Imaginary Gardens

I've just had the most amazingly shittastic day ever. I mean, it was pretty neutrally shitty for most of it, where I was organizing lion photos into albums for later analysis. I even went for McD's (so bad, so god) armed with a 2-for-1 coupon and got free fritesaus (funky mayo) along with my ketchup.

But then I kind of lost it a bit, emotionally speaking. Don't rightly know what set it off, or what I was woeing about (feel first, analyze later). There was some stress, some loneliness, some not-home-sickness, some missing of people.

There was also a very frustrating, very exhausting activity. I'm entitled to some reimbusement from my research. I sent my supervisor a summary, as requested, of what I was owed (after meeting him the day before and signing some papers). He sent me an email with another form. Why couldn't he have sent it in the first place, saving me the trouble of writing it all out twice?

Anywho, I needed my government number for the form. I remembered where it had been four months ago. Gods knew where it was now. I went through papers. I went through boxes. I eyeballed Giant Suitcase under the bed. The same suitcase that had taken ages, some sweat and quite a bit of skin off my hands to stuff under the bed. ( Read more... )

Quote of the Day: Tom Hanks

People always think that there has got to be a dark side to everyone, a closet with skeletons, demons under the bed. People think all kinds of things about one another. They feel compelled to make up fears and false assumptions about their closest friends. Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

Links of the Day:
Webcomic: Nemu Nemu
News: WHO: Swine flu pandemic has begun, 1st in 41 years
Wiki: List of songs about Montreal - I added "Montreal" because I couldn't believe it wasn't on there already.
Long-distance relationship songs: Melanie Doane - Never Doubt I Love, List One, List Two, List Three
leonidaslion's SPN Fanfic: The Bright Lights of Disturbia
Suitcase's Quotes
Pennywhistle: how to play, how to play Christmas carols
Stuff to Read


* Marsha Norman

Got the following in spam. Maybe it's the headcold, but it actually has some nice bits. Almost like a poem, but making less sense than Cummings. In fact, think it might just be a poem.

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I just love "your gloved hands covering your lips' good-bye event".

A similar one, though (much) less poem-ish, is:

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*googles* *scans* Well, alright. It's got bits of real poems. I've found the last line ("...hardened snow") and a few others (e.g. "the same sound of bees") in Yves Bonnefoy's "The Only Rose". The rest of the winter-themed poems on that page are pretty too.

Me needs a thoughtful!Mort icon too...

Edit: Talk to me, people! The internet is a big, lonely place... *pout*

Edit2: Just sent incredible long email of praise to NeonDaisies. Such a fangirl. *hangs head in shame* But omg such good reads.

Links of the Day:

Communities linked through thanks to yuna_firerose: deppicons, johnny_icons and the most-fabulous and entertaining minimovie_icons.
evadne_noel posts her reading list of 2006 with reviews and color-coding.

* Yves Bonnefoy, "The Only Rose"

Yarr be a book meme. From frodolyn.

Mark the books you've read in bold text.
Italicize the books you've started, but never finished
Underline the ones you own but haven't gotten around to reading yet
Add three titles of your own to the list before posting it to your LiveJournal

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* Anon.