Hey, Hec--do you remember the filename of that Wes/Ethan you sent me that one time?

Heh. Trying to find it for AmyLiz are you?

I. Don't. Know.

Did I post it on the board? You might search Great Write Way for "sandalwood" or "straight razor."

I think it was in Buffista Fic one. Says Rain Man. definitely BF 1. slow on the driveway.

Sandalwood! I can try that keyword search next!

Just got home from a wedding. Former co-workers who moved back to Ohio decided to get hitched in CA. A nice drive down to San Diego. Here is a pic of the groom. I promised I wouldn't blackmail him with it, but made no promise of not putting it on the web ;) [link]

ION, I haz flowers in my apartment: [link] They insisted I take the lil vase home with me, and I somehow managed to walk it home the block, on crutches, without dropping it. Yay me! They are pretty!

Well, omnis, congratulations to your friends! If he's got such a sense of humor, and hers matches, that bodes well for them, I think. And yay! for pretty flowers.

I'd like to thank whoever it was that posted the link to Poetry 180 [link] . It's helping me regain something I lost.

I remember when poetry, music, art, philosophy were more important than money. I miss that time. But alas, someone had to pay my rent. And the finer things in life turned to dust and ashes in my mouth. It shouldn't be like that. We should be able to hold on to those things. We need to be able to survive without losing that.

t /4am thinky thoughts

Hat trick.

Daniel's snoring is sounding like what I imagine those harmonic seizmic waves that presage volcanic eruption are like.

Not making any comments about what might erupt in the bedroom.

V. pretty tattoo design! Looking forward to seeing the actual tattoo! Also - holy cow, you have the Best Job EVAH!!!!

t envious

(no, that tag does NOT close)

"to explain what aliens want, and why they're kidnapping men and anally probing them."

Don't women get kidnapped and probed too? Or are they just used for alien/human crossbreeding experiments?

See, I was just sitting there biting my tongue. Because I'd already made a number of "OMGWTF???" style comments* during the course of the day, so responding to this blathering by saying "...but, leaving aside the whole issue of whether aliens ARE actually visiting the earth, and if so why this random Thai gentleman is the world expert on them, to the best of my knowledge it ISN'T just men who claim to have been taken away by aliens and, er, probed. It's also women. You're just hung up on the buttsecks notion, dude. Also, this Thai bloke is flown over to the US by NASA to speak with aliens? Regularly? What are you SMOKING?"....well, I felt that this would be a little combative. So I just bit my tongue and nodded and smiled.

*eg: AustralianReikiMasterBloke: "...and was it teleportation that put the pyramids there?"

MyFriends: respectful silence

Me: Er, yes. On Stargate. In the real world, though, it was the farmers who travelled up to Giza during the time of inundation to work on the great building project, for which they were paid - it wasn't slave labour. There's archaelogical evidence indicating where they were housed, and they built great ramps of earth around the pyramid as it was being built in order to move the stones up to the next levels.

AustralianReikiMasterBloke: And if we see another person in distress, we instinctively help them. We don't just tell them to piss off. Why is that?

MyFriends: respectful silence

Me: ...because we have social skills?

AustralianReikiMasterBloke: And if we see another person in distress, we instinctively help them. We don't just tell them to piss off. Why is that?

Me: ...because we have social skills?

Because hundreds of thousands of years ago we learned that a soft word turns away being beaten to death with a club?

And if we see another person in distress, we instinctively help them. We don't just tell them to piss off. Why is that?

Because humans have evolved as social animals who support each other in order to provide a support system that allows ALL of our children to survive, increasing our evolutionary viability as a species?