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Header by: @glowingmooncreations Current Location: July 30, 2013 Progress: 15% of S2

[hermette-historian]

Saw the Minecraft movie last week. Not having seen his video, it took me a solid week and a bit of googling to find the mumbo and Lizzie cameos I needs my mcyt fan card taken away 😔

[hermette-historian]

Being a woman is fun. There’s a man trying to send me unsolicited nudes and I’m just in my kitchen singing a song about toasted cheese and tomato soup

[hermette-historian]

Just resent a strongly worded email to my boss. The strong words were “the instrument is haunted and also it hates me specifically, please go yell at it”.

I put a Santa hat on it and somehow things got Worse. This is obviously, totally not causal.

[salamencerobot]

Music instrument or scientific instrument? Because I assumed the first but the tag chaos chemistry got me thinking it's the second.

... Also what instrument?

[hermette-historian]

The instrument in question claims to be a Metrohm Auto-Titrator. Unfortunately, she’s actually a mimic and her favorite snack is All Of My Data.

[hermette-historian]

Just resent a strongly worded email to my boss. The strong words were “the instrument is haunted and also it hates me specifically, please go yell at it”.

I put a Santa hat on it and somehow things got Worse. This is obviously, totally not causal.

[hermette-historian]

To be fair, I did also threaten to throw it out the window if it didn’t give me a suitable curve. It slowly, shakily, gave me one single beautiful curve and promptly went right back to being a bitch.

The war continues.

[hermette-historian]

Just resent a strongly worded email to my boss. The strong words were “the instrument is haunted and also it hates me specifically, please go yell at it”.

I put a Santa hat on it and somehow things got Worse. This is obviously, totally not causal.

[hermette-historian]

This week in "Wynn got a fancy studio apartment, this is the first time she's lived on her own, and also she's a little bit stupid" we have:

1) spent six days, three trips to the leasing office, one embarrassing call to security, and several emails to IT attempting to figure out why the key fob worked on every single door except the parking garage. Mother solved the problem within twenty seconds of looking at the door by just. Moving the key further up on the reader. 2) Spent the first five days after getting the keys on the air mattress (planned) shivering (not planned) at war with the thermostat which was set to well above 70 and had No Right To Be This Cold, only to find out (again, immediately after the parents arrived) that the thermostat was working but the wall unit was…unplugged. 3) Set up the kitchen, got unreasonably excited about making rice for the first time in eighteen months, and immediately realized that someone had packed the full set of pots and zero (0) pot lids. The source and the solution to this conundrum both remain a mystery. 4) Forgot to turn off the oven. Twice. 5) Forgot to add soap to the dishwasher. Once. 6) Set up several christmas decorations and still can't find a phone charger. Priorities.

I am a fully functioning adult and I am perfectly capable of living on my own. thank you very much. I've been here for two (2) weeks.

[hermette-historian]

You know, there are periods of time in which I convince myself that I am not an Enormous Orchestral Nerd because I burned out and put down the violin after that one concerto marathon incident in college.

And then it’s midnight on a Friday and I’m driving home from work listening to the Jupiter hymn by Gustav holst and BAWLING because wasn’t it all, always about hope? All of it? Everything? Wasn’t it about strength and beauty and faith and the ability to just make it One. More. Moment?

And suddenly, I see Jupiter through the eyes of so many different directors. I see some take it painfully, excruciatingly slowly at the entrance. They make you wait, and let it build, until a full minute in you can *feel* the force with which forty-two violinists are punctuating every. Single. Note. (Side note, as a career second violinist, there is *nothing* more powerful in my mind than adding twenty extra violinists to your melody). Some directors opt to take you by surprise instead, choosing to forgo Fermatas entirely and entering with Purpose and Emphasis. Some choose to let the theme fade, some choose to pause and watch it go, and still others (a generally scandalous choice) will end the piece entirely at the close of the B theme. I can see the passion with which even the most phoned in performer will perform this theme. It is simple. Easy. And one of the single most powerful themes ever put to music.

This isn’t about music, by the way. But I guess it never was. The power of performance is never in the material itself, and all of that.

I should have a snack and go to sleep, I think. I have a lab waiting for me in the morning.

[hermette-historian]

I can’t decide if I’m having Friday brain, or if I’m having “I’ve had to be a total of three different places today and that is simply too many places” brain and I’m not sure which is worse

[hermette-historian]

Ostensibly cishet theater employee and his clueless former theater employee partner try to figure out what the hell “Broadway Bares” is, more at 11

[harley-the-pancake]

HAHA

Anyways, hi, theatre kid, you’re correct! It is a fundraiser, with both men and women now I believe!

It donates to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids! I know that the first time I donated when it was 2019? I believe? It was after massive flooding and maybe a hurricane? Down south and they were using their money for that.

Got a signed poster from the Lion King for it! $20!

[harley-the-pancake]

Broadway Bares: Hit the Strip Plays Hammerstein Ballroom June 23

The annual fundraiser, presented at 9:30 PM and midnight, benefits Broadway Cares.

A link & picture explaining! Did not know Alan Cumming was working with them this year, now that sounds like it’d be good

[harley-the-pancake]

ANYWAYS, if you ever go to a broadway show in spring or fall, it’s likely they’ll have the buckets out raising money! I suggest donating if able!

In NY, they also have the easter bonnet contest (always funny to watch) and Broadway Flea Market. Would LOVE to go one day.

[hermette-historian]

Ostensibly cishet theater employee and his clueless former theater employee partner try to figure out what the hell “Broadway Bares” is, more at 11

[hermette-historian]

🎶BABY DONT HURT ME, DONT HURT ME, NO MORE🎶

CIARA NO. YOU'VE SUMMONED HIM

[hermette-historian]

Nothing consistently reminds me that it is still 2013 like Keralis bursting out singing "What is Love" every time he enjoys something.

I love Keralis. I am nearly to the point of muting his ass.

[hermette-historian]

There's something so...sweet about watching early Hermits explore a jungle temple for the first time.

There's something even more sweet about watching them get shot.

[hermette-historian]

If you think your neighbors have ever thought you crazy, it is past midnight and I am sitting in the middle of the road in front of my house measuring my front tires with a stick of Jack Links best beef jerky

The beef stick is still wrapped, lest anyone think I’m a hooligan

[hermette-historian]

Everyone: ...what are you guys doing?

KingHappy: I think it's a melon penis. We're building a melon penis.

Xisuma, still building: It is NOT a melon penis.

Everyone, but mostly Cleo: uh huh. Sure looks like one.

[hermette-historian]

Somebody help, Keralis is talking about window penises again

[hermette-historian]

Your confidence is inspirational. And your preparedness is just...without bounds.

-Joe Hills, Jul 6, 2013, following Xisuma through the night and fending off monsters left and right because X has just realized he doesn't have a sword. Are they being taken to the stronghold to plan the ender dragon fight? Or are they simply being kidnapped? This certainly isn't foreshadowing at all whatsoever!