Friday was about delicious expensive restaurant food; Saturday, dancing like maniacs; Sunday, hiking.

This weekend deserved a medal.

When I want to feel random I usually listen Holy Fuck.

I kind of miss home atm.

So, the US immigration website is completely counterituitive and it tells me nothing.

However, according to the Canadian immigration website, I can go and work in Canada, should I so desire.

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Today was a grey, bleak, dismal day made me cry.

But then I saw ( this )

Yesterday, I pretty much fell flat on my face.

Today, I walked into a door and almost tripped down some stairs.

seeing other people happy makes me sad, not that i don't want them to be
or i'm jealous or anything like that.

it's just that it reminds me of the many things that i don't have, probably will never have, in my life,
but i'm still hopeful.

I am being sought after by a 20 year old composition/piano major.

I am more than happy with my 21 year old psych major.

I fucked up on my accounting midterm so badly that even with perfect scores for the next six weeks, I'll still fail the class by 2%.

Ouch.

On top of being proposed to out of the blue by a guy I don't even like, there's even more "wtf" news in my life.

I just found out that the guy I do like is currently engaged in a threesome with my friend's co-worker and her boyfriend.

My friend's dad, Tom Chan, painted this bookmark.
 

It's in watercolour, so it really captures that ethereal presence of the Northern Lights. Inspired by my love of these Lights, and of this painting, I wrote the following poem. Enjoy.

I bought the best chocolate milk today, in a glass bottle from a local farm.
It's so delicious, cold and creamy, and it made my day.

I think I would function well working at a hospice.

I have a tendency to not get emotionally attached to people.

Hi all,

I have a character taking a train from Kiev to Kolomyya, Ukraine, and I'm trying to figure out what she would see as the train approaches the station in Kolomyya. At the moment I have this line, which is based off of several searches in Google Images, Flikr, Photobucket, etc.

"The rolling farmland outside the window gradually sprouted buildings and turned into the less savory view that always seems to characterize the portions of cities near railroad tracks."

Long shot, but is there anyone here who has entered Kolomyya by train? Am I reasonably close, or completely off base?

Thanks!

Where: Commack (Long Island), New York. US
When: Main Character was born in the mid-1950's to Italian-American family. Story takes place in 1985.
Situation: Main character is having a conversation with a colleague from Chicago about sports teams that they cheered for as kids.

My character was born in the mid-1950s and lived in Commack, NY until he was 18. Would he have been a fan of the New York Giants football team, even if they had didn't make the playoffs from 1964 to 1980? Or would he have been a Jets (Titans of New York) fan even though the team didn't exist until 1960?

What about baseball? In the late 1950's, both the NY Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers moved out West. The NY Mets didn't actually start playing until 1962. Would he become by default, a Yankees fan?

From my research, I know that a Yankeets/Jets fan is a rare combination, since the Jets and the Mets are considered more of the "working class" teams.

As far as my Chicagoan, I know that North Siders are generally Cubs fans and South Siders are generally Sox fans. If my MC lived in Philly, it wouldn't have been a problem either.

Research: I checked the tags for 1960s, sports, new york; http://forums.newyorkjets.com/showthread.php?t=2777; Wikipedia: NY Giants, NY Yankees, NY Jets, NY Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers. Google: sports teams in NYC, traditional fans. Other: fan blogs, etc.

It's yet another deeply disgusting insect question! My apologies in advance.

Setting: Horrific alternate universe/hell dimension with a serious pest control problem.
Googled: Insect digestive enzymes, insect vomit, etc. Much of which yielded gross results, but not the gross results I'm looking for.

( cut for squeamish )

I spent the day in Louisville with my dad's side of the family and feeling loved.

Then, I came home to 2_lines and now I'm completely happy.

I hope my boy remembers removing my bra because I don't.... :s

Also,plathapuss , is the van of life not the best place for drunk food EVAR? :D

I'm so tired and I'm sick and all I want to do is nap.

I felt like a terrible person for lying to my parents when they called me on it.

I was much more productive today than yesterday!

I still need to make it into the dark room tonight and keep studying for a Java test, though.

I accidentally double scanned a few items and forgot to get someone to sign the receipt after paying with credit card.

Everyone was pretty nice to me though, thanks to the "cashier in training" sign.

Mom's taking me to Nino's, a little local Italian restaurant, tonight.

It has chicken fettuccine alfredo pizza, my favorite waitress EVAR (she's like a big sister to me), manicotti to die for, and Nino himself gave us pink roses last Valentine's, so we're practically royalty there.

Alright, so.

Current event summery: Apocalypse is being had. A gifted priest and a demon travel from Japan to Israel and along their way aid those who need to get to sanctuary points and spread Word. They've made it through China and just hit Long Son, Vietnam. The next sanctuary point is St Josephs Cathedral in Hanoi. There's a small school that has been kept together under the protection of a passed Matyre. Within are a little over thirty children and a few parents who, unlike other times have not been found by another guiding angel and need to be taken from Long Son to Hanoi.

Requested information: What is the general distance between Long Son and Hanoi and how long would it take to walk it? Minding that there are children, shit's flying everywhere, everything is in a fighting messy chaos, fire, doom, etc.

Googled: Looked up, or tried to, distance between Lang Son and Hanoi. And failed. I found some blogs though that said it took two days or so biking. I am denser than a block when it comes to Atlases and reading the distance ratio but I think it's about 100Miles. Also, my friend said that it's about 5H's on a train. Not sure what his sources are on that one, but.

I think a reasonable guess would be a week, or somewhere around there. I'd like a little more input on this decision, however.



Thanks in advanced peeps.

Setting: Strasbourg (France) and Kehl (West Germany), 1950's to the present.

Searched: Copious use of Google Earth and Google Maps; Perry-Castaneda map library via UT Austin; Lonely Planet Guidebook section for Strasbourg and Alsace; Lonely Planet board searched "Strasbourg"; googled "maps", "Strasbourg", "bad/rough/dangerous areas"; Wikitravel. Also looked at what crime reports were available, without much enlightenment. Haven't checked to see if there's a "crime" section in the local paper, but my French probably isn't up to the challenge.

Question: I've turned up some anecdotal evidence that Hautepierre is a rough area now; Wikitravel also indicates that areas to the south and west of the main city are depressed areas, but this last is rather vague. (Elsau? Further out?)

Personal experience suggests that the area around a university is always seedier, but that doesn't seem to be the case in Strasbourg--at least according to Street View.

Via Google Earth, I did turn up signs of graffiti and abandoned lots and warehouses near the port, along the east bank of the city. Still, I could use some more concrete information.

So--where are the rough areas in the cities of Strasbourg and Kehl? I understand that "rough" is relative, here. Nonetheless, there must be somewhere in the city that isn't safe at night!

Bonus Question: What about ethnic neighborhoods? I'm told the area around the Synagogue has a concentration of Jewish businesses and services; I've also seen Neuhof and Neudorf typed as "historically ethnic," though bless me if I can find the source now.

Thank you all in advance for any help you can provide!

Setting/Timeframe: Unspecified "medieval" semi-fantasy

For plot-related reasons, the following needs to happen in my story; woman is pregnant, miscarries either in the second or third trimester, is unable to conceive afterward. My questions are as follows:

1. What would cause the miscarriage?
2. What would cause the infertility? Would it be the same thing as what caused the miscarriage? 2.5. Or is it conceivable that, in a setting with extremely crude medicine, she could either catch an infection or have scarring from delivering the fetus?
3. Is this scenario even plausible in the first place?

Google and Wikipedia are of no help, as my question is far too specific, and the wikipedia articles are all assuming the pregnancy is taking place in modern day.

No matter how much I try to convince myself and my husband otherwise, I really wouldn't mind having a baby. WTH am I thinking?

I find the dark season of the year to be terribly depressing most of the time.

This year, I have decided to take up star gazing, and look what I found to help me learn!

 I keep having musical flashbacks.

Song lines that are significant of a time, a place, a face...

When is it my turn to have a "happily ever after"?
I am addicted to my new Blackberry, a nearly-birthday treat to myself.

i've been watching this over and over and over.

A nice, warm, chewy dried fig microwaved with oatmeal!

bacon sausage toast hash browns (mmm... these turned out AMAZING) and scrambled eggs (with cheese)

Yesterday loads of 2_liners wished me happy birthday on facebook and one texted me.

I love how close this community is :).

I think I just got asked out on a date.

How strange.

I would be happy traveling all my days.
What would you be happy doing forever?

I've lost my voice completely and keep coughing.

Also, I've  broken my heart so if you see any pieces...

Hello all I'm back with another lactose free recipe. I actually found it in Dairy-Free Cookbook by Jane Zukin. I added my own twist by adding nuts to it.

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I support health care reform.

I suspect that is going to lose me some friends.

This is my friend Kenedie. =] We bought sarongs this summer at the flea market, and she wanted to do photos wearing hers. The headdress she is wearing is mine; I got it from the county fair oddly enough, and it is hand-made and extremely delicate. I'm not great with the camera so be kind, please. =]

( Careful, one is a nude... )

It's been so long since I've legitimately fangirled over something.

Tonight has been great. ♥

Polaroids of my sleep study, knives, a fake cigarette from Chuck Palahniuk, absinthe, and condoms.

No disc 3 of Baldur's Gate 2, damn it.

I started crying last night out of drunkeness and as my boyfriend went to console me I couldnt help but wish it was his best friend and not him.

I have bad feeling about this..

I had the best birthday ever yesterday, thanks to great friends and an even better husband.

My gas tank ran out when I was heating up the BBQ which means I now have to heat my house to cook dinner.

please could someone say something nice or funny or amusing?
i'm feeling so bad right now and anythign helpful would be especially appreciated.

tonight aesop told me he wasn't ready for us to try to be anything.
i cried and told him i understood, which i do, but can't help but wonder what i could have done differently to make him want/like me.

In this post...
30 Pink
28 Stock - all credits here
35 True Blood
13 Zachary Quinto

(106 ICONS)

. i'll add text to anything
. credit to spriink is a MUST no matter what
. LJ use only
. do not direct/hot link
. do not customize
. comments = ♥
. numbers are ABOVE the icons
. enjoy!

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Last year I opened trueblood_santa, a Secret Santa community for people to send gifts through the mail. Sadly, only a few people took part. I was wondering if more people might be interested if I changed it lj gifts (i.e. fics, graphics, etc.) instead.

Thoughts? Would you participate? Should I leave it a snail mail gifts? Or should I just not host it this year.