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Apr. 16th, 2007 @ 05:42 pm
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It's just not fathomable, the amount of damage that's been done. Everybody just shut up about the gun laws and the lack of security and all the other politically skewed bullshit - people have died, and they died in the most unfair way possible. These are people who were loved and cared for and who were taking steps to make their lives and the lives of other people better in small and big ways. Stop and think on a human level.
This violence has poisoned our minds and our communities by way of sick inspiration, fear, and the power given to those who would exploit both. In a society that encourages and enjoys freedoms, the mindless killing of those who are the hope of our retaining those freedoms into the future, and the just as evil religiously, politically, and economically fueled circus that has exploded around this tragic occurence, is too clear an indication that we as a race have lost the ability to grieve, and to simply know what is right from wrong.
When we can set our minds upon Virginia Tech and the tremendous loss that has occurred there today on a totally selfless level - on a level that doesn't lead us to force moralistic values on anyone, cry I told you so, or make us jump at the opportunity to sell a headline - when we can just stop and feel the pain of having unfairly had a fellow life prematurely ripped away, is when the changes will happen naturally, and we won't have to discuss laws and morals for our freedoms to remain just that, free.
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Mar. 31st, 2006 @ 10:18 pm
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sigh. stressed. but I'd rather not complain about it right now.
this is such a cute game. you have to play it. i haven't played any of the other games on the site, but I imagine they have to be just as cute if not cuter.
http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/bugs.htm
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Amen.
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Mar. 12th, 2006 @ 12:43 pm
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"What I'm interested in is my colleagues acknowledging that we as a Congress have to stand up to a president who acts as if the Bill of Rights and the Constitution were repealed on September 11," he said. "We didn't enact martial law on September 11. We still have a constitutional form of government, and if the Congress of the United States does not stand up for that authority at this point, it will be an historic failure of our system of government." - Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin
In other news: Thank you to those wonderful LJ friends of mine for NOT having updated their LJs too vigorously in the past month - It made playing catch-up so much easier. *heehee* *sheepish grin*
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I went to the dentist today. It was mostly paid for by REAL insurance. I made two more future appointments - one for some sort-of-fillings (first ever sort-of-cavities EVER) and one for my next REGULAR VISIT in 6 months. I called my mom and told her about it. She was kinda sorta shocked. I hate dentists. I don't go to them at all if I can help it. It was very 'grown up' of me.
The sun was shining today - it was like spring (or early summer if you're from Alaska). I didn't have to wear a coat - I went around with just a sweatshirt (though, it's not like I was walking...).
On my way home I spontaneously stopped by and made an optometrist appointment. I've been putting off an eye exam and new glasses for some time now. I even picked out the frames I'd be getting while I was there.
Real insurance and a warm sunny day - today, life was really rather good.
I came home and ate pizza and self medicated the slightly sore-from-cleaning teeth with two happy bottles of Corona (he didn't say it, but I'm sure the doc would have OK'd substituting a salt water rinse with beer).
Now it's not even 10pm and I'm sleepy and contemplating blowing off the rest of the evening (there is, you see, a lot of stuff that I should really be getting done).
Sometimes, the laziness... well... let us just say I've been finding the TV is a very good friend, as of late.
In other news, I'm thinking this guy at work is, well, attractive, but, and this is unusual for me, I'm also finding it hard to just go up to him and say hi. If I may say so myself, I'm a pretty good conversationalist - almost always able to find some useless thing to chat about with just about anyone - so not being able to say, well, "Good Morning" or "Hi, How are you?" is a bit... odd. In fact, I, uhh, find I try to... avoid... him... most of the time. Does that make any sense? I'd contemplated instigating some form of non-work-related communication with him several times, but found I just couldn't. As a result, all communication between us has been purely work related and not a word of it has been on even a remotely friendly level. That is, until the other day when HE said hello to ME for no other reason than to be nice and I was forced to be friendly and reply with a lame "Hey."
I am SO awesome. And only the slightest bit drunk.
You know what? It feels good, dammnit, to be in a place where I have the liberty to mull over useless shit like this. It's been a long time coming.
It also means I have, currently, the time and resources to be getting bigger and greater things done, so of course, that's what I should be doing...
But... I'll revel in the conveniences and sunshine and silliness for just a little longer...
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I've been very liberal with the money lately. I think maybe a resolution to be less spendy is in order. a resolution for actually saving money is definitely in order. I really need to save if I want to get anywhere this year.
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*~* our Charlie Brown tree *~*
*~* may your days be merry and bright! *~*
ok - now that that's done. here are some other photos - why yes! I did get a digital camera (over the summer).
I feel like such a non-Alaskan... posting pictures of it snowing and all... it would NEVER have been enough of an event to take pictures of snow on the ground before moving to Washington.
   
I love that last one... bamboo covered in snow. :) that snowfall was around the 1st of the month, so it's all gone now... but, it really got us in the holiday spirit! and then I got sick and couldn't do anything about my holiday spirit.
but I feel ok now! in fact, today I did some light cleaning and spiffy-ing-up! over the summer, an old man having a garage sale outside his home was selling several pots of chives and strawberries. I really wanted to buy the strawberries, but I'd have to put them in actual earth, and don't really have the patience for that, so I bought a pot of chives, thinking "Wouldn't it be nice to cook with stuff that I actually grew myself?!" that pot of chives did provide many a spicy dressing for many a wonderful dinner over the past few months, but today I noticed it looking very cold and mangy outside. I just so happened to have two cute little flower pots that I couldn't help buying from a dollar store over the fall (you can't tell if the yellow bits are birds or leaves, heehee) so, to the "A Charlie Brown Christmas" soundtrack (which is an album everyone should have), I got out the potting soil and fertilizer and transplanted some of the chives. they now sit inside on my kitchen window sill. I feel so domesticated!
as you can see, Western Washington doesn't really provide much of a white Christmas... more of a green Christmas, but you know, sometimes it's fun to pretend it's spring. especially on a day like today - 50F and rainy.
so that was Zwandy's Christmas-eve-eve! Hope everyone is having just as lovely a time, and that you're all in good health.
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Nov. 22nd, 2005 @ 08:14 am
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no good deed goes unpunished.
ok, that's assuming a lot, but still. aggh. whatever.
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I want to try and get the exchange student interested in English. He says the reason why he's unable to speak it is because he hates it - he's just not interested in it, so it's hard for him to learn. Makes sense. I've been trying to think up ideas to fix this. One of them was dramas (or sitcoms) and another one was comic books. Dramas I covered with the first season of The OC (and someone suggested Friends as well - both having pretty easy to understand plots and lots of things to keep a young adult interested), but comic books are not an area I am familiar with.
So! Can you give me ideas for comic books (or other short works, as he says he enjoys reading) that aren't too hard to understand, but will keep a 20-something interested enough to want to pull out the dictionary?
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Occasionally, I get this pang of pain in my chest. It's a tightness that makes it feel like I can't breathe, and it amplifies the beating of my heart. It feels almost exactly like when I'm crushing on someone that I either know that I could never have or know that I wouldn't want anyway. It's the pain of never having attended Harvard (or Stanford, yes, Stanford would have been even better).
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I don't want to go to work today. I have a sincere desire to just stay home and geek out. Also, time to clean my bathroom would also be a plus.
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Oct. 14th, 2005 @ 10:02 pm
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I am, seriously, in the middle of catching up with almost 3 months of LJ Friends' journals. I hate the idea that I've missed something. I'm about halfway through. Thank goodness I don't have many friends?
It's raining again. I am told I should get use to this. It's just so obvious I live next to the ocean again, the way it can be sunny and still one moment, then windy and raining buckets the next. I love it. I think I'll probably love it for at least a year. No promises beyond that.
What I really wanted to post about is Weezer - Make Believe. ( more weezing )
Also, since some of you have expressed the desire to watch it, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) homagenz has posted the music video he did for film school, featuring, ta da, me, on vocals. It's not the greatest recording in the world, but homagenz's work turns it into seriously something of your watching-time worth. He's pretty cool, that guy. The ending gets me, every time. "Fear"
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I've just finished The Da Vinci Code (I always wanna type Da Da Vinci Code...) as an audio book, and I just have to say - not that great. I think it would have been better for me if it hadn't been hyped up so much. I guess my expectations were kind of high going into it, so there was really only room for me to be let down. It was an entertaining 'read,' but nothing I'd call too spectacular. Just something to keep you amused when you're needing some amusement.
More interestingly, I absorbed The Da Vinci Code not by several nights of squinting at tiny print to the light of my Itty Bitty Booklight, but by several bus rides to work worth of a bored sounding American reading all the parts by himself (even the girl parts, heehee) coming through the itty bitty earbuds of my new mp3 player (from the coolest cousin in the universe). This was my first ( audio book... )
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Something about the fall... I think I probably love the spring as much as the fall when spring comes around, but right now it's fall, and I just have to say, I love it. Leaves fall all around you while you're driving to work in the morning and it makes every trip down the same old road feel like your filming some overly dramatic car commercial. It starts getting cool enough that you can switch to winter clothing, and I adore sweaters, scarves, gloves. Coffee tastes amazing on crisp and cool mornings. Then there are the holidays. Fall and Winter holidays are the best, hands down, when there's nothing outside to distract people, so they make extra effort at being festive at Halloween, or Thanksgiving, or Christmas.
Ok, so yeah, it's a bit odd of me to practically come back from the dead with a silly little post about seasons, but what are you gonna do? Sometimes life gets busy. I'm usually pretty grateful for those times.
( catch up )
I'm oddly superstitious about Live Journal. Every time I seem to post good news on here, things seem to start going bad. Probably nothing, but seriously, and I do feel silly about it, that superstition is really one of the reasons why I haven't been updating my LJ lately. That, and also, I really have been very busy settling into the new place.
Time to go to work.
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HAPPY HARRY POTTER DAY!!!
also... this is my first post since moving to Washington. that means, yes, I am all set up to interweb again. :D
more on everything that's happened later. :)
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Jun. 28th, 2005 @ 11:22 am
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back from Anchorage. went over on Saturday to drop off some stuff to a friends house. tried to catch up with Jill and Mego, but they were BOTH in Valdez at their yearly summer conference thingy. bummed, but I did see Traci! she is as lovely as she has always been - this is the first time I've seen her since '99. if anyone's ever in the area, her family's marina on Big Lake is very nice and worth a visit.
ok... finally finishing up the story of my trip... though the rest of the trip was pretty laid back...
( Mandy's Totally Rad Trip to Washington (state) - Day Two and Three and Four (because I'm getting lazier by the minute and way behind on my packing) )
and really, that's it. the movers come for our stuff TOMORROW, and we start driving out of here Friday morning. it's really pretty overwhelming that this is all really happening, but I can tell my family is really excited about it (if not tired and cranky for all the work involved).
wish us luck. :)
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this is so late now, it's not even funny, anymore. still, I think there might be a few people who are interested in how my trip down to Washington went. if you are one of those people, click for
( Mandy's Superfantastic trip to Washington (state) - Day One )
this was really the longest and busiest and hardest day of my trip, but I guess just learning to drive in a new place would be enough to make it a tough day. I'm not sure if it was actually me who was hustling, or stuff just falling into the right place, but I was so blown away when I realized I'd gotten almost EVERYTHING I needed to get done in one day, when I was really almost preparing myself to go back to Alaska with only half the things I needed done done.
a couple of things I learned about Western Washington on my very first day - people don't stop at red lights. there are literally Starbucks across the street from one another. everyone carries a cellphone and drinks way too much (strong strong strong) coffee. the people aren't as rude or unwilling to give a helping hand as people in Los Angeles are, but then, I guess that makes sense. Angelinos suck.
to be continued!
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I'm at Tom's place, tonight. his boyfriend is wonderfully wonderful. they took me to a gay bar. they have two cats and they are also very cool (very pretty too). my decision to crash at their place tonight is forcing them into a frenzy of cleaning that I've tried to convince them is totally unnecessary, but they don't hear me. they have a very cute place with a lot of music in it. I have to pee. more later (on the trip, not the peeing).
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I'll be making my first trip into Washington next week.
( the itinerary )
I've been feeling pretty superstitious about the whole affair and haven't said much about it because I'm afraid of jinxing it, but this feels like a pretty good indication that it's actually going to happen. so far, I'm happy about it. :) I'm sure there's a whole lot more work involved than the whole lot of work we've already put into it.
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May. 31st, 2005 @ 10:24 pm
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new monitor. 19" of desktop space saving loveliness. in the words of Amuro Namie I be lovin' it, I be lovin' it... love, lovin' it.
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