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Nov. 22nd, 2009

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sinfestfeed - 2009-11-22: Sinfes

22-Nov-2009 1:00p

Sinfest
Tatsuya Ishida

by Tatsuya Ishida

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erynn999 - Paint, dinner, and Trans Day of Rem

22-Nov-2009 12:06a

We got over to [info]joyful_storm's place about 2:30 or so. There were a lot more people there than I'd quite expected -- perhaps a dozen. It was great to see so many people coming through to help out with painting. The house is a pretty nice one, though a lot of work remains to be done before they can move in. We saw most of the folks from the CR schmooze there. I painted trim on the fireplace & mantel, one of the windows in the library, and the floor trim along one side of the laundry and crafts room.

By that time my back was pretty messed up, as were my knees, so I popped some Tylenol and we begged off for the rest of the work. We put in about 3 hours or so. I'd intended to be there for four, but by then we were waiting for paint to dry so second coats could be put on things. Because the house is in a semi-deconstructed stage, there was no place to sit and rest, so we got changed into paint-free clothing and headed out to Greenwood for a bit until it was time for dinner.

There was bookshop browsing, then tea at the Wayward, where I kicked [info]alfrecht's arse at checkers. It had been so long since I'd played that I had to look up the rules again in order to figure out what moves were legal. *yeesh*

We headed out to Kasbah and got there about half an hour early for dinner, but sat at the table watching the dancer as we waited. Craigula got there about 20 minutes after we did. [info]yiaya had some traffic trouble on her way but finally arrived. She and I both had the T'faya tagine, a lamb dish that's a little sweet and quite savory. We're thinking about doing Moroccan sometime soon after she gets back from her California turkey day trip. She's heading out Tuesday and will be back the Tuesday after that -- I'll be picking her up at the airport.

Dinner was excellent, particularly given the company. It's always good to have time to talk to Craig. Usually I see him really briefly at Edge when we're hanging out for a few or are on our way elsewhere. It was good to catch up with him and hear about how he'd been doing since his art show at Gargoyles earlier this fall.

I'd been hoping to do some reading tonight but I'm really and truly fried so I'll be heading for bed here shortly. Tomorrow will be finishing up reading the dissertation and then, possibly, getting back into writing the geilt article. [info]alfrecht informed me that the article for the queer magic anthology will be due end of January, so that's another deadline I need to be concerned with at the moment. That one won't have to be so long, though.

And here, below the cut, is a speech given this week by my friend Jan Buterman for Trans Day of Remembrance. Given in Edmonton, Alberta. )

Current Mood: drained
Current Music: Dennis Kostler: Tarantas

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wildcelticrose - No More "Ms Nice Guy"</

22-Nov-2009 12:01a

~
This is the letter I sent to the Ventura County Public Administrator today. (the ongoing situation with my mother's items being ruined is explained in the letter)

I am beyond angry, but tried to be civil. I'm tired of being nice.

Dear Jeanne,

I am extremely upset, so I am going to try to be calm, brief and as nice as humanly possible (to be honest, I'm not feeling very nice right now).

I needed to get this off my chest, or I am not going to sleep tonight.

I don't care whose fault it is. It is inexcusable that my mother's treasured things are being ruined.

Today was the last straw for me.

I'm sure you tried, and I'm sure you meant well, but to have my mother's turkey platter that she had since 1958 (four years before I was born), the one I grew up with arrive broken as I was planning my own thanksgiving, the first one since she died, tore my heart out.

I am tired of crying when I go pick up my mail.  I am tired of being launched back into depression, I am tried of losing sleep and I am tired of being sad and angry. 

This whole thing is hard enough without receiving boxes of her treasured items, shattered.

Please DO NOT send any more breakable items.

If you have already shipped another box that has breakable items in it, please contact UPS and request and RTS (return to sender)

I do NOT want to see another box of broken items.

In order to file an insurance claim with UPS I would be required to hold on to those boxes and let them come inspect them.  If they determined that the packing was insufficient (it was, in all cases; the first ones had china wrapped in paper napkins and or single sheets of newspaper all rattling around in the boxes) they would not pay the claim anyway and I would have inflicted further pain on myself for nothing.

I am not going to torture myself by hanging on to something so upsetting only to have UPS turn down the claim.

This has never been about "stuff" or "money" to me.

The sentimental items can't be replaced (like the china plate that had a picture of my mother and I on it that I gave her for mother's day 20 years ago, or the Ladro figurine she had been saving for me for 30 years) and the valuable ones that weren't sentimental can not be sold.

At the very least, I don't think that I (her estate) should be paying for the packing or shipping of those boxes.

I am hurt and I am angry.

And I'm going to stop there, because going any further with this will not be productive.

To be clear.

I expect that no more breakable items will be shipped. (and that if any were, the package will be recalled, I am NOT going through this again)

I expect that I (the estate) will not be charged for the shipping/ruining of my mother's items.

Please do not call me regarding this; as I already stated, I am not feeling very nice right now.

I sincerely hope that this will all be over as soon as legally possible.

Respectfully,

L. Lisa Lawrence


Mood: Sad, Depressed and Very VERY ANGRY

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wildcelticrose - Hey You! Stop looking a

22-Nov-2009 12:01a

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postsecret - HopeLine

22-Nov-2009 12:00a




-----Email Message-----
Subject: thank you

Frank,

This past Friday night I found myself in a black hole of depression and I didn't know how I was going to make it through the night. Not knowing where to turn and feeling like I couldn't stop. I remembered seeing the Hopeline phone number in the front of your book. I talked with someone there for 2 and a half hours and I truly feel that they saved my life.

Thank you for the book, thank Hopeline for being there, and thank the people that send in their postcards so that others know they are not alone with their secrets.


-Casie (with permission)



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22-Nov-2009 12:01a






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Nov. 21st, 2009

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woodwardiocom - Mine Is The Drill That Wi

21-Nov-2009 9:03p

Gurren Lagann is a very, um, masculine show . . .

(What with the titular mecha sprouting giant drills from every joint . . . )

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practicallyfame - Today's Tweets

21-Nov-2009 9:01p

Random awesome stuff found on the internet in the last 24 hours...

Automatically posted by LoudTwitter.
You can follow this real-time at My Twitter Page.

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[info]doingsoso

Black Friday Deals: The Only List You Need

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[info]verdelet

Credo

Credo - I believe.

Not something you typically hear from a witch, and not generally thought of as a part of either the Witches Pyramid or the four Words of the Magus.

To Know
To Will
To Dare
To Keep Silent

The Witch does not need to rely upon Belief, for she Knows.

Know, don't wish, or think ... Know

The ancient Greeks carved 'gnothi seauton', or know thyself, into the entrance to the temple in Delphi.

Belief is different from Knowing. Knowledge is certainty, not faith, and it is certainty which defines our ability to perform the Craft of our art.

[to be revisited, revised and probably expanded]

[info]doingsoso

Chevron and Cultural Genocide in Ecuador

Chevron and Cultural Genocide in Ecuador


The Chevron Board of Directors need to be brought up on manslaughter charges, and murder charges for every single person that died because of drinking this water. Then while they're incarcerated they need to be made to drink their own toxic soup. How dare these assholes do this crap. They brag about their profits and live the high life here in the US, and they probably drink very expensive bottled water, while their housekeeper does the laundry with filtered water. While in the meantime they're pumping poison into precious fresh water resources that people depend on daily. it's a CRIME, and they should be held accountable. This really pisses me off.





[info]doingsoso

Uranium from polluted mine in Nev. wells

Uranium from polluted mine in Nev. wells





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bcholmes - A Picasso or a Garfunkle

21-Nov-2009 5:43p

I forgot how much I enjoy working in ink wash.

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tryst_inn - Digging in

21-Nov-2009 1:32p

( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

Current Mood: lethargic

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Cleolinda Jones

(ETA: Ooops, I left out the link to the source. All fixed now.)




Warning: Put down that coffee, soft drink, tea whatever, and do not eat ANYTHING while reading this page!:)

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[info]elfwreck

Wicca: still not a race.

In today's "Activism: Ur Doin It Wrong" department, we have accusations that slurs against pagan rituals are racist. Set aside, for the moment, that said slurs don't actually exist. That... give some insight into the mind of the commenter, but isn't, in fact, relevant.

What's relevant is that she thinks Wicca's being insulted, and she's "calling" the supposed insulter on her "racism." (In a community about public transportation. So, um, more than rather severely off-topic all around.)

I don't have an icon that's halfway between "facepalm" and "headdesk." (And I don't want one; that would mean I expect to find *more* stuff like this to post about. Which I'd really rather not.)

Oh, and the comment threads hit Godwin's law, ablism, classism and childfreekiness. And NEVAR AGAIN TEH BURNING TIEMS! A glory of fucktupitude all around.

(I got this from [info - livejournal.com] dot_pagan_snark, and it's been on [info - livejournal.com] stupid_free, so apologies to people who already know about it. Sharin' the pain, folks; sharin' the pain.)

This entry is crossposted at http://elf.dreamwidth.org/283818.html. You can comment there with OpenID from your LJ or IJ account. Comments so far: comment count unavailable

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She is too fond of books

Hi, my name's elf, and I have a reading problem.

When most people say "reading problem," they mean "the letters look blurry to me" or "I've been assigned more pages than human eyeballs can absorb this weekend" or "ack, my comprehension of Russian is too low for me to get the right concepts out of this physics paper." It almost never means "I think I've been neglecting other parts of my life for reading."

Because reading isn't considered a dangerous addiction. It has no physical side-effects. It doesn't make the mind slow or incompetent. At no point, in the throes of reading, is one incapable of driving or performing surgery, should one's skills go in those directions. (Well, save for the "must put book down" part. However, after that immediate shift in awareness, one's reflexes and attention are both available to whatever tasks might be at hand.)

And it's not expensive. Nobody sells off his car and formal clothes to get books. Nobody hocks her wedding jewelry. Books--really good books--are available everywhere at prices ranging from "cheap" to "free." And the internet hasn't made that any less true. Entertaining content, informative & educational content, useful, delightful, important content, is free by the terabyte.

And oooh, I want to read it ALL.

I read a lot. I could read a lot more. )

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IJ Holiday Sale

We are starting this years InsaneJournal holiday sale. From now until the end of the day Friday, November 27 we are going to be holding a sale on Self-Committed[paid] accounts and Extra Userpics.

The prices are be as follows

Self-Committed[paid]
1 Month -> $5
6 Month -> $15 $10
12 Month -> $25 $18

Extra Userpicx
6 Month -> $10 $5
12 Month -> $20 $15

Then on Friday November 27th from 8am until 4pm (Eastern US time) we will be running a very special sale on Permanently Insane accounts.

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wrensnestnews - New Law Bans

21-Nov-2009 6:18p

The most sweeping federal anti-discrimination law in nearly 20 years takes effect today, prohibiting employers from hiring, firing or determining promotions based on genetic makeup.

Additionally,

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the_wildhunt - A Few Quick Note

21-Nov-2009 4:51p

  • Reminder: We are in the midst of our first annual Winter Pledge Drive! If you value this blog, its mission, and its content, please consider making a donation to keep The Wild Hunt open, ad-free, and updated daily. Spread the word, and thanks to all who have donated so far!

I have a few news items to start off your Saturday, beginning with a story that’s spread like wildfire through the political and religious blogospheres gaining mainstream coverage, and its all about prayer. Specifically its about “imprecatory prayer”, the Christian equivalent to malefic “black” magic (you’re basically asking God to kill, maim, or trouble some person). While there have been a few high-profile imprecatory prayer stories popping up lately, the most recent centers on a meme and line of merchandise urging people to “pray” for President Barack Obama, invoking the biblical Psalm 109:8 “let his days be few; and let another take his office”. It seems rather harmless as imprecatory prayers go until you read the rest of the psalm in question.

“It was, most likely, intended as a joke.  But it isn’t really very funny.  Especially since the next verse reads, “May his children be orphans, and his wife a widow.”  The passage goes on the same way--asking God to pulverize this poor fellow--that he lose all his worldly goods, that his orphans be abandoned, that his father be remembered as a sinner, and finally, that “his memory be cut off from the earth.” Thus, the “Prayer for Obama,” does more than anticipate that he leaves office; it entreats God to destroy the president.”

Supporters and opponents of this prayer are battling it out at Cafe Press, with stores being removed and reinstated. Meanwhile, pundits are split on whether this is harmless fun, or yet another sign that far-right Christianity is coming unglued and “trawling for assassins”. How should Pagans and occultists, many of whom believe in the power of magic and intention, react to these sort of stories? Harmless? Or the beginning of a particularly nasty egregore?

Turning from prayer to more material conflicts over belief, Chas Clifton reports on a Russian Orthodox priest who was recently murdered in his church. 34-year-old Daniil Sysoyev was missionary who bragged of converting 80 Muslims personally, and wrote several books critical of Islam, gaining many death-threats in the process. But while this seems a rather open-and-shut case of a Russian Muslim taking revenge against a firebrand converter of Muslims, authorities are also looking at other groups, like Russian Pagans.

“Sysoyev also worked with former members of religious sects and wrote a book on Seventh Day Adventists and Jehovahs’ Witnesses. He also spoke out against nationalists and Stalinists, whom he criticized on his blog for ignoring the murder of innocent people.”

None of the articles specifically mentions Pagans when they mention “various religious sects”, but the ABC article links the phrase to another report they did on Russian Pagans, so they must know something we don’t. Clifton points out that Russian Pagans do come into direct conflict with the Russian Orthodoxy and “are more likely to have their own line of “blood and soil” rhetoric and to claim that they represent the true spirituality of their people”. All that said, I’m siding with Occam’s razor on this one, so the Russian Pagans and hard-liner Stalinists most likely have little to worry about during the investigation.

In a final note, it looks like “Agora”, which centers on the life (and death) of Neoplatonist pagan philosopher Hypatia, has finally found an American distributor and will hit theaters in early 2010.

“Alejandro Amenabar’s intellectual epic that had sat without a U.S. buyer for six months, has found a stateside home. Newmarket Films has picked up U.S. rights to the Rachel Weisz starrer and is prepping a release for the first half of 2010.”

Distribution deals finally materialized after the film starting doing far better than expected in European markets. So we’ll finally get a chance to see “Agora” on the big screen, anyone want to place bets on if/when it will gain American protesters?

the_wildhunt


[info]doingsoso

Storage tip!

I don't remember where I read or heard this but it works:

If you have problems with tomato products staining your storage bowls and such. The way to stop that from happening is to spray a little non stick cooking spray into the bowl before you add the tomato based product. Viola! No more stains :)

If you don't want to do it that way, I have had luck with the spray vinegar, and soaking them in a sinkful of soapy bleach water works. I have also used laundry stain removers:)

The problem with tomato products is that they're acidic, this is why it's recommended that you don't cook tomato based products in aluminum pots and pans, so the stains are harder to remove. Preventing them is always easier than removing the stains once they're set.

I've used the bleach water soak, followed by a baking soda and water soak to remove odors from containers also. Lemon juice works well too, then I usually set the container outside in the sun for half a day. Gets rid of odors very well.

The sun works wonders on stained white bed linens. If you just can't get that stain out: I usually bleach whites. But if there's a stain that won't come out no matter what. I'll spray a little vinegar or lemon juice on the stain and hang the piece of linen on a clothesline in the sun for a couple of days. Then rewash. That usually takes care of the stains. A bad stain might take a longer exposure, and make sure that your item is in a place that gets sun all day or most of the day. And it takes longer exposure in the winter than in the summer. :)




[info]hmljf

wrensnestnews - Fight Over Je

21-Nov-2009 5:32p

The case of the missing mezuzah will go to trial.

Last week the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in Chicago, ruled that a case may go forward involving a family’s fight to af

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[info]hmljf

wrensnestnews - Battle Lines

21-Nov-2009 5:32p

The bells at St. Thomas Aquinas church in Marine Park are just too loud, according to some residents here.

"I gotta live with this every day. I'm in there trying to eat or something, just relaxing

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wrensnestnews - Archbishop Of

21-Nov-2009 5:32p

In a visit to Rome, Dr Rowan Williams expressed his concerns to the Pope over the Vatican's recent offer to welcome disaffected Anglicans into the Catholic fold.

The two religious leaders held a pr

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wrensnestnews - Amazing Grace

21-Nov-2009 5:32p

When I was a child, my mother taught me a simple table grace: “God is great. God is good. Let us thank him for our food. Amen.”

I taught it to my son, who added another line: “Please don’t let this

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matilda36 - (No subject)

21-Nov-2009 5:52p

Not too bad a day at work. Yesterday had been worse. I still get irritated by the smallest thing, but I am trying to slowly work on my anger. I know it's very old and I know it's very useless. Rather unproductive, but it has been with me for so long that I don't know how to be without it.

Anyway, it wasn't a busy day but we had some queues and that's good.I had a look at my shifts next week and apparently they have decided that my not being available Monday and Thursday morning means that they have to give me afternoon shifts. What it means is that Monday and Thursday evenings I'll be so tired that my anger will be curling low in my belly and that my hands will probably shake. At least I am off both Tuesday and Friday, so i can recover. I have Saturday free, I'll see if my dad wants to do something together.

Stopped for food on the way home, ate Profitterols while watching White Collar (I am still on the fence on that one. Neil Cafferty is an interesting character and the relationship between the male leads is captivating in a snot slashy way, but it can easily become just another cop show). Now I am eating eggs while reading House/Wilson/Chase threesome fics:

Try this: http://alex51324.livejournal.com/?tag=threesome it's good.

Current Mood: grumpy

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[info]wildhuntblog

A Few Quick Notes

  • Reminder: We are in the midst of our first annual Winter Pledge Drive! If you value this blog, its mission, and its content, please consider making a donation to keep The Wild Hunt open, ad-free, and updated daily. Spread the word, and thanks to all who have donated so far!

I have a few news items to start off your Saturday, beginning with a story that’s spread like wildfire through the political and religious blogospheres gaining mainstream coverage, and its all about prayer. Specifically its about “imprecatory prayer”, the Christian equivalent to malefic “black” magic (you’re basically asking God to kill, maim, or trouble some person). While there have been a few high-profile imprecatory prayer stories popping up lately, the most recent centers on a meme and line of merchandise urging people to “pray” for President Barack Obama, invoking the biblical Psalm 109:8 “let his days be few; and let another take his office”. It seems rather harmless as imprecatory prayers go until you read the rest of the psalm in question.

“It was, most likely, intended as a joke.  But it isn’t really very funny.  Especially since the next verse reads, “May his children be orphans, and his wife a widow.”  The passage goes on the same way--asking God to pulverize this poor fellow--that he lose all his worldly goods, that his orphans be abandoned, that his father be remembered as a sinner, and finally, that “his memory be cut off from the earth.” Thus, the “Prayer for Obama,” does more than anticipate that he leaves office; it entreats God to destroy the president.”

Supporters and opponents of this prayer are battling it out at Cafe Press, with stores being removed and reinstated. Meanwhile, pundits are split on whether this is harmless fun, or yet another sign that far-right Christianity is coming unglued and “trawling for assassins”. How should Pagans and occultists, many of whom believe in the power of magic and intention, react to these sort of stories? Harmless? Or the beginning of a particularly nasty egregore?

Turning from prayer to more material conflicts over belief, Chas Clifton reports on a Russian Orthodox priest who was recently murdered in his church. 34-year-old Daniil Sysoyev was missionary who bragged of converting 80 Muslims personally, and wrote several books critical of Islam, gaining many death-threats in the process. But while this seems a rather open-and-shut case of a Russian Muslim taking revenge against a firebrand converter of Muslims, authorities are also looking at other groups, like Russian Pagans.

“Sysoyev also worked with former members of religious sects and wrote a book on Seventh Day Adventists and Jehovahs’ Witnesses. He also spoke out against nationalists and Stalinists, whom he criticized on his blog for ignoring the murder of innocent people.”

None of the articles specifically mentions Pagans when they mention “various religious sects”, but the ABC article links the phrase to another report they did on Russian Pagans, so they must know something we don’t. Clifton points out that Russian Pagans do come into direct conflict with the Russian Orthodoxy and “are more likely to have their own line of “blood and soil” rhetoric and to claim that they represent the true spirituality of their people”. All that said, I’m siding with Occam’s razor on this one, so the Russian Pagans and hard-liner Stalinists most likely have little to worry about during the investigation.

In a final note, it looks like “Agora”, which centers on the life (and death) of Neoplatonist pagan philosopher Hypatia, has finally found an American distributor and will hit theaters in early 2010.

“Alejandro Amenabar’s intellectual epic that had sat without a U.S. buyer for six months, has found a stateside home. Newmarket Films has picked up U.S. rights to the Rachel Weisz starrer and is prepping a release for the first half of 2010.”

Distribution deals finally materialized after the film starting doing far better than expected in European markets. So we’ll finally get a chance to see “Agora” on the big screen, anyone want to place bets on if/when it will gain American protesters?


[info]doingsoso

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wrensnestnews - Christianity'

21-Nov-2009 4:46p

Da Vinci Code fans may thrill to dark conspiracies surrounding the secret history of early Christianity, but how many know about the real scholarly debate surrounding the young church? Even without a

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practicallyfame - Petrie & Kiwi

21-Nov-2009 10:50a

At 7am I woke up to Petrie SCREECHING.

I bolt up, like a mother to a crying child, and I check on him. He's pacing the cage, screech screech screech.

I pick him up, cuddle him, and then look in the cage, to see that Kiwi's missing. I put Petrie down, screech screech screech.

I start calling out for Kiwi, looking high and low, around the cage, under, trying to find him.

Finally, I spot him, he'd flown clear across the room, landed on a hat, and then couldn't figure out how to get back, so he decided to sleep there.

You know, Kiwi talks a whole lot, and sometimes it seems like he's saying relevant words for given situations and everything. But that bird is tremendously dumb. He often gets one place and then can't figure out how to get back. He has no physical intelligence, no sense of where he is, how to fly (he just randomly does it). He just always seems confused.

I love that little bird, but wtf?

Whereas Petrie talks rarely, but his gaze is so discerning and he never seems confused. He always knows where he is and how to get where he wants to go, and if there's no way, he makes a way.

I love my birdies. They're so... different.

Current Mood: amused

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[info]doingsoso

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BookRix – A Community For Book Lovers & Wannabe Authors

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domiobrien - Scandinavian Fair; Sons of Norw

21-Nov-2009 9:52a

Scandinavian Fair 10-3 today Saturday Nov 21, 2009; Acton/Boxborough High School Acton MA. Ragnar and Daniela are picking me up so I don't have to drive myself! Food, gifts, music, national costumes, etc etc
Already did 4 loads of wash this morning and went to the store, and cleaned out a little clutter (2 trash bags worth), so feel free to go enjoy...

domiobrien

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ozarque - Writing science fiction; the new nove

21-Nov-2009 8:45a

You may or may not remember the novel I'm working on now, which has a U.S. Corps of Linguist candidate -- who has failed three of her final exams -- ordered to do a penalty monograph on the grammars of four previously unstudied ET languages. [First page, draft 17, is at http://ozarque.livejournal.com/621925.html .]

Which means that I've had to spend this past week doing the following:

1. Thumbnail sketches of each of the four languages.

2. Phoneme lists for each of the four languages. [That is, the list of meaningful sounds].

3. Swadesh lists for each of the four languages. [That is, the core vocabulary list of roughly 100 words that the linguist would use to start her fieldwork.]

These three things have to be done before I can do the plotting, and they take a lot of time. And of course, for a linguist they're mind-candy. I'll be sorry when I've finished doing them.

No title yet. Not even a glimmer of an idea for a title.

ozarque

[info]hmljf

whatthehay - DC sightseeing, day 1

21-Nov-2009 5:29a

We didn't manage to get out until 11am. I'm still trying to get rested from working all week and hubby is having a terrible time with his sleep schedule. He'll sleep for an hour or two and then is up for four -- back and forth.

Today we managed to make it to the mint and the Smithsonian for American History. We took the subway down to the Smithsonian and started walking. The mint is next to the Holocaust museum, which we *should* see, but just didn't have the heart to go to.

The mint had a sign saying you had to walk completely around the Holocaust building to get tickets, so we trudged over there. However, the ticket booth was closed because it said at this time of year no tickets were needed. Uh, couldn't they have said that on the OTHER side? So we trudged back.

The tour was nice. The workers who do their job in the observation rooms (we were in glassed-in walkways above them) would wave and smile. One of them held up a huge packet of money and acted like he would hand it to us....if only that pesky glass wasn't there! It was funny.

The mint is located close to the Dept of Agriculture building (where my check comes from for some reason) and outside of the Dept of Treasury Department....who I really work for. So we took pictures of those buildings.

The Washington Monument is also down that way and we got some nice shots of that. Haven't actually been over yet since we were planning on monuments for today and tomorrow.

Found the Smithsonian American History museum after we grabbed a really quick lunch. I had a hot dog. Seating was on metal benches outside. A flock of little birds attended us while we ate, so we gave them part of our lunch. The were very cute.

The museum is large...I don't have to tell you all that. It's on 3 floors and with all the trudging, we were tired by the time we got there. We are so not in shape, unless you count round as a shape. They have moved the flag hanging over the fort that inspired the Star Bangled Banner into an exhibit of its own. Last time I was there in the 70's, it was just hanging.

We sat through a civil rights demonstration lesson where they had actors teaching the audience what it was like to do a sit in at an all white's lunch counter. Then over to a presentation of native american art done by plains indians who had been taken to St Augustine, FL (where I just was) and held in the fort there until "rehabilitated". Kind of sad, but interesting art mostly of the things they had lived through before they were taken away.

We walked through an exhibit of photographs done by this well-know studio in the Washington DC area depicting black culture in the 40's-50's. They are in the process of putting up a full exhibit for African Americans and this was just a taste. Very nice photos.

Then up we went to see the Lincoln exhibit. The displays went through his life fairly well. They had his actual clothes and hat as well as one of Mary Lincoln's felt dresses. I think the part that impressed me the most was photographs taken of him for almost each year of the presidency. My god, by the time the Civil War ended, it looked like it had ran across his face! He had aged so much in those few years he was in office. I know it happens to a lot of them, but this was striking.

I would have liked to see the exhibit next to it which was for all the presidents, but by then we were both just out of steam. We had bought some guidebooks of DC, found a place to sit down and I took a look for how to get back to the hotel. Hubby fell promptly asleep. That's how tired we were.

When I saw that, I decided the hell with the subway and we'd get a cab. I looked in the guidebook and found some restaurants in the Georgetown area (which is not too far from where we are staying). Woke up hubby and we decided to try a BBQ place. Finding a cab was another story.

We walked out of the museum. By now it was dark. How does one get a cab? We had our cell phones, so we walked down to the corner of 14th and Constitution. When we would see a cab go by in traffic, we would get the number off the side of the cab and try to call. This just did NOT work. I don't know why. Many of the cabs did not have area codes on them. Sticking on the 202 area code for DC didn't help. I just kept getting other people's voice mails. Directory assistance didn't help. The company they connected me to would not answer.

Finally, I'd had enough of this. I walked part way down the street and just started waving at cabs. I know I'm a rube, but I've never hailed a cab before. This one guy stopped 3 lanes into traffic and we had to run across to get in. The traffic was stopped at a light, but eeeeeh. We gave him the address and suddenly felt the luxury of riding in a car after a week of being on foot or on subways. I am just not a big city girl.

Dinner at the Old Glory All American BBQ was not impressive. It was ok. The meat was good, but the sides weren't much. Dessert was good and I could only eat a bit and brought the rest home (peanut butter pie). Hubby had the dark chocolate cake and ate all of his.

So, we started walking down the main street of Georgetown, which is like walking down Broadway at home except the sidewalks are more narrow and uneven and the architichure is interesting. Then suddenly, we ran out of Georgetown and now what? We kept walking, realizing that our energy was now about out and found the Westin Hotel. Happy days! Four cabbies sat outside and one took us back to our hotel.

This morning hubby has woken up with a swollen "dongle" as he calls it...that thing that hangs down in the back of your throat, so he is still sleeping. I've given him aspirin and Vit C and have the tea kettle on for hot tea when he wakes up. I'm hoping he doesn't come down sick because I still have a lot I want to see.

So, that's day one. Today is kind of on hold for now.....

Current Mood: optimistic

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21-Nov-2009 7:00a

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sinfestfeed - 2009-11-21: Sinfes

21-Nov-2009 1:00p

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erynn999 - So far so good

21-Nov-2009 12:59a

I'm about 109 pages into the dissertation and finding it very useful so far. I'm quite pleased that I was able to have a copy. This is going to be an important thing for the geilt article and for the book, I think.

Tomorrow is painting. We'll probably be over at [info]joyful_storm's place by about 2pm. I'm figuring about 4 hours will be the limit of my ability to paint usefully, but we'll bring stuff to help out with and leave it for others to use after we're gone if it's needed.

Moroccan dinner tomorrow, yay!

Bedtime now. Yes.

Current Mood: enthralled
Current Music: Frank Zappa: Opus 1, No. 4, 2nd Movement Allegro

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21-Nov-2009 12:01a

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erynn999 - Progress!

20-Nov-2009 8:49p

I got out to the Walgreens today for ink and walked over to Freddie's after that for paper so I could print out the 200+ page Suibhne dissertation. Looks like it will be excellent! I'm very excited to finally have got that project done. Right now, though, I'm having dinner. Can't read, type, and eat all at the same time. I need more hands. Or maybe tentacles.

Called and talked to mom today to catch up with her and the family. She's talked to quite a few of the relatives recently. For the most part things are going well, though both one of the Griswold cousins and his wife have developed various cancers and this is a cause for some concern. I'm keeping them in my thoughts.

Tomorrow is painting day over at [info]joyful_storm's place, then a birthday dinner for [info]yiaya at Kasbah. Oh, I do so adore Moroccan! There will only be four of us this year, but it should be a lovely party regardless. I'm thinking one of their delicious lamb tagines and a Moroccan red wine -- they have some very good ones there. I took mom to this place a couple of years ago when she came to visit and she really enjoyed it.

And now it is time to stop procrastinating and go read the dissertation.

Current Mood: content
Current Music: Pam Nation: Lochaber No More/MacPherson's Rant

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HOW TO: Use Social Media to Find Black Friday Deals

HOW TO: Use Social Media to Find Black Friday Deals

Okay, but social media is NOT the be all and end all of bargain hunting. I use slickdeals.com, and fat wallet, and deal sucker, and I check Woot daily, and Yahoo deals, and the new About.com deal site. I also check out places like PacificGeek.com and etc. I like checking out the Cheapskate on CNet. And I check all my newspaper ads. Then I run a search on Google for single items to see if any special deals pop up. Finding a good price on any item takes work, patience and diligence. It's not easy peasy. But I'm the bargain hunter for the family, I let them know where the bargains are, clip the coupons, and they go retrieve them, or I order and they pay. You have to stay on top of it. But I have saved my family tons of money over the years with my bargain hunting. And this is NOT just a new fad for me. I've been doing this for years, Ahhh 15 at least, but in the last few years it has become easier since more retailers have made their presence known online. SO enjoy the links:) I hope they help you out for the Holiday season and beyond:)




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20-Nov-2026 7:58p

Aha--that greyhound email from earlier? There are greyhounds, but the info I gave was incorrect--here's a link to the real info. Apologies for the mistake.

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erynn999 - Irish music: Sean-nós festival in O

20-Nov-2009 6:32p

The Sean-nós Festival Northwest is having its 3rd annual Sean-nós festival in Olympia on January 15th & 16th. There will be workshops on singing and Irish language. This is taking place at Evergreen State College. Looks like it would be a lot of fun!

Current Music: Walter Sickert &the Army of Broken Toys: Revenge of the Rats

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dragonhearth - Writer's Block: First thing

20-Nov-2009 6:32p

What’s the first thing you do when you log into your computer everyday?

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I actually read email first then FB, then play Castle Age and read Live Journal, about in that order. But I just wake my computer up, I don't tend to log it off.

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tye_dyed_daisy - my life in 140 characte

20-Nov-2009 7:00p

  • 22:35 At the theater for New Moon!!
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