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Friday, October 10th, 2008
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1:08a
just got home from dinner and a movie with em and julian. I had a great time, it was nice to get out. I think, overall, today has been the best day ive had in a loooooong time. I needed this. I only hope this wont leave me more down and disappointed later in the week, which is unfortunately the trend that things have been following lately, but im going to try to hold on to this.
in cat bite news, omg oww. during the movie, it swelled up about a half inch above where my normal skin level is, and has bruised beautifully. the left hand isnt bad except when i touch direclty on the puctures, except the one on the inside of my pointer finger, which throbs a little, but the real pain is in the righthand (and thats also the swelling i was mentioning) I cant move my ring, middle or pinky fingers w/out excruciating pain. theres a good solid ache when i move my pointer. my thumb is free and clear though, yay. I cant fully close nor open my hand. and if i just run a finger over my skin at the lowest knuckle of my ring finger it makes me want to scraeam. fun fun times, really. driving back here from julians was fairly miserable as i was constantly needing to shift. stupid manual transmission. imma go take a bunch of ibuprofen and go to bed, cross my fingers it will be better in the morning.
despite all this, buddy seems to be back to his old self and wanting to snuggle so at least i know he's not scarred from all of this.
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(7 comments | comment on this) Saturday, October 4th, 2008
postsecret
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11:19a
Sunday Secrets
http://postsecret.blogspot.com/2008/10/sunday-secrets.html
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people
mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.
-----Email Message-----
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 4:23 PM
Subject: Twin brother
This is my worst fear, that my husband will sleep with my twin sister if we were to ever divorce. This fear alone will ensure we never divorce.
-----Email Message-----
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 6:43 AM
Subject: beating heart
Someone can see now through my mum's eyes. I wish, instead, that she could still be looking at me with them.
-----Email Message-----
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: beating heart
his heart must have been beautiful and strong.
i wish my brother's life had been the one he saved.
-----Email Message-----
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 3:16 PM
Subject: Secret Code
I figured it out. Turns out I was deciphering my own secret. I'm going to get over my fear, I'm going to go for it.
-----Email Message-----
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 9:56 AM
Subject: Secret Code
A PostSecret Community teen recently shared in a forum she couldn't share her secrets as her Mom read her diary and knew her id on PSC. This reminded me how my mother read my diary and reminded me of a secret I had.
Since I had no outlet for expressing my anger, I would write my thoughts in acronyms. I knew exactly what I was saying, but no one else ever would. It was my secret way to let the anger out.
The interesting aspect of this is I would often go back to the writings and what I previously said would now be a mystery even to me. It was my secret yet I couldn't decipher it.
---Email Message----
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 2:11 AM
Subject: Russian secret
Я обожаю видеть русские секреты, тогда я чуствую что я не одна.
-----Email Message-----
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 5:06 PM
Subject: from student from Syracuse University
I'll be sure to be extra nice the next time I visit.
-----Email Message-----
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: Copy Centers secret
I KNEW IT!
This year a UK and Korean edition of the PostSecret book came out and there are official versions of the website in French, German, Spanish and Korean. This week on Frank's PostSecret Blog on MySpace I interview Brian Cotlove who runs PostSecretFrance.
Hi Brian, can you explain how you started PostSecretFrance?
Being a longtime fan of PostSecret, I always found the foreign language secrets to be the most interesting and appealing to me. I think it's incredible how secrets can cross cultural and language barriers with ease. So I combined my love of the French language and culture with my love of PostSecret, made this video in French and PostSecretFrance was born.
Can you share a postcard with us that has a personal meaning for you and explain why it is special to you?
My favorite secret that I have gotten so far is the simplest one. It's scrawled on a Post-It note and says, "I'm mailing this card because I have the feeling that I'm going to meet the person who will change my life on the way to the post office."
I'm actually kind of jealous of this person because they seem so unfailingly positive and confident. Yet at the same time this secret constantly reminds me how I am able to do just what this person did. I'm amazed every time I read it at how just a little Post-It note can make me feel.
What is a secret about yourself you have never shared before?
(Read the rest of this interview at Frank's PostSecret Blog on MySpace.)
The Today Show will be filming the Tuesday PostSecret Event at the University of Virginia (sold-out). Another PostSecret Event this week will be held at Vanderbilt University (sold-out).
(The Full 2008 Schedule)
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dot_pet_snark
[ paigemom ]
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2:29p
Dear Milo's Mom
I think it's great you bring your husky mix Milo to the dog park, really I do.
However, I would like to point out a couple of things to you.
One -- you live in a small town on the edge of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin. Therefore, I am pretty sure that if you left your cell phone at home for the hour you're at the dog park, civilization as we know it will not come to a crashing halt because you didn't answer your cell every five minutes.
Two -- Milo is a sweet dog, but your preoccupation with saving the world one cell phone call at a time means you miss some things. Like the poop he had over there that you didn't clean up. And the near-fight he started with that other male dog over there.
A little more attentiveness and a little less social chatting on your cell would be much appreciated.
Thank you.
Me.
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thesaneminority
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1:15a
Berlin would have been nicer if this hadn't happened.
I realize I was there a month ago, but I want to talk about my trip to Berlin for a bit.
Because we were all in the same area, I went to Berlin with the other two exchange students, Ashley and Emily. They're not bad people, and I like them up to a certain point, but I'm not entirely fond of spending an extended period of time with them. Ashley a bit on the air-headed side; Emily is bossy, can get pretty bitchy, and likes backhanded, passive-aggressive comments; and they both come across as the "popular" type that likes to make people like me a pet project of sorts and really believes they're doing them a favor. I'm okay with them when they're not together (when they're together it just feels like they're ganging up on me) and if I'm only spending a couple hours with them. That said, I was initially glad they were going with me to Berlin because I'm not entirely comfortable walking around a strange city by myself - I probably would have (A) gotten lost, and (B) given up after seeing a couple things and gone back to the hostel to relax. I'm kinda lazy that way.
Berlin was fun, and for the most part the girls were enjoyable company. The part where they started to annoy me was when we were going to different museums on the "Late Night at the Museum" program. I wanted to see the museums that were related to World War II and the Cold War, specifically Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, the Jewish Museum, Topography of Terror, and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. (I also wanted to go to the Gay Museum, but they immediately vetoed that. Sorry, but the link is in German.)
The first thing Emily asked me after I said that I wanted to visit these places was "Are you Jewish?" No, I'm not. "Then why do are you so interested in these museums?" Excuse me? I can't be interested in a specific period of history unless I'm connected to it in some way? I like history, and I've been interested in the Holocaust ever since my dad told me about Anne Frank (which was around third or fourth grade - hooray for morbid fascination at a young age, eh?). It's really no one's business why I'm interested, anyway - all I wanted to know was if they would go or not. In retrospect, I should have just split off from them and gone by myself.
We went to the museums at night. Now, I realize that we were trying to go through a lot of stuff in very little time, but when we got to the museums, I would read the plaques and look at the exhibits and try to absorb as much as I could, while they pretty much ran through the entire thing and dragged me away before I was even halfway through looking. I don't know about anyone else, but I'd rather take my time and see less museums, but get more information and a better understanding of the subject, than run to as many museums as possible just to say I was there. Hell, I already knew more about the Holocaust and the Cold War than they did! They could have stood to learn more about the history of the country they were visiting.
What really pissed me off, though, was the next day. I was already in a grumpy mood, because my feet were covered in blisters and I couldn't walk too fast. We visited the memorial, and after walking through it we sat down on one of the concrete blocks to talk about what we were going to do next. I would have preferred a bench, but getting those girls to move would have been like trying to teach a dog to talk. Anyway, I was drinking from my water bottle, and Ashley pulled out a little bottle of wine she'd bought and started to drink from that. A guard came up to us and told us politely that alcohol is banned on the memorial grounds, and asked Ashley to put the bottle away. When he walked away, Emily started asking why we couldn't drink there, and I told her "Well, people litter, and if people got drunk here there's a possibility they'd try to damage the memorial or something."
Cue her whining "We wouldn't do that, though!" I tried telling her that it doesn't matter if she wouldn't do it, because the guards don't know her from Adam and for all they know she would do just that. It didn't go over very well. I just gave up and let her pout about it, and all was well until Ashley decided they needed some funny pictures.
There's a tower in Berlin, the Fernsehturm ("television tower"), and it has a visitor platform that's circular and makes the tower look like someone stuck a kebab skewer through a silver golf ball. Ashley got the idea to do one of those pictures where, if you pose right, it looks like you're holding a person/tree/building/whatever in your hands. This required her and Emily to stand on one of the concrete blocks. She asked if I'd take the photos, and I told her very calmly that I didn't think it was very appropriate to take silly "I'm having so much fun, wee!" pictures at a Holocaust memorial. They couldn't seem to understand why I felt this way, even when I told them that it's incredibly disrespectful to treat a memorial, dedicated to millions of people who were tortured and murdered just because they didn't fit some lunatic's idea of the perfect human being, like a playground. (Speaking of which, I was also pretty appalled at the people who were climbing on the blocks and jumping from one to another. Do people not realize where they are?) They took the pictures themselves, and after that they were finally ready to go, but they were still acting like I was just a big party pooper.
I'm still kind of mad at how dismissive they were of the whole thing (on top of being pissed off that they rushed me through the stuff I wanted to see, and then got mad when I my feet hurt so bad that I was too slow to keep up and didn't want to go to some of the stuff they wanted to see, and the fact that they never actually waited for me - they just kept walking ahead until they were about a block ahead, which is a great way for us to get separated and for me to get lost, and Ashley had our subway and train ticket so we really couldn't afford to get separated), but at least we didn't have the opportunity to visit a concentration camp. If they'd tried to pull that kind of stunt there I think I would have hit them. I'm so glad I was by myself in Munich - though I'm curious as to what my Dachau tour guide would have done to them.
current mood:  annoyed
current music: Electric Six - I Don't Like You
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(5 comments | comment on this) Friday, October 3rd, 2008
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stupid_free
[ rustyangel ]
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3:36p
Bipolar? Congratulations, you're stupid.
Little bit of mental illness wank going on in ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) mock_the_stupid. ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) stufro posts an article about a woman who died in a fit of road rage by ramming her car into another vehicle, then revving the engine until her tires wore down and the ensuing sparks set the brake fluid on fire. She proceeded to refuse help from a bystander, and died in the fire. The article mentions that the woman suffered from bipolar disorder.
There are a few comments about how the woman deserves a Darwin Award, and eventually super_loulou comes along and expresses disgust at the reactions of the community. According to iniadelphinae, though, mental illness is not an excuse, and the woman's actions were still stupid.
deannab draws a comparison to having bipolar disorder and using drugs and alcohol.
eternalism lets us know that "mood swings don't typically make one so damn idiotic." (After all, that's all bipolar is, right? Mood swings? I've gotten pretty crabby from PMS in my day, and I've managed not to incinerate myself!)
I'm still keeping my fingers crossed that someone will call opalcat out on letting that post through, although I'm sure she'll try to claim she approved it so we could mock the OP.
current mood: mood swingy
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thesaneminority
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9:06p
So, my host mom is in the hospital until Monday. Apparently she got really dizzy at work and had to go to the hospital, and they're keeping her for a while because her blood pressure was waaaaay too high. I hope she's okay. =/
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(comment on this) Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
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stupid_free
[ yenesi ]
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3:53p
Autism vs Vaccines: Take 3,456
OH HAY, stupid_free!
It's time to get out your tin foil hats* because onceuponatime18 is on a one woman crusade to prove that the government created autism, and/or diet and environmental changes did, and that vaccines are totes bad! We're all just glib, yo.
She goes on to show everyone her learnings here, here, here, and here. Here too.
But she's okay and safe because she doesn't drink American water, and has a strict diet.
And if you don't agree you're a sexist.
*I realize one link is duplicated, but please, don't make me go back and fix it. FIXED! It was the link for the word 'tin'.
ETA:
If you're interested in the original article at all: Jenny McCarthy is a moron.
ETA LIKE A MO-FO:
onceuponatime18 is icequeenscully, who you may remember from such batshit entries in sf_drama here, and the follow up to that post here... And this post in s_f too... That's a lot of crazy.
*tiajuanabible did inspire the theme of this post, so credit is given where credit is due, bb.
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stupid_free
[ anendlessnight ]
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1:07a
Forgive me stupid_free, I know this is meta and a bit grudgey and all, but sf_drama is apparently on moderated posting now and this seriously needs a bigger audience.
I can't decide which is more LOLtastic.
harpen15 thinking that commercial slaughterhouses and farms are more humane than responsible hunting, and a better use of the military, AND an efficient use of government bureaucracy...
OR
harpen15 thinking that all the miracles of modern American society are automatically good for everyone...
OR
harpen15 responding to a snarky jibe on the internet as if someone just spit on his Obama/Biden bumper sticker.
Seriously, "My very active sex life has nothing to do with hunting, motherfucker." is the funniest goddamn thing I've read on the internet in a very long time. Transference, overcompensation, deflection and misdirection...Freud must be masturbating in his grave right now.
ETA: HUNTERS = SERIAL KILLERS U GUISE. U GUISE, SERIOUSLY, WE'RE ALL FUCKED!!!
current mood:  amused
current music: Mates of State - Help Help | Scrobbled by Last.fm
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