The transport workers in Paris - metro, bus, and train - have already held one day-long strike to protest a bill that would reduce their special retirement benefits, and since that didn't have an effect yet they're striking completely now; from today until next Monday they're not running any transports (besides two metro lines that run along the ( Read more... )

well i came back here after over a year apparently, because i'm high and i just decided to. actually i came back to post this because i felt the need to ( Read more... )

sooo...i kind of forgot i had a journal, or i kind of stopped feeling the need to write in it. both, i guess. but i still love you all, and if you feel the need to know about what the hell is going on with me, drop me a line. applescruff0@juno.com ; i check it basically every day ( Read more... )

it's one of those rare times when i feel about to burst with perfect satisfaction.

if it weren't midnight, and i didn't have a roommate (ok so really it's just the roommate), i would be dancing like a wild fool about the room to ( charles trenet's y'a d'la joie )

i'm an old lady and my knees are getting stiff, which meant i had to get up from my cross-legged reading position on the bed, which clearly meant i had to come over here and sit down at the computer to waste a little time. granted, i already wasted an hour since i got back to my room on surfing the internets and cleaning off my desk and my closet ( Read more... )

day two of classes and life is still pretty good. granted, this morning i woke up at 7:14 from a dream in which debbi had shot me in the leg with an arrow, and upon waking up i proceeded to sit up and clutch at the covers next to my leg until i realized there was nothing to pull out. i then went back to sleep and skipped my health center ( Read more... )

tooday is the last day of the crime spree week for me and liz, and today we learned some very valuable skills with some very satisfying results. i am now packing in a frenzy so that i can go over and have a champagne teaparty at her house tonight while her mom is gone, after i get home from danbury where my mother has promised to purchase me some ( Read more... )

umm, snakes on a plane = hilarious as expected.

the best nonspoiler parts for me were the preview for black snake moan, which liz aptly renamed "slut's on a chain", the pinnacle motherfucking snakes on the motherfucking plane line, and the fact that samuel jackson appeared in the music video during the end credits - wearing j. ro's classic snakes ( Read more... )

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after a day of petty theft, exccellent pizza, scamming walmart, ambitious plans, and late-night diner, liz and i were giddy enough to laugh at the accidental phrase "dick dizzle diggles" until she had hiccups and i cried ( Read more... )