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03:20 am
[Link] | Robert BS said this* was fabulous. It is. Apologies to the 99% of the internet to whom this isn't news, but the other 1% desperately need to know
*Literal video total eclipse of the heart.
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10:19 pm
[Link] | 3 things I am currently interested in...
Poll #1406746
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: NoneAnti-depressants How many people die walking in the mountains in England annually?
What is there to do in New Orleans other than drink chartreuse and avoid vampires? What have I forgotten to take to America? Plane tickets, passport, money, ESTA application, fingers for fingerprints... Help me, LJ, you're my only help!
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09:36 am
[Link] | What do you eat for lunch during the week? Are you bored sick of it too?
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10:51 pm
[Link] | ( Well, it's not really LJ if I don't post bad poetry occassionally ;-) )
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09:05 pm
[Link] | I don't know why some people go out of their way to make other people happy. Often people they don't know very well, or who they don't owe anything to. But they do, and time and time again in my life I find myself enriched by the kindness of strangers, or acquaintances, or people I feel blessed and privileged to be able to call friends.
So thank you everyone, because I know lots of you do this. And a big thankyou to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) aiwendel, who has today made a dream of 20 years come true. (Although me finally acquiring a viola may be the stuff of Matthew's nightmares, but we'll elide that for the sake of a gushing post ;-) )
Now all I have to do is make sure I follow the good example of wonderful people and help others when I have the opportunity. And put in the time and effort to make the most of the gifts I have been given.
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08:20 pm
[Link] | Poll #1359034
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllWhich is healthier How many unique props are there in a Buffy season 2 readthrough (eg if a stake is mentioned in 2 separate scenes, it counts as 1, but if two stakes are on stage at the same time, they count as 2)
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10:22 pm
[Link] | We did a poll like this last year, and then ran off and did Easter back in Cambridge anyway. But I am quite tempted by the idea of being in Coventry for Holy Week, so I thought that once again I would investigate who, if anyone, was interested in joining me.
This is a fluffy preliminary sort of post. I reserve the right to not do any of the below if not enough people are interested. And I reserve the right to randomly choose a subset of people to invite if too many people are interested. And I may just choose to go back to LSM like I do evey year.
Poll #1355561
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: NoneA herd of ticky-boxen, mostly aimed at those we usually spend Easter with, but open to all expressions of interest from people of all faiths or none. ...and some straggling ticky-boxen
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03:39 pm
[Link] | I feel happier than I have done for months :-)
Proper post about the weekend might follow, but I just wanted a placeholder to say thank you to all the people who made it so.
*smiles*
[I'm sure eventually I'll realise it's over and the crash will come, but I am far too closely wrapped in happy memories for that to start yet...]
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10:34 am
[Link] | I am having a big New Year, New Efforts to stay in touch with people. As such, I am taking the miriad of different places I have people's addresses jotted down, and trying to compile them into a System.
Even if you are 100% certain I already have your contact details, I would be very grateful if* you would either leave them (or a link to where they live) in a comment to this post (all comments screened) or email me***
Thanks!
2009, the year of excessive organisation!**
*Assuming that is that you want me to have your address. No offence if not!
** Oh how I will look back on that and laugh
***LJ email should reach me. My contact details are here, if I've put you on the right filter for my real email address.
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12:21 pm
[Link] | Poll #1321742
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllLiquor chocolates Alphabatising things Buying violas for beginners
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12:00 pm
[Link] | Please can you make the ping pong song stop?
Please can you make the ping pong song stop?
Please can you make the ping pong song stop?
Make it stop! Please can you make it stop.
Please can you stop it this ping pong ping pong ping pong ping pong make it stop
Please can you stop it this ping pong ping pong ping pong make it stop
Make it stop! Please make this ping pong stop.
And for those who have not heard the whole of Milton's Paradise Lost to the tune of the William Tell Ovature, here it is:
( Paradise Lost )
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11:18 pm
[Link] | Poll #1288946
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllXKCD's Hat Guy
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11:47 pm
[Link] | ( What flavour geek am I meme? I was holding out for science / math geek - something is wrong on the internet! )
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03:51 pm
[Link] | The world average commuting time is 40 minutes, one-way. This is the average for people that work.
The average working person living in Thailand spends 2 hours everyday travelling to and from work
Still playing with the shiny map site. Normal service resumed shortly
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01:30 pm
[Link] | Where can you see Quakers? Only in Kenya! Come to Kenya! We've got quakers!
(Seriously that website is Very Cool)
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02:22 pm
[Link] | I am so so so lucky. I have been spoilt rotten my entire life, and I don't deserve any of it. But I am so grateful.
Now if only I can work hard and try to live up to the faith people put in me.
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01:25 pm
[Link] | Note to self, do not read Have Your Say
Still, this particular rant made me giggle:
The Anglican Church will ever remain divided as long as there is some diversion from what the Bible says. In genesis 2:24 the Bibles says: “For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh" As long as the Bible serves as a reference book for the Christians, I want the conservative not to give up, because God doesn’t want homosexuals in his temple as priests. It is clear stated, A MAN AND A WOMAN NOT THE OTHER WAY ROUND.
Gosh, a woman and a man! How unnatural!
Even the capitalisation is theirs. Do you think they're a spoof?
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04:21 pm
[Link] | My apologies for being repetative with my apologies:
I apologise for the mis-representation of Robhu in my original post about Robhu. After much discussion with Rob, we have agreed that a more accurate post would have said: 'I can't cope with new improved Christian Robhu going round explaining that he thinks it is morally wrong and un-christian to masturbate, to look at porn, or to have homosexual sex'
I think a lot of this was my own underlying problems with whether or not I am a 'good christian' and whether I truly believe that things I am doing are OK, or whether I am just selfish and lazy and don't care. Robhu's conversion and subsequent change of opinions has thrown all this into relief. I'm sure I'll calm down and forget about it all soon.
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02:34 pm
[Link] | I misread robhu's position on the contraception argument. I'm sorry for slandering him publically, and will try to read things more carefully in future.
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11:10 am
[Link] | I can't cope with new improved Christian Robhu going round telling people to stop having sex, never masturbate, not to use any contraception that might possibly affect implantation, and not to give in to their un-natural homosexual urges. It's making me angry. And dizzy. And jealous, because it would be nice to have a burning strong faith like fire, rather than a wishy washy mess of liberal compromises.
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