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| Sunday, November 15th, 2009 |
coraline
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5:44p |
i am a bear of exceedingly little brain. i assume it's a combination of going to sleep at 4:30am and the toxins released from *ahem* deep tissue work (yes, i'm drinking lots of water) but when i play a dance, i can usually watch the dancers, think a few thoughts of my own, and sight-read the songs with a fair amount of facility. today i stared at the music and went "woah... that's a lot of notes. look at all those notes. how about that." it took much much more of my brain than usual to just concentrate on the playing. according to observers we sounded ok, but it was a new and trippy experience, not entirely unlike being drunk. |
gentlescholar
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2:14p |
Home sick
Canceled all work today. Faded out at the brunch, could barely make it down and up stairs to get home. Going "thud" now. |
farwing
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12:03p |
Last night I attended a most amusing party. \O/ ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) cthulhia decided that what the world really needed was some sort of Real Genius/Dune crossover: "Spice. Is. Nice." "Paul Atreides, I must compliment you on your footwear." And also crs helped compose the following to the tune of "I'm a Little Teapot": "I'm a little hedgehog short and stout, here is my tail and here is my snout." So...that was fun. Sometimes I forget to be social and then I go interact with other human beings just to see if my social skills still work and it's always nice to find that they do...good times. |
| Saturday, November 14th, 2009 |
gentlescholar
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10:28p |
Sick
Crashing soon. I've been up 10 hours. I think I'm going to try to go a week without doing any quantum mechanics. I have a lot of reading that has been piling up, and it might be good to get some of it read. But for now, THUD. |
laura47
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8:38p |
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eub
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3:17p |
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laura47
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5:01p |
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dpolicar
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4:59p |
I'm feeling hollow, a cane with all the pith gnawed out of it. I don't need prodding, don't need anything but to be left alone. "Easy for you to say."
I don't know what I expect, the baring of the talons, the first superficial swipes of the marital row that has been going on here now for the past fifteen years, and then the rending of the deeper wounds, the ones that fester. I'm ready for it, ready to fight and throw it all back at her, because she's wrong and we both know it, but she surprises me. Her hands go to her hips, then drop to her side, and I watch her take the time to compose her face. "No, John," she says finally, and she puts all the bruising power of the years into the sad low hopeless cadence of her voice, "it's not easy. It's never been easy."From T.C.Boyle's The Inner Circle. I'm just totally in love with that passage. |
mathhobbit
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3:42p |
Calendar Time
Every year I've been putting together a calendar of screenshots or photos. This year I thought I'd try inviting my friends to contribute. If you have a digital image that you think would mean something to me, feel free to show it off by linking it to a reply to this post (or email it to me if you prefer.) |
gentlescholar
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11:51a |
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| Friday, November 13th, 2009 |
dpolicar
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10:11p |
So, earlier this week a frequent contributor to a blog I read posts a lighthearted post about some serendipitous spam he'd gotten in the mail. As part of this post, he includes a picture of the cover of a porn movie, Photoshopped to nominal SFWness. The comments are full of heh-heh-heh's about the porn, except for one poster who complains about it, and is informed by several regular posters, including the site owner, that the complaints are off-topic, that this is a humorous thread about a funny coincidence and not a thread about pornography, that the thread isn't specifically about the porn image, if folks want to talk about why pornography is bad they should do so on some other thread but that derailing the thread to deconstruct pornography is inappropriate. I looked around for an appropriate other thread to post on and didn't find one, so I emailed the site owner to say that I'd been disturbed by all that and was communicating this via email rather than by commenting on the thread because I wanted to respect the site's rules about these things but didn't want to just shut up about it. The site owner replied that it was inappropriate and unfair of me to take the issue up via email after it had been specifically dealt with on the thread, and that what I should do if I can't simply drop it is either wait until someone posts about pornography, or write a guest post about the subject myself. So, on one level, OK, whatever. It's their site, it's their rules, they can do whatever they want and it isn't really any of my business. But what I'm really having trouble letting go of is that the site in question is very adamant about describing itself as a feminist blog, a progressive blog, a safe space, a community, "a blog whose contributors are resolved to endeavor always to be aware of our privilege, and, in moments of failure, remain open to criticisms and suggestions, think twice before responding defensively, and apologize when we fuck up." The porn in question was gay male twink porn, not female porn, so maybe that's consistent with feminism... I don't really know. I find the question interesting, but damned if I'm going to ask it there at this point. I'm now awfully skeptical about the rest of it, though. |
farwing
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9:37p |
I just pre-ordered the complete series of Farscape. (It was kind of...shockingly afforadable, all of a sudden.) Oh, my favorite show ever! I will soon own all of your seasons! If only SciFi hadn't cancelled you (I'm not still bitter. Nope.) I would have even more seasons to lust after. Now I can make everyone watch Farscape with me over and over again. Gleeeeee! With my new haircut I resemble a little, sleep-deprived, red-headed hedgehog. Um. *pets own head* |
gentlescholar
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8:48p |
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farwing
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7:03p |
I just got my hair cut wicked short and it is wicked cute and the stylist at Floyd's Barbershop that cut my hair was mean and awesome and I acted like a six-year-old on a sugar high which is not that unusual, really. Plus, my hair is awesome and non-annoying and I am definitely going back there to get my hair cut from now on. *spins around in a circle* I should go eat dinner now. |
dpolicar
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2:40p |
So, this article about a murder in Kentucky has a whole lot of tragic and ironic and etc. to go around, but the thing that is really sticking with me is the following stat, delivered incidentally: "Nationally, about a third of female murder victims are killed by a husband or boyfriend each year, according to the Justice Department." Holy fuck. |
bluepapercup
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10:48a |
what a difference a week makes!
Funny how a little bit of taking care of my body goes a long way. My "eating bread once a day" experiment seems to be going really well. I've had many less stomach aches this week and Scott mentioned that I looked less puffy. I am going to continue for the rest of the month and see if I keep feeling well. My poor achillies tendon is doing somewhat better. I stopped running completely and have been trying to take walks (swimming was not logistically possible this week). Thanks to the advice you all gave me, I have been icing it and stretching. I've also been putting arnica cream on it at my mom's suggestion, and Scott gave me a footrub that helped relax my ankle. So overall, I feel pretty good. I went flying twice this week and had a remedial lesson with a different instructor. She's completely awesome and I wish I'd done my primary training with her. But that's okay. I'll do my instrument with her, probably. :) Scott and I are off this weekend to Northern-Northern California (Ferndale, to be exact) to visit a friend of his who has a house in the redwoods and forty acres. It should be very beautiful, and somewhat relaxing, and I will sit on the deck and get work done while the guys go and do...guy things. :) I'm feeling hopeful. One day at a time, and I'll get there eventually. Current Mood: pleased |
fin9901
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1:01p |
Born on December 25? If you'd rather, celebrate your birthday today!
Robert Louis Stevenson, with whom I share a birthday, offered his birthday, November 13, to Annie Ide, since as he put it, she "was born, out of all reason, upon Christmas Day, and is therefore out of all justice denied the consolation and profit of a proper birthday". Therefore, I'm making the same offer to anyone born on December 25: if you'd rather celebrate your birthday on a different day, please feel free to use mine, November 13. |
dpolicar
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12:39p |
Darwin and depression
Can I just say here that building a self-monitoring system such that it loses when ill the motivation to do things that maintain its health is not good design? Though it's still an unbelievably impressive accomplishment for soup. |
dpolicar
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10:16a |
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mathhobbit
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10:13a |
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laura47
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3:57a |
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laura47
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1:29a |
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| Thursday, November 12th, 2009 |
gentlescholar
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11:20p |
Still (or again) sick
I realize I have not been sure I was well since before baby S. was born. This is annoying, as it has been over two weeks now. A sore throat has flared up today. I'll keep my distance, although I would have been very happy to visit, stare at baby, and play Dominion with ringrose. On the bright side, it hasn't been bad enough that I felt compelled to cancel work. |
dougo
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7:01p |
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laura47
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6:15p |
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