The movie Jumper with Samuel L. Jackson and Hayden Christiansen was just terrible. I spent most of it debating whether or not to walk out. I only watched it to kill time and in the end it didn't just kill the time, it actually mutilated and peed on it. It's unfortunate too because the movie did have what could potentially have been a cool premise: ( Read more... )

It's pretty wild. I was just looking over old posts and trying to remember things and it was just this time four years ago that I started to have my LJ account. 
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am writing from a familiar place: my room somewhere after midnight, getting work done, ditzing around the internet, listening to music. am deeply satisfied just this moment to be in solitude. i like that this is a day that won't happen again for another 4 years. What will the future be like? Which set of political debates will we be hearing about ( Read more... )

it's 8:02 and no one else but me is at work yet....

At the library again. A good thing, doubtless. Always remember one thing: you don't have to stay anywhere forever. thanks to neil gaiman for that one.

A good day with the children, many miles still to go before i sleep.

...and I'm out...

This weekend has been a humdinger so far. I had my bellydance debut on Friday night. We looked terrifying as a group I would imagine but the costumes were v. cute and people agreed that my dancing looked pretty good. Went out with some friends to see a blues band play afterwards ( Read more... )

It's all snowy up here in CT and for some reason i find it very soothing to look upon as though there is some part of my brain saying, "here is winter done right!" I'm sure that there is a direct correlation to the fact that I was not here to participate in the digging, scraping, slipping and falling aspect of the snowfall ( Read more... )

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synecdoche

1388, "part for whole or vice versa," from M.L. synodoche, from L.L. synecdoche, from Gk. synekdokhe, lit. "a receiving together or jointly," from synekdekhesthai "supply a thought or word, take with something else," from syn- "with" + ek "out" + dekhesthai "to receive," ( Read more... )

i'm not sure if the push to get the caffeine out of my body is doing me Any Good at all.  Truth be told though, my stomach does feel better than it had been for a while there. I guess my 2 espresso a day habit was maybe chewing away at the walls of my stomach more than I really needed. feel somewhat incoherent and garbled in my mind though. We'll ( Read more... )

I had to go very far, for a long time (at least in my mind) to be able to come home and have it be as good as it was this past week for Thanksgiving. I am lucky and I do give thanks.

anwar!