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[Dec. 3rd, 2009|01:48 am] |
That's what they're called!
I chose a less disgusting pic.....you can find more if you search, that shows how hideous they really look.
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[Dec. 2nd, 2009|05:27 pm] |
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Woo! Great rehearsal with the urban voodoo machine tonight. Looking fwd to supporting the new York dolls on Friday! Yup, NY dolls! |
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[Dec. 2nd, 2009|03:13 pm] |
The Cider House Rules [1999]
1. "You splice, I'll deliver."
2. The countryside is strewn with autumn leaves, even though it's supposed to be summertime.
3. Blood seeps from his palm, mingling with the shards of broken glass from the ether bottle. He goes to sleep one last time. |
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[Dec. 2nd, 2009|03:07 pm] |
The Road [2009]
1. A forest of crooked telephone poles.
2. Naked, dirty, bleeding bodies suddenly shamble to life.
3. On top of the pile of clothes, he carefully places a single can of food. |
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| MogileFS Maintenance |
[Dec. 2nd, 2009|12:18 pm] |
Hey LJers,
I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)
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[Dec. 1st, 2009|04:24 pm] |
Trying...to get back...to regular LJ reading...so busy...
In the mean time, I love my co-workers.
The joy of coming in on my birthday to this was huge:
What was that on?
The back of this Bad Boy:
She even addressed my OCD:
She's a rockstar.
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[Dec. 1st, 2009|12:50 pm] |
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thx to all who came to kleinkunst last night. paper went really well, great feedback. will be publishing it online soon. circus shoot tmrw. |
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[Dec. 1st, 2009|05:12 pm] |
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I love winter. Woke up this morning and went for a walk through Princes Street Gardens, en route to do some Christmas window shopping. The grass was white and glistening with frost. The gardens were virtually empty. I sat on a bench for about 45 minutes, enjoying the chill of the air and the quiet time to think. I saw 5 robins. When I was little, robins used to come into our kitchen from the garden and sit on our paper towel dispenser ( my dad was a school janitor) as my mum and I baked scones and butterfly cakes. |
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[Dec. 1st, 2009|04:26 am] |
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While I was moving, I found a little glass globe. In 2006, I had these little animals in it. Not sea-monkeys, but the same deal.....you hatch and grow them in water. I can't remember what they're called but they are hideous. They're like mini-micro horse shoe crabs that eat each other. The ones that get big, eat all the other ones. But what I remember is their eggs can be reactivated after a long, long time if you just put water back in the thingy. Which, I guess, is why I never washed the thingy because you can still see all the eggy residue....it's pretty obvious it hasn't been washed since then. So I shall add some spring water and we shall see if these little boogers hatch again and eat each other. Then I'll have more nightmares. |
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[Dec. 1st, 2009|02:53 am] |
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I am thrilled beyond measure to be on exam leave. I have a Social Policy exam on the 8th of December and a Linguistics exam on the 16th. I don't have a Russian exam until May, although we did a lot of Russian tests last week...oral, grammar, translation. We have to write a Russian literature essay for when we go back in January, but I'm not thinking that far ahead.
2nd year has been awful. I have hated every single minute of it and have seriously thought about just throwing in the towel and getting a job. Unfortunately, I'm not really qualified for anything.
Linguistics continues to drive me round the twist. It feels like someone just made it up as a subject. Lots of it is quite interesting...I'm very interested in Sociolinguistics and Language acquisition, whether first language learned by children or second language skills learned later. Unfortunately we are not doing any of this kind of thing this year. It's all about syntactic trees and semantic formulae. My brain doesn't respond well to this type of information and I have no hope of passing the exam. I did an assignment a few weeks ago, which I have no results for yet, but they put a model answer on the university web page, and my answer bore little relation to that. I have to see my Director of Studies to see if I can just drop Linguistics altogether and take a half course in something else next term. The thought of ploughing on with it until May makes me feel a bit desperate, to tell the truth.
I was really scared going in to do my Russian oral test. We have a new oral teacher this year and she has always seemed a bit cold and she speaks so incredibly fast that I sometimes struggle to follow what she's saying. I actually thought I was going to be sick as I waited for my turn. I had to submit an essay for her to read about 'The House of My Dreams'. I was amazed that she really liked it and she was really friendly and funny as she chatted to me for the actual speaking part of the test. I got 75% for both the essay and my speaking ability. I was really surprised and relieved.
I am looking forward to catching up with my LJ friends again over the next few weeks. I have missed reading all about what you've been up to, but I haven't had the time and I have been a bit too low, so I just kind of bowed out for a while. |
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[Nov. 30th, 2009|04:35 pm] |
"It's staggering really that modern American Christianism supports wealth while Jesus demanded total poverty, fetishizes family while Jesus left his and urged his followers to abandon wives, husbands and children, champions politics while Jesus said his kingdom was emphatically not of this world, defends religious war where Jesus sought always peace, and backs torture, which is what the Romans did to Jesus."
--Andrew Sullivan |
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[Nov. 30th, 2009|04:14 pm] |
The International [2009]
1. "That's the difference between fiction and the truth. Fiction has to make sense."
2. Bullet-ridden Guggenheim.
3. The rebel leader in a suit and tie, looking like any other businessman. Perhaps he is. |
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[Nov. 30th, 2009|04:06 pm] |
High Society [1956]
1. "Uncle Willy is in the pantry doing weird and wonderful things with various healing waters."
2. Her eyes spring wide open in alarm.
3. Satchmo: "End ... of ... story!" |
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[Nov. 30th, 2009|10:08 am] |
It's a bit of a kick in the creative pants when one of your friends is turning a story of yours into a comic and it's looking better than it did in your head when you were writing it.
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) grafunkel totally did that to me.
The story is a Sir Reginald piece that you can read right here. But for now just enjoy his awesome.
Well done, Belgian Van den Belgian--IF THAT IS YOUR REAL NAME. Fucking nice one. Can't wait to see the rest.
Happy Barbadian Independence Day!
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[Nov. 29th, 2009|05:09 pm] |
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excited about Kleinkunst II tomorrow, captive audience listening to me talking about me ;) Also slightly crapping myself, who's coming? |
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[Nov. 29th, 2009|03:19 am] |
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And that was Athens! 3hrs sleep & airport bound. Had a great time. Shoulder siezed after dancing like maniac to 80s music Fri. KK2 tomorrow. |
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[Nov. 27th, 2009|02:04 am] |
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so tired! 4 hrs sleep and on the way to airport (after a lovely coffee). Look out Greeceland... |
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