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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
It's 8 a.m. on New Year's Day, and I'm finally heading to bed - Colin and I have our own little New Year's Eve tradition of choosing a season of TV to marathon, and then parking ourselves on the couch all day to get through it all. Today (yesterday?) we started at 4 p.m. with the last four episodes of Chuck, season 1, and then ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Topic 5 -- Bearing False Witness
I can't think of that ninth commandment, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor," without my mind jumping to "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain." Two separate commandments, but they go hand in hand, to me ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Topic 3: Smile
I smile big in photos. Closed-mouth smiles, half there, look silly on me. My eyes are big, and they get bigger, somehow, when I smile. I look like a goof when I try to smile with my lips together ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Topic 2: Uphill, both ways, barefoot
Gotta say, I'm not really a fan of winter. It's not my favorite season--that distinction is reserved for summer. (Ah, summer, with your long, long days; your lazy lethargy; your warm sunshine... but I digress.) It may not have been the main reason I moved to L.A., but the weather has certainly been one of the biggest perks of living here for the ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Topic 1 -- Empty Gestures
I go to a lot of performing arts events. A lot. Not as many as I'd like to, but I average at least three to four plays, concerts, dance shows, or other events a month; often (usually) more--and that's not even counting the shows I'm working on ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Topic 0 - Introduction
I feel like I’m sitting in a new class, trying desperately to think of unique, creative answers to the command to "Tell us your name, your favorite color, and an interesting fact about yourself." What interesting facts haven’t I used before?
Well, we’ll start with the easy ones: My name is Alida, otherwise known as being_fulfilled. I’m going to skip the ( Read more... ) -
Here I go...
Well, after following along for pretty much all of last season (being made aware of its existence by witchofthedogs), I think that I need to do therealljidol myself this year.
I wrote a few of the challenges as home entries, but I think it'll be great to have something other than my thesis (and my professional blog on my website) to focus on writing for the next few months ( Read more... ) -
Culture takes time
I still need to get a second job, but I really don't want to. There's so much going on in this city that it kills me to think of eating up my evenings with another job. I don't take advantage of nearly enough of the stuff that Calgary offers, but with this job (the Calgary Arts Development one), it's coming across my desk constantly. When I'm ( Read more... ) -
On my way
And we're off ( Read more... ) -
Title? Right.
I'm supposed to be working on my thesis database, but I'd rather be doing anything but. It's not that I mind the research, because that's interesting. It's the data entry into Access that's dragging me down. I know it's the best way to keep everything straight, because otherwise, I'll never remember what belongs where, but still... I'd rather ( Read more... )