http://www.threadless.com/ Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:07:22 -0600 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:24:38 -0600 I've played with the tuning a bit and it's definitely right underneath the CBC. I've never heard it before and I've been listening to the CBC on this radio for several hours a day for years.

Conclusion: I have discovered a secret underground Bollywood radio signal.]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:14:56 -0600



thank yooou]]> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:01:06 -0600

Have you read this book? Do you recommend it?


This summer I went back to Peru and was talking to my fourth grade teacher from there and he said I should read it. This is the conversation:

Teacher: "Oh yeah, it's really good. It's pretty racy, but it's good."
Me: "Racy? How racy? Racy like Charles Bukowski racy?"
Teacher: "Haha, no dude, that's racy like smoke-a-cigarette-after racy. This isn't that bad. Racy. But you should read it."


The fourth grade was pretty awesome.]]> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:07:56 -0600 Not to eat (I am vegetarian)...but to love.

Cute little hens to raise in the backyard and build a sweet coop for and refer to as "the girls" and to get eggs from, re Backyard Chickens.com
like for example silkies! my aunt had these when I was a kid and I loved 'em to bits


I know they smell and are hard to protect from predators but I love chickens so much, and the eggs from the grocery store are so bad in so many ways.

b) I played Magic: the Gathering tonight and it was awesome. I won twice. The first time, 28 to 0.
If this makes me a loser I don't care.


Discuss. And feel free to discuss what you did today/what you want.]]> Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:25:51 -0600

okay, I am extremely awkward and I find social situations to be awkward, even painfully so. I have accepted general awkwardness as part of my personality but now that I actually have IRL friends that I have known for several years I'm finding that it's not getting easier to hang out with them/talk to them.

I used to spend most of my free time on here talking to people and then when I actually met friends at school I sort of eased off of Threadless because I thought that only interacting online was impairing my conversational/social skills and I wanted to focus on face-to-face stuff.
But two years after that, I still basically dread seeing my friends even though I love them to bits and they are amazing people. It varies, but in the worst cases I say very little and end up regretting what I do say. The overwhelming feeling, and the one that I want to get rid of, is this suspicion that I've somehow offended whoever I'm talking to. No matter what the conversation was about or their reactions, when I walk away I feel like I've offended them and need to apologize or should feel guilty.
I'm pretty sure my friends like me, and I even halfway believe that I do not actually offend them every time I open my mouth. But I still feel a lot of anxiety when I hang out with them or leading up to me hanging out with them.

Last week I spent an evening with some friends and we drank a bit -- I don't usually (ahem, ever) drink and thus am a total lightweight. I definitely wasn't drunk, wasn't slurring, wasn't staggering, but I was more talkative and mostly I stopped being scared about everything I said. It might have helped that they were all a bit tipsy too, heh heh. Anyways, that was overall a really good night and I felt pretty good (even the morning after!) and had a lot of fun. And concluded that I should never be sober again.
Luckily I realize that is not exactly healthy but I do want help (outside of alcohol) because I want to have fun like that. Often after seeing friends I feel sad because I feel like I wasted an evening worrying, and frankly it sucks.

I try and give myself pep talks and I try and tell myself to snap out of it but...I've been doing this for two years and it's not getting better (if anything it's getting worse.)

I'm sorry for this long and potentially self-pitying blog but...I want to be a better friend and stop torturing myself. Why are some people completely at ease in every social situation and some (me) can't even relax with their best friends? Do you have any advice? Have you ever been in a similar situation? ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:32:01 -0600 Where did you move to? (residence, an apartment, a basement, a house of the law)
Who did you move in with? (Friends, roommates from craigslist, strangers, squatters, other felons, significant other, family?)


(your psychiatrist?)]]> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:43:09 -0600 I'd never heard of her or seen any of her photographs but I was watching tv one night, very very late at night, with my dog...and we found this:


and it was amazing. It was an excellent documentary and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes photography, or art or dogs or people.





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My boyfriend is a member of Team Edward (Scissorhands):


my little brother as a werewolf:


and the photos of me as a deer are terrible and blurry, but here you go anyways:


in this one you can kind of see the arrow wound:



post pictures of your halloween costume!]]> Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:47:33 -0500











post your latest creations!]]> Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:40:14 -0500
I'd like to learn how to make my own plastic doodads (opaque, coloured plastic, not clear resin.)
What equipment would I need?

I think it'd be so cool to make your own cameos


or cabochons
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