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| Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 | | 4:41 pm |
"You must see the man-made wonder that will leave you in awe, the Hoover Dam. The first time that you see the dam, you will gaze wide eyed, because you will realize that this was built, in this most inaccessible of places, by men, sixty five to seventy years ago."
So say the travel planners for 2008 World of Concrete in Vegas. Woo! | | Saturday, September 8th, 2007 | | 10:34 am |
*sniffs*
Madeleine L'Engle died on Thursday.
I liked her narrative style more when I was younger, but she was definitely unique. | | Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 | | 7:14 pm |
Daaaamn.
I think C.C. Myers is gonna get whatever job he wants from here out. | | 4:36 pm |
I cannot find my ear cuff, and I don't remember when I last wore it. I DO have a fuzzy memory that I took it out to show someone and then didn't put it back in my backpack. Grr.
Edit: I found it! As usual, it was a place I'd suspected it might be, a place I'd already checked several times: wedged down between the cushions on my passenger seat. Yay! | | Monday, September 3rd, 2007 | | 8:18 am |
If tattoos could be turned on and off (the Tattoo Clapper!) I would have the outlines of cheetahs done on my forearms. | | Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 | | 8:39 pm |
Something's wrong with our well....The well guy said he thinks it's a "quantity issue" = very bad. Why should we be punished for everyone else's water waste? Grr. | | Thursday, July 26th, 2007 | | 7:41 am |
| | Friday, July 20th, 2007 | | 10:47 am |
| | Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 | | 9:57 pm |
"Life is a strange thing. Much have I thought on it, and pondered long, yet daily the strangeness of it grows not less, but more. Why this longing for Life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to toil hard, and to suffer sore, till Old Age creeps heavily upon us and we throw down our hands on the cold ashes of dead fires. It is hard to live. In pain the babe sucks his first breath, in pain the old man gasps his last, and all his days are full of trouble and sorrow; yet he goes down to the open arms of Death, stumbling, falling, with head turned backward, fighting to the last. And Death is kind. It is only Life, and the things of Life that hurt. Yet we love Life, and we hate Death. It is very strange."
-"Grit of Women," Jack London | | 8:25 pm |
The lyrics are inane, but it still manages to be a gleeful pleasure!
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Hey (hey), you (you), I don't like your girlfriend
No way (no way), I think you need a new one
Hey (hey), you (you), I could be your girlfriend
Hey (hey), you (you), I know that you like me
No way (no way), you know it's not a secret
Hey (hey), you (you), I want to be your girlfriend
- "Girlfriend," Avril Lavigne | | Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 | | 7:42 pm |
Ack! So, there's a line in Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars" that goes, "If I just lay here, would you lie with me and just forget the world?" I always figured it was just an inappropiate conjugation of "to lie"; a lot of folk use "lay" instead of "lie," and "lay" does sound better in the song.
But today, I remembered the subjunctive.
So now, I'm unsure whether it's a misconjugation or the correct use of a verb form not typically used in the US. *tears hair*
Edit: I googled "'if I lay here' subjunctive"...and wow, it hadn't really occurred to me that so many people were so hung up on it. I like Snow Patrol, though, and I know they're from the British Isles, so I'm gonna go ahead and vote for the subjunctive. | | Sunday, July 8th, 2007 | | 10:56 am |
Okay, rule number one for people driving in the hills: if you are going so slowly that bicyclists are stacking up behind you, it is time to pull your ass over. | | Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 | | 10:54 am |
I wonder if set drummers make better (or worse) manual transmission drivers than the general population. | | Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 | | 10:52 am |
In the brightest hour
Of my darkest day
I realized
What is wrong with me
Can't get over you
Can't get through to you
It's been a helter-skelter
Romance from the start
- "Forever," Papa Roach | | Sunday, July 1st, 2007 | | 7:43 pm |
I was never really into Smashing Pumpkins before, but THAT SONG IS STILL STUCK IN MY HEAD, AND I REALLY WISH THAT I HAD SURROUND SOUND AT WORK AND THAT EVERYONE WOULD BE OUT SICK FOR A DAY, AND THEN I COULD JUST TURN UP THE MUSIC AND DESK-DRUM ALL DAY. | | Thursday, June 28th, 2007 | | 9:23 pm |
Another engineer and I were headed to an out-of-town meeting when my car started making a weird crunching noise. We were still by the office, so I ditched my car, verified that there was a flat tire, and jumped in with my coworker. When we got back, I checked the tire for damage, didn't see any, and pulled out my trusty compressor. There was no trouble inflating the tire, and I had no idea what had caused the problem until I pull off the compressor clip and heard the air whooshing out of the valve. The air stopped coming out when I pushed the valve toward the center of the wheel, though...so I yanked out a piece of embroidery floss and tied one end around the valve and one around a lug nut. Ta-dah! The tires had only been on for about three weeks, so I headed back to the tire place, and they had the valve stem replaced in about 15 minutes. Excellent! Pen springs and embroidery floss to save the world!
I don't understand the song name, but I LOOOOOOVE the bass line!
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I don’t want to fight
Every single night
Everything I want is in your light.
You and me go there
To places I don’t know to care
The spoils of all I got were left to scrounge.
Don’t let me say this,
but you’re no worse than me,
It’s crazy.
We all are real, if real ever was, it’s just because
We all feel, feel we’ve had enough,
I’m real, ‘cause someone gave us sound.
I wanna be there when you’re happy
I wanna love you when you’re sad.
Can’t stand the morning rain
Get out and take your place then
Can’t stand the blazing sun
Then close your eyes you’ll see
The angel die.
I don’t want to be
Anything for these
A million watts of sound can’t compare.
Come along you’ll see the world
The pulse ripples, the crowd unfurls
The current starts to flow and they are on.
Oh, it’s a white hot soul they want, sinful.
You’re real, if real ever was, it’s just because
We all are real, every living soul
Yes I’m real, ‘cause someone gave us sound.
Don’t break the oath
I want to love you when you’re happy,
Don’t break this oath
I want to be there when you’re sad,
Please bring the pouring rain.
Beyond real, as real as any ghost,
It’s easy now,
I’m real, in every living soul
God gave us.
Can’t stand the blazing sun
Can’t stand the morning rain
Get out and take your place again.
I don’t want to be alone
I don’t want to be alone
I don’t want to be alone
Alone.
If it’s a white hot soul they want
It’s a black heart they’ll get.
- "Tarantula," Smashing Pumpkins | | Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 | | 10:46 am |
Okay, feeling a little calmer now. Maybe I will be able to run at lunch today, after all. | | Sunday, June 24th, 2007 | | 9:42 pm |
Huzzah for random-ass job applications! I shall let the Gods of Entropy decide where I am to end up. | | Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 | | 9:12 pm |
I have finally discovered the secret to applying to other jobs: don't think about it; just bang out a cover letter, get Mrs. Dragon to proof for content and format, and send the damn thing out. Now to drive to Fremont to drop it off to be read first thing in the morning....I'm thinking I'll be done and home by 11 if I don't get seriously lost. | | Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 | | 2:51 pm |
I want to go be a full-time community college student! |
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