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03/15/2006 12:23 #23810

not much....
So I wanted to post something because I'm sick of seeing the lone star every time I log in.

But, I'm too tired to form complete sentences and coherent thoughts.

So I just leave you with a new user sound.

"Worked up (so sexual)" by the Faint.
(how can you not love a song about strippers?)
Check it out.

Naptime...

P.s. so mad I can't make it to st. matty's day!

03/10/2006 20:28 #23809

Lone Star (warning- kinda gross.)
Category: work
Ok, so i've been lamenting the fact that Boy I Like, Boy Who Likes Me, and Boy Who Is Not Off-Limits cannot all be same person. And it's totally bumming me out. Everything is always way too complicated...
But then at work today things were put into perspective a little...

Kids, be glad you do not have Hirschsprung's Disease. It is a disease where you colon doesn't have enough nerve cells, so basically you can't shit, and it all just builds up forever. To the point that you have to have your colon removed. (usually as a baby.)

Now, after you take out someone's colon, the shit has to go somewhere, right? Well there are pretty much two options. 1: an ostomy. But shitting in a bag isn't always so socially acceptable. Especially as a kid/teenager. 2: sewing the small intestine to the anus.

We just did the latter on a baby. Well she had an ostomy for a year, and today we took the ostomy down and did the "pull-through".

But to get to the point of this story... as you can imagine, it is kind of hard to sew something to a puckered up little asshole. So some sadistic fuck invented a retractor called the Lone Star. (sick pun, no?) Basically it's like an 8" ring with notches around the edges. And then there are the other parts. Basically SHARP little hooks attached to rubber bands. And you put the SHARP HOOKS in the asshole, and then hook the rubber bands into the notches, in 8 different spots around in a circle, effectively stretched this poor little baby's asshole to about 1.5" wide.

But i must say, it worked brilliantly, and the operation went without a hitch, and now she won't have to shit in a bag anymore. And if we're lucky, she'll even have control of her sphincter tone and won't just shit herself all the time.

Isn't my job great.... ;)

Ok, time for green curry, wine, tv, and some soul-searching... Hopefully not too much crying...

-J

But before I go (since I'm sure you were all holding your breath)- my cupid results.

not sure if i like this, but sadly it's probably fairly accurate-
(but nonetheless I think I will go change my answers to get something I like more.) (but (e:Twisted), at least I'm in good company. You're the closest to me I've seen...)

The Sonnet
Deliberate Gentle Love Dreamer (DGLDf)

Romantic, hopeful, and composed. You are the Sonnet. Get it? Composed?

Sonnets want Love and have high ideals about it. They're conscientious people, caring & careful. You yourself have deep convictions, and you devote a lot of thought to romance and what it should be. This will frighten away most potential mates, but that's okay, because you're very choosy with your affections anyway. You'd absolutely refuse to date someone dumber than you, for instance.

Your exact opposite:
Genghis Khunt

Random Brutal Sex Master
Lovers who share your idealized perspective, or who are at least willing to totally throw themselves into a relationship, will be very, very happy with you. And you with them. You're already selfless and compassionate, and with the right partner, there's no doubt you can be sensual, even adventurously so.

You probably have lots of female friends, and they have a special soft spot for you. Babies do, too, at the tippy-top of their baby skulls.


ALWAYS AVOID: The 5-Night Stand, The False Messiah, The Hornivore, The Last Man on Earth

CONSIDER: The Loverboy
jenks - 03/16/06 08:21
I dunno, but I'd better always avoid it!
joshua - 03/15/06 19:59
What the hell is a 5-night stand?
leetee - 03/11/06 11:11
I had the exact same results... the sonnet. But i'm married, so i guess it doesn't count.
jenks - 03/11/06 08:05
totally, if only you didn't live 3000 miles away... And yeah I'm digging matisyahu these days, but I think i'll mix it up a little soon...
twisted - 03/11/06 07:30
Hey! We'll have to go cruising together!

p.s. - love the Matisyahu usersound.

03/09/2006 12:20 #23808

scattered
Category: meep
So I don't know what's with me these days...
I just can't seem to get my mind around anything. Can't focus, can't concentrate, don't want to DO anything that I should do...
All I want to do is sleep and lounge around...
And it's not that i'm depressed, I don't think... I'm just... scatterbrained.
My thoughts are all over. Not sure what's right or wrong, what I can or can't do...
I feel like my mind is racing all over, but not really going anywhere...
People are in and out of my life, and I'm not sure if I'm happy about that... In fact I'm pretty sure I'm NOT happy about it.

I have so many good things going on right now, but there's still so much more that I want... And I don't even know if it's reasonable of me... I'm distracted all the time...
I don't know how to act... what to think... if I should talk or not talk.... act or not act... make a move or not... I wish people would just answer my questions and help me out... don't play games, my ass.

I hate feeling all jumbled up like this. Throw me a bone people, please... just a little guidance through this minefield... I feel like everything I do is stepping on SOMEone's toes, or else if I worry about everyone else, i'm not true to myself and MY desires/needs...

And, I'm eating too much and getting fat, and I just found out I have a cavity! I almost cried!! Well not quite, but I am quite dismayed!

nobody likes me, everybody hates me, i guess i'll go eat worms...
[that's a children's song before anyone gets too worried.]

Blah...

Distractedly,
-Eeyore
ajay - 03/09/06 20:05
Take it from a professional doctor[*]: these are signs of an impending burnout.

I'd recommend taking a vacation or something.


[*]Sorta
mrmike - 03/09/06 17:31
I've been in similar straights lately. Maybe that's what got me to this little community. We can all vent together. Hang in there!
theecarey - 03/09/06 17:14
we'll talk.. we'll chill.. laugh,cry,scream.. and anything else.. That is what friends are for. (sorry if I have been lacking in that department *hug*)
dragonfire1024 - 03/09/06 17:13
I have been feeling a lot of the same lately. I hope you feel better :)
decoyisryan - 03/09/06 12:54
i am the king of hoping that people will stay in my life. i hate the people who come and go and don't really think anything about it.

it's okay to be an eeyore every now and then.

03/07/2006 12:53 #23807

ok, i'll weigh in.
Category: hotel
(originally posted as a comment to (e:enknot)'s comment on (e:leetee)'s journal [sorry, don't know how to do the links]- but he said (forgive me for paraphrasing) something about not wanting to see the anchor businesses of a thriving business section demolished.)

Oh, I am so sick of this topic, but I can't let this one go by.

ANCHOR businesses? THRIVING business section?
Correct me if I am wrong, but the shops in question are a clothing store, a video store, a head shop, and something else... tattoo parlor?
Now, I will readily admit I have never been in any of those. For several reasons. 1- I am too busy, and don't go ANYwhere (i've been here almost two years and haven't seen the freaking FALLS yet). 2- I'm not currently in the market for tattoos or bongs (though I don't have a problem with either). 3- the stores are rundown and unappealing and don't make me WANT to go in. And if these stores are so "thriving", why don't they fix themselves up? i.e. try not to look like shitholes. (blah blah blah, I don't want to hear about mobius). Appearances aren't everything, but they do not LOOK like "successful" businesses, they look like "barely scraping by off college students' beer money" businesses. You get the feeling they are only there b/c it is the cheapest real estate in town. Not exactly what I look for in a business to patronize. If I want to go clothes shopping, I can walk just a few blocks down elmwood and go to any of the numerous attractive, interesting, local stores down there.
Frankly, I personally (and by "I" I mean myself and any family/friends that may visit me) would be much more likely to patronize a hotel/retail building on that corner than what is there right now. And if you think that makes me some corporate sellout snob who wants to see elmwood yuppified and turned into williamsville, well you're simply wrong.

And finally- if those crappy buildings (again, I don't want to hear about the how fact that they're crappy is Mobius' fault) are the "anchors" of this end of the elmwood strip, then god help us, we are in DIRE need of a makeover. I'm not saying a monster hotel is the answer. And I support local businesses and don't want to see them put replaced with Gap and Blockbuster. And Dragonfire I'm sorry your house is in danger. But we all say we want what is "good" for the neighborhood. And good for the NEIGHBORHOOD (increased pedestrian traffic, more money spent, better word of mouth, etc) may not be the same as what is good for YOU (status quo, cheap rent, crappy buildings.) If we want things to change and improve, we have to at least CONSIDER, well- change and improvement, rather than just screaming 'no hotel no hotel i won't stay in it thus no one will thus it is bad!'

phew. ok. i hope that is all i have to say on this matter.

metalpeter - 03/08/06 12:59
You should get to the falls sometime this summer. Even if you don't want to do any activites you can stay on the American Side and look at the falls. There is some stuff to do on the American Side and a lot of places on the Candian Side.

I agree with you preaty much on the Hotel. Tired of talking about it so All I will say is you made a lot of great points.
leetee - 03/07/06 19:09
(e:Jenks),

To put in one of the link thingies to someone else's journal in your journal:

-go to the journal you want to link to
-click on the chain link thingie at the bottom of that journal and a box will open
-that journal will be at the top of the box and you can either save it, then copy and paste it into your journal, or just copy and paste it and close the box

Since i don't always give the bestest instructions, they are also in the help section. You will find help above the journal window and date, in the line that starts "rss". The subject or question is "what are those icons at the bottom of the journal for?" and it explains how to use the chain link thingie, which is how you would put a link to someone else's journal in yours. :)

I hope you get the time to go to the falls soon! I grew up sorta kinda around here (my hometown is only about an hour from here, it just happenes to be on the other side of the border, is all) and i took the falls for granted. I would forget that visitors might want to see it... and spend too much time taking them around Toronto. I have never done the Maid of the Mist, but (e:Uncutsaniflush) has (go figure, he didn't grow up around here!), but i hope to this summer. My brother and his family want to visit us and i think my neice and nephew would love it. Heck, i might too.
jenks - 03/07/06 17:03
Ok, yes, we get it. Mobius sucks. No one is disagreeing with you.
But, saying "Mobius sucks" does not solve the problem.
What do you suggest, Jason, BESIDES "no hotel"?
It's very easy to criticize, but not so easy to come up with a valid solution...

And how exactly does upgrading that corner "reward a slum lord"?
dragonfire1024 - 03/07/06 16:44
Well again, we would not be where we are today if Hans Mobius would have kept his peoperties to code...ok so fine build the hotel. Whil we are at it lets reward every slum lord in Buffalo.
mk - 03/07/06 13:11
you really need to see niagara falls if you haven't yet! it's usually the first thing i ever hear of people doing! haha
mrdt - 03/07/06 13:03
right on sista.... out with the old in with the new. its not like the houses are fine examples of 19th century architecture.
what do you mean you've never been to the falls???? its such a such a wonderful and marvelous sight to see. during the summer I usually spend a few days a week there in wlking around, exercising or hiking in the gorge. i'd love to show you it sometime...DT

03/06/2006 22:04 #23806

headphones, anyone?
God I'm an asshole sometimes.

So my old ipod headphones died. So I wanted new ones. Not total pieces of crap, but not like $400 things either. So I decided to order two pairs with the thought that I'd try them out, and send one back. So I got some from Shure, and some Sonys. Both sound fine, but the Shures are way more comfortable. (and way more expensive too. oh well.) So I put the sonys on the shelf, and put 'send back headphones' on my to-do list. Finally went to do it today- I had to have done it within 2 weeks. (they were shipped 1/21). And I needed an RMA number. And there was a 10% restocking fee. Doh, my procrastination bites me in the ass again.

Ok, the point of this stupid boring post is that I have a set of half-decent headphones sitting here if anyone is interested....