[10 Oct 2008|11:55pm] myquaintsecrets CONNECTED 3.5/5 stars post comment

past tired [10 Oct 2008|11:53pm] bad_rachel my head is pounding with little neon lights and time is ticking on i can't get anything done and I can't sleep at night a moon this bright, i'd rather sleep in the sun. fuck lying here with my eyes open wide so much more to see in sleep i don't need fuck quiet and lazy and just sliding by i've got things that i crave, hungers to feed. post comment

Today, [10 Oct 2008|11:28pm] japanesecase [ mood | cheerful ] [ music | electric president ] Was neat. Just about time too. post comment

Tweets for Today [10 Oct 2008|08:09pm] misscedar 08:55 I just closed my cat in between the doors! She was there for almost 5 min, she started climbing up the metal screen door and I heard her! # 10:52 Just finished my Frank Zappa portrait for class. # 11:27 Loving this sudden cool down in weather...unfortunately another Santa Ana is coming this weekend. # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter post comment

I'm drunk and not in love [11 Oct 2008|04:30am] nosundays [ mood | enthralled ] [ music | Coca & Villa - La Noche ] last weekend I kissed a guy from my school and we were on a dance floor for two hours, and I continued to kiss him even when he did something stupid, because I felt so free. later on when we went outside, he asked me if there is something serious between us, but I laughed and said there would not be anything between us because we are so different and he held my hand and wished to know if he could kiss, and I did not understand his question and he repeated can I kiss you and I was stupefied, because no one had asked that before and we kissed and it was the first time ever when I felt that kissing actually meant something more than nothing, it was not only tongues connecting with each other, it was minds meeting in the Sahara desert and there was no one else. an Indian guy walked pass us and told us that 'wow guys, you had a roller coaster ride on the dance floor and we cracked up, because so much had happened and neither of us exactly remembered what had happened. later on I kissed Ragnhild, a girl from Norway and it felt amazing, fireworks exploded in our mouths and Johannesburg was perfect, more than perfect if possible and I was astonished by the magic of Johannesburg.l last Saturday was too eventful, I guess. I loved every single moment of that night, I think I am suppose to regret something, but I could not be bothered. everyone goes through a rough period, do not they now? yesterday I kissed Ana again, and she was complaining about that today and I can't stand that. I've been drinking last four, five hours, breaking major rules of the school and if they had caught me, they would expel me as soon as possible. today I talked with Alison, I really love her, and I am really amazed by her, there is so much same about her that I'm simply stupefied by the fact that there can be a person who has gone through the same faces as I have. Sigrunn had sex with Rafael in the shower, but other than that, nothing special happened this night. tomorrow is leaver's inhouse party which mean I'm leaving this campus in a month and two weeks. I really can't believe it. I should write a story. the sun will rise soon. the rest of Johannesburg photos. I hope you will enjoy them as much as I did. I loved Johannesburg. the city is perfect. I guess Johannesburg is an ugly duckling. I'm sad for that. ( more and more ) post comment

listen. [11 Oct 2008|10:21am] cultprairie You know you're absolutely in love with your music when you can't bear to tear yourself away from your computer to cook breakfast solely because there's no song less worthy to not listen to. Did that just make sense?  It makes me feel at peace, this music. I haven't ran in a good 4 days, I'm getting stagnant. But the weather is sweltering hot! PROJ . HOT . BOD is still occurring (:   post comment

"All I'm Losing Is me" [10 Oct 2008|06:40pm] melissaaa_who Shit's blurred, I have no fucking idea about anything these days. The most unusual circumstance up to date. This can't even be described as a "rut". Grim as fuck. post comment

[11 Oct 2008|09:34am] boomflower HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIS!!!! ♥ post comment

Drawing Class: Portraits [10 Oct 2008|03:12pm] misscedar Originally published at Girl Wanders. You can comment here or there. This week in my drawing class we started working on portraits. My teacher printed out a bunch of images of “heroes” and we were allowed to choose from the selection. I chose Frank Zappa. 4 comments|post comment

[10 Oct 2008|10:49pm] 3197559 some illustration i have been enjoying. post comment

obedient sons and daughters [10 Oct 2008|10:44pm] 3197559 post comment

Dear you, [10 Oct 2008|05:01pm] pixieteeth I've been getting some PM's and reading a few comments/entries from my former LJ friends regarding why I took them off my f-list. Well, it's because I only wanted to allow a small group of people I have grown particularly close to access to my private thoughts here. It isn't anything personal toward anyone, I still like all of you very much! I have not removed anyone from my myspace, twitter, facebook, or AIM buddy list. My screen name is the fox empress. I post often at my communities herheartinabox</lj>  & illusoree</lj> . My email is twinklebat@gmail.com. I'm super flattered that you would miss reading my journal so much. Thankyou! If for some reason you feel I should really add you back, or if you have something you want to let me know, please comment here.  Brytnee Fae 7 comments|post comment

Л. ван Бетховен и П.И. Чайковский [10 Oct 2008|11:48pm] difficult_peach ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) 1 comment|post comment

hello friday, how are you? [10 Oct 2008|11:06am] bulk_candy [ mood | geeky ] [ music | the raveonettes ] i have a casual date tonight that i'm secretly very very excited about.   1 comment|post comment

plane in t minus five hours [10 Oct 2008|01:47pm] jillard autumn: fall hard and get up again. post comment

[10 Oct 2008|07:38pm] siluetanegra good-looking Nobel! and french! M.Le Clézio is 68 years old and still attractive... and talking about Nobel prizes... these couple is my favourite! Watson and Crick...classy post comment

Dirty Thirties and the Great Depression [10 Oct 2008|12:09pm] scottferry [ mood | contemplative ] [ music | Death in June ] The Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl, or the dirty thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 (in some areas until 1940), caused by severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation or other techniques to prevent erosion. It was largely a man-made disaster caused by an abnormally severe drought combined with the deep plowing of the virgin topsoil of the Great Plains, which killed the natural grasses. Such grasses normally kept the soil in place and moisture trapped, even during periods of drought and high winds. During the drought of the 1930s, with the grasses destroyed, the soil dried, turned to dust, and blew away eastwards and southwards in large dark clouds. At times the clouds blackened the sky, reaching all the way to East Coast cities such as New York and Washington, D.C. Much of the soil ended up deposited in the Atlantic Ocean. The Dust Bowl affected 100,000,000 acres (400,000 km2), centered on the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, and adjacent parts of New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas. The storms of the Dust Bowl were given names such as Black Blizzard and Black Roller because visibility was reduced to a few feet (around a meter). The Dust Bowl was an ecological and human disaster. It was caused by misuse of land and years of sustained drought. Millions of acres (hectares) of farmland became useless, and hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes. Degradation of dry lands claimed peoples' cultural heritage and livelihoods. Hundreds of thousands of families from the Dust Bowl (often known as "Okies", since so many came from Oklahoma) traveled to California and other states, where they found conditions little better than those they had left. Owning no land, many traveled from farm to farm picking fruit and other crops at starvation wages. John Steinbeck later wrote the classic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath and also Of Mice and Men about such people. http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_02.html The Great Depression The Great Depression was a worldwide economic downturn starting in most places in 1929 and ending at different times in the 1930s or early 1940s for different countries. It was the largest and most important economic depression in modern history, and is used in the 21st century as a benchmark on how far the world's economy can fall. The Great Depression originated in the United States; historians most often use as a starting date the stock market crash on October 29, 1929, known as Black Tuesday. The end of the depression in the U.S. is associated with the onset of the war economy of World War II, beginning around 1939. The depression had devastating effects both in the developed and developing world. International trade was deeply affected, as were personal incomes, tax revenues, prices, and profits. Cities all around the world were hit hard, especially those dependent on heavy industry. Construction was virtually halted in many countries. Farming and rural areas suffered as crop prices fell by 40 to 60 percent. Facing plummeting demand with few alternate sources of jobs, areas dependent on primary sector industries such as farming, mining and logging suffered the most. Even shortly after the Wall Street Crash of 1929, optimism persisted. John D. Rockefeller said that "These are days when many are discouraged. In the 93 years of my life, depressions have come and gone. Prosperity has always returned and will again." The Great Depression ended at different times in different countries; for subsequent history see Home front during World War II. The majority of countries set up relief programs, and most underwent some sort of political upheaval, pushing them to the left or right. In some states, the desperate citizens turned toward nationalist demagogues - the most infamous being Adolf Hitler - setting the stage for World War II in 1939. The Great Depression was not a sudden total collapse. The stock market turned upward in early 1930, returning to early 1929 levels by April, though still almost 30 percent below the peak of September 1929. Together, government and business actually spent more in the first half of 1930 than in the corresponding period of the previous year. But consumers, many of whom had suffered severe losses in the stock market the previous year, cut back their expenditures by ten percent, and a severe drought ravaged the agricultural heartland of the USA beginning in the northern summer of 1930.   http://ca.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761584403/great_depression_in_the_united_states.html http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/scripts/projects/CH/animCH.php?tourID=GE_P4_1_EN&Lang=1&type=flash post comment

i am a girl...oops. [10 Oct 2008|12:28pm] butiamtheocean ( i mean, you may think it's kinda gross. ) post comment

[10 Oct 2008|11:23am] franticjoy [ mood | happy ] [ music | "I Want You", Bob Dylan ] I have two moments each day that are wonderful: 1.  Waking up.  Two days out of the week we wake up together and burrow into the covers to grumble about how much we don't want to get out of the warm bed.  I like to think of our bed as a little island of relaxation, so it is very hard to leave it.  Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, Tom leaves first, and wakes me up before he go-gos with lots and lots of kissing.  Saturday I do the same to him, and Sunday we are lazy bums.  But this is always the best part of my day because Tom gives the best hugs in the world. 2.  Breakfast.  I like to draw my breakfast out as long as possible, drinking my steaming tea and watching the world out the window.  I especially love it on days when it's a little chilly and I'm nice and cozy in my pajamas.  This week is not chilly, though, so I just have to be satisfied that it's 70 degrees out and beautiful. Other happy things: - I have a 103% average in French and, as far as I can tell, an A+ in the other classes at the midterm break. - Work has been unusually pleasant this week because the bosses are gone.  Due to the current financial situation of the universe (poor Iceland!), they have been frantic with worry, and for them that translates to being intolerable to their employees.  Shit rolls downhill, etc., etc. -  Party this weekend! -  Between school, work, and preparing for the party, I've completely forgotten that Sunday is my birthday!  Maybe that's a good thing since, you know, there's the curse and all that. -  The weekend after that is Mikken's Halloween/Birthday party.  The Turkey and I are going as Dorothy and the Scarecrow.  I can't wait! -  Two weeks after that is the wedding of mums and Ed, and the Turkey and I will be flying out to Arizona for the weekend. -  I think I will be able to fly out to Texas to visit my brother before he leaves for Iraq in December.  This means I also get to see Mary and the Cocopuff! So things are going well right now, although until today I haven't really stopped to notice because I've been in stress-mode.  Roses, here I come to sniff you. post comment

spontaneous sober dance party [10 Oct 2008|12:33am] jillard there is a house over there we call "the boys'" there is our house, they call it "the girls'" some nights things work out and there is no planning but there is dancing and sampling of white wine and dancing. and hugging and remembering we were all in this since freshman year and it feels good post comment

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