Below are the most recent 24 friends' journal entries.

Friday, July 17th, 2009
dr_memory	5:50p	things I was not expecting to do today at work [The Biz Never Sleeps]   #1 -- costar in a music video with Amanda Palmer: Had I known, I might have shaved this morning. Better pictures forthcoming, I hope. Also forthcoming: a whole frickin' music video, on youtube. [cloned from BLAH, BLAH, BLOG] (20 Comments |Comment on this)
mystress	4:54p	Another thing today. Found this interesting and up my alley. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Polyphasic sleep refers to the practice of sleeping multiple times in a 24-hour period—usually, more than two, in contrast to biphasic sleep —and does not imply any particular schedule. The term polyphasic sleep is also used by an online community which experiments with ultra-short napping to achieve more time awake each day. Current Mood: needs a disco nap Current Music: The Rapture (1 Comment |Comment on this)
mystress	10:09a	Le Mot Du Jour leitmotif \LYT-moh-teef\ noun 1. In music drama, a marked melodic phrase or short passage which always accompanies the reappearance of a certain person, situation, abstract idea, or allusion in the course of the play; a sort of musical label. 2. A dominant and recurring theme. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Exhausted. Did Pilates yesterday, had to pick up some stuff, saw Michelle and Jon and got my lamp and closet light fixed, and talked to Hootch for almost 2 hours... both of us dreading where we are in life in that there's a big struggle. She was saying she imagined having child #1 at 33. I think my struggle is lighter since I moved up here, but I'm just emotionally wrecked. I could hardly get out of bed this morning. Had really stressful dreams and am totally exhausted today. Will need a power nap after some more tidying up before the houseguests arrive this evening. At least the apartment is looking better all the time. Current Mood: exhausted Current Music: Learn French by Podcast (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
lulu_girl	4:30p	sometimes, i love people!!! "This summer, sculptor Antony Gormley invites you to help create an astonishing living monument. He is asking the people of the UK to occupy the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London, a space normally reserved for statues of Kings and Generals. They will become an image of themselves, and a representation of the whole of humanity. Every hour, 24 hours a day, for 100 days without a break, a different person will make the Plinth their own. If you're selected, you can use your time on the plinth as you like. One & Other is open to anyone and everyone from any corner of the UK. As long as you're 16 or over and are living or staying in the UK, you can apply to be part of this unforgettable artistic experiment." http://www.oneandother.co.uk/ The current person is a woman just singing and dancing her butt on in the rain. It's seriously cracking my shit up. (8 Comments |Comment on this)
lulu_girl	11:26a	here, have some cat Just because. loopy cat is loopy OMG SQUIRREL MAN BATTLE STATIONS He has the best facial expressions. What an awesome weirdo...well, awesome except for when he bit the hell out of my chin last night. rabble scrabble damn cat. Also, is it the fucking weekend yet? No? CURSES! (17 Comments |Comment on this)
mystress	10:30a	Le Mot Du Jour dulcet \DUHL-sit\ adjective 1. Pleasing to the ear; melodious; harmonious. 2. Generally pleasing, soothing, or agreeable. 3. (Archaic) Sweet to the taste. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Second wind kicked in last night, nearly finished Morbid Outlook, but needed some pictures, so the issue will go live tonight. Shelves went up. Had an awesome grocery shopping trip with Oren in Chinatown and purchased a remarkable amount of yummy goodness for under $30. Need to measure the kitchen so I can purchase peel-n-stick tile and banish the nasty ass floor. I am becoming more and more thrilled with my place as I claim it for myself. Sonia and I have been having a reoccuring conversation because it seems like so many people around us have babylust. I'm just having jealousy issues with couples who have been together for long periods (up to 10 or more years together). Why have I failed so greatly? I feel like the impending doom is over my head and I should just prepare to be the cat lady so I won't be too disappointed later. Houseguests arrive tomorrow. Fun will ensue! Current Mood: okay Current Music: Learn French by Podcast (17 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
lulu_girl	4:33p	yargh! I think the vending machine at work just called me a fat ass. I am craving chocolate so I went to the machine to get some m&ms for me and co-workers to share, but when I got there the machine said 'bills only.' Well, okay, no problem. Walk back to my desk, realize I don't have a dollar bill. I wander around after coworkers, finally exchange quarters for said doller bill. Walk back to the vending machine, insert dollar, receive message: Exact change only. Uhm. Nothing in the vending machine costs an exact dollar. What the Fuck. So now I've walked back to my desk, defeated but sure I just burned off a bunch of calories. Must be an excercise vending machine. In other news: 1.) I received an eviction notice. YAY. I'm not being evicted, it was bascially an error. BUT STILL. THANK YOU LANDLORDS FOR THE HEART ATTACK. 2.) My phone is back on. I am a dumbass. 3.) My netflix acct got all screwy and now my netflix aren't arriving today. THIS DISPLEASES ME. AND OH MY GOD IT'S ONLY FUCKING WEDNESDAY THIS WEEK IS TAKING FUCKING FOREVER HOLY CRAP. WOE. (11 Comments |Comment on this)
mystress	10:48a	Le Mot Du Jour fractious \FRAK-shus\ adjective 1 : tending to be troublesome : unruly 2 : quarrelsome, irritable The Latin verb "frangere" ("to break or shatter") has many modern English relations. Dishes that are "fragile" can break easily. A person whose health is easily broken might be described as "frail." A "fraction" is one of the many pieces into which a whole can be broken. But "fraction" also once meant "disharmony" or "discord" -- that is, a "rupture in relations." From this noun sense came the adjective "fractious," meaning "unruly" or "quarrelsome." Though the "disharmony" sense of the noun is now obsolete, "fractious" is still common today. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Up one day, down the next. At least I feel sort of rested. I just feel... empty beneath a veneer of strong. I know I can still maintain professionalism with my troupe and with my job. I feel like I need my new step for growth. New Kathak classes are a good start. My apartment keeps moving along. I think I'm going to go home for lunch and get things done in there. I'll have visitors in 2 days. Current Mood: bummed Current Music: Murder She Podcasted (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
lulu_girl	7:43p	Question For those of you in the military (navy in particular) or work with the navy, do you have any idea how I'd go about finding out information for what ships my grandfather was stationed on, what actions he served in? He was a WW2 vet and continued with the navy until he passed in the early 1980s. I know he worked also with weapons testing (atomic I believe) in the pacific. All I have is his name and the info on his dog tags. Years back my mother gave me some sort of gov't documentation regarding his service but I honestly I don't remember receiving it and/or lost it. I SUCK. He was given a military funeral but sadly, I have no idea what he did...and I'd really like to know. My family is horrible about being open with things, I'm sure it's a sign of the eras grandparents grew up in, but damn. I feel like I'm losing a lot of family history as time goes by. Hell, if I didn't do a lot of research on my own, I wouldn't have found a census from 1933 with my Polish family's information which is the earliest known surviving document from their immigration to the United States (they came over during WW1, perhaps a few straglers in later years). Just wondering how I go about requesting info with the limited dog tag/name info that I do have. thanks a bunch, peeps! (11 Comments |Comment on this)
mystress	11:54a	Le Mot Du Jour louche \LOOSH\ adjective : Of questionable taste or morality; disreputable or indecent; dubious; shady. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I feel strong. Inside and out. Tonight is troupe rehearsal and I think it will be a good one and I hope to share my strength with those who need someone to lean on. I am in a positive mindspace today, even if I still have a lot of sadness with me. I don't have anything to lose these days. Countdown to friends coming to visit: 3 more days. For this, I certainly feel loved! Current Mood: strong Current Music: My Bloody Valentine (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, July 13th, 2009
lulu_girl	7:56p	well, it's that time. again. I think what now makes me the most sad, outside of Justin no longer being here (of course) is that I will never have new photos to share, never have new memories. Well, at least I have the ten years of memories that I do have, that's something. Miss you, Justin. Can't believe it's been two years tomorrow since you left us all. xoxo Me and J May, 2007 Last time I saw Justin. Me and Justin, 2002 Why do I always have such goofy hair? heh. (8 Comments |Comment on this)
lulu_girl	3:58p	1, 2, 3, is this thing on? Oh dear. Boring work babble ahead, you are forewarned. So I've been fighting all day to figure out why one particular service is failing for this website I'm testing, which in turn means I can't log in properly and do all sorts of things like actually use the website. Because really, now, websites are just meant to be pretty flashing things and not useful tools. Right? Right. As it turns out The Very Big Client for said website forgot to, ah, pay their bill for the server hosting these services, so said machine was turned off over the weekend. For some reason this is making me laugh and laugh. It's either laugh or set something on fire because it's now 4pm EST and I've wasted 3/4 of my day. Ah well. In other news, I still don't feel well and now I'm pretty certain I have the beginnings of a nasty head cold and my eyeballs hurt but at least my tonsils no longer feel like furballs...or maybe I'm just used to that feeling by now. Insert a lot of bleeting here. Poor me. WOE. In yet other news, I'm BORED TO NEARLY DEATH from being sick. BORED BORED BORED WHINE WHINE WHINE BAWWWW. I'd throw a temper tantrum but I barely have the energy to stay awake, so instead I shall sit here and look very, very grumpy. Oh and the rash? It's not any better, in fact it's slightly worse but I can't be arsed to care at the moment. /end stupid whining dumbass PAY ATTENTION TO ME NOW PLEASE post. edit: Some fun facts I recently learned. Chicago's World's Fair of 1893/4: Pabst Blue Ribbon was voted the best beer. Lulz. Crackjacks made it's debut. Shredded Wheat made it's debut. The first Ferris Wheel ever was constructed. Most of the buildings burned down in various arson related fires after the fair closed, due to an incredibly high unemployment rate and people in a state of desperation for attention to their plight, plus other OOPS DIDN'T MEAN TO DO THAT fires. Oh, and that H.H. Holmes serial killer was on the rampage. (11 Comments |Comment on this)
mystress	1:28p	Le Mot Du Jour brachiate • \BRAY-kee-ayt\ • verb : to progress by swinging from hold to hold by the arms +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mostly awake now. Paying the price for going to Neutral to see Johnny Hollow/Alectrona. it's a bad venue to see bands... and I missed Amy's Arms, which is a band I'd like to hear more of. I forgot I look like a technicolour nightmare until I went to Pita Pit for lunch and the sandwich maker had said, "neat makeup!". I'm back into the yellow eyeshadow thing again. Plus freshly dyed green. And purple lipstick. Because I can. I think it's because I forgot how much I like dressing up and last night was no exception. I got a new black veil that I paired up with my cameo tiny tophat, a kick ass Starkers! corset in velvet flocked taffeta, and my favourite big skirt and boots. Countdown to crazy slumber party at my house... 4 days. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Current Mood: awake Current Music: Peaches (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 11th, 2009
mystress	5:42p	Le Mot Du Jour lamster \LAM-ster\ noun : a fugitive especially from the law +++++++++++++++++++++ First kathak class this morning in a couple years. It's very beautiful, I am glad I'm starting again. I needed a new challenge, and boy, was I sweating this morning! Been very productive in the apt. today. I'm going to continue along this vein... :) Current Mood: busy Current Music: RSA (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, July 10th, 2009
mystress	12:17p	Le Mot Du Jour cloying • \KLOY-ing\ • adjective : disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess; also : excessively sweet or sentimental Current Music: Thou Shalt Not (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
lulu_girl	11:30a	I itch...therefore, I bitch. So I apparently have two viruses. One that's making my tonsil all bitchy. And one that's giving me a rash. You know what viruses mean, right? No medications will help. I can help the itching but apparently it will clear up on it's own in SIX TO EIGHT WEEKS. Although I'm sure while this is happening, my tonsil virus will mutate into a bacterial virus (like it always does) and then I'll have to take anti-biotics and then we'll see if that fucks with the rash at all, hopefully not. Can you tell I'm not sure how all this virus / body crap works? Science is hard. Woe. But apparently I have Pityriasis rosea, although googling images of that doesn't make me feel better because my rash doesn't look like that at all, so I dunno. And having the minimal rash I do on my feet, hands, one leg and arms is rare even for Pityriasis rosea...maybe I'm just special. I DON'T KNOW. ALL I KNOW IS THAT I ITCH. I MUST SHOUT! LOUD NOISES!!!!! If I'm not better AT ALL or it gets worse in the next week or so I'll go back to the doctor and ask her to give it another look. But it's definitely not measles (told ya so), not Scarlet Fever and not bed bug bites (PHEW). Itching makes me very irritable. I'm sure I'll have no friends left by the time this summer is finally fucking over. BOO HISS GRR (29 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
lulu_girl	2:10p	I'M NOT PARANOID AT ALL. HOLY WHAT THE HELL, MY PEEPS. HOLY.WHAT.THE.HELL. So I'm sure by now everyone is well aware of my ongoing and forever tonsil issues. Yes, I want them cut out and no, I've been told repeatedly that doctors don't 'do' that anymore, that it's 'old medicine'. Well, fuck you up your old medicine faces you fuck tards. If what I now have is actually what I think it is, then I'm finding an ENT and begging with whatever favors he or she would want for the rest of their lives to cut these fuckers out. Two weeks ago my tonsils started to act up again. JOY OF JOYS. Well, besides a sore throat, some fever, being tired, blah blah, I didn't worry about it too much. As soon as my tonsils leak (yum!) into my chest and my lungs get goopy/infected, I'm at the doctor asap. But goddamn it, I've been on antibiotics four times in the past twelve months alone. I thought I could fight this one off with lots of rest and fluids and stuff. WRONG. Now a rash has pretty much begun to crawl across my skin. It started on my torso in a wee spot, now it's slowly but surely creeping onto my back and all the way across my torso. Its on my both legs, attacking my right thigh first, both arms (although not that bad although my left arm is definitely faring worse), both hands, both sets of fingers and now my right freakin big TOE. I have a doctor's appt tomorrow, it's the soonest she can get me in...but my coworker brought up a good point. Sore throat with tonsil problems could be strep throat (although I've had strep in the past and while that SUCKED I didn't feel nearly as bad this time around...so I dunno) with a rash = SCARLETT FUCKING FEVER. Great. I've always wanted a rash that peels, it feels like Christmas OH BOY OH BOY OH!! Now my throat didn't hurt nearly as bad as strep, although it's still bugging me and it IS infected a bit and the rash isn't nearly as bad as what google-fu is showing me (HOLY FUCK) so I could be wrong, but my current rash looks surprisingly like what the images are showing just not to the NUKE IT FROM ORBIT level. I took a few pictures, only two, though, and only of my side and one leg, I won't gross and/or bore you all to pieces with my oddly fascinating and itchy as hell weirdo death rash. But if I do drop dead, I hope I do so after I can clean my hell pit of an apt and re-feed and re-water the kitty cat. Oh, and go rescue him, I do not want him to be forced to eat my rash filled skin for survival. That's definitely grody to the max. ( My rash behind here. ) (45 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
lulu_girl	2:46p	picture post! Hiya folks. So despite spending 80% of my weekend sleeping on my couch (thank you, tonsil bullshit) and completely missing all weekend festivities, I still managed to get out of the house for a bit on Sunday. Actually, 'for a bit' is quite the understatement as I pretty much walked from my apt in Brooklyn to the east village via the Manhattan Bridge, to then walk to the west village for brunch, to then walk from 10th street & 7th Avenue all the way down the west side hwy visiting all the park spaces to the South St Seaport at the southern tip of Manhattan AND THEN walk back up to the east village through the financial district/Chinatown and LES. I'd say I covered about fourteen miles. My feet are possibly dead for forever. I also wicked sunburnt, despite wearing spf 32432432. I fucking HATE summer. BUT ANYHOO. I took some fun pictures of these awesome sculptures in one of the parks...who's name has now completely escaped me. My crap memory. Anyways, here you go: OH MY GOD, WHAT IS THAT DOG STARING AT? ( Click under here to find out! ) (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, July 6th, 2009
mystress	9:53p	A lot of a lot There's so much emotional breakdown happening right now, I think I really just need to take it all offline. Therapy was really rough this evening and I'm in a lot of pain. Thanks for being my friends. Current Music: RevCo
mystress	5:02p	Jackassery Monday So my sister spilled the beans to my parents and completely ruined my surprise. I told my father I'd cut my dreads off if he got his passport and came up to visit. Such a thing has not happened. I am furious. I told off her answering machine really good. It's not like I ever see my family anyway so I guess it doesn't matter. I just need to live my life my own way and go on. Maybe I'll visit them for Xmas. Or not. But what a retarded thing to happen. Current Music: Bauhaus (6 Comments |Comment on this)
mystress	9:41a	Le Mot Du Jour scilicet • \SKEE-lih-ket\ • adverb : to wit, namely ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Saw Up! on Friday. It's a very charming film. Woke up this morning and wondered what the point was. I feel... pointless today. I haven't found my purpose in Toronto yet and perhaps I won't see it until later on. Hopefully I can just get through work today and see. Current Mood: blah Current Music: The Lurkers (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 4th, 2009
mystress	10:29p	The New Hair I really love it. Shampooing is a whole new experience. Current Music: Glass Candy (9 Comments |Comment on this)
mystress	7:57p	Le Mot Du Nuit invigilate \miss-kun-STROO\ verb : to keep watch : supervise, monitor ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Saw Up last night. Very cute! Also, have to share since I've been holding off this tidbit as I've been running into friends in real life... Took a little nap today after getting a hutch from Scarborough with Michelle and Oren, ate at Urban Herbivore and wandered around Kensington a little. I'm going to stay in and continue clearing up things in my apartment. Current Mood: content Current Music: Comsat Angels (3 Comments |Comment on this)
lulu_girl	3:47p	wah i'm bored ARGH My stupid right tonsil is all stupid again. I've been doing nothing but sleeping the past two days. So much for a nice, long holiday weekend. ARGH I'M BORED. I just keep passing out every two hours or so. Fevers during the summer blow. wtf. Well, I hope everyone else in the states is having a fine holiday weekend. Eat some tasty bbq for me! I am really craving a fresh glass of lemonade, I tell you what. Edit Bogie is bored too. Here, have some bored cat. YAY I HAVE A NEW BOX. I'M SO BORED I GOTTA EAT TAPE! (16 Comments |Comment on this)