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| 08:48am 06/05/2008 |
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mood:  slightly disgruntled
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Ok, so the democratic party has a conventional order that the states are supposed to have their primaries in. This cycle, many of the states decided they wanted to get ahead of where they'd been in the order, so that they would have some more say in the nomination, as usually by the time the voting got around to them, the candidate was pretty much in the bag.
So, this got a lot of people annoyed, and complaining who do these states think they are, etc. Because it goes against the mutually agreed upon (at some time in the past) order, the states that have placed themselves out of order have been disenfranchised.
Now, the same people (most likely) who got so annoyed at this are annoyed- actually, becoming irate- that one of the two remaining democratic candidates (Clinton, specifically) does not drop out of the race, because of a worry that if the candidate is not decided upon soon the republicans will win the presidency in the fall.
If one of the candidates were to drop out now, all the democratic party members in the states that haven't held their primaries yet (the ones who did not place themselves out of order and followed the "rules") would be disenfranchised.
Do some people really think this makes sense? Am I the only one who thinks a nominating convention should be more than a big party for the already decided upon candidate?
(btw, i'm commenting on this from the outside, as i'm not a member of the democratic party so have no say in the outcome of this particular race anyway; which doesn't stop gazillions of people from asking me who i prefer) |
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| ganked from eafm |
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| 07:30am 06/05/2008 |
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Ask me seven questions. Not just any seven questions though. No, to keep it interesting, use the
seven questions as per below - just copy and paste the following, replace the blanks with something you want to know/ask. Anything you want, personal, silly, surreal or deep, comment away and I'll answer honestly as I can! Then post this in your own LJ and see what kind of things people want to ask you!
1. What do you think of _____________ ?
2. When did you last ____________?
3. __________ or ___________ and why?
4. What did you ______________?
5. What's your favorite ______________?
6. How would you ______________?
7. Who would you most like to ________ ? |
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| having a rough day |
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| 11:52am 27/03/2008 |
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well, actually, today's fine. last night some stars crossed and now i'm in the afterstages like waking up from a hangover drunk. |
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| homesickness |
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| 10:00pm 11/03/2008 |
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i'm not sure what ails me. i was visiting my grandmother and mom and dad and felt homesick the first night there. now it's my second night back home and i find i feel homesick again. what am i longing for? is it spring? |
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| Dreams |
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| 05:59am 04/03/2008 |
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With a capital D. I've had a bunch a long flowing stream of dreams for the last two nights, coinciding with the return of my period after at least two months; i'm sure the two events are connected. I had been having a dearth of (remembered) dreams. Spring is here as well, and for the first time since October or November I slept with the windows open.
The night before last I dreamed of running, running, running. My toes were physically tired. I had running sneakers on. I was running and walking across Oregon. I saw my friend Amber (not that she's there in real life anymore) and visited her trailer; it was messy and unamberish.
Last night I was in Ireland. I was in a very green church where kids were piling their stuffed animals in a corner to be either burned or blessed or both, i'm not sure. They were happy about it, and I though, oh, what an interesting way to get kids involved in religion. I looked down at my feet and there was a pixieish woman with red hair dressed in green named Brigid. She was tending a small fire. She smiled at me and I said "I must be here by thought, as I haven't got my passport yet." She shrugged.
Another dream last night was that I was flying, like I like to do (but haven't for awhile), but this time I had brought a couch cushion with me (one of the beige cushions from the couch at the old house. It was exciting but a little frightening, because since I had the heavy cushion, I could fly higher. I was going way up above the trees and having a little trouble controlling how high I went, since I had to adjust my height using the cushion as an extension of my body.
Then I told all this excitedly to my teens (in the dream) and they snubbed my excitement.
I also was helping pack fudge for someone's grandma or aunt, and I was eating it (well, other people were, too!)
Apparently I mentioned Hillary too, though I don't remember it.
Also m said when he responded to something I'd said in my dreams, I said "I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to my mom." "And anyway, I don't see how you could hear me, since I was in April." |
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| Recipe Help!! |
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| 06:17pm 24/02/2008 |
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I am in a recipe rut. Could whoever is reading this and has a moment please put a vegetarian recipe that you regularly use as a comment? I'm not looking for fancy stuff, but tired end of the day throw a few ingredients together and voila! kind of recipes. Tonight, getting over a yucky cold/fluish thing, I started rice cooking, thinking surely something would happen. When it was done I looked at it and threw in a can of mushroom soup, thinking can't go wrong with mushroom soup. but it's a white boring blanc looking mess. so i grated some cheddar on top and it's waiting on the stove for r to go eww!!! (there's some spaghetti and leftover tomato sauce waiting in the wings, but i hate having wasted all that rice).
we've both sorta been craving hamburgers/meatballs, but i don't wish to go there. i guess heavy protein veggie recipes are in order? |
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| cheryl wheeler |
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| 02:44pm 24/02/2008 |
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does everyone else know about her? she is so awesome! i'm listening to a live performance from somewhere sometime where she sings a song she wrote (i must have been gandhi or buddha or someone like that) then a parody of it ( i must have been hitler or satan or someone like that). i want to be her friend. listening to her makes me want to sing and play. |
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| dreams |
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| 08:09pm 20/02/2008 |
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slept with the lights on and woke at dawn holding my left hand cupped to hold some kind of seeds or herbs; i think anise but i'm not sure. i was holding it for someone who was cooking and when i woke my first thought was "shit, i can put my arm down!" |
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| cross fingers |
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| 12:16pm 16/02/2008 |
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today is the final day to hear from the source if my 10-minute play is going on to the finals or not. |
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| Book Recommendation |
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| 09:40pm 30/01/2008 |
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If you haven't read "Jeb and Dash: A Diary of Gay Life 1918-1945," edited by Ina Russell, I highly recommend it. I'm rereading it (this copy was loaned to me a few years ago by a friend when I was recovering surgery; i really need to get it back to him!) and it is just so damn good. |
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| guessing game |
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| 05:00pm 25/01/2008 |
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mood:  amused
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what recent news story is the following quote from:
"Handcuffs and duct tape are not going to get you where you want to go." |
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| stress |
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| 09:54pm 14/01/2008 |
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how to keep calm when others are stressed around you and wanting your assistance but because they are stressed get snippy at you when you try to assist and then upset when you don't.
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| Oyster Nebula |
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| 10:50pm 28/12/2007 |
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Neat:
Last night I went to bed early, and was in a very peaceful frame of mind. Perhaps that's why in the middle of the night I was in one of those odd partly awake partly asleep at the same time states; you know, where half the things you say you're really saying and half you aren't, and half the things you see and hear are sights and noises in the waking world and half aren't?
Anyway, m got up to go to the bathroom, I asked him what time it was (fully expecting it to be 7 am, since that's when I usually have been waking up). I heard him say "The little hand is on the 56, and the big hand is on the 3" and while I was processing that I heard him say "Look at that! That star! How cool! It's nebulizing!" RIght before he'd said this, I had noticed a neat thing; I could see the night sky full of stars on the backs of my eyelids. So then I don't know if he told me or I told him that what we were seeing was the oyster nebula. It was blue and beautiful.
So then m comes out of the bathroom and it turns out he had said none of that, though the time was 4:10 AM; a lot closer to the time I'd envisioned than the time I'd expected it to be. I got up to see if there was a blue star/nebula out the bathroom window; I didn't see one, but when I craned my neck way up I saw the full moon shining.
This morning I googled "oyster nebula"; it exists! Though it doesn't look exactly like it did in my dream, it was the same color and kind of similar. It's a planetary nebula in Camelopardus, otherwise known as NGC 1501, and one web page listed it as something to look for (with a telescope) in December.
I feel very connected to the universe. |
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| i don't want to be a grown-up |
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| 03:11pm 22/12/2007 |
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i want to only have to worry about my own little room, my own few things, what i want to do, where i want to go, how i feel, etc. (note to the universe; i don't REALLY want this. i just feel like i do).
i'm overwhelmed and overstressed and overburdened with things i need to think about and do and other people's needs and emotions and stresses and worries. i don't know how to relax and let go. if i do, everything will fall apart, no? or i'll forget to feed my friend's cats (or my own) |
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| somehow i knew i'd be a weasel |
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| 06:11pm 17/12/2007 |
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not that i'm displeased
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| i promise |
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| 08:04pm 06/12/2007 |
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to be myself.
and that's it.
that's my goal in life. |
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| yeah, this is cute! |
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| 09:49am 29/11/2007 |
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On the twelfth day of Christmas,  dcdragon67 sent to me... Twelve seahorses swimming Eleven sweatshirts traveling Ten clogs a-camping Nine candles beading Eight turtles a-singing Seven chickens a-stretching Six misfits a-dancing Five anci-i-i-ient peoples Four slavic languages Three folk songs Two prime numbers ...and a myrrh in an anthropology. |
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| i once threw muddy shoes at someone |
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| 05:40pm 19/11/2007 |
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 Dear Santa...
Dear Santa,
This year I've been busy!
In November ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) stormlorde and I donated clothes to the needy (11 points). Last Wednesday I donated bone marrow to eafm in a life-saving procedure (300 points). Last Friday I didn't flush (-1 points). Last Thursday I committed genocide... Sorry about that, spiralsongkat (-5000 points). In June I pushed boisestudley in the mud (-17 points).
Overall, I've been naughty (-4707 points). For Christmas I deserve a moldy sandwich!
Sincerely,
dcdragon67 |
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| sad |
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| 04:00pm 15/11/2007 |
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our hamster, Denny, died last night. He was a really good hamster. |
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