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killersmart1
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4:58p |
OMG I feel dumb I wish I'd requested tickets to the Daily Show coverage of the DNC weeks ago. *pout* Current Mood:  disappointed |
wickedfaire
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6:22p |
Group chat information
The meeting tomorrow will be at 7, and it is likely that the greatest emphasis will be on general information and meet-and-greet, as we subdivide into smaller meeting groups in the coming weeks.
If you want to be included, please email me and/or reply below with an email address I can use for your Campfire invite. Campfire requires individual invitation, so unless you get in touch with me, I can't send you an invite!
I'll be back in touch tomorrow, and will speak with y'all soon. |
blessed_harlot
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blessed_harlot
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3:05p |
Massage School Is Really Going To Happen
Due to a last minute change the Bush Admin made to new student loans, it's taken this long for the financial aid office to get their initial award letters out. So, I didn't know for sure how much I'd get, nor have I been able to do all the health-related requirements for the program, since they all cost money we don't have.
Today, I got the letter. I've gotten $12,000 in loans (the only thing I qualify for) for the 2008-2009 school year, roughly 50-70% of which be needed to cover tuition. That means I've got the money for books, uniform requirements, health exams and eventually things like a table.
Now it's a certainty. Now I know they won't kick me out. Now I know how I'll pay for this thing... or at least, who will pay them and who I'll be paying back later.
Two of my four classes for this semester have now met (long story). A&P is a blast of the oddest kind. It's information I've always wanted, and I know how to study to retain it. Tai Chi I've mentioned to you already. It will be a pleasant, just sorta there class. Later, the delayed Health History and Assessment will start, and in late September we begin Swedish Massage, the foundation of all Western techniques. I am crazy excited about that, though I have no idea how I'll be taking that kind of information in. It's a form of study foreign to me.
The last 24 hours or so, I've finally been shaping a study space at home. It's been a "soft opening" to the semester so far, but it's still coming together nicely. |
rosefox
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historygeek
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3:59p |
oh dear god
Now I have a pack n play set up as a bassinet in my bedroom (what we're using as a crib at first) |
kiki39
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12:50p |
aww, like Spirited Away... Your result for The Japanese Demon Profile Test... RyuYou scored 7 in Malice and 25 in Chaos! 
Japanese dragons, or "Ryu," are very different from their Western counterparts; where the Western dragon is typically reptilian, with a heart as cold as its blood, the dragons of the Orient actually tend to err more on the side of beneficence. This should not, however, be construed as a license to treat them with disrespect; Oriental dragons are extremely powerful beings who do not tolerate impudence.
Ryu, like the dragons of the West, are known to have a fondness for shiny objects and treasure. Some Ryu are willing to part with their treasures if they deem a mortal worthy of inheriting it. Other dragons may also, like gods, grant wishes and supernatural powers to those who seek them.
At the same time, one must be wary when dealing with dragons; some may be extremely temperamental, and others even harbor a hatred for mankind and its desecration of the earth. Most dragons are by no means evil, but must still be treated with extreme caution. Take The Japanese Demon Profile Test at HelloQuizzy Current Mood:  bored |
blessed_harlot
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2:02p |
I Am Your Condom Friend The people involved in the safe sex campaigns in India are brilliant. First, there was the awesome Bollywood-style condom ads. Now, there's condom ringtones. Dood, yes. Normalize the condom, the singing ringing dancing condom. This is just awesome. |
corvaxgirl
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2:54p |
Last weekend's tales can be found here. Current Mood:  exhausted |
rosefox
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bipolypagangeek
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1:20p |
Meeting and greeting My husband and I will be attending this event next month: http://www.thefallfrolic.com/If anyone else is planning to attend, or looks at the site and thinks "gee, that might be fun!" please feel free to find me. I should be on site for the whole event and would like a chance to meet some 'kindred spirits' . Yes, this is cross-posted, so for those of you on more than one of the same lists please forgive the duplication. Bright Blessings!! Current Mood:  MagickalCurrent Music: Jill Tracy: Sell My Soul |
nyghtowl
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12:06p |
Metallicapocalypse (sounds like a Greek diner!)
In further news about the new Metallica record, I did the pre-order of the record through the band. I'm travelling the day it comes out and I don't want to go racing to a record store--much rather be racing down to Dark Odyssey.
As a result I have now heard three, count 'em three songs from the new album!
"Cyanide" keeps lurching around--it's heavy, it grooves, it has a great bass solo from Rob Trujillo. Scroll down a bit and you can hear it--there's a youtube clip.
"The Day That Never Comes" is the single, it's a slow build like Fade or Sanitarium. End section (last three minutes) is awesome.
Here's a youtube clip from the Leeds Festival:
And then there's "My Apocalypse." Heavy high-speed gallop thrash. Good drum sound. Hetfield and Hammet interlocking and finding their nuts again. Me singing along with the first chorus. Duuuude.
As my friend OL said this morning, "This fails to suck, rather dramatically."
Be afraid, friends. The Metallibeast is Metalliback and they're going to kick our Metallibutts.
MetALLicA for now
MetalliPaul
Current Music: Metallica--My Apocalypse |
polyamory
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pelisdragn
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11:04a |
I just updated to the new version of firefox, and I don't like it. Does anyone know if/how I can switch back? Much appreciated. EDIT: I think ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) terpsquared has figured out the problem for me! YAY! |
joyshine
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dicedork
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chalepa_ta_kala
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3:03a |
Twitterings of the Day [ Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter.] |
catelynn
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whiskyroses
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2:01a |
libertarians in space apparently, i belong on serenity. i could totally see myself as river. interestingly enough, there are a lot of questions about the government. the government butting into your business, the government being wrong... i bet most libertarians would end up in firefly with me. 
Which sci-fi crew would you best fit in with?
| | You scored as a Serenity (Firefly) | | You like to live your own way and don't enjoy when anyone but a friend tries to tell you should do different. Now if only the Reavers would quit trying to skin you. | | Moya (Farscape) | | 100% | | Serenity (Firefly) | | 100% | | Heart of Gold (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) | | 88% | | Babylon 5 (Babylon 5) | | 88% | | Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica) | | 88% | | Deep Space Nine (Star Trek) | | 81% | | Bebop (Cowboy Bebop) | | 81% | | Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) | | 75% | | FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files) | | 69% | | SG-1 (Stargate) | | 69% | | Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) | | 50% | | Enterprise D (Star Trek) | | 38% | | Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix) | | 25% | |
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nyghtowl
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1:22a |
Die With Your Boots On So I went to TES tonight to see my good buddy ssgsupply1 present on fire cupping. A low attendance for an excellent informative meeting with the best bootblack I know (no offense to any other bootblacks reading this I love you all too!) serving as demo bottom. Seeing her at the demo led to a long conversation about boots, and boots are very much on my mind right at this moment. Here's the State of the Footwear.  OK. I love boots. Really do. Love wearing them, fetishizing over them, having them blacked and done right, their weight on my feet and the feeling of invulnerability and invincibility that the right pair can give you. I love licking the right person's pair--and will even do bootblacking as service though I don't identify as a bootblack--nobody needs me to go home and get my shinebox. Here's the thing though.I have thick, wide feet and big calves. So boots have to fit right and it's harder than you think. I've had four pairs of boots that I consider "important." Here's a rundown: - My black Canadian Bulldozer construction boots with the vulcanized rubber toecaps. Bought in Ottawa. My classic boots need a new heel and sole and I am worried that new heels will ruin the boots.
- Blue Digger workboots (yes they are navy leather.) These STILL fit. Thank God.
- High polish black Chippewa firefighter boots. Have had problems getting in and out of these. They are EE which is a bit narrow for me. But they're so GORGEOUS.
- Matte black knee high Chippewa loggers (the ones with the green laces.) I love these. Got 'em from Emily who bought them at her first LPN in 05 from the flea market. She gave them to me months later. This year I put them on before LPN but they made my tendons hurt like hell when I tried to walk in them. *sigh* I miss wearing these boots. They are actually really big for me (size 12!) but I can fit in
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- Hi-Tech 4E wide brown suede hiking boots. These fit and are comfortable but--I can't get 'em BLACKED. *sigh* They'll do in a pinch for personal pedal transportation and are the boots I wore to and at GLLA.
Now: the new acquisitions:
- Detroit Red Wings WORX boots. Need to break these in. Right now I can't get my foot in the left boot. *sigh*
- Carolina dark brown (briar!) work boots. Calf height. 4E wide.
Yes, they fit but have to break em in. Awesome. Hope they can break in and I'll have a new winter home for my feet.
The fact that my legs swelled up in May/June (see previous posts) has been a huge source of worry and anxiety both healthwise and boot-wise--with me worrying that I'd be stuck wearing sandals for the rest of my life. Of course, the fact that my swollen feet don't really fit in my Tevas these days (hence the Crocs) hasn't helped. The meds I am on (vitamin supplements plus diuretic plus potassium pills) have helped with the swelling but I'm still recovering. Getting better every day though. I am tired of living in soccer slides. Where's the Huberd's? P Current Mood:  indescribableCurrent Music: The Hunt for Red October on AMC |
| Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 |
ragingamazon
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9:11p |
Hawaii PSA
I'm going to Hawaii really early Thursday morning. I will not be answering the phone or checking email after tomorrow afternoon (unless I know that you too will be on Hawaii and I am trying to meet up with you).
I will see you all next week, and if you're going to Burning Man have a terrific time, drink lots, and have fun. |
| Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 |
bzero
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12:02a |
LoudTwitter In the last 24 hours: (Automatically shipped at midnight by LoudTwitter) |
| Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 |
ktpinto
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11:29p |
Confessions of an out of shape belly dancer... I had been doing the tougher of the three belly dancing tapes that I have, and I thought "Yeah, I'm sweating, but it's just not doing what I want" and I wondered why. Then I got the answer in the mail. I got two Sweating to the Oldies 20th anniversary discs. These tapes have been my weight-loss life savers for almost 20 years, but they had gotten old and worn, and I gave them to Christian before I started gaining weight. But now I've got them back... and now with color (my old ones were so worn, the color was shot)! I did the first one yesterday. God, it felt good! It's been about 4 years since I've used it last, and my muscles hated me... but in a good way. Tomorrow I do the second tape. Today I was bad. I ate too much. :( But I blame my hormones. I plan by my book release party in September to be back where I originally was. I plan by Albacon in October to be a size smaller. That's my goal! *raises a glass of sparkling water* Here's to hoping! Current Mood:  thoughtfulCurrent Music: Mystery Men |
polyamory
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lovmelovmycats
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9:00p |
CO for Obama
I made an icon out of a Colorado flag/Obama campaign symbol graphic that I found on my new "CO for Obama" community. |
