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"Now served with a hint of mocha."
I wanted a change. Not a big one, but a change nonetheless. Thanks to the joys of ASP (and the fact that I can’t preview some of these pages on my own computer), I’ll be working kinks out of the layout for a while yet. Bear with me and some pages are inaccessible and some disappear completely. One or two new pages may even appear. [Listening to “Safe House/Calling You” [Spooks / S.I.O.S.O.S., Vol. 1]]
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World AIDS Day
So… it’s World AIDS Day. And I have yet to post about it. I’ve been thinking about what I think about AIDS, about sex education, about prejudices surrounding AIDS, and what it all means to me. I haven’t come to any new conclusions, but thinking’s always good, right? I don’t know anyone that has died of AIDS. I don’t know anyone that is (openly) HIV+ or has AIDS. I’ve never been at risk, having never had a blood transfusion or sex. AIDS itself is not something I think about frequently. I do think about sex education issues, given my own experiences and what I hear about various stances concerning the…
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Revolutions, Mes Amis, "Fucking Hippy Liberals", and Gaijin Samurai
I will shamelessly admit that, despite my low opinion of Matrix: Reloaded (which still stands), I loved Revolutions. Something about the movie was so… human, so real that it touched me. I don’t know why. I just liked it. I’m still against Neo vs. Smith fight scenes, as I think the whole wired flying karate/megapunching thing is a little tired and uninteresting, but the epic look the directors were (hopefully) going for was definitely achieved. So I feel better about the Matrix series now. At some point in the future, I will probably shell out bucks to buy the second and third movies (I already own the first). I spent…
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Ah, Thanksgiving.
I have acquired a vehicle. He’s beautiful. He’s a 1983 Ford Fairmont in ridiculously good condition, with a brand new air conditioner and paint job, and only about 26 000 miles on it. The interior is beautiful (minus some dashboard damage from the sun), with no damage to the seats or anything, and that radio should qualify as an antique–it’s completely mechanical; if you press a preset button, the stick that indicates the radio frequency jumps to the frequency of the preset. It’s beautiful. And insurance is el-cheapo, so I can foot it. Which means I can drive it up to Terre Haute after Christmas break (my father needs a three-day…
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A bitchy rant, plain and simple.
One of the first things I realized this (Saturday) morning, other than the fact that 05:00 is entirely too early to be getting up when on a leisurely vacation, is that I’ve lost weight. That’s a weird thing to suddenly notice, I know, but I was getting dressed after my shower, and I suddenly remembered the trouble I’d had recently keeping my pants up. Again, I’m not the most observant, and even what I do observe doesn’t always immediately register. So I took a look-see in the mirror (something I usually don’t do), and was a bit astonished. The weight-loss isn’t majorly apparent (despite my father’s claims), as I don’t…