| Thought for the day. (The week, perhaps?) | ||||
| 08:49pm 27th July 2008 | ||||
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} magentacilantro, it's great! The teacher read the following verse and I had to Google it so I could save it here and remember it.People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway. If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway. What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway. Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway. In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway. -Mother Teresa |
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| O hai! It's my first lolcat. | |||
| 09:08am 22nd July 2008 | |||
low_end_rhythm and I made a lolcat. You may need to be familiar with yoga to fully get the joke. moar funny pictures |
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| Summer breeze, makes me feel fine | |||
| 11:50pm 15th July 2008 | |||
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I just had the nicest summer night. Met a friend I haven't seen in awhile for the NY Philharmonic concert in Central Park, with a bunch of her friends I had never met, and her new husband(!) We ate food and goofed off 'til the concert began, then we had to be quiet, so we played Uno without speaking. Much hilarity in the form of overacting to symphonic accompaniment ensued. It was teh best. I was feeling like it was really actually summer. Not something I feel often in this life as a cubicle dweller. Then I came home to not one but TWO catalogs for fall clothing. Thanks for the buzz kill, corporate America! Into the wastebasket with you, pronto! |
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| O HAI! | |||
| 10:32pm 24th March 2008 | |||
 For those of you unfamiliar with flickr, they greet you each home page load with a greeting in a different language. I was tres amused today when I was greeted in Lolspeak. |
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| Yoga | ||||
| 10:58pm 31st January 2008 | ||||
I'm going to strengthen my back and get better posture. But stress relief and centering the mind is awesome too. I can dig it! :D Oh! And I already have the perfect LJ icon for this post. Nice. |
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good| Mind the Gap! | ||||
| 11:21pm 10th January 2008 | ||||
I'm quite pleased that my just-about-subconscious reaction was to run to the engineer's window and bang on it and tell him not to move the train. By the time I turned to gesture at the woman for him, she had already gotten out somehow. I think a man pulled her up. Scary stuff! I think she has some broken bones, but she could have died! Eeek. In lighter news, you can't say nothing good has come of the Writers' Guild strike. The Conan O'Brien Show took the occasion to give a tour of the Muppet closet, which I had only seen a picture of in a book before. I didn't know it still existed. Well... it does! And it's in Max Weinberg's dressing room. |
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okay| OMGWTF? | ||||
| 01:36pm 26th August 2007 | ||||
 Soothing, calming ride for your pet Are you kidding me? With all the kooky pet business you see in this neighborhood, I'm surprised I haven't seen one on the street yet. |
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| Welcome to your doom. | ||||
| 10:55pm 2nd August 2007 | ||||
I must say I agree with the people commenting on the New York Times page on the Minnesota bridge collapse. Ya know, when you go to other cities in first world nations, you see some bridges that were built more recently than when your parents were in elementary school. Not in the United States, man! Well. OK, that bridge was built when my parents were in college. *cough* My bad. But still. Like so many other areas that would actually benefit people... education... health care... improving the domestic job market... The current administration just can't be bothered. Dubya just has a silver spoon up his ass and his head in the ground. Not that there's a brain in it anyway. The New York Times has been on a kind of deathwatch of the Tappan Zee for a while now. I first noticed it when they ran this feature article back in January 2006. (Which is curiously unlocked for free viewing today. Hmmm.) In searching for the article, digging in reverse chronological, I see they harp on it fairly regularly. I recall reading that article and thinking the author was supposing one day he would hold the article up and say he told us so. On the rare occasion that I'm in a car going over that bridge, I tell whoever I'm with that we're being Evel Knievel. They say you're supposed to do one thing a day that scares you. I could say more but I should get to bed. EDIT: Hey elliejay! The band in the restaurant downstairs has a jazz flutist! And I can hear it through the floor! |
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tired| Seen on a t-shirt today | ||||
| 10:48pm 28th June 2007 | ||||
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| Just remember life's in love with you | ||||
| 10:48pm 1st April 2007 | ||||
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happy| It never gets old! | ||||
| 10:05pm 27th March 2007 | ||||
 (Photo by Jodi*McKee, cuz I looked for croci today, but couldn't find any.) |
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| Only love can make it rain the way the beach is kissed by the sea | ||||
| 10:25pm 23rd March 2007 | ||||
As a side note, it is mildly surreal to see a movie filmed largely in your neighborhood and then step out of the theater into that neighborhood. :) |
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| Like cat owner, like cat. | ||||
| 09:55am 18th February 2007 | ||||
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| You already knew I was a dork. | ||||
| 07:40pm 26th January 2007 | ||||
A) I'm paying $95 a night for 2 nights in a hotel room in a town where you get a large apartment for less than $500 a month. And that's with 10 months advance notice in the reservation! I think hotels in Big Ten towns make all of their annual income on football weekends. :D B) I am now officially old enough to no longer know anyone who's still an active student on campus! So I'm staying in a hotel because I have no one to crash with anymore. Woot woot! Crossposted to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} bigtenbands |
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| Because when I write things here, I don't lose them. | ||||
| 03:53pm 14th January 2007 | ||||
Cake Batter Cookies 1 box duncan hines cake mix (probably any brand would do) 1 egg 1/3 cup oil 3 tbsp water Mix, blob on cookie sheet, bake at 350 for about 6 minutes. Get ready to pig out. Many thanks to kitfoxx's mama for introducing me to these goodies. |
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| We did it! | ||||
| 05:35pm 7th January 2007 | ||||
  See the rest of our pictures here. |
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| Driving on the Beach! | |||
| 08:57pm 6th January 2007 | |||
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I didn't think this panorama would turn out as well as it did. This is what we did today to relax. :) No Mom, in case you're reading this... I am not letting someone without a license drive the rental car. It was just the beach! The speed limit was 10! The pavement was sand! What bad could have happened? |
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| Our car! | |||
| 11:50pm 5th January 2007 | |||
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No time for much talk. Joaquin and I are in Florida! Tomorrow is our rest day, because Sunday is THE MARATHON!! We picked up our bib numbers today! *bounce bounce bounce* Look! This is our rental car! I can already glimpse how painful it will be to return it next Tuesday. |
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| All is quiet on New Year's Day | ||||
| 11:59pm 1st January 2007 | ||||
Something happened today that got me thinking once again about math problems. I guess I've had all these thoughts before, but once in awhile, something happens and it occupies my brain again for awhile. We were playing a board game this afternoon and I was scoring points during my turn. I had two separate bonuses and I counted them "plus one, plus two." Joaq said something because he thought I was giving myself 3 bonus points. I answered back and I think he thought I snapped at him, but I wasn't angry, I just wanted to him to understand that I was just thinking about the same thing with different language. On my way home, I started thinking about how my frustration was similar to how kids feel when they don't follow the teacher in math class. It's not that the student can't think about the same idea, maybe it's that the language we use to think about it isn't the same somehow. Or way of thinking about it, I guess. I wish it was OK for people to think about math the way they do and not have to conform to the way we're supposed to in school. Everyone whose natural habits don't happen to gel with The Way seem to get left behind. You can't change the way your mind thinks about math. Why do we have to make everyone think the same way about math. It's so incredibly frustrating. Crossposted at educationreform and soopahgrover |
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| 04:09pm 27th December 2006 | ||||
I just slept in and spent a couple hours with low_end_rhythm at a coffeeshop/bakery playing Citadels and Aquarius. Aquarius is new. My aunt gave it to me for Christmas! I quite like it. And it's simple and easy to teach, which is always a big bonus.That's one thing I like about New York City. It's much more common here to go plop yourself down in a public place and play games or do whatever. Sure, you can do that anywhere. But do you? And now to try to finish my Final Project for this one course so I can spend as much time as possible this week PLAYING! Weeee! |
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| Once a year the street I live on sparkles like the sky | ||||
| 10:25pm 11th December 2006 | ||||
 7 foot trees in my neighborhood seem to be around $100. I've heard they go for 3 or 4 times that in Tribeca. But then if you have space for an 8 foot Christmas tree in your home in Tribeca, you better believe you can whip out your wallet and put down $400 for a Christmas tree with no trouble at all. It's really nice this time of year to smell pine every few blocks. Even if I can't fit one of these in my apartment. Less for me to clean up, too. |
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| Did you ever have the yardstick up so high you'd need a strength most don't possess? | ||||
| 11:35pm 5th December 2006 | ||||
I've crossed off half of the items on my December to do list. It's only the 5th! Mind you, it was the easier half of the list. But still. It all seems more manageable now. I feel calmer. I'm still going to have to spend a giant chunk of time writing these papers and doing these projects. But at least I can see I can have time to socialize too. In moderation. Having said that, look what Joaq and I are going to tomorrow night! lwl I am excited. |
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| Rrrr. If I put the hood up, it obscures my vision a teeny bit. | ||||
| 07:16pm 31st August 2006 | ||||
I've been excited for the chance to wear my new fall cycling outfit. I just didn't think it would be necessary on August 31st. >_< But I do declare. I look cute. |
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| Blowing through the jasmine in my mind | ||||
| 12:50pm 8th July 2006 | ||||
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| 10:29pm 27th June 2006 | |||
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I think I'm becoming addicted to cycling. The speed. The burn in my leg muscles. The way the damp woods of Central Park smell like Timber Trails. Last night I passed an NYPD van! It was going very slow. But still. When do you get to buzz a cop car? It of course passed me a few hundred feet down the way. But oh well. A couple miles down the road, I was humbled by a pedicab that breezed right past me. It didn't have any passengers, but it was still impressive. That cab is like a giant windcatcher! |
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| So mama don't take my Kodachrome away | ||||
| 02:02am 13th May 2006 | ||||
scrapbookers tells what I did this evening.NO PEEKING, kitfoxx! You wanted it to be a surprise! You'll get it soon! I just have to figure out a way to mail it. I have lots of suggestions... |
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| 03:54pm 6th May 2006 | ||||
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| With a knick knack paddy whack, give a dog a bone. | ||||
| 02:20pm 25th February 2006 | ||||
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busy| Be kind to your fine feathered friends. For a duck may be somebody's mother! | ||||
| 07:21pm 26th January 2006 | ||||
There monztre, I made a post. Pbbbt. :DI'll make another one soon, with all my London pics from last summer. As soon as my flickr upgrade goes through. What takes so long? *scurries off* |
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| I am in San Diego | |||
| 09:07pm 27th December 2005 | |||
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*POOF* I am in San Diego. Southern California is nice and all, but the fact that I used to want to live here when I was a pre-teen shows you A) How much I've changed since I was 12 and B) That at that time, I read far too many Sweet Valley High novels. It's really good to see my friend Jamie again. We have picked up our crazy string of conversation wherever we left it when we saw each other last. This evening as we left her office, I was pondering aloud where palm trees come from. As in, there must be a palm tree farm somewhere, right? What would that be like? Wikipedia yielded nothing, but Google told us that not only do palm trees come from farms, but there is one right here in San Diego! :D We shall visit before I depart. Yeah for unexpected adventure! |
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| There was a time not too long ago when I rarely consumed caffeine. | ||||
| 04:10pm 29th October 2005 | ||||
I'm at the TC Library. The Starbucks coffeeshop on the first floor is closed. I swear that last year, their inaugural year, it was open on Saturdays. Clearly, they don't get enough business on Saturdays to justify keeping a staff. Instead, they take their cash cow Monday through Friday when most of their customers are not library patrons, but students and instructors before and after class. There's a queue on weekdays. Today there's probably only a couple hundred people in the library. But but but. I rarely want coffee before class on weekdays. I want coffee now! On weekends! Someone in university administration should make them be open Saturdays! Profit be damned! I hope the university is charging them out the ass in rent. I'm going to have to pack my shit up and haul my tail outdoors just for a lousy cup of coffee. Those lucky fuckers that can do their school work on weekdays get coffee conveniently. I want it too. Grumble grumble. |
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| The new dead leaves they made the trees look like children with gray hair. | ||||
| 08:54pm 27th October 2005 | ||||
In other news, I think it's time I stopped being in denial about autumn's arrival. :/ Dammit I hate winter. Is it spring yet? |
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| Somebody told me that you had a boyfriend who liked like a girlfriend... | ||||
| 11:29pm 1st October 2005 | ||||
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sleepy| Take me to the place I love, take me all the way. | ||||
| 12:56pm 25th September 2005 | ||||
I get the strangest songs stuck in my head while biking, and despite efforts, cannot change to a new song. On the way out, it was "Under the Bridge" by RHCP, and on the way home, "Your Body is a Wonderland" by John Mayer. Which I don't even really like. RHCP was tolerable. :) OK must feed belly and get some studying done. I'm not even sweaty. Perhaps I will go out again later. Perhaps. |
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| Cherished in memory by all her sons and daughters true | ||||
| 11:56pm 24th September 2005 | ||||
I knew when I turned the TV on when I ate breakfast (at the crack of two!) it was a mistake. Little did I know the Purdue/Minnesota game would be on and I would get sucked in. :) I remember a few years ago I couldn't even watch the games on TV. I would get too home sick. So anyhue. I need to go to bed soon because I have to get up in the morning for a bike ride up to Nyack. But before I surrender to Mr. Sandman, I thought I would finally get around to posting the pictures I took when I was on campus last spring for Cyndi and Brian's wedding. ( Fair alma mater, all hail Purdue ) OK I better get to bed. I must admit I'm kind of nervous about this ride tomorrow. Nyack seems far. The ride starts on the Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge, and that has been the end destination point for me in the past. There won't be any easy out to get home. It'll be a much smaller group than the thousands of people that did the Century ride a couple weeks ago. But it'll be OK. *gulp* Good night! |
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nostalgic| I am strong. I am invincible. | ||||
| 08:28pm 11th September 2005 | ||||
But as promised, I did see all kinds of things I had never seen before. Here are some revelations I had today: ♦There are parts of Brooklyn and Queens I could see myself living in some day. ♦There are parts of Brooklyn and Queens I would never want to be in if I weren't safe inside a pack of very athletic people. ♦Every part we visited, I kept thinking "This reminds me of Mystic! or This reminds me of Avon! or This reminds me of California!" I think there is a section of Brooklyn or Queens to represent every place I have ever been in my life. :D ♦The hype about Accelerade increasing your endurance by 34% or whatever the number is, just might be true! ♦CLIF Bars are really really tasty. Or at least the Cookies and Cream variety are. ♦I need to purchase some riding gloves. Not only are my palms chafed, I hear gloves absorb shock, too. So maybe my wrists wouldn't get so sore from all the bump bump bump bump. ♦Ibuprofen is your friend. About 2/3rds of the way through, I stopped to take a break because my back was just on fire. It hurt to move. One of my ride buddies offered me some ibuprofen. Why didn't I think of that? In the future on long rides, I will take it before I leave home, and then bring the bottle with me. :D ♦I must really look into road bike trips for next summer. I want to ride every day for a week with a pack of people and have a support van carry our camping gear. Just like I did when I was 15. That trip was awesome. ♦Large sponsored organized rides like this are really really fun. It was so cool, riding in a big pack of people. Everyone was really friendly and chatty. It was almost like being at summer camp at times, the giddiness. ♦I must wear short skirts as much as possible this week. Hello, leg muscles! In the words of Bubba Blue, "That's about it." Oh! I made the Columbia Wind Ensemble, too! First rehearsal is tomorrow night. Wee! |
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hungry| I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike... | ||||
| 08:47pm 10th September 2005 | ||||
I'm getting up at... well I haven't even thought about that yet. I am meeting up with my ride group at 6:30, and I need to pick up my bib before that, and I need to eat breakfast before I go. O_o But it should be fun! I am looking forward to it. I am not bringing my camera, in favor of packing protein bars in the little seat bag I bought. No room for both. Foreseeable mid-trip hunger comes before my desire to LJ post about the trip with pictures. But I shall ride around another day and take some pictures to post before the summer is over. I think. Not too many weekends left. Since I am my mother's daughter, I am packing my health insurance card, in my keychain ID case. ;) One never knows. As prince posted, check out this guy's nearly 200 photos about his experience in the French Quarter during Hurricane Katrina. Some remarkable stuff. Beware though, I lost nearly an hour looking at them all. |
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excited| Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup. | ||||
| 02:18pm 10th September 2005 | ||||
I arrived early, so I saw 5 other people come and go, plus the gal after me. All woodwinds. Hrm. In listening to them warm up, I noticed they all played flawlessly. But woodwinds kind of have to. Euph playing is rarely so serious. And now off to the park with azuritecloud and Olipurr. |
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| I feel it in the air, the summer's out of reach | ||||
| 09:48pm 5th September 2005 | ||||
I have a big weekend ahead of me at the end of this week, and I need to spend this week preparing. Next Saturday, I have my audition for the Columbia Wind Ensemble. I just spent a little over an hour practicing this evening. I think I sounded better last time I practiced... Friday I think it was. I was hitting the high notes better then. Tonight I had a hard time getting them, and when I did, they didn't sound too good. My overall tone quality is improving though. Sigh. We'll see. I haven't auditioned for anything in aaaaages. Spring concert band and pep band auditions at Purdue hardly count. It's been ages since I've prepared a solo for an adjudicator I've never met before. I have no idea what he'll want. Eeee. Nervous! Next Sunday, I'm riding in the NYC Century Bike Ride. I signed up to do the 75 mi. I think I'm good for it. I rode this morning. I did a lap of Central Park, then I rode along the Hudson River to the Battery, then back up along the East River to 34th Street, then back across to the west side to the river, back home. That must have been... I'd guess 30 miles. And I wasn't tired or dying of thirst or anything. I could have kept going. But I needed to eat lunch and get to the laundromat. So I'd have time to practice. :) Anyhue. I have to report for the ride on Sunday at 6:30am. Eeeek! In other news, I went home on Saturday to see my parents one last time before school starts again. (OH YEAH! School starts on Wednesday. :p ) Because I'm getting soopahbusy in a soopahhurry starting Wednesday. Gulp. Anyhue, I brought the orange kitty along. Just because I could. It was good to socialize the puppy with a cat. And Oliver seems amused by trips. He's such an adaptable kitty. Gunther is too, but not quite as much as Oliver. Besides, I thought there was a chance he might be mean to the puppy. And Mom would have had a fit about that. Besides, the objective was to make Shiloh like cats. So Gunther stayed home. I'll bring both boyz at Thanksgiving. Sorry to all you CT peeps I didn't call while I was up north. I was only in Gbury for about 24 hours. :( ( Pictures of Oliver's excursion to Shiloh's house. ) Alright. Early to bed. All this week. And for the whole rest of the semester, if I can manage. *gulp* |
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| Hot town, summer in the city. Back of my neck gettin' dirt and gritty. | ||||
| 12:15am 1st September 2005 | ||||
I've just been too busy to post. I went to London for a week! It was awesome! I loved it! I loathe their work visa policy! I would so move there! But it's OK. I'm specializing in a very specific field. Someday soon someone will be able to testify that there is no one in the UK or in the EU that could do my work. 8-) kitfoxx just visited for a week! And Oh! I just wanted to type her name as Karla, and had to go back and delete and then started to type Karla AGAIN before I could get my fingers to type the kitfoxx. HEE! :DAnyway, it was great to meet Karla after 2 years of being good LJ buddies, and daily IM distractions! We had a blast. Anyhue. I have many many pictures of both my London and NYC vacations. Someday I will post them. Alright, I should get to bed. I need to get used to bed before 1am. School starts next week! Eeeee! I know I told myself I would take a light courseload this semester but but but... I'm switching departments. There's no way I want to subject myself to a semester filled with 12 hours a week of Java programming. So I have no choice but to bail on Instructional Technology and Media. No tears shed. This puts me behind in credits. So unless I want to be a student forever (which, OK part of me really does want) I need to get truckin'. Besides, there are so many classes I want to take! I always feel like a kid in a candy store, looking at a course catalog. Sigh. I feel a little ill, knowing there are people dying in New Orleans by the minute. Slow, painful deaths with no one there to help them, or no one able to help them. And it's got to be mostly poor people. I would think/hope anyone with an automobile got the heck out of there. When they tell you to evacuate, you need to do it. I remember Mr. Marino telling us this would happen, in 7th grade Geography. It was just a matter of when. I wish I had visited when I had the chance. It's like the Twin Towers. I never got there either. :/ Mr. Marino also said we're overdue for an earthquake on the east coast. Hmmmm. It does kind of annoy me when people act shocked that these sorts of things can happen in the United States. Long term permanent devastation on a massive scale. There's not a giant Truman Show bubble stretching over the US of A. :/ OK I shut up and sleep now. I promise to be more coherent in the future. :D |
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| When no one else would come, Shiloh you always came. | ||||
| 01:22am 1st August 2005 | ||||
meghana at Friendly's. Cuz that wasn't predictable. :D (Insert sassypreacher's snicker here.)My parents got a new puppy! I know you want to see pictures. Here they are! ( Surgeon General's Warning: Not for those with a weak heart for cute baby animals. ) What's that you say? I must have more puppy pictures? Well, if you must. I'd say you need to get a life, but well... I'm the one who just took over 100 photos of a dog. |
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| We all scream. | ||||
| 11:34pm 27th July 2005 | ||||
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| Now I'll know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall! | ||||
| 12:07pm 23rd July 2005 | ||||
I also just made my first international call in like a decade! :D I could hear myself talking which was annoying. But I'm happy I figured how to do it after some trial and error, and a call to Cingular. I'm not entirely sure where I'll be sitting, because I couldn't clearly understand what the man was saying, but he did use the words "excellent view of the stage" and it was in the price bracket I wanted, so I guess I'll just have to go and see! I just watched Brassed Off again last night, so I'm extra excited. |
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| The recovered band geek. | ||||
| 12:37am 17th July 2005 | ||||
The concert was good. Really good. His band was excellent. Especially the trombone player. The pianist as well. I probably enjoyed the two songs the band played before Mr. Ferguson came on stage more than anything else. I've always liked his arrangements, but his signature trumpet wailing just cracks me up more than anything. He makes me think of Mr. E's band in high school, when he would let us just wail and fool around. They didn't play the one song I'd really been hoping for, but they did play Birdland for an encore, and it was terrific. I'd been hoping he'd play Maria. My dad has an old record album recording of it that's just amazing and neither of us have been able to find it on CD or mp3. One of these days I'll have to transfer it myself, I guess. Tomorrow, Ikea with Melanie and if I get back soon enough, I'll ride my bike to Staten Island for a Philharmonic concert at the park. |
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| Willy Wonka! Willy Wonka! | ||||
| 11:10pm 15th July 2005 | ||||
It was better than I had hoped. And I had my hopes up pretty high. I dare say it's better than the original? It's definitely very different than the original. I predict whichever movie is sitting at #100 on the imdb.com Top 100 is about to be de-seated. I was thinking today about how sad it is that adults will go to children's movies. The world didn't used to be like this. Mass marketed nostalgia. Our grandparents never would have gone to a children's movie on their own. *shrugs* Then I went and Fandangoed a ticket. ;) Or OK... my friend did. Whatever. Hmm. I haven't been updating much. I should do that sometime, I suppose. EDIT: Oh oh! I'm going to Arizona for Christmas. I'm going to San Diego afterwards to spend a week with Jamie. If all goes to my plan and hopes, Jamie and I will spend New Year's at the 2006 Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena. Kick ASS. I think it's great when you can plan a road trip to LA and not have to worry about where to stay for the night because you know your butt will be parked on a curb on Colorado Boulevard. 8-) EDIT 2: Oooh! I just went to look and see who's in the Parade this year and they have a picture of us up! Even though that was several years ago now. Pretty cool. Some day I will find a picture of myself marching in that parade. I never did get one. Sigh. EDIT 3: Oh wait SHIT! I see myself in that picture! :O Damn it for being low res! |
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| It's a bloody euphonium. | ||||
| 12:04am 12th July 2005 | ||||
So you're all waiting with baited breath, right? I practiced my euphonium! Shocking, I know. I haven't really played in 4 years. Unless you count TubaChristmas and my two week stint with the Columbia Marching Band. :/ *cough* So. I wasn't THAT bad. Towards the end. *cough* I made myself quit at 9, because musical instrument playing is verboten according to my lease, and I don't want to annoy my neighbors. I especially don't want them to report me to the leasing company. Erk. I think as long as I play during reasonable hours, I should be OK. I'm auditioning for the Columbia Wind Ensemble. I'm not sure I'm going to make it. I'm not fantastic (far from it), and I'm competing against Columbia undergrads, who don't have anything that they don't do well. Wind Ensembles usually only have one euphonium, and they already have two, who aren't fixin' to graduate. But there's always a chance one of them will have a class conflict. :/ Small chance. I could update about work, but meh. I need to get to bed. |
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| What a relief! | ||||
| 08:00am 6th July 2005 | ||||
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relieved| I can ride it where I like | ||||
| 01:57pm 3rd July 2005 | ||||
And now, I feel like cleaning my apartment. So I should go do that while I have the notion. |
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| 10:13am 2nd July 2005 | ||||
I suppose they'll be releasing it on DVD some day. But not ALL of it... Hmph. |
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| Starboard shines green and port is glowing red; I can see the barges far ahead. | ||||
| 11:25pm 1st July 2005 | ||||
They're reasonably priced too. But I don't know if I can withstand two nights in a row of classical music. I might, you know, want to act my age at some point while I'm there. London is a band geek's dream. From just a few minutes' Googling, I see there are 2 free outdoor Brass Band concerts I can attend during my visit, too. :D Yesterday, I got to the bike trail alongside the Hudson River just after a HUGE barge passed. Much larger than the average barge I see on the Hudson. I decided to race the large barge (hee!) to Battery Park, expecting to smoke it. I was rather humbled. But you know, it was empty, so... I guess they go pretty fast empty. *cough* Today, I came into the same bike trail at the same point and decide to head north. I picked out a white van with distinctive writing on it on the Henry Hudson Parkway and decided to race it to the George Washington Bridge. Sorry to say, I beat it. Even though I took a wrong turn onto a side trail twice, and the van had a much more direct, less windy path than I did. I only just barely beat it. :/ I rode across the bridge into New Jersey! That was fun and different. It was an adventure, just trying to find the bicycle onramp to the bridge. Got about ten feet into NJ and turned around to come back. :D |
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