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i really needed a job, so i went to the temp agency. it turned out that they liked me so much that they asked me to work for them, at their agency. i now have a job giving other people jobs. i 0 . . .
we were protected, at least for a lot longer than most farmers, especially the organic farmers, who can't use poisons to prevent the disease. but late blight came to our farm this week. one w0 . . .
my bank account has been below $200 for months now and I'm sick of scrimping on every single thing, even toilet paper. so I've been looking for a job for over a month now. this has bee0 . . .
0709/IMG00330728.jpg This has been an amazing growing season for peas. They love cool, wet weather in the summer and will keep producing until the weather gets above 80 for a few days. I have0 . . .
I realize I haven't posted for a long time, but I figure now is as good a time as ever. So many updates. The nursing school thing sucked. So I ended up quitting school, even though I had g0 . . .
no jacket today. everyone's in a good mood. it's friday. it's sunnny. it's warm. there is an abundance of smiles going around in buffalo this afternoon. enjoy! i . . .
i had a seriously bad day. so many things went wrong, and i was having a hard time getting out of feeling bad. so i decided to make a list of ten things that were good about today. and they had0 . . .
i want to record this because i think it is the most positive i will ever feel about my pharmacology class. i just took my second exam this evening. i got an 86, which is a b. i got 80% on first 0 . . .
road trip march 14-19 destination: warmth, relaxation, happiness i'm so excited! 0 . . .
i fucking hate UB. [/ if anyone is thinking about going to school there, i would strongly advise you to go somewhere else instead. it is the worst school. every single class i'm taking th0 . . .
hmm. i just walked outside and they are killing a large tree three houses down from where i live. it wasn't even destroyed in the october storm. when i was watching this, i called the weat0 . . .
we have a lot of construction material trash that we need to take away from our house. does anyone know where we can drop that off? and when (what days, hours) we could do so? thanks! 0 . . .
yes, i've decided that i must skip class tonight. 1. i've already started to paint my face. 2. i'm about 80% finished with the boone's farms (ah, the memories...) that i r0 . . .
we love you, new orleans! enjoy your rebirth! 0207/Mardigras0220.jpg if anyone needs some help drinkin' tonight, let me know! 0207/Mardigras20220.jpg0 . . .
i have a super high metabolism. and i have been eating (overwhelmingly) vegan again. that means i got too skinny again. i don't like my weight to go under 125. i went to the doctor the0 . . .
i got the best valentine's wish from my soulmates: Love Love is We Love You Me We She He Love Be Just Be Love See Love Breathe love Give Love Eternity Loves Recipie.... 0207/Bread0 . . .
in my anatomy lab today, we were discussing all the muscles of the body, and our TA was often demonstrating what the different muscles do. we got to the facial muscles and there was one that one gi0 . . .
i have had many people from warm climates tell me that after it gets below freezing, you can't really tell a difference in how cold it is. they think that the difference between say, 20 and 100 . . .
friday: intoxication saturday: hangover sunday: cramps getting angry certainly is not so good for my health. i am looking forward to getting back to normal. 0 . . .
i ended up getting the winter sickness that hits people generally around the end of january. it is mostly gone except that i still have a slight stuffy nose and a bit of a cough. so the other day,0 . . .
so, my first two weeks of school, i was proud of how well i handled the enormous transition i just went through. i was not getting stressed at all about the fact that i suddenly was extremely busy al0 . . .
i learned yesterday in my microbiology class that there is a brand-new STD called MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). it is caused by a superbug. it's a kind of staph infection,0 . . .
i just read that some peeps might be looking for housing. i am living in a new coop on the west side, and we will be looking for some new people to move in withing the next few months. we share 0 . . .
i love our ancestors an immense amount. i know we have incredible wisdom that came from all their experiences. yet i have no idea why on earth any of our ancesters would have ever decided to move 0 . . .
i made it through what has been the most challenging day of work i've every had. i gave a sermon yesterday at the unitarian church in jamestown. i talked about my time in new orleans and 0 . . .
since i'm going back to school, i guess i need a computer, right? is it even possible to be a student these days without having a computer? i remember that i even brought one to school when i0 . . .
here is the grossest picture of me ever taken. 0107/Jan08690109.jpg i was making jack-o-lantern mouth faces while i was trying to see if my nose really is that crooked. i look like i'm i0 . . .
i was told that i made a mistake in posting what i had previously posted about my experience at the new year's party. i appologize that i was careless and would never, ever want to hurt anyo0 . . .
i got up super early this morning to go to the world peace meditation at the unity church on delaware. it was the nicest service i've ever been to that was inside a church. this meditation is0 . . .
I celebrated christmas for the third time today. today the invitees were: bridget, my roommate sabrina, roommate's sister chuck, sabrina's boyfriend ray, bridget & sabrina's schizophrenic f0 . . .
i took my first exam today, getting an a-. i'm taking developmental psychology at ecc for their winter session, which lasts only 2 weeks. i read the whole textbook and take eight exams over the two 0 . . .
as i was walking out to sit on the steps outside to have a cigarette, i was thinking how i always avoid the numbers 2 and 4, especially 4 and that i probably should make peace with the number 4. i 0 . . .
late last night, i was sitting around counting my blessings and was planning to go to bed soon. my neighbor came over and was in the mood to talk. conversations got heavy. "how long does i0 . . .
ub just called to say i was accepted into the nursing program. i'm about to head to my sister's for christmas. christmas eve on the full moon, the longest night of the year. christmas on the so0 . . .
here are the gifts i got so far for $0. "I leave peaceprints" magnet for my mom's car. It was gifted by the volunteer work that a beautiful woman has been doing delivering food to people0 . . .
here is an article i worked on last year. it blew my mind. worth sitting down and reading when you have some time. One Percent for Peace The Real War on Terror An Interview with John Davies B0 . . .
i went to my cousin lisa's graduation dinner last night. we ate at the royal on sheridan and military because that's where my grandma liked to go every week during the last years of her life. my gra0 . . .
my roommate and i hung a few more strings of christmas lights tonight. one of the strings of lights was all pink, so we hung it in part of the apartment that needed some love in the form of a big H0 . . .
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here's what i've accomplished from my posting the other day (see my post #29) relaxing: i relax all the time. and i get requests for relaxing together with other people. i love seeing people relax0 . . .
i went for a super long walk. it's a nice day and it's nice to feel some air that's not overly dry from the heating. early on in my walk, i saw a guy yelling "hold that bus," which didn'0 . . .
so this christmas, i have time. time to share talents, time to spend with people. i'm interested in helping people out. and i was thinking that maybe this could make the season of giving more p0 . . .
i have a suede coat that belonged to my grandmother. it's really old and has a lot of character. i love this coat. every time i go out when i'm wearing it, i give thanks to miss gertie or bessie 0 . . .
today i went to look at a room near ub, which would be very inexpensive. the lady was nice enough, but i know she wouldn't be able to handle living with me. i always seem to push people out of their0 . . .
oh goodness. my roommates decided to get trashed last night. weird. i'm not used to being around sloppy drunk people anymore, so i sought out quiet most of the time and joined in the party only s0 . . .
i love how each snowflake glistens in the light. so peaceful. this is what winter is about. peace.0 . . .
today i got to hang out with hannah michele, who has officially been here on earth for 16 days. she weighs just 6 pounds and she's so tiny, a little-itty-bitty human. this evening, for the first t0 . . .
i had my interview at ub today. even though i am not used to doing this formal type of thing, it went wonderfully. there were three people there interviewing me, which could be a little daunting, 0 . . .
i love cleaning. it brings me joy to see a space grow cleaner as i work. i love coming in to a dirty house, yard, forest or any area, spending time cleaning and loving the space. and then when i l0 . . .
i haven't had computer access for a couple weeks, and i finally got to be on a computer today. i went to paul's journal, and i heard some conversation about me. that's hysterical! i love the timing0 . . .
so last night, after i wrote my journal entry about nutmeg (#18), i moved over to my dad's brand new house. i am not in to material possessions at all, but i do need to marvel just a bit at the new p0 . . .
here is the essay i submitted to UB for nursing school. i'm kind of proud of it (although i liked it better when it was much too long; i had to cut a few hundred words to make it almost fit in to the0 . . .
i took 1 tbsp. of nutmeg this morning at 11:15 am. i wasn't surprised that the nutmeg took so long to kick in, as i had read a lot about it on this site: http://www.erowid.org/plants/nutmeg/ befor0 . . .
i am so excited! tonight i played in my first drumming circle. yay! i have been taking drumming lessons for the past three weeks, and i have improved tons each class (the first week, i pretty muc0 . . .
i had a fabulous weekend soaking up some carolina culture. saturday evening, i attened my second ever pig pick'n. we had a huge bonfire and the moon was full, so there was lots of amazing energy. 0 . . .
i gained six pounds today. i don't know how that is physically possible. hormones are weird.0 . . .
so, since yesterday was halloween, i decided that i was free to dress up in my favorite gypsy clothes. mind you, these are not clothes i would normally put all together, except maybe at a full moon f0 . . .
so i went to my first ever pig pickin' today. yes, me a long time vegetarian. it actually wasn't as bad as i thought. i imagined a pig all together roasting over an open fire on that thing that rot0 . . .
what is it about this whole finding a mate thing that makes people behave in ways they wouldn't normally? i guess emotions must be really intense. i met a guy two nights ago, and i really liked hi0 . . .
yes, indeed, we are all one. i had an amazing day. i started out working, doing some leaf blowing. i decided to pretend that i was high when i was blowing the leaves. surprisingly, it worked q0 . . .
i feel so much better after going on to estrip this morning. i don't think this is all coincidence: ajay posts about benfits of sex the sugar gliders have sex forever paul posts about the su0 . . .
earlier today, when i first saw my stepmother, ellen, i realized that if i were going to stay in a good headspace, i needed to put up a force field to protect myself. i have rarely seen anyone so irr0 . . .
ugh! applications are such an absolute horrible pain in the butt. i don't know how to answer these questions. i think they assume that everyone lives in some neat, tidy, fucking babylonian box. 0 . . .
hi buffalo. i was in the city for a bit sunday-monday, and i wish to send everyone a lot of peace. i couldn't believe the destruction all around, especially the poor trees. how sad. it was good 0 . . .
The Jamestown Post-Journal has a section where they highlight the top news stories from 10, 25, 50, and 100 years ago. Here are the top stories from 100 years ago (boldface added by me): In 19060 . . .
what a bummer! we got *no* snow down here in chautauqua county. none. not even a frost. all the marigolds are still gold. i was all excited to hear it was going to snow, especially because i'm 0 . . .
it was such a beautiful day! i live in the country in chautauqua county. i went for a long walk and hung out at chautauqua lake, reading The Shipping News. a very good book. yesterday, we we0 . . .
oh goodness. i just accidentally found myself on a date with some guy that i would never go on a date with. i really had no idea that's what we were doing. his name? started with a "j",0 . . .