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| Ten random things: October 10 |
[Oct. 10th, 2008|11:36 pm] |
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Ten quotes recently featured in the e-mail edition of the Schott's Almanac Page-A-Day Calendar:
- "Habit is a great deadener." — Samuel Beckett (1906–89)
- "An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself." — Albert Camus (1913–60)
- "A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience." — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr (1809–94)
- "If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you: but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you." — Don Marquis (1878–1937)
- "Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything." — Charles Kuralt (1934–97)
- "Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending." — Anne Bradstreet (1612–72)
- "There must be more to life than having everything." — Maurice Sendak (born 1928)
- "Life is the process of finding out, too late, everything that should have been obvious at the time." — John D. MacDonald (1916–86)
- "Understanding is a very dull occupation." — Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
- "The ripest peach is highest on the tree." — James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916)
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| Well, That's Just Great... |
[Oct. 10th, 2008|11:01 pm] |
The good news: Turned my paper abstract for Victorian Poetry in this morning, which meant, aside from going to chorus, I was free for the four-day weekend. No worries again until Wednesday.
The bad news: I've got the fucking flu! Or some related virus. Woke up with stomach cramps, which isn't too unusual for me and my nervous stomach. But no, it's a Goddamn virus.
The additional good news: After napping, dozing, resting, eating Mom's potato soup, and popping some pain killers and zinc, I feel a good bit better. I'm a little flushed, and food is moving through my system like it's the fucking Monorail, but otherwise I don't feel horrible. So long as I'm 85% by Sunday, I won't consider the weekend a loss.
And once again, I humbly request that you click my eggs. The dark green one has been in the finally hatching stage since last night (the tease), and the green one started cracking today. The other two are still intact, but they've got a few more days.
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[Oct. 10th, 2008|11:11 pm] |
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So um... my mom just asked me if Canada was part of America.
Then she asked me where Russia was.
Then she asked me if you could actually see Russia from Alaska.
Then she asked me why they would say Sarah Palin could see Russia from Alaska if she really couldn't.
Then I said "you didn't get the joke, did you?" and she said "What joke?"
Holy Jesus. This is why I have my bff also take the role of being my Momma because I just can't handle this one mother alone. I need another one who can actually help me with my homework and recommend books to me who doesn't ask me IF CANADA IS PART OF AMERICA.
Also:
I fucking LOVE. IT. |
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| Tweet, tweet, tweet goes my phone |
[Oct. 10th, 2008|11:05 pm] |
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LoudTwitter provides this annoyance to my flist daily. :) |
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[Oct. 11th, 2008|02:01 pm] |
The Ultimate LiveJournal Obsession Test
| | Category | Your Score | Average LJer | | Community Attachment | 35.48%
There's something special about you. Every once in awhile, one of your topics gets everyone chatting. | 22.86% | | MemeSheepage | 56.14%
I am but one quiz among millions. My brethren surround me on the page. | 27.64% | | Original Content | 45.16%
Some stories must be told - and you're the one to tell them | 38.08% | | Psychodrama Quotient | 20.48%
Your dark side's safe with us | 16.63% | | Attention Whoring | 31.82%
This quiz is part of a grand scheme to keep people reading | 20.68% | |
I love when this meme tells me I'm an attention whore. :D
COMMENT NAU
Seriously, my excuse is that I've had this thing for seven years, for the majority of which I was a teenager. ;) |
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| on astronomers |
[Oct. 10th, 2008|07:51 pm] |
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As a general rule, I make it a point not to trust anyone who admits that their first choice of logarithm base is not e. Especially when said first choice is, in fact, 1000.2. |
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| quizzles |
[Oct. 10th, 2008|10:34 pm] |
Your Pizza Says:
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You are a very open minded eater, and you enjoy exotic flavors.
You don't have any preconceived notions about how food should taste.
Pizza Topping You Should Try: Mandarin oranges
Stay away from: Pizzas with extra cheese - it's a crutch!
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You Are a Chicken
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You are a naturally curious and inquisitive being. You are often poking your nose where it doesn't belong!
Collecting nuggets of knowledge is important to you. You enjoy knowing everything you can.
You are very independent and strong willed. You don't like to be bossed around, and you do as you please.
You are quite determined and able to take on challenges. You will “peck away” at a problem until it's gone.
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| Twitterpated |
[Oct. 11th, 2008|03:21 am] |
Becca's daily twitter:
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter |
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[Oct. 10th, 2008|10:19 pm] |
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DUDE.
being a creep is so much fun.
like leaving mcdonalds bags on harry's car.
hahaha. |
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Meme from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) xlickthespark |
[Oct. 10th, 2008|10:17 pm] |
If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now,(even if we don't speak often or ever) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me.
It can be anything you want - good or bad - BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE.
When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your LJ and see what your friends come up with. |
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| Because it's that time again... |
[Oct. 10th, 2008|10:09 pm] |
| My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul |
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| Julius12 goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as a piece of paper. | | count_to_seven tricks you! You get a block of wood. | | harmyjo gives you 14 orange mint-flavoured gummy bats. | | joeylanceluvr tricks you! You get a piece of paper. | | laenij gives you 8 mottled green mint-flavoured gummy bats. | | mspotamus tricks you! You get a scratched CD. | | notsolaconic gives you 5 green banana-flavoured pieces of bubblegum. | | summoner_alex gives you 12 white coconut-flavoured gummy bats. | | thieving_gypsy gives you 9 mottled green passionfruit-flavoured jawbreakers. | | unrequited_rain tricks you! You get a rotten egg. | | wildebrian gives you 6 light blue chocolate-flavoured wafers. | | Julius12 ends up with 54 pieces of candy, a block of wood, a piece of paper, a scratched CD, and a rotten egg. | | Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern. |
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| Buttons |
[Oct. 10th, 2008|09:54 pm] |
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In another effort to clean up my profile page, I'm moving all my buttons and banners and whatnot here.
( Clicky... ) |
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| Alaska Panel finds Palin Abused Power |
[Oct. 10th, 2008|09:48 pm] |
LINK: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/palin_troopergate
Do we really want her running this country if John McCain were to win, and something terrible were to happen to him?? Really people? REALLY? |
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[Oct. 10th, 2008|09:23 pm] |
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Leave me an anonymous comment pouring your heart out. Say anything. Tell me your stories, your secrets, those things no one ever asks but you wish to tell. Tell me about your love, your hate, your indifference, your joy. Tell me about what's inside of you when you're reading through these entries on your friends list, and tell me why you continue to come back here. Tell me anything. Tell me what you really think of me or yourself. Anything.
Post anonymously. Speak honestly. Post as many times as you like.
Some sort of proper update coming later tonight... maybe |
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[Oct. 10th, 2008|08:14 pm] |
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here are pics of our super awesome house that we decorated for Halloween with the help of our friend Cole!
first in the line of photos are the pics from our tombstone party! we had friends over to make tombstones for the graveyard that we were making and then we had a contest for best one! michael made evil pics of our friends with the tombstones they made. then are the pics of the yard all put togethere!
hope you like them! comment and tell me what you think!
http://flickr.com/photos/7683567@N06/sets/72157607785004554/ |
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| Anecdotal Portrait |
[Oct. 10th, 2008|06:04 pm] |
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I'm pasting something from my DeadJournal to this one for reference. Observe the ramblings of a mentally ill, heavily medicated mind....
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"Anecdotal portrait." It has over a thousand results.
I suppose my title makes sense, then.
Erika is still calling to me, but she's so far away. We've hardly spoken since April, and with Tsirris it's much the same.
Only Sophie's story is complete. Yet, she still calls for much editing, for trimming but maybe also for some meat; I seldom outline, and my stories come out short, barely novel length or not quite. Sophie's stands at +49k, not quite 50k.
But her story is young adult. Maybe the brevity is a good thing.
And here is my new one. One of my new ones; there have been and are so many. NaNoWriMo is all well and good, but my fingers are itching now, and two thousand words a day should be already in a writer's schedule.
What did she call it...? "Mind garbage"?
Literature and reading are nothing of the sort, and to the good writers (and especially great writers) of the world, writing is enriching just as it is for the readers.
Writing may even be an exercise in enlightenment for the toddlers in the literary world, like me. So insignificant, so hackneyed, and yet...words still hold power. "The pen is mightier than the sword," right?
I need to ask Grandpa about his biographical videos on Mark Twain when I see him and Grandma again. The anticipation nearly has me drooling. I've known about it since my junior year of high school...so why have I waited so long? I guess it's a case of constant forgetting.
Anyway... Literature is, in my humble (maybe useless) opinion, one of the best, one of the most important, tools for humans. What other way to make sense of the world? How else to visit places you will never reach physically, experience what you never can in person? Perhaps most importantly, is there any other way you could meet so many gloriously crafted and eccentric people?
Not that living people--people living in our world, at least, the only one we know--are any less interesting, but literary characters offer so much insight into man's facets. His love, his depravity,...
"Pop" fiction is no work of art, I agree. Some things truly are "mind trash," but even those get one inside the author's head: his states of mind; glimpses into his beliefs (at worst, because his characters are mouthpieces); or at least his underlying themes, which may speak to his own character and what he holds dear--or necessary. |
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| Kari's Twitters of the Day |
[Oct. 10th, 2008|09:06 pm] |
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Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter |
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[Oct. 10th, 2008|09:03 pm] |
Flist:
I am sorry I keep doing that (Posting the dragons). Lately, I am full of fail. |
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