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When ratting out frat boys the only thing to feel bad about is that you didn't do it sooner...

Living in NYC, it's fucking impossible to not be surrounded by at least a couple noisy neighbors. The last really awful ones we had were indeed college boys that probably weren't in a frat (they went to art school) but they might as well have been. I was constantly getting into it with those guys, and then they always managed to make it look like I was being a downer. Grrrrrrr!

I'm pretty sure that most stolen robin's eggs are the result of industrious crows. I'm glad that you thought 4 eggs looked odd. I did too.

What do you mean you have to take pictures to get over the kitten killing talk?

Masturbating a bit too much lately perchance?

I never call my mom, cause she talks too much too!
And it's always negative.
The other day she was telling me about her trip to see my grandmother on mother's day, and she told me some stuff and then actually said "Hmm, I guess that's all the bad stuff I can think of that happened".

Meaning she was done with her side of the story.



[Edited on May 24, 2006 9:30AM]

HaHa! Plum! HaHa!

Actually I made and refined that list at work.
A coworker and i were wondering one day if we even liked 100 bands, so we decided to find out...

Actually, his #1, The Doors, didn't even make it onto my list!

Led Zepplin will make their appearance soon enough, child...

As for fruit, I would have to say a large banana. No, but seriously, a dried apricot.

He's quite the pretty one.

And thanks for your short essay on sucking. It made me laugh. You truly do rock.

Hey, sorry, I've been kind of absent, I haven't been on SG much this last week! I was just looking back at some of your other trip pictures, what an amazing time you must have had!! I toured Italy in '97, but I didn't get to see Cinque Terre which I REALLY wanted to see!! And that town Cassis in France sounds amazing! I really love birch trees and lavendar and who doesn't like half naked, impeccably bronzed French folks?
The coconut ice cream sounds to-die-for, I would have to break down and try a bite.

When I was in Spain I was looking for a "no a la guerra" t-shirt, but I couldn't find one.
I'm happy that you were able to score one though!!!
And I missed out on a flamenco concert too, although we had been hoping to squeeze one in! We were so busy in Madrid and Barcelona, and then we went up to the Northern Coast to El Sardinero in Santander, and I liked it there sooooo much that we ended up staying for four nights. We had this really great, cheap room (it was off-season), that was on the fourth floor of a seaside hotel that had this great view of the ocean and promenade!!! We did a bunch of side trips from there, but it was so nice to just relax someplace beautiful with almost zero Americans.
Okay, back to work for me! Hope you're well!

Beautiful pictures and stories. I've got the travel bug in me, but I've had to take travel bug antibiotics to calm the little sucker down. I always try to keep a travel journal, but I'm never good about writing stuff down, especially because I write and read very slowly by hand. By computer it's different though. I can type out a whole mess of stuff because I think nonlinearly and I'm able to cut-paste and insert everything so it's properly comprehendable.

The Me'Shell album that I have is Peace Beyond Passion. At first, I was a little put off by her song structures, but it grew on me, and I came to appreciate it as the work of her well-honed personal style, and inspired me to seek my own voice musically.

I'd like to check out the albums that you mentioned, thanks for your detailed takes on them!

I believe that many people can find in them a means for creative expression, but every person is different and has to go through their own process to uncover and hone their creative virtues. I myself can't draw worth crap. In high school, my friends were forming a nirvana cover band and I was relegated to the bass. I was bummed, but when I picked up that sucker, it was love at first pluck.

I heard Bush speaking to a group of senior citizens regarding his pharmaceutical plan for seniors. I won't go into the story since it's pretty involved, but after some of his patented rambling that made it clear to everyone that he had no idea how this program worked, he went on to say:

"well, you don't have to sign up for it if you don't want to."

I heard this and my head totally asploded.

Nothing WAS as good as the original Law & Order. Then Jerry Orbach died. I was so sad when that happened.

I'm being super careful about who I'm going to meet. It took me a number of months to actually meet Jeff. I intend to take things really slowly with anyone I find interesting. I won't even give my email address out until we've covered ground in the eHarmony open communication thing. Of course, that's always assuming things even progress with people. They are thus far, though. I've got four or five active matches at the moment, two of whom opened communication with me. Makes me feel all fuzzy inside.

Getting my hair done is the only nice thing I ever do for myself. I always make sure that, in addition to my bills, I have money to do that. Of course, this month my mom footed the bill. I don't really know why...

Twin Peaks is awesome. So was Requiem for a Dream. I don't have the soundtrack, but I've always heard wonderful things about it. I'll probably pick it up sometime in the nearish future to see what all the rage is about.

Well, this was a long comment. I'll close with your questions again.

Reading: The same thing as last time
Listening: Assorted Front 242 songs
Writing: A new story! It's only in its really early stages, though. And I'm editing a really old story.
Eating: Blackberry Harvest Yoplait.
Smelling: My yogurt
Feeling: Hopeful at all the job prospects who now have my resume and/or application
Wishing: That I'll be able to go to Lollapalooza again this year

[Edited on May 10, 2006 4:16PM]

I'm afraid my summer time sleeping bag stories now consist of digging a sleeping bag out of the closet so one of my kids can sleep in it after pissing the bed.

...what a difference 20 years can make eh?

Now tell me a good story damnit!!

5 hours away? - i think i could just about drive to every point in the UK in 5 hours (and a decent bit of the continent) He must have been pretty special!


Bands over the next few weeks are Todd Snider monday, Jason Mraz the week after then Josh Rouse.

Ps - everyone is a hippie on the inside

I`ve been on the site for quite a while now and find that you really can come to know people through journals and groups.

Or at least a sense of them. Most local groups have organised meetings with no problems. I haven`t heard any horror stories anyway.

Keep well

Ha! I don't think you'd want me as your personal chef, I do the same thing as you and end up eating the same few things over and over. Avocado sandwiches, cereal, smoothies, soup & salad are what you'd mostly get.
I do like to try new recipes, but only when I'm in the mood, which isn't as often as I like.
I always fantasize to my friend Mike that if I ever win the lottery I'm hiring a live in masseuse/greens chef. I love vegetables, but I hate cleaning, cutting & cooking them. I guess I'm going to need to start buying lottery tickets for this to happen though.
Hope you're having a great weekend!
p.s. I like to sniff old books too.

Have you read Richard Bach? It is all great, however if you have not, I reccommend Illusions. That + Neville Shute's 'Round the Bend are similar stories told two entirely different ways, and both make me so happy.

And yes, I am that type of person -- however I am exceptionally kind to my books (once I have read a book, one can hardly tell it has ever been opened), so for the longest time I would put a bookmark on each spot, rather than underlining/highlighting. So I have a lot of books fat with a lot of bookmarks. Now that I have found a highlighter that does not bleed through the pages, I use it.

That is a very large hail stone. I've never seen one that big here.

I'm with ya on the getting in shape thing. Tell you what, you get in shape and I'll keep eating chips! deal?

Mmmm...Indian feast. The last Indian feast I had was a trip over to my cousin Lard Ass's house for some Moose meat. I had to keep smacking his pet racoons hands off my plate!! Ahhh memories.

Of course he's native Indian not East.

HolaGatita: where do you shop??? (goddamn lame midwest...)

Hi, yes, I am lucky enough to live in the very veg friendly Seattle area. Don't you have a Whole Foods there or any health food stores? :-(
Trader Joes maybe? You need to get your ass to one of the coasts.
Mmmmmm Indian buffets are gooooood.
Nice hail, but it looks like dim sum.