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The London bombings... terrible. I have a friend in London and I'm worried about him. I hope he writes me back. I read that people are checking in, in SGUK. Sounds like everyone's ok so far, but a few people had some close calls. What an awful thing. My heart goes out to all you Londoners.

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And now back to the regularly scheduled entry that I started writing yesterday before anything bad happened. I'm not sure I should post it, but... well we could use some cheering up, huh?
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What's it all about... ALFIE??????

hahaha. The only two songs I don't like on The Very Best of Burt Bacharach are Gene Pitney doing "Only Love Can Break A Heart" (not like Saint Etienne/Neil Young's "Only Love Can Break Your Heart") and "What's New Pussycat" done by the man Tom Jones. Everything else, even the songs I'm not totally crazy about, I still love listening to. Twinkie couldn't have said it better, it's happy-making music.

I wish I was one of those types to call my car a "she". And have a name for it. Of course, I now know EXACTLY what she'd be named. I'll give you a hint: lookit my profile pic Haha... I wonder what Annie would think to know a fan named her car after her. That would be WEIRD. Funny though. On her forum a fan told her about his pet ferret dying... and now in an interview Annie says she wrote a song about it. She mentions the ferret and everything. So maybe she'd get a kick out of me naming my car after her. Hahaha Yeah, I've decided to christen my car "Annie". Laugh it up, fuzzball! If a bumper sticker was made with her name logo I could put it on my car and feel complete.

More Annie talk: NoControl said he thought Happy Without You was not so bad when he listened to it last night. I'm hearing him out... it really isn't that bad. Still probably the least good track on the album, but, well I guess there's a reason it keeps getting stuck in my head! For some reason Greatest Hit and Come Together are bumming me out lately. That's especially weird because Come Together is supposed to be the uplifting song of the album, at least with the lyrics. But I think the music to both, the actual tune, isn't as happy as the songs on the rest of the album. Chewing Gum, now, that really gets me going lately. Like REALLY really. Pop perfection. My top three of the moment 1) Chewing Gum 2) Me Plus One/Anniemal. Okay so there's a tie for second place

I wanted to post a screencap or two from the Chewing Gum video, but with the dancing, the stills don't look so great. At least, the move that I wanted to capture doesn't look good as a still. The hot move where she tosses her head back. You know the one. Or if not, you should. It is H-O-T hot. I could put the video up on yousendit again for your viewing pleasure. Such a sexxxy video. Now, if I could figure out how to make an animated gif of her shaking her booty... I would stare at that animated gif ALL DAY LONG. And admit it, you would too Anyone know how to make an animated gif from an .asf file? Yes it is a weird format. I don't have a viewer that lets me go frame by frame. I could use a better viewer in general, something that's more all-in-one.

I generally start writing the next journal entry within a half hour of posting the last one. Sure, I do stuff during the day, sorta, but I spend lots of my computer-sitting time writing my journal. And it shows, because as you all have noticed my entries are SO DAMN LONG. I didn't even think my last one was that long, but I didn't realize how much I kept adding to it. This one is probably going to be just as long. I can't shut up!

I went food shopping finally! I didn't buy a lot, maybe $60 worth, but it's good to have some actual food in the house. It had been at least a month since I bought food for myself, yikes. I still need to ask in the Nutrition and Diet group about ways to get my diet on track, I know there's stuff I probably should have bought but I didn't think about it. And maybe stuff I shouldn't have bought. (Tigerwong I bought some frosted mini-wheats and milk, we'll see how that goes.) My psych actually suggested Weight Watchers, since their main thrust is nutrition education. As I said elsewhere I feel weird about that since I'm skinny, but he suggested going to a local office and asking for advice. Maybe they have some literature that could help get me started. Not sure about going to meetings.

Mom's going up to NYC for a little less than a week and needed an extra bag, so I had to give her the duffel bag I have full of my juggling stuff. I haven't juggled in a loooong time. I picked up three of the balls (no ball jokes, in the juggling club I got really effing sick of ball jokes) and juggled them to see if I can still do it. I can, but I'm really rusty. I also have my set of clubs (most people don't know what to call those, I've seen them called "batons" and stuff) but I'm sure I'd get lots of bruises trying to do clubs again. I also have my acrylic contact ball (for contact juggling which is what David Bowie did in Labyrinth, though it was actually the other dude, Michael Moschen, considered the best contact juggler ever) but it would take a lot of practice to get any good at that again. I wasn't very good at it even after a lot of practice, back in the day. I met this guy Ray Bowers at the Congress of Jugglers convention that takes place at my school every year, he's an excellent local contact juggler.

The Congress of Jugglers was pretty fun but I have a totally weird memory from it which is kind of a bad association... didn't remember it until just now. I should go again some day though, it's really fun, jugglers everywhere. I kind of wish I had gone when I was still really good at balancing a club on my chin, they always do a club balancing competition and I know I could have lasted a long time. I could go longer than 7 minutes at one point! Learn something new about me every day, huh? I was really proud of myself for learning how to do that, I just stood in the courtyard between the dorms (I refuse to call it a "quad" ) for an hour or two and kept putting the club back on my chin. Eventually you get a feel for it naturally. There was a guy, I wish I remembered his name, who was just an amazing juggler. I believe he did street performances... in San Fransisco maybe? He came to our school club meetings, it was a real treat to have someone so talented with us. He was amazing at balancing clubs and stuff, he could lie down with a club still balanced on his chin. I don't think I ever saw him mess up. Maybe I can find him with some more research.

Here is my school's juggling club homepage. They're still using my design And it's broken in Firefox apparently The pictures in the gallery are the OLD pictures from YEARS ago, many (if not all) of which I took. Then there's the latest Congress of Jugglers gallery which is awesome.

There was never anyone
until you just came around
so afraid to be abandoned
can't afford to lose again

(I've just been posting lyrics that stick out to me... I like posting lyrics with every entry!)