though! this has also provided a brief but solid way for me to procrastinate.
this is a pogo ball for those who don’t know:
omg <3<3<3 to all of you.
your mother in law is french?
your husband is curiously multi-national
my mother in law is a big bag of trouble but (and) i <3 her.
my father in law is mexican, also <3. he tells me secrets, some of them are quite astonishing.
the blood of how many countries is running through your husbands veins?!
how many is france and mexico and usa.
i’m glad you’re not posting as Uncle Shavedlongcock while you discuss his veins.
3
is how many
3 veins...how do u know that??
*smdh*
estswella
sweat sell
i’ve gone off veins as a word except when preceded by leaf.
even then
leaf veins sounds pale green and delicate.
k
thank you for your consideration.
dearest estela,
did you figure out why you got the red subscription note at the top of itr?
love,
lxy
dear lxy,
no i didn’t.
<3estela
dearest estela,
did you accidentally subscribe to a daily email from robot?
xo
lx
probably, though if i did i never received it, which is good because the unhelpfulness of itr might have saddened me.
^dear lxy
as an experiment i subscribed (today) to a daily email from this board. it was sent at 4:05 pdt, and you posted “i just clicked on this board...” at 4:10, so the timing makes me wonder.
being an archivist at heart, i am going to maintain my subscription.
estela, what will you be having thanksgiving dinner?
for?
estela, what will your thanksgiving dinner consist of?
reading that, it seems like you’ll have to eat a picture of john howard
if thanksgiving isn’t till may, why do you have to rush to put the tree up now?
i think she’s trying to be all accommodating and shit for her husband
oh well then it’s because she’s nice!
i just read him your posts and he said ‘shush’. (xp not your post lxy)
our friend is moving to new york and she loves thanksgiving so we’re doing it for her before she goes.
i’ve never heard of that australian thanksgiving, it looks shit.
so what’s for thanksgiving supper? i am interested in knowing.
and tell your husband “just a bit of fun. be cool”
it’s me he was shushing, he was trying to sleep at the time of reading.
we’ll have turkey, garlic mashed potato, gravy, stuffing, cranberry, vegetables, salad. i have to order the turkey soon because fresh turkeys are usually only required here at christmas, last year i had to get a frozen one and it didn’t defrost on time, it was annoying.
and we’ll have pumpkin pie, and probably fresh berries and gelato, it’s summer here.
last year we had our thanksgiving on the saturday and it was election day here and john howard lost everything, it was very great.
your thanksgiving dinner sounds awesome and i wish it was in front of me right now
i wish you would be there dressed in your santa suit.
that’s what all the ladies say
ho ho ho
this morning f. was walking our dog and he saw this mean neighbour of ours and her terrible little angry dog and the dog was jumping up at f. and she said, ‘it’s because you’re eating a banana, he loves bananas, can he have a bit,’ so f. broke a piece off and the dog scarfed it down and then the neighbour lady suddenly lunged at the banana and dug her fingers right into it to get more for her dog. f. was taken aback, he threw the rest of it in the trash.
lol!
last week i saw her angrily waving a tennis racquet at some birds, she looked demented and the birds seemed bored, they flapped around a bit then landed back where they’d been at the beginning of the row.
is she a tennis player in addition to being completely crazy and awful?
i know she is a golfer, i’m not sure about tennis.
the truth of the matter is that we sort of enjoy her. you can see her frown from 500 yards away.
i bet you make good stuffing
lol
my secret ingredient is crushed nuts.
crushed nuts??
i think i’m going to retire ashton for awhile.
posting that ashton post felt forced and pretty joyless.
yeah if you kept posting that face it would stay that way
in our minds
i was pleased to see ashton, i’m not tired of it at all.
estela do you like flann o’brien?
i haven’t read him, but i like the sound of him. do you like him?
One of The Third Policeman’s many footnotes speculates that Kraus and du Garbandier, two of de Selby’s commentators, were one and the same person. We learn that another de Selby expert, Hatchjaw, is arrested for impersonating himself; and the possibility is mentioned that Hatchjaw was not Hatchjaw at all, but “either another person of the same name or an impostor.”
This ludicrous situation is one which O’Brien and friends attempted with great success to play out in real life, hijacking the letters page of the Irish Times with a host of letters written under false names. The letters formed a kind of chain, with O’Brien often sneering at letters he himself had written under a different name. The modern-day Irish Times will not publish pseudonymous letters, and requests that writers provide a phone number so that their identities can be verified; but at the time, editor R. M. Smyllie, encouraged no doubt by the rising circulation, gave O’Brien his own column on the strength of the letters controversy (which he himself even joined in).
estela, making double-o funnies since 2001
are the o’s the same size or is one larger than the other with an underscore separating them.
lo_Ol
not sure why lxy wants to discount your 90s work—some of your best imo—but hey, we’re our own people
probably it’s because i’m a no_Ob
i am trouble from procrastinating and it’s not the kind of trouble i <3.
lxy and jergins’ board
first and best procrastination resource on the net
free cheap and easy
safe and mostly anonymous
this truly is the best<3
oXO