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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 World









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.
Barbed Wire Fences
Friday. 12.12.14 12:49 am
There are a lot of things that I like about working for NASA, but there is a big one that I didn't expect.

I like having a big huge fence with barbed wire around my workplace that is guarded by security guards.

Why?

Because I really like walking to my car late at night and not being worried that someone is going to murder or rape me. I guess I didn't realize how much of my time and energy went into being thinking about this until I didn't have to think about it anymore. When I used to walk home from work in Providence I would spend the whole walk imagining exactly how I would karate chop potential attackers, from the moment I left my office to the moment I arrived safely home. I used to walk home while it was still light outside, get my car, and drive back to work so that I wouldn't have to walk the 15 minutes back to my house in the dark. Nobody in Providence would have told me that that precaution wasn't necessary.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man dies but one.

Maybe it's cowardly to enjoy hiding behind a barbed wire fence, only hanging out with honest, straightforward people who've all passed extensive background checks, but it's very relaxing. I wish the whole world could be like that, no fences required.

Now the only thing I have to worry about while walking to my car at night is being attacked by mountain lions.

Because apparently we have mountain lions here.

And bobcats.
5 Comments.


On the plus side, a bobcat can probably only maim you, not kill you.
» randomjunk on 2014-12-12 03:36:17

Oh, Kyle is my ex, also best friend, also "The Dude" as I used to refer to him in some entries. The bus ride took about six hours and was about $35 each way.

Also I thought you were in Argentina? :S Even so, I was only in LA for one full day, since I bused down on Friday and left on Sunday.
» randomjunk on 2014-12-17 03:16:15

Bobcats ... if you see one, you should definitely take a picture. And then go in the other direction ... =)
» LostSoul13 on 2015-01-03 02:50:48

re: I was fine with them as a kid, but as an adult something seemed to have traumatized me and I started having a serious problem. It's still a hit or miss, but I know that it's possible so I try to channel that now. I still have trouble with stalls that have huge gaps in the doors. Or dead silent restrooms. The more noise, the better it is.
» LostSoul13 on 2015-01-14 12:33:10

I would not have expected someone to use either of those adjectives to describe that entry.
» randomjunk on 2015-01-22 03:39:53

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