User:	hotfuss
	Date:	2008-09-06 13:13
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	Music:	Metro Station - Kelsey

Yeah, so my mom peaked my interest in a new j-drama Maou, and I've totally got episodes 2-4 downloading right now. I'll probably veg out on that tonight after I hang out with Vicky. I still have the last two eps of s2 of Dexter to watch and 21 which I got a half hour into, but meh. Maybe I'll finish watching 21 after I write this. ... Or not, a House marathon seems to be on. I'll watch that. I'm so indecisive about everything.

Creativity is still null. I have half an entry written for Corbis, started 3 days ago. I have a thread I want to tag, but can't stick to one mood to tag. I have Ethan wanting to write, but my moods are too sporatic even for him. I haven't been able to read the past few days. Personally, the sooner all of this is over the better, because I want my creativity streak back.

I'm talking to Lindsay and Kelly again. I've come to the understanding that some friendships will go through their trials and tribulations and somehow things may always end up working out. These sort of friendships are rare and I know I only have a handful of them at best. Sometimes the pros out weigh the cons in everything. I can't help when I miss the people closest to me in my life. It felt good to laugh last night as much as we did.

Oh God, I'm so glad that Burn Notice is almost over. It ruins my USA schedule.

Now I have to go strip Anika's sheets and throw them in the wash, because she peed the bed this morning.

	User:	hand_of_paper
	Date:	2008-09-05 17:43
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( previous books )
26. The Dragon Seekers by Christopher McGowan

The Dragon Seekers, subtitled How an Extraordinary Circle of Fossilists Discovered the Dinosaurs and Paved the Way for Darwin, describes the lives and work of several 19th century "fossilists", the predecessors of today's paleontologists. He talks mostly about Mary Anning, Thomas Hawkins, William Buckland, Gideon Mantell, and Richard Owen.

Mary Anning was an interesting figure. She was a woman of low social status, the daughter of poor laborers, who were Dissenters (that is, not members of the dominant Church of England). Despite the handicaps of being a woman, being poor, and of her religious background, she came to contribute a great deal to the developing science. At the age of just 12, she discovered the first pleisiosaur, and made a number of other important discoveries. She had begun, like her family and many other locals, collecting fossils to sell to rich tourists, but she was more than just a collector. She studied the fossils, read everything she could about other fossils and about zoology, and even dissected living relatives of the fossils she was finding to understand more about them. In her time, however, she did not get anywhere near the credit she deserved. Wealthy male paleontologists would publish papers and give speeches about the new discoveries, without mentioning her, or, at most, only in indirect references such as "the proprietor of the fossil". She was never allowed to join the Geological Society, although she was given a posthumous honorary membership a few years after her death, and her name was rarely mentioned in those meetings, although her importance was recognized, and she did have some fame in her time. But she never had any formal academic honors, nor did she ever make money from books that were published on her finds. The only money she ever made was in selling her finds. As one friend of hers reported "She says the world has used her ill ... these men of learning have sucked her brains, and made a great deal by publishing workds, of which she furnished the contents, while she derived none of the advantages"

Thomas Hawkins was a rather eccentric man, who was infamous for adding to his fossils to give them the appearance of completeness, while obscuring which parts were original and which parts were added. He became the center of a major scandal over fossils he'd sold to a London museum which were found to be artificially enhanced, a scandal which found its way into Parliamentary hearings.

William Buckland was a conservative, who continued to support Catastrophism, long after it had been discredited. Catastrophism was the belief that the world had been visited by repeated catastrophes (of which Noah's flood was the most recent), massive disasters that wiped out life and were followed by new Creations, a theory devised to explain the presence of extinct animals, and the lack of modern animals in earlier eras, in an attempt to reconcile the Genesis account with the fossil evidence. He refused to accept that humans had ever coexisted with extinct animals, since that would imply that God's creations could fail. Humans belonged the the most recent creation. He was an eccentric, and a popular lecturer at Oxford. In his later years, however, his mind began to fade, and his eccentricity grew into outright madness.

Gideon Mantell was, along with his fossiling, a social reformer and a medical doctor, and a rather progressive person for his time, but a man with a tragic family life. One of his daughters died at the young age of 14, and his wife and other children left him, although he did later reconcile with his children, but never his wife.

Finally, Richard Owen. Owen was a major figure in zoology. He dissected countless animals, comparing their anatomies, and comparing them to the fossils he found. He was the first to realize that the Megalosaurus,Iguanodon, and Hylaeosaurus were part of a new type of reptiles, which he named Dinosauria. He pointed out a number of major anatomical differences between them and present-day reptiles, and produced rather remarkable estimates of the full sizes of those creatures, which, at that point, had only been discovered as partial skeletons, striking down the overestimates that previous paleontologists had given them, by naively scaling up from modern-day reptiles. Owen was a friend of Charles Darwin, and provided many of the key pieces of evidence that Darwin would later use in his Origin of the Species (although Owen had no knowledge of Darwin's work until it was published). It is ironic that Owen's work proved so important for Darwin's, as Owen was bitterly opposed to Darwin's theories. The publication of Origin destroyed his friendship with Darwin, and to his death (in 1892), he remained steadfastly opposed to Darwin's theories.

	User:	hand_of_paper
	Date:	2008-09-02 22:38
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This takes balls

( Seattle Councilman Tries to Pay Fine Out of City Funds )

	User:	twistedmermaid
	Date:	2008-09-02 15:21
	Subject:	Nothing Stays the Same
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	Mood:	anxious
	Music:	The People's Court

School starts today, and I have no idea what we're going to be doing. I have a couple of ideas, like 'Getting To Know Your Machine' and 'Bwahaha, Next Week You'll Be Tested On This Shit'. Ah, I can't wait to start Stenography.

The Stenographic Institute is only about 10 minutes away from my house, which is pretty cool. School starts at seven and goes until nine every Tuesday and Thursday. Even though school is only two hours for two days a week, you still have to practice two hours every day (including weekends) and you don't have a summer vacation - the school runs through the entire year for two years. I think we get a total of a week off, not including holidays.

And I still can't wait to start. Though come talk to me in a few weeks, I'll probably feel differently. XD

Also, our apartment's starting to look like an apartment! Yay! :D We have about three more boxes of stuff to clear out before we're finished. So after this week, we can start living again!

	User:	hand_of_paper
	Date:	2008-09-01 00:04
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	User:	blessed_nokomis
	Date:	2008-08-31 19:29
	Subject:	Who wouldn't love Sarah Palin?
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Andrea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin#Personal_life_and_family
Andrea: calls herself "as pro=life as any candidate can be"=
Andrea: STONE THE HARLOTSS!!!!
Me: *barf*
Andrea: opposes gay marriage
Me: *barf*
Andrea: life member of the NRA
Andrea: doesn't believe in global warming
Andrea: opposed listing the polar bear as an endangered species and is pro-aerial wolf hunting
Me: omfg *barf*
Andrea: and she wants to deny gay couples of health benefits
Me: ...
Andrea: she's in favor of the death penalty (no surprise)
Me: I'm in favor of the death penalty
Me: I should vote McCain!
Andrea: lol, well good for you, she wants to pull troops from iraq!!!
Andrea: let's vote for mccain!!
Me: lmfao
Andrea: she's a prominent member of feminists for life
Andrea: pro-life neo-bitches
Me: yay
Andrea: fucking alaskan bitch
Andrea: like, super bitch
Andrea: her son's middle name is van, as a joke about van halen
Andrea: and her oldest son is named track, cuz she likes track....
Me: 0.o
Andrea: than all the other names are just parts of alaska
Andrea: my kid's names: Cheerleader, Sailorville, Des Moines, Altoona, and Grimes Urbandle Motley Crue
Andrea: I'm a great mom, let's go be a senator now!!
Andrea: laugh that was hilarious, bitch
Me: l o l



Anyways


Justin is obsessed with House and now it's all he's doing - watching House...

meh

I got yarn and I'm gonna make an afghan! Renaissance Faire costume pictures tomorrow!!

	User:	hand_of_paper
	Date:	2008-08-31 15:35
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( previous books )
25. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Middlesex is about an individual with a rare genetic condition called 5 Alpha Reductase Deficiency, a rare intersex condition. It can manifest in a variety of ways, but in the case of the character in the book, the individual, while having XY chromosomes, is born with a female external appearance. However, at puberty, the individual changes, and develops into a male body.

The story alternates between the present-day life of the narrator and the story of his family, beginning with his grandparents, living in a small Greek village in Turkey. After the chaos of the Greco-Turkish War, they flee to America, eventually having two children, a son and a daughter. The son later marries his second cousin, and they have two children, a son, and a daughter, the daughter named Calliope, the narrator. It then follows Callie's life (while still alternating with Cal's present-day life), her childhood and adolescence, and the confusion that comes in adolescence when she does not develop normally, and the discovery of her condition, and her, and her family's, reaction. Callie is taken to a doctor who specializes in gender identity and intersex conditions. The doctor believes that Callie should be given hormones and surgery to make her a normal-appearing woman, but Callie, by this point, has come to identify as male, and runs off, becoming Cal. Eventually, the family is reunited.

I rather liked it. Last night, I stayed up until 6 in the morning reading it. The format of the story is also quite interesting, alternating between first person, restricted third person, and omniscient third person styles.

	User:	eumelkeks
	Date:	2008-08-31 15:40
	Subject:	Ficlet: Men of Few Words
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	Mood:	busy

Story: Men of Few Words
Fandom: Generation Kill
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Colbert, Fick, Person
Pairing: Subtext Fick/Colbert
Disclaimer: I do neither own Generation Kill nor Henry V. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Note: The things I do at work.

( Men of few words are the best men )

	User:	twistedmermaid
	Date:	2008-08-29 11:03
	Subject:	Unusually Hard To Hold Onto
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	Mood:	bored
	Music:	SportsCenter

Even though I got up late this morning, I still managed to empty a few boxes. Go me.

Mom came over to spend time with me yesterday. She taught me how to play a couple of card games, including Golf and 500 Rummy. I definitely like 500 Rummy better, I won more of those. XD Though next week she's wants to start playing for points.

Not only did the Bills lose to the Lions last night (I'm glad it was only preseason), but I wasn't able to get tickets to the season/home opener against the Seattle Seahawks. :( If I don't go to a game this season, it'll be the first time in three years that I've missed a live Bills game. *sighs*

And that's all that has been happening in my obviously very interesting life.

Xela, when are you going back to Fairbanks? And more importantly, when is your school starting up again? For some reason, schools are starting up around different times this year (around here at least), and I want to make sure I can coordinate our phone calls, since I go to night school now.

	User:	blessed_nokomis
	Date:	2008-08-28 02:11
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Pasha is so fucking shy. I think it's my fault for trying to see where he was buried a couple of days ago and waking him up. When the lights are on he hides but now I put a blanket around the cage and yay he's using his wheel. He goes way too fast on the damn thing. Hopefully he'll stop being shy someday...

So hair was really gross today and I woke up a little late. I put my hair up and it didn't bother me to have it up for once - probably because I doubled up on hair ties. I actually felt a bit better about myself with my hair up. I'm wearing eye-liner and some lip gloss now too. I'm a girl oh my god.

In French we learned the alphabet which I thought I already knew but I forgot a few things. We had to do a little activity where we spelled our names out with the sounds of the letters. Kind of stupid but whatever. Tomorrow I'm going to have to do it over the microphone and the whole class - including people in Ankeny, Boone, etc. are going to see my lovely face and hear my voice for the first time. Yay. "Tay a air a ashe"

I'm stressed that I'm going to turn my financial whatevers in late because I left my dad with the form like the weekend before last - and after my mom called and was all, "I don't have some information blah di dah" I called my dad and he said that he would finish it. He would finish it.... it should already be done. And why the fuck was he worried about my mother's information? She may have joint custody of me but she really hasn't done anything like pay child support or whatever. Her information is way less important than his. So I talked to Tabby about it and she's going to take me there either tomorrow night or Friday to pick it up and hopefully things will start processing before the end of the weekend. I really need my books...

I also really need to finish costumes. Andrea got fabric for her skirt so that should be easy to get done. The only thing after that is getting the elastic in her dress and sewing on the ruffle. I really need to get over to my Grandma June's and see if Andrea's corset it done. It really needs to be done by Friday. It probably already is done though because my Grandma is freaking awesome. I think the only thing that may need to be done on both corsets is add one more eyelet to each side of the vest because when I lace mine up it bunches and it's annoying.

So yeah about my gross hair. I washed it like this because I'm pretty sure the reason it was sucking was because we have hard water:

1. Before turning on the shower I worked the mixture of 1/2 cup white vinegar and 1/2 cup distilled water into my hair. It felt great. Then I turned on the shower and rinsed that out.

2. Worked the 1 tbsp of baking soda and 1 cup of distilled water into my hair. It was way easier after the white vinegar. I really scrubbed my hair so that all of the soap scum and whatever else was out and then rinsed it really good. When I rinsed though it started to feel odd and get tangled so I decided to use the apple cider vinegar again - third time this week now but I don't think it's hurting anything.

3. Just kind of poured apple cider vinegar into my hand and worked it in - not on my scalp. Left it in while I did other things and then rinsed it out with cold water.

I didn't do a great job of rinsing the apple cider vinegar out - I can still kind of smell it in my hair but it's not very strong. Luckily none of it is on my scalp - I'll be doing distilled water rinses every day between washes so hopefully tomorrow the rest of it will come out. I'm going to have to start boiling water and putting it in the fridge because I can't use up all of the water bottles.

My hair now feels WAY cleaner and softer than it did the last two times. Like holy fuck my hair feels amazing. It's not dry now - and it doesn't feel greasy either. I hope that it's this good tomorrow morning. I am going to brush my hair more often during the day too. I'm buying a natural boar bristle brush when I get the $30 from my mom.

Yay long entry.

	User:	twistedmermaid
	Date:	2008-08-27 13:27
	Subject:	False Alarm, It's a Broken Q
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	Mood:	okay
	Music:	Judge Alex

Ugh, I so hate moving. We had two inches of rain on Sunday in an hour, so we had to wait until Monday to have all the furniture and stuff moved. Dad and I had to sleep over at grandma's studio senior housing apartment, and it was the worst night I ever had! There was so much noise. >_> On Monday we finally were able to move in, and yesterday I knocked off six boxes. It didn't even make a dent. We have way too much crap. And until I get all those shoes out from the bottom of my closet, I can't even clear out my last few boxes.

Fortunately, the Bills won on Sunday! :D We so kicked the Colts' asses. Seriously, without Peyton Manning they're just not that great of a team. In fact, without Manning they only scored seven points! To our 20, thank you very much. ;) Our next game is Thursday, and I honestly have no idea who we're playing. XD It's the move, it's clogging my brain. Though I was able to catch Monk this morning, which was totally awesome.

Now I have to go and empty more boxes. Yippie.