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Zanzibar
Age. 39
Gender. Female
Ethnicity. that of my father and his father before him
Location Altadena, CA
School. Other
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This is my page in the beloved art community that my sister got me into:

Samarinda

Extra points for people who know what Samarinda is.
The Phases of the Moon Module
CURRENT MOON
Croc Hunter/Combat Wombat
My hero(s)
Only My Favorite Baseball Player EVER


Aw, Larry Walker, how I loved thee.
The Schedule
M: Science and Exploration
T: Cook a nice dinner
W: PARKOUR!
Th: Parties, movies, dinners
F: Picnics, the Louvre
S: Read books, go for walks, PARKOUR
Su: Philosophy, Religion
The Reading List
This list starts Summer 2006
A Crocodile on the Sandbank
Looking Backwards
Wild Swans
Exodus
1984
Tales of the Alhambra (in progress)
Dark Lord of Derkholm
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Lost Years of Merlin
Harry Potter a l'ecole des sorciers (in progress)
Atlas Shrugged (in progress)
Uglies
Pretties
Specials
A Long Way Gone (story of a boy soldier in Sierra Leone- met the author! w00t!)
The Eye of the World: Book One of the Wheel of Time
From Magma to Tephra (in progress)
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Harry Potter 7
The No. 1 Lady's Detective Agency
Introduction to Planetary Volcanism
A Child Called "It"
Pompeii
Is Multi-Culturalism Bad for Women?
Americans in Southeast Asia: Roots of Commitment (in progress)
What's So Great About Christianity?
Aeolian Geomorphology
Aeolian Dust and Dust Deposits
The City of Ember
The People of Sparks
Cube Route
When I was in Cuba, I was a German Shepard
Bound
The Golden Compass
Clan of the Cave Bear
The 9/11 Commission Report (2nd time through, graphic novel format this time, ip)
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Twilight
Eclipse
New Moon
Breaking Dawn
Armageddon's Children
The Elves of Cintra
The Gypsy Morph
Animorphs #23: The Pretender
Animorphs #25: The Extreme
Animorphs #26: The Attack
Crucial Conversations
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
A Great and Terrible Beauty
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Dandelion Wine
To Sir, With Love
London Calling
Watership Down
The Invisible
Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Host
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Shadows and Strongholds
The Jungle Book
Beatrice and Virgil
Infidel
Neuromancer
The Help
Flip
Zion Andrews
The Unit
Princess
Quantum Brain
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
No One Ever Told Us We Were Defeated
Delirium
Memento Nora
Robopocalypse
The Name of the Wind
The Terror
Sister
Tao Te Ching
What Paul Meant
Lao Tzu and Taoism
Libyan Sands
Sand and Sandstones
Lost Christianites: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
The Science of God
Calculating God
Great Contemporaries, by Winston Churchill
City of Bones
Around the World in 80 Days, by Jules Verne
Divergent
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Old Man and the Sea
Flowers for Algernon
Au Bonheur des Ogres
The Martian
The Road to Serfdom
De La Terre � la Lune (ip)
In the Light of What We Know
Devil in the White City
2312
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Red Mars
How to Be a Good Wife
A Mote in God's Eye
A Gentleman in Russia
The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
Seneca: Letters from a Stoic
The Juanes Module


Juanes just needed his own mod. Who can disagree.
The real reason you shouldn't drink coffee.
Tuesday. 6.5.07 7:43 pm
Inside the world of my book, a ragtag group of unlikely companion is being chased by legions of Trollocs, coursing through wilderness on horseback, staying just ahead of their pursuers. Their protrectress is growing more weak with each time she must call upon her magic to keep the army of approaching darkness at bay. The lads, previously untested in battle, are still smarting from their close encounter with death, the wild beating of their hearts as yet unquieted, the sweat on their brows in the midst of the cold winter's day unnoticed. Not enough time has passed for them to process what has happened.

Inside the real world, yes, where most of us live, I am sick. This is some kind of karmic retribution for the entry I wrote earlier, because I forgot to mention that nobody, NOBODY likes being sick in the summertime. GRAAGGGH! Now I have a slight fever but I took some medicine... all day it seemed like the medicine hadn't been working, but I think just that I had gotten a bit worse during the day and the medicine had staved that off until it ran out a bit ago. So during the day I just thought the medicine was doing NOTHING. But maybe that's not true.

Now I'm trying to eat some dinner but I've lost all sense of taste. I was wondering what the hell was missing from my meal as I spooned it into my mouth and then I had my answer. No taste. Tomato soup: no taste. Baked beans: no taste. I downed a cup of my very tart cranberry juice. Nothing, just the barest glimmer of taste around the edges when I licked my lips. My friend at work had it the worst though, she had a bad cold and when it left her, she couldn't smell, and worse, she couldn't taste but three things. I can't remember what they were, but any three things would get tiresome after a short while, because sickness distorts all smells and tastes, and EVERYTHING she ate smelled like one of those three things. It's been months and she went to see a specialist about it, but he told her only time would give her her senses back. In the meantime, nothing she eats tastes good. It's a wonder she eats at all.

Now back to my dislike for taking any kind of medicine, perhaps I'd better explain. This dislike extends to many other things: drinking coffee, alcohol, smoking cigarettes, etc. I kind of thought that I was alone with my strange reasons, until one day I was talking to Justin about it. I admitted to him this aversion to all of these items, and when he asked I explained that it was because if I were ever kidnapped or my plane crashed or whatever and I suddenly found myself in the middle of the wilderness (I usually think the jungle... maybe the Amazon... it did happen once in Animorphs), then I was going to need every advantage I could get to survive. If I usually used pain meds to get over my pain, the pain I was about to feel would be ten times worse. If I was addicted to anything- coffee, cigarettes, anything--- I would have to get over that addiction, which would bias me just that much towards not surviving. I wasn't going to take those kinds of odds.

"Or," said Justin, "If you went back in time."

Justin doesn't do any of the above things (except drink alcohol, the reason for this discussed below). Not because he thinks he might at any moment be dropped in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, no... but because what if suddenly he were transported back into time, to a time that didn't have a Starbucks on every corner or readily available Advil for his every pain? WHAT WOULD you DO??!?! You'd be struggling with all of the changes associated with another time period PLUS you'd have a ripping headache from your caffeine addiction!! You'd never survive. Alcohol, as you might have surmised, is usually available in other eras, that is perhaps the reason it gets the go-ahead, though I don't know. It's easier not to be addicted to alcohol than cigarettes or coffee, though you can become socially addicted fairly easily to all three.

Now whenever I talk about stubbornly not taking medicine I bring up the Amazon, and Justin rightfully appends "or back in time".

........ because you never know.

...............are you ready?

Well looks like my modern CRUTCH, that is, DayQuil, has taken a little bit of effect. Guess it's time to get back to the world of my book, where their problems are obviously way simpler than mine.
2 Comments.


Get well soon. It sucks to be sick altogether. I don't really like the smell of coffee and cigarettes stink hell of a lot.
» Nuttz on 2007-06-05 11:07:38

I want to join that Geith grade group

I know, I'm an entry late.

I'm in Texas time though, so I'm on point.
» Dilated on 2007-06-06 01:06:55

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