Another One

Summer's end

2005-11-12T18:28:34Z

Has this ever happened to you? I woke yesterday with soreness EVERYWHERE. Just like after exercising really hard, but I didn't exercise. It's like there was a fight I was a part of, and don't remember it the next day. In my muscles, which I know I hadn't been using, on arms and legs and especially gastro muscles. This makes me wonder.

And now I'm a little embarassed, all I ever write here is weird stuff that goes on to me. I want to take down my old posts, they make me cringe, I won't though. Just read them all with a grain of salt. And some sugar, with a sprinkle of cinnamon. Stir while heating, then pour evenly onto a pan and let cool for two hours. Mmmmmm :).

Seriously, guys, help me out. What should I write here? Have you read any good books lately? I need one to read.

EDIT OK, a desparate attempt to have anything to say, I got this memememe from Maeve66.

LJ Interests meme results

agl:
Actually, I'd rather not say to much.
caffeine:
Who doesn't! Although I don't want to become someone who needs it to get going in the mornings.
creative writing:
Maybe my past life. I definitely wanted to be a writer when I was little.
creativity:
I really need to trim down, and redo my interests lists don't I :).
dreams:
When they actually happen, I had some really fun ones back a long time ago that I'll never forget. They still happen.
eating:
Again, who doesn't. I can't get going in the mornings without eating.
ft2:
Nice for playing with music and midi files when I was more into computer music.
long phone calls:
Well, I have to, moving around every few years and less.
movies:
As you can tell. Not regular popular movies though, more like foreign films or ones with thought-provoking themes.
orchestral music:
Not for a while, actually.

Enter your LJ user name, and 10 interests will be selected from your interest list.

amieffe @ 2005-09-10T23:50:00

2005-09-11T03:51:44Z

I come back and rootlesscosmo is deleted. Shame, I actually read his journal, and was curious about everyone. In Ithaca lately, though I have to find more time to post. Hello, everyone!

Swallowing Caustics

2005-03-04T21:45:51Z

This is depressing but practical and really short. Three minutes of your time?

My friend has a child (very young) who swallowed drain unclogger recently. The child had to get a stomach pump, and now, they have to go to the doctor periodically so they can stick a tube down their throat and inflate a little balloon to scrape away all the scar tissue that's building up. This is not going to go away! Imagine being that child-rushed to the emergency room and then having to deal with yucky doctor visits as they inflate little balloons in your oesophagus, knowing that you got yourself into the mess (even though grownups keep saying it isn't your fault, isn't that a sign that it really is but they don't want you to think it is?).

If you know children, then please! Don't let them anywhere near "Draino" or any poisons. You could never forgive yourself.

Hm, looks like people use "to swallow Drano" as an expression sometimes. I won't be able to use that expression ever. It makes me think of in the movie House of Sand and Fog, when a woman helps a girl who's tried to kill herself by swallowing medicine by making her throw up. What an unpleasant thing to have to do. But if we can prevent having to do that kind of thing, that would be great.

Edit: I should say, of course, never induce vomiting without asking the poison control first.

Ten Things

2005-03-02T00:14:17Z

Also from maeve66, "Write out ten things about you that you think no other of your LJ friends has."

1. I've held two chopped radishes in my mouth for five minutes. Do not ask why, please. I am not a crazy juvenile!

2. I've had a conversation with phone lines crossed, and it took me almost five minutes to figure out that nobody on the other end could hear me. I thought it was a conference call! It made me feel so stupid because I'd been uhuhing and making little suggestions, and I assumed they heard me at first.

3. When I lived with my parents, we had two pugs named Lambert and Megan. I loved them, but I'll never have pets again.

4. I tried to write a book when I was 8. But we try lots of things when we're 8, don't we? The first line went something like this, "I existed in a room."

5. I had my friend change my LJ icon so much that hopefully noone will recognize me. And I am not just talking about the colors!

6. In 1989, I got into a fist fight with a teacher and earned the nickname "Rodin." What does "Rodin" have to do with a fist fight, you may ask? Yes, you may ask.

7. I was vegetarian between the ages 12 and 16. Actually, I should start up again, but it's a bit hard where I used to live.

8. I lived in Quebec for one week, thinking I was going to stay there for the rest of my life. During my time there, I demonstrated how much my French skills had deteriorated.

9. I was born in Spain, but I am by no means a Spaniard.

10. I once was in the same building as Jonny Depp. Like anyone cares, I mean seriously! Running out of interesting things here.

So there you have it. My unabridged autobiography. What do you think?
-AF

Edit: You'd think I'd be over european spelling now, wouldn't I?

Technology in the Schoolhouse

2005-03-01T23:59:47Z

My friend, they're having so much technology in the classroom. It's supposed to be a GOOD thing, you know, when they fill out surveys on teachers and are asked whether the teacher integrates the computer into the learning experience. But look at this: HTTP://PMAKI.PROBOARDS43.COM. They have them submit all of their homework by computer, and I hear there are many problems with technology issues and everything, so it probably causes more problems then it solves. But I suppose, it will save on wasting trees if nobody uses paper anymore. I don't know what to think, but the proboards aren't very popular there.

Must resist making comments everyone's making about yet more bombings everywhere, getting worse. Gross, eggregious pictures on the front covers. It is too easy for us to sit here doing our job making our money not caring.

Here's my political party survey results. I got it from maeve66

You scored as Green. <'Imunimaginative's Deviantart Page'>

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Green

100%

Democrat

92%

Anarchism

83%

Socialist

75%

Communism

33%

Republican

Nazi

Fascism

What Political Party Do Your Beliefs Put You In?
created with QuizFarm.com

OK, pretty accurate, I should say. Especially since my icon is green! Haha. Sorry. That's some scary HTML codes I had to paste in to get it to show. Hope it worked. Now, I must move away from politics. Suggestions, everyone!
-AF

New Icon

2005-02-21T20:24:33Z

So yes, I got a much better icon now than the stupid cartoon. Thanks to PhotoShop. Still on my quest for one that actually looks good and recognizable, like the rest of yours. But after moving back here, all my time's been eaten away.

What else is news? Arthur Miller, I guess. But I don't want to write about just death here. I liked his books, especially that movie version of Salesman. I've got a nice anthology of his stuff that I must get around to reading some time.

Also, to you anonymous commenters: You really should put who you are. If you say something mean I'll delete it unless I know who you are. Nobody else seems to have a problem with anonymouses, but I'll make this journal friends only if I have to.

Thanks go for my cousin, (Who probably isn't reading this,) for getting me this icon.

In Ithaca Again

2005-02-06T04:13:34Z

Well, I'm back. Sorry about my silence for so long, I never got around to this. When things get busy, and people turn away or change their minds, and everything changes over the course of fifteen minutes. That's what I call busy. I'll talk about it later, it'll be okay. It always is.

In another note, I got a picture like I said I would. Now who's good with PhotoShop? I won't want anyone actually recognizing me. And is it just me, or does Adobe control the internet? All I ever see is Flash this and Acrobat reader.

~~If there is at least one person in your life whom you consider a close friend, and whom you would not have met without the Internet, post this sentence in your journal.~~
Should I feel left out :P. Maybe one of you can make this change, but I just don't have the time. But remember, I have nothing bad to say about anyone reading this.

I saw MANCHURIAN CANIDATE. Kind of, implausible? And too much gratuitous violence. Really gets to me is when they show needles and tubes and blood and vomiting. For no real reason really but to shock. It wasn't like that always. And it was silly really, the premise.

Has anyone seen AMELIE? That's my name, so everyone asks me if I've seen it. Is it good? It better.

Johnny Carson death?

2005-01-23T20:16:47Z

"Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place." ~ Johnny Carson

Another one.

Also, if you don't hear me for the next few days, it's because I'm moving (normal commute-style, nothing major), but I'll probably be able to post anyway. Actually, we might not due to the recent weather, but there's still time.

Umm why does everyone post the same things on their journals? I went browsing and saw four different people post a list of 14 things about themselves and make their friends guess which are true.

Got around

2005-01-23T18:14:05Z

I finally got around to it using the link that bklyndispatch gave me to make these icons that every Livejournaller seems to have. I had a bit of fun, but note I don't actually look like this. (I wish - not!) I don't like it, it makes me look like any old same old. I need to get a photo, but I'll get someone to PhotoShop it so nobody will recognize me.

Hurry up, you all!

2005-01-23T00:06:47Z

Umm I see a lot of people with friends only. Is it a good idea to do that, so we know who else may be reading? I mean, I don't know how safe my info is anyway, but I don't say much here about myself anyway, do I?

And yes:

No, just no :).

Last Night

2005-01-22T23:57:07Z

I know I never post here, but I want to share something about all this, that I've never mentioned.

Last night, I was too cold under the covers. Air kept seeping in and made me really mad, so I got no sleep, and when I finally did, it was no good. I woke up at some random time (couldn't check watch), and I was scared. I mean really, I just felt afraid and vulnerable in the dark, but I don't know what about.

And then I went by the stairs, and from below, I heard something that was like some Savoie goat braying, or like a twisted scream almost. But it was loud and coming right from below, and I had no idea what, and even through my (locked) door... if it was a person snoring, that is not a healthy noise for a person to be making. And it stopped fast enough, and I point out I was really scared before I heard it.

And, my phone's lines keep getting crossed, or some strange noise. Could be because of the snow? I got a call not long after waking up, early at dawn, and two guys were talking and couldn't hear me. One I thought I recognized, but it wasn't loud enough to hear enough.

It makes me laugh when in the day I'm not scared at all, but at night I had to turn on the TV really quietly, which usually helps, but that's just like tuning into the mind controlling TV, isn't it.

But this isn't the first time it's happened, just the first time I've heard that weird noise. I guess it could be cats or some explanation.

Write-write-write

2005-01-21T20:43:04Z

Am I behind the times, or does this still work? Everyone, please write to your representatives. I can take scorn, but torture still rates among the world's most intolerable aspect. It's too bad that if you're my friend list, you probably GAVE me this link. I need more friends... I'll ave to recruit Jenn to get a Livejournal blog.

What's been up lately? My friends page has been a nice news reel. Better than how I used to read about everyone's relationship trouble and depression. Annoyed the heck out of me, but I still feel badly for not helping anyone, for just disappearing.

ARG!

2004-12-30T02:44:15Z

Argh! Does anyone else have this problem? Someone else uses this computer sometimes and he logs in to Livejournal and I kept accidentally submitting my stuff to his blog not mine. Even after I logout and login, I get posting as him now and then.

And I got my other post fixed by editing it, thanks.

Do you all think donating to charity is a good way to help Asia with the disasters? I guess, maybe it's all we can do. I feel like it's ust so hopeless and useless but maybe not, I can only hope.

Some Thoughts

2004-12-28T21:16:26Z

It's funny, the ambition companies have these days.

You should see rootlesscosmo's comments. He talks about some really interesting things, what we do to keep track of the world.

And now, companies are trying to develop things that do that work FOR us, tring to predict what somebody cares about, and will forget and, wil need to know. It makes me wonder what how that will change the way people see the world.

amieffe @ 2004-12-25T23:38:00

2004-12-26T04:35:48Z

You know, I know everyone says you stop changing after ages 25 but not me. I keep seeing different ways about myself seeing the world, and assimilating all the fear into some comforting but cynical system to explain it all. That keeps changing. This really makes me lose my appetite.

Everyone elses journal looks to give a good impression of them but I don't know what to think about ME. Someday, I'll find out how to think, and then write here if anyone cares to listen. Another One. :)

About time

2004-12-26T02:05:51Z

Secretary of State Colin Powell praised the U.N. announcement.

"With this ruling, the U.N. has issued the global community a 'golden ticket' to draw back the curtain behind which this mysterious confectioner hides."
"Armies of legal experts retained by Wonka have kept visitors to his chocolate-making facilities effectively gagged with elaborate non-disclosure agreements. His in-house staff of high-contrast Technicolor dwarves carefully monitors what information flows in or out of the heavily guarded compound. And the few scraps of information that have come to light—vague reports of terrifying river-barge rides, razor-sharp ceiling fans, and human-sized pneumatic tubes of indeterminate purpose—have been obscured by layers of darkly comic, psychedelic symbolism, making them virtually impossible to interpret."

( Read more... )

What's your stance on the issue?

Christmas

2004-12-25T03:14:25Z

That's another one. What a day.

Poison?

2004-12-12T22:06:36Z


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Not sure if I did that right... something to post and it proves I'm a narcissist. Everyone else gets pop music and pokemon stuff.

In other news, Chilled. I knew it. It's going to be in a sick kind of way interesting to see how Ukraine turns out over the next decade or two. Another to add to the watch list. Well, let's hope I don't start any political fights. Actually, just take a look at my friend link on the left if you want those. I'll see how they turn out for awhile...

Update: Do see the link for before and after pictures. What kind of life will he have? My friends were talking about him being poisoned long before we knew.

I should be working! Why do I post here?

Arg!

2004-12-12T05:25:58Z

Seventeen entries. All deleted. That's nine hours of my life whisked into the abyss! Thanks for that, IExplore. So you masses, who read my journal are deprived of the essays that reveal my innermost confessions. I'll see you around.

In other words, I need a tutorial for this site that's simple. So I can actually make this look tolerably not ugly. But yes, I live once more. This is what I'm driven to do when I can't sleep. Regarding the election and all, since everyone keeps pestering me about it: I'm convinced there must be a better way. And not just small changes. I don't care that it's all over. I'm sick of hearing about it. Yes, you know who you are. If you're actually reading this.
The days of insane things flying past my head are coming to a close. That much I know, and it's been a while. This site lets me write in the date for entries. You couldn't get away with that at work.

I'm beginning to think about what exactly I can use this for. "Thoughts?"