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September 30th, 2008
12:36 pm - Scattergories Meme.
Snitched from The Glaive.
WHAT LETTER IS YOUR NAME? B
4 LETTER WORD: Ball
BOY NAME: Brian
GIRL NAME: Bridget
AN OCCUPATION: Bail Bondsman
A COLOUR: Burnt orange
SOMETHING TO WEAR: Ball cap
A BEVERAGE: Blue Hawaiian
A FOOD: Borscht
SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM: Bathmat
A PLACE: Belize
REASON FOR BEING LATE: Bumper to Bumper traffic
SOMETHING YOU SHOUT: Bastard!
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September 24th, 2008
12:05 am - Fiction Meme. :)
1. Comment on this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.
Was given T by Viv.
1) Turgon. Have started Children of Hurin, plus doing beta work on Binka's new fic thing and rather enjoy him, fucked up though he was.
2) Tumnus. :D What kid doesn't love the idea of a random Pan in a scarf popping up as soon as you step through a magical wardrobe into a forbidden realm?
3) Tam, Simon. Hottie doctor altruistic enough to give up a brilliant medical career and become an international traitor by breaking his sister out of a government-run lab experimenting on exceptionally-minded humans. Who wouldn't want to shag him senseless in an engine room?!?!
4) The Terminator. "I'll be back!" Wish he'd warned us about that whole "Governator" thing, though. Thankfully he can't follow in Reagan's footsteps and become president what with the whole "born in Austria" thing.
5) Tiriki, "little singer", Vested Guardian of the Temple of Atlantis, wife of Micail, prince of Atlantis, mother of his child, and darn gutsy woman. Got it from her mother, I think. :) (From M. Zimmer Bradley's Avalon books 1 and 2, the second of which I finished last night.)
Next? :D
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September 8th, 2008
10:56 pm - Cleo-face Update.
After blood work, x-rays and some subcue fluids, Cleo is back at home and somewhat peppier than she has been since Friday. She still appears to have blood in her stool, but there is no noticeable reason for this that the vet could see. No obstructions, no foreign bodies, no hernias of any sort. Her heart is somewhat larger than expected in a dog of her size (20 lbs/9.1 kg the little piglet!) but that might be explained by her mix (Italian Greyhounds etc. often have larger than average hearts and lungs because they're designed to run). Blood levels are all normal, "excellent" the Vet said. So the best guess is that she ate something that doesn't agree with her, though gods only know what that is. She's also on a regimen of half a Pepcid tablet daily before dinner, which will for the next week to 2 weeks consist of boiled brown rice and raw beef. The low point of the night for her, though, was being hauled into the shower with me to remove the various residues and substances she smelled of after a 3 hour $500 trip to an emergency vet. She then slept 'naked' (read: with no collar) between Jason and I in bed, and managed not to vomit or pee in the bed for the first time in 3 days.
I'm debating about printing her side view x-ray onto black fabric and making her a skeleton costume for Halloween. Expensive, but somewhat humorous.
And now, hopefully, I'll be able to sleep. Only 9 hrs. until I'm needed back at work.
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September 7th, 2008
10:42 pm - Prayers appreciated.
On the way to the emergency vet. Cleo has started shitting blood.
I'm scared.
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August 22nd, 2008
12:29 am - Revisiting an old topic.
Cooking.
I like it. I'm teaching Taller Half, who so far likes it.
Our problems come two fold:( Read more... )
The other day, after watching Alton Brown or some such, Taller Half suggested I figure out what of the basics we're missing or need to replace. Top on my list is getting rid of that damn Teflon shit! And, knowing the way he was raised with food, a wok would be an excellent choice too. (Question: can he fry chicken in a wok, a la "southern fried chicken"?)
What, those of you with cooking experience or passion on my flist, are we missing?
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August 7th, 2008
11:05 pm - This made me laugh.
http://www.forbes.com/2008/08/07/alcohol-drinking-cities-forbeslife-drink08-cx_de_avb_0807hard.html
That article contains a link to a list of "Americas hardest drinking cities", or those scoring highest in the Centers for Disease Control's estimation of risky behaviors regarding alcohol. Keep in mind having 1 drink a month made you a drinker on this list, so we're not talking about them only counting functional alcoholics and binge drinkers. A margarita for your birthday counts here.
That said:
In college, I spent most of my free "party" time in Cleveland, which tied 3 ways at #8 on the list.
Now, I live closer to Pittsburgh, which is ranked #11 on the list.
No wonder I'm usually ready to either tear my hair out or join in the plasterization: I'm Surrounded by Drunks!
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July 31st, 2008
10:08 pm - And I'm FREEEEEEEEEEEE! FREEE FLYINNNNNN!
This post is for Tears of Nienna, who asked for stories of plane flights so she can figure out what to expect etc. for her journey to Dragon*Con. I'll link her to this post if anybody wants to reply with advice or funny/scary/cool stories of trips via plane. And if anybody here has taken a Concord, please, POST!!!! I think those things are fascinating!
( Anyway... )
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July 28th, 2008
03:02 am - Lookie what I got!
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June 25th, 2008
08:23 pm - Awww!
Lol.
Click here: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080612/NEWS/80612026
Scroll down the page, watching the right side inset bar.
The caption says his name is Brandon, but I'm thinking he looks more like a Claude. :D (In all seriousness, though, way to have priorities in line there, Mr. Smith.)
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June 24th, 2008
04:39 pm - Lol! "Snappy" thinking!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25333829
An American hiker, stranded and injured in the Bavarian Alps, tied her sports bra to a logging cable to signal for help.
Tits a good thing she thought of that.
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June 13th, 2008
12:31 pm - Awww!
Jun 12 - A piglet in Northern England who developed a phobia of mud has overcome its fear with the aid of some Wellington boots.
Cinders, a young saddleback pig, appeared to have a condition called mysophobia - a fear of dirt - having refused to wallow in the mud with her siblings.
Her owners had the idea of fitting her with the bespoke miniature footwear to help conquer her fear.Debbie and Andrew Keeble run a sausage company in Thirsk, North Yorkshire.
However, they have said that Cinders will be spared the butcher's knife and instead act as a mascot to the Farm Crisis Network which supports struggling farmers.
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June 9th, 2008
11:36 pm - Seen at Zee. I loled.
http://www.magatsu.net/maritaltest/
The "1930s Marital Scale"
As a 1930s wife, I: FAIL
Miserably, I fail.
I scored -6.
Then I loled some more.
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June 8th, 2008
11:42 pm - Okay, 2 more.
But, I captioned these.
moar funny pictures
moar funny pictures
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10:42 pm - Just macros.
see more crazy cat pics
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Current Location: home
Current Music: Little Lies- Fleetwood Mac
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June 7th, 2008
12:30 pm - Gmurmphs.
Just woke up.
Had a dream. I was being played with my a few month old polar bear cub. He was cuddly, until he started to play bite. There were no other humans.
Shower.
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May 29th, 2008
01:53 pm - RAWR!
Teacher Leads Class in Voting Autistic 5-Year-Old "Off".
In a nut shell, a licensed teacher with a class of 5 and 6 year olds attempted to punish an autism spectrum student for his unruly behavior by encouraging her class to call him names before "voting him out" of her classroom.
I'll be the first to admit that I don't deal very well with children with this particular type of disorder. I'm just too high strung most of the time to keep control of myself when tantrums and anxiety on their parts arise. However, I'm also not a teacher, though I'm at least as old as many of the teachers working with young children in this country, and if I know this is both appalling and completely useless behavior on the part of a grown-ass woman, WHY THE FUCK DOESN'T SHE?!?!?!?!
A few years ago, I was a counselor at a weekend long 'camp' excursion with the third graders from my school system. I also went on the trip when I was in 3rd grade, so I kind of knew the ropes from the kid's point of view. Imagine my surprise when I got there and was told "One of your kids is Deaf. Just ignore him. Oh, and another one isn't retarded mentally, but she kind of is. Just ignore her too" BY OUR TEACHERS. What those teachers (one of whom I hadn't *quite* called an asshole to his face in 6th grade) didn't know is that I had a good measure of sign language under my belt thanks to a course I'd taken the previous year. I couldn't teach a whole lesson on the Great Lakes, but for the most part R. had his interpreter anyway and Coach McC can still kiss my ass. The other one... was a whole different project, thanks in part to the "family court" system in our county, but that's for another entry.
Just before the buses were loaded to get everyone back to the school, we gave the kids the "last chance to pee before we leave" trip to the restroom and 9 year olds scattered everywhere. R. did what he usually did when he went into a bathroom and yelled once he got the door open. When J. came out of the bathroom and lined up in front of me, he said something along the lines of "R. always does that and it's so stupid." I was pretty proud that the other kids called him on what he'd said, even though they'd taken his comment the wrong way, but I couldn't let them keep badgering J. when he tried to explain he thought the yelling was stupid not that R. was stupid. So I got everybody quieted down and, admittedly, I did kind of put J. on the spot, but in what I think was a non-threatening way. First I asked if R. yelled like that at any other time that he knew of, and J. said no. "So it's just when he goes into a bathroom?" "Yeah." and a couple of the other boys backed this up. So then (Socratic method FTW!) I asked why they thought he might do it. They all got quiet for a minute and then one of the girls said, "It's louder."
"Yep. I think it's because in a room like a bathroom where sounds are louder, he can hear himself." Lightbulbs went on in the whole group, and as far as I know, it was never brought up again.
My point? There are ways to teach kids about accepting (or rejecting) differences in a classmate that don't directly involve the special needs child at all. That bitch in Florida is a professional teacher. If an exhausted 17-year-old can think of a way to integrate a kid with special needs without turning him into a target, an adult teacher who supposedly has been taught the psychology behind such behavior should have never even thought of that little exercise in ostracism and hate. And watch her try to claim she was trying to show the other kids "how democracy works" or some other kind of propagandist bullshit that might have gotten her the job or gotten her out of college, but couldn't be farther from the truth.
Her license needs to be pulled. Let her flip burgers or run a cash register for a few years so she can learn how it is to be treated as something lower than nothing, and maybe learn a little respect for others, regardless of their age, along the way.
Current Location: home
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/niaha/kitty/ankangryr.gif) pissed off
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May 17th, 2008
08:24 pm - Bzuh?
What's this then? No "adult" (as in "containing explicit sexual content") stories at the MEFAs this year?
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May 16th, 2008
08:46 pm - Quick Meme snitched from Cuthalion.
Comment on this, and I'll...
1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LJ.
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April 28th, 2008
04:01 pm - Ganked from a hound owner I share coms with.
List from Library Thing of the Top 106 books marked "unread": it's posited that they're the ones people keep so they can either look smart and educated, or really want to read and just haven't mustered the intestinal fortitude to get to. The Meme: Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicise the ones you started but didn't finish.
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April 18th, 2008
07:56 pm - Calling all Brown Coats:
If you haven't heard these fellas yet, well mebee you ought.
http://www.bedlambards.com/Browncoats.html
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April 15th, 2008
01:42 am - To explain my default icon:
It's a frame from a strip called "Oh My Gods!", a Pagan-oriented web comic by Shivian Montar Balaris. It's sometimes offensive to Christians, Jews, and various stripes of Pagans; Republicans and politicians; Mid-westerners and Southerners; women; men; and straight people... which basically means it's damn good comedy. :)
Examples to follow.
Something for my favorite southern Teacher:
http://ohmygods.co.uk/strips/2003-11-10
(Sound even remotely familiar? :D)
For the 'Ringers on my flist:
http://ohmygods.co.uk/strips/2004-06-09
And for the Elf/Man/Hobbit porn writers:
http://ohmygods.co.uk/strips/2004-06-11
Please enjoy at your own risk.
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March 28th, 2008
10:10 pm - A good Friday Five.
1. What type of food do you most like to eat?
Italian or Chinese.
2. What type of food do you most like to cook?
Italian or "American rural" (fried chicken, mashed potatoes, meatloaf, cheeseburgers).
3. What ingredient could you not live without?
Shoot... butter, garlic, sea salt, rosemary, cracked pepper, Jack Daniels. (seriously, marinate a couple of steaks in all that + Worcestershire sauce for about 2 hrs. and throw it on the grill or into a hot dry skillet and HOLY GOD is it good!)
4. What do you never let in your kitchen?
Liver, tripe, sweet meats, or any organ meat. We eat smooth muscle with little to no fat or vegetarian.
5. What is your favorite drink?
Jack n' Cola. Apple Juice.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/niaha/kitty/ankfoodr.gif) hungry
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March 25th, 2008
March 23rd, 2008
06:25 pm - Hoppy Easter.
The closest thing we have to Easter Bunnies have a message for my flist:
Life's short; snuggle often.
(We didn't really do much in the traditional Christian Easter sense, but boy did these guys leave us a lot of little tiny 'chocolate' eggs!)
Have a great spring!
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March 16th, 2008
03:35 pm - Seen at annadisgrace.
Not tagging but thought this was interesting-
Rules:
Upon receiving this tag, immediately perform a screen capture of your desktop. It is best that no icons be deleted before the screen capture so as to add to the element of fun.
1. Go to your desktop and press the Print Scrn key (located on the right side of the F12 key). (If you have a Mac, push the "apple" key, shift, and three)
2. Open a graphics program (like Picture Manager, Paint, or Photoshop) and do a Paste (CTRL + V). If you wish, you can “edit” the image before saving it.
3. Post the picture on your blog. You can also give a short explanation on the look of your desktop if you want. You can explain why you prefer such a look or why it is full of icons. Things like that.
4. Tag five of your friends and ask them to give you a Free View of their desktops as well.
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Current Music: System of a Down- Ariels
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