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10th-Dec-2009 08:00 pm - Lost DVD Set
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The Lost Season 5 dvd set came out 2 days ago. I'm upset because in order to access some of the bonus features including the Jeremy Davies Lost University physics class you have to get the blu-ray version. I don't have a blu-ray player and I'm not going to shell out to buy one and also buy the blu-ray Season 5 set...too much money for me to afford right now. I'm going to miss the Jeremy Davies class! The thing I was looking forward to the most! Winking Smileys

I'm incredibly pissed about this. And the funny thing is that whenever I take pictures I try to smile nicely for the camera but I always end up looking mean, I don't know why. I recently took some pics and my sister said that I look like I have an expression of scorn on my face, even though I was trying to look happy. She's actually right, I look like I'm giving somebody the shank eye. lol. So in light of this Lost blu-ray nonsense I'm giving the shank eye to the people behind the show not only for making me miss Jeremy Davies' class but also for having the audacity to kill off Daniel Faraday. I give them my look of scorn.

I Heap My Scorn On Them )
30th-Nov-2009 06:44 pm - FaceBook Fun
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Ok I'm really supposed to be doing work right now but I'm idling my time away doing silly FaceBook quizzes. Laughing Smileys

I took an astrology quiz Which Zodiac Sign Are You Most Compatible With? and my answer is Libra. *Kisses my Libra [info]ashlibrooke* That's actually very true, the majority of my friends have been Libras and Geminis (which is my sign). We're both Air Signs and understand each other very well. This quiz came out spot on, really. It's funny because whenever I hang out with Libras, either friends or guys that I had dated we have so much fun that we end up laughing hysterically, I don't know what it is. I have a Libra cousin (the one known as "blah blah" and btw I'm the other "blah blah")and I swear we have to be separated at family get-togethers. I remember one time that was really embarrassing because we were talking and of course ended up laughing like idiots...but the thing is that we were at...someone's wake...it was very embarrassing. Innocent Smileys

The other silly quiz that I took was What Celebrity Do You Look Like?. I got Jennifer Love Hewitt. Huh? I don't think that I look like her and I've never been told that. Her features are more aquiline and pointy whereas mine are rounder and thicker I think. Like I said on my FaceBook, the celeb (well I don't think that she qualifies as a celeb but she's famous) that I get told that I look like is Kourtney Kardashian. I've also been told that I look like Kourntey with a little bit of Khloe Kardashian mixed in. Well neither of them are really celebs, they're just famous for being famous. Actually I think they're famous because of who their father was.

Oh well if you want to get silly and take these quizzes, you can get them on my FaceBook here.

Ok I'm really going to go get some work done now.
21st-Nov-2009 11:23 am - 'WORDS' Meme
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I got this fun meme from [info]katje0711

Rules:

Reply to this meme by yelling 'WORDS!', and I will give you five words that remind me of you.

Then post them in your journal and explain what they mean to you.

Keep in mind that if I don't know you that well, your words might end up kind of odd or weird.

You'll only get five words if you do include 'WORDS!' in a reply to this post, meaning you can safely comment (should you wish to do so) without having to play.


These are the words that I got from Kat: Books, Jeremy Davies, Vaudeville, DVDs and History.

Click Here For My Responses To The Words )
14th-Nov-2009 01:35 am - KLUTZ!
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I almost burned myself good last night. Cold Smileys I sleep with a humidifier right next to my bed. My doctor advised me to do that to help with my sinus and allergy problems. I really do feel a lot better when I wake up in the morning. I put a chair by my bed every night and put the humidifier on it. Sometimes I bring the humidifier really close to me and I sit up on my bed and inhale the steam, it is really good for the sinuses.

I was doing exactly that last night when I moved and my knee accidentally bumped the humidifier and tipped it over. It fell forward and the top came off slightly and splashed water all over my bed. I jumped backwards to get out of the way of the boiling hot water, some of it landed on my leg, luckily it didn't scald me though. I was wearing thick sweat pants and it didn't soak through all the way because I jumped out of the way so fast. What a relief!

But then I was left with this huge mess because technically you can say that I wet the bed. Tongue Smileys Granted it was only water but I still technically wet the bed. Here I was in the middle of the night with a soaking wet mattress and sheets...even my sweat pants were wet. It was actually pretty funny.

My cat was sleeping on the bed totally oblivious because the water didn't splash on her side, it splashed on my side. She didn't wake up until I had to disturb her to change the sheets.
14th-Nov-2009 12:50 am - DVD: Different From The Others (1919)
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I was honestly surprised to have found this film on Netflix in the first place. To be more exact, I should say fragments of a film and it is surprising that these fragments even survived. Different From The Others (Anders Als Die Andern) is a German silent film that was made in 1919 in the wake of WWI. What had initially attracted me to it was that it came out of Weimar Germany and that the story was co-written by Magnus Hirschfeld, who also appears in the film as well. Hirschfeld was a prominent and fascinating figure in his own right. Unfortunately he is currently not a familiar figure despite being one of the pioneers for gay rights and women's rights in the early 20th Century. I had written about Hirschfeld in this blog in an entry about the biopic The Einstein of Sex which can be found here.

Different From The Others is groundbreaking in that it is one of the first films to deal with the subject of homosexuality. It is a tolerance film against Paragraph 175 which was a part of the German penal code that regarded homosexuality as "unnatural vice between men" and thus was a criminal offense punishable by jail time. Paragraph 175 actually ended up creating real criminals. Blackmail became an all-too-common occurrence as opportunists found easy money from frightened homosexual men desperate to keep their sexuality a secret. Many gay men were set up by con artists pretending to be gay in order to blackmail them.

Continued Here... )

5th-Nov-2009 01:13 am - Other (Silly) World Series Bits...
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It's funny that quite a few people have said that one of the Phillies pitchers, Chan Ho Park, looks a lot like Jeremy Davies/Daniel Faraday. I came across a lot of funny comments like "What is Jeremy Davies doing in the Phillies bullpen?" "Daniel Faraday is pitching for the Phillies." and so on.

At first I didn't really make the connection but now that I get a better look at him, he does kind of look like Jeremy Davies. During the entire series I was rooting for the Phillies to lose so I wasn't really making a connection between one of their players and my all-time celebrity love. But now that the series is over and I'm relaxed I can actually say that, yeah there is a resemblance. Of course I would much rather have Jeremy Davies/Daniel Faraday pitching for the Yankees. LOL.

5th-Nov-2009 12:33 am - YESSSS!!!! World Series Champs!!!!!
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Kat, do not read any further! LOL, Sorry



The NY Yankees won the World Series today in the 6th game against the Phillies. This is the 27th World Series win in the Yankees long and storied history. This is the first season that they played in the new Yankee Stadium and they crowned it with a World Series championship. It's very exciting that they brought the World Series trophy back to New York!
31st-Oct-2009 10:13 pm - "If You're Going to San Francisco..."
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I look like I'm heading to San Francisco 40 years too late, lol. I did the hippie look for Halloween. It was fun putting it all together, I even painted my face with flowers and a peace sign.

I have some pics. The lighting is so crappy though that you can barely see the paint on my face.




More Here... )
30th-Oct-2009 12:38 pm - Nervous Cat Mommy!
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I am completely freaking out right now because my precious cat is having surgery. I dropped her off this morning and I've been on pins and needles all day. She has a benign skin lump on her chest area and it became infected, so she is having it removed. The thing is that she's 17 years old and that lessens her chances of having a successful surgery. It was hard for me to even type that sentence because I don't even want to imagine anything bad happening to her, I would be totally devastated.

The bond between a person and their pet is very special. I raised my cat since she was a tiny little thing that fit into the palm of my hand. I can't believe that 17 years went by so fast and I know that she's an old cat but I'm not ready to let go of her yet. So I'm just sitting here waiting for the vet to call with (hopefully good)news about my precious baby.
26th-Oct-2009 07:03 pm - ALCS Champs!
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Last night the NY Yankees won their 40th American League Championship Series Pennant! They clinched the title in a 5-2 win over the LA Angels. They will now advance into the World Series against the National League Champions, the Philadelphia Phillies.

In New York, baseball is king and it is very exciting when the home team advances into the playoffs. We take our baseball very seriously and the city is filled with Yankee fever. The Yankees have not been in the World Series since 2003 so it is awesome and thrilling to have them in it again.

It is wonderful that the players from the Yankee team that was so successful during the late 1990's (like Derek Jeter, Andy Pettite, Jorge Posada, Mariano Rivera) gelled so well with the
new members (like A-rod, CC Sabathia, Mark Teixeira, Joba Chamberlain) to form a championship team. And Joe Girardi managing!

Here's to a great series and another NY Yankees World Championship!