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I have 81 friends (includes relatives, natch). The only ones I haven't met are buffistas. I have an outstanding request from a krav student, and finally accepted another one when he introduced himself to me at the centre. That's totally odd. And I can't place the other one--she just told me she was a student in the request.
I'm definitely close with more than 5, though. But I'm sure that number wasn't meant to count relatives. There's family, there are Montreal friends, there are krav friends, there are Buffistas forming the bulk of my list. Friends of theirs I've met form the rest.
How bittersweet. And courageous of Engel to not simply fold inward and give up the spark that fueled his writing. Bless him.
When my book-loving, television never-watching great aunt began her process toward death, the very first thing to go was her vision. That seemed such an insult.
I think people who study this sort of thing give waaaaaaaaaay more weight to the "friend" label on Facebook/LJ/MySpace than it deserves. It's used to make the social networking software seem more personal, but I've got plenty of people on my LJ friendslist who aren't technically my friends - some of them aren't even people.
I have 4 (out of 45) Facebook friends I haven't met F2F. 3 are Buffistas and 1 is someone who friended me through a mutual college friend.
For lunch I had a giant vat of potato leek soup. It was good. Of course, I now recall that I was going to defrost some chicken for dinner. Didn't take the chicken out of the freezer. Dinner will probably be more potato leek soup, then.
I disagree with that title ("10 Things You Might’ve Been Better Off Not Knowing About Your Body") - it was cool to learn those things (although some I knew).
But there are definitely some things in there I can imagine people wishing they never knew. Hence, the "might've".
Way cool kitchen scale. Almost, but cool as remote-controlled laser combat cars.
I think people who study this sort of thing give waaaaaaaaaay more weight to the "friend" label on Facebook/LJ/MySpace than it deserves
So far, for me, friend on facebook means just about that. There's little enough posted that there's no point even reading the little if I don't care. LJ and Myspace are blogs and the next stage in the evolution of the personal web page (remember the /~ days?). Not the same thing in terms of consuming and publishing.
But there are definitely some things in there I can imagine people wishing they never knew. Hence, the "might've".
Oh yeah - I should have noted I was speaking for myself.
Oh, the stabby knife holder now comes in pink! That would be perfect for my kitchen!
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