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| The Bike we might buy... |
[October 11, 2008 @ 12:38pm] |
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| I think knew that I might. |
[October 11, 2008 @ 6:19pm] |
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woah what a time we've been having!
went on this chocolate tour of Paris. This woman leads you around and talks to you about the history of chocolate in Paris. Pretty interesting, but the tastings were the best part. Seriously, the best chocolate I've ever had.
Went to Notre Dame after that. I must say that I was a little dissapointed with it. The church itself isn't all that interesting. Crazy beautiful, but not all that exciting.
The next day we spent literally the entire day inside the Louvre. I seriously underestimated how lond it would take to see everything. Honestly in the seven hours of wandering around I only saw 3/4 of it. and some of the parts I did see, I only breezed by. Of course saw the Venus De Milo, the Michelangelos, and the Mona Lisa. Took lots of pictures.
Today we went to this market by Sacre Couer. It was very strange. The cieling of the church had this rediculous painting of all the poeples of the world coming together and praying to Jesus. Including the Indians, which I thought was dumb. I did pick up a present for Harrison there. Dumb face.
We found the Moulin Rouge. Not much to see, but I took a picture anyways.
Also saw the arc de triomphe today. It was interesting. About half the amount of stairs as the Eiffel Tower, for which I was thankful.
wandered around for the rest of the time, and now I'm in a random internet cafe.
Coolbeans.
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| Three down, 47 to go |
[October 11, 2008 @ 11:08am] |
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Connecticut has ruled that GBLT couples have the right to marry. Huzzah! That means that Massachusetts, California, and Connecticut now provide equal marriage rights to all of their citizens.
Of course, California now has Prop 8 on this ballot this election. In an interesting bit of hewing to philosophy, there are actually some Republicans (they must be True Repbulicans) fighting this proposition on the “principles of limited government, personal responsibility, and individual liberty”. Wow! Really! Standing up for what your party truly represents instead of cowing to the neocons? Astounding! And refreshing.
Now, if we could just get the rest of the country to pull their Puritanical heads out of their collective asses, we might get somewhere.
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| Wow, I really spamming my journal today... |
[October 11, 2008 @ 3:05pm] |
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I'm sorry. I guess you can tell I'm bored!
Anyway, I'm listening to Tori's Little Earthquakes album at the moment, which is probably one of my all-time top five albums. I love it that much. There's not a bad song on it, and it's one of those albums I love now as much as I did when I first heard it.
My other favourite albums would probably be Sarah McLachlan's Surfacing, Marc Broussard's Carenco, Tom Baxter's Feather & Stone, Kendall Payne's Jordan's Sister and Grey Eye Glances' Eventide.
So what are your favourite albums? I don't necessarily mean the albums that have your favourite songs on or albums where half the tracks are killer and the rest are filler, but the album where you honestly love every song and you can sit quite happily and listen to the whole thing, and then go back to the beginning and start again.
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Happy Birthday ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) stir_of_echoes |
[October 11, 2008 @ 3:00pm] |
I'd like to wish a lovely generous lady the best of days,
have a really good day Jules and many thanks for all you give to us :))
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| Daytona...? |
[October 11, 2008 @ 9:57am] |
We are probably headed to Daytona to see some motorcycle shops. Tomorrow is Universal... hopefully.
Included is a picture of the frog legs from dinner last night. Never again.
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| 24 CB icons and 19 SPN icons ("oldies") |
[October 11, 2008 @ 1:02pm] |
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As usual: gen, no warnings, no spoilers for unaired eps
43 icons
01 - 12: Rescue Dawn (Bale)
13 - 24: Christian Bale
25 - 43: Supernatural 2.05 and 2.08 (some "oldies")
Please pay attention to the rules at the end of this entry.
( Icons, icons, icons... )
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| Excuse me whilst I sit here and cry... |
[October 11, 2008 @ 1:32pm] |
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I'm reading a book about the Titanic at the moment, and I just had to put it down and walk away for a moment, it's so upsetting. I just got to the part where they're starting to put the women and children into the lifeboats, and the descriptions of wives saying goodbye to their husbands, mothers saying goodbye to their sons, newly-weds being parted from their husbands of only a few weeks just got me crying.
I don't know we're all still fascinated by the story of the Titanic so much. I mean, nearly a hundred years on, and there's still an entire publishing industry devoted to books on almost every aspect of the ship, the movie is still the biggest-selling film of all-time, it's still bigs news when survivors of the disaster (most of whom were only babies at the time and therefore can't remember it all - and I think there's only one left now) die. Perhaps it's the overwhelming tragedy of it, and the irony too. This chap says it right at the beginning of the book: "Rarely does a tale so completely combine the elements of tragedy, drama, morality play, and social statement. Few events sum up their times as decisively as the loss of the Titanic..."
It's just so sad. All those people, betrayed to their deaths by their own society's blinkered hubristic belief in the infalliability of man's progress. The 'unsinkable ship'...
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