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Monday, December 14th, 2009
fallenlilly
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3:41p
Getting in the Christmas Spirit
There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time,
The greatest gift they'll get this year is fallenlilly. Do They Know It's Christmas
from the Christmas Song Generator.
I think that I got the majority of my Christmas shopping done. However, there is still the issue with Mark. What should I get him? Does he deserve a present? What kind if so? Dammit...everyone deserves a present. Even when a loved one is in the dog-house. Dammit.
current mood:  bored
current music: None - Working Working Working
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(3 comments | comment on this) Saturday, December 12th, 2009
fallenlilly
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7:03p
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Celebratory drink night!!! WHAT WHAT!!!
current mood:  giddy
current music: None - Watching Law and Order: SVU
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(2 comments | comment on this) Friday, December 11th, 2009
barbednoose
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10:44p
Miren Como Sonrien Los Presidentes - Violeta Parra
A timeless poem about the common feeling toward elected officials, especially in countries like the U.S. and Mexico.
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Miren cómo sonríen
los presidentes
cuando le hacen promesas
al inocente.
Miren cómo le ofrecen
al Sindicato
este mundo y el otro
los candidatos.
Miren cómo redoblan
los juramentos,
pero después del voto
doble tormento.
Miren el hervidero
de vigilante
para rociar de flores
al estudiante.
Miren cómo relumbran
carabineros
para hacerle premios
a los obreros.
Miren cómo se visten
cabo y sargento
para teñir de rojo
los pavimentos.
Miren cómo profanan
las sacristías
con pieles y sombreros
de hipocresía.
Miren cómo blanquean
mes de María
y al pobre negrean
la luz del día.
Miren cómo le muestran
una escopeta
para quitarle al pobre
su marraqueta.
Miren cómo se empolvan
los funcionarios
para contar las hojas
del calendario.
Miren cómo sonríen,
angelicales,
miren como se olvidan
que son mortales.
current music: Violeta Parra
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fallenlilly
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3:27p
The Thimble
You Are the Thimble
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You are a very resourceful and crafty person. Some may even call you cunning.
You are always looking for opportunities to get ahead. You are very creative and original.
You like to survey each situation and carefully plan your move. You have a good instinct for defense.
You like to protect what's yours, and you never take on too much at once. You believe in holding back until the time is right.
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*raises an eyebrow and coughs slightly* Doesn't take on more than she can handle? Um. Isn't that the very opposite of me? Doesn't my whole world revolve around taking on much, much, much more than I even think I can handle? True dat.
current mood:  blah
current music: Alice in Chains - No Excuses
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fallenlilly
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12:26p
Ce'st La Vie!!!
As of yesterday, around 7:00 PM at night, I completed my last class to get my Masters Degree. Never again do I have to take another course. Well, at least until I get in a PHD program. But, I don't have to think about that right now. Anyway, I am officially done with classes. Done. So, now all I have to do is concentrate on writing my thesis. And when that is complete, I am done done done!!! I have decided not to jump directly into a PHD program either. These last two years have really messed a lot with my head and body. I am physically exhausted and emotionally drained. I need a break. I need to go somewhere that I have always dreamed of and constantly talk about. Greece. Peru. Prague. Ireland. Somewhere. I just need to go. No more talking and saying that I am going to do it. I am just going to do it. I will find a way. When something is meant to be, things happen to assure that it will be realized. I believe that. I have to.
Anyway, I still have one more paper that I have to do this semester. No classes. But, I still have a 20 page paper. But, I am not viewing this as a bad thing. See, I am going to use this paper as a portion of what is going to go in my thesis, as well as the paper that I am going to be presenting at The Western Society of Criminology in February. So, it is actually a good thing that I have a due date and there are things that are prompting me to get my butt in gear. So, not a bad thing. But, I am not going to work on that paper for a couple more days. I am tired. I need to rest and relax a little bit. I just need to settle down and not even think about school for a couple of days. Some serious down-time.
True dat!!!
current mood:  happy
current music: Cascada - Evacuate the Dance Floor
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(1 comment | comment on this) Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
fallenlilly
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4:46p
Creative and Clever
You Are Creative and Clever
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You have an eye for beauty and design. You are talented at bringing various random elements together.
Even if you aren't an artist, you have a lot of style. You are naturally chic, and you know how to turn heads.
And while you are an imaginative type, you are definitely not messy or chaotic.
You like things neatly organized. You are a minimalist - you think too much gets lost in clutter.
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So...I am almost half way done with my paper that is due tomorrow afternoon. I don't know how good it is going to be. But, it will be done nonetheless. I even worked through my lunch here and work in order to take care of the bull-shit that is that essay. Who knows how it is going. My brain is fuzz.
current mood: crazy
current music: Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
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fallenlilly
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11:19a
Busy Bee I Be
I have been so busy as of late. This is my last week of classes, so I have been so busy writing papers. My brain no longer works correctly. And, I think that I am overdoing it in one of my classes, when I should be thinking simplistically. Wait. Did that sentence make any sense? Ol' well. Nothing makes too much sense anymore. I feel as though I have fallen down a rabbit hole stuffed to the brink with ink and papers. Do you know how many paper cuts I have right now? Well...none actually because I type all my papers. But, if I were to write them, I would definitely be in constant need of antiseptic and band-aids. I haven't had a chance to work out either. This bothers me. I hate not working out. I always feel fat if I skip a workout, even if I hardly eat anything at all that day. It's a constant struggle for me. After Thursday I will be able to do anything I want though. Well...that is not entirely true. I have one more paper due next Tuesday...but, that will be rather enjoyable since it is what I am passionate about and I will be able to work on my thesis. So...things are good. I just need to get this paper done for tomorrow's last class, and finish up my stats project, and then things should be golden for me. That's my hope at least. That is the face of hope and...er...brain fart. I don't remember what I was going to say. Er...this isn't good.
Anyway, other than my rather busy schedule, I have also been taking care of Mark because he has come down with the cold. Is it wrong that I am mad at him for being sick? I know that it isn't his fault and he is horrendously miserable about the whole thing, but I am mad at him. I just can't believe he got sick and I have to take care of him during one of the busiest weeks of the year. I feel as though it was rather selfish of him. Yet, there is a part in me that realizes that I am the one truly being selfish because he is sick. Whatever. I can't dwell on it.
current mood:  busy
current music: Kittie - Paper Doll
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(comment on this) Monday, December 7th, 2009
fallenlilly
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3:40p
My 12 Days of Christmas
On the twelfth day of Christmas,  fallenlilly sent to me... Twelve birds drumming Eleven boots piping Ten nightmares a-leaping Nine waterlilies dancing Eight statues a-milking Seven daemons a-swimming Six pomegranates a-snowboarding Five cha-a-a-arles dickens Four suicide girls Three fairy tales Two piano wires ...and a cube in an angelina jolie.
Amazing. That brightened up my day. Fo' Sho'. I needed something like that. And no, it's not because it is pouring rain here today, but because I have to write this 10 page paper by Wednesday, and I just don't have any motivation whatsoever to do it. None. It's pretty poopie.
current mood: blah
current music: Bob Marley - Redemption Song
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(2 comments | comment on this) Sunday, December 6th, 2009
barbednoose
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12:11p
Iran, an undeveloped thought
Does anyone else see Iran as being the new Iraq or Afghanistan?
There are some ground rules you lay down for controling another country (turning its policies toward a more pro-U.S. agenda). First, you create dissent, or at least fan its flame. Make sure major media coverage conveys this, throw in a couple heart-breaking documentaries of governmental abuse. You throw around Human Rights Violation, repression of oppositional movements and other key terms for a broad moral outrage to begin in the global community, or at least in the United States. Next, you (U.S. leaders) publicly support the opposition by saying it's "the will of the [insert country] people." You keep at it, and hopefully you will have an internal regime change.
And if that doesn't work, you exaggerate (or straight out create one out of thin air) the argument for a need to invade - all though you don't call it that, you say you're "freeing the people of [said country] from the iron-hand rule of a dictatorship." That's the messiest part of it so more preperation and strategical thought is put into the former step: the internal regime change.
I'll be the first to say that I don't have historical dates or names memorized of the history of Iran but in a broad point of view it seems as though this political formula has been tried in many parts of the world, especially Latin America and the middle east.
It also reminds me of the U.S. (CIA) and Britan's (SIS) undermining of Iran back in the early 1950's with Mossadeq and its recently-nationalized oil supply and how things got twisted into the right and simple argument of "he's a communist dictator."
I don't know, it just seems that words are nothing until you can manipulate them into a perfectly constructed mode for carrying out an agenda.
No, the lesson is this: don't automatically believe what your government or its media outlets are telling you. I'm sure shit is bad in Iran (as it really was in Iraq with Saddam and Afghanistan with the Taliban) but things are seldom as simple as black and white, good and evil.
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