tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-187710152012-01-08T16:35:45.036-05:00raxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01507572883125059874noreply@blogger.comBlogger921100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18771015.post-27082051114825564872007-07-26T12:52:00.000-05:002007-07-26T14:54:22.669-05:00

As any of you who have encountered me in the last year or so know, my brother is in the midst of a cross country bicycle trip (he is in the South group) to benefit Habitat for Humanity. I am so proud of him for what he has chosen to do, and for his commitment to this very intense proposition. I hope that one day I will have the drive to commit to such an endeavor. Reuben embarked on this trip

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There are things which come into my life unbidden. I don't know if I could count them if I tried. One of them that I am currently enjoying is The Go! Team. I know that I didn't have their complete album previously because I looked for it, over and over. I thought to myself "I like this one song, I must have their whole album somewhere", but alas I never did. And then suddenly, there it was

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It's been three months since I returned from Rwanda. What, you mean I didn't tell you that I went to Rwanda? Yes, I realized that I have been pretty quiet about that. My life, as ever, is full of excuses. It was an incomplete experience while I was there. It was too raw right when I got back. Then I moved. Then I had a boyfriend. Then...It was an intensely powerful, intensely personal

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When I moved into my new apartment I was worried that I would spend all of my money at Whole Foods, a mere two doors away from me. For the most part I have been good. It's easy when all I eat is pasta. But of course I make an exception for produce, and cheese, and beer, which is no more expensive at Whole Foods than anywhere else. My downfall, in so many ways, has been that I now have an epic

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Seriously guys, the best tv show EVER is Flight of the Conchords. I am watching it right now and it blows my mind. I can watch it on HBO on demand whenever I want. I don't know if anyone has seen Eagle Versus Shark (I have not yet), but the guy who plays Jarrod is Jermaine. WHOA.

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In regards the article belowThere have been countless times over the last four years that I have wondered if I wouldn't be better off living as an expat in some European country with socialized medical care and a realist's view of climate change. Articles like this make me grateful to live in the United States, and I am glad to be reminded of it. In my high school no one was allowed to wear

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DSC02069.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.I am starting to get excited for my impending vacation to Denver. I was speaking with someone the other day and realizing that I am slowly shifting from considering Denver as home to DC. I'm not all of the way there yet, but I'm getting there. Still, part of my heart will always be in Denver. I suppose you can't live in one house for 21 years

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My mind is feeling a little noisy at the moment. I had a dream last night that I was in my elementary school carpool, but that we were all as old as we are now. And whenever I tried to talk to anyone they acted like I was the village idiot. It was just like elementary school, when carpool was probably the thing I dreaded most about each day. What made it even harder was that one of the people

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Entropy1_1.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.My cats woke me up too early this morning, with their crazies and their zoommies. I've been awake for almost two hours, trying to get back to sleep, watching the end of the season of Lost, and pretending that I don't feel as nauseated and exhausted as I do. My new apartment is basically done, I just have to straighten up the miscellaneous chaos

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Rwanda462.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.I have had a couple of experiences in my life that have made me stop in my mental tracks and think hard about the world I am living in. I had one such moment this morning as I was walking to work. A woman was walking down the street, sobbing hysterically. It was rush hour and the sidewalk was crowded, yet no one paid her any attention. What I

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Sitting in 14U on this ever so snowy afternoon. It's been an interesting week to be a DC resident. Take for instance Wednesday, which was warm enough to walk to and from work, and on the way to the office I spied a very interesting woman outside the Columbia Heights Giant. She was maybe a bag lady, maybe a little crazy. She work layers, and black boots, and a skirt. She had a grocery push

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I just went through my flickr stream and deleted slightly less than 100 photos. This is my continuing effort to make all of the things in my life better. To reduce the amount of medicority in my life. And I choose to begin with the fact that my flickr stream is full of mediocre photos. It is weird to go through the stream in the organizr, looking at the different photos, looking at when i

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O'Tasty Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.Last night I needed to buy quart grocery bags and wet cat food. Because today I am in Florida. It was not warm enough to go outside and sit on the beach, so instead I slept, because I only got four hours of sleep last night, because I decided it was reasonable to take an 8 am flight. Anyway, getting back to the grocery store. My sister was in town

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Dear (name removed, but some jackasses know who they are),Last year at this time you and I were exchanging instant messages from across the globe, contemplating our respective patheticness at going to concerts of bands that we love by ourselves (I didn't end up going alone, so I was less pathetic than you. loser). For the record, if I could go back to that day and convince myself to stop

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DSC03463.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.I have learned an important thing about myself in the last year and a half. I am not *good* at people. I take a book to the bar. I wear headphones on the train. I scribble in my journal during the free moments of my life. These things are not conducive to meeting new people, and certainly not for my dating prospects. My efforts to learn how

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DSC_0221.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.Trust is an evolving beast in this world of internet and casual encounters. I am occasionally struck by the incredible urge to delete my internet presence (blogger, livejournal, flickr, last.fm, musicmobs, google, facebook, myspace, friendster, librarything) because it frightens me to see how comfortable I have become with the reality of inviting

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When I was young my parents would listen to John Dunning's "Old Time Radio". It was a show on KHOW, where my mother also had a Sunday evening show about finding deals in Denver. "Old Time Radio" was rebroadcasting of old radio shows, complete with Lucky Strike commercials. At the time I knew it was neat. To listen to these old shows, mysteries, westerns, I didn't always have the patience

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Nikon1_1.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.Snowy Sundays are perfect for laundry and reading. Which is what I've been doing all day, though it didn't actually start snowing until about two hours ago. I haven't gotten dressed, I haven't showered, I've just been drinking tea and reading and listening to music that was old when my dad was born. I've stopped waiting for the phone to ring,

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As I was walking home from work today two men talking said "Hi", I responded in kind, and one said "Enjoying the weather?" and I said yes, and that I had just gotten off the phone with my parents who are in Denver (which was true). We then started talking and it became a very nice concversation. they both have lived in DC, around my neighborhood, for some time, and the talked some about how the

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ephemera.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.The last couple of days have felt frenetic to me. It seems like there is not enough time to do all of the things that I want to do and the things that I need to do. On my own time, the want things win out over the need things almost all of the time. Which means that there has been very littel studying. Some things that I have been playing with

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Pandora Music Mobs Last FMThe above three links are very similar, but are different in important ways. Explore... they are all fun. I would also mention Art of the mix because it is neat, but I don't think it's being maintained and is pretty basic. But the discussions can be pretty cool.

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I was sad last year when the world lost Telegraphs as a mode of communication. Are we really on the verge of losing Morse Code? I think that perhaps simply because it is no longer a required skill does not necessitate that it will disappear forever (don't people still learn Sanskrit?) There will always be people like me who love the old, obscure things.

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Denver82.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.Truly, what good is an art show if you're not going to take someone down in the process?These are the things that I do, rather than study for the GRE, a weekend and one weeknight condensed into succinct bullet points:1. Clean my room. As in moving the bed and mopping.2. Freak out about how I am going to pay for graduate school.3. Watch 13

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Denver113.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.Christmas may not be my holiday, but I thought I would put together a list of some of my new favorite things:Foodler Definitely check it out if you're in the DC area. Chuck Palahniuk wants you to write Learning to Love you More you should never get bored.I saw Blood Diamond today, and it was intense and hit me very hard. All I wanted to do was

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xmas1.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.I slept until twelve pm, contemplated getting up and making coffee and realized I didn't need it. Despite nothing quite happening the way I expected it to over the last couple of days, I have had a really nice, relaxing long weekend. Today I am off in search of Chinese food and a movie, in the tradition of most American Jewry.

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Denver29.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.There's a bunch of stuff I've been meaning to write about recently, and as always, as soon as I open my computer to work on it, all of my thoughts fly out of my head. Ain't that the way.I was in Denver this last weekend for my friend Laurel's art opening (pictured above, at said event). It was phenomenal, as I knew it would be nothing less.

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DSC03511.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.I dream of a studio or an efficiency with a lofted bed and lots of light. No more north facing windows for me, I miss my rainbows. I've been feeling a little lost lately. Everyone in my life is involved in fairly serious relationships. And we're all getting to an age where that actually means something. And here I am... alone, and mostly happy

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DSC_0133.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.What does it feel like, to really trust someone?Suicide is a line in my life. A number of people I have known have crossed the line, one person has tried, and one person I know about has seriously considered it.I have come just short, in this journal, of explaining how truly upsetting an experience high school was for me. During high school I

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The beauty of fandom.I am a reader of blogs. Not many, just the ones published by my friends (Look! There on the side! It's a bird, it's a plane... It's a blogroll!) and a couple of select others. Kevin Smith and Dooce most regularly. Because they are well written, tend towards hilarity, and don't make me feel a. stupid or b.like i've just wasted five minutes of my lifetime. I was struck

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A comment was left on my last posting by someone unknown to me. This person invokes Jesus and the New Testament in reference to love. I am not Christian, and generally I have some distrust of people who immediately jump to discussion of Jesus and his love when faced with, well, any sort of discussion. For now I am leaving the comment, because it isn't directly proselytizing through my blog.

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DSC03515.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.What does it mean, to understand the love I want to have, to have known what it feels like, and to know that the person with whom I feel it is not the person I can be with?When I'm with him we hold hands. He makes me feel less crazy for being in love with the little things in life. He makes it okay that I want to throw bouncy balls off tall

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For the second year in a row I have had the honor of attending the Women for Women International Women of the World Awards Gala. Last year I was a guest, and had only just become familiar with the work of the organization. This year I attended still as a guest, but also as a staff person, someone who has seen some of how the proverbial sausage is made, and who continues to be astounded and

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Friends, I tell you you have not lived until you have spent an hour on the living room couch with a 6'7 German man named Oliver, watching the Gilmore Girls and discussing heavy metal versus industrial, and how Metallica carried us through high school. I guess some experiences really do transcend time and space... though I didn't think they would really involve Metallica. In other news, I will

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Note to self:Probably don't read O magazine about the women your organization helps in Africa while on the metro. Crying on the train is so cliche. Anyone out there who's curious about what I do, why I put up with the days that make me post stuff like I did last night, and the night before that, check out O magazine for the month of December (currently on the stands). Page 283. These are not

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A note on absenteeism. This has not been an easy couple of weeks for me. Unfortunately there is very little of it that is mine to talk about, but in the interest of completeness and honesty, right now is not an easy place for me to be. Things get better in bits and spurts, but it's not quite awesome. And by not quite awesome I mean at least I don't quite feel like I'm drowning in this moment.

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It's been a day. Something in my room smells of cat piss and I have not yet determined what that is.Awesome.

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There are a million things I want to write about, but in the harsh reality of the fact that, in fact, no one is interested in what I ate for lunch, I don't really know what to say about any of it. How do we know which are the right decisions to make? How do I know if I am living my life well, if I am a help to my friends, a comfort to them in their time of need? How do I know how to be the

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1. Do you sleep with your wardrobe doors open or closed?Closed2. Do you take the shampoos and conditioner bottles from hotels?Only if it's a nice hotel and I like the way the stuff smells.3. Have you ever 'done it' in a hotel room?Yes.4. Have you ever stolen a street sign before?Yes.5. Do you like to use post-it notes?Only since starting my current job.6. Do you cut out coupons but then never use

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That's my imitation of the Car Guys. That being said, this weekend i am in Cambridge visiting a dear, wonderful friend. Today we had a wonderful relaxing day, observed the shabbat in a way I haven't done since I was in Israel, and walked around. I met her friends, which was also amazing. I like Cambridge (I have to keep in mind that all of the time that I think I've spent in Boston has

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When flying on the shuttle between Washington DC and Boston at 9pm from National Airport it is completely unnecessary to get to the airport an hour and twenty minutes early, no matter what they say. Go home, get your i-pod and inhaler, you won’t miss the flight.When being paid hourly GO HOME at 5 pm. Especially if you have a flight to catch and haven’t packed yet (so you don’t forget your

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The touring pink lamp.It was not a great day today. There was about an hour there where I thought it might be, but not so much. Things that were good today:Rilo KileyMaking pumpkin pie (for the first time ever!)Drunk dialing my momThinking about Boston tomorrowLast night I saw Say Hi to Your Mom, which was unexpected, and fun and wonderful. Jenn and Susan came with me, even though we were all

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There's a definite downside to the part of google chat in which people can attach pictures to their profiles. This is that when I scrolled over my ex boyfriend's name (with whom I chat perhaps once every two weeks or so), I saw his picture, and it startled me. It's not that I've been avoiding his picture, it's that after breaking up with someone there is a process. And generally fairly early

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I have voted in every election since I have been eligible to vote. I overnight mailed an absentee ballot from Israel when I was studying there, and that was an odd year election. I did not always get the nifty stickers, because for the majority of my voting existence I have voted absentee, and this is the first year that Colorado has included stickers with their absentee ballots. When I was a

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Yesterday morning I woke at 4:30 in the morning to books falling on my head. I had stored them on the top ledge of the window frame. This did not seem like an ill-fated plan at the time because I had done so on my other window frames with no ill effect. And, in truth, these books stayed put for a month and a half.Beyond the physical discomfort of suffering a bloody nose from paperbacks falling

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Question received today Nov. 6, 2006-"What/ Who is google"?

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Today I met a woman who is truly living a life of courage, tenacity and hope. She lives in a war zone and helps women to support themselves and their families. She goes to work every day down different routes so that she decreases the opportunity for those who don't like what she does to hurt or kill her. She lives the decisions that she makes every day, and she is aware of their implications.

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It surprises me to be able to say that since leaving college one of the things I enjoy most on the weekends is sleeping in, but not sleeping in too much. I was never like some of my friends who could, and would easily sleep until 4 or 5 in the afternoon. But more often than not I wouldn't get up until about 1 or 2. I love that now, on the weekends, I can wake up at 9 and feel like I've been

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Ok, So I'm a little late to the NaBloPoMo scene. I guess that's what happens when I fall of the face of the Earth (or at least the internet) in order to move and start a job which takes up a significant part of my life. There I was, about to write something about work, and then I remembered dooce and what a damnfool idea that is.So here I am internets. I am taking pictures again, I am writing

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There is something truly satisfying about standing in front of the shredder and destroying a year and a half of unused checks from three different bank accounts. I'm purging my life of stuff that is taking up space, and I am protecting myself against identity theft and fraud, and also the shredder makes an incredibly satisfying hum. On the subject of stuff that takes up space. I've been

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Fall is upon me, the leaves are finally changing and the chill in the air is definite. I'm beginning to layer, and it makes me happy. the heat is finally fixed in my house, which is excellent considering that it has gotten down into the 30s and 40s at night for the last couple of weeks. My life has been different since moving, and sometimes thats a good thing, and sometimes it is not. I don't

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So here I sit in Great Falls, Virginia, trying not to fall asleep and then wondering... why? why should i not fall asleep? aside from the desperate fear of my contact lenses adhereing themselves to my eyeballs, there is really no reason. perhaps i shall go to sleep... and sleep for a very long time. or perhaps i shall wander downstairs and eat some very very good food that i did not pay for.

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Yes I saw it. Not only did I see it, but I saw it opening night. It was a wonderful B movie. Oh darling Samuel L. Jackson (they had the foresight to run the promo for his next movie, which looks equally absurd, before the show) I have been your adoring accolyte since first I watched The Long Kiss Goodnight. Jackson was undoubtedly the star of the show, and EVERYONE knew it at all times. If

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DSC02920.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.I got my first "real" job in the spring of my ninth grade year. I worked one day a week at a local independent children's bookstore. Around the same time one of my good friends also got a job. She worked at a kite store. Over the subsequent three years of high school I maintained my job at the bookstore. One summer I got an additional job at a

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DSC02751.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.Listening to: NMH (ipod on shuffle for the first time in ages)There are certain situations that make me feel as though no matter how much I learn I will always be a novice. Sometimes I think that any subject on which I have actually devoted any amount of time studying actually falls into this category. Today, and most days, it is the Israel /

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Ok, so I finally got my grubby paws on TV on The Radio's "Return to Cookie Mountain". I was planning to listen to it at work all day, but alas, my ipod remains firmly ensconsed in my alarm clock where I forgot it as I ran out the door this morning (note to self, you really *can't* stay up until 2:30 and still get up at 7, no matter how much you tell yourself that you can).I haven't been able to

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From an e mail my mom forwarded me:Subject: LEAD: Scientific claims about gravity still up in the airHello,My client, Michael Jones is appalled that despite over three hundredyears of claims, scientists are unable to prove that gravity is due toobjects pulling on one another. In fact, this Tacoma author is offeringa $15,000 reward in a contest to prove his point.Please let me know if you'd like

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In Sight Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.Attitudes about standardized testing aside, I can actually see the purpose of the LSAT. It reasonably measures the things that a law student ought to have before emabrking on an intensive course of legal study.Despite an OVERWHELMING urge, I am NOT allowing myself to study this morning. I just have to trust that in my studies, at various points, I

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With respect to Neil Gaiman from whom I took the following as a direct quotation:"According to the Bureau of Homeland Security, New York Has No National Landmarks That Might Interest Terrorists. "That was a key factor used to determine that New York City should have its anti-terror funds slashed by 40 percent--from $207.5 million in 2005 to $124.4 million in 2006." The official list omits..."

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i am feeling filled with absurd contradictions. i feel too old and too young, too jaded and too naive. how can i feel so strong, and be so easily hurt? how is it that i can expect the best of people and settle for the worst? what is this life that so utterly baffles me on a regular basis, that leaves me a quivering mess, that tires my soul and exhausts my heart?i was on the airplane yesterday

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DSC02569.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.Last night I saw My Morning Jacket and Pearl Jam at the Verizon Center in DC. It was awesome. Ok, well it wasn't NIN and TV on the Radio at Red Rocks (::sob::) but it was definitely a great show. I've never heard My Morning Jacket Before, so they weren't as exciting as they could have been, but they were pretty good and I will definitely be

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So here I am in DC, and it's 12:19 but for me it feels like 10:19, only exacerbated by the fact that I slept through three hours of West Wing DVDs that my aunt was watching. So now, though I should be sleeping, soundly and deeply because I have a big day tomorrrow, I am watching a very old X-Files episode, "Blood" from 1994 this was episode 3 of the second season. In the first couple of minutes

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My review of X-Men III: The Last Stand lives over here where the spoilers remain safely behind a cut. Please go read it, I am interested to hear what other people have to say about this movie.

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Where'd she go? Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.Currently Reading: White Apples by Jonathan Carroll. Have you ever had a book get into your head so completely that you have moments when you can't remember where you end and the story begins? The last book i really remember that happening with was Someplace to be Flying by Charles deLint. That's one of the books that will come with me

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Aaron2_1.jpg Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.And I'd be lying if I said it wasn't easy.Listening to: "Engine Driver"- The DecemberistsI wrote last night. For two and a half hours straight, fueled by coffee and beer and cigarettes. Suddenly I understand why Warren Ellis hangs out in the pub. In that short short time I knocked out over 5000 words neil gaiman says 1000 words a day is

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Currently Reading and Up Next Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.Currently Listening: Camera Obscura "Happy New Year"This morning I fell in love with an unexpectedly quiet busy street. I love moments when it feels like the world is sleeping and I am watching.I have great difficulty admitting I am wrong. It hurts. It is so hard to look at something that seemed so genuinely to be *truth* and to

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DC Northeast Boundary Stone 8 Originally uploaded by zhurnaly.Despite my proclamations that I am a romantic, that I am naiive and find beauty in the world, very few things make my jaw drop open in pure, unadulterated amazement. This did. "In 1791-92 Andrew Ellicott and the free African-American Benjamin Banneker surveyed the border of the District with both Virginia and Maryland, placing

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DSC02259.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.I had something to say here, and I don't know if I remember what it was. It had to do with the inevitable futility of trying to do something *good* in the world. With the ways in which people destroy themselves by slow degrees, and the ways in which we justify these things. I throw myself into the LSAT with what can only be described as the half

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DSC02405 Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.Listening to: Tom Waits "San Diego Serenade"Confusion turns to fear, fear to terror, terror to confusion, confusion to sadness, sadness to emptiness, emptiness to anger, anger to acceptance. After acceptance I'm ususally able to sleep. And after sleeping I can usually come back, and look at the situation with fresh eyes, and rested emotions, with

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DSC02386 Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.For the first time I can actually determine that my hearing is less the day after a concert than it was the day before. I feel like I need to turn my music up just a touch louder to hear it, I can't hear the conversations in the hall quite as clearly. Next time I'll be bringing ear plugs. Cause I like being able to hear. Also, it's easier to hear

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Paper Cranes.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.A proposal:There are dozens of interesting people I have encountered through the internet. Mostly I quietly observe their doings, their art, whatever form it takes. I know about them what I can gather from what they decide is important.A thought.All of these people create, in some way or another. They all put something into the world that

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DSC02310.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.The time: Tuesday nightThe place: some bar on ColfaxMy state of inebriation: Not quite as drunk as I let myself feel.So there I was, out with two people I barely know. Strangely, one of them I have known for over ten years, and yet... I barely know him. I think I may have scared him some, when I off handedly mentioned the clothes that he used to

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Paper Cranes.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.Listening to: Badly Drawn Boy "Easy Love"To: The WorldFrom: arielRe: This bitesLook, I just want you to know, it really sucks. I'm an awesome person, and I pretty much deserve to be around awesome people my age. I deserve to be wooed, and even seduced. I've earned the right to be around people who aren't depressed, who enjoy their lives,

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Listening: Tarkio "Devil's Elbow"My apartment is not clean, but it's not outrageously messy. I know I've been eating but I don't feel like I've been eating. I feel... disconnected. As though nothing really matters in this moment. What *does* matter to me right now is that I can't find the first disc from the Tarkio Omnibus, and my cat keeps eating the houseplants, and consequently he vomits.

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DSC01981.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.Death Cab for Cutie in CSI tonight. Interesting, how popular culture has shifted from valuing the popular to valuing the unknown. Garden State launched the Shins from fairly successful but little known to much better known, and somewhat more succesful. The people who chose the music for Grey's Anatomy are obsessed with Tegan and Sara.

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Thinking back on my last post, I realize that not only have I not developed a habit of walking in the rain in any other place that I have lived, but I have not developed the habit of walking in any other place that I have lived. Here, I walk for the sake of walking. I walk to clear my head, to remember my body, to remind myself that all I need to be elsewhere is the desire to move my body. I

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DSC02168.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.Currently Listening to:"Summertime" Ella Fitzgerald and Louis ArmstrongI had forgotten how that line pulls at my soul every time I hear it. I don't care if it's Ella, Louis, Janis, or Me First. Something about the necessary mournfulness, the wrenching truth of that one sentiment. I've got nothin' to prove to you, this is just the way it is.

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DSC02019.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.I've been cleaning a lot. Getting ready for Leise to move in, trying to shed some of the detritus from the life of a packrat. My problem is paper. I keep scraps with sentimental value, I keep bills and copies of bills, statements and applications. And books. So many books. I don't get rid of the books, not because I think I will reread them (

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DSC02057.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.I bought four CDs today. I mention this only because two of them contain the words "el oso" in them. A brief amazon search has shown only seven cds that they carry with the words "el oso" involved in them. Unimportant, just interesting to me. I also bought the Misfits CD "Famous Monsters". Looking over the liner notes takes me straight back to

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DSC01982.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.Original description: If we never stand still we can never be possessed.What is the nature of love? I come to realize that love is not, in fact the wonderful thing i have been lead to believe that it is. When we tell someone we love them we are not giving the person a gift, we are giving them a reponsibility. By telling someone that we love them

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DSC02147 Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.Unbirthday presents are wending their way through time and space. Keep a look out.

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DSC01947.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.Reading: Housekeeping by Marilynn RobinsonListening: Neutral Milk Hotel Two Headed BoyRight now I am at work and I just want to go home. I was just looking at an old acquaintances pictures from when she made Aliyah (moved to Israel) and, in combination with a discussion earlier today I am feeling nostalgic and homesick. Homesick for a place

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curlyqman Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.Currently Listening To: Brian Eno "Golden Hours"Currently Reading: Handwritten: Expressive Lettering in the Digital AgeI'm researching again, and it feels really good. Something shifted last week. I was suddenly out of a rut I'd gotten stuck in. I'm surrounded by ideas, and instead of feeling jealous that other people are so creative and I am

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DSC01185.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.So if a birthday is about receiving presents and kudos from friends who are glad you were born, it would stand to reason that on an Unbirthday one should send presents and kudos to friends who are glad you are alive (or possibly you should send poop in a flaming bag, and criticisms to people who wish you had never been born, but we'll assume that's

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DSC01737.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.A pink woman with a chainsaw? I think so. I do adore the graffitti art. Perhaps because I'm not quite hardcore enough to actually make my art on the sides of buildings, but rather between the covers of a book which can be conveniently closed and hidden away in a back pocket or a dark corner. I still have trouble believing that I am capable of

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self portrait 1.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.I sat in on one of our inservices today, on domestic violence. As I sat in the room I found myself with many different feeling and thoughts, and as I prepared to leave I found in myself a new feeling, that perhaps I have a duty to share my story. The speaker talked about holding people compassionately, how to hear a person's story, and be

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DSC01235.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel.I've decided that it's time to get off my happy ass and actually do something. My car *is* going in to get painted this week. I'm babysitting on Sunday, I've signed up for an online course, I've registered for a CPR certification class, and I'm working on finding some volunteer work doing something I'm really actually interested in. And, I've set

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DSC01316.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel. I attended a fundraising event for an organization called Women for Women international about a week and a half ago. It was in Los Angeles, which meant that I got to take a short trip and spend some time in the sun. The event was amazing. The organization sponsors women who have survived war all over the world. The woman will receive

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I just finished listening to the NPR piece on transorbital frontal lobotomies that originally ran on Wednesday during All Things Considered ("My Lobotomy" ). It amazed and disturbed me. I can only imagine what it must have been like to live in an age in which a parent or guardian, a doctor or a spouse could decide that my unhappiness warranted an outpatient operation to keep me from feeling.

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a very kind note to a thief Originally uploaded by prettyjjbean. This is not my picture, it's from one of my contacts on Flickr, but I love it, and I want to share it. I am constantly amazed by people's ability to steal things that will have no meaning to them. I love the idea that the robber will wantto play the little girl's violin and not sell it. It reminds me of just how jaded I

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DSC01185.JPG Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel. Existential crises non-withstanding, it's been a pretty low key week. I saw Laurel's art opening at Pirate on Friday night, which was very nice. I never cease to be amazed at her ability. I have so much respect for artists of all kinds, those who really truly practice their art (unlike me, right now I feel like I'm mostly pretending).

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I saw a sneak preview of Paradise Now tonight. It is a movie by Palestinians about two men who are chosen (having previously volunteered) to be suicide bombers. The movie follows them through their lives and decisions over the next 36 odd hours. This movie has gotten me thinking in a number of different ways. Firstly, it is a beautiful piece of propaganda. The majority of the characters are

raxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01507572883125059874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18771015.post-1131515853746351752005-11-09T00:57:00.000-05:002006-11-03T17:13:12.103-05:00

This is my new blog/ website. For those of you joining me from livejournal, i've already explained why i've moved to blogger. In brief, blogger gives me more ability to express myself. If at some point I find that blogger is no longer cutting it either, I'll move on to something else. The other part of my move is that livejournal did a really beautiful job of helping me work my way through

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