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Welcome SG friends,

Hope everyone is doing well this weekend. I've got my nose deep in my med homework except for at this moment I'm at a friends catching up on all the great music I've been missing. Doves, Garbage, Nick Cave, New Order, Mercury Rev. I guess Morrissey has a new live record too. Well. I bid you all a fine evening. wink
kelland:
What the heck... I really need to catch up on the tunes as well.
shadowcast:
you have alot of really cute SG friends (not including myself !!) so i am reworking a few of my songs...my girlfriend is actually an amazing opera singer and we are working on a few tracks together, i will let you know when they are done, i will send you a copy.
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Thank you for stopping by my little corner .
Hopefully I've messaged just about all of you today. I'm doing well, we move out of terminology next week & into codeing. I'm still above water mostly. Some of the parts of the body are over my head, like the brain so I'll stay away from that area. No new music to speak of I'd love...
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shadowcast:
oh yeah - correction - the DM track i sent you wasn't the one i was thinking of. i also did "dream on" - which was from a remix contest. the "waiting for the night" is my own bootleg mix (and you can tell i used alot of "strangelove" samples in the track for fun.)
serendipitous:
Yes, go see Interpol! I've never seen them but a guy I knew swore they were amazing live!

If someone made a movie of the Sartre play, they'd probably ruin it. There have been times when I've read a book and thought "that would make an amazing movie!" Of course, I am no film maker and I don't know how to make things brief so, in the end, there would be an amateur 10 hour movie! biggrin And I am usually disappointed when someone finally makes a movie of great books. Grrr....

I used to have a great concert collection. Then my brother had his asshole friend move in with us and he stole most of them. It still makes me mad even though that was about 15 years ago! The others I don't wear and have boxed up. I don't know what I will ever do with them but I refuse to get rid of them!

As for school, I'm only about to be done with my AA. Then it's on to an undecided BA. I need to get my butt in gear and figure some stuff out! How's school going? Have all those med terms nailed? Any weekend plans? Happy Friday!

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Greetings SG friends,

Well, tonight I saw the best play I believe I've ever seen & that says a lot as I've seen many. I saw "No Exit" by Jean-Paul Sartre at the Imago theater here in Portland. It was sooo intense & full of twists & turns. It was about 3 people in a room with a movable floor that sways from side to...
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Yay for 98%! Isn't it nice when busting your butt pays off? I've been busy studying for a test and prepping to write a paper. For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to write a contrast of two books so I've been reading a lot. I've read both the books before, but it's been a while so I figured I'd better refresh myself a tad.

The Sartre movie sounds awesome! We have a great local movie store here so I'll have to see if they have it. I used to love Sartre when I was in high school. I still have a magazine from the 60s that I found long ago that had a feature about him. God, I am such a pack rat!

Gainesville was good. All of my bf's friends are veg so the weekend consisted of lots of cooking and eating. The guy we stayed with is very into games so we played some games and did some biking. They were having an art show so we went there too. They have a show here that is supposed to be good that we went to maybe a month ago and I swear it was 15% food vendors. The one in Gainesville had more art and better art as well. Sort of weird that college town USA has a better art show than one that is supposedly nationally recognized. There are some days when I wish I had lots of money. Going to good art shows makes me wish that biggrin Then again so does going to the music store!

One of the few cool things Orlando has is a monthly movie in a park. It was last night, so we went to see "Rebel Without a Cause." I used to have the biggest crush on James Dean even though he died way before I was born! It's not the greatest movie, but ze bf had never seen it and it is a classic after all! Any classics you are a fan of?

How's the week going? How much of the semester is left? About a month? I think I only have 2 classes next semester before I have my AA. I need to have someone at school double check just in case, but it makse me happy. I feel like I've been in school forever. That's what happens when you can only take 2-3 classes a semester!

Any exciting weekend plans? Happy Wednesday to ya!

Oops! Just realized you said the Sartre movie was a play biggrin Wishful thinking I guess!

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mousegirl:
Sorry, still very much in anti-social mode.

Congrats on the 98%! smile

You know, I think I saw 2 plays in high school, and that's it. Oh, I take that back, I have been dragged to 2 different god-awful Seattle events that were painful to sit through. It would be really nice to see a good play at some point in my life. And an opera.

Gonna go enjoy the last few moments of sunshine out there.

miao!!
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Welcome all curious eyes,

Well, I've now retained around 104 prefixes & suffixes with many more waiting in the wings. I'm starting to look around for an internship. Maybe chiropratic sounds hopeful. I've always met women in my classes but, this time appears to be not so. Oh well more time to study right. Hope all is well with you.
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neakylikeaninja:
Thanks a bunch smile
It didn't really take me all that long to write. Generally everything comes to me on the spot, I feel the need to write and it all just sort of comes out at once. This took maybe half an hour to write, edited over a few days; coming back now and then to change words here and there, spell checking, ect. I guess when I'm inspired, it's really specific.

I keep a notebook in my car for occasions when something comes to me, and there are lots of pages of huge writing from me writing without looking while attempting to drive.

I did take TONS of English/Composition classes through high school and college. I've been writing for as long as I can remember. I didn't get a degree in anything, but I took a wide variety of English classes.

So anyway, thanks smile
shadowcast:
hey hey !!
i have the massive attack soundtrack cd (with dog on cover) if thats the same one you are talking about. i love thier album mezzanine - it still blows my mind. the new order single is out i think april 26th or something, the full length in may. i really don;t know what to expect. if you think about it, every single album by them has been different. which i like about the band. i made myself a 3 cd comp of their stuff, disc one goes from 1980-1983 , 2nd is 1984-1987, 3rd is 1989-1993, so now i can finally make disc 4 - 2001 to 2005 !!! ahhhhhh i feel better already
p.s. - the new Beck cd is his best in years
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Greetings,
Well, tonight I've been busy making flashcards for the suffixes in my medical terminaology class. While doing that I was listening to the O'Riely cd of the piano covers for Radiohead tracks. I listened to it 3 times in a row & enjoyed it very much. Hope all is well on your side of the screen.
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serendipitous:
I don't suppose you ever took Latin? That would make the Medical Terminology class much easier! Unfortunately I don't think Latin is much use other than for that or if you're going to be on Jeopardy!

Yep... I try to remain positive about life. I honestly think we have only a little say over where we are supposed to be in life and I generally think there is always a reason or a lesson to be learned when things don't go the way we want. Of course, it's hard to see the reasons while living in the present, which can make life difficult at times. I hate the fact that I couldn't go to college right after high school. But if I had, god knows what I would have majored in or where I would currently be in my life. I am where and who am now because of every little thing that has happened since then. And if I had gone to college then, who knows where I would be in my life. And there are a lot of my people near and dear to me that I never would have met! So, even though I am 33 and still struggling with what to be when I grow up, I have a life I usually love because of my inability to go to college earlier. Anyways... that's usually my theory about things that happen in life... good or bad.

One thing I don't like about Orlando is their lack of veg things. Good veg foods can be found in ethnic restaurants, but other than that veg food are usually crappy for you here. I don't think there is any place here that has something like a tofu scramble even though we do sometimes make it at home. I really tink there's a niche here that needs to be filled. Unfortunately I don't have the money to fill that veg void here! Being veg definitely has become trendy. Whatever floats their boat I suppose!

It's funny how you can be influenced mentally by what you read or watch. I'm sure your reading has put you in a weird place! We spent a couple of months watching an anime series called Neon Genesis. On the surface, it was just a neat series about the near future and science and the earth being attcked. But there was so much more to it that I still don't even get. There were a lot of religious references, some Christian (which I am most familiar with) and others from many different religions or philosophies. I still want to look stuff up when I have a chance and watch some of it again so I can get what i missed the first time. When we finished watching it (I think it's 26 half hours and then 2 movies), my mind was in a blur. It was something that made life seem a little surreal for a while (as much as I hate the way the word is so overused now). Personally I love it when tings change my perspective, even if only temporarily because I think they do have lasting effects on some level.

I wonder what they're going to do if the Pope ends up brain dead and in a coma. I wonder if they would kep him hooked up to life support for 15 years. "They" say that life is life and as long as you are living, everything should be done to keep the person alive. We actually had a quasi-discussion about that in my humanities class about how God would be angry if someone was taken off of life support. My mom knowingly said one night that "God had already called her home" (her being Terri Schiavo). I wonder if God wouldn't be angrier with our human meddling over science nowadays. Of course, I don't believe in God with a capital G... not like I was raised to believe. But it shut the puritans in my class up.... and there are many of them.

Anyways, we are out of town fo the weekend. Going to Gainesville to see some friends and do some biking! Hope you have a fabulous weekend! smile

Holy wordiness! wink I warned ya!

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neakylikeaninja:
Thanks for the comment smile It was my first set, my next one will be better, don't worry.
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Greetings,

Well, lets see I'm back in school studying medical terminalogy,
working out alot & listening to 50. What can I say it's what my mood desires. Ofcoures the fact that both his cd & The Game's have great tracks, I need both. Busy, busy......................
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Greetings,

I've come up with my personal favorites for 2004
1 U2
2 Green Day
3 Modest Mouse
4 Wilco
5 Perfect Circle

I read that Manson is throwing in the towel & getting married as well. I actually thought the later stuff was better than the earlier from Anti Christ & up. Once Geordie White left you could hear the void. Oh well, hope...
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serendipitous:
Happy Sunday! I've been crazy with tests lately although I fared rather well... rather well for me in science classes that is! I hate getting anything less than As, but when it comes to science classes, I'm happy with Bs. As much as I like science, I do not have a natural talent for it. I study my ass off and still get Bs. I stopped beating myself up over that long ago!

I am now on "spring break" even though it doesn't really count since my classes are online. Did you sped your entire week peeling off wallpaper? I am horrible with stuff like that. I see little chips of paint coming off and the next thing I know I have a bare wall! That has happened to me more than once before I painted.

Any exciting Easter plans? My family is really just gtting together to eat. That's how we are. Any excuse for us to all get together and chow down!

I wish I could say I have exciting plans for my week away from classes, but I've been so busy studying that I really need to get my house in order! Where'd you go when you were gone a week ago? Happy Sunday!
serendipitous:
I hate not getting the classes you want/need. Sure, you'll get them eventually but it's still a pesky little school problem! At least it could lead to an internship... as annoying as it can be, I think things usually happen fr a reason!!

Buffets aren't my thing either. I'm usually a one-tripper as well and it seems expensive in the end. Plus, I'm a vegetarian so I can usually only eat a few things. Breakfast at restaurants for veggies isn't the easiest thing to do (altough I imagine it's easier in Portland). I only recently started eating omlettes. Usually it's easier just to eat at home in the morn. But Easter is different from every other day I guess. What'd you do for Easter (other than brunch)?

What made you decide to try vegetarianism? I stpped eating red meat and pork when I was 15 or 16 and poultry and seafood when I was 19. It's been so long that I can't remember why I did it in the first place... other than being sort of grossed out by it. Planning on turning veg or was it a short term thing? I have a few friends who just stopped eating meat for a year or so just because they got sick of eating meat and then because they got sick of being veg biggrin Both my bf and my sis in law are veg so it makes getting together quite easy!

Off to do the dishes! One of the things I slacked on last week! Have a great rest of the day!

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Greetings SG friends,

Well, I saw Kings of Convienence on thursday night at the Doug Fir. They were a tad dull as there remix record is there best & they tour acusticly. Oh well, Astrowerks put us on the guest list.
I got my U2 ticket for December 19. I'm trying for Seattle show the day before too. I do LOVE them so. Dizzie Rascal,...
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shadowcast:
i really hope those cds are there by now, its been too long, i just don't want them to be lost !!!! eeek eeek

i like Doves - their first cd most though. also King Cobb Steely (spelt right??) & Kruder & Dorfmeister. i love brit stuff, i still wonder how the fuck soo many great bands can come out of such a small area. i mean the u.k. is barely bigger than new england here in the u.s. yet, there are tons of amazing bands from just england alone. why is this ????? shit, from led zep, beatles, black sabbath, the who - to - the cure, depeche mode, echo & the bunnymen, joy division, the smiths, it just doesn't end over there !!!! i think the U.S. has better "metal" & "hardcore" & "emo" bands.
shadowcast:
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i feel so releived that you got the box !!! hehe - yeah, my color printer is down, the covers would have been way more done up if it was working, hope you like them, they are best listened to while driving !!! if you feel like making a copy of the brit comp cds you are doing, i would be more than happy hear them smile
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Good day web friends,

Well, tonight I did a BritPop mix I named "Advent for Tomorrow". It begins with Stone Roses & Happy Mondays & works it's way forward through all the great Brit bands up to Travis. I'll need to do a Preadvent with the Jam & Clash up to unsure. Also I'll need to do a more recent with Muse, Badly Drawn Boy...
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serendipitous:
Biking does have its benefits, no doubt about it! I live in a rather bike unfriendly area (streetwise at least) but my boyfriend lives downtown so we'll definitely be able to ride around lots. That and we have lots of paved "trails" here where people walk, ride, rollerblade, etc... Problem is I feel guilty going out biking and leaving my dog at home because she loves going places! I just have to promise myself to walk her on the trail every few days.

It's sort of funny thinking about moving someplace you've never been isn't it? I just know that I have never cared for Orlando and the narrowmindedness of Florida in general. And like they say (or at least we do here) it's not so much the heat, it's the humidity!

So would lab assistant include looking at lots of things under a microscope? I'm a big geek that way. Even though I have a propensity for things like English and Humanities, I've always liked sciencey things!

Teacher? Maybe just not in Florida. The school system here pretty much stinks and teachers are seriously undervalued. Librarian? Maybe. Let's me be anal retentive! My mom and her fellow teachers were actually the ones who thought of that one. I guess it's a lot different now than it was when I was a kid with all the technology out there!

Weekend plans include going to the Farmer's Market and drinking some yummy wine. That's the other downside to Orlando... not much to do unless you have money to blow which I currently do not! Even then, most of the things here are rather lame.

What cds are you thinking about getting? Any good suggestions on stuff to listen to? I have a new friend! Would you believe that half of the people on my friend's list are people I've never heard from? I figure unless they get uber creepy, what's the harm?

Happy Friday!

Edited to add: Yeah I get super chatty some days!

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tartpop:
i am doing well. i feel great actually. except for when i look down and see all that sagging skin on my tummy, but what can you do?
thanks for the compliment. that was very sweet love
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Greetings,

Well, I've started reading a book on Britpop that came out in 04. It begins with Stone Roses & Happy Mondays then proceeds into Suede & Blur. I actually really enjoy both bands a lot. It's odd that Justine was involved with both frontmen. One things for sure she has good taste. I'm kinda upset by all the punters who try to push so...
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I miss London frown

My sis is law is actually fab (lucky me) and she's on SG and called me a fuckbag because I hadn't updated my journal since December. She had a point! biggrin

I've found no job, interesting or otherwise so I'm focusing on school. I decided this would be a good semester to take 2 science classes snce I'm not working and they require more of my time than other classes do.

I don't know about the weird dreams on the new couch since it just arrived yesterday. It'll be interesting to see especially since my old couch is almost as old as am if not older! Maybe it's haunted wink
serendipitous:
I've definitely been slacking in updating my journal! Trying to get better though!

Right now I'm taking humanities, bio, and oceanography. The 2 science are requiring lots of time, but I had 2 Fs from my much younger (read stupid) days that I want to get rid of.

Another stupid Florida law... only missionary sex. LOL! Apparently Florida is one of the few states that didn't change their laws a few years ago even though they were initially started to be anti-homosexual laws. What a state I live in! Actually, my boy and I are talking about moving to Portland in a few years.... how is it? Seems like the closest to perfect that we could hope to find!

Happy weekend!!