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So, as usual, I'm sitting in front of my computer wondering where everybody is, and why there are no cams active. Then I remember, "Oh, yeah. It's Saturday evening. Cool people go out to parties and clubs and stuff." That thought has gone through my head several Saturday nights in a row, now.
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adelina:
p.s.
you know what i'd like to get my hands on? a copy of the kama sutra biggrin i'd read it from front to back in no time at all...
scoots:
well you canadians are always sending your damn crappy weather down here for discipline and training - so ya go ahead.

Keep in mind our training methods are not sanctioned by the National Weather Service and may be considered extreme - now stop staying in on the weekends and wander the streets drunk
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"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost..."
- JRR Tolkien, "The Lord of the Rings"

I was reminded of these lines recently... they're possibly my favourite 2 lines of English verse. I'm sure everybody already knows them, but anyway...
adelina:
...The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king...
adelina:
Those 2 lines you mentioned above are one of my favorites as well -- probably only second to a particular verse in Milton's Paradise Lost that I absolutely adore.

surreal surreal surreal

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So... National Geographic released a special issue a few months ago (well, quite a few, now) on photography of animals. The '100 best wildlife pictures' issue. Some of the shots are pretty amazing.

One of them in particular catches my eye. There's a snake... sort of... gliding through the air. It somehow flattens its body so that it can glide as if it were... well......
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adelina:
I just started grad school this semester. I'm still very much a newbie when it comes to the what's, where's, why's, and how's of the archival systems and storage retrieval organization/management of libraries/museums. Sorry to disappoint.

surreal
adelina:
When I was a little kid I always liked receiving the maps that (usually) comes with each National Geographic issue. I still have them stashed away at home.

Snakes and other serpents have such a terrible reputation, but they are darn cool animals. They can eat rats in one big gulp wink biggrin
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I put some coments about "Bel Canto", by Ann Patchett, in the "lit club" group:

http://suicidegirls.com/groups/Lit+club/journals/12548/

in case anybody is interested.

(See? I didn't mention rats once... biggrin )
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mattereaterlad2:
all the time. publishers like to send out reader's copies of all sorts, so that booksellers can read them and recommend them. keeps me from spending my paychecks on books.

my job (i work author events) also keeps me in regular contact with publisher reps, too, so i can occasionally get a book comped to me.

low pay vs free books. it's a toss up.
adelina:
wink drats.
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Good heavens, a testimonial! About ME! I... I... I'm *blushing*!

Thanks, Abby. I don't know what to say. ARRR!!!

And I'm working on the whole rat thing, really. smile

(This was going to be about "Bel Canto", but I guess that'll have to wait for next time. Good thing, really, since although I've finished it, I don't really know what I think about it yet.)
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For a change, this journal entry will not mention rats.

I just finished reading "The Piano Man's Daughter", by Timothy Findley. It has the possibly meaningless distinction of being the only Findley novel I've been able to get all the way through. I came close with "Not Wanted on the Voyage", made a fair stab at "The Telling of Lies", only made it a few...
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It turns out that rats have a surprising amount of support in the SG community. Who would have thought?

Okay, well... let me clarify my previous comments regarding rats: I have nothing against rats per se. I'm sure there are rats who are useful, productive citizens of the global community. However, there is also a BAD ELEMENT among rat-kind which MALICIOUSLY destroys camping gear, and...
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zenosdog:
Great posts in the philosophy group. I was beginning to think it was dying in there. Read my new post for an explanation of why my post you replied to seemed late. smile
adelina:
ooo aaa ooo aaa ooo aaa
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God, if You exist... why rats? Did you have to create rats?
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metatait:
why not rats? or why anything? rats seem just as likely as we are (if not more so).
adelina:
Are you familiar with Splinter the Sensei in TMNT? Yeah, now that's one frikkin' cool rat tongue

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Back to the book reviews. Lord Byron wrote "Manfred" in 1816/17, and published it in 1817. (I guess this is really a "poem review", not a "book review".)

There are many versions of "Faust", including at least two operas (by Gounod and Berlioz), several plays (Marlowe, Goethe, W. O. Mitchell, etc) and numerous stories. They share the basic theme of a person (male, in all...
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zork:
I'm afraid the "social critic" hat is available in black only. (I had to look up "taupe" to find out what colour that is... smile )

The Goethe quote is great. I read his Faust (part 1 only, so far), but did not have time to really savour it. I'll be reading it again, for sure.

(I thought I'd alternate the "comment response protocol" here, and put this one in *my* journal...)
adelina:
Aww, no other colors? Oh well, black is by far the most universally acceptable color for any clothing garment.

I was reading your profile and i was intrigued that you're into "fish DNA"...what exactly do you do with fish deoxyribonucleic acid?
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Have you ever dreamed your own death?

I dreamed that I was struggling to get home, forcing my way on foot through heavy snow drifts (it almost never snows where I live, and never piles up). I got home at last (picture my pillow soaked with sweat from the effort), not to my current home, but to my folks' home (where I grew up). I...
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adelina:
No, I have never dreamed of my own death -- although I have dreamed of the deaths of other people.

I received your emails. Thanks. There was no need to apologize for your first email.
metatait:
Yes, I have dreamed of my own death, and the end of the world, and global wrafare, and the total dissolution of my being (that one was weird, and extremly meaningful). I certainly think dreams can mean a lot, but often they are just residual feedback form our days spilling across our neurons while we sleep. But they can be interpreted to such depths, and often seem to be speaking directly to us.

Earlier this evening a friend of mine told me of this dream she had in which two kids came to warn her of her daughter's possible death from high places. She later realized that one of the kids was an old friend who had had a terrible accident, and the other was her duaghter's step sister, who had been brutaly murdered years before. This dream seemed very meaningful to her, if not outright prophetic. But then again, there more you look into anything...
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You know those stories where somebody has been cursed by an evil warlock or something, so that they're plagued by termites, or whatever?

I've been cursed with rats. I've been camping pretty regularly for 15 years or more, with never a rodent problem. Now, the last 2 times I've been camping, rats have chewed through my tent and come to visit while I was asleep....
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bort79:
Rats! Well thats got to suck. You sure you weren't eating cheese before you went to bed! You blame me if you want most people blame me for everything anyway! biggrin
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Pyewacket tells me that book reviews constitute expressing myself, which I generally prefer not to do in public smile, but anyway, here's another one. Hopefully the karmic good of letting others know about a great book outweighs the karmic burden of expressing myself. Or something. Anyway...

Wade Davis wrote "One River" (as well as "The Serpent and the Rainbow", and "The Clouded Leopard"). They're all...
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bort79:
Welcome to SG!!! smile
zork:
Thanks... glad to be here. I'll try to post something more personal at some point...