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Nov. 9th, 2009
04:47 pm - "Let’s just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I’ll be me, today and today an
“Let’s just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I’ll be me, today and today and today, and let’s trust the future to tomorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies.”- Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli via (runawayscene) (via quote-book) (via lovebot) (via fuckyeahstars)
05:16 pm - Is this thing on?
I just realized it's been a year since I posted anything here, and my last post was on the same subject as this one. Jesus. Maybe I should start spending more time on the internets again..
Anyway, for those of you who didn't get an e-mail (which means I don't have your e-mail address, 'cause I sent it to everyone in my list), I'm turning 40 this Saturday and I'd love y'all to come join me.
Yes, despite my "safety third" attitude, obsession with guns and explosives and excessive clumsiness, in less than a week I will have managed to survive 40 trips around the sun. I would love to celebrate with friends & nemeses alike, as well as to thank everyone who has been a part of my life and made it as enjoyable and special as I feel it is!
I've booked a room at Bourbon & Branch ( http://www.bourbonandbranch.com/ ) for Saturday November 14th from 9:30pm to 2:00am. Bourbon & Branch is located at 501 Jones St (between Geary and O'Farrell) here in San Francisco. This will be a private room – the password to get in is "Waffen". We'll have snacks and cake, but note that it's a pay bar.
Please come by and say hi!
02:53 pm - Death Guild Tonight
16 Nov 2009 Monday DEATH GUILD
We will have a table downstairs selling
all our merch some great deals with select
Hoodies @ $10- and shirts $5-
Main Room:
Decay
Joe Radio
Melting Girl
Lounge:
Sage
Lexor
Vending by Eyescream Jewelery.
gothic. industrial. synthpop.
9:30pm - after hours.
$3 < 10pm; $5 after.
___________________________________+
Don't forget we have a request list at the DJ booth
let us know what you want to hear...
www.deathguild.com
www.dnalounge.com
03:06 pm - suicideblonde: carnalknowledge:counterforce:ferrrn: Kelly...
carnalknowledge:counterforce:ferrrn:
Kelly topless. By Ryan.
Mindy Kaling you naughty lil minx!
03:05 pm - such a great...
such a great episode
(via fuckyeahmadmen)
Another wonderful thing is how much Cooper we got last night. Did he say “trollop” at one point, or did I dream that?
01:56 pm - Health on the half-shell
This morning, I began to feel the first signs of either a cold or flu-- too early to tell which.
Darrell was sick all of last week, so we both took 1,000 mgs of Vitamin C every day, starting from the onset of his symptoms, and we avoided kissing and holding hands. I don't have sick days so I was particularly diligent. However, with the onset of symptoms for me, I figured it was time to supplement the Vitamin C by other means.
So, as an experiment, I dropped by the local Whole Foods and asked the fish department to shuck me a couple of Blue Point oysters. They were happy to do so, placing the oyster halves in a container lined with shaved ice. When I mentioned that I was going to buy a lemon to sprinkle on them, the fish guy held up his hand, walked over to the produce isle, came back with a lemon and a lime, sliced them into quarters and arranged them artfully among the oysters in the container and handed it back to me, without charging for the fruit. He even gave me a free oyster to slurp down while I waited for him to shuck its companions. All for $5 - much cheaper than going to a restaurant for your oyster fix, and a lot faster.
I like oysters for many reasons. They're basically concentrated nutrition for very few calories. If you get them fresh, they taste pleasingly oceanic and feel good sliding down your throat. I don't care for them cooked - raw, please, all the way.
To boost their immune-boosting power, I grabbed a few additional supplements - garlic tablets (a known antimicrobial) and a blend of echinacea, elderberry, and ginger root in a liquid capsule. And of course there will be the frequent hand-washing, getting plenty of sleep at night, and general taking-it-easy, yet another benefit of a mostly-telecommuting career.
We'll see if this works!
01:22 pm - Reptile Praise from the Interwebs!
YOU didn't miss the show, did you?
That'll teach you! :D
12:48 pm - LANDMARK!
I talked to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
metameric on the phone!
AND IT WAS AWESOOOME!!!
kaybyenow
12:34 pm - Yup, it's happened.
I'm already losing my mind.
I turn to the internet for amusement. HALP.
(yeah, there is my book to finish--the Amazon and I are BOTH re-reading The Stand for the first time since high school, and it's great--I just need a few hours of NOT lying down. My foot is propped up on the desk beside me, don't worry. and I look ridiculous :P)
11:59 am - Gardening thoughts
It's nice to have picked up a hobby that has stayed with me.
I only started gardening in April-May, after I moved to a place with a front yard garden, a courtyard garden, and a relatively plain backyard that contains mostly grass, patio, and uninteresting large shrubbery.
I've since purchased a steady supply of flowers, plants, and trees. My widely varied inventory includes a dwarf key lime tree; a burgundy Japanese maple; draught-tolerant but showy specimens such as Mexican bush sage, fountain grass, and New Zealand flax; a fuschia; not-enough-succulents; azaleas; and almost a dozen dahlias.
I've had mixed success. My dahlias haven't been happy since spring gave way to a dry, hot summer, and they're now too cold to bloom. My beloved courtyard-dwelling Japanese acer has one leggy branch stretching to the sky, but isn't turning the promised brilliant-red fall colors or filling out much, but I'm trying to keep it protected from wind and sunburn. I haven't transplanted it to the ground since I don't know yet if the courtyard is really the right place for it.
I seem to have surprisingly terribly luck with bouganvillas. They're all over my neighborhood, but they don't seem to bract or even really grow in my particular yards.
My North-facing front yard came with a bunch of flowers and trees already - tall roses of many colors (sadly most of them dealing with rust diseases), poppies, some citrus we haven't yet identified, and a young, graceful jacaranda that shades our driveway.
I've had zero success with the azaleas. They died really quickly, or stopped blooming, so I'm thinking I just don't live in the right area to make them happy. I have a gardenia plant in the courtyard that's teasing me with bulbous bulbs, but has yet to bloom since I moved in. And no matter what, I can't seem to keep lamb's ear alive.
I have a mini herb garden with a shallot, dill, tarragon, and spearmint (for mojitos) but it isn't being very robust, probably because of the seasonal changes. We planted it in early fall.
The happiest plant I purchased and own seems to be the catnip. It grows quickly and fully and provides much entertainment for the neighborhood and household felines.
Understanding the light changes in my yards seems to be an issue. My South-facing backyard gets considerably more shade as the days are shorter this winter, but in the summer, all my south-facing windows bring scorching heat into the house that not even the tall shrubs and curtains can stave off. To try to solve two problems at once, I came up with an idea this morning-- creating moveable trellises that are the height and width of the floor-to-ceiling South windows and train some dense vines to fill them during the winter. A climbing bouganvilla might perform better if I trained it to climb a trellis placed flush against the south windows during the summer, providing shade to the house against the sun and drinking in the nutrients. I might try cutting back all my bouganvillas so they can strengthen their root systems over the winter and try again to encouraging bracting in the spring and summer.
I also dream about having wisterias, but they're brutal to structures and the bloom only lasts a few weeks in the spring. Perhaps I'll just enjoy them when I return to Hakone Japanese Gardens in Saratoga in the spring.
Another goal for my next phase of gardening is to grow my own produce. I love fruits and vegetables of all kinds and I spend a lot of money on them in grocery stores. But again, I worry about issues like sunlight, proper fertilizing, and keeping growing young edibles safe from birds, squirrels, and other critters that come into my yard.
I have a huge desire to get two or three Earthboxes, which are raised, self-watering, and inexpensive, and use these for the vegetables I want. I've only been resisting because it doesn't feel like genuine, bona-fide gardening to go that route. Part of the appeal of gardening, at least for me, is the intimate and attentive nurturing experience when pruning, watering, feeding, repotting, and observing my plants. Earthboxes, while wildly popular and tauted as a huge success story for beginning gardeners, feel sort of.... corporate. :)
12:11 pm - Reflect upon delusion?
Today is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was 13, and not yet into politics, so it didn't mean much to me at the time (although I'd briefly met President Reagan the year before, coincidentally at a White House dinner that dmorr attended for the same reason I did).
Let A Thousand Nations Bloom has a link roundup (or as we call it, a link archipelago!), and Michael Strong has a reflective post:
Decent, responsible graduate students were not to be seen going to a libertarian lecture, even at Chicago: it was that simple. Meanwhile, discussions of whether violent revolutions were necessary for the (obviously desirable) transition to socialism were entirely mainstream academic conversation. Within academia up through the 1980s, discussions of revolutions in which violent death is routine were acceptable, but envisioning a society without legitimized aggression was disreputable. I wondered: Were these people insane?
On November 9, 2009, the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is appropriate to reflect on the extraordinary human capacity for delusion...
12:00 pm - wow someone posted a a lipgloss picture besides me.. nice (via...
wow someone posted a a lipgloss picture besides me.. nice
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