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I think I'm FINALLY getting the required calluses on my left fingertips for playing guitar--the hand still tends to spaz out when seeking chords, but at least I can press down when I finally find 'em without wincing.

I was hoping to dazzle the Partner with a Richard Thompson or Leadbelly song when I see her in NYC next month, but I think I might...
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orchid1:
Yeah I hear that alot of people love Stendhal in general and especially Red and Black. But I just can't get into it. Its feels like wading through mud sometimes. But what can you do? Maybe tis an aquired taste. Or one I'll develop with age...or maybe I'm missing its draw altogether, who knows.
catculus:
I used to love it when I got viola callouses. And the chin rest mark ("viola hickey"). Yay!
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vote, please.
(as we learned last year, accidents can happen.)
(& especially if you have, like we do here in Nevada, something like those moronic "Defense of Marriage" initiatives that seems to pop up on the ballot every year in some shape or another, the basic idea being, it seems to me, that we should do our damndest to meddle in other folks marriages, relationships,...
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orchid1:
Here here! No one is forcing anyone to get married so they really shouldn't care. I voted! It was my first time!
tororo:
I vote everytime there are elections!
(and unfortunately, the guys I vote for are never elected)
(and it's not even in America, either)
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back from SLC--

had fun, for the most part. took almost forty pictures with my dinky little digi-cam, the tried to upload 'em onto my computer & found out that the program that came with it (the camera) doesn't work with the new monitor. for some reason. aargh.

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little situation going on right now entangled with all other family drama that has us in...
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catculus:
man, I wish I'd inherit a piano. Not that I have a place for one but, anyway. (Cat! loves instruments)

Teehee, yes, indeed the founding fathers were not random horny internet guys. Of course, who's to say they would not have been had they had internet access?
orchid1:
Keep it!
It may be extremely cumbersome but inheritence..uh...items...are usually things that you decide you want later.
And its a piano!
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friday night, finally (arriving on wednesday morning, but you take your little holidays when you can)

thing is, I actually LOOK FORWARD to going to work. last night was an exception, but mostly because I get annoyed by wierd little things. I like where I work because it gives me plenty of time to read (of course, if anyone from the Dept. of Corrections is...
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catculus:
damn people who interrupt you when your in the middle of a good book!
morgan:
((((hug))))

that feeling of emotional blockage sucks.
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FINALLY back on line--
(not sure this is really a good thing, as for the past couple of days, instead of spending a couple of hours mindless surfing around the 'net, I've been reading, drawing, practicing the guitar, etc.--& far-flung friends that complain that my "line's always busy" when they try to call have been able to get thru--)

anyway, came home from work a...
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catculus:
The internet is like drugs...

thanks for the countdown. It made me laugh smile
tororo:
Hello, fellow connoisseur.
Thanks for asking news of the exhibition....
The exhibition was somewhat drowned in a flood of suchlike events, 'cause october there is la Fte du Livre (the Books Festival) allover the country ( soon to be followed by Le mois de la Photo.... we just adore national events), and exhibitions of books illustrator's works were a dime a dozen. Bah! Will do another this Spring.

I did the same constatations you did: I spent most of my life whitout... etc.... and now I feel like...
And my experience also told me that if I ask, say, 7 (or 8) different people, at least one of them might know what to do, & will be able to explain it in baby language.

I have also become addicted to SG, and if "cut-off", I soon miss all of its content.
Could you imagine I even miss ratsonjulia's journal when I'm away from my computer for some days?

Clearly, this is part of the alien conspiracy.
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back to work tonight.

for a good chunk of last week I found myself in the Infirmary Cage, which is a rotten place to work if you smoke (I do) but not so bad if one has had the foresight to secrete a good book or two on one's person or in ones lunchbox.

the infirmary cage is, in fact a cage at the entrance...
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tororo:
Do you mean they allow you in everyday WITHOUT a complete body searching?
How uncautious!


oh, and Flaubert's quote was from le Dictionnaire des Ides Reues: some sort of counterpart to Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary...
freyja__:
funny... you dont LOOK like a julia...
*scratches head*
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That's my favorite part, rewind my life on.
When my world got dark, and you turned my life on.
I watched it for hours again and again in my head.
I did.
I see I was down on you, more than I needed to be.
I'd say I'm sorry but then you'd think I'm lyin'

Chorus:
Maria, shut up and kiss me.
Stop shakin', stand...
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chaosmonkey:
:: just out of curiosity...have you ever heard of a writer named Jim Knipfel? ::

Doesn't sound familiar... should I have?
indie:
THANKS FOR THE BIRTHDAY WISH!
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I should never EVER try to write anything while on-line.

not because what I usually write is insipid & stupid, but because it seems more often than not a wrong keystroke or a server fuck-up will wipe it out without so much a satisfying little wisp of smoke.

ah well.

this is kinda frustrating for me, as I'm not the type of person who could...
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orchid1:
I'm happy you want to steal it, you're a great writer.
That is pretty damn ironic about the rating...
slightpressureok:
No no no. *I* was the one being snippy!

Pals?
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some quotes that i came across the other day while trying to hunt down the line in Baron Munchhausen about the Empress of Russia--couldn't find it...I'll just have to find me another copy of the movie...it seems like a house just isn't a home without a little Munchhausen around...)

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
Frank Zappa

All great deeds and all...
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tororo:
Nostradamus = wise guy.

And for a quote that just kinda popped into my head? Hard to find one rivaling with those above!
Maybe :
"Idiots- those who think differently than us"
- Gustave Flaubert
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situation developing which could be wonderful, could be a disaster, could just plain not happen--

was approved for annual leave the last week of December, during which I'll probably fly to NYC for a few days to see my partner & become briefly re-aquainted with civilization.

recieved phone call from a woman I became somewhat involved over the summer, who I kinda think I could...
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hatefulerin:
sounds like a very very complicated situation...
but hey, since you'll be in nyc at the end of december, you should go to the sgny new years eve party!