User: creamy_martian Date: 2008-08-19 23:09 Subject: Intro Post Security: Public

So, I added a whole bunch of people today and thought it's a good time for an intro post. Welcome!

I'm a nineteen year old college student. I'm an English/econ major. Econ mostly out of spite. A guy told me that people who know how money works tend to be conservative so I decided "screw that" and now I'm an econ major or minor. I currently live with a girl who ought to have been my older sister and her mother. I like list-y things! Whee, listy things. I have two lists that I have stickyposted because they are Important.

I'm not very mature, have a tendency towards random capitilizations...

I'm a feminist but I manage to keep all of the dangly feminist parts neatly put away most of the time. My religion is complicated so I usually stick with agnostic. It doesn't help I have a kinda fundamental distrust of organized religion. I blame it on my father. My family is drama-tastic (Dad's abusive, but who's isn't in this day and age? My stepmum's a nut-case, my biological mum had to fight for custody of my youngest brother, my other brother is into drugs and wants to get into the military).

I'm a writer and have two main projects right now: Orpheus Sang and Mother of Ghosts, and two cross-stitch projects.

Ummm... This should almost be a Q&A post. Ask me anything.

User: sejabop Date: 2008-08-19 22:54 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

Mom,
Thank you for making me the woman I am today. I love you so much. You have taught me how to be natural. And that is an amazing gift. If you liked something, you stood behind it no matter what. And that is what I am doing, it feels good. I think I miss you sometimes, but then I realize that you and I are one. All I need to do is look at my hands and I see you. All my thoughts I'm sure you see. I have never felt so close to another. You are an amazing Mother. And in honor of your greatness, I give you Elvis...

User: deadphotos (posted by macumba) Date: 2008-08-20 00:32 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

( Dog and Lizard )

User: transnews (posted by queer_kitten) Date: 2008-08-19 21:33 Subject: US, Massachusetts Security: Public

US, Massachusetts

School Janitor transitions (mtf)over the summer, school is accepting.

http://www.telegram.com/article/20080819/NEWS/808190601/1116/index.html

A good article, with the exception of pronoun use, and some off terminology.

Feel free to X-post.

User: sluts4choice (posted by scorpi084) Date: 2008-08-19 21:30 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

"This lays the foundation for the next step" -- a more-stringent ban like the one that failed in 2006.

I think this is the point we need to drive home. They may have come slightly away from the edge of the deep end with this new ban, but as soon as they get the go-ahead, they'll be running right back over it.

User: lucretia_lenore Date: 2008-08-19 22:03 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

To Do Tonight:
-say the Rosary
-read Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas DeQuincey
-drink hot tea
-IM with Rob
-take meds, sleep

To Do Tomorrow:
-go for a run first thing
-read Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas DeQuincey
-strength training
-unpack two (2) boxes in bedroom
-do charcoal facial mask
-eat only ONE (1) item of junk food
-say the Rosary
-write blog
-start on The Naked and the Undead if finished with Confessions

User: batty_ Date: 2008-08-19 21:51 Subject: carrie's pics Security: Public

this is my favoritest picture from c14.

this one?



not so much. i look like i just told you we're out of hash browns and hocked a loog in your coffee. now tell me what f@$(&%(&% pancakes you want.

User: theweaselking Date: 2008-08-19 21:07 Subject: If this is an ad, I don't want to know what for. Security: Public

And I'm specifically not visiting the URL it tosses at me.

But I'm happy to accept it as non-advertising art.

User: artsygirlstace Date: 2008-08-19 20:50 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public Tags: chrissie

I just caught Chrissie picking her nose with a spoon. haha omg
Do you see why I'm in love with this girl? <3

User: jameth Date: 2008-08-19 17:51 Subject: Grow rat Security: Public

Grow rat, originally uploaded by Omega it's jameth.

It is getting huge. Thx to Alan badrobot68 for sending the grow items. I am also growing a frog.

The rat started off at about four inches in length. It is now the size and weight of a small dog.

User: ftm (posted by music4life13) Date: 2008-08-19 17:47 Subject: Washington State Health Care Security: Public

Hello,

I just moved out to the state of Washington and I am a state employee. And I am trying to figure out how to navigate both health insurance and finding doctors. If there are any folks out there who are state employees and/or know people who do, I would really appreciate conversing with you. I can be reached at trumpet166@gmail.com

Also, I'm wondering if there are any doctors that would diagnose me with gynecomastia, which would then hopefully get it covered.

Thank you in advance.

crossposted in transhealth

User:	racewire
Date:	2008-08-19 17:02
Subject:	UN Asks Russian to Address Racism; Obama May Announce Running Mate Soon
Security:	Public

http://www.racewire.org/archives/2008/08/un_asks_russian_to_address_rac.html

Obama's VP Options Not a Change
"Senator Barack Obama has all but settled on his choice for a running mate and set an elaborate rollout plan for his decision, beginning with an early morning alert to supporters, perhaps as soon as Wednesday morning, aides said." New York Times.

English Language Students Left Behind
"n a city where more than 170 languages are spoken and over a third of residents are foreign-born, scores of New York public school students struggle to learn English. These students are far less likely to complete high school than English speaking students. Gotham Gazette.

UN: Russia Needs to Deal With Racism
"A key United Nations rights body voiced alarm on Monday at mounting racial violence in Russia and called on Moscow to take firm action against ultra-nationalist and neo-Nazi groups and hate speech in the media." Reuters.

User: spoggly Date: 2008-08-19 21:28 Subject: HOUSEFIC: THE ONE THAT SAVES ME Security: Public Location: christian coffee shop Mood: artistic Tags: fic, house, house/wilson

Title:  The One That Saves Me
Rating:  R
Pairing:  House/Wilson
Spoilers:  House and Wilson are kind of gay in the subtext of this show
Words:  630
A/N:  IDK NO EXCUSE

User: nmdrkangl Date: 2008-08-19 20:20 Subject: Voice Post Security: Public

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User: qweerdo Date: 2008-08-19 17:18 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public Mood: amused Tags: hot dramaz! get yer hot dramaz!

I think julieannie and I should have babies.

User: theweaselking Date: 2008-08-19 20:14 Subject: Guess The State! Security: Public

"No, poll workers should NOT be taking the voting machines home with them before the election! No 'sleepovers' with the voting machines in your homes!"

User:	racewire
Date:	2008-08-19 16:49
Subject:	Hip-hop and Politics
Security:	Public

http://www.racewire.org/archives/2008/08/hiphop_and_politics.html

Over the weekend I went to Rock the Bells in Mt. View, about 40 minutes south of San Francisco. It's been a long minute since I've been to a big hip-hop event. I was looking forward to this one—it was a hip-hop reunion. But it also turned out to be a glance at how hip-hop has evolved. I sat there watching people walk by—young, old, white, Black, Asian, Latino—a pretty interesting crowd. Some working a punk rock steez, others with stunner shades and tipped fedoras, and a few throwback rarities.

Almost every performer had something political to say—middle fingers up. I looked around and saw a good percentage of the crowd following along with the lyrics about racism, gentrification, poverty, media, etc. I watched a young white man get all hyped with it and wondered, is he really feeling it or is he down just because hip-hop has become the latest trend? But either way, does it really matter? Have I just become an old hip-hop pessimist?

Part of me is wary of the growing mainstream trend of hip-hop. But at the same time, as I watch the crowd roar when Nas attacks Fox and the popular media, I feel hopeful that maybe the new generation will not just listen, but really feel the words and do more than just groove to it.

User: prego_drama (posted by boker_tov) Date: 2008-08-19 15:59 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

http://community.livejournal.com/pregnant/12298339.html


It's like handing someone a suicide note and having them read it just to get them to say "I'm sorry I was such a bad friend and let you get so sad, please don't do it?"


It was deleted faster than you can say "that's crazier than a fish with titties!!"

Lucky for you all I saved the text.

bluetardis
"Goodbye

I'm leaving this community. You'll find my reasons in my personal blog. Thank you all that have given and shared advise. I’ve learnt a lot. I’m sorry it ended this way."

http://bluetardis.livejournal.com/2223.html
There's the said blog entry.
(  in case of bahleetion )

I personally didn't see why people were so up in arms about the original post, it just seemed as though she was slightly misinformed. I really can't see why she feels she has to leave the community.

User: lucretia_lenore Date: 2008-08-19 18:28 Subject: I JUST did one of these Security: Public

Whoa, lots of new people. Guys, if you read my last one of these, please feel free to skip.

-Hi, I'm Meg. I'm 30. I live in the attic of a ~Historic Home~ in the historic district of Old Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. I don't really live in the attic, it's just where my bedroom is, my base of operations. I'm a Hoosier. I moved here earlier this month from Bloomington, IN.

-I'm polyamorous. My husband, Rob, works with the developmentally disabled back in Indiana; he travels there every week and sleeps at my mother's house, then stays here for the three day weekend. My boyfriend, Joseph, works at KFC of all places here in Louisville. (There's a giant picture of Colonel Sanders on a skyscraper here. It's a thing.) I'm kinky. Joseph is also my dom.
We live with our roommate Mike, Mike's two cats, and our three cats. All five cats are black (this happened coincidentally, but is still creepy).

-I'm an honors student taking a couple semesters off. I'm an English major. I'd like to study Cultural or Medieval Studies, too.

-I'm bipolar. I've been diagnosed since 1999. I'm (sometimes heavily) medicated. I've also been diagnosed with PTSD and OCD-tendencies.

-I read 17th-19th century literature, historiography, artistic and cultural criticism for fun (sadly, not for profit. Yet.). I also love true crime, and horror media of all kinds except video games. It really chaps my ass when people say horror has no social or artistic value (including slashers and torture porn). I don't watch much TV. What TV I do watch, I'm fiercely loyal to. I exercise a lot, and try to eat really healthily, as both are good for mental health.

-My hot-button issues are: mental health awareness, sex positivity (pro), polyamory, religious tolerance (I have a thing against fanatics of all stripes, from Christian-flavored to atheist-flavored), and health care.

User: spoggly Date: 2008-08-19 18:21 Subject: INSTEAD OF WHINING OR DEPRESSED STUFF, HERE Security: Public Location: THE OFFICE OMG ABOUT TO LEAVE Mood: lethargic Music: I'm a Cuckoo - Belle and Sebastian Tags: my imaginary boyfriend, quotes, tim gunn!

Odi et amo. Quare id faciam fortasse requires.
Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior
    -Catullus

I hate and love. You wonder, perhaps, why I'd do that?
I have no idea. I just feel it. I am crucified.
    -Translation by Peter Green





OMGGGGGGGGGGG LOOK AT THE SWEATER HE IS PERFECT



LOL STUBBLE OMG AND DISGUSTED HANDLING OF UGLY SHOE



TRYING NOT TO LAUGH, A+ JOB TIM GUNN

User: auntysarah Date: 2008-08-19 22:56 Subject: Pointless Questions of Our Time Security: Public

Picture the scene. Our heroine is at a pharmacy counter in Boots.

Sarah: I'd like a packet of pseudoephedrine, please.

Pharmacist: (suspiciously) What do you want it for?

Sarah: Nasal congestion (this is true - with the disgusting air quality recently the problem with my nose, which will not be fixed surgically for another few weeks, is really bothering me).

Pharmacist: (Glares at me before getting a packet from the shelf) Are you taking anything else?

Sarah: Just antihistamines. (Really don't want to go into the other thing, so I tend to lie about that as a matter of course)


He gave them to me. I can tell he really didn't want to.

But seriously, did he expect that I was going to say, "to make crystal meth", even if that had been my intention? I mean, really?

User: jameth Date: 2008-08-19 14:59 Subject: Taxi bicycle collision at 7th and Market Security: Public

Taxi bicycle collision at 7th and Market, originally uploaded by Omega it's jameth.

The guy on the bike is screaming and holding his arm and limping.

User: jameth Date: 2008-08-19 14:56 Subject: Sun Chips and chili sauce Security: Public

Sun Chips and chili sauce, originally uploaded by Omega it's jameth.

I love America.

User: feminist (posted by amphibian23) Date: 2008-08-19 22:20 Subject: why are we so frightenly able to dismiss other people's humanity? Security: Public Tags: politics europe, racism

On racism against Roma people in Italy. It's very disturbing.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/aug/17/familyandrelationships.roma

It is an image that shocked the world: two young Gypsy children lie dead for three hours on an Italian beach while, feet away, a carefree couple enjoy a leisurely picnic. Dan McDougall travels to the Roma camps of Naples to meet the dead girls' mother and finds fear and bitterness - and a country in danger of forgetting its far-Right past

( Read more... )

I hope this doesn't sound overtly philosophical-what I really want to do is basically draw attention to a concrete (horrible) reality in contemporary Italy, but oh_annalouise's post prompted me to think on posting this about why institutionalised prejudices such as racism completely mess up any kind of empathy we might have had to begin with when reacting to the deaths of certain 'types' of people (ugh).

It boggles my mind that as humans we are so able to let society shape our prejudices and worldview, to ingrain us with such racism/hatred/a horrific kind of indifference.

User: ftm (posted by slightlywee) Date: 2008-08-19 16:59 Subject: Birth certificate amendment information/question Security: Public

So, as it is my birthday today, I went to get my birth certificate amended (in Massachusetts), and it didn't go well at all. I thought I would post this to save other people some trouble, hopefully, and to ask whether I have any recourse after being treated very badly by the person I spoke to; I think she was way out of line and absolutely should not get to behave this way.

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User: nmdrkangl Date: 2008-08-19 17:27 Subject: Because everyone's doing it.... Security: Public Tags: meme, personality

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User:	angryblackbitch
Date:	2008-08-19 15:12
Subject:	Check this out…
Security:	Public

http://angryblackbitch.blogspot.com/2008/08/check-this-out.html

User: sejabop Date: 2008-08-19 16:57 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

I somehow got into collecting rare plants over the years. It started when my mother gave me a lei tree. Since then I have been slowly picking up not so usual plants. I love taking care of them and learning what they like. The newest member of my family is a Crassusula Portulacea, also known as a hobbit plant. I also picked up a Deppeana Peperomia.
Hobbit

User: spiritosa Date: 2008-08-19 16:26 Subject: Holy Crap; an Update! Security: Public

Does anyone read this anymore?

It's been an intense month and a half (or however long it's been since I last posted). Lots of good, and lots of bad.

First off: yes Joey and I are still married, and things are going great for us relationship-wise. We've settled into married life pretty well.

I am really sorry for the length- it's been a pretty tough time here...

( KITTY! )













( the family )











( How my parents found out on their own )










( day 3-parents' departure )







( the hotel visit )







( the end )

User: fengi Date: 2008-08-19 15:57 Subject: Days of Yep Part 7: Two clever people Security: Public

Uno: The Significant Other
A recent conversation with Deadend Margo resulted in this musical number:
"Pineapples are Always Painful (when they're going up your ass)".

Dos: From a great rant by vee_ecks.

When John McCain forgets to flush around the office, and somebody asks who did that, does one of you rise up and yell "If you're insinuating that a PRISONER OF WAR poops, mister, you're fired!" Does he scream "PRISONER OF WAR!" to grab the last donut?

User: amaterasu_no_ki Date: 2008-08-19 16:48 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

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User: twirlandswirl Date: 2008-08-19 16:45 Subject: PSA Security: Public Location: Towne Parc Apartments, Gainesville, Florida Mood: nauseated Tags: food

I have eaten a banana.

Anyone who knows me in real life knows why this is monumentous- I cannot STAND bananas. But, they're good for you. And I was clearing missing something if I was so groggy. So, I ate one.

Of course, I acted like a two year old, gagging, making faces, and putting off each bite for as long a I could. And, it really was as bad as I remembered. I washed the whole stupid thing down with two glasses of water.

Ew.

Someone tell me this was good for me, because I'm having a hard time believing it.

User: batty_ Date: 2008-08-19 15:28 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

0819081626
Originally uploaded by batty.

boss is not here today. someone left that box for him on his office door handle. it just snowballed from there. note the *used* peppermint patty wrapper.
--
via batphone

User: homesweetalbany (posted by giftchild) Date: 2008-08-19 16:20 Subject: Local Ted Nugent concert Security: Public

Ted Nugent @ Northern Lights

Wednesday, Aug 20 @ 7:30 PM

Get tickets
Northern Lights

Clifton Park, New York
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User: twirlandswirl Date: 2008-08-19 16:24 Subject: Zzzzzz Security: Public Location: Towne Parc Apartments, Gainesville, Florida Mood: groggy Tags: exhaustion, hurricanes, weather

Oh my goodness, I don't know what is up with me today! I got up around 7am because I wasn't tired anymore, but after I'd been up for about 15 minutes, I got exhausted again and went back to bed, since it was earlier than I had to be up, anyway. It took me two hours to get back OUT of bed, and even though I've been up for several hours now, AND have even resorted to caffeine, I just CAN NOT shake the groggies! I mean, that isn't to say I'm being unproductive- because I'm not- but I'm just so tired all I can think about is going back to bed! I have no idea what the problem is.

I have to drive out to Haile area (about 25 minutes away) to babysit for a friend in about 45 minutes... hopefully that wakes me up! My shift at work tomorrow got cancelled because of the hurricane- which, incidentally, isn't. And somehow Gainesville has managed to successfully dodge all the arm bands that have come through from the storm. It still seems like we're going to a full barrage eventually, but the shorter it's here for, the better.

Okay, seriously? The SECOND I typed that, it started pouring. The weather mocks me.

The cool part about tropical systems? You can SEE the rotation in the sky, especially in Florida, where it's so flat. I mean, it's kinda like seeing your impending doom, but it still looks pretty cool.

Anyway, I'm going to go try and eat some fruit or something and see if that won't get me more alert before I get a 6-year-old boy under my watch.

User: notacrnflkgirl Date: 2008-08-19 16:12 Subject: Lezbean sex Security: Public Music: "Jimmy," by M.I.A.

"The best way to orgasm is to just gaze into your partner's clear eyes. Afterwards, both of us end up in tears from the sheer beauty of the experience."

LOL. LOL FOREVER.

User: rachelkj Date: 2008-08-19 13:18 Subject: Techie question Security: Public

Does anyone have experience with GoDaddy.com? I am looking for a web hosting provider and need to register some domain names. Their prices and services look pretty good.