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11:03 am: I'm afraid of 7 out of 72 common fears
gakked from stufsocker

FEARS

[ ] the dark
[ ] staying single forever
[ ] being a parent
[x] giving birth
[ ] being myself in front of others
[ ] open spaces
[x] closed spaces
[x] heights
[ ] dogs
[ ] birds
[ ] fish
[x] spiders
[ ] flowers or other plants

Total so far: 4

[ ] being touched
[ ] fire
[ ] deep water
[ ] snakes
[ ] silk
[ ] the ocean
[ ] failure
[ ] success
[ ] thunder/lightning
[ ] frogs/toads
[ ] my boyfriends/girlfriends dad
[ ] boyfriends/girlfriends mom
[ ] rats
[x] jumping from high places
[ ] snow

Total so far: 5

[ ] rain
[ ] wind
[x] crossing hanging bridges
[ ] death
[ ] heaven
[ ] being robbed
[ ] falling
[ ] clowns
[ ] dolls
[ ] large crowds of people
[ ] men
[ ] women
[ ] having great responsibilities
[ ] doctors, including dentists
[ ] tornadoes

Total so far: 6

[ ] hurricanes
[ ] incurable diseases
[ ] sharks
[ ] Friday the 13th
[ ] ghosts
[ ] poverty
[ ] Halloween
[ ] school
[ ] trains
[ ] odd numbers
[ ] even numbers
[ ] being alone
[ ] becoming blind
[ ] becoming deaf
[ ] growing up

Total so far: 6

[x] creepy noises in the night
[x] bee stings
[ ] not accomplishing my dreams/goals
[x] needles
[ ] blood
[ ] dinosaurs
[ ] the welcome mat
[ ] high speed
[ ] throwing up
[ ] falling in love
[ ] super secrets

Final total: 7

... if you wish to post this in your journal, it's been requested that you title it "I'm afraid of _ out of 72 common fears"


If you get more than 30, I strongly recommend some counseling
If you get more than 20, you’re paranoid.
If you get 10-20, you are normal.
If you get 10 or less, you’re fearless.
People who don’t have any are liars.

09:58 am: font funnies
( hidden so as not to auto-start )

01:29 pm: for ae

more cat pictures

04:36 pm: for cholula
this oil on canvas by ralph goings is 30 x 43 1/2.

12:56 am: found on flickr

12:05 pm: thank you, despair.com

12:19 am: mindless laughs tonight, because i watched a movie that made me cry
it was Namesake.

now, onto the mindlessness:

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07:13 am: waiting for a plane, hartford






more pics to follow.

10:17 am: gakked from stufsocker


The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

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this list is missing so many good ones.

10:16 am: um. yeah.

11:16 pm: laffing sal at the musee mechanique
( watch the video )

11:11 am: r.i.p. fatsister
When she was 5, i took her and her sister from a friend who was having her 5th child. For 12 years, she has been my friend. Last night, at 3:05, she died.



She was 17. A few weeks ago, she had a stroke, and became extremely disoriented. She walked into doors and walls and such. So, yes, I saw it coming. And made certain I spent as much time as possible with her, pulling her up onto the bed to sleep every night, (since she had trouble walking and jumping since the stroke). Yes, I saw it coming, and was prepared for it. But she fought so hard at the end. Every other cat I have had has given up after one death throe. She went through 6. She fought so hard to hold on. i knew it was coming, when, yesterday afternoon, after I had replaced the insulation and siding molly tore off the house after my father left her tied up outside in a t-storm, I came in to hear her yowling. It took a while to find her. Her back legs were gone. So basically, it was a vigil from 4 pm to 3 am, as I watched her fight to stay alive. She fought so hard. I’m glad I didn’t take her for the needle. She was so angry to go.


update, june 24: this is where she rests, beneath the weeping grasses:



Tags: cats, death

11:09 am: storm damage
when i got home from san francisco at 3 a.m. saturday, i found this:



my father left molly tied up outside in a thunderstorm.

i fixed it on saturday, before i discovered fat sister was dying.

11:35 am: whoknew?
Wayward Alzheimer's patients foiled by fake bus stop
By Harry de Quetteville in Berlin
Last updated: 2:52 PM BST 03/06/2008
A German nursing home has come up with a novel idea to stop Alzheimer's patients from wandering off: a phantom bus stop.

The bus stop, in front of the Benrath Senior Centre in the western city of Düsseldorf, is an exact replica of a standard stop, with one small difference: buses never stop there.

The idea emerged after the centre was forced to rely on police to retrieve patients who wanted to return to their homes and families but had forgotten that in many cases neither existed any longer.

"If we can’t find them then we have to alert the police,” said Benrath's director Richard Neureither. “It can be particularly dangerous if this happens in winter and they spend the night out in the cold.”

Without powers to detain patients, he said, Benrath had been forced to look for other solutions.

“We cannot and must not run after people and lock them up,” said Mr Neureither.

Instead, Benrath home teamed up with local care association called the 'Old Lions'. They went to the Rheinbahn transport network which was happy to provide the bus stop to nowhere.

“It sounds funny,” said Old Lions Chairman Franz-Josef Goebel, “but it helps. Our members are 84 years-old on average. Their short-term memory hardly works at all, but the long-term memory is still active. They know the green and yellow bus sign and remember that waiting there means they will go home.” The result is that errant patients now wait for their trip home at the bus stop, before quickly forgetting why they were there in the first place.

“We will approach them and say that the bus is coming later today and invite them in to the home for a coffee,” said Mr Neureither. “Five minutes later they have completely forgotten they wanted to leave.” The idea has proved so successful that it has now been adopted by several other homes across Germany.

Story from Telegraph News:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2069467/Wayward-Alzheimer%27s-patients-foiled-by-fake-bus-stop.html

12:00 pm: social life
i did something non-casino related as a social foray for the first time in a long time.
i was part of the genesis of a tuesday night drawing group. it went well.

03:47 pm: cool animation sequence, in the real world
( behind the cut )

03:07 pm: what are you afraid of?
( http://PhobiaGuide.com )

12:05 pm: Writer's Block: The Only True Question:


ninja.
fo' sho'.

Tags: ninjas, pirates, writer's block

06:23 pm: cool animation and beth-ers-y music ;)
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click to see it full size. warning--big download.

03:49 pm:
more cat pictures



more cat pictures