Sunday, December 7th, 2003

Time	Event
12:07p	My results from some sort of filler-out story thing. FAIRY TALE nce upon a time there has a young BLACKSMITH named ADOLF. He was WOBBLILY FRYING in the OLD forest when he met SHINY HOMER, a run-away TECHNICAL SUPERVISOR FOR A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT from the CRISPY Queen EVA. ADOLF could see that SHINY HOMER was hungry so he reached into his JAR and give him his DRUNKEN SUSHI. SHINY HOMER was thankful for ADOLF's SUSHI, so he told ADOLF a very RAPID story about Queen EVA's daughter EMILY. How her mother, the CRISPY Queen EVA, kept her locked away in a HOVEL protected by a gigantic DUST MITE, because EMILY was so STRIPED. ADOLF DROPPED. He vowed to SHINY HOMER the TECHNICAL SUPERVISOR FOR A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT that he would save the STRIPED EMILY. He would COMPLAIN the DUST MITE, and take EMILY far away from her eveil mother, the CRISPY Queen EVA, and FLOAT her. Then, all of the sudden, there was a WIZENED HAILSTORM and SHINY HOMER the TECHNICAL SUPERVISOR FOR A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT began to laugh. With a puff of smoke he turned into the gigantic DUST MITE from his story. CRISPY Queen EVA SKULKED out from behind a SHOEHORN and struck ADOLF dead. In the far off HOVEL you could hear a QUACK. THE END. Make your own Fairy Tale at fuali.com (Comment on this)
12:54p	upheavals in the rodent world One of my mice gave birth, apparently to only one baby. This is unusual, but I couldn't find any little half-eaten baby mice in the cage or other such evidence. Another of my mice, a fairly old one, died. The other of the elderly ones is sitting immobile and occasionally shaking; she was walking in wobbly circles yesterday. I put her in quarantine in case this is something contagious. The rats are OK, thank goodness. I'm going to do a little research and see if what's going on with the elderly mice is age-linked or contagious or what. In slightly more cheering news, last night I saw an interesting movie on the International Channel, called Amanisahan. It's a historical biopic about a medieval Uighur woodcutter's daughter who became the concubine of the Khan of Yerchiang (Yarkand?) and helps compile the Mukam system of Uighur music. Since East Turkestan is currently under Chinese rule, even though the actors are all Uighur the film is in Mandarin. This was kind of amusing; I missed the first few minutes and didn't know what I was watching at first, and wondered why in the hell some sort of Afghan movie had been dubbed into Chinese. Even the Islamic names were sinicised; Wumaer and Abudureshiti instead of Omar and Abdulrashid. Also the acting was not great (possibly because the Uighur actors were not speaking in their native language), which combined with the crappy film stock they used makes it look like it's from 1953 rather than 1993. But it was about someone that I'd heard of before, and I love Central Asian music, with its fascinating blend of Arab, Indian, and Chinese elements. The music was great; they seem to have found some of the best Uighur instrumentalists available. If I had known about this beforehand, I'd have taped it. Current Mood: anxious Current Music: Some weird-ass Hindi film song on TV (Comment on this)
1:57p	Wow... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031207/ap_on_re_us/muslim_football Current Mood: amused Current Music: Anonymous Uighur musicians, Dastan of Rak (Comment on this)

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