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Zanzibar
Age. 40
Gender. Female
Ethnicity. that of my father and his father before him
Location Altadena, CA
School. Other
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The Link To Zanzibar's Past
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.
Le Sigh
Thursday. 9.29.11 10:16 am
Let's see if we can itemize the lovely things that have happened to me since I moved to Paris:

1. Air France loses luggage.
2. Shuttle company tells me wrong door, wait for more than two hours for shuttle.
3. Hotel 1 is kind of dirty, bitten by mosquitos.
4. Start feeling sick if I spend too much time in my office.
5. Hotel 2 has bedbugs.
6. Allergic to bedbug bites, my arms, legs, ankle, hands, and face swell up many times their normal sizes and itch like crazy. Old bites turn into boils and explode.
7. Hotel proprietor washes all of my clothes.
8. Allergic to the soap, I break out in a rash.
9. Dry all of my clothes on high heat to kill the bedbugs, burning my favorite shirt and melting my favorite purse. Bedbugs explode making blood spots on clothes.
10. Smoke pours out of the laundromat, a woman comes and orders me to remain where I am until the owner of the laundromat comes.
11. Wait for 45 minutes, the owner comes, there is nothing wrong with the machine, it was just my clothes that were burning and melting, he confides in us that the woman hates his shop and she's always trying to make trouble.
12. Decide to clean office floor. Discover mouse droppings and mold everywhere.
13. Post-floor cleaning, sick office feeling stops happening.
14. 3rd hotel. Creepy Jorge and noise at all hours. But a restaurant!
15. Eat at restaurant. Get food poisoning.
16. A new man replaces Jorge in the room. Turns out he is a well-known thief who buys a room in the hostel for a single night and then steals everything in his neighbors' luggage. Maria discovers him going through an Australian girl's suitcase in the middle of the day. A bottle of vodka goes missing. The thief is reported to the hotel staff, who confirms that his key-card has been disabled and he will not be able to re-enter the room.
17. Thief re-enters the room, starts to get ready for bed. Australian girl rushes to the reception, they get together a bunch of security guards and managers and escort the thief from the room. Since all of my luggage is in my office to keep it free of bedbugs, not a problem.

Conclusions:
1. Hostels are great for vacationing, but do not ever live there.
2. Cleanliness is next to godliness
3. I can't wait to move into my apartment tomorrow!!
8 Comments.


adventuuure!

Glad to hear you'll be moving into your own space soon. Bedbugs are the absolute worst, I hope you never have to deal with them ever again.

You've probably been told this already, but... Hotel bathtubs are the best place to store your luggage until you're sure your hotel room is bed bug free. Also, always check the headboard and dresser drawers for them, that's where those suckers like to hide.
» Amelie on 2011-09-29 11:42:40

OH. MY. GOSH


» The-Muffin-Man on 2011-09-29 03:29:09

I can't stop imagining bedbugs exploding now.
» randomjunk on 2011-09-29 08:32:12

The bedbugs exploding...gave me so much happiness. It's AWFUL that they did it all over your clothes, but that's a victory on your part. YOU WIN.

re: Yay thank you! I don't think drunk Kevin and I will have the pleasure again, though.
» Unicornasaurus on 2011-10-01 01:06:59

Yay for apartment!!! Boo for the bad stuff that has been happening!
» Nuttz on 2011-10-01 12:39:50

ooh... non-stop action.
» renaye on 2011-10-04 08:02:30

I just saw your grandma on facebook.
That is awesome.
» middaymoon on 2011-10-05 05:28:39

:)
I know that that all sounds crazy and awful and no-good, but i am so.freaking.jealous.of.you.right.now. lol
I hope you're having fun in between the maddness, and don't forget to note me your new apt address! I have to think of things to send you!
BTW, I brag to all my texas friends about you - is that weird?
» Helena on 2011-10-09 11:41:14

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