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[20 Aug 2008|10:22pm]

schlake
At this point I think I'm afraid to try sleeping. I guess I need to play WoW until it is time to go to work tomorrow.
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[20 Aug 2008|10:05pm]

schlake
You'd think a victory like that would satisfy the anti-semicolon crowd. But no, they keep worrying that those girly, prissy, hermaphroditic punctuation marks will somehow infect their sturdy prose. If semicolons are masculine enough for Melville and Irving, why should they unsettle Barthelme and Vonnegut? Are today's male writers just more insecure than yesterday's about the manliness of their vocation?

-- http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/08/10/sex_and_the_semicolon/

When I was first hired my current job, an early criticism I had of my work was that I didn't use enough semicolons in my prose.

Another interesting link, not related to semicolons: http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=8867271&nav=menu132_3_8_2
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What I twittered today [20 Aug 2008|11:59pm]

polexa
tweets under the cut )
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Long time, no post! [20 Aug 2008|11:21pm]

elasg
I’ve kept meaning to post, really I have, and have commented on various pages over the last few weeks, but finding time to put together an actual post has proven difficult. Hopefully I won’t regret stealing this afternoon to do this one.

Pictures from ‘My Office’ under the cut – image heavy post! )
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100 pushups [20 Aug 2008|10:28pm]

pegkerr
W1, D2
9, 8, 6, 5 (11)
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suck my fucking clit you pompous cunt [24 Aug 2008|11:26pm]

blossombreeze
[ mood | aggravated ]
[ music | the beatles "come together" ]

FUCK YOU.
I'M ALLOWED TO LIKE JOHN LENNON AS MUCH AS I LIKE YOU STUPID FUCKING DICK.
GO GET STONED WITH YOUR FUCKING FRUITCAKE OF A BEST FRIEND YOU DIRTY CUNT.

needed to get that off my chest.

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Food Blog? [20 Aug 2008|11:19pm]

matrixspaz01011
[ mood | curious ]

I'm thinking of starting a food blog with pictures and recipes of my random kitchen adventures/rambling about tasty vegan things. I know this is very middle aged woman of me, but what can I say? OM NOM NOM is what!

The question is, would any of you be interested in reading it? What about if it wasn't on LJ? I was thinking more of word press or blogspot (or anything else you'd like to recommend).

Thoughts? I'd also need to get much better at food photography and not eating it all before I find the camera.

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Tweets for the day [20 Aug 2008|11:01pm]

bluebuckeye
  • 15:09 Long awful week. I can't wait until its over. #
Because I can never be away from LJ, these updates are automatically shipped by LoudTwitter
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okra [20 Aug 2008|08:38pm]

braemblerose
I made this for dinner tonight, substituting fresh tomatoes for one of the cans.

In a word, yum. Would definitely make again. :)
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4-eared cat [20 Aug 2008|07:43pm]

gryph
check out this cat with 4 ears at CuteOverload.com:

http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/08/begun-the-nuff.html

SO very cute! I would name him Diablo! You'll see why when you check the link!
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but you're so very very very far away [20 Aug 2008|10:35pm]

eryka_s
[ music | some silly punk thing ]

Have I ever told you how awesome it is to have Pilot as a house mate.


Box house 11
the world 0

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Tropic Thunder [20 Aug 2008|09:29pm]

rubygloomrox
[ mood | entertained ]
[ music | Good Charlotte-Grow Up ]

This had one of the best openings to a movie I've seen in awhile. I didn't die laughing through the entire movie, but I did laugh a lot. Also, half of Hollywood had cameos. I won't mention them all and spoil the fun. There were two actors with pretty sizable roles that I hadn't even known were in the movie. I will cut this in case you didn't know, either, and don't plan to look it up ahead of time. )


So yeah. It was entertaining. Definitely worth a look.

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UU and weight acceptance [20 Aug 2008|08:55pm]

sophy
[ mood | restless ]

I spent the majority of my day today seeking out UU mailing lists and web sites and online communities. I've really been wanting/needing more spiritual community in my life, so I decided I needed to do this. I didn't intend to spend the whole day on it, and part of me felt/feels bad for "wasting" the whole day "surfing the web". I've been so productive lately that I guess sitting at the computer all day focusing on one project bothered my OCD. But I have to remember that feeding my spiritual connections and thoughts is important, too, and that this WAS on my list of things to do today and it was right near the top, and so if I didn't get to much else - it's still okay. I prioritize my daily lists for this very reason - so that if I only get to a few things (or even just one thing) at least I've gotten the highest prioritized things or thing done.

I ended up joining two mailing lists, although I'm still waiting for the confirmation emails, and adding about 20 new links to my bookmarks - mostly blogs but also some activism sites.

I happened on a couple of things I wanted to share:

Thing 1. The UUA has taken out an ad in the New York Times addressing the TVUUC shootings and how the UUA has been affected, affirming it's values, etc. I'm going to copy and paste the text for others out there like me who hate having to go to a pdf file to read things:
but first - a cut tag )

I think that says it all, and beautifully.

Thing 2. Is not actually UU related, but I stumbled upon it via a link in a fellow UU's blog.
Better to Be Fat and Fit Than Skinny and Unfit - NYT article admitting that physical health and fitness is not necessarily determined by weight. That, you know, you don't have to be skinny to be fit and that being skinny doesn't necessarily mean you'll BE fit. Fitness =/ thinness! Holy cow! Who would have guessed?!?! :P

The data suggest that half of overweight people and one-third of obese people are “metabolically healthy.” That means that despite their excess pounds, many overweight and obese adults have healthy levels of “good” cholesterol, blood pressure, blood glucose and other risks for heart disease.

At the same time, about one out of four slim people — those who fall into the “healthy” weight range — actually have at least two cardiovascular risk factors typically associated with obesity, the study showed.


Some studies are even showing that overweight people have longer life expectancies than "normal" weight people!

I like that this article mentions that fitness (determined here by ability to walk on a treadmill - so basically the ability to walk/exercise even at fairly low rates) is a far better indicator of health than, say, body mass index.

I like that because I know a lot of overweight people, and some of them, yes, have a lot of weight-related health issues and have trouble with exercising. Others, however, are more physically fit than most of the thinner people I know. I also happen to strongly believe that a lot of the folks with weight-related health issues have the weight issues they do because of the health issues and NOT the other way around. But that's slightly off topic.

So, I'm not saying (and this article is not saying) that all overweight people are healthy and all skinny people are unhealthy. Just that weight in and of itself is not a good indicator of health. Which is something we've lost ALL sight of these days.

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"Let's do the fork in the garbage disposal!" [20 Aug 2008|10:15pm]

zeroenthusiasm
[ mood | okay ]
[ music | Country music on a jukebox. ]

I hate being ugly.


I wish Burgundy would talk to me. I miss her so much it literally hurts me physically.


I want to start doing graffiti again.






Anonymous commenting is available again. Please try to be mean to me or something, because I am bored and sick of never getting comments!




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2 Music Memes, No Rain [20 Aug 2008|09:14pm]

delwyncole
[ mood | irate ]
[ music | Look After You -- The Fray ]

( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

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Been drawing.... [20 Aug 2008|10:18pm]

middesummer
Restoration

Center

A Walk
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[20 Aug 2008|10:19pm]

ngakmafaery
[ mood | awake ]



You Live in the Present



You take things one day at a time.

And it turns out, that's a pretty great way to live.



You aren't consumed by the past, and you're aren't obsessed with the future.

You live in the now, and you enjoy each moment.



While most people don't live in the present enough, make sure you don't live in it too much.

It would be a mistake to forget your past or neglect to plan for the future.

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Nada [20 Aug 2008|09:56pm]

velochicdunord
Came home tonight with intent to Get Stuff Done. Did I? Nada. Something about energy levels relating to currently hosting a life-sucking vampire of a cold. My neighbour, E. dropped off cough syrup, which is supressing the cough nicely. The office child-run will be thankful tomorrow. The cough is scaring me, let alone them.

Bought me some brandywine tomatoes at yesterday's neighbourhood farmer's market. I can has tomato and chicken sandwiches for dinner two nights in a row. Yum, yum!

I'm currently revisiting my punkette Queen West roots - literally. What with the fix-ups and prep for sale, there wasn't budget room for a salon visit. So, I coloured my hair myself... and let's just say that it's decidedly goth; red with purplish overtones. OTOH, my blue eyes pop. Where did I leave my dog collar and Doc Martens? With the current colour, all I need is a tat and I'd be right at home at Ain't Misb'havin.

Lastly, Oliver Stone is releasing _W_, a movie about (spit) Bush 43(/spit) for October 17th. Assuming we don't have an election and I resist my urge to jump in and work for Greens (it's pulling.... and tugging....) and I'm not still ass-deep in GMAT prep, I'm going to be lining up to see this 'un.

Pity it can't be here for TIFF. :( But it will add lots of fuel to the American political campaign. :))))))))
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[20 Aug 2008|10:08pm]

ngakmafaery
[ mood | awake ]

Your result for The Godzilla Personality Test!...

Biollante: Killer Plant!!

Science+Love+Madness=Biollante


Bad News: You're a flower monster....plain and simple. You've been created by mixing Godzilla genes, little girl genes, and a rose bush. Not the coolest of creations, is it?


Good News: You almost ATE Godzilla. That's right. So even though you're a sissy flower monster, noone is going to call you that to your face, because you're big, you're mean, and you are one cool looking bitch. I mean look at that picture!

Take The Godzilla Personality Test! at HelloQuizzy

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Epitaph. [20 Aug 2008|03:18pm]

zeroenthusiasm
[ mood | contemplative ]
[ music | Some country music on the jukebox. ]

Over the past couple of months, parts of me have been completely destroyed, to the point that a huge portion of my emotions are like dead nerve endings and the rest of me are open wounds I'll never successfully recover from.


Just to reiterate, here's my current life situation:
- My girlfriend of three years left me three days before our three-year anniversary. Within less than a week, she fooled around with a sixteen-year-old Mexican with a shitstache, hair as long as hers, and a Chiodos hoodie. After that, she fooled around with her 'best friend' Jake who is a goofy, emotionless, opinionless Mormon womanizer, after weeks of denying having any feelings for him. After lying to me for months, I found out about everything. I took the four-hour drive to drop her off at her college HEOP program in Canton, where she kissed me. We had been sleeping together (not sexually) for over a week before then, and I thought everything was going to be okay. We talked on the phone every night the first two weeks she was away. Within a few days of her being there, we both mutually discusses what we had to change and agreed we'd go back out and really try hard to make things work. She said she was still in love with me and wanted me to move to Canton so we could be close to each other. After two weeks, she started acting weird, distant, and treating me horribly again. Turns out, while I was four hours away thinking I had the girl I love back all to myself, she was actually just crushing on her Muslim math tutor who has hair as long as hers and near nothing in common with her. They are now dating, after Burgundy came home on August 5th and broke up with me a few days later, telling me she feels nothing for me anymore and that there was nothing I can do about it.
- The band I put my all into over the past three years broke up, with everyone in the band but Trevor against me, because apparently everyone would rather pursue banal, life-deflating college ambitions than doing something fun, free, and passionate, since touring in an unsigned experimental band just isn't financially comfortable enough for them.
- My best friend of the past few months, Trevor, moved to California on Sunday. I was originally supposed to go with him and we were both supposed to play in iamerror, but because Burgundy asked me back out, I backed out of the plans and lost my opporunity to leave with him a few days ago.
- My friend and roommate since February, Jason Edge, moved out in the middle of the night on the last day of July and hasn't spoken to me since. I tried leaving him MySpace comments, mostly to no avail, and it doesn't look like I'll ever be invited over to his new apartment, which is right around the corner from me and four times the amount of rent I was asking him when he was staying with me.
- My other friends, Allen and Solange, both hang out with Burgundy, which leaves me in an awkward position of never really wanting to be around them due to an immature feeling of betrayal and envy. Allen has decided to start talking to some of mine (and his) enemies out of pure desperation and that makes me want to see him even less. Solange played a huge role in how much Burgundy has changed and treated me over the past couple of months.
- My family does not exist. My mother is a manic-depressive, delusional alcoholic. My father is a manic-depressive pushover crack user. I will never be able to reply on them or trust them in any situation, and it kills me inside.
- One remaining friend lives in Altamont. Two remaining friends live in Cohoes. Two remaining friends live in Albany. One remaining friend has a child to take care of. Some other people I like live in other states, like Pennsylvania or Kansas or New York City.
- Oh, yeah: I'm still fat, ugly, and uninteresting. Girls are not attracted to me and I'll probably never experience an affectionate or sexual moment with another girl for the rest of my life.


I don't know what to do with myself. I want to run, but there's nowhere to run.

I just want Burgundy and I to be friends, if that's all we can be. But she hates my guts apparently, and I have no fucking clue why, since I haven't done anything to her other than endure the torment of her moving on from me.

I want to be in a band that tours forever and doesn't worry about money.

I want friends who will care about me and incite laughter and fun into my internal organs.

I want petite scene girls with bold rimmed glasses, pigtails, pale skin, emaciated bodies, and freckles to be attracted to me.

I want to turn myself inside out so the beauty on the inside is all that's visible.

I want to live on the streets and trainhop to new, exciting, beautiful places that are far from this horrible city filled with symbols for either bad times or good times that will never be had again.




I can't stop dreaming about Burgundy and I kissing every night. I wish she never existed just so this part of her leaving me didn't have to happen.





I'm moving to California in six to seven months.

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