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[Jul. 1st, 2008|11:12 pm] |
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That's more than enough for now. Though check my flickr soon, as I've got some stuff
to post of Sweetwater Creek and of Oakland Cemetery. bye bye.
xoxo |
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[Jun. 28th, 2008|11:58 pm] |
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[Jun. 26th, 2008|06:54 pm] |
Bill did the book meme. I can do the book meme too.
I'm hoping it'll kick start my resolution to read more novels.
Applying Bill rules, bold are things I liked, italics are things that I didn't like so much. I'm going to add a few too. Just because I can. I pasted the whole list, and if its not italicized or underlined, I didn't read it.
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[Jun. 21st, 2008|12:37 pm] |
Tuesday, June 24. Early evening until 11ish.
Venture Bros. and related geekery.
Pizza and beer will be available.
Existing and future fans welcome.
Cat hair advisory will be in effect, for allergic types.
Call / e-mail / IM for directions. |
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[Jun. 20th, 2008|09:12 pm] |
I finally watched the first episode of Venture bros. Season 3.
It's good to know they haven't lost their touch.
A delight. Two thumbs up.
If you have not yet become acquainted with this program, you are long overdue. Come to my awesome apartment and view previous seasons with me. You will not regret this. |
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[Jun. 19th, 2008|11:33 pm] |
I've gotten pretty bad about updating. I like to think it's because I'm too busy being cool to livejournal, but really, I think I've just realized I have little of value to say.
Last night, I returned to the office at 7:30 pm to call Japan. The hold music at the Japanese Natural Resources agency was just how I expected Japanese hold music to be: cute. It was a music-boxy-MIDI of Greensleves that reminded me of an extended doorbell. Too bad the outcome was essentially our POC telling us that she didn't know why we'd contact her, and that she didn't know about the things we thought she knew about. Hello, square one.
Useless information about me presented in easy to digest list form:
*Favorite sugar cereal: Cinnamon Toast Crunch
*Favorite sorta-sugar cereal: Kashi Strawberry Fields
*Favorite sensible adult fiberish cereal: Kashi GoLean
*Cat's weight: 11.5 lbs
*Podiatric Issues: Many
*Greek mythological character whose name I've been trying to recall for 30 minutes: Antigone
All this nonsense and I'm still not tired...
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[Jun. 18th, 2008|11:06 pm] |
Worst game ever? |
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[May. 29th, 2008|11:30 pm] |
Octagonglobalrecruiting.com seems overloaded now, and won't load. :(
That commercial reeked of weird Lostuniverse.
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[May. 29th, 2008|09:13 pm] |
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Jeremy Bentham. LOL. |
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| oh noes |
[May. 29th, 2008|06:32 pm] |
I'm coming to the realization that I actually walk faster than I run. How pathetic (and weird) is that? I mean, granted, I walk fast, but...seriously?!
Is it time to give up on running the Peachtree? I'm worried it will take me, like, two hours to finish.
**edit: no, not time to give up. a quick sweep of other people's (strangers') blogs leads me to believe that there are people just as pathetic as I am. |
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| spam, spam, spam and more spam |
[May. 29th, 2008|12:31 am] |
The fact that my e-mail address is my firstname.lastname results in the subject lines of spam I receive seeming much more personal. I checked my spam trap for the first time in awhile tonight, and noted a trend in spam subject lines I hadn't noticed before: ones that were deliberately insulting (though successfully intriguing on some level). In the last two days, I've received, "What a stupider [sic] face you have here!" "isn't emily.n0rman's wife a slut," and "picture of emily.n0rman fat." Despite advances in spam techology, the spam powers still seem to address all spam to a male audience. Really, spammers, I don't care if "she slept with [my] buddy," nor do I want to add three inches in three weeks (ew.)
My new neighbor came and chatted with me today. When I first met her, she seemed kinda' aloof and not terribly friendly, but now talking with her again, I believe that she's quite nice. I'm worried I am initially distrustful of all women I meet. I think I'm pretty good at sizing up a guy, but just terrible at forming first impressions of women. What's my problem?
I would benefit greatly from falling back into a normal sleeping schedule. |
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[May. 13th, 2008|08:34 pm] |
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[May. 10th, 2008|02:24 am] |
It seems that if you chose to have your tax refund direct deposited into two different accounts (called a "split refund"), then you get your stimulus payment as a paper check, rather than direct deposited this week. This is true even if you only chose split refund as a lark, just to see how well it worked. This is true even if you filed in January. This is true even if you really really want your $600.
Son of a whore. |
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| I genuinely love research and investigation |
[May. 8th, 2008|07:51 pm] |
I learned your story, you mysterious carved stone decoration that was at one point over a door....
Still trying to find the architectural/design term for such carving...not a frieze, but...
anyway
This stonework was originally from the George Bucher Scott Gymnasium and Frances Winship Walters Annex built in 1925. As I mentioned earlier, originally built as a gym to replace a woefully outdated one. (I can't imagine what an outdated gym of 1924 would look like....) The building was later converted into the beloved Alston Campus Center, which was torn down in the summer of 1999 to pave the way for the current student center. Mystery solved. Some well-intentioned curator of ASC history stored in on the floor of the steam plant.
Wonder if the college will do anything with it once they make a fitness center out of the steam plant. Personally, i think that it would be totally bitchin' to use it in whatever new structural elements are added to the existing building. |
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| No cats were killed during this adventure... |
[May. 4th, 2008|08:03 pm] |
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I don’t know if other ASC alumnae or students feel the same, but during my time at the college, I was always intrigued by the old steam plant. When I heard that they were planning to renovate/expand/convert it into a fitness center, my curiosity about it grew exponentially. So I went on a mission to get inside to satisfy my curiosity and hopefully take some neat pictures...
If you want to see the rest of my not-so-exciting photos, they're here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chaoscupcake/sets/72157604882629820/ |
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| If it turns out that time and space is actually malleable |
[May. 4th, 2008|04:38 pm] |
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| Gaarrrghghgh!!! |
[Apr. 25th, 2008|09:26 pm] |
Dammit since when is a stick of sugar free gum a "snack"?
fuck you and your purportedly long lasting flavor, Extra Sugar-Free Gum. |
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[Apr. 16th, 2008|05:50 pm] |
heeeey again.
bigger chance I'll be looking to unload these tickets.
The New Pornographers with Okkervil River. Georgia Theater.
Please let me know if you're interested in one or both.
xoxo |
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| Let's go to a show! |
[Apr. 15th, 2008|08:58 pm] |
There is a small chance that I will have an extra ticket to see The New Pornographers in Athens this Thursday night. Okkervil River is opening. The ticket is for Friedman, but there's a chance he may have to bail at the 11th hour. (I'd probably be able to let you know Thursday afternoon...). I know it's crass to ask this way, but I'm just being honest: would anyone be interested in buying the extra ticket (at a reduced price) from me in the event Friedman flakes? Don't worry...I won't make you hang out with me or anything. You can consider this a last-minute-sale if you'd like.
If you're reading this, you probably know at least three ways to contact me.
xoxo
Emily |
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| see?! look at the bands I'm going to see! I'm clearly very cool! |
[Apr. 14th, 2008|10:06 pm] |
Went to see Explosions in the Sky Sunday night, and it was nifty. The highlight, for me, was the opener. They played a bit from "The Earth..." and the drum beat resonated in about 80% of my bones. Feeling a song in your sternum is a different experience than listening to it. Two complaints: first, EitS makes more sense to me when played album-at-a-time rather than track-at-a-time. Variety be durned, I would have preferred it if they played through albums as whole pieces, as my brain sort of considers each album a singular composition (though I can definitely see why they don't do this). Second, too many douchebags. But, overall, Great, great, great!
Thursday, I'm returning to the land of drunkeness, strange memories, and microeconomics (Athens, GA), to see The New Pornographers. I asked for Friday off work due to the fact that I'll undoubtedly stay up way way way too late Thursday night to function at work Friday morning. This was difficult, as my older supervisors kept asking what musician I was going to see. Benign as their music is, it makes me feel dirty to say that I'm going to see a band that has "pornographers" in its name.
I think this will be the first time returning to Athens since my grand exodus. Sorry, Athens...Atlanta is 10,000x better than you are.
P.s....
Saving is for chumps, and I'm having a great time playing with teh new camera. Pictures uploaded to my flickr and burgeoning Photoblog periodically. |
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