happy day after thanksgiving. i don't celebrate it at all - it's not that i am not thankful, i am. I guess i believe that I am thankful all year long and don't need a particular day that makes me thankful. plus, i have nothing but horror stories from growing up - that occur on thanksgiving day. for me, it brings up a lot of...
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okay. so i really am back on SG. so - i thought it'd be time to do a proper update and blog. okay, i am trying to see where i was last. got an amazing job offer at an "ivy" league uni - good pay, excellent benefits, and looks pretty damn good on my resume. so - i took the position and am coming up...
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societyspliers:
I'm glad you're really solidly back here and that things are going well.
Damn - a friend I've had since around 1977 or 78 recently sold his restaurant in Providence and moved away, otherwise I'd try to get him to introduce you guys to hi friends. He and I more or less figured out the guitar thing together, or at least in chronological unison. We'd play Zep's Over The Hills & Far Away, the Dead's Friend of the Devil and an acoustified Van Halen's Eruption in the hallways at our Alma Mater. Also Love The One You're With and a couple others I've since forgotten.
Nice memories, mostly, tempered, as are most School Daze things, with some embarassment.
Paul's a great guy, though, and a fantastic chef.
Anyway, 'Nuff rambling. I'm composing a Suite with a theme based upon Mary King's Close, which is a Forgotten City beneath Edinburgh, Scotland, that was built over with new buildings and was just rediscovered after WWII bombings uncovered it and there are haunted chambers that had been sealed up ceturies ago during the Bubonic Plague with dying victims in them to try to keep the disease contained. One chamber had just a little girl, Annie, who was left alone in a sealed chamber with only a doll to comfort her as she died a horrible Death. It's the custom now for visitors to leave a toy for her Ghost.
Anyway, "A Toy For Annie" is just one movement I've nearly completed in the Suite, tentatively entitled "Mary King's Close," and the opening segment will likely be called "Mary King's Open."
It'll take some time and I have to locate a bagpipes playeer, as I intend to compose a part designed for just that.
Well, gotta go up the street and play a couple songs at a Johnny Cash tribute at Bogart's Smoke Shop & Lounge. It's pretty impromptu, as we just realized from Cassiel that it' the 4-yr anniversary of his Passing.
Damn - a friend I've had since around 1977 or 78 recently sold his restaurant in Providence and moved away, otherwise I'd try to get him to introduce you guys to hi friends. He and I more or less figured out the guitar thing together, or at least in chronological unison. We'd play Zep's Over The Hills & Far Away, the Dead's Friend of the Devil and an acoustified Van Halen's Eruption in the hallways at our Alma Mater. Also Love The One You're With and a couple others I've since forgotten.
Nice memories, mostly, tempered, as are most School Daze things, with some embarassment.
Paul's a great guy, though, and a fantastic chef.
Anyway, 'Nuff rambling. I'm composing a Suite with a theme based upon Mary King's Close, which is a Forgotten City beneath Edinburgh, Scotland, that was built over with new buildings and was just rediscovered after WWII bombings uncovered it and there are haunted chambers that had been sealed up ceturies ago during the Bubonic Plague with dying victims in them to try to keep the disease contained. One chamber had just a little girl, Annie, who was left alone in a sealed chamber with only a doll to comfort her as she died a horrible Death. It's the custom now for visitors to leave a toy for her Ghost.
Anyway, "A Toy For Annie" is just one movement I've nearly completed in the Suite, tentatively entitled "Mary King's Close," and the opening segment will likely be called "Mary King's Open."
It'll take some time and I have to locate a bagpipes playeer, as I intend to compose a part designed for just that.
Well, gotta go up the street and play a couple songs at a Johnny Cash tribute at Bogart's Smoke Shop & Lounge. It's pretty impromptu, as we just realized from Cassiel that it' the 4-yr anniversary of his Passing.
delacroix:
You're so cool!
hi. i'm back. wow - it has been soooo long! all is going well - i am at the boy's house using his computer (dial-up - wicked grrrrrr....) anyway - i will have an actual internet connection at home (end of the month) and i will catch up with people then...it is really good to be back...and i know i won't get a chance to...
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ikaruga:
hope that all is sweetness and light with you.
as for me, uni. and other associated stresses and grief have kept me busy. but outwith that, life's not too bad I guess. although I've been a rubbish internet friend for not being in touch* more.
* - this is, in fact a blatant fib. I've not been in touch at all, which makes me a bit rubbish.
as for me, uni. and other associated stresses and grief have kept me busy. but outwith that, life's not too bad I guess. although I've been a rubbish internet friend for not being in touch* more.
* - this is, in fact a blatant fib. I've not been in touch at all, which makes me a bit rubbish.
francis:
youre not fuckin old at all... whats with that?
FUCK YES!!!!!!!!! It's official - I received my formal offer today and am starting on Monday! I signed the lease on my new apartment, I move in the end of the month, and I start being gainfully employed as of Monday....I am so freakin' excited! I'm a bit nervous as it is a new job and there is alot to learn - but I now...
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shaneapex:
Return of The Mack!
societyspliers:
It's the new format. Click on the pic below.
Click on the above picture I just posted.
That should work. If it doesn't, click on "Expand blog with comments." Like it shows on the arrow on the pic above.
BTW, I still have snail-up dial-up, too.
Click on the above picture I just posted.
That should work. If it doesn't, click on "Expand blog with comments." Like it shows on the arrow on the pic above.
BTW, I still have snail-up dial-up, too.
okay...i will catch up on people soon....EEEEEE! had to share - just got an email from the department chair....
Hi Nina,
Thank you for your note. I am looking forward to seeing you tomorrow.
The information you have is correct.
At 2:30PM, you will meet with Professors A, B, C in the 6th floor conference room of the
BMC. (This is down the hall from...
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Hi Nina,
Thank you for your note. I am looking forward to seeing you tomorrow.
The information you have is correct.
At 2:30PM, you will meet with Professors A, B, C in the 6th floor conference room of the
BMC. (This is down the hall from...
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ikaruga:
so, complete upheaval (but it seems to be good upheaval, not bad) and a new job* as well?
huzzah, but I still feel like I've missed too much.
as schmoopy, stop it. you're making me blush.
the placement was in critical care, and I spent most of my time in the intensive care side of things (usually respiratory problems and/or multiple organ failure. yeah, a shade depressing at times)
* - do you mean a proper, grown-up job?!? I might be getting one of those at some point...
huzzah, but I still feel like I've missed too much.
as schmoopy, stop it. you're making me blush.
the placement was in critical care, and I spent most of my time in the intensive care side of things (usually respiratory problems and/or multiple organ failure. yeah, a shade depressing at times)
* - do you mean a proper, grown-up job?!? I might be getting one of those at some point...
ikaruga:
thank you.
thank you.ugggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!!!! Can I rant? I hate moving - with a passion. It sucks, I hate housework, I own way too much clothing, my damn cats are mad at me and peeing wherever they can. My house looks like a crack den. Seriously...And - I just found out I'm overdrawn in my checking account. By 300.00....FUCK!
And - this job that I so desperately want -...
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And - this job that I so desperately want -...
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chilung:
hate to be cliched but I'm a shakespeare nut so you know who I'm going to say. I know in reality he wasn't that important (except for the fact he fell to a minor noble who just happened to marry into the lines), but just because of the myths that sprung up about him, and the fantastic play (and character, based though it is on Vice) I'd have to say Richard the III.
Yes, it was porridge (second time I've eaten porridge in about nine months than a year, its GOOOd).
Yes, it was porridge (second time I've eaten porridge in about nine months than a year, its GOOOd).
jrsrock:
Hey long time no speak.
I did indeed have breakfast this morning, cereal, Raisin Bran Crunch.
Henry II, he had the nickname "The Lion of Justice"...that's badass.
I did indeed have breakfast this morning, cereal, Raisin Bran Crunch.
Henry II, he had the nickname "The Lion of Justice"...that's badass.
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nikonphoto80:
Nose wiggling is the best.
What kind of surprise middle do they have? what does he do when he eats them that makes him so cute?
What kind of surprise middle do they have? what does he do when he eats them that makes him so cute?
jorryn:
Boogalooshrimp did a great job hey? I LOVE his work, you should check it out if you haven't seen it. Some of his pieces are just so alive. He did this one and I SWORE the girl was going to wink at any minute! 
Thank you for your compliments
Thank you for your compliments
I am back! Grrr - had NO INTERNET FOR A WEEK!!!! Anyway - I noticed I hadn't updated my journal in a while and figured it's time to go on and off about the bits of randomness that seem to make up my attempt at life these days....
Good things - found an amazing new apartment! Love, love, love it! Costs the same as my...
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Good things - found an amazing new apartment! Love, love, love it! Costs the same as my...
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herby72:
wow job... i feel so dumb in the eyes of your (maybe) new title... good luck
millie:
I made a mistake in the piercing group and a dude was an ass about it. It was my fault, I should have searched the topic, instead of starting a new thread, but I really didn't deserve him yelling at me.
And boys frustrate me, because they are cute and wonderful and hard to resist. But I think I want to be single, for a very long time.
And boys frustrate me, because they are cute and wonderful and hard to resist. But I think I want to be single, for a very long time.
I have been updating alot lately...Onto my recent life decisions....I am definitely moving to Providence. It's a great city and has alot to offer in terms of work for me and things for the small human to do...My grand-mum was an amazing woman. She always told me the gypsies left me on the doorstep (we are eastern european - this was actually a bad thing!)...
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teeman:
Thats a really strong story Nina, and I can't help myself from smiling by the end 
You seem quite genuine and compassionate (as ive read on Dating Sucks haha) and I hope everything goes according to that wicked plan of yours. As for a new couch, well ive got an old one out the back I dont use anymore... hehe 
You seem quite genuine and compassionate (as ive read on Dating Sucks haha) and I hope everything goes according to that wicked plan of yours. As for a new couch, well ive got an old one out the back I dont use anymore... hehe
millie:
Thank you! For everything!
this is the last day I will be able to play and pretend I have a life....school starts tomorrow and while I am only taking three classes, I am working 30 hours a week....I have no idea how it will all be managed - but much like last semester, it will be managed. I got my grades - b, b-, a-, and an F....an honest...
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jay_blank:
Hey there! I was wondering where you had run off to!
Yeah, I'll be fine. Just a rough night...no big deal. I've never tried to stay friends before. It will take some getting used to, but I'll do it.
How has school been treating ya?
Yeah, I'll be fine. Just a rough night...no big deal. I've never tried to stay friends before. It will take some getting used to, but I'll do it.
How has school been treating ya?
jay_blank:
hahaha....bsbt....classic!
Maybe he'll be less angry now
Should I be pleased you associate me with bad smells and gas leaks?
Best o'luck to Joe. I'm kinda in the mood to knock a muh-fucka out too!