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Built a cow nest. -translation- prepped a room for Cookie's imminent calf-birthing. She's due on the 6th and she's HUGE
In doing this reaffirmed that one of my skills is spreading shavings with a broom. It's resume-worthy, I tell ya. Watched Repo the Genetic Opera -translation- drooled over costumes in a movie where goths/sluts stole organs and got high while singing.
Watched with ex-boyfriend who wants to commission a coat from the movie. I REALLY want to make it. Got my innards scanned by a giant radioactive donut -translation- got an abdominal cat scan. It's nifty to see a photo of your insides. Going in the machine made me feel like han solo. However, I did not emerge in carbonite. The only downside was having to drink a vanilla and aspartame barium "shake" It's essentially drinking white paint. I tried the berry flavor at first, but it was worse. Had a conversation with someone whose life pattern is exceptionally foreign to me. I'd never talked to an ex-alcoholic ex-drug addict abused woman who has the child of her best friend and a different fiance both of which had been or were in jail. She totally loves her children. It's intriguing meeting someone who has lived in the same country as me, and whose life was so vastly foreign, who made such interesting decisions. I really don't want to open the bottle of classism and such, and am not looking for comments along those lines, because I haven't processed this experience yet. This weekend should be busy and full of awesome.
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So I have housing now. I wasn't even given a this one or this one, they just shoved me in a mod. At least it's a single, and it's in enfield. I don't know if it's good or shitty and I vaguely have heard of the people, but I'm upset that I didn't even get a veto, just was informed. We'll see how it goes. I should be used to dysfunctionality by now, living in a city where water and power only come occaisionally and transport involves fitting 24 people in an nine person van. But goddamit, this is from a place with drinkable water and indoor heating! Whimper whine. On the bright side I'm in bangkok and saw a pet squirrel in a squirrel dress. I did not even know squirrel dresses existed.
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- Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than Linnaea.
- More people are killed by Linnaea each year than die in aeroplane accidents.
- If you blow out all the candles on Linnaea with one breath, your wish will come true!
- Linnaea can pollinate up to six times more efficiently than the honeybee.
- The first American zoo was built in 1794, and contained only Linnaea.
- If you lie on your back with your legs stretched it is impossible to sink in Linnaea.
- Apples are covered with a thin layer of Linnaea.
- Some hotels in Las Vegas have Linnaea floating in their swimming pools!
- Two thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in Linnaea.
- Only 55 percent of Americans know that the sun is made of Linnaea.
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So I have not posted in a long time, and I figured I probably should. I am working at a barn that teaches riding to troubled youth. This has resulted in me falling in love with a Clydesdale named Alice. She is huge and gorgeous and I REALLY want to ride her. I'm learning horse behavior and falling more in love with them. I think it's easier to like an animal when you can listen and watch it and understand what it's saying sometimes. My favorite sound is whickering, which means they are pleased or excited about something. It's a pleasure sound. My other job is an on call waitress at a Nepali restaurant, which is fabulous for hearing Nepali often. I can't understand sentences yet, but I can say some, and I can pick out words from sentences. Thapa, the host, has been giving me some words of vocab, a little at a time. The glass goes on the left- dubri, and the napkin goes on the right, dhanni. There's some funny interactions, when I am confused, but they are a really nice family and I don't think they're making fun of me too much. (Although I hear vidyarthi, foreigner, often. I don't know if they're talking about me or about the customers, but since I also hear Nepali, often, I think they're not using it to refer to themselves. I also get dinner, which is uniformly fabulous. The shrimp chili being cooked, and that's being cooked like 10 ft away from the door, makes my eyes water when I come in. I also can now make raita, lassi, and some alcoholic drinks. My last note of interest is after having a fabulous sushi dinner with AJ and Jason, I drove home, and like 3 min from my house fell asleep and drove the car into a tree. It was an experience. I was totally unscathed. The car was not. In the end, I think we're getting more for it from insurance than we would have if we tried to sell ti working, but now our insurance will go up and I now have a driving record and we have to get another car. Sigh.
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Wow. Today has been one of those days where I fell pretty happy about how it went and wonder why the hell I feel that way. So, so far today I have -crashed my ipod -got an internship app submitted -learned to braise (like really hot more permanent soldering) -put the oxyacetalene torch in the jar of flux thinking it was what I was supposed to do (I blame galvanized steel fumes entirely- I got really silly too. Ah, brain cells. How I loved you....) -I understand posting on a horse more or less, mas o menos, plus ou moins, soko soko. -I was mean to the horse accidentally. Apparently horses are different. You must go back to the least amount of pressure/kicking/pulling every time, even if it didn't work the time before. I get so confused sometimes. I think the horse is smarter than I am. Whatever happens, it is always my fault, not the horse's. Maybe it's true but I think he has some fault too. Maybe I told him the wrong thing. I don't think I ever told him to jerk the reins out of my hands. Brain not understanding. I think I need to understand horse body language. It made a world of difference once I knew dog body language. Sigh... -Today's weather was absolutely fabulous -I got my Amtrak tickets- by the way does anyone know the way to the train station? -Finished Full Metal ALchemist and realized I want this uniform more than ever. The movie didn't entirely make sense, though... -Am amused with life and hoping Kelsey can work magic on my ipod...why does this scene from aniyoko with burning candles and pentagrams come to mind?
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I think being a morning person makes you 10% more evil. Owen and I were going to go to aikido this morning. He said to bang on his door or something if he wasn't there. Wasn't there. So....as I didn't feel like finding out if his mod was in fact even open, I called his cell phone three times in a row. heh. I know he woke up because he turned it off, as I tried the fourth time, probably to go back to sleep. I've already been up for two hours because of the farm. Heh. I'm kinda gleeful about waking people up in evil ways. You should see what I do to my brother....I believe singing was involved, then yanking the covers off and flashing the lights. I love being evil.
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By accident, I found out that if you cook pancakes by covering the pan and cooking the top by steam, you get a sort of crumpet/cakey effect that when spread with nutella is dazzling. This experiment must be repeated. Also, this works when you have no oil and so the pancakes will stick to the pan anyway, but this cooks the top which was the situation I was in. So, I'm going to try it again soon.
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It is really cold outside with the windchill. I'm waffling between love for it and discomfort. At any rate I'm very impressed with it. In fact I'd prefer global cooling to global warming. Just saying...
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What colour are your dreams? (10 results, beautiful answers and anime pics)
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Literary Journalism is done. One down, three to go.
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Tired but good day. Didn't do much but hung out with some first year geeks who were awesome albeit even more geeky than me, and life was good. Had to get up too early, hauled a bunch of hay around, saw tobin who was positively glowing. I think he had an amazing summer working here. Saw a program called ical from molly, practiced kata, hugged many people met a stunning girl named kiki, had ice cream, and am nervous about finding things to do all day. Watched anime, many more anime geeks coming in, life is good, i can hear crickets goodnight. |
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OMG GREAT BIG SEA CONCERTS ROCK! Brilliant quotes: Hey Mr. Alan-man show me your banana, I want to go to Smith college. I'll say anything. I..am...a....lesbian. And I'll knock on her window..and I have perfectly good intentions, just turn on the tivo, watch Law and Order, spoon on the couch, no forking, just spooning. I'm a lesbian, I'm harmless. Bob's a woman. We have decided that all other bands suck. Beatles, not so good, Michael Jackson, good dancing, but I wouldn't take him to the family picnic. ABBA? They would have been better with a Bob-woman. And we sang with them, sing alongs, and a whole theatre full of seats full of standing jumping people, and the most amazing light show with the music ever. I know because I met Orli's roommate who is a light designer and knows these things. I <3 Orli and her roommate, (is her name lettie?) She has a nightcrawler action figure in her car. And I'm sitting in my room, sipping illicit cider from Ireland, feeling oh-so-happy and I sat next to a librarian and met some scottish people in a band and it was awesome. The dog experiment went well, too and I got to sit in the Haymarket cafe which is cute with hip baristas who pretend that you don't exist like its their job. It's a balance. They serve you, but minimize interaction and don't look at you much, and i finished my book for class. And the girl I was working with who was awesome told me that everything in life is easy. Which is an interesting philosophy, but an interesting attitude to take. Just go for it, it isn't as hard as it seems. Must think about that. Tired and gloriously happy and content. It's good to just get away from campus, hell get away from life for a little while and lose yourself in your thoughts and the music. Beautiful Sea of No Cares and they ended in un-miked a cappella, which I don't remember them doing before and I loved it. Apparently Sean's living room has a bunch of couches and pillows all over the floor and several beagles that will come up and say hi.
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Hmmm. Spent much of today outside which was lovely, taught Amy some of the bokken and jo kata which just showed once more how you learn so much through teaching, saw Howl's Moving Castle and My Neighbor Totoro which I love, got chocolate bunny shaped graham crackers from DealsnSteals. It was so fun fooling around in NoHo with Jerusha, Tom, and Flarnie. May or may not go to the con tomorrow. Worked out some details of the game and it's going to be awesome. Everone should come play, it's April 22nd, theatrical roleplaying in amzing costumes and lots of fun for all. And now I'm really tired and going to sleep. And Peter- kudos on the rice crackers at the Miyazaki marathon. For once they didn't taste strongly of fish. Japanese snacks tend to do that... |
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Naea hates being on planes. But Josh was on the connecting flight which made it better. Now on my hall, tying up loose ends, smiling at my new chocolate lab container, and listening to music after downloading all my stress into a angsty word document. Crows are cool. Okay. Need to do my work for tomorrow and figure things out. Was in a wierd mood at dinner. They didn't have tofu or feta cheese to put in salad. :( You know what? I fucking love having my own little dorm hole to go hide in whenever I need to be somewhat away from people. This is why dogs like kennels. They're cozy. All the stress I built up this week is melting off. Maybe I'll hide here for a long time. Now only if it were slightly warmer...Silly Dakin heaters.
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Have you noticed there are robins everywhere? 'Cause I have. I've been chasing them ^-^ |
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Aikido was fucking amazing tonight. I love Julia-sensei. She likes to play with it, just like me and she also said the same thing I think about aikido. We know how to hurt people, but we don't want to, so we choose a gentler way. Then I got to practice with a hakama and it was so cool. You could feel that it was just enough force to make you fall, but not any more and it was a pleasure to fall. I was thinking, this is why I practice aikido- to find and develop that same sense and inner strength. This is why I love aikido. Heh. I love these moments. I admire some sempai so much. Anyhoo, just loveliness. And smiles. |
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So I experienced Geek discrimination for the first time in class today. I was trying to explain how an idea about Tibetan monks traveling amazing distances is just like the European myth of seven league boots. This professor saw me boffing, and so his response to my, "It's like those seven league boots" was "Is that some Dungeons and Dragons thing?" in a dismissive tone. GROWL! It's as if he thought all I was capable of was geek references, not mythology. Luckily the rest of the class chipped in with, no, it's a European myth. And just because he saw me boffing should no way indicate that I play D&D. I have only played at deathfest and know little about it, but from one sighting of boffing he decided that I was obviously geeky beneath contempt. Fine. Be that way. Next time the projector won't work, I won't make it work, like I have had to every single screening in the ELH. Bet you appreciated my geekyness then. It's wierd. I got a glimpse of how minorities might feel. I think I'll lay off harassing Kerey, even though he brings it up every time.
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I'm feeling writerly tonight so bear with me. Peter Gabriel reminds me of home and sorrow. I used to do interpretive dance to it. I would imagine what the music looked like, and would act it out, the imaages that came to mind.I need to look upon my childhood with kindness, not as a series of mistakes, but the many versions of who I was and am becoming. Like the flawed but cute pottery you make when you are small.
I can feel my escvapism and laziness around me like a cloak, a relustance to move, and a desire not to know, not to feel. I can feel the inexplicable sadness lurking underneath my happiness or perceived happiness just waiting to emerge. I refuse to let it. And it's the same feeling of loss, the ides of March and my old dog's birthday, but he's not in cuddleable form anymore. A bit more than a year since his death and it still brings tears to my eyes. You never stop feeling the sadness of loss, you just get used to it, and don't notice. I've been wondering if my allergy medicine is losing its efficacy, as my nose seems to be permanently clogged. Or maybe its the mold I recently found in my room. So beautiful today, and I wished for a kite. I've been wondering lately and trying out seeing if I can do the things that bring me joy, or I just like in class. Norweigan guilt syndrome- if you enjoy it, you're not working hard enough or you're sinning.Been crocheting lately. Been worrying about what Saga food is doing to me. Been smiling. Been doing Kanji. Been doing this staying alive business. Realized one of the fundamental things about Christianity that frustates me is that God is always seen as the other, a separate entity, a paternal entity, when I really see God as the universal life force, the unifying life force, the conglomerate opf spirit we all return to and are sent out from to learn more about our surroundings. Like cells in a body, our individual souls are part of something greater, and yet entities in their own right. Sometimes it's easier to think of God as separate, so you can talk to him/it/them/whatever/her. But I think you can have a conversation with god even as it is and is not you. I guess prayer is like conversation with God. I think I need to engage in a conversation and be a better listener. |
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Mmm. Lovely worship service tonight, opportunity for Salamander hunting came my way, Blackpool at BBC was horrible so I left and I talked to my mommy and now I'm going to have green tea and maybe dark chocolate and let the antioxidants be yummy. I noticed the circles we walk in change according to our activities and our lives are shaped by the paths we trod. Going one way I would see things that I would not if I went another. Green tea and endless possibilitea...Little red apple houses with mice. Mrann The other day like a scene from a movie a day where time stopped, where life just took a hiatus and the people did not come back. They were all gone, but their secnt and their traces the paths they trod still hung in the air, and it was intoxicating. |
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| You Are 32% Evil | 
A bit of evil lurks in your heart, but you hide it well.
In some ways, you are the most dangerous kind of evil. |
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