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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
12:49 pm	FALCOR!!! (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
7:06 pm	first post in about a year. I know I haven't posted in a long time...far too long. And I'm sorry that again I'm just going to make a post plugging something, rather than actually giving an update of my life or offering analysis on some of today's current headlines or anything...but that's what I'm doing. http://foureyedmonsters.com/watch/ It's a good film. I feel a personal resonance with it. watch it. If you feel like it, join sprout and help Arin and Susan pay back all the debt they went into making it. (It's totally free to join and you don't have to sign up to get any emails or anything if you don't want them). Cheers everyone. (Comment on this)
Friday, June 16th, 2006
1:59 pm	hey gainesvillians. time for competitive kickball. sorry it's not a better post. but seriously, this is the best thing to do this weekend. we start at noon, and we don't stop till the sun goes down. Maude's is the defending champs this year, Salty Dog wants our asses, so come out and join us or just support us. short shorts, kegs, and kickball. is there really anything better in the world? i think not. (16 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 3rd, 2006
3:11 pm	eyepatches Eyepatches 015 Originally uploaded by petunia_fist. i miss samantha. we are ridiculous together. i am going to miss janet. we are also ridiculous together. for those interested in our shenanigans there are some photos on my flickr account. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
5:16 pm	I am so addicted to my death space it's not funny...no seriously. it's really not funny. something is wrong with me. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 22nd, 2006
2:58 pm	Create your own Music List @ HotFreeLayouts! (Comment on this)
Thursday, April 20th, 2006
11:49 am	So, I've had strep throat since last Friday. It's been pretty miserable, but I'm definitely feeling better. I still get tired really easily. Yesterday I was able to eat solid food for the first time since Friday. Today I was able to brush my teeth all the way in the back without gagging myself (what with the severely swollen tonsils). I got my first full night of unaided sleep last night. I still get a sharp pain in my throat if I talk too much, and I'm still having some head and body aches. I also get pretty dizzy when I try to do too much (which happened yesterday as a consequence of walking to Maude's - yes, I know it's only like 6 blocks, but seriously, that walk kicked my ass and I had to nap for like 3 hours once I got back home). But still my recovery goes quite well. I think that after this weekend I should be back to my old self again. Current Mood: recovering Current Music: built to spill - you in reverse (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
3:20 pm	"They are not the motorcycle enthusiasts they portray themselves to be." I don't know why, but I found this to be the most amusing headline in today's The Economist update... Eight men were found dead on a farm in south-western Ontario in what appeared to be a resurgence of a battle among Canada's biker gangs for control of the drug trade.  For those interested in reading more about Canada's biker gangs and what they've been up to, here's the link to the NYT article. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
5:48 pm	Because I also have too much time on my hands... So I took this from Erin's post about the new Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection (which, by the way, Amazon only had one copy left of about 5 minutes ago...crazy!) First I just want to say that I have a little trouble with establishing a real percentage, because many titles are actually repeated or contained within other titles, and because there are many titles which I have had to read parts of (but not all of) for school, etc. But I did my best. Here's my list: The Oresteia by Aeschylus  Prometheus Bound and Other Plays by Aeschylus  The Complete Fables by Aesop Little Women by Louisa May Alcott  The Divine Comedy Volume I: Inferno by Dante Alighieri  Alfred the Great by Anonymous  Beowulf by Anonymous  The Bhagavad Gita by Anonymous  The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous  The Song of Roland by Anonymous  Selected Writings by Thomas Aquinas The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes  Lysistrata & Other Plays by Aristophanes Poetics by Aristotle  Confessions by Augustine of Hippo  Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works by Aphra Behn  Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy  The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio  Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte  Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte  The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (which is, by the way, one of my favorite books ever ever ever) A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett  The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett  Selected Poems by Lord Byron My Antonia by Willa Cather  Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes  The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer  The Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin  Selected Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge   Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad  The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad  The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin  Discourse on Method and Related Writings by Rene Decartes Great Expectatiosn by Charles Dickens  Hard Times by Charles Dickens  The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens  The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot Nature and Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Medea and Other Plays by Euripides  The Wolfman and Other Cases by Sigmund Freud  Herland, The Yellow Wall-Paper, and Selected Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman  Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol  Selected Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm  The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton  Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy  The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne  Siddhartha by Herman Hesse  Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes  The Illiad by Homer  The Odyssey by Homer  A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen  The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers by Henry James  Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger  The Transformation and Other Stories by Franz Kafka One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey  The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling  Complete Poems by D.H. Lawrence  The Journals of Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark  The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by Jack London  Selected Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli  The Comunist Manifesto by Karl Marx  Utilitarianism and Other Essays by John Stuart Mill  Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller  Utopia by Thomas More  Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche  Metamorphoses by Ovid  The Republic by Plato  Symposium by Plato  The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edgar Allen Poe  The Travels by Marco Polo  The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau  Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare  As You Like It by William Shakespeare  The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare  Hamlet by William Shakespeare  Henry V by William Shakespeare  Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare  King Lear by William Shakespeare  Macbeth by William Shakespeare  The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare  A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare  Othello by William Shakespeare  Pericles by William Shakespeare  Richard III by William Shakespeare  Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare  The Sonnets by William Shakespeare  The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare  Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare  Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw  Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw  Frankenstein by Mary Shelley  The Jungle by Upton Sinclair  The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith  East of Eden by John Steinbeck  Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck  The Pearl by John Steinbeck  The Red Pony by John Steinbeck  Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe  Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift  The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain  Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne  The Aeneid by Virgil  Candide by Francois Voltaire  Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington  Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman  The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde  Total: 109/1000 titles for a whopping 10.9 % (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
2:13 pm	Pictures from St. Patrick's Day and from Adam and Colleen's wedding (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, March 13th, 2006
1:24 am	For anyone who wants to see pictures from the Chattanooga/Nashville trip, here's the link. No pictures in the actual show, no cameras allowed and all. Sorry kids. The pictures are mostly from the Chattanooga aquarium and the Nashville Parthenon...and there's one of me in the Country Music Hall of Fame, One of the Wiener mobile (which, by the way, has a vanity plate that reads "bologna" but I couldn't get a good picture of it) and one of the drive back). The show was amazing, though they closed with what is quite possibly my least favorite B&S song of all time...or at least in the bottom 3 for me.  I lost my purse in a Chik-Fil-a on the way down and Ryan and I very nearly got stranded in Tifton because despite the fact that he had money in his bank account, the card would not swipe at the gas station. The woman told us to just go on and told Ryan that he needed to call the gas station the next day otherwise they would report it as a drive off. Chik-fil-a manager guy said he would mail me my purse (I realized when we stopped for gas in Atlanta that I had left it at the restaurant and called them to see if it was still there). Hopefully it will be here tomorrow. If it doesn't arrive I guess I'll call them back and make sure it actually got sent and then call my bank/credit card and make sure there hasn't been any activity in the past couple of days. I bought a Moog button at an awesome little used music/comic shop in Nashville. I cannot explain how happy this button makes me. I also found a copy of Brain Candy for $5 and that also makes me incredibly happy. We also went to the Jack Daniel distillery and bought ourselves some slightly special Jack. We're waiting for a special occasion to pop it open (I think Samantha coming for a visit would be the perfect reason, but perhaps I'm wrong...I mean I know it's not like it's the Carlo Rossi vineyard special wine or anything...it's just whiskey). It was good to see James in Chattanooga...too bad my dumbass didn't get any pictures with him despite the fact that I had every intention of doing so. I'll post a picture of the print he made me in the next day or so. It's awesome. I love having creative friends. I found out today that I did not get into the PhD program at GWU...while my spirits are pretty shaken, I really thought that I was a shoe in for the Masters, and I'm still going to try to think positively and plan as if that's the case unless/until I hear otherwise...which might be another month away. Waiting sucks. If I find out in a month that I didn't even get into the MA program, I have no idea what we'll be doing next year. We didn't renew our lease for this apartment, and the deadline is in a week or so I think. I also really really really don't want to stay in Gainesville. I'm ready to move on. Ryan's done with school and even though I have a job in my field (and more importantly a job that I like), it's still not really exactly what I want to do, and then there's the fact that I don't really get paid enough, don't get benefits, don't get holidays, etc. We've been discussing moving to DC anyway, but we'd have to both have jobs lined up and have quite a bit of money saved up to make this possible. Anyway, that's the update for now. (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, March 3rd, 2006
11:59 pm	This is my friend's cat. she made these for her. amazing. (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
6:35 pm	Thanks to all who came to my planned-two-hours-prior-to-start-time birthday party. For those who couldn't make it, I understand. It was a blast. I was really happy with the number of people who showed up, and despite the fact that there was a gas leak and we were smoking inside the house, no one was hurt...Steve fixed the gas leak. Thanks, Steve. You can view pictures here... (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
4:17 pm	"A controversial British historian, David Irving, was sentenced by an Austrian court to three years' imprisonment for the crime of Holocaust denial, even though he pleaded guilty and said that he now admitted that the mass murder of Jews had taken place." (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
9:35 am	Newsworthy bits... The Taser company has developed a shotgun shell that “combines the blunt force of a baseball bat with the electric shock of a stun gun.” Nice. The current product can be used at a range of thirty meters, but they’d like to fine tune it for accuracy at up to 100 meters before releasing it next year. (link) Now that the SCOTUS has all its ducks in a row, isn't it about time to tackle that pesky abortion issue? Lawmakers in South Dakota are preparing to vote on a bill which would ban virtually all abortions in that state. If they succeed, this will go to the Supreme Court. (link) Iranian government supports blogs and incorporates them under the government agency used to monitor the press. (link) On a more personal note, my birthday is in 2 days. I'll be 26. I'm kinda looking forward to it, but also feeling terribly old hag-ish. I'm still waiting to hear back from graduate school, and finding this to wreak a bit of havoc on the old nerves the longer I have to wait...but it should be this week. The next month is going to be incredibly busy. In addition to the birthday and graduate school decisions, there's also the Belle & Sebastian/New Pornographers show, Adam and Colleen's Wedding, etc, etc.  (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 16th, 2006
6:19 pm	last night i poured a beer on a girls head. i blame the irish car bomb. but it's just as likely that it was one of the three flasks of whiskey i was pulling on. or the half bottle of wine. or any of the 4 beers i didn't pour over her head... i was just going to pour a little sip on her, but it was so gratifying i pretty much emptied out the glass.after i soaked her i turned and walked away...she proceeded to lunge at me and fall flat on her ass...it was incredibly funny. and people bought me replacement beers so i didn't feel quite as guilty about wasting half a glass of stella on a skank... best of all. she is permanently banned from the atlantic. i'm not totally sure how that happened. but annie told her and her friends that they better not come back ever ever again (annie doesn't even live in gainesville) and the door guy confirmed this statement. now, i'm not condoning this sort of behavior or anything...but honestly, it was one of the funnest/funniest things i've ever done in my life...i think that everyone, at least once in their life, needs to experience the thrill of pouring a beer on someone. Current Mood: naughty Current Music: belle and sebastian - sukie in the graveyard (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, February 3rd, 2006
9:59 pm	There is a SEARCH run club. I don't run. because I smoke. and therefore would die. However, apparently I did come up with the SEARCH run club "slogan." This past Wed at company lunch, a  girl a work with was recounting how she yelled at the run club out her car window as she passed them. Apparently she yelled "pick up the pace." I told her she should have yelled "you can't run from death." Everyone found this to be most amusing. Today my boss informed me that they are going to print this slogan on the back of the T-shirts they will be wearing (with our company logo) when they run 5ks and such...I told him I thought this sounded like a terrible idea to me seeing as they will be running in 5ks for things like cancer research...He said it was ok because if they have cancer he can probably at least outrun them...God, I love the people I work with. They all have the same terrible sense of humor I do. My birthday is in 3 weeks. I will be 26 (read this, old). I will be doing celebrations in both Gainesville and Jacksonville...details to come on both those situations soon. I am going to Nashville the first week of March to see Belle and Sebastian and The New Pornographers...I cannot describe how excited I am about this. The other day I got 125 pages into my current book, only to discover that it is quite possibly the worst misprint ever...I bought it like a year ago and am just now getting to reading it...I'm thinking that I might be able to buy a new copy and Borders, then bring in the old copy with the receipt and show them how awful the misprinting is and at least get store credit...thoughts on this? The new Woody Allen is great. We saw that last weekend. I love when Ryan really enjoys things...it makes me smile and enjoy them even more. Tonight I saw The Matador with Kim and Dina. It was entertaining...not brilliant or anything. But really entertaining. Pierce Brosnan is absolutley an ass and it's enjoyable to see him play someone who's entirely un-suave. I am missing another Rock, Paper, Scissors tourney tonight apparently...people, you've got to tell me about these things...I was so close to coming into Jax this weekend to photograph crack houses in Oakland...But the weather was looking not so good so I decided to put it off and just not go into town at all...sigh. I'm supposed to go to the Top in about 45 mins to meet Cheese...weather is shitty and I'll prolly end up driving despite the fact that it's only 5 blocks... Current Mood: a little jittery. Current Music: Echo and the Bunnymen (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 21st, 2006
12:08 pm	Aaaaaah hahahahaha! Shit. That's funny. Current Mood: amused Current Music: Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 9th, 2006
2:31 pm	rock. paper. scissors. nationals. this thursday tsi will be taking part in hosting rock paper scissors nationals...who's in? (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, December 10th, 2005
11:58 am	i have acquired a laptop computer that my father says is "fucked" despite the fact that he knows nothing about computers...it might be fucked. but it also might be completely fixable. so someone who knows about computers should help me out and see if it is, cause if so i have a new computer, hopefully for pretty cheap...it's like 2 years old, but still, contrary to what my father says, that does not mean it's totally obsolete. i saw dear and glorious physician last night. the show was amazingly great. they are the cutest band ever. the boys rock hard. the girls play their instruments and stare at the ceiling looking bored...i mean, how perfect is that for a rock band...the singer/guitarist rocked so hard his glasses flew off somewhere. yes. amazing. if ever you get a chance to see them. do. it. tonight is the castanets. i hope (am fairly certain) it will be an amazing show as well. ryan and amy and probably some others and i are going and it'll be the first show ryan and i have been to together in awhile...i kinda wanted a date night, but ryan's gaming most of the day/evening...so amy, wanna "date night" with me? or we can just sit around, drink beer, maybe get some burritos or something, and play with your cat. Current Mood: energetic Current Music: dear and glorious physician (6 Comments |Comment on this)