How I learned to stop worrying and love the...
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07:28:26 PM,
Wednesday 21 July 2004
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After seeing the Magnetic Fields, I can understand why Stephin Merritt is often thought of as an unapproachable and somewhat mean person. I don't think that's actually true, though. The concert was delightful, and made me want to learn to play the ukelele.
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03:48:08 AM,
Tuesday 20 July 2004
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I was vaguely disgruntled while doing the dishes, so Moss put on Erika's Blogswap disc from last December and played "Shark Attack" by Freezepop. Then he said, "Okay look at the computer screen." He had put the young Trixie holding plastic shark picture up. If you are ever feeling vaguely disgruntled, I recommend looking at little Peeflet while listening to "Shark Attack." You're sure to find yourself properly gruntled in no time.
On a completely different note, the spam subject of the day is, "Tips for killing off deb." Moss is right to ask what deb ever did to me.
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02:35:29 AM,
Saturday 17 July 2004
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I keep seeing spam for "popup killers," and I don't think the thought that springs to mind is what the ads intend. I imagine them as little commercial hitmen who are crosses between jack-in-the-boxes and ninjas.
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01:36:07 AM,
Saturday 17 July 2004
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There is something beautiful and reassuring about being able to mark the progress of ripening blackberries as I pass a particular bush each day or two.
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06:59:56 PM,
Tuesday 13 July 2004
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The Cake Mailing Contest Results are in!
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02:55:08 AM,
Tuesday 13 July 2004
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My sister's advice on how to run my life:
*Don't work at McDonald's.
*Go see Napoleon Dynamite
*Get a cell phone (Optional, but you should think about it).
*Ride your bike everyday. Bikes are wonderful things. You should just do it everyday because it's fun to do.
*Wash your feet everyday because if you don't they'll end up smelling horrible. ("Do my feet smell horrible?" "No, I just thought about it now because I took off my shoes...").
*Don't relent with the um, the plans to take over the world, make sure you're always working on that.
*Look at the stars whenever you can.
*Don't work at McDonald's. Write that one down at the bottom so you don't forget.
"I think that's all, but I might call you more with tips, guidelines... oh yeah, you should go to hot yoga..."
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09:13:24 PM,
Sunday 11 July 2004
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Spam of the day
From: Freak Off A Leash
Subject: Always Satisfied Lucretius
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12:30:17 AM,
Sunday 11 July 2004
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T.I.A.I.L.W. Cliff and Luna bars. They have this magical way of satisfying my desire for sweet stuff while still having nutritional merit. They fit easily into a pocket or purse. They aren't perishable. They actually taste good (perhaps because the makers claim to have made them out of desperation for nutrition bars that didn't taste like crap). I'm smitten.
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07:06:02 PM,
Tuesday 6 July 2004
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Covet. I tried Moss's mother's yesterday and found that 1) It is indeed painful, as the packaging warns, 2) I can sustain the hula hooping things with a weighted hoop way more than I can with a non-weighted one, and 3) It's addictive. Once you get going you sort of forget about the pain, and it never hurts on your back anyway, just on your stomach.
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09:30:17 PM,
Monday 5 July 2004
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Moss is nine times three, wish him a day that's full of glee! (Er, I should perhaps mention that we watched Sabrina the Teenage Witch just now, and apparently the rhyming spelltalk is contagious. Yeah...)
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04:50:54 AM,
Saturday 3 July 2004
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I had a dream in which J. K. Rowling announced that the sixth book was actually going to be called Harry Potter and the One-eyed Snake. Said Ms. Rowling in an interview, "Well, Harry's of an age now where he's really focusing a lot on getting some along with fighting evil." She didn't say whether he'd actually get busy, though.
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02:25:53 PM,
Friday 2 July 2004
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*Wake before ten Barely.
*Eat sensible breakfast Oatmeal.
*Exercise Pliés and other grueling ballet warm ups learned from Caprina Lynn.
*Respond to e-mail Finally. I am such an inconsistent correspondent.
*Check over story and put in envelope Surpisingly lengthy process ivolving checking address fifty times to make sure is correct.
*Drink 20 ounces of water
*Take envelope to post office and send it
*Lunch and 20 ounces of water Spaghetti!
*Watch Gay Purr-ee So, if you watch Gay Purr-ee in French and turn on the French subtitles, you'll notice that they are not the same! It's two completely different translations. I mean it all amounts to the same story, but... it was strange and mesmerizing. How often does that sort of thing happen I wonder.
*Work on Fifty Photographs project a bit
*Do dishes
*Drink 20 ounces of water
*Eat dinner and drink more water
*Learn more German
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04:37:28 PM,
Wednesday 30 June 2004
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*Go to grocery store Shaving cream, lightbulbs and avocados. I guess you can tell what we're doing tonight! Nudge nudge wink wink.
*Drink 20 ounces of water
*Prepare salad yum!
*Meet Moss at 5:45 5:55 really.
*Eat salad Yum!
*See 7:10 showing of The Corporation It was very good. You should see it.
*Drink 20 ounces of water
*Write a bit before bed Well, plotted anyway. It's writing-related work. It counts.
*Go to bed by eleven Or, you know, one.
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07:16:49 PM,
Tuesday 29 June 2004
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*Arise no later than ten 9:30.
*Eat a sensible breakfast Ice cream. What? It's totally sensible. It's got loads of... calcium! See?
*Bathe
*Mend hole in pants Harder than one might think. Damnable lack of depth perception. You ever try to thread a needle with no depth perception? And no hand-eye coordination? I don't recommend it.
*Dress Julia is sporting a lovely bright greet t-shirt and maroon velour pants Velvety pants the exact color of a rich glass of perfectly aged claret. Matching is for squares.
*Get some exercise Yoga and stretches on the deck.
*Drink 20 ounces of Water
*Clean up story and prepare it for mailing Though I am going to work on it more later. I don't trust myself to catch mistakes today. Too clumsy.
*Drink 20 ounces of water
*Eat lunch Soup!
*Make another to do list
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02:19:27 PM,
Tuesday 29 June 2004
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(singing) Insomnia! Far more wakeful than yours...
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04:45:24 AM,
Sunday 13 June 2004
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Today as I was riding the bus into Santa Rosa, we passed the Evangelical Free Church. "Wouldn't it be nice," I thought, "if that meant the church in question was free of evangelism." But of course that isn't the case.
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02:16:04 AM,
Saturday 12 June 2004
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Happy Birthday Marrrrrrtin!
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03:14:41 PM,
Monday 7 June 2004
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Jumbies ALWAYS watch Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter.
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12:55:01 AM,
Friday 4 June 2004
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Meeting Tanya this weekend was a lovely experience, and reassuring. It's wonderful when people turn out to be as nice and interesting in person as they seem in text or stories.
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01:17:19 AM,
Tuesday 1 June 2004
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My grandfather and I have always celebrated our birthdays on the same day, but recently he found records indicating he was actually born on the twenty-seventh of May. It is strange to think this is not his birthday. Does not compute. My mother thinks it is fitting, though, as my sister was born on the day after my grandmother's birthday.
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07:35:58 PM,
Friday 28 May 2004
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Announcing the First Annual Cake Mailing Contest!
The rules:
1. Bake or buy a cake of some kind.
2. Alter cake as you see fit (i.e. add frosting or sprinkles). Make sure cake will still be safe to eat after traveling by post. Please no poisoning the judge (who is not me, by the way).
3. place a piecce of the cake (or the whole cake in the case of twinkies or the like) in a ziplock bag.
4. Place ziplock bag in padded envelope and send to Cake Mailing Contest Headquarters (address, which is not my address, will be provided in an e-mail for anyone who wishes to enter the contest). **Envelopes must be postmarked no later that June fifth in order to be eligible.**
Cakes will be judged on four qualities: gunkiness, crumbliness, tastiness and aesthetic appeal. The winner will receive a certificate, and a rubber duck, not to mention all the fame that goes with being the FACMC Grand Prize Winner. Other prizes may also be awarded.
Sign up by leaving a comment.
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06:51:57 PM,
Friday 28 May 2004
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In a fit of pique I have just gone submission crazy. Two poems, a short short (76 words), and a longer short (around 2k) sent off all in one day.
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05:49:26 PM,
Thursday 27 May 2004
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A sign that writing has fried my brain: I was scouting out new markets to submit stories to, and noticed that Playboy pays really well. I decided to go look at the guidelines on the Playboy website, and the first thing I thought when I got there was, "Oh, damn, Market List's link must be broken. This leads to a porn site."
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02:01:30 PM,
Thursday 27 May 2004
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We have a Libby cd!
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09:13:12 PM,
Tuesday 25 May 2004
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It's too bad I discovered this so late in the day.
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06:39:34 PM,
Tuesday 25 May 2004
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I dreamt that I was very hungry, and I kept eating things. I had waffles and chicken and salad and a fudgesicle. I couldn't understand how I could possibly still be hungry after all that until I woke up and realized that I hadn't actually eaten anything at all.
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02:42:48 PM,
Monday 24 May 2004
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Eso es amor sin dolor.
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03:55:59 AM,
Sunday 23 May 2004
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And Moss has just reminded me of riding in the car with Mirabai and Karin when Karin translated the Lisa Ekdahl song on my blogswap disc for us. What a lovely memory.
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03:47:21 AM,
Sunday 23 May 2004
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We really need more Morcheeba. Really.
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03:34:54 AM,
Sunday 23 May 2004
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There is something strangely satisfying about the fact that Tim and Erika's latest blogswap disc is good music to drink to.
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02:32:51 AM,
Sunday 23 May 2004
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Why is no one blogging for my amusement?
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08:09:01 PM,
Thursday 20 May 2004
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War!
1. "Sunday Bloody Sunday" - U2
2. "Shipbuilding" - Suede
3. "Ballad of the Soldier's Wife" - PJ Harvey
4. "Gulf War Song" - Moxy Fruvous
5. "London Calling" - The Clash
6. "For the Wars" - Clinic
7. "I Fought in a War" - Belle and Sebastian.
8. "Beach Party Vietnam" - Dead Milkmen
9. "Helicopters" - Barenaked Ladies
10. "Love/Hate" - Liz Phair
11. "Independence Day" - Ani DiFranco
12. "The Partisan" - Leonard Cohen
13. "Zombie" - The Cranberries
14. "All Along the Watchtower" - Bob Dylan
15. "Talkin' Bout a Revolution" - Tracy Chapman
16. "Still Fighting It" - Ben Folds
17. "99 Luftballons" - Nena
18. "Hello (Turn Your Radio On)" - Shakespear's Sister
19. "Sunday Bloody Sunday" - Live version possibly by Smashing Pumpkins or Radiohead.
Copies to those who ask.
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11:52:51 PM,
Wednesday 19 May 2004
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I just heard the mewing of newborn kittens! I wonder if Lucy is a mama.
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07:51:08 PM,
Wednesday 19 May 2004
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In fact, I think I will just go back to making the girlypop mix for a little while now. It's much safer.
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06:34:17 PM,
Wednesday 19 May 2004
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Upon compiling a new mix with war as the theme, I listened to Sinead O'Connor's cover of "Gloomy Sunday" and found myself wondering about making a suicide mix ("The End of the World", "Gloomy Sunday", "Seems So Long Ago, Nancy"...), but that seems like a bad idea.
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06:29:58 PM,
Wednesday 19 May 2004
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