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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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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.
I hate the dentist
Friday. 12.31.04 12:43 am

At first there is the practicing bit before tuning. It's a bit painful to listen to and poorly organized, oops, a slip here, oh my, I thought your lip was going to split so I rubbed vaseline all over your face. Uncomfortable, no order in the madness. Then there is the tuning, and the instruments buzz in your ears and everything smells like cinnamon or spearmint and they ask you if that flavor is ok even though they're already putting it on and you don't really have a choice. If the orchestra tunes to A, then goddammit, you better not have been expecting a B flat. Then it begins, there are moments of terror, woe, pain and curiosity. Sometimes it gets so quiet and monotonous that you almost fall asleep... then WHAM! great excitement! Hundreds of instruments, all at work at the same time! buzzing and whirring and singing and crunching and making your tongue go dry and numb with pure shots of soul anesthesia that hurt so much in order to take away the pain away in wrenching catharsis. The cold bursts of the larger, bass vacuum sends chills throughout your body. Finally, the crescendo. All emotions come to a peak! You jerk pitifully in your chair as the instruments strike a nerve! The concert-master pauses, revamps his bow, and then strikes one more chilling note, as his hand trembles in fervent vibrato against your wobbling cheek. Just a pinch. It will be over soon.

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an entry not about Brett, but for him nonetheless
Friday. 12.31.04 12:23 am
so I was talking about how whenever you think something will happen, it doesn't. So then I had myself completely convinced that since I had thought of some particular thing, it absolutely meant that it couldn't happen. However, being so completely convinced that it wouldn't happen under these circumstances, the only way for me to be once again caught by surprise is if it did happen. Which it did. I'm not complaining, but life really likes to play games with me. Don't you, Life?!? grrArgh!

set THAT one down for ambiguity, BRETT! ha-HA! Put that in your vaguery pipe and smoke it!

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Thursday. 12.30.04 11:01 pm

Things I just have to do:

Learn to play the harmonica
Learn to play the bagpipes
Learn to play the cello
Learn Arabic
Go SKY DIVING, I went Rocky Mountain climbing, I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu
and I LoooOVed deeper, and I spoke SWEeeter and I gave forgiveness I'd been deNYINg
I hope someday you'll get the chance
to live like you were dying
sorry, I got off topic there. I also have to
Ride in a helicopter (preferably fly one)
Board down a sand dune!
Go to Norway to see the fjords
get packed for my trip, during which all the things that would normally be on this
list, such as fishing for piranhas in the Amazon, will be accomplished. Other
things that will (hopefully) be accomplished on this trip:
Visit Asia
Visit Africa
Go to Angkor Wat
See the Taj Mahal
Buy an awesome Vietnamese hat
Play video games in Japan
Pet a deer
See once and for all if I am prone to sea-sickness
play the tin whistle a lot
see lions, only in Kenya!
Go to Kilimanjaro
see penguins
go to the rainforest
go to a place where a hammock is your only bed
have a luau
dance the samba with the people who invented it
date internationally. I mean, cross the international date line.
see a giant jungle cockroach???
GO TO ZANZIBAR and pay $5 for a hammock on the beach for the night???
watch the superbowl in a random bar in Japan???

ok, so back to the original list...
go hang gliding!
get married
have kids
go to Istanbul
get a professional massage
buy an awesome sword
go to tibet
hot air balloon ride
what's your favorite dish? I'm not gonna cook it but I'll order it from ZANZIBAR!
geez, that makes me think of Adam Tallman. How far away is Zanzibar from Mombasa, I wonder? (Did you JUST SAY MUFASA?!)

Life is too hard, I'm thinking about taking it P/NC.


watching: The Most Exotic Places on Earth
listening to: 30 second previews on Napster, because I'm so cheap
mood: random

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Saturday. 12.25.04 5:38 pm
The circling dragons murmured with excitement and came to roost on the cave's edge. The lone cormorant fluttered vainly towards the cliff's summit, dropped ten feet, paused, and then plummeted haphazardly the thousand feet into the sea.

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Ah, my life
Wednesday. 12.15.04 1:26 am

My life is rated PG.
What is your life rated?

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the All Knowing Internet Quiz
Tuesday. 12.14.04 1:52 pm
So I've been reading Ranor's nutang, and thus have taken a slew of internet quizzes...

You are AIR
YOU ARE AIR!


Your inner element is one of change and growth. You
are an intensely intellectual and curious
person who simply must know the answers to
everything. You question everything about the
world and the people in it. Because of your
constant search for new things you are blessed
with the ability to change and adapt to most
anything. You love people and tend to get
active in causes that interest you. You tend to
attract many friends but don't tend to hold on
to them for great lengths of time. Any career
that stimulates your desire to learn or develop
new things is ideal for you. Love for you tends
to start out as friendship and build into a
life-long commitment. You look for trust and
openness in your partner, and once you find it
you will let yourself fall completely in love.


Your greatest strengths are your incredible ability
to learn and adapt to all things. Your
weaknesses are your inability to slow down and
let others catch up. If you aren't careful, you
will leave too many people in the dust.
Balancing your strengths and weakness is
crucial for you to achieve balance in life.

Astrologically, Air is associated with the signs of
Gemini, Libra and Aquarius. You are most
compatible for either love or friendship with
another Air Elemental or with an Fire. You are
least compatible with a Earth Elemental.


Now that you have an idea of your strengths and
weaknesses, why don't you put them to the test?
If you follow my lead I can take you to a game
world where you can explore different sides of
yourself and taste real power....



Which of the 5 Prime Elements are you?
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This is how my moral philosophy relates to the ideas of others according to the Knower of All Things, the Internet Quiz:
1. Aquinas (100%)
2. John Stuart Mill (80%)
3. Kant (74%)
4. Prescriptivism (74%)
5. Plato (73%)
6. Spinoza (71%)
7. St. Augustine (66%)
8. Jeremy Bentham (62%)
9. Aristotle (60%)
10. Ayn Rand (60%)
11. Ockham (55%)
12. Jean-Paul Sartre (48%)
13. Stoics (40%)
14. Cynics (31%)
15. Epicureans (24%)
16. Nel Noddings (23%)
17. Thomas Hobbes (14%)
18. David Hume (13%)
19. Nietzsche (8%)

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You are Mr. Bingly. Immediately likeable,
handsome, and rich. You are humble and cute in
a boyish way. All women want you--if Mr. Darcy
isn't taken, that is.


Which Pride and Prejudice Character Are You?
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Sunday. 12.5.04 12:19 am
The trees are in their autumn beauty,
The woodland paths are dry....


I really like this poem and the reason why is something that a fellow in my English class pointed out one day- that there are nine and fifty swans. That means, when they paddle, lover by lover in the cold... there is an odd number of swans and one must paddle by itself....

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Sunday. 11.28.04 7:00 pm
The taxi-calling man had the best Thanksgiving anyone could ever have, he said. He was tired but every time he tried to fall asleep the delicious smells of his wife's cooking filled his nostrils and he woke up again to say, "That smells GOOOoooOod, honey!" and she would respond, "It ain't cooked nothing but the bread yet!"
On Friday he went out and bought her a dozen roses because he said that was the best meal he ever did eat.

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