outfox

I mean your avatar is Oshawott, and I liek Oshawottz.

I've only ever heard Southern accents on television, are they that bad?
(LAY-HYAIR-LEE-HYUH).

Oh being multi-lingual is absolutely worth it!
If you happen to stumble into any languages I know, I can chat with you in it, to help you practice :D !

OSHAWOTT!

Oh you are going to have such a colorful garden~

I honestly cannot, I am & have always been, terrible with accents.
Heck, even my typing in English is terrible.
The sentence structure is so Lächerliche (ridiculous)!

What languages do you speak?
If I may ask.

^_^.

Oh those sound lovely~
I can imagine making a gorgeous little centerpiece arrangement for whenever guests come over, such colors!

Hehe...
Well I was raised with Hindi & German.
But I did not exactly get a "handle" on my German accent (the one I spoke more that is), until I started learning English at age 11/12. Lately, a few of my friends have been asking me to teach them German, however... since I've been doing that, I've started falling into my old accent & it is HORRIBLY embarrassing!

Standing up in U-math class & saying things like; "Zee answer ist neuntausendneunhundertvierundfünfzig (9,954)" & have a classroom of people staring at you with a look of "WHAT'S HAPPENING!? O_O."

The reason it's a bit of an issue, is that mother forget to mention when I was younger, that a boy with a light natural tan, should not have a heavy German accent while speaking Hindi. So I didn't even realize it was a problem until I went into English xD

Mush is fantastic! :D
Thank you very much, & the same to you Ms. outfox.


Psychedelics?
What do you mean?
Cheery tomatoes! O_O.
Do it :D !

Thank you~
Though there is "one" thing that's always been a bit of an issue, from that >_>.
It's a hilariously silly thing.

Oh no, I'm mostly hoping for the PhD & attending the seminary.
Otherwise, I'm mostly keeping busy with my compulsory high school credits.

Oh the church is mostly elderly couples who go for the social interaction, so they didn't have much against it!

Not right now, though I want one so badly~
How about yourself?

Haha, oh no...
I was pretty, er...
Verbally active, about it, for a few weeks that is.
Turns out, it's not worth complaining about it ^_^.
Why thank you :D !
The same for you as well.

As for now; I am mostly spending my time on school-work & actual work.

I have to keep my GPA >95% for the expedited PhD in Theology.
Though I still perform the occasional baptism with fellow classmates.

^///^
Well I had a bit of medical issue for most of my early childhood, so when I was 10 I started helping out around the local Western Christian church to make up for lost years. The pastor than was ill, & it's a rather small community, so everyone knew I was generally quiet.
Grandmama convinced Pastor Richard to let me help him when his throat was hoarse, & eventually I began giving the entire sermon with him giving me subtle cues for when I should put emphasis on certain words.

When he finally left, we didn't have a replacement & I became the local pastor for 4 years (until now that is).
Though I was ordained in a bit of an informal fashion, it was more of kindness than an actual ordination, which is why I wish to attend a seminary.

Ah...
Isn't it glorious to wake up on that one special spring morning, & see bit of golden light shining through, just warming the steadily rising roots :) ?

Birth.
It's a bit of an odd thing;
My actual mother was best friends with my adoptive mother & we don't know about my father.

So while I was terminally ill with Bronchiolitis Obliterans for the first 9 months of my life, the adoption process was expedited for fear of my life.
I only found out about 4 months ago, that papa is not my actual father.
Though he really is, in a sense ^_^.

Thank you :) .

It's entirely understandable :) .

Heck, since I stopped being the pastor at the local church, I've had hardly any chances to chat about this sort of thing.

We can chat about it whenever you like :D !

Aha~
When I try to explain it to most people, they shrug it off at the "everyone is everyone" aspect :laugh:.

Thank you :) .

You are a 20-something year old & die in a drunk driving accident.
As you awake, you begin speaking to God.
God tells you that you are going to be re-incarnated as let's say... a Greek philosopher in c. 100 C.E.

You ask God "why?"
God replies; "Re-incarnation is not simply one stream-lined event. It applies across all mindsets, as you were that 20-something year old, you have been a philosopher before, a peasant before & even a politician before.
You ask; "Than do other people exist?"
God replies; "Every single person is you, but you will not ever know that, except for this state before you are re-incarnated again. As this occurs, a single mind will reach a level, where it may fully comprehend & speak with me away from this state."
You lastly ask; "What is the point of this?"
God replies; "To see all possible things in this existence, & to achieve a omni-science as I."


Like I said, it's silly ^///^

I might just do that, have thought about it before and never really remembered to make an account.

Also, I shall reply to your PM after I've handed all my work in on Monday. Stressful times :(.

I'm not too sure myself, I think it was withdrawl, I stared getting really bad highs and I after a while I just stopped smoking all-together. So I decided that was enough for me. What? Don't drug test? You work odd jobs? That's cool, i guess, lucky you.

Awesome stuff. Wait, a man pinching milk out of his nipple? @_____@ What TV program even allows that to be shown? Haha.

I hope to get as much fun out of it as possible since I have experience in it already, but if not, I'm getting paid. And like you said, it's great on the CV as an ego boost, hahaha.

You probably wont want a used one unless someone has filled out the exercises with a pencil so you can rub it out. The book is half content and half exercises to really cement the content in your mind. They're awesome books. It's all you need to get the job done.

I do sing, and I do have a couple of songs I've written. One in the key of Bb and another in F# (I like black note keys :P). I really need to get round to recording them and asking others what they think. I might post them in the Musicians Corner thread at some point. Are you into songwriting?

And yeah, I do love songs with layers and layers of instrumentation. Like you say, they're super easy to zone out too. Zoning out to music is my favourite method of falling asleep.

I love Christmas Time is Here, and I can play it :D. I actually have the sheet music book with every song from the album on it. You play piano, right? You should invest in a copy :). Christmas is Coming and The Christmas Song are incredibly fun to play, too.

That's awesome news! Fingers crossed that they take you on, I'm sure you'd do a fantastic job.

Yeah, they're young and impressionable, so usually musically related stuff grabs their attention straight away if the lesson is practical and involves instruments, even if it is an improvised tambourine, haha. And I think 11-13 year olds will be easy enough to teach. Bearing in mind they're beginners and don't know all the ins and outs of the sax/guitar, they'll probably be impressed by my ability, despite the fact that I only play guitar as a leisure instrument really, aha. I did an A level in maths so I'm secure if that ever comes up :P.

I certainly do! The best books are the ABRSM grades 1-5 Music Theory In Practice books, without a doubt. Here's a link to the grade 1 theory book. The other grades can be found on that website, too. You probably wont need to go into grades 6-8 unless you're really into learning about classical music.

The Beach Boys are incredible. Brian Wilson's vocal style is one that I try to imitate often. That song is pretty sweet too, the bit from 4:09 and 7:34 are my favourite parts. Dat piano.

Jazz piano is fudging awesome. Have you ever heard anything by Vince Guaraldi? He did a lot of the music to accompany the Charlie Brown cartoons. His stuff is incredible. A Charlie Brown Christmas is one of my favourite soundtracks/albums ever.

Here's his absolutely beautiful arrangement of O Tannenbaum. I know it's not Christmas, but it's too good to only listen to during November/December.

I'm practically high all the time. People tell me I have that natural 'high look'. Nah, I don't smoke weed anymore, don't need it, plus I'm trying to get a job and a whole lotta other sh*t that involves drug testing.

I got a highs from my anti-deppressants though. Took em for my anxiety and insomina. From what I hear mary jane is the cure for all of that. Though I actually started get panic attacks after started rolling and smoking blunts. I rather smoke the medical stuff than the sH8t i used to get from my connect. Btw, I from southren cali, so medical shops are all over.

Blah, New York's a weird place. There've been big fights about the medical marijuana thing here, as well. You should've seen my school, it was crazy when they held the meeting or whatever.

Wow, I bet my friends would love to move to Austin. It's illegal here, too, and the cops actually give a damn. Although it's usually the older kids who smoke it, I don't think I've ever seen someone as young as 12 do it. Honestly, I don't think I'd be able to refrain from frowning at the kid.

From what my friends say, it definitely sounds costly. Sounds like there's a lot of money to be made in the dealing business. Is weed legal where you are, just curious? It's not here in NY.