User:	revolos55
	Date:	2009-12-19 23:02
	Subject:	Chirp chirp
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• 02:21 I suppose one of the perks of my job is that I can sit here half shirtless and there's nobody around to give a damn. #
• 02:37 Yeah Venice! And LMAO at 0:45 :D #
• 03:49 Welp, Xmas is on Friday. I should probably going shopping soon, yeah? #
• 10:40 twitpic.com/u6jz7 - @DesireePernasel *pout* #
• 11:06 Hope everyone travelling today stays safe. Have fun, and I'll catch y'all later tonight. G'night Twitterverse. #
• 12:23 Well, crap! Friend just called to cancel clubbing plans due to Storm of Doom heading our way. Pouting resumed. Back to bed I go. #
• 20:40 I've decided to blame @bronzeyshine for my zombie nightmare... #
• 21:53 It suddenly occurred to me that just because I'm not going out tonight doesn't mean I can't be drinking now. Time for booze! #

	User:	luvrentboy
	Date:	2009-12-19 19:28
	Subject:	FBC alum show
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Alum show is the 26th and I'm doin a few frank scenes.

I syked. My new divine-n-furter has not been revealed in boston yet, so that will be awesome!

	User:	luvrentboy
	Date:	2009-12-19 18:44
	Subject:	this really is the place 4 me
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So, I am Mr Metrocub 2009. I've stated this b4.
After 1.5 years here and am representing the NY Bear crowd.
So....every year there is a national contest in san francisco. They pick 12 of the best guys in the US and compete the, together. Well, they chose and I am one of them! How exciting is that?! So I get shipped out in febuary. I only have to pay 4 my hotel.
I very excited.

	User:	overstim
	Date:	2009-12-19 00:45
	Subject:	I see you.
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Okay, lets get this out of the way right up front: Avatar is not the greatest movie ever made. It's not the greatest movie of this decade, it's probably not even the greatest movie of this year. But its way up there. It's not light years ahead of anything you've ever seen, though its in the front of the pack. And James Cameron has NOT changed filmmaking forever, though he has probably changed filmmaking for people with $300,000,000, so there's that, at least.

Okay, now that that's out of the way, we can move along and talk like grownups.

There was a time when movies were exciting and fun and that's all they needed to be. No one ever stopped to complain that the Millennium Falcon wouldn't have gravity on it, or that Indiana Jones couldn't really do all those things. No one stopped to think about it, because the stories were good, the characters were likable, and the movies were just so damn FUN. But then things got real, and then they got hyper-real, and then they got meta, and soon we were watching movies about movies, and everything was ironic.

I think the beginning of the end was Independence Day. Jeff Goldblum plugging his Mac into an alien mothership? I can't get mine to work with a printer, but sure, lets go with it. This movie is fun! Did you see the part where Will Smith said he was supposed to be at a barbecue, and he kicked that mean alien in the head? Classic!

After ID4, movies got bigger and bigger and they just couldn't stand on their own, so the only people who went to them were kids, old people getting out of the cold, and people seeing them ironically. Seriously, did you really like The Cor, The Day After Tomorrow, or 2012? Im just as guilty as anyone- I knew 2012 would be ridiculous, but i was hoping it would be SO ridiculous, I would be able to laugh at it, and I did, and it was fun. But its been awhile since there was a movie I could smile WITH. A movie that I walked out of with a big grin, not a smirk. Jurassic Park, Gladiator, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Spiderman 1... honestly cant think of many more. I'm tired of movies that dont even bother trying, they just go so overboard they hope people will laugh.. and Im even MORE tired of watching big fake tin cans pound on each other.

Here's what Avatar does wrong: Theres absolutely nothing surprising in the story. 5 minutes in you will be able to map out all the big scenes and see exactly how it will end. There are no twists–there are barely even any slight bends. The story is a tree-hugger wet dream. And even at 3 hours, the script still resorts to a bit too much heavy handed, expository dialogue that reads like a freshman film student wrote it.

Here's what Avatar does right, and please note that even with cutting out a LOT to keep this spoiler-free, its a much longer list:  The story is tree-huggy, but it somehow never feel preachy, at all. "This is the Navi. They live in harmony with anture. These are the humans, they want to strip mine. Thats the story, for better or worse. Go with it". The story takes its time, and unfolds, and every emotional scene is earned. The romance is earned, the pathos is earned, and the ending is earned. The bad guy is so bad as to be a caricature, but in the best old Hollywood way. The characters are all fleshed out and likeable, the story is fun, the suspense is real, the romance is sweet, the scenery is beautiful, sometimes breathtakingly so, and the action scenes are tremendously fun. Screw George Lucas and his deserts and snow storms and monochromatic worlds. The world of Avatar is painted with such detail, and such beauty, and such grave and such love, you will ache to go back as soon as you leave the theater.

If you are the type to roll your eyes at another "here come the big bad bulldozers through the beautiful forest" kind of movie, then this is not for you. But if you want to be entertained, really entertained..I mean just bombarded with the biggest, loudest, prettiest, funnest visuals that Hollywood can conjure up, for three goddamn hours, and still want more at the end... if you can sit back and enjoy a good story and a good romance and not try to pick apart every little detail that couldn't be right, then you will get your moneys worth and more. The word epic has never been more apropos.

I don't care that E.T. couldn't have really made that bike fly, I don't care that Sam and Frodo could have just flown into Mordor and dropped the ring in from above, and I don't care that there's no way trees could glow in the dark and mountains could float in the air, I just know that I'd give my life savings to go back there for a picnic.

You should see Avatar, and you should see it on the big screen. I dont know if you should see it in 3d, that's up to you. I didnt, and I didnt miss anything.

	User:	girlygothic
	Date:	2009-12-18 18:52
	Subject:	Note to self...
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In the early morning, when my fresh-tattoo induced lack of hot shower leaves me still groggy...

Do not confuse these tubes.



Edited to Clarify:
No, I haven't already made that mistake. But I have noticed the similarity, and am just doing what I can to impress upon myself to be sure that I don't make that mistake.

	User:	neko038
	Date:	2009-12-18 13:46
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Why am I always so wiped after staying up later than usual with Alex and friends. It makes no sense. I napped, I stayed out of work and made up sleep, I even ate at 8:15 for my belly, but I still feel like I should sleep the day away. Sigh, well I am going to try to get chores and such done but we shall see.

Oh Erin and Shaun we should be going to see Avatar tonight, would you like to join Alex and I? Maybe dinner too? Anyone else interested?
Crys

	User:	overstim
	Date:	2009-12-18 13:02
	Subject:	For the win!
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We are trying to get 664- The Neighbor of the Beast nominated for Best web series in the Streamys, a big awards thingamajig. Please, please, it would help if you voted for us. just click the button below to vote for us for best web series. Just click this link:

Vote!

And enter 664 - neighbor of the beast for series, and www.lazyhorde.com for the address. We'd really appreciate it.

If you're REALLY awesome, you could go to our site, www.lazyhorde.com, watch the series again, oh how you will laugh, and there are links for other all the categories, from acting to writing to effects. Vote for all of them, vote every day, rack up the good karma :)

	User:	girlygothic
	Date:	2009-12-17 18:47
	Subject:	Awesomeness!
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Many thanks to danabren for clueing me into...

Flying Spaghetti Monster Cookies!

I now so want an excuse to make these!

	User:	neko038
	Date:	2009-12-17 14:58
	Subject:	Sigh
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I have a student who I dearly adore who has been out all week. He is at Children's ICU due to pnunomea. He gets it alot but each visit takes more out of him, and it makes me worry so much. He has been intabated and has a tube down his throat to help him breathe and he is sedated so he doesn't pull on the tube. The fluid is not leaving his lungs and he has been running a fever since Sat night.
I am very worried, so I am using my actual Christmas wish for him.

I miss you, my boy, come back to us and feel better really soon.

Send as many good wishes and prayers, as you can, his way. He usually needs them.

Crystal

	User:	lady_gaby
	Date:	2009-12-17 12:51
	Subject:	Happy Birthday!
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	Mood:	bouncy

To girlygothic!!!

	User:	girlygothic
	Date:	2009-12-17 07:56
	Subject:	Happy Birthday To Me!
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Happy birthday to me... Happy birthday to me... Happy birthday to meee-eeee... Happy Birthday To Me!

In tattoo news... Okay, that's totally not fair. Getting the tattoo hardly hurt, and within a few hours I had to poke at it pretty hard to feel any tenderness. But this morning when I went to take my shower? Ow, freaking OW! I usually take a wicked hot shower in the mornings. It helps me wake up, and is particularly nice on a cold day. But nope - that wasn't going to happen today. Even a luke-warm shower made the entire back of my neck feel like it had been burned.

	User:	catullus_5
	Date:	2009-12-16 21:39
	Subject:	"Even smiling makes my face ache."
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I had that subject line in mind months ago and was saving it for right now. Heh.

But it hardly hurts at all if I leave it alone. I'm in good spirits. I have a whole bottle of Tylenol sequels but I haven't needed any of them. And if I haven't needed them today, I won't need them tomorrow either.


The girl in the bed next to mine was similar to most patients, I would imagine: She was freaking out about needles like many people do, but once she got her IV she was casually saying "You can go ahead and knock me out, the sooner the better." Whereas when the nurses came to me, I wouldn't let the one distract me while the other stabbed me. "I'm sorry," I said, "I can't concentrate on your questions. I'd rather just sit still for the IV." After which I resumed dreading the knockout drugs.

Anesthesiologist: Okay, so once we get the IV in, we'll give you a sedative to just relax you, and once you're in the OR we'll give you the stronger stuff.

Me: What are the names of the drugs? I'm just curious.

Anesthesiologist: The first one is Versed - that's intravenous - then during the surgery we'll use a few things, primarily Propofol...

Both of us at the same time: That's been in the news recently!

Me: Yeah, I hope I don't end up like Michael Jackson. I mean, I'm only here for a nose job!

The nurse laughed and I could tell she wasn't just being polite. That was a good line. From that moment on I was a lot less nervous. Somehow my glee at improvising a really good joke was enough to overwrite all my anxiety.

They got me on the operating table and after attaching a few machines to me, the anesthesiologist turned to a nurse and said "Okay, about ten seconds."

I took five or six more breaths. More than ten seconds. "Still here," I said.

"Alllllll right then," he replied, and turned a knob.

	User:	girlygothic
	Date:	2009-12-16 21:32
	Subject:	I can haz Tattoo!
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Ta da! My birthday present to myself.

	User:	lady_gaby
	Date:	2009-12-16 14:49
	Subject:	School
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	Mood:	cheerful

So I took my last final this afternoon. Didn't do quite as well as I'd hoped, but I'm still sure I scored relatively high. This teacher bases the final grade on three test scores, and the other two tests I scored 106 and 104, so I have a little leeway to keep an A. I think that I am looking at an A- or A average for this semester. I've never had that kind of average in my life... School is so different now that I am older and hopefully wiser. I have a goal and purpose for being there, and that is making all the difference in my attitudes about school, schoolwork, etc. Now I have a break until January 25th, and the next semester starts. I will be volunteering in the interim, so I don't get too used to sleeping in again... ;)

	User:	catullus_5
	Date:	2009-12-16 00:53
	Subject:	Perchance to dream
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I'm about to go under the knife tomorrow morning.

I wish I didn't have such a hangup about this. I'm the guy who refused alcohol for years because I feared the idea of turning part of my brain off. I got over that. I'll get over this.

The sooner the better. Let's get the dreading over with, and move on to the part where I agree it wasn't bad after all. I'm sure it won't be.

Of course, I'm not looking forward to the lingering pain in my face - like the tritest emo kid, I wonder how badly smiling will hurt and for how long - but for that, my apprehension is only at normal levels. That's not what's making me freak out. In fact, I only mentioned it so I could make the above joke about emo kids.

	User:	neko038
	Date:	2009-12-14 15:39
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Can't wait till the first trimester is over and I can get back on track again. Though now not only am I naseious off and on but I am also having trouble getting comfortable sleeping, so I am tossing and turning all night which means I am sore and extra tired every morning. Sigh. Think I need to put my egg foam bedding under my side of the bed and see if that helps. I hope I still have it.

But on a good note, I have a wonderful husband who is super and cooks for me and has been cleaning for me and helping out when I need it. He rocks and I love him very much.

Crys

	User:	girlygothic
	Date:	2009-12-14 12:39
	Subject:	Still at 178
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Not much accomplished again, as I’ve been so busy with work and holiday preparations.

*Housework – I’m now caught up on the housework lag from Thanksgiving. And in the not really housework but I don’t have a separate item listing… I’ve done even more shopping for my improved work wardrobe and for Christmas and birthday presents for my family.

	User:	mesatchornug
	Date:	2009-12-14 11:52
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i have 25 google wave invites, if anyone wants in.

	User:	girlygothic
	Date:	2009-12-14 07:48
	Subject:	Birthday Week Plans
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My birthday is this week. So I thought I'd share my plans, in case anyone else out there wants to join in. If so, please let me know in the comments, so I can keep track of everything in one place.
(If you don't have a LiveJournal account you can still comment. It will just be anonymously, so be sure to sign your name in the body of your comment so I know who you are.)

	User:	just_al
	Date:	2009-12-13 10:47
	Subject:	Finally found my Christmas Spirit
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	Mood:	cheerful

Last night Janine and I went and saw a Christmas concert put on by Rockapella. Yes, the where in the world is Carmen Sandiego guys.

They cover pretty well all the Chrismas carols you've ever heard (at least the "A List" carols) and do some on their own. Acapella singers have some kind of wierd spot in my heart and the guy doing "vocal percussion" has to be heard to be believed.

It was at the Stockbridge Theatre which is part of Pinkerton Academy which is FOOTSTEPS from my house. We had to drive because the football field is all snowy. Shame really because if we could have walked it would be shorter than driving. Snow and a driving cold wind kept that from happening.

While there isn't a bad seat in the venue (really) we had 2nd row center seats because we didn't notice the show was back and tickets were already onsale online for a week or two when I bought them.

I joined the Theatre's mailing list so next year we'll know when they are available. If this would be your cup of tea, you should talk to us next year about coming along. Awesome time...