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i have ridden amtrak far too many times over the last few weeks and i do not understand why it is always frigid on the train. -
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i haven't read LJ in about 2 weeks since I've been away and working my butt off, but i should have time to catch up this weekend. in the meantime, last night i dreamed that there was an earthquake that knocked over the Eiffel Tower. I think the Eiffel Tower was a stand-in for the Statue of Liberty, since it was in a body of water, and in New York. ( Read more... ) -
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So Sleepy. and SOOOOOOOOOOO glad to be home!!! -
BUSTED!!!!
Radovan Karadzic has been arrested in Serbia after nearly 13 years in hiding for the horrible war crimes he committed. sooner or later torturers and genocide-rs will be brought to justice--even if it takes 13 years. YEAH ( Read more... ) -
greatest Carrie Brownstein post EVAR
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thanks to everyone who came to our housewarming/Steve's birthday party on Saturday night! he and i both had loads of fun and it seemed like everyone else did too.
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wake was today and many wonderful people were there keeping me company, which i greatly appreciate. we brought a little cd player and played frank sinatra. we put some of her favorite jewelry on for the viewing but will be taking it home instead of sending it with her.
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breaking news
grandma's going to live!! she was talking up a storm this morning and the doctors consulted with my parents and said that they want to put her back on food and fluids, and they think she is going to go back to the nursing home! holy crap! she's pulled back from the edge several times before but none of us thought it would happen this time. i am the ( Read more... ) -
writer's block
i am occasionally amused by the questions posed in the "writer's block" on the LJ home page. i might start answering them here. today's Q was about if your life had a theme song. I used to start many of my radio shows with Taco Wagon by the Young Fresh Fellows, and i do love tacos. (it's fun to make tacos ( Read more... ) -
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The Raconteurs' new song, You Don't Understand Me, sounds EXACTLY like Sloan. As if Patrick Pentland was harmonizing with Chris Murphy and Jay Ferguson. I compulsively check the radio playlist everytime the song is on because I cannot be convinced that it's not Sloan.