Team The Chipmunks of Creativity & Chaos

[Cat]

Pooor Piggy & his glasses :(

(I am now panicking that I remembered it right! It is Piggy with the glasses? and Ralph the main bully?)

[Laura]

I remember it that way Cat; though I dont think I would have remembered Ralph's name if you hadn't said it.

[Eldarwen]

Piggy with the glasses yes, but Jack is being the bully while Ralph was voted chief and then didn't know what to do half the time hehe.

[Alysa]

OMG, I remember seeing the 1990 movie of that in the theater. I was 8 years old. The part where Piggy died emotionally scarred me for life.

[Laura]

Eldarwen wrote: "Piggy with the glasses yes, but Jack is being the bully while Ralph was voted chief and then didn't know what to do half the time hehe."

Do you like it Eldarwen? Someday I'd like to re read it. I think the adult version of myself would like it more than when I read it way back when.
Piggy was the only character I could remember and then couldn't remember which role was which.

[Cat]

Alysa wrote: "OMG, I remember seeing the 1990 movie of that in the theater. I was 8 years old. The part where Piggy died emotionally scarred me for life."

Not sure E had finished yet!

8yo is young for Lord of the Flies, isn't it?! No wonder you're scarred!
I've never seen an adaption of the book. Not sure I'd want to though...

[Cat]

Eldarwen wrote: "Piggy with the glasses yes, but Jack is being the bully while Ralph was voted chief and then didn't know what to do half the time hehe."

Ah... Thanks!
It's been an age since I last read it...

[Eldarwen]

It's a very odd book and I think it's definitely one of those you read in an entirely different way depending on your age, but as important now as ever considering the group dynamics, peer pressure etc etc.

I do like it though in a very frowny, what-on-earth-are-they-doing kind of way hehe.

[Eldarwen]

Cat wrote: "Alysa wrote: "OMG, I remember seeing the 1990 movie of that in the theater. I was 8 years old. The part where Piggy died emotionally scarred me for life."

Not sure E had finished yet!"

Haha no, I still have a few pages left to go but it's okay ;-)

[Alysa]

Cat wrote: "8yo is young for Lord of the Flies, isn't it?! No wonder you're scarred!
I've never seen an adaption of the book. Not sure I'd want to though..."

Yeah I was with my adults, and had actually seen plenty of real "Horror" movies on VHS by then, such as Nightmare on Elm Street and the like (my father was totally inappropriate about that kind of thing), but movie theaters here were also way more more laissez-faire about age restrictions back then.

Lord of the Flies was absolutely scarier to me at that age than Freddie Kreuger ever could have been though, because it was more "real"!

[Eldarwen]

I can see why you'd think it was scarier, because it really does feel so much more real than Freddie Krueger ever could! I enjoyed the read, but at the same time I started to hate it more and more towards the end. It's scary that these kinds of classics are still so very accurate to this day because the inherent truth buried underneath all of it is still the same today. Humans are assholes. And to think that these were kids who didn't know what they were doing half the time..

[Eldarwen]

Oh, spreadsheet is updated :-)

I'll start on the Child Finder later today after I've taken care of some things.

[Cat]

finished O book

updating sheet now :)

[Eldarwen]

If you don't know what else to read in the meantime, you can always grab my second spot in SZ1 if you want :-)

I'm not going to get much reading done over the weekend.

[Cat]

I'll take a look, but am a bit out of sorts: no book grabbing me right now :(

Shall go check out the Backroom BOM noms, do some admin there.

[Eldarwen]

Yeah, today is not a bookish day for me either. Can't settle on anything..

[Cat]

I was probably thrown by the early morning pic from my sister, of my nephew plugged into an audio at 7.45 in the morning! He loves his audios :) but it's a lot to live up to, y'know!

[Eldarwen]

Oh wow! Good for him though :-)

A friend's son is always clamouring for audios as soon as he's in the car. He gets grumpy when his parents want to listen to music for a change and not a children's story haha.

Love it when they're into books so early on already :-D

[Cat]

It has been my main aim as auntie!

Totally success with #1, who adores books, even if his prescription has made learning to read tricky. #2 likes being read to, but isn't as into it, sadly. She's all about unicorns & playing pretend games, even at bed time. #3 loves books, but hasn't had quite as many pressed on him, 'cos they are further away (plus the adoption thing meant I missed out on the first 18mths :( )

I'm getting excited for mid October - the illustrated GoF is published, and I will be presenting each family with a copy :)
#1 (and his dad!) have been chewing their arms off, waiting for it to come out! As #1 is only 6 1/2 now, I've been glad for the pause, to let him grow a bit into the issues....

[Eldarwen]

Can I have you as an auntie, too?? I would love an illustrated copy of GoF hehe ;-)

But yes, good thing that #1 is a little older now because as of book 4, they're starting to become quite a little dark at times. And please please do not tell him that all Slytherins are bad! :-)

About those unicorns.... there was an AWESOME unicorn book I came across recently with a beautiful purple cover but I can't remember the name... I'll go on the hunt!

[Eldarwen]

:-D Maybe that'll her more into reading books?

[Eldarwen]

I just looked back at my list and Lord of the Flies was actually read by people on two other teams, so I'll go edit the spreadsheet to reflect that.

[Cat]

Gah! I wish you'd spotted that earlier.... I found a short N book read by one of the other teams.... at 114p it wasn't worth DNF-ing, but I was very close to it!

Night Visits, iyi. no plot. attempt at erotica, I think. didn't even hit bad porn...

But, N read!

[Eldarwen]

Sorry! :-/
That sounds like a terrible read... but at least an N, yes!

[Laura]

I'm waiting at the hospital for my dad to arrive. He had a work place accident and is being brought in by ambulance. Poor dad he can't get a break. Just recovering from a severe concussion and now this.

[Cat]

oh no! :( I hope it's not serious

poor dad :(
and poor you, hospital is not how you really want to be spending your sunday arvo...

[Eldarwen]

Oh no! I can only second what Cat already said.
Hope it isn't too serious and that you can all go home as soon as possible!

[Laura]

Long day. He's home or almost home. There was an ammonia leak at his work, he couldn't breathe and was sick. Side effect triggered one of his migraines and they wouldn't discharge him until his vitals were consistent and the migraine subsided. Scary stuff. Definitely not how any of us imagined spending our Sunday afternoon
He's staying home tomorrow and hoping back to work on Tuesday.

[Eldarwen]

Eurgh, that's definitely not a fun way to spend a day for any of you. Glad to hear they let him go home in the end though! Migraines just make everything worse, such a nuisance.

Hopefully the day off will help him recuperate nicely :-)

[Laura]

Finished the last SZ1 task!
Updating S/s

[Eldarwen]

Yay! :-)

Do we have books to cover tasks i) and ii) for SZ2?

[Laura]

I just found one for i; only SZ2(ii) left to find a book for

[Sonia]

That's the yellow cover left, right?

I'll tackle it

[Eldarwen]

Awesome! I can tackle my book tomorrow at work then. I'll start at least ;-)

[Sonia]

Is this yellow enough?


I haz other alternative

[Eldarwen]

First colour that stands out to me is definitely yellow. When I look closer, I start second-guessing but there is a lot of yellow.

[Sonia]

Well... I took a page of our book and used instead

[Sonia]

Read about 4 chapters before sleep yesterday.

[Cat]

I'm reading the poison logo one. About 50% in.

[Eldarwen]

That second one is definitely more yellow than the other one! Good choice :-)

I also started my yellow item book. With a bit of luck I might even get through it today! Depends on work of course but... I'm hopeful hehe.

[Sonia]

I'm currently out of the train and looking for the building where the training is going to be.. I guess I'll have to check outlook for this one

[Cat]

Good luck! Have fun :)

[Sonia]

Thanks. The break room has a pac man machine

[Cat]

annoyingly my commute this morning was 15mins too short! Though as I didn't get into the office till quarter to ten, that's probably for the best!

I'll finish the Dial P for Poison book at lunch

[Eldarwen]

Sonia wrote: "Thanks. The break room has a pac man machine"

That is awesome!!

[Eldarwen]

Everyone is so antsy and hectic here today, it's making me veeeeeeery aggressive >.>

And it means that I keep getting interrupted in my work, which pisses me off to no end.
Incidentally, that also means that they aren't letting me read :-p

[Cat]

People, sometimes! Don't they understand you have priorities?!

Hope it calms down for you soon. Antsy, hectic and aggressive is not good :(

[Eldarwen]

Eurgh... lunch break helped, though today 1 hour was just too short.

I think the hectic has died down, and the nuisances have been fed, so hopefully things will quiet down for the afternoon.

I just really, really hate days like these.

[Eldarwen]

Sooooo, that didn't happen haha. Why is it that all the important things and the emergencies happen on the same day?

I did manage to read 30% of my book, which is better than I expected but it is a superfast read. Will hopefully finish tomorrow!

[Laura]

I finished my read; it was nice and short and not so bad for a cozy mystery.