You will never suceed*
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bending_sickleA Day in the Life of the Sickle:
Castle, 3x12:
Random Sickle Photographs:
Barcelona (Airport)
Tuareg goes above and beyond the concept of advertising by placing >5 living, breathing, slightly-moving pythons in a glass enclosure with their car. No, really.
Chicago in December
Flame for the Unknown Soldier, methinks. There were many pigeons with badly singed tail feathers, and you can see why.
The Art Institute of Chicago's fantastic stairs.
Rome in December
View from the Pincio at Villa Borghese.
Castel Gandolfo from the bridge.
My favorite photo of mine fromthis the past year. An angel on the bridge to Castel Gandolfo.
At Villa Borghese, a stone eagle gargled, reminding me of Dean Winchester.
Santa Maria in Trastevere Church. With literally hundreds of churches in Rome, they may get old fast, but dude, a camera chair? Awesome (mainly because it was the first one I've seen up close.)
San Giovanni in Laternao. That is one gruesome statue. (It's holding a marty's - he better be a martyr - skin.)
Quo Vadis Church and the supposed "this is where Jesus was standing" stone. Know your Bible stories.
Tombs for the Ardeantine massacre. There's about double that off-camera. Haunting. The cave where they were shot? Distressing.
Modern art. What the fuck.
I repeat: what the fuck.
It had music playing in the background. Awesome only because it made me think of Chip and Kezef and their bizarre red-vision.
Street art. So much cooler (and funnier) than modern art.
Ostia Antica in December
That goddamn elephant mosaic I couldn't find last time (because, it turns out, it was in a then-cordoned-off area).
Video of the Day: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Jan. 10, 2011 - Jon talks about the shootings in Arizona in the opening and I love him for it but we all knew that already.
Song of the Day: "When the Body Speaks", Depeche Mode (live) - This is the year's first Song I Put On Repeat. It is made of love and awesome. And apparently sweat, because ye gods, Dave, you're dehydrating!
* 11 Reasons Why You Will Never Suceed, Gary Vurnum
- I've been reading The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. Actually, I've only gotten two sittings in, and both times I've been fighting tears the whole while I was reading it. It's not even that particularly sad or dramatic, just inciteful and beautiful and ow my heart. I knew I was going to love this book from the quotes on
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literaryquotes. I've been wanting to read it for years and years now. - I went to the Goethe Institute today to register for a course which starts Monday. (Eeeeeep!) I told them I'd gotten my Zertifikat Deutsch in 2005, and that my last German class (in 2007) had been a B2.2. level. I took their placement test just in case, because it'd been a few years since my German saw the light of day and all. So the test is 99% grammar and 1% Short Text Comprehension. My resulting level? B1.1. FAAAAAIIIIIIL. I AM A FAILURE. That's basically what my mind went to at light speed. And while I get it, intellectually, that of course I lost some German, and of course it's rusty, and that if you don't use it you lose it, but OMG FAILURE FAILURE FAILURE. Anyway, I also got to talk to one of the teachers (who spoke extra-fast on purpose) and she said that my comprehension and speaking was fantastic, it's just my grammar, so I can take the B1.2 course and do extra work on the side to spruce up my grammer. Stupid grammar.
- What this means is that between the book and the test, I'm all a-wibble. The win, it is not here.
Castle, 3x12:
- Espositoooooo! Rawr.
- No, really. Sweet mother of pearl, rawr. Seriously.
- And I still can't decide between him and Ryan.
- (Can I take them both home? They're so perfect!)
Random Sickle Photographs:
Barcelona (Airport)
Tuareg goes above and beyond the concept of advertising by placing >5 living, breathing, slightly-moving pythons in a glass enclosure with their car. No, really.
Chicago in December
Flame for the Unknown Soldier, methinks. There were many pigeons with badly singed tail feathers, and you can see why.
The Art Institute of Chicago's fantastic stairs.
Rome in December
View from the Pincio at Villa Borghese.
Castel Gandolfo from the bridge.
My favorite photo of mine from
At Villa Borghese, a stone eagle gargled, reminding me of Dean Winchester.
Santa Maria in Trastevere Church. With literally hundreds of churches in Rome, they may get old fast, but dude, a camera chair? Awesome (mainly because it was the first one I've seen up close.)
San Giovanni in Laternao. That is one gruesome statue. (It's holding a marty's - he better be a martyr - skin.)
Quo Vadis Church and the supposed "this is where Jesus was standing" stone. Know your Bible stories.
Tombs for the Ardeantine massacre. There's about double that off-camera. Haunting. The cave where they were shot? Distressing.
Modern art. What the fuck.
I repeat: what the fuck.
It had music playing in the background. Awesome only because it made me think of Chip and Kezef and their bizarre red-vision.
Street art. So much cooler (and funnier) than modern art.
Ostia Antica in December
That goddamn elephant mosaic I couldn't find last time (because, it turns out, it was in a then-cordoned-off area).
Video of the Day: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Jan. 10, 2011 - Jon talks about the shootings in Arizona in the opening and I love him for it but we all knew that already.
Song of the Day: "When the Body Speaks", Depeche Mode (live) - This is the year's first Song I Put On Repeat. It is made of love and awesome. And apparently sweat, because ye gods, Dave, you're dehydrating!
* 11 Reasons Why You Will Never Suceed, Gary Vurnum
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Date: 2011-01-13 01:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-13 02:50 pm (UTC)AND YOU ARE NOT A FAILURE you'll brush up on your German grammar in no time! And hey, I've been studying Spanish for four years now and I still don't know when to use the SUBJUNTIVO DAMNIT. I mean, I know the rules and all? But I don't feel it, which pretty much means I don't know when to use the subjuntivo. *facepalm*
I love the pictures! (But what is up with SAN GIOVANNI? CREEPY.)
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Date: 2011-01-13 04:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-13 04:12 pm (UTC)Apparently (http://romanchurches.wikia.com/wiki/San_Giovanni_in_Laterano) that's Bartholomew the Apostle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_the_Apostle#Tradition) who got flayed and crucified upside down. *shudders* I can't think of flaying ever since I read Follet's At World's End (WARNING: Graphic description liek woah omg squick).
*smiiiiiiiiish*
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Date: 2011-01-13 04:30 pm (UTC)Flayed alive whattttttttttttt. *hides*
*goes to watch Sherlock* *is excited like a flaily excited thing*
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Date: 2011-01-13 05:09 pm (UTC)*MOAR SQUISHES*
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Date: 2011-01-13 05:49 pm (UTC)JOHN ♥. SHERLOCK ♥.
*GLOMPS*
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Date: 2011-01-13 06:06 pm (UTC)THEY ARE ADORABLE, ARE THEY NOT? *snuggles*
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Date: 2011-01-13 06:26 pm (UTC)And now I have such spectacular urges to re-read the stories. ;p However, HAS TO DO MATHS FIRST. STUPID MATHS.
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Date: 2011-01-13 06:32 pm (UTC)THERE, MATHS DONE!
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Date: 2011-01-13 06:56 pm (UTC)SERIOUSLY.