ticklethepear @ 7:27am: some parts of my current job I will definitely miss
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cock_and_logic @ 4:16am: WUT???

I was reading TH_Secrets, go to click on a response and get this....

Error

Journal has been deleted. If you are th_secrets, you have a period of 30 days to decide to undelete your journal.

Clicked again. Same deal. Huh?

blue_hell @ 11:27am: http://demo.fb.se/e/girlpower/retouch/retouch/index.html

traag @ 3:56am: raped in the face
Sometimes I feel like I'm drifting in space.
I think my heart-soul is falling from grace.
Therapy has taken me to a better place.
So why do I feel
Why do I feel
Why do I feel like I've been raped in the face?

Maybe it's buried emotions.
Maybe the wrong medication.
I simply go through the motions.
They say I need a vacation.

I really do feel like a sexual victim with dark memories
Of a rigid dictum.

This means "I love you," he murmured.
"This will be our little secret.
You'll wind up horribly murdered,
If you should dare not to keep it."

I know the topic of rape isn't nice.
Don't bring it up when you're breaking the ice.
Is that why you are so quick to decline
To hear this oral fixation of mine?

Why, it spins like a wheel
As I make this appeal.
If I'm lost then I'll squeal.
It's a pretty raw deal
When they force you to kneel.
Holy fuck it's so real!
When you've really been
Raped in the face.

foxsyd @ 6:29pm: I think... enjoying the tease way too much...
lucky_star79 just pointed this out to me:

thatsevenbetter @ 2:33am: Dear friends,

I did a f-list cut, those who were cut fall for the most part fall into one of three categories, they either never post and I don't know they exist in the LJ world(if you're still lurking around and not posting sorry :P), I feel that these people have no interest in being a part of my life anymore, or I just don't feel a connection therefore I felt uncomfortable having you read my journal. This is not myspace and I am not here to win the most-friends award, so I want the people I let in to be people that there is something *there* with. ya know?

Sorry if I offended anyone, and if I did, please talk to me about it because it is not my intention. Whatever I might say I never REALLY do it to offend or hurt people.

<3 out to all

yaoiboi69 @ 1:28am: ( Go back an entry and give me sympathy. Here, I bribe you with a meme. Trust me, it's amusing. Of course it is, I filled it out! )

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nisie @ 12:28am: Rachael Ray Corn Porn - HOT!

midnight21 @ 11:08pm: Revelations prophecy coming true
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7651981.stm

So it has begun. The wipeout of 1/3rd of the world's species. Another thing that is caused by a combination of both man and God. Along with signs in the political system, these are all very concrete and direct signs that Jesus is coming soon and God will shortly pour his anger upon the entire planet. I know that I definitely don't need anymore proof that Jesus and God exists. I'm a pretty firm believer at this point. It's just a matter of developing full trust and hang on until things follow through and beyond that point. And being patient for as long as I can.

Only one question remains:
Who is the antichrist? The mark of the beast is already here. The veri chip being the digital angel my ass. And wasn't it created in the United States? That means he might be dwelling in this nation among us, rising to power... I still have an awful gut feeling that something's very wrong about this particular election. It's so powerful that I'm not even going to bother voting either candidate. Obama's a tool and maybe a sacrificial lamb from what I've seen in my dreams and McCain is an overpowering hothead. Palin... no comment. Pretty scary how eerily correct that bible is... especially in the final chapter.

I wonder... what will the next four years be like? How would our lives grow during that time? What kind of changes are in store for my friends and others? How would I change? Where would I be? Will the next four years bring good things? Or bad? or perhaps a mixture of both?

Fascinating to wonder and dream, and my brain has been wandering around a lot lately. It needs to shut up.

marrael @ 11:55am: A quick one
Someone needs to write a Dharma/meditation book about how to maintain equanimity in the face of renovation disasters.

yaoiboi69 @ 10:46pm: Mold DDDDDD:
Weekly thoughts on Dancing with the Stars to come later, as I'm sure you are all eagerly awaiting them, but this, I fear is a more pressing and less sarcastic matter.

So my air conditioning has been on the fritz for, well, months. After I left it on for a day or so, it stops cooling. They came by initially and refilled the outside unit with freon, and that helped, but then the unit inside started freezing. Okay, not a big deal, I'll just turn it off when I go to class in the morning and it'll be defrosted by the time I come home. I can live with that. So that's been working for a couple weeks. But tonight I was looking for some tools, and I felt a wet spot around my utility shelf (my miniature two-tier bookshelf that I use as my storage space for my tools and laundry stuff like detergent and iron is right in front of the door to the indoor a/c unit). I knew there had been some wetness from the defrosting, but this was a lot farther away than I knew about previously. So I move everything away from the door and the wall, and there's a huge wet spot and smaller spots of mold.

Fuuuuuuuuuuck.

I had to toss out some raw white linen, which pissed me off but really wasn't a big deal, several pieces of foam board, and my giant sketch pad. The bookshelf was damaged, but I think it's salvageable, as is one of my make-up cases. There were several articles of clothing, including my kodona cowboy chaps that I wanted to rework that have gotten mold on them, but I think (and hope and pray) that they'll be okay after I wash them several times over with color-safe bleach. But I think my leather cowboy boots may be ruined.

On top of the direct damage, my work room is now a complete disaster area because of having to move everything. Not that it's every really clean, but I have no room to work on anytihng at all now since I moved everything to get away from the moisture. Which really sucks because I had wanted to start on my Chopin jacket soon, so I can wear it when it gets colder D: Hopefully I'll be able to get it done in time anyway. My a/c is off because it needed to defrost anyway, so now I'm burning up and will probably be so for the rest of the night.

I am for once grateful for my habit of leaving things in the plastic shopping bags they come home in. I bought a two-yard "scrap" of blue velvet at Joann's for $16 when it normally would have cost $40, and left it in the bag, which protected it from any water damage.

I wonder now if the mold has affected my energy and made me feel this horrible fatigue that has made me feel like I can't get out of bed for the past week or so. I blame it anyway for the nosedive my grades have been taking and my apathy towards such.

Sympathy now plz D:

matchgirl42 @ 10:39pm: Does any of this sound familiar?!?! It should..
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matchgirl42 @ 10:23pm: Me likey - me likey a lot. :)
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sugarblue_sunny @ 11:18pm: If one were to get one's entire ear pierced in this fashion, I wonder how difficult it would be to pull of wearing all dangly earrings without getting them tangled with each other in an extremely painful way... or, you know, exploding from awesome.

I'm really wanting to risk it.

kittycat_black @ 1:10pm: FREE STUFF!!!
Hey does anyone want a free graphics tablet?

It's an Acecad Acecat Flair sort of like this one... http://www.dansdata.com/flair.htm but much older (I think I got it in 2001 but not sure). It comes with the pen and stand but the pen has the button top missing. I'm sure this is replaceable I just haven't bothered to. This was an old one I got years ago and it has a fairly small active area (14cm x11cm) which I found a bit restricting. I think that's why I never got into using it and by the time I was interested in giving it a go again the button was missing.

I don't mind where you are you don't have to be local but you can pay for postage if you want it shipped. :)

I also have a bunch of Pullip dolls clothing. Not stock items but still some ok stuff. Any of you dolly girls want any? I'm not giving everything away (ie. Moon!) but if you want it ask and I'll let you know. (see the stuff here: http://community.livejournal.com/pullip_sales/235295.html).

I also have a Devo record that an ex left at my house before breaking up with me by moving state without telling me in advance (nice!). Needless to say he's not getting it back. It's Devo - Here To Go ...I haven't had a record player for years and couldn't be bothered dealing with selling this even though I figure it could be worth something to someone. Anyone want it? It probably wouldn't be so fun to send so local might be better for this one.

I'm cleaning up! The studio is going to be super efficient, tidy and work life is going to get easier. It's exiting! :D

thatartychick @ 11:09pm: Tweets for Today
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kitten_wrangler @ 1:36pm: It's enough to make my head hurt - a rant -
Lunchroom debate:

Artistic photo of naked child = automatic child porn.


Sweet nelly jesus.
I could cry - I really could. Apparently young adolescents cannot appear nude for artist's photos because it's pr0nny-pr0n pr0n. Apparently though it's okay for naked Papuan teenagers to appear in a National Geographic photoshoot because that's their tribal culture, but not ours. No, ours has never ever had naked children as a feature of our artistic tradition and even if we did once it doesn't mean that that's still our culture now. No, our culture has progressed. No we're not regressing to a Victorian-esque prudery at all, how could we be, what with all the sexualisation of children out there? Because the best way to combat sexualisation of children is to fight and sound out against an artist, not against the monolithic juggernaut of consumer culture and marketing. And no, of course we're not all living under a cloud of fear where everyone we see is out to abuse a child, we're just trying to protect the innocence of the children.

Yeah. It's easier to say "a nude child is automatically paedophile fodder" than it is to examine what leads you to think that in the first place, isn't it? It's easier to come down against an artist than it is to stop participating in a consumer society that makes money from the sexualisation of children. It's easier to shut down all forms of communication and artistry between the generations for fear of potential abusers, than it is to just concentrate on weeding out the fucktarded sexually abusive bastards and encouraging children to speak out to someone when they feel threatened by an adult.

And I think I've just opened myself up here for a wealth of "You'll feel differently when you have children" retorts. Which probably will be the case. I just can't see myself getting whipped up into the same level of hyperbolic furore that engulfs our media and apparently informs the opinions of my co-workers.

matchgirl42 @ 9:33pm: ya'll should check this out, yo.
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foxsyd @ 1:30pm: OMG!
I've not seen the new ep of Heroes yet, but will when I get home later tonight. But meanwhile, staying spoiler free, have been noticing the reaction posts are turning up on my flist, and everyone is good, putting stuff behind lj cuts.

But I do note a lot of "OMG!"s... or should that be "Oh My Fucking Gods".

*bites nails*

Anyway, when is home time, can I get an early mark.

My stomach is upset, and I think Heroes is to blame, I'm so anxious.

thebarefootrose @ 7:27pm: Tweets for Today

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scary_mary @ 9:32pm:

matchgirl42 @ 8:53pm: SCORE!!!!
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kindstar @ 6:45pm: Writer's Block: Eat Your Vegetables
A raw oyster. I don't know how, or why, people do it.