Legs = Pain

So today I ran 42km in 6hrs 12min... what did you do?

Somethimes I can't remember why we decided to do this, and then through the pain swims the word "shiny." We did it because we are magpies and wanted the shiny medal that you get at the end, and the satisfaction to say you have done it, that I, Adam Schofield, along with my beautiful Fiance, Karen Li, ran the Auckland Marathon.

Excuse me whilst I die a little more

Today is the greatest day I have ever really known

So this is a bit late, but z0mG! Smashing Pumpkins were teh awesome live! Went and saw them at the Town Hall last Tuesday, and they were mind blowing... The whole thing was a fun time, bounced along and yelled out the lyrics to all the songs I knew... Today, Bullet with Butterfly Wings, Eye, Stumbline, Ava Adore.... everything, so so good... set list here

The whole thing made me wish I had been able to see them live when the original band was together...

I’ve been working on another project, mostly inspired by my oracle and her reminiscing, as well as NumberNine reminding me about TVTropes.... One of the greatest wastes of time ever! Anyway I was putting people from Uni into our appropriate 5 man band slot... I think NumberNine was talking about this a few months back, though he was talking about one of his current 5 man band as opposed at an old historic one... but I am more about the past.. well more our last year at uni...

Anyway, discussion if you want, but my original thoughts are:

• Hero – Me (I mean I am the hero of my own story, I did consider to cast me as something else but still...)
• Lancer – Nick (though maybe my Oracle instead?)
• The Smart Guy – Mark (though I have considered him as an atypical ‘Big Guy’ which would make Nick as the Smart guy...)
• The Big Guy – Em (though maybe Mark instead, or of course Ben, which adds
• The Chick –Emran (so totally Emran...)
• Others:
• Mentor – Brian

I haven’t thought of tropes for others yet...

Of course the real issue is that a few of us can fit into multiple slots, I am Hero, maybe Lancer, and maybe The smart guy, and a little bit of the chick (though not as much as Emran.) That said if I substitute Ben for Mark then that takes up the blatant The Big Guy slot, which means of the people left Nick is a better The Smart Guy and Em is my Lancer.

Of course this changes a bit if I drop off the hero slot and take up either The Smart Guy or The Lancer (I will drop the big guy for the rest of this thought experiment I think). If We put Nick into the hero slot (and let’s be honest it is where he thinks he is,) then either Emran or I take up the Lancer slot, the other takes the Smart Guy and Em becomes The Chick (which possibly says a lot about my view on Nick’s view of the world.) With Emran as the hero things become a bit more weird, I think I become the Chick in that case, Emma is the Big guy, and Nick the Smart Guy, with all of us being the Lancer. Finally with Emma as the Hero, I become the Lancer, Nick is the Smart guy and Emran the chick.

I do wonder if we could fit into slots and leave the hero slot free?

It is an idea that possibly needs further work.... along with some other concepts....

I had a dream...

And it was a weird dream, but I feel the need to try and write about it before it disapears from memory.

The dream was about me reading a book and living my life and somehow the two got mixed up, as in that was the reality of the dream, not that the dream turned that way. The 'reality' part was weird too, we were living in a strange city at homestays, but it was myself, my love, my oracle and hers. I think others too but I can't remember. The J-Boy was trying to find us for some reason but kept missing us (some of the dream was from his point of view)

The book bit was a fantasy, and a kingdom had been at civil war and the upsurpers had nearly won, taking most of the land and capturing, then beheading, the king. All that was left was a raggerd army, the capital city and the Kings young-ish daughter (technical queen) who everyone loved. Somewhow by reading the story I was part of the story and could choose sides, and I chose the side of the royalists to protect the little queen (who looked asian.)

We won't go into any analysis of my brain over that...

Anyway at the end of the story the royalists won and i was back in reality where I was going out on the town with everyone. There we discovered J-boy who had be tracking us... and had a flash back showing all the things he had been doing... The next morning i discovered that the young queen from the book i had read had killed herself and the last person to talk to her was monster manual pg 117, which was random in itself, let alone the plot of the book continuing after I had finished reading it. This was all so amazing I tried to tell someone but no one would listen....

And then I woke up, wrote most of this down this morning and finished it this afternoon when my keyboard decided to play nice....

Form becomes shape becomes thought....

Ok so I remember to post again... I totally do that, this posting thing.... honest...

Anyway I had intended to do a slightly more political post about Mr Henry and also the Super-Mayoral race, though in both cases I have procastinated too long and real life have taken care of them for me... Not that it doesn't deserve a review.

Mr Henry

Is an idiot, which is about all that needs be said. It does worry me that TVNZ have recieved around 3000 emails and letters of support for the racist, claiming he is a good non-PC guy.... Or you know, a racist. It concerns me that NZers seem to think that these sorts of comments are ok, that it is what is done... Of course it is defended by people saying "when is it the white males time" and such like, like us White males have had a bad time of it or something... When we look at the previous Governer-Generals that NZ has had, we have the current NZ born Indian male, then a NZ Born white female, a NZ born white male, a NZ born white female and then NZ born White males back to 1967 and before that Brittish white males. So when will NZ pick a 'kiwi bloke'? only every time save 3 appointments since 1967. Note the lack of Maori Governor-Generals, or Polynesian, or east-asian, all ethnic constituants of NZ, and signifigant ones at that... but they don't get to be GG. Should they whine like little girls too? It's not like the GG does anything of great use, or at least in normal transmission of services... He just greets people and smiles and waves and hosts parties (and maybe a few more things.) Is it not ok that some of our more mis-represented ethnic groups get to have a person that looks like them be in the job? Does it not increase our appearance of diversity and harmony?

Not that I would expect bigots to understand...

As far as you take me, thats where I beleive

I had a rant to post, and I should have logged in and written it, or something, whatever... In the end apathy as always restricted my actions and I left with an empty page, whithering as the ages pass, eternity creeping ever closer...

I have been meaning to write more on 'For Love and Country' or even 'Emperor' though I haven't (see previous paragraph) I have been meaning to do many things, but I don't.

Sometimes I wonder at my own apathy, watch as I waste away the time not doing that which is needed to do, or at least that which I need to do away from work, one of the few places I do not bow to the laziness, or at least not all the time...

I still haven't written about the proposal, and I will eventually, and I should write about the trip more, though I have been back for nearly 2 weeks so it won't be posts for a travel blog now, just musings...

I have no more, and I want no more, and I die no more....

Away I must flee, my oracle waits, my oracle waits...