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[21 Apr 2009|11:06am] |
ender in exile by orson scott card
p107 It would be so much easier if I weren't determined to do what's best for everybody. Whoever said virtue is its own reward was full of crap.
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| anyone have any good recipes... |
[23 Mar 2009|10:01pm] |
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that use red wine (specifically shirraz) in them? I have a very large bottle that is now open and I would love to not go to waste.
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| Short quote from Enchantment by Card |
[12 Feb 2009|10:29pm] |
p 303.
He needed to think. About what, he wasn't sure.
So instead he thought about nothing. About things in the room. About the athletic trophies in a box in the closet. How much of his life was that? The shelves of books - so much time reading. Neither of them amounted to anything. He ran. He lost or he won. On one remembered a week later. And the books he read - what did they amount to? University people were always so proud of being readers instead of television watchers, but what was the difference, really? It was a one-way transmission. I read, but it made no difference to the writer. he never knew. And when I'm dead, what will it matter what books I read? My memory is where the book ends up, just like the TV show, and when I'm dead, that memory is gone from the world.
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| Nerdy stuff |
[04 Jan 2009|12:56am] |
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The XKCD store now has SIGNED PRINTS including my favorite one ever, #150!!!!!!!! Can you say "AWESOME! DO WANT!!!!!"?
Also, I adore The Big Bang Theory.
sheldonshirts.com is also excellent.
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| I don't wanna leave! |
[24 Dec 2008|08:36am] |
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So, in case you haven't heard (or, you know, -experienced- it for yourself), PTowne has gotten a super lot of snow ove rthe past week or so. Like, about a foot, all told. I spent a good portion of last week hanging out with some close friend snad trying to get snowed in together, with varying degress of success. Then this weekend both of my roommates got snowed in at other parts of the PDX-Metro area, so I had the house all to myself. It was quite lovely on some levels, but also sad cus I had no one to have a snowball fight with. Also, I spent a lot of time working on last minute Christmas gifts, so i didn't have much time to play in the snow. Or make a snow angel. The snow is so pretty and white. I tried to leave it as unbroken as possible in our front yard so I could look at the pretty. De-snow/icing my car so I could put it into the garage on Monday was quite an ordeal. Yesterday my uncle came and picked me up, and this morning he took me to the Max so that I could get to the airport to fly to visit my parents for Christmas. A big part of me doesn't want to go to Sac at all- it means I will probablly miss the rest of the awesome snow, and I am just plain tired of traveing. I get back to town on the 30th, provided that the weather is ok for flying. I'm so glad I was here for most of thos series of stors. I -did- move north in large part because I wanted snow!
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| another quote |
[09 Dec 2008|10:31am] |
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Adversity introduces a man (woman) to himself (herself).
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| From Monsters Inc |
[06 Dec 2008|07:31pm] |
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I want to be Boo for halloween. When she is is dressed up as a baby monster. Adorable! I have just the fabric in the costume shop for it too!
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[06 Dec 2008|05:20pm] |
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What would -you- do if you knew you could not fail?
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| Poll |
[02 Dec 2008|11:16pm] |
ok, so i have a free acct, so it won't let me do a proper poll. So, just put your response in the comments, and we shall do it the old-fashioned counting ballot method!
I am free from the constraints of a "normal/conservative' job and from being a bridesmaid/significant player in a wedding. I want to celebrate by doing something crazy and different with my hair. Should I:
1. do crazy colors? if so, what colors? How much colors?
2. Get a haircut? if so, waht kind/style?
3. Get a perm? if so, waht style?
4. Get dreads?
5. Get cornrows/multiple tiny braids?
6. get extensions?
7. A combination of the above? if so, what?
Please, feel free to discuss and forward. I am interested in outside input, although I may choose not to follow it (or purposely go against it). I am also thinking about gettting whatever i do done professionally, since I NEVER do/have done that (I have only had cheep haircuts my entire life, everything else has either not been done or was home done). Or, if professionally is going to cost more than $100, at a beauty school.
Incidentially, in case you don't know, my hair is currently thick, super straight, and about down to the middle of my sholder blade/top of my bra in lengeth. the top 1/3 is my natural dark brown, while the bottom 2/3 blends down into a reddish/aubruninsh brown left over from some dye of about a year (not sure how long?) ago.
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| Music |
[29 Nov 2008|08:58pm] |
I've been thinking I need some new music. I almost bought Seth Martin's new cd at the GFU bookstore the other day, and I may still go out and get it, just because I think it would be completely different. I find myself flipping to the country station when I am down in Sac, because I never listened to it before down here, so it has no memories or associations with it. Came across a song that I liked a lot on it tonight:
She Never Cried in Front of Me by Toby Keith
It’s 7:35
She’s someone’s else wife
I can get’on with my life
And that thrills me
She married him today
Her daddy gave the bride away
I heard a tear rolled down her face
And that kills me
Cause now I, can see why
She’s finally cryin’ How was I supposed to know
She was slowly letting go
If I was putting her through hell
Hell I couldn’t tell
She could’ve given me a sign
And opened up my eyes
How was I supposed to see
She never cried in front of me Yeah, maybe I might’ve changed
It’s hard for me to say
But the story’s still the same
And it’s a sad one
And I’ll always believe
If she ever did cry for me
They were tears that you can’t see
You know the bad ones
And now I, can see why
She’s finally cryin’ How was I supposed to know
She was slowly letting go
If I was putting her through hell
Hell I couldn’t tell
She could’ve given me a sign
And opened up my eyes
How was I supposed to see
She never cried in front of me Without a doubt
I know now
How it oughta be
Cause she’s gone & it’s wrong
And it bothers me
Tomorrow I’ll still be
Asking myself How was I supposed to know
She was slowly letting go
If I was putting her through hell
Hell I couldn’t tell
She could’ve given me a sign
And opened up my eyes
How was I supposed to see
How was I supposed to see
She never cried in front of me Hell I couldn’t tell.
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| :D |
[29 Nov 2008|08:42pm] |
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Thursday was thanksgiving. It was full of good food, fun chats, the MOST AWESOME RICKROLL EVAR!!! (even better than the rickrolls I have pulled on certian friends), and a rather uneventful and mostly empty flight back to sac (I must say, flying on thanksgiving day is actually quite relaxing as there is almost no one at the airport. I should know, this is the 3rd time I have done it). Then Friday was my brothers wedding!!!!! Saving the best wedding of the season for last! Tasha looked amazing, and I loved CHris's tux. The place was quite nice, I cried, and then the reception had REALLY good food and alchohol. I like Lemon Drops. It was exciting to finally meet all of Tasha's family. It's trippy that her mom has my name. Overall it was beasuitful and lovely. My camera stopped working about 3 hours into the recpetion, so I hope I can get to to work when I get back to portland. However, I currently have no way to get pics off the camara til I get it fixed. so pics shall have to come later. Today we came back and I got fitted for contacts (my christmas present), and then I got to hang out with my eternal friend Kelsey. It was good to be real with someone and talk through some of my shit with someone who has gone through a lot of shit in her life at times. Tomorrow I go back to pottland and the ol' grind.
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| nanowrimo |
[24 Nov 2008|08:00am] |
ok, short update about nanowrimo: I have given up. But not in the "I can never get this done" way. oh no, if I wanted to, I could totoally bust out 10k each day for 4 days and finish this buster. But I dont want to. For several reasons.
First, my story feels like it wants to be a 20k novelita, not a 50k novel.
Second, The main reason that I signed up in the first place was to give me something to do while I was on vacation. It served that purpose. i was happily occupied, and felt like I was creating and adding to the world, not just being lazy and self-absorbed while on vacation. That, if nothing else, was a huge key to me coming back refreshed.
And third, yes I could abandon all my responsibilities and write and finish. But that would mean letting people down. And that would mean far, far, far less time to sew. And I never get enough time to sew as it is, why would I want to take away sewing time to write a novel?
So, I am done at a count of 12,164 words. My story has kinda degereated into an amalgamate of 1984, Farenheit 451, and the movie The Island. And I am ok with that. I spent some time exploring some of the extrememe extensions of getting all of one's social interactions from the computer, and a world in which almost no human contact is nessecary. Of all the things to write, I never imagined I would foray into sci fi. Also, I think I should like to try writing a script for the theatre this April. That is an aspect of theatre I have never tried before.
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| I am in desperate need |
[23 Nov 2008|12:11am] |
of some reccomended reading. nothing on my shelves looks interesting, with the exception of God in the Dock, which I am reading in spurts.
I am especially interested/seem to be in the mood for the following:
short story collections
plays
philosophy
religious reading that is either very practical or very theological. -not -something that will make me gag. maybe religious history, esp catholic?
and, of course, I am (almost) always up for scifi/fantasy, or (i almost hate to admit it) teen horror romance.
What saith thee?
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| some things that I would really like to do... |
[19 Nov 2008|02:09am] |
1. Be a model for a photographer where i get to dress up in pretty/outrageous outfits.
2. Live for at least 6 months on another continent.
3. Pay off all my (monetary) debts.
4. Be properly serenaded to in a public place.
5. Go on the OHSU tran on a clear day.
6. Go fishing.
7. Kiss someone.
8. Take a winetasting class.
9. Be in a ballroom dance competition.
10. Sing my heart out on stage.
11. Design, implement, and have a place to wear a very fancy dress.
12. meditate. really meditate.
13. Live as a nun for a month.
14. Do a triathelon.
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