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I'm gonna see Sonic Youth next week. Two shows in one nite.

And I had a good week for school stuff. Made some real breakthroughs. Now I just gotta get my way out of Level Two. Its about six more weeks, but it seems like twice that. So much work. Much of it is useful, some its hard to tell, some is a waste of...
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Wow. The site redesign is pretty well-done. I'm annoyed that they no longer allow people to be discreet by not mentioning their age without putting a an 'age:?' thing at the top. I've always considered it rude to ask any person to peg themselves down publicly with a number, and consider it inappropriate that this site thinks that that is OK. (Many other sites do...
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Just had a reiki session with a friend. (I was receiving.) It is now two-for-two with Reiki. Both times, I have felt strong positive energy stuff from Reiki that is different from what I feel w/ massage. And I don't 'believe' in it, either. It just experientially seems to be real. Two times, about five years apart now. And he told me where he felt...
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They killed al-Zarqawi, that fuckhead. Even tho I am opposed to the war in Iraq, I am a true foe of al-Quaida, and do consider them a threat to me, personally. I would not be allowed to be who I am in an Islamic theocracy, and they recognize no other kind of Islam. So, its a good day for those of us who do not...
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Long time since an update. I have been offline for more than a month. I just got the internet in the new apt. It is a good place, best place I've ever lived, really. Its a big 1BR on the third fl. with a great view of just tree tops. Very private. Doesn't feel like it is in town at all, altho it is. Its...
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Hello.

I am apartment hunting, and it is a hassle. Finding a 1BR in DC that isn't really expensive is a bit tough. I don't want to pay more than $1300 tops. I wish I owned a place, but that is just out of the question for a while here.

School is busy, a lotta work. And with this moving thing I have been doing...
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Hello.

I was out in Dupont Circle this evening, when I came across a local brass band. They play outside sometimes in that neighborhood in the summer. I've seen them several times over the years, and always think they sound good, but rarely stop to listen. They play what I think is New Orleans jazz type music, altho I have never seen anything like them...
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Oblique Strategies.

Its a deck of cards, subtitled, "Over one hundred worthwhile dilemmas." They were put together in 1975 by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt. These are the included instructions. "They can be used as a pack (a set of possibilities being continuously reviewed in the mind) or by drawing a single card from the shuffled pack when a dilemma occurs in a working situation....
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Happy Easter, y'all. I guess I better make it out to Mass this afternoon. I go so rarely. Then I'll go out running.

Its sunny out, and I'm listening to old Stax records from Memphis in the 60's. Otis Redding, Booker T. & the MGs, Carla Thomas. God that stuff was tight. Sounded so great. They can't make stuff that sounds like that anymore.

Have...
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I am listening to Sonic Youth's Sister album tonite. That is just one of many great SY albums. I wish I didn't like stuff like this. How the hell do you communicate this? How do you share it? Sonic Youth's music has a deep, impacted beauty that sometimes has made me even cry. If its not Art, the word has no meaning I can discern....
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