Zzzzzzzzzz	(Fri, 29 July 05; 09:18am)
kixie Make the time go faster, dammit! ( MEMEMEMEMEME ) Hmm. Memes are bullshit. I read the news and my sense of humour is probably more vulgar than that. mood : bored
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEKI!!!!	(Fri, 29 July 05; 09:12am)
ifimust :)
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the plan	(Fri, 29 July 05; 02:42am)
bassista 9:30 wake up 10 be at machine shop machine: 1) vertical axis 2) flywheel 3) axle 4) bearing holders? that should take until 5, at least. i should also discuss with shop guy about best way to do some things. new alarm better ring loudly. pieces should be waterjetted by tuesday/wednesday final assembly by friday. then writing for a week while fine-tuning. 5-when i go to sleep figure out size of golden spiral i need to make order metal i can't find tomorrow solid model write on thesis write joe sacco paper can we say caffeine?
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	(Fri, 29 July 05; 07:32am)
the_alchemist I love roz_mcclure's last entry. It somehow sums up what I love about Summer. WARNING: CONTAINS RELIGION, COLORATURA AND PARTIAL NUDITY It made me start fantasy-casting Die Zauberflöte from my friendslist, until I remembered I had *actually* cast it primarily from people who are now on my friendslist! It also gave me an urge to write Zauberflöte fanfiction... Any requests?
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I have a shitty vocabulary.	(Fri, 29 July 05; 01:59am)
academics_anon (mercenarytoast) Best way to study for the vocabulary section of the GRE. Aaaaaaaaaaaand GO!
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It would have been even funnier if they were Aztecs	(Thu, 28 July 05; 11:20pm)
amberspyglass "How was your trip to the mall?" asks 'Magpie. "It was fine. But I was a little puzzled by the presence of, uh, live music." "Oh, the Incans!" "What? You've seen them too?" "They play at the mall a lot." It sounds like something merovingian would write, but it's actually a true story. I had to pick something up from the drugstore at three o'clock on a Thursday afternoon -- not exactly a time of day when the mall is thronging (do malls throng? do people throng to malls? in malls? is "throng" usually in the middle voice? can I find more excuses to type the word "throng"?). Er, what I'm trying to say is it wasn't at all crowded, since it was in the middle of the day on a weekday. Right. So I stopped off at the food court to get a bite to eat after my exhausting foray into Shopper's Drug Mart, and there were these two dark-skinned guys in immense black-and-white patterned ponchos. One was playing an electric "Spanish" guitar and the other was playing the panpipes. A horrific Casio provided background sound effects. While I was eating my lunch, I picked out a couple of traditional Incan ballads like "The Sound of Silence" and "House of the Rising Sun." But that's not the weird part. Well, it is the weird part, in that there were two exotically-complected men wearing woollen ponchos on a hot July afternoon and playing live (albeit heavily synthesized) music in a sparsely-populated suburban mall. But the really weird part is that, of the dozen or so people who were in the food court at the same time I was, about ten were clustered around the table in front of the performers, where a very pretty lady in one of those flouncy Spanish dresses was selling some CD's. These same bystanders applauded whenever the Incans finished a song. Did these people actually go to the mall to watch this band perform? Or did they go to the mall for other reasons, only to be compelled by the magic of a panpiped Paul Simon classic to buy CD's by bourgeois Incas? * * * I've decided that I would like a career lecturing for courses that are not actually my own. I covered a class for a colleague today, and it was delightful: I could say whatever I wanted without having to take responsibility for it or grade anything afterward. I didn't need to worry about repeating myself from earlier lectures, or running out of material for later ones. I just ranted about Noah's Ark and Strawberry Shortcake for two and a half hours, and then walked away. * * * sepiatone, who has only been in my life a very short while, has already had an overwhelmingly positive effect on it. Tomorrow I'm finally de-lazing myself and going to the gym... for the first time ever. Maybe it'll be good for me. If nothing else, it'll give me excuses to use the word "elliptical" as a noun. music : Apparently it's called a zampoña
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The Friday X-post	(Fri, 29 July 05; 12:45am)
illustrators (ninjaguydan) ( This weeks stuff! )
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New Book Group	(Thu, 28 July 05; 10:50pm)
academics_anon (ars3435) I'm a member here and I wanted to let everyone know that I made a new community called literary_escape that is all about discussing, recommending, and rating books. It is a general literature site where any and all book types are welcome to be talked about. I read quite a few different types of books and am always on the lookout for new and interesting reads. Come check it out and (hopefully) join today! :>) Check it out!!! I hope it is ok for me to post this here. If not, let me know and I will delete it. Thanks!
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kuchin... khurion... kurhion... oh someone help me!!!	(Wed, 27 July 05; 09:25pm)
academics_anon (jeunesse) I read an article in a well written and urbane online magazine. I would like to explore the site some and now, I can't find it. I know it starts with a k has ion and perhaps a number in the name. Does anyone know what I am talking about? mood : calm music : Building Vocabulary-Verbal Advantage-(Disc 3)
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SM3	(Fri, 29 July 05; 03:12am)
robinbloke Hurt yourself somewhere. Then try not to look at it..................... I just stubbed my toe. mood : This one chosen at random music : Ah yes, in the e chord or whatever sounds that way off to th
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Scholar/School suggestions?	(Thu, 28 July 05; 06:33pm)
academics_anon (eliotboi) Hey there-- Can anybody some schools and/or particular scholars for someone interested in studying late 19th and early 20th century British literature with an emphasis on sexuality studies? Thanks! x-posted to gradlitgeeks and applyingtograd
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Strange	(Fri, 29 July 05; 01:32am)
7rin ( I'm not Loki? ) And wtf: (1) do they have to put so much extraneous crap in the results of these OK Cupid quiz things? (2) do they have to make the take the quiz pages so they crash Firefox every single time before I'm even half way through? Have had to do this one in Opera. *grump* *points at thread re: Me in iampunha & rolls eyes* *points at thread re: Me in grammarpolice & rolls eyes again* Finally, can some email, or text, or reply to this, or summat, please, to lemme know what time peeps is planning on being at the campsite tomorrow - priddy pwease! mood : indifferent
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Good things.	(Fri, 29 July 05; 01:13am)
_proserpina_ Last night I went to Nag Nag Nag with Alex, it was the first time we'd been out clubbing just the two of us in as long as I can remember, so that was cool. The club wasn't quite what I expected, lots of straight people and people who hadn't made any effort and there was far too much emphasis on pounding pounding techno music, but there were drag queens, and they said I looked good, so yay. Today I went to see the ridiculously wonderful duranorak, and found out that we have even more in common than I originally realised. She showed me pretty 80s videos and played me music, including Temposhark, who are really, really good. Seriously. So more yay. And tomorrow I'm going to Club Electric, where there will be good music and dancing. Yet more yay. My God, there must be something wrong with me, I'm almost free of angst. mood : I just can't use 'bouncy'. music : Temposhark
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This could be a CD!	(Thu, 28 July 05; 05:24pm)
illustrators (curlyfrye) My submission for Illustration Friday: C&C; always welcome! :D
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Visit to Palestine	(Thu, 28 July 05; 11:03pm)
smhwpf Well, I am off Saturday morning, to spend three weeks in the West Bank, in occupied Palestine, with the International Solidarity Movement, a non-violent, Palestinian-led movement that supports non-violent Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation. The purpose of ISM is for internationals to experience life in Palestine, get to know Palestinian people and hear their stories, act as accompaniers in what might otherwise be troublesome situations, and join in Palestinian non-violent resistance activities. And to report back home on everything we see. As most people reading this may know, I spent three weeks in Palestine with the ISM last summer, entries starting here, and continuing under the tag "Palestine trip 2004". Yes, I now have tags in my LJ! So, this is the big public post about it all! I'd meant to do this a few days ago, but... well I procrastinate, so. I won't go into too much detail about the general political background, or my particular reasons for being involved in this issue in particular; the former is covered elsewhere - the Israeli peace group Gush Shalom has a lot of very good material on the history, the various "peace processes", etc. As for the latter, see previous entries. One good recent article on the historical background I'll cite however is this one by Robert Fisk, because it's a good one, on the Museum of Palestine, one man's effort to keep alive the memory and history of the land of his birth, a history quite literally wiped off the face of the earth when he and hundreds of thousands of other Palestinians were driven from their homes in 1948. ( I will say a bit more about recent developments, however ) In short, the current political situation is incredibly depressing. From time to time US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice who I still find annoyingly hot makes noises about how Israel mustn't seal off the Gaza Strip, mustn't do anything by way of settlement building to pre-empt a final settlement, etc., and one can't help hoping that the US actually means something by this, but past form suggests otherwise. And public opinion in the West just doesn't seem sufficiently motivated by the issue to push for any real change. ( resistance ) ( what I might be doing out there ) So, I'm not sure exactly where I'll be or where I'll be staying. Sometimes ISMers stay with Palestinian families in the villages we're based in, sometimes in ISM-rented apartments. We pay a few quid a day to ISM, which is recycled one way or another into the communities we stay in. It would be unthinkable in Palestinian culture, which places great stress on hospitality, to pay one's host for accommodation. I will, of course, do my best to keep safe. ISM provide extremely good training on how to handle the sort of situations we're likely to face. Of course there are risks involved, but then there are risks involved in getting on a tube train these days, or in being Brazilian in London. The activities I'm likely to take part in may well involve getting tear-gassed, which is distinctly unpleasant but not life-threatening, but unlikely to involve much worse. Although two ISM activists, Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall, have been killed in the Gaza Strip, no western activist has been killed in the West Bank. The Gaza Strip is a couple of levels of Hell down from the West Bank. The Israelis also seem to have realised that shooting westerners does not make for good publicity. This is part of the idea of organisations such as ISM - to use the "privilege" we have as westerners to good purpose. Things that happen to Palestinians every day without so much featuring as a blip on the media radar become news if they happen to us. I will be doing my best to keep this journal updated while I am out there, time and internet access permitting. Also, mirabehn has the spare key to my journal, and will post text messages from me to it when I can't get online. Of course, despite my shiny new name and passport, I might not even get past Ben Gurion airport. But assuming I do, see y'all over there!
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