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10/17/09

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i cut my hair. didn't help.

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03:49 pm 5/8/09 7 comments Leave a comment	sakurasakura we're getting a dog. we are getting the light one from justin's aunt. so excited! now, he just needs a name. mr. peepers? ziggy stardust? nacho? autumnal equinox? ushi? neko want to name him cracker. here cracker! come on cracker! umm no.

08:18 pm
2/12/09

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army of me

( a quizzy thing because i should be doing other things... )

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Current Music:	la vie en rose/edith piaf

10:12 pm
1/16/09

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meme and stuff...

Grab the book nearest you. Right now. Turn to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post that sentence along with these instructions in your LiveJournal. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

"Nonetheless, Azerbaijan is once again praying to the energy gods -- literally." From "The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New World Order" and i am pretty sure that parag khanna is an asshole. you know, just from the book and all.

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Current Music:	descendants/anchor grill

06:16 am
12/10/08

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your request has arrived!

i hate getting a popular book from the library. it's like another assignment. another deadline.

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Current Music:	runaways/cherry bomb

08:02 pm
11/8/08

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i'm supposed to be working

on a group research project about kindergarten readiness. i hate kindergarten readiness now. i hate everything i study too much. i like to stay fairly lay, yo. because the further i go into something it brings up all this "what can ever really be known" bullshit for me.

the church near me says "get an afterlife". i like the stupid vampire show on hbo. it's everything you want out a stupid vampire show. and ed danvers from "homicide: life on the street" is going to play a vampire judge next week. i haven't read all the books it's based on. southern vampire chronicles.

sweeney todd is on tv now. i may watch that now instead of working on more readinesses. ms. carter is way hot.

there is pretty much nothing i can do with my degree that i couldn't do without it. i gotta get a master's but i don't know if i can into grad school. i have had a pretty bad college career.

i am writing a memoir for a class. i may start putting i up here too.

i miss people but i have forgotten how to be around them.

Current Mood:	depressed
Current Music:	the song about bad pies

08:44 pm
2/2/08

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there's a church with a reader board near me.

my favorite so far is-

Stop drop and roll doesn't work in hell.

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12:51 pm
12/19/07

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i am at a computer.

yet somehow still bored.

Directions: Go to Wikipedia and click random article. That's your band name. Click it again. That's your album title. Click it 15 more times for your track titles.

band name: Eastern Idaho Railroad

album: Abbeys and priories in Scotland

track 1: Poecilmitis stepheni
track 2: Saddle Hill
track 3: Rural Action
track 4: Magnus Larsen
track 5: Kraft paper
track 6: Laura Redden Searing
track 7: Western Cape
track 8: Vermont Route 125
track 9: Make It Tonight
track 10: Gary Grubbs
track 11: Israel at the 1994 Winter Olympics
track 12: Cleaver
track 13: Cannes-Écluse
track 14: Monkey bike
track 15: Cockshoot Broad

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01:40 pm
3/29/07

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i got "y"

Leave a comment and I'll assign you a letter. List ten of your favorite songs that begin with that letter in your journal!

In no real order: "y"
1. you don't own me/leslie gore
2. yes, i'm your angel/yoko ono
3. y control/yeah yeah yeahs
4. you win again/patsy cline
5. you're the one for me/wanda jackson
6. you're pretty good looking (for a girl)/the white stripes
7. yes/morphine
8. you got it/etta james
9. you showed me/salt'n'pepa
10.your cheating heart/hank williams

11. you outta know/alanis morissette

"y" sucks because it's all "yous".

03:53 pm
1/19/07

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i started my d-i-v-o-r-c-e today

1. Favorite Beatles song: "the ballad of john and yoko"
2. Favorite Rolling Stones song: "beast of burden"
3. Favorite Doors song: "riders on the storm"
4. Favorite Bob Dylan song: "subterranean homesick blues"
5. Favorite Led Zeppelin song: "stairway to heaven"
6. TV theme song: "my life"
7. Favorite Prince song: "raspberry beret"
8. Favorite Madonna song: "cherish"
9. Favorite Michael Jackson song: "don't stop 'til you get enough"
10. Favorite Queen song: "bohemian rhapsody "
11. Favorite Motorhead song: "ace of spades"
12. Favorite song from a cartoon: "teen titans"
13. Favorite Bruce Springsteen song: "born to run"
14. Favorite Depeche Mode song: "policy of truth"
15. Favorite Cure song: "just like heaven"
16. Favorite song that most of your friends haven’t heard: "sakura sakura"
17. Favorite Smiths song: "there is a light that never goes out" why does everyone hate the smiths?
18. Favorite Beastie Boys song: "so what'cha want"
19. Favorite Clash song: "lost in the supermarket"
20. Favorite Police song: "message in a bottle"
21. Favorite Eurythmics song: "here comes the rain again"
22. Favorite Beach Boys song: "wouldn't it be nice"
23. Favorite Cyndi Lauper song: "time after time"
24. Favorite song from a movie: "theme from shaft" or "as time goes by"
25. Favorite Duran Duran song: "rio"
26. Favorite Johnny Cash song: "sunday morning coming down"
27. Favorite song from an Eighties one hit wonder: "i've never been to me"
28. Favorite song from a video game: what?
30. Favorite Genesis song: "no son of mine"
31. Favorite Thin Lizzy song: "the boys are back in town"
32. Favorite INXS song: "suicide blonde"
33. Favorite Weird Al song: "smells like nirvana"
34. Favorite Peter Gabriel song: "in your eyes"
35. Favorite John Lennon song: "i'm losing you" but i wanna say "oh yoko"
36. Favorite Pink Floyd song: "comfortably numb"
37. Favorite cover song: "me and bobby mcgee"
38. Favorite song to dance to: "mickey" but only if no one can see me.
39. Favorite U2 song: "one"
40. Favorite song from an actor turned musician: "the night the lights went out in georgia" or "they don't know about us"
41. Favorite disco song: "ring my bell"
42. Favorite power ballad: "i will always love you" as sung by ms. whitney houston
43. Favorite Guns N’ Roses song: "sweet child o' mine"
44. Favorite The Who song: "my generation"
45. Favorite Elton John song: "rocket man" heh.
46. Favorite song, period: "iko iko"
47. Favorite Sting song: "if i ever lose my faith in you"
48. Favorite Billy Joel song: "piano man"
49. Favorite Burt Bacharach song: "do you know the way to san jose"
50. First popular song you have a memory of hearing on the radio: i remember requesting "talk dirty to me" on kube. heh.
51. Favorite Eagles song: "hotel california"

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Current Music:	none

01:56 pm
1/19/07

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since i can never get to a computer when i am actually having a thought...

1. Always avoid alliteration.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid cliches like the plague—they're old hat.
4. Employ the vernacular.
5. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
7. Parenthetical words however must be enclosed in commas.
8. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
9. Contractions aren't necessary.
10. Do not use a foreign word when there is an adequate English quid pro quo.
11. One should never generalize.
12. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
13. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
14. Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.
15. It behooves you to avoid archaic expressions.
16. Avoid archaeic spellings too.
17. Understatement is always best.
18. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
19. One-word sentences? Eliminate. Always!
20. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
21. The passive voice should not be used.
22. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
23. Don't repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before.
24. Who needs rhetorical questions?
25. Don't use commas, that, are not, necessary.
26. Do not use hyperbole; not one in a million can do it effectively.
27. Never use a big word when a diminutive alternative would suffice.
28. Subject and verb always has to agree.
29. Be more or less specific.
30. Placing a comma between subject and predicate, is not correct.
31. Use youre spell chekker to avoid mispeling and to catch typograhpical errers.
32. Don't repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before.
33. Don't be redundant.
34. Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed.
35. Don't never use no double negatives.
36. Poofread carefully to see if you any words out.
37. Hopefully, you will use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
38. Eschew obfuscation.
39. No sentence fragments.
40. Don't indulge in sesquipedalian lexicological constructions.
41. A writer must not shift your point of view.
42. Don't overuse exclamation marks!!
43. Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences, as of 10 or more words, to their antecedents.
44. Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided.
45. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
46. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
47. Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing.
48. Always pick on the correct idiom.
49. The adverb always follows the verb.
50. Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors.
51. If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be by rereading and editing.
52. And always be sure to finish what


03:59 pm 10/12/06 5 comments Leave a comment	sakurasakura (no subject) bored.

04:36 pm
8/30/06

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Someone should do this!

and give me the thousand dollars!

Hello,

I am a casting producer for ABC Television's hit reality show, Wife Swap. I came across your contact information on the Dockyard Derby Dames website, and was wondering if you would be willing to share the information below with your league members.

Please let me know if I can provide you with any further details – thanks!

ABC Television Seeks Roller Derby Moms

ABC is currently looking for Roller Derby-playing Moms and their families to appear on our hit reality show, "Wife Swap."

"Wife Swap" takes two different families and has the wives switch places to experience how another family lives. Potential families can live anywhere in the continental United States, but we ask that the family consist of two parents and have at least one child between the ages of 7-17.

All families featured on the show receive a $20,000 honorarium. If you REFER a family that appears on the show, you will receive $1,000.

For more information, to obtain an application or to refer a family, please contact Meghan McGinley at 212 404 1473 or Meghan.McGinley@rdfusa.com .

More information is available at http://abc.go.com/primetime/wifeswap

12:41 pm
7/26/06

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we have a coach! just our team! haha! i shouldn't be that way but we wooed her fair and square she used to skate for the LA thunderbirds back in the day. so exciting! derby is good for today. lots of people are all working hard on the Pierce County AIDS Walk. which we get to skate! and if we raise $5k then we get to lead off! whoo hoo! there are like thirty people signed up to actually do the walk and we will piggy back offa other fundraisers and solict our friends for money.
any of you wanna sponsor me? it's a tax thing after $25. http://www.piercecountyAIDS.org and we are "Dockyard Derby Dames" or just slip me a fiver when you see me.

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03:37 pm
7/20/06

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the word of the day is "perspective".

at least it should be.

per·spec·tive ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pr-spktv)
n.

A view or vista.
A mental view or outlook: “It is useful occasionally to look at the past to gain a perspective on the present” (Fabian Linden).
The appearance of objects in depth as perceived by normal binocular vision.

The relationship of aspects of a subject to each other and to a whole: a perspective of history; a need to view the problem in the proper perspective.
Subjective evaluation of relative significance; a point of view: the perspective of the displaced homemaker.
****The ability to perceive things in their actual interrelations or comparative importance: tried to keep my perspective throughout the crisis.*****
The technique of representing three-dimensional objects and depth relationships on a two-dimensional surface.

adj.
Of, relating to, seen, or represented in perspective.

02:33 pm
7/13/06

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I am not connected just getting the word out...

Hello Everyone!

We still have space left in LOOP GIRLS, a summer camp I teach at the northwest film forum in Seattle for 10-14 year old girls. It is a really fun music and video making camp.

I thought I could rely on you to spread the word as we would love to have a full class this year. Tell every 10-14 year old girl you know and direct them to the Northwest film forum website. www.nwfilmforum.org. Last year the girls made amazing songs and animated videos about ice cream and other magical things.

We also have scholarship money to offer to girls who can't afford to pay the full price.

Last year was a real smash and it would be great to have another fun filled few weeks of young female burgeoning artists.

I've attached an e mail from Michael Seiwrath, director of the Northwest Film forum, with a link to ICE CREAM JAM, a music video some of the girls made last year.

I hope this message finds you all well and again, please spread the news far and wide.

The camp is from August 14-25th.

X Your friend, Anna Oxygen

MESSAGE FROM MICHAEL: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NORTHWEST FILM FORUM

Last year, Northwest Film Forum offered what I later called "the best

class we have ever offered." Loop Girls puts musical equipment and

cameras into the hards of 10-15 year old girls, who spend two weeks

writing pop songs and making videos for time. It was a total smash.

Instructor Anna Oxygen and coordinator Susie Tennant brought it an

unending stream of amazing musicians and filmmakers, who shared their

knowledge with the girls in a supportive, nurturing environment. Ice

Cream Jam, a song written last year, is still bouncing around in my

head.

Amazingly, there is still room this year. We are able to offer some

scholarships for the August 14-25 class. Please check out the

website, http://www.nwfilmforum.org/loopgirls.php , watch the Ice

Cream Jam video, and pass the word on. A lot of kids who want to

take it are busy or out of town, but I know this could be a life

changing class for girls.

Best,

Michael

04:33 pm
7/5/06

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i am cold today. stupid air conditioning. and stupid acclimatization. it was so hot for so long but 60 degrees should still count as "hot".

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12:06 pm
6/27/06

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1. When was the last time you had sex?
last night. in the shower because it's too hot.

2. How do you flush the toilet in public?
with my foot. and i open doors with my sleeves.

3. Do you wear your seatbelt in the car?
yes.

4. Name one thing that you start to get tense about if you are close to running out of it:
just about anything. i hate running out. when it's on sale i stock up.

5. What famous person do you (or other people) think you resemble?
used to be winona ryder. we aged differently.

6. What is your favorite pizza topping?
green onions always makes for a good pizza.

7. Do you crack your knuckles?
alot. does that cause arthritis?

8. What song do you hate the most when it gets stuck in your head?
it oddly hasn't happened in a while.

9. Did just mentioning that song make it get stuck in your head?
n/a

10. What are your super powers?
avoidance.

11. Peppermint or Spearmint?
green apple.

12. Where are your car keys?
on a filing cabinet next to me.

13. Whose answers to this questionnaire do you want to hear?
anyone. i like reading. and avoiding work.

14. What's your most annoying habit?
spitting? drinking too much? extreme laziness?

15. If you could punch one person in the nose and get away with it who would it BE?
i always get away with it.

16. What is your best physical feature?
my swan-like neck.

17. What CD is closest to you right now?
umm. i guess the ones in my car.

18. What 3 things can always be found in your refrigerator?
jar o' mashed up garlic, rooster sauce, and chocolate soy milk.

19. Black Cat in your path BAD or who cares?
BAD ASS. or ummm, who cares.

20. Do you talk on your cell phone when you drive?
sometimes. it's too hot to now though.

21. What OCD qualities do you have?
curtains and rugs with fringe can keep me going. also the cracks on the sidewalk must be walked over an even amount by each foot. a larger crack is usually equal to two smalller ones. i count the ratio of consonants to vowels and add words to sentences to make them equal in my head. even though it's really a three to one ratio in english. same as breathing/heart rate.

22. What do you do when no one is watching?
process everything. freak out.

23. If they made a movie about your life, what actor/actress would play you?
winona ryder. i guess.

24. Would you rather die in a blaze of glory or peacefully in your sleep?
it's alot to ask but i want my death to mean something.

25. What candy, from when you were a kid, do you miss the most?
neapolitans. they were layered with the three flavors and also tasted like coconut. stupid dairy.

26. What is your favorite kids movie?
anne of green gables. and the secret garden.

27. What is in the back seat of your car right now?
clothes on the floor, cds, car seats, and papers.

28. What is your favorite all time sports team?
derby liberation front. but we'll see how much my team rules!

29. What was the last thing you threw up?
alcohol.

30. What is the best picture you have in your possession?
my grandparent's wedding picture. they are both wearing kimonos and look so young and full of hope. things never turn out how they're supposed to.

31. Have you ever had a private maid?
that sounds dirty.

32. What is the last thing you regret purchasing?
i bought a dress for work that i can't really wear to work.

33. What is your favorite episode of Roseanne?
maybe when the door-to-door salesman dies in the kitchen? the halloween ones were good too.

34. What is your favorite line from Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
"you wear too much eye makeup. my sister wears too much. people think she's a whore."

35. Does anyone have any blackmail on you?
i don't know.

36. What do you think of Pee Wee Herman?
i didn't really like the show as a child. he's cool enough now.

37. Have you been to a strip club?
yes.

38. Do you like tan lines?
no. i wore sunblock everyday for years to not get them. you could see the veins in my face and i lost my ability to tan. i was pretty dark and never burnt as a child. but now i do.

39. What is the last bet you lost?
i hardly ever bet. although i have heard that you should make a bet a day or you could be walking around lucky and not even know it.

40. Would you date someone that none of your friends liked?
probably.

12:14 pm
6/1/06

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JUNE IS*

Aphasia Awareness, Dairy, Drive Safe, Fresh Fruit and Vegetable, Iced Tea, Safety, Scleroderma Awareness , and Vision Research Month; Headache Awareness (3-9), Men's Health (4-10), Nursing Assistants (15-22), Eye Safety Awareness (24-30), Helen Keller Deaf-Blind Awareness (24-30) Weeks; and National Cancer Survivors (4th) and Hunger Awareness (6th) Days, Abused Women and Children Awareness (11), World Elder Abuse Awareness (15), Helen Keller Day (27)


02:58 pm 5/25/06 Leave a comment	sakurasakura (no subject) i have told someone in the past to kill me if i ever purchased or wore stretch pants. it might have been that one guy. anyways, not only do i now own two pairs but i wore them today all day becasue i have practice tonight and no clean clothes that fit me. and i use "fit me" in a very loose, almost joking manner.

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