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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance         Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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Being old somewhere. 
I'm getting ready for another road trip up to Washington wherein Brandon's sister's probably going to take every opportunity again to explain what "our deal is" to every other guest at this wedding. Going to hear, across the room again, "Oh they're not married, but I still introduce her as my sister-in-law. They've been together 10 years and I don't know what their problem is." |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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Originally posted by Xeoman Those are my feelings too. People who get engaged and then married in under a year are fools. You need to be together a few years to really know what the other person is like, go through hell with them and see them at their worst and still want to be with them before you should make it a legal commitment. At least, that's how I've always seen it. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| I finally saw "Das Boot" earlier this week, after asking that last question. That was a movie I'd been meaning to watch forever.
I guess another answer to this would be "The Dark Knight Rises." Haven't seen it and I'm not really dying to either, but I probably should. You know, as a geek and all. What kinds of meat have you eaten other than chicken, pork, and beef? |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| Finished "Rogues" last night. A few of the stories were pretty good, others were pretty crappy and had annoying audiobook readers to emphasize it, almost.
The George R. R. Martin story at the end was just a history about the Targaryens, particularly Daemon, the Rogue Prince. The audiobook for it was read by Iain Glen (Jorah Mormont on the show). I guess it was all about what was going on with the family just before the Dance with Dragons? Because they mention it's about to happen what with Viserys I's family all fighting over who's supposed to succeed him since he had declared his daughter Rhaenyra his heir before he remarried and ended up having a few sons with his new wife, who wanted her firstborn son to take the Iron Throne next. The man writes a very fascinating history. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| Heading out of town in a week for another wedding in Washington. I'm excited to get another road trip up there. Staying with my cousin in Sacramento on the way up and down.
I've got a friend's bridal shower this Saturday. I'll be missing her bachelorette party since it's the same day as Brandon's cousin's wedding. So many weddings this year. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| About average, I suppose? I've had more than a few "mystery" bruises. Just sort of finding them and not knowing how I got them. But it's not like, if say, someone grabbed my arm, the mere act of them doing so would cause the capillaries to burst and my skin to purple.
Has anything ever been served to you on fire? |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| Started reading another book of short stories, "Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy." I'm about a quarter of the way through.
Currently on a very long wait list for our next book club read, "All The Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr. The other girls picked it out. Based on the way it was described, it sounds like it's movie-option-bait, which will in turn become Oscar-bait. Something about the Holocaust and meeting a blind girl... I think... I don't know... Anyway, finished "Song of the Vikings" yesterday, after putting it down for a few weeks. Also read "Sandman: Endless Nights," "Chinese Cinderella," and the latest volume of "The Unwritten," which was a crossover with "Fables." It was horrible. I'm finally going to try to sit down and read a whole lotta books I've been meaning to all my life, starting with a few sagas. This will definitely kick my ass. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| Started into "True Detective," finally. However, since I'm watching it with Brandon, we're only a couple episodes in since he's not been home much the last couple days due to work and band practice.
I like it so far. Took one of those Buzzfeed quizzes a few months back for "Which Television Antihero Are You?" Everyone was hoping to get Tyrion and I got Matthew McConaughey's character. Reading the description for him, I ended up going, "Yeah, that definitely sounds right." Well, those quizzes are only to be taken with a few pounds of salt. (Last edited by Rogue on 09-15-14 07:02 PM) |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| Miko definitely does when I'm laying down with my laptop. Tiki does it when people use my dad's computer in his office, mostly because she does it to him and he's the one with whom she's affectionate.
Have you ever been impressed by a card trick? |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| Yes, but mostly in the regard that overcast days make me happy, particularly if it's a misty day and I can go wander about in it. After that would be warmish spring and autumn days with cool breezes billowing through the new leaves and vibrant, chlorophyll-depleted ones, respectively.
I also love rain, seeing as we here in SoCal so rarely get a good downpour. Absurdly hot days makes me pissed off, especially if I have to working outside in them. Have you ever said some really inappropriate things in front of a kid? |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| Finished "True Detective" a few days ago. That was pretty great, and while I'm definitely not as extreme as Rust, I agreed with so many of the random things he'd just say.
Many of his random ramblings that simply pissed off Marty were things I've said and thought about before (like how people who are only good because they're hoping for a divine reward at the end are pieces of shit). Haven't been watching much else lately since I've been reading more. Probably better that way in the long run. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| I'm not at all familiar with these devices or how any of them are any better than any other. I just switched over to Brandon's old data phone from the flip phone I had, which is now my mom's.
I can't make much of an informed decision on this, but I guess I'd go with Android just to count myself out of the Apple circle-jerk. What menu item is usually too good to pass up for you? |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| This thread has become largely masturbatory apparently.
Finished "Queen Victoria's Book of Spells" some time last week. I ended up really liking one of the stories in it and wrote to the author of it and we've exchanged a few e-mails. This trip I've been reading a new book, "Villains, Scoundrels, And Rogues: Incredible Tales of Mischief and Mayhem" by Paul Martin. It's been an interesting read in the car when I'm not the one behind the wheel. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| Go you on getting a new compy, Chev.
I'm in Sacramento right now. We weren't supposed to get here 'til tonight, but my cousin had called to ask if we could spend more time here and since Brandon can't take Wednesday off we left Washington a day early and got here at 4 this morning. It's been another good trip up the coast. Tomorrow we're going to take the long way home, driving on the eastern side of the Sierras down the scenic 395. See about visiting Mono Lake and the parts of the 395 north of Manzanar I've never gotten to see before. We've been sleeping in a different place every night for the past week. It's only at my cousin's, here, that I've been able to feel at all comfortable with a clean bed and a decent shower. I mean, here's what one of them looked like: 
I haven't really had wi-fi most of this trip, so I'm really behind in EVERYTHING. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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This bathroom in Portland's gonna give me nightmares.
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| It's funny you should ask because I have this mug with Edvard Munch's "The Scream" printed on it that I've been using for all my tea lately. I tend to not wash it out so it's just got all these brown stains along the rim. Brandon just sort of looks on bemused as I pour water into it and throw it in the microwave with a bag ready for the next cup.
It's not necessarily my favorite mug or cup, but it's the one that I've been defaulting to in the past couple months. Since I just got back from the week-long road trip, I think I'll have some green tea now. I don't care that it's 98 degrees out and we've got no A/C. Fuck it! On another note, when I stay at my friend, Katie's, in Palo Alto (which I haven't gotten to visit in the last couple years), my mug of choice there is this broad one with Shakespearean insults written all along the sides. What movie/TV filming location have you been dying to visit? |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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Originally posted by Elara It's a collection of recently written stories (mostly by women authors) that feature in the Victorian era. I picked it up at the library when I noticed one of the stories was written by James Blaylock (one of the authors who created steampunk, whom I interviewed for the university paper years back). The stories take place in that time, though have some supernatural elements thrown in -- fairies, communicating with the dead, witchcraft, ghosts, etc. A few of the stories are pretty blah. One was written by a woman who, in her biography, kept applauding herself for writing steampunk before it became mainstream, but her story was essentially the literary version of "Just glue some gears on it," as she kept overusing phrases like "steam-powered" and "clockwork" to describe EVERYTHING. Several of them were interesting and put fantastical spins on real historic events. One story was about the cholera outbreak from people using the Broad Street water pump, which was essentially dug into a cesspool. The story had these women, in this bizarre effort to cleanse their souls through exercising free will, gathering water from that pump, making lemonade with it, and distributing it for free to people at a baseball game. Another story I really liked was about the girls who made Lucifer matches, using white phosphorus, and contracted phossy jaw -- an illness wherein the teeth begin to ache, the face swells, and then your jawbone starts to fall off and glow-in-the-dark. (Last edited by Rogue on 09-24-14 04:21 PM) |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| This weekend's mostly been anime convention meetings (got some interesting news from a friend at the ALA meeting yesterday), but we've got Stitch's dog's charity walk this morning.
Hoping to crash the Viking Festival after one of the Hanadoki Con meeting this afternoon. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| It's cider season. Taking it in at the apple orchards, with their apple cider donuts frying and the red and orange-leafed trees wafting in the cool breeze is the best time of year.
Fresh-baked apple dumplings at the colonial village filled with cinnamon and covered in a thick layer of homemade caramel would be a close second. Hm, time to do something with our apple pie moonshine. What's something that you have done that no one else you personally know has done? |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| Fuck you, wisdom teeth! Fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you!!! The pain from one of them was so bad it kept waking me up last night.
Why not have them pulled, you might wonder? Because I can't afford to have an oral surgeon rip them out. I have to wait for them to be out enough for my regular dentist to pull them. So far I've had one out of the four pulled this way. Made an appointment to be seen Thursday morning. That's so far away with this pain. GAAAH!! |
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