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Amusing what my time at Agora did to my score. Go Libertarians!
Hm... I worked 10.75 hours today and then Tanya and I made tacos and watched Xena.
Anyway, I'm doing the MS walk tomorrow down in Olympia with Tim and a group of his friends. Go here to visit my page and possibly donate something.
http://main.nationalmssociety.org/s
This is very very abnormal for Seattle. We aren't guaranteed snow every year and when we do get it, it's usually a dusting that melts before the end of the day. We even made the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/us/22
If anyone is curious, check out the Ballard blog (Ballard is the neighborhood in Seattle where I live.) http://www.myballard.com/
I will try to work extra hard to update flickr so I can get some snow pictures up today. In the meantime, here is a picture (I think by Dan Savage):
And here are a few of my own pictures:
We got snow last weekend, but it all melted yesterday. They had been saying since two days ago that more snow was on its way, but all it did was snow in every single part of western Washington but Seattle. And then they said the snow would start yesterday in the afternoon, then the evening, then around 10. I went to bed at 1:30 am and still nothing, and the clouds in the sky were patchy, so I closed my blinds and prepared myself to wake up and head in to work (after a stop to mail presents that will all be too late for xmas.)
This morning, I couldn't even bring myself to look outside, for I didn't want to face the disappointing green scenery. But Anne told me it had snowed and she wasn't kidding. A little more chipper, I headed out to run my mailing errands, and was gladdened by the thought of going in to work a little late, even though I didn't sleep in. I kept hoping that they would call and say work was canceled but the call never came. After a romp in the snow with the cats, I figured I would call my supervisor just to make sure, and I'll be damned if the office was closed and no one called to tell me. Great job with the phone list Maria! I have a copy of it too, and my name is on there and my phone number is correct. A snow day is still a snow day regardless.
So, the best part of the snow day has to be taking the cats outside. I took pictures and even some video, and now that I don't have to work, I actually have time to upload them. I have time. Holy crap. It's a wonderful feeling.
Mish was the first. He seemed tense but very alert. He loves to be outside and I wish I could let him be an outdoor cat but I'm too afraid he will get hurt or get fleas or someone else will realize what an amazing creature he is and just keep him for themselves. I dropped him in the snow and the first thing he did was run over to the big evergreen, under which there are a few blades of grass on which he proceeded to munch. I took pictures and at one point when my back was turned, he slipped off, which only made me smile because I knew he was off exploring happily and flea-free.
I came back in for Thomas who really doesn't like the idea of "outside." Even the balcony scares her. She is definitely very content inside. We started on the balcony, and she was very tense. There was a rustle from the tree the neighbor cats use to get to our balcony and when we looked down, there was big ol' Mish trying his darndest to get up the way he could in the summer, which more branches and less snow. He was very helpless, but I could do nothing but laugh warmly, while Thomas hissed. She forgets who he is when he goes outside. It will be another three or four days before she remembers him. Or forgives him. I'm not sure what is going on.
After that, I slowly walked down the back stairs with her to the yard. I could feel her grip on me growing stronger and after only seconds in the yard, she climbed up on my shoulders and began to fill the neighborhood with howls of fear. I finally managed to get her into the snow, and she took a few terrified steps in random directions unsure how to escape this cold white hell I'd brought her into. I finally scooped her up when it looked like she was going to try to run away from it all. At that point, one of my neighbors (not the assholes who live in the building, but on from the house next door) came out to find the poor abused cat. Thomas was back on my shoulders again, and the neighbor got to see what the hell was going on. We laughed and I brought the little one back upstairs. No sooner had I opened the door than she flew off me, landing poorly and tearing off to the opposite end of the apartment. Poor traumatized baby. See, Liz, this is why I didn't bother to microchip her.
I headed back to check on Mish's progress, of which he'd made none. He had climbed down before but was back up and then had to go back down. I went out to the front and called him, and he came trotting over and without my doing anything more, continued to trot right up to the front door as if he were a well-trained dog.
We are all tucked inside now, and Thomas is keeping a look out for the strange bad evil cat that I allowed in from outside. The strange bad evil cat groomed all the snow out of his coat and went off to nap, so worn out was he by the fifteen minutes outside.
So sad. Three of my bandmates made it though. I suppose I will have to be with them in spirit and be very drunk in real life here in Seattle as I celebrate.
-Jon Stewart telling Mike Huckabee how it is.
LGBA was invited to play at both of Clinton's inaugurations, but only in concert style on inauguration day. Strangely, the Bush administration didn't accept LGBA's application to perform. And now Obama, beautiful, magnificent, intelligent, forward-thinking, open-minded and accepting Obama (yes, I'm in love with him) has no only accepted LGBA's application to perform, but allowed us a spot in the parade. And I have to decide if I want to do it by 9pm EST tomorrow. Eeek!
OH, and I should point out the money factor. $110 for registration and uniform. God only knows how much for airfare. Same for hotel for three days. I would have to miss three days of work as well, which I will probably not get paid for. Hella expensive. But that's why credit cards were invented, right? I'm really really really undecided. If I lived in Baltimore I wouldn't think twice (and I did attend Bush's inauguration parade, but only in the capacity of the Turn Your Backs on Bush protest). But now I'm on the other side of the country.
What say you, wise council?
Purchase your tickets from me. If you're unable to attend (for the lame ass reasons of living in California... Texas... Georgia... Switzerland... Sweden... sheesh!), don't worry! You can still show your support by making a small donation to my band -- it will almost be like you're there! Check out our website for more details: http://www.rainbowcityband.com/supp
United States Naval Academy - Class rank 894 out of 899
Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in journalism
vs.
Obama:
Occidental College - Two years.
Columbia University - B.A. political science with a
specialization in international relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna *** Laude
Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in history and B.A. in
political science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
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I kinda likes my gov'mint peoples to be edumacated and knowing stuff about the gov'mint they gonna run. It makes me feel... safe.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.
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fallon_ash gave me a K. Mean fa. But I have done as best I could do. ( K is for... )http://www.thehotticket.net/rent/
Rent. Final performance. Sobs all around. But showing in the theatres. The movie theatres. The final performance. On screen. 4 days only.
Must go. Will go. Who else wants to go? And am I going to see it all four days? Probably, says girl who saw the movie five times in one week.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59101505@N
I will be supplying some ham and gruyere as well, but do not expect me to share my Nutella. Please RSVP so I know how much crepe batter to make. And if you can't come, I expect better excuses than, "I live in Texas," or "I live in California," or "I live in Sweden." That shit's gettin old.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/28343/dr-horr
I dare you to not fall in love with Doogie all over again.
Where did my phone go, praytell? I had it when I came home, and somewhere between my room and the porch, it disappeared. And should someone try to call, I might not be able to hear it, since I keep it on vibrate. Dammit. What if someone actually *did* try to call me?
Anywho, if anyone wants to give me a ring, and if I can actually hear my phone and can find it, I will reward you with a nice chunk of my very short evening via phone.
This is my busy week at work... month end close. Today wasn't so bad. I was actually caught up this month before it started, and only spent 9 hours at work, though I would have stayed longer if I hadn't had to run to the bank before closing. Tomorrow and Wednesday are going to be rough. I should in theory get 80-90% of my month-end invoicing tomorrow. Woot!
The day was really fun too, thanks to my neighbor. Not the bad neighbors, but the almost-as-bad neighbors... you know, Mr. Squeaky Bed and The Giggler. Mr SB loves to play his car racing video game at night, so I usually have to put in earplugs just to fall asleep. And at some point in the middle of the night, they start to hurt and I take them out. This is what happened at 3:20 this morning. And what did my aching ears hear? The sound of Mr. SB and The Giggler watching TV. So I pushed the foam pellets back in my aching ears... and could still hear the fucking TV. And this made me angry, and being angry made me not sleepy, and my ears were really sore, and so there was no sleep. I debated just giving up and staying up, but that was easier said than done, and I knew that I needed to get as much sleep as possible, even if I didn't fall asleep again until the sky grew lighter, as the case was. I would have gone next door and, as politely as I could manage at 4 in the morning, asked him to turn it off, but we have a relative of Anne's crashing on the floor in the living room, and that would totally have woken him up. "Hi! Welcome to America! I'm Anne's roommate, the one you've heard all those wonderful things about! Why are you sleeping at 4 in the morning??"
I pouted instead, and focused my anger into many imagined conversations and letters to him and to my landlord. I wrote tons of fanfic in my head as well, turned Monica into a slut of biblical proportions, then toned it down, turned a dull couch scene in one fic into something of substance, and then drifted off sometime around 5, I think. And then the alarm went off at 6 and I cursed my neighbors and my pounding head. Why do my neighbors all have to suck so much?
Gah, and where is my phone? I need to talk to someone about something -- the something being very particular, but the someone being anyone who is around. And Anne is out somewhere with her Swedish relative, and what if she called me to ask me to meet them for dinner or something? Dammit dammit dammit.
I'm gonna go eat ice cream, I guess, and drool over Scully and Reyes...
(Note to fa: I need an icon of Scully and Reyes. Not necessarily a Scully/Reyes icon, of course. Got anything that you're not using? Also: Cami. Totally a cami.)
http://www.marinbikes.com/2008/us/b
...for only $395.16. God, REI may suck sometimes, but there are some sweet, sweet benefits to working there. Of course, to get that price, I did have to order it directly from Marin, and I will now have to wait 4-6 weeks, pay for shipping, and then pay for assembly, but it still comes out in my favor.
Work was ok. I remembered how to do things from last month and therefore felt very smart, but damn was my head exhausted after an hour working in Excel and collecting data from half a dozen other spreadsheets and rearranging them and turning them into graphs and pivot tables and whatnot.
English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 93% Expert!
You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly! Way to go!
Thank you so much for taking my test. I hope you enjoyed it!
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2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
5) star (*) them if you dislike them, double star (**) if you hate them
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen .
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien .
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte .
4. * Harry Potter series - JK Rowling . (I've read the first 4...)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee .
6. The Bible . (Doesn't really count, though I've read parts...)
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte .
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell .
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens .
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott .
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy .
13. * Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare .
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier .
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien .
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. ** The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (tried to read this, but hated it)
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot .
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell .
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens .
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy .
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll .
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame .
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy . (I wanna underline this a hundred times -- it's my favorite book)
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens .
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis .
34. Emma - Jane Austen .
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen . (second favorite book)
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis .
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini .
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres .
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden .
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne .
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell .
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins .
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery .
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy .
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (another of my favorites, but not so much that it has an actual place on the list)
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding .
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan .
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen .
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens . (I tried once, and I shall try again)
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck .
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (number 3 on The List; I can recite the whole first chapter by memory... Lolita. Light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul... )
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt .
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding . (what the hell? I wanna put a star by it even tho I never tried to read it.)
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie .
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville .
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens .
72. Exupery Dracula - Bram Stoker .
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett . (The Little Princess was my favorite as a child)
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce .
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath .
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome .
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray .
80. Possession - AS Byatt.
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens .
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro .
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert .
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White (I read this to Gaelle; we both cried together at the end)
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (not all of them, but some)
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton .
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint .
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams .
95. * A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas .
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare .
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl .
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (I feel like I deserve extra points for reading the unabridged version)
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36 -- not too bad.
Anyone got any suggestions?
