Down in that space where noone fits, most of all me. Why did I spend 3 hours freezing my ass off hanging out with the most boring straights I've ever met? Left early. Not like we would be missed anyway. Trying to reconcile the "presentable" foreign service life with what's more my style tears me apart sometimes. Nobody swears. Everyone's dressed rather preppy. If they...
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remyx:
merry christmas, stranger! 
mya22:
HIIII!! 
Long time no see! I hope everything is good with you!
Long time no see! I hope everything is good with you! 29 Days and I am gone! GOOD RIDDANCE SRI LANKA!!! I can say truly that this place has been hell, and I won't miss anything except the ridiculously cheap gems. Which I plan to buy a lot of so I can wade in them like Scrooge McDuck. Maybe at some point I'll get back to wanting to socialize again, but at the moment I'm only...
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elfboy:
Happy Valentine's Day, Oh Gorgeous One.......
remyx:
you still hanging in there?? just about two weeks to go, if i am counting correctly.
Happy Valentine's Day
Happy Valentine's Day
I know I haven't responded to people; sorry about that. I've gotten dozens of emails, some from people I don't even know, asking me how I am, wanting their own personal human interest story. I don't have the energy to email all these people and tell some of them to fuck off because they couldn't be bothered to send me a Christmas card before all...
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ltrain:
Whatever! YOu hate us all. Admit it.
Oh... Sri Lanka was hit by the tsunami... are you ok??? Need relief funds?
Oh... Sri Lanka was hit by the tsunami... are you ok??? Need relief funds?
paleenchantress:
how are you doing darling ?? i hope ok !
Well, I'm not dead. I can't even see any damage around town. It's kind of bizarre really - people are calling me about the disaster area I'm supposed to be in and I'm looking out my window going "uh, looks all right to me..."
I can't believe some of the callous bullshit I've heard, about races, nationalities, vacationers, what type of people drowned, who wants...
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elfboy:
Hi. Me again. I was going to send this to you personally, but decided a public letter might reach more people with connections to aid agencies. PLEASE forward it to anyone it might benefit.
I have spent many years using my knowledge of herbalism to aid the homeless & poor in the Boston area. I have worked w/ fundraising agencies as a script & campaign consultant for disaster relief in major organisations, including @ least one Presidency. Thus, I must send these suggestions....
Firstly.... Contact the local herbalists, botanists and biologists in the affected areas. MANY plants, trees,(inluding the roots & bark) herbs, mushrooms & weeds have high quantities of vitamins & minerals. They should still be edible even w/ a little salt exposure. Water Distillation- easily accomplished-Cappucino machines with long tubes attached to allow the water to become liquid... Pots w/ firmly affixed lids, & a hose affixed will also serve the same purpose. Alcohol added to the water in fractional doses. It will reduce germs, and has high vitamin mineral and oil content. All the water soluable minerals, oils & vitamins in the grain used to make the alcohol in non wine beverages are included in the fermented beverage, in high doses. Herbalists often boil the herbs & ingredients in herbal medication, served as teas. Wine is good for the heart, & generally has high iron content ( notice how it makes your poop black?, & beer makes your pee brown? that's vitamins & minerals) Yogurt is high in electrolites & protein & contains acidophyllis bacteria (a digestive enzyme which help metabolize food, & would be an excellent additive to the usual gruels fed to starvation victims (served cool as to not kiull the bacteria) Curries EXTREMELY HEALTHY & contain herbs and spices that help prevent food borne illness causes by rotting food. I would also recommend discussing local diuretics & eliminatives (stuff that makes you poop & pee) with the local and or visiting herbalists housewifes and nutritionists.... They will help release the toxins & free radicals caused by stress> They will also remove toxins created by ingestion of improper nutrients caused by desperation & illness. Iodine is essential. It affects the pituitary gland which governs the funtions of all the glands & chakras. Sodium affects or (sooths) the heart. Dehydrationoften affects the heart & blood pressure in negative ways, often creating what may seem to be mental illness, or a breakdown of the mental faculties of an otherwise physically healthy person (so watch the booze). Chocolate can affect this positively, as it is high in niacin & magnesium, essential in a steady heart rhythm.
Ginger & any other locally available appetite stimulants will improve the desire to eat properly, which may be absent in cases of depression. Vitamin C is instrumental (ie rosehips or the local equivilent) in maintaing immunity to illness....
I could go on, but the point is made..
I will trust that the dissemination of this information will inspire ideas w/in people in similar circles....
Oh yeah.... The local churches most likely have individuals w/ this knowledge who could better serve the people by using IT insted of hauling sacks of donated goods.
Sugars, Proteins, grains and Iodized Salt will be the real beneficial goods. All the other nutrients should available
locally in the higher regions, unless the landscape is flat..
I know... a lot to swallow.....but this is somewhat uncommon knowledge which will be of great benefit if distributed properly....
Good luck... write me if you have questions....or just want to say Hi.
I have spent many years using my knowledge of herbalism to aid the homeless & poor in the Boston area. I have worked w/ fundraising agencies as a script & campaign consultant for disaster relief in major organisations, including @ least one Presidency. Thus, I must send these suggestions....
Firstly.... Contact the local herbalists, botanists and biologists in the affected areas. MANY plants, trees,(inluding the roots & bark) herbs, mushrooms & weeds have high quantities of vitamins & minerals. They should still be edible even w/ a little salt exposure. Water Distillation- easily accomplished-Cappucino machines with long tubes attached to allow the water to become liquid... Pots w/ firmly affixed lids, & a hose affixed will also serve the same purpose. Alcohol added to the water in fractional doses. It will reduce germs, and has high vitamin mineral and oil content. All the water soluable minerals, oils & vitamins in the grain used to make the alcohol in non wine beverages are included in the fermented beverage, in high doses. Herbalists often boil the herbs & ingredients in herbal medication, served as teas. Wine is good for the heart, & generally has high iron content ( notice how it makes your poop black?, & beer makes your pee brown? that's vitamins & minerals) Yogurt is high in electrolites & protein & contains acidophyllis bacteria (a digestive enzyme which help metabolize food, & would be an excellent additive to the usual gruels fed to starvation victims (served cool as to not kiull the bacteria) Curries EXTREMELY HEALTHY & contain herbs and spices that help prevent food borne illness causes by rotting food. I would also recommend discussing local diuretics & eliminatives (stuff that makes you poop & pee) with the local and or visiting herbalists housewifes and nutritionists.... They will help release the toxins & free radicals caused by stress> They will also remove toxins created by ingestion of improper nutrients caused by desperation & illness. Iodine is essential. It affects the pituitary gland which governs the funtions of all the glands & chakras. Sodium affects or (sooths) the heart. Dehydrationoften affects the heart & blood pressure in negative ways, often creating what may seem to be mental illness, or a breakdown of the mental faculties of an otherwise physically healthy person (so watch the booze). Chocolate can affect this positively, as it is high in niacin & magnesium, essential in a steady heart rhythm.
Ginger & any other locally available appetite stimulants will improve the desire to eat properly, which may be absent in cases of depression. Vitamin C is instrumental (ie rosehips or the local equivilent) in maintaing immunity to illness....
I could go on, but the point is made..
I will trust that the dissemination of this information will inspire ideas w/in people in similar circles....
Oh yeah.... The local churches most likely have individuals w/ this knowledge who could better serve the people by using IT insted of hauling sacks of donated goods.
Sugars, Proteins, grains and Iodized Salt will be the real beneficial goods. All the other nutrients should available
locally in the higher regions, unless the landscape is flat..
I know... a lot to swallow.....but this is somewhat uncommon knowledge which will be of great benefit if distributed properly....
Good luck... write me if you have questions....or just want to say Hi.
elfboy:
Love, Elfy... 
My friend just wrote to tell me that someone gave her a friggin TARANTULA for a Secret Santa gift. Her helpful hints were "Okay. I know I"m the resident token goth kid on this board, so feel free to run with that. I really do like vampires and ghosts and skeletons and bats and spiders and things..." I guess someone took her seriously - that...
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peart:
I can't think of anything either. Happy Holidays
articulus:
every christmas i get a tennis racket made of chocolate. i don't play tennis; nor does the person who gives it to me. it's deliciously inexplicable.
happy festivus.
happy festivus.
i don't even know where to begin but I'd rather not anyway. i'm lucky to still have a job and lucky that people have been willing to help me but it's about as much luck as finding a penny stuck to the floor of a Vegas casino after you've lost your life savings and your wife to some jackass millionaire.
no worry and sympathy and...
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elfboy:
Thar you be!!!! Lassy, we wondered!!
What would distract you?
errrr....
I'll thinka something..
Wanna see my.......?
I've missed my favourite diplomat!
What would distract you?
errrr....
I'll thinka something..
Wanna see my.......?
I've missed my favourite diplomat!
I can hear the echo
In a maze of words
A lonely voice behind a door
Can you hear me calling
From a world away
A lonely voice behind a door
As I stare ahead
A dream ahead
Across the ocean
Cross an ocean where there's nothing to explain
You tell me God is laughing in the rain
In a maze of words
A lonely voice behind a door
Can you hear me calling
From a world away
A lonely voice behind a door
As I stare ahead
A dream ahead
Across the ocean
Cross an ocean where there's nothing to explain
You tell me God is laughing in the rain
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scagnetti:
drowning color
spiraled into pupil black
cant see breath
Eye
I
Die.
spiraled into pupil black
cant see breath
Eye
I
Die.
less disturbing facts for the day:
The patron saint of homosexuals, bus drivers, taxi drivers, job seekers and migrants is Sarita Colonia who was born in Lima in 1926 and died in 1952 and is buried in Cementerio Baquijano in Callao.
Elvis' nickname for his penis was "Little Elvis".
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S. than real ones.
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip...
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The patron saint of homosexuals, bus drivers, taxi drivers, job seekers and migrants is Sarita Colonia who was born in Lima in 1926 and died in 1952 and is buried in Cementerio Baquijano in Callao.
Elvis' nickname for his penis was "Little Elvis".
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S. than real ones.
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip...
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nocontrol:
Thomas Jefferson (who died just hours apart from John Adams) actually passed away from severe dehydration caused by chronic dysentery.
elfboy:
Most under-rated moment in TV history: The original Waltons episode, which was a Christmas special. Mama Walton walks up to Johnboys room raps on the door, & sez, "Johnboy, what you doin' in that room all by yourself w/ the door locked"?
No more bombings since last week. We'll see. In the meantime the morbid "head" jokes are a-flyin' around the embassy. Usually the skull is strong enough to stay intact compared to the weak attachments at the neck, so they often find the head of the suicide bomber intact, and in some cases it becomes a deadly projectile. I don't know about this one, but they...
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jimmyjoe:
my gawd..I didn't know that....It's morbid but fascinating.....
jihemmmmm
jihemmmmm
punkrockphoto:
damn... i just hope is not my head.. cuz i lost my head a long time ago!!
BOOM. 
See those nifty headlines about the suicide bomber in Sri Lanka today? That was across the street from me. Totally unrelated and westerners aren't the targets 'round these parts, but still... First I'm in the closest apartment complex to the Pentagon, and now this... I hope this doesn't become a trend - for me or for Sri Lanka. Though honestly, it did relieve the...
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See those nifty headlines about the suicide bomber in Sri Lanka today? That was across the street from me. Totally unrelated and westerners aren't the targets 'round these parts, but still... First I'm in the closest apartment complex to the Pentagon, and now this... I hope this doesn't become a trend - for me or for Sri Lanka. Though honestly, it did relieve the... Read More
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yuriel:
i like bombs
and blowing up shit
but not people
im glad youre ok!
i like bombs
and blowing up shit
but not people
im glad youre ok!
unknowntrigram:
kinda doubt it at the place i'm gonna be working.
gonna be doing breakfast/lunch short order stuff for an AA club.
drink or drug and you are out.
gonna be doing breakfast/lunch short order stuff for an AA club.
drink or drug and you are out.
2 things:
acupuncture really works, and
I win the message board contest for living further away from where I was born than anyone (9720 miles a.t.c.f.)
acupuncture really works, and
I win the message board contest for living further away from where I was born than anyone (9720 miles a.t.c.f.)
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unknowntrigram:
If you are ever in Indy I'll give you a Reiki session. It is cool. I do it for donation. Whatever you feel like you should give. *shrug* (they are normally like 70 bucks for 1 hour)
Acupuncture is cool. I hear that there is a way to make someone never smoke again w/ it. But if they fuck up... you can't hear out of one ear.
Acupuncture is cool. I hear that there is a way to make someone never smoke again w/ it. But if they fuck up... you can't hear out of one ear.
I hope things are going well!
I always leave feeling REALLY grateful to be who I am...then I call someone who's like me and we have a good laugh!