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1. Who are you?
2. Are we friends?
3. When and how did we meet?
4. Do you have a crush on me?
5. Would you kiss me?
6. Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it:
7. Describe me in one word:
8. What was your first impression?
9. Do you still think that way about me now?
10. What reminds you of me?
11. If you could give me anything what would it be?
12. How well do you know me?
13. When's the last time you saw me?
14. Ever wanted to tell me something but couldn't?
15. Are you going to put this on your blog and see what I say about you?

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July, 26, ----
Four events, three births, two deaths, and a holiday. From wikipedia.org.

Four Events [For some reason, the Four Ordinances which prompted the 1830 Revolution are not listed. Bizarre!]
1581 - Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Oath of Abjuration). The declaration of independence of the northern Low Countries from the Spanish king, Philip II.
1945 - The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom General Election, removing Winston Churchill from power.
1956 - Following the World Bank's decline to fund building the Aswan High Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation.
1991 - Paul Reubens, better known as Pee Wee Herman, is arrested for allegedly exposing himself at a Sarasota, Florida adult theatre.

[Way more than three] Births
1791 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1844)
1894 - Aldous Huxley, English-born author (d. 1963)
1903 - Estes Kefauver, U.S. Senator from Tennessee (d. 1963)
1945 - Helen Mirren, English actress
1949 - Thaksin Shinawatra-Prime Minister [And evil, oppresive, Berlusconi-style dictator] of Thailand
1959 - Kevin Spacey, American actor

Two Deaths
456 - Offa, King of Mercia [Of Offa's Dyke fame, sweet!]
1984 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906)

Holiday
Cuba - Anniversary of the Moncada Barracks Attack Day (1953), Revolution Day

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I finally got to see Crash which most deservedly won the Oscar for Best Picture this year. It is the most incredible film I've seen in years. I don't care what you have to do to see it, but find this film today. It's a similar storyline to, say Traffic or Love Actually, in that the characters' stories are interrelated.

Except this movie is about race, prejudice, justice, freedom. It's got something incredible to say about crime, racial profiling, and discrimination in this country.

The actors are at their best; the script is well-written; the direction superb.

It's incredible. I can't encourage you enough to rent it.

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And I feel like I should share it with my fellow Tennesseeans, just because it's funny and sad at the same time.

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And with that, I will go vomit. I'm so nervous about tomorrow!

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Maybe the Peace Corps should send a psychiatrist after me...I must be crazy.

Edit, for tabbiefaerie's benefit: Last night I wrote a long entry full of self-flagellation. Then I decided it should be private. As long as you don't think I'm crazy. :-p

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Today is a 9! After weeks of reading "Today is a 4" or a season high of "Today is a 6", my horoscope today is a 9.

"Do you have any money left after buying the basics? If so, go ahead and play with it. Your luck's much better now."

It's crazy how close that is.

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And we all know this is because the University of Arkansas is superior in every way to the University of Tennessee. ;-)

73-69! HA!

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It could be that I have been reading/working too long, but I found this story hilariously funny.

"On board Captain Bar's [an Englishman] vessel was a M. Second, a French engineer and a Protestant, who secretly gave M. de Bienville a petition addressed to the king, in which he assured his Majesty that if he wished to grant freedom of conscience in his colony, he would settle here more than four hundred Protestant families then living in Carolina. The petition was forwarded to M. de Pontchartrain, who answered that the king had not expelled heretics from his kingdom in order to found a republic of them."


Ohhhhhhhh. The more I think about it, the more ironic it gets. Just in case you want the citation, it's from Benard de la Harpe, Jean Baptiste, The Historical Journal of the Establishment of the French in Louisiana. Except maybe he didn't write it. ;-0

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Rules
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

"Blueprints ("blues"), vandykes (brown prints), and silver prints are all different forms of photographic prints made from the negatives that are to be used in offset printing." --The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th Edition, from The University of Chicago Press in the section about book proofs...

Instructions:
1. Keep the statements that apply to you, and bold them.
2. Change the statements that don't apply to you so that they do apply to you. This can be a minor word shift or a complete change of subject.

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Four jobs you’ve had in your life:
1. Lifeguard @ the YMCA
2. Orientation Leader
3. University Programs
4. Express

Four movies you would watch over and over:
1. Trainspotting
2. Star Wars
3. Lord of the Rings
4. Love Actually

Four places you have lived:
1. Nashville, TN
2. Fayetteville, AR
3. Paris, France
4.

Four TV shows you love to watch:
1. Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
2. My Super Sweet 16
3. Sex and the City
4. The Daily Show

Four places you have been on vacation:
1. Wales
2. New Orleans, LA
3. Prague, Czech Republic
4. NY, NY

Four websites you visit daily (Excluding blogs):
1. My Yahoo!
2. UA Expressmail
3. Wikipedia (fairly often)
4. Google (fairly often)

Four of your favorite foods:
1. Mac & Cheese
2. Fried Eggplant
3. Chocolate
4. Strawberries

Four places you would rather be right now:
1. Home in Nashville
2. Outside the door after my thesis defense
3. A bar
4. Overseas

Four bloggers you are tagging:
1. icepixie
2. arashi099
3. erinthegreat
4. tabbiefaerie

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I really must go to bed, for I fear the excitement of the evening is too much for my nerves! I am such a hopelessly cynical romantic.

I'm not sure if I cried because love like that does not exist or the possibility that some of us might never experience it...

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For those liberal arts majors who might be worried, never fear!

Oh, and this is cool, too...

My personal world map

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Every morning my alarm goes off at 8am, and it's set to NPR. In the past few weeks I've been too lazy to get up, so I continue sleeping until they switch from Morning Edition to classical music at 9am. This morning, however, I could've sworn I heard a profile on:

Organic Australian hostels written by G. Gordon Liddy discussing the useful properties of the "Karl Rove" plant.