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| Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 |
twinklergirl
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twinklergirl
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twinklergirl
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| Sunday, July 20th, 2008 |
georgy
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10:17p |
You and me and everyone we know How awesome are my friends? Tonight, we celebrated Lis' birthday with ice cream cake in the square, right before we played FOUR SQUARE. There were almost a dozen of us, including my friend Liz's parents for a short time. We also outlined each others' "dead" bodies in chalk. Eventually, some cooler-than-thou area youth joined the game, the girls sitting on the sidelines watching Paul and Jolly played round after round. By that point, the rules had more or less slid away and it was just friends (and strangers) playing, sweating and laughing in the humid air, stretching out the hours before bedtime as long as they would go Yesterday was ArtBeat. I volunteered in the AM and made the rounds in the PM. Exhausting. So much so, I begged out of the Harbor Point crew's BBQ today because I knew I'd be a worthless wreck this morning and would need some time to relax and decompress. That was a wise decision, indeed (I hope the BBQ didn't get rained out!). I lounged and read a bunch of my book ("The Raw Shark Texts," per your recommendations, ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) badlydrawnjeff -- I like it a lot). This afternoon, after a trip with prevenger to the mall for a return, some browsing and lunch, I helped enochs_fable and navraze unpack in their new condo (very near my house!). It's a lovely place, and we made some good progress. And now, glorious sleep before another week... |
| Saturday, July 19th, 2008 |
twinklergirl
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| Thursday, July 17th, 2008 |
twinklergirl
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8:09a |
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| Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 |
twinklergirl
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8:10a |
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| Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 |
twinklergirl
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8:11a |
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| Monday, July 14th, 2008 |
twinklergirl
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11:26p |
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sagawizard
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8:34p |
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twinklergirl
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8:05p |
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twinklergirl
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5:48p |
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sagawizard
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4:28p |
And...here we go again...whee!
Back from Nippon, just about over jetlag, and now off to send the circadian clocks spinning again as SagaSorceress and I head off for Greece and Turkey where, I imagine, one cannot find Turkeys.
Our itinerary (cue the Indiana Jones red line) takes us from the US to Madrid (me) and Frankfurt (SS), long layovers later into Athens, and then we slowly move down the Aegean, lingering on Samos, ferrying over to Kusadasi in Turkey, and then taking buses all the way up the coast (stopping at Troy, of course!) to Istanbul.
Then a flight to Cappadocia, where, yes, I have secured us accommodations in a cave, because caves are cool and also quite cheap. Then back to Istanbul, then back home, through a wild and crazy series of connections thru Germany and Canada. Yes, this is how we afford such weird wild travels...connections by way of Sri Lanka, hotels that if we're lucky have 4 walls, and peanut butter for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. But hey, we get to see the world.
Sagas to come, no doubt. Wish us luck!
- SW |
georgy
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1:18p |
New default LJ icon
For reasons yet unuttered.
In the meantime, delight in it!
Edit: OMG!
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twinklergirl
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11:56a |
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twinklergirl
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8:09a |
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twinklergirl
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10:19a |
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| Sunday, July 13th, 2008 |
georgy
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11:32p |
Excellent weekend Friday, prevenger and I stayed and hung out. Saturday, we ate lunch at Redbones and poked around town a bit. In the evening, I went to a fun opening at the art center, then had dinner at Cambridge Common w/Lis, Lee, schpahky and someone I did not know. Today, I walked to Davis and met up with Young Hamill, and later Lis, and we ran a couple of errands then had a fun lunch at Tavern in the Square, complete with Sox-watching, followed by ice cream. The evening brought tiptoe39's karaoke birthday extravaganza, with tons of fun folks in attendance. Really, a stellar weekend on all counts. The only thing that could have improved it would be recovering the ability to sleep in. At least I took a killer nap yesterday afternoon... Holy crap, is tomorrow Monday? Man. Next weekend is going to be even more crazy, with ArtBeat, BBQ and birthday fun. Wooooo! Summer! Current Music: the replacements - can't hardly wait |
sagawizard
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9:45p |
You lost me, Obama.
Despiriting times for those of us who had been Obama supporters. I really allowed myself the luxury of buying into his messages about hope and change, and the last few weeks have kicked me hard in the teeth, driving home the message that this man is in fact, a politician, and a rather centrist one at that. His faith based stuff, his flag pin - annoying. His FISA vote - unforgivable. His change on the war in Iraq - an outright betrayal of those who voted him into victory, just like the 2006 Democratic Congress.
Time to face facts that this election will be, in South Park terms, one more runoff between a giant douche and a turd sandwich, at least on the issues I care about:
1.Restoring our raped Constitutional and privacy rights: Not only do neither Obama nor McCain support this, but both are accelerating the loss of our freedoms.
2. Iraq War: McCain is merely being more forthright about his decision to continue investing gazillions in a failed, unjust, immoral and ineffective war. If Obama keeps backsliding on his promise, he'll soon be pretty much equivalent.
3. Afghanistan War: Obama came out pretty early after his victory over Clinton into saying he wants to accelerate this war. So does McCain.
4. Environmental Policy: Both men talk a good game about finding alternate fuels and weaning off oil dependency, but McCain's plan is mostly coal (polluting) and corn-biodeisel (inefficient and robs us of food supply) and Obama's plan remains nebulous.
5. Education: Heard next to nill from either of them on it, but with most of our money going towards war, how will either of them do anything significant for this issue?
6. Gay Rights: Both oppose gay marriage.
7. Women's Rights: Ok, so this is the only choice voters have really had for the last 20 years in this "you can have a Model T in any color so long as it's black" political landscape.
8. Health Care: Here, too, there might be a difference, but once again, how do you pay for health care if the lion's share of federal resources go towards war?
The Democrats seem to have forgotten that abandoning the left to seek centrist voters, arrogantly claiming "who else are you going to vote for, the Republican? Mwahaha!", failed them as a strategy in the last two elections.
But I've pretty much written off that party as being good for anything. Obama gave me a flicker of hope it might be different, but now that's gone.
What hope I have lies in off-the-media-radar organizations. The ACLU, via the Supreme Court, won us back our right to Habeas Corpus, and marriage equality groups are fighting and, in many cases, winning battles for gay rights. Environmental groups are organizing consumers, with success, to pressure companies to offer all sorts of environmentally friendlier technologies. State and local governments are adopting stricter greenhouse standards. As for the war...well, the antiwar movement, sadly, has been an utter failure, because people just don't care enough to go to the wall, go on strike, block up shipping traffic, and do all the things that have stopped wars before. Things just have to get worse at home - maybe once we invade Iran, get a Draft, and all the public schools close due to lack of funding, people will start to consider stopping the wars a priority.
But my point is, no more money of mine is going to the Democratic Party on a federal level, period. I'm done being hoodwinked. Government, for the foreseeable future, is inescapably conservative and reactionary. Right-wingers, rejoice - you have well and truly won this round, this round being the 2000s.
Maybe some day, the Democrats will undergo a revolution from within, or maybe a new party will arise, but that's in the future. For the present, any hope for a more progressive future for this country is in the hands of small groups of concerned citizens, as Margaret Mead would say. That's where my efforts are going - screw the general election, it's just for the media circus.
- SW |
twinklergirl
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9:28p |
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twinklergirl
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7:33p |
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| Saturday, July 12th, 2008 |
twinklergirl
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12:50p |
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twinklergirl
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8:07a |
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| Friday, July 11th, 2008 |
twinklergirl
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8:14a |
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