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анонимные включены.
пришлю.

6 days. Biking from
Syracuse, NY to Toronto, ON.

Trip finished. Still processing. Everything is tired.

Acting Class. The professor is explaining a story-telling exercise.

Professor: What are the three basic elements of a story?
Voice from the back: Drugs, Sex and Rock-n-Roll?
Professor: well, I was thinking something more along the lines of beginning, middle and end...But that'll do.

"they weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and playing guitars at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow....
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear and most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people. "

- "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

For the love of God, Mary, Joseph, Scottish Fairies and Dubliners Cheese - I implore you!
Do not, DO NOT, even if your soul is driven by experimentation forget rice in a rice cooker for a couple of weeks.

And if you do, invite someone you really dont like and offer them acute amounts of money to open the said cooker.

For the rice will look at them.

Accusingly.

This man Chaucer, were he not dead, would be sitting with a BLEEDING HEAD.

His book. House of Fame. (I recommend it, it's delightfully loony), ends like this (not direct quote):

"and so then there was a great commotion, and everyone began running around, shouting, and nobody would tell me what is going on (he goes on in this way for two pages or so), until suddenly I turned around and saw a Man who seemed a Man of great authority and he ..."

that's the end.
the END.
the bloody end.

cliffhangers be damned.

yes, it bothers me.
yes, I am a freak.

While writing my research paper (and running around aimlessly), I found this wonderful website of fun:

http://www.canongate.net/Lists/Words/33NamesOfThingsYouNeverKne

But also:

http://www.canongate.net/Lists/Words/23ObscureAndObsoleteWords

there is a word for everything.

Today Regan and I played an exciting game called "build a doll house out of goat bones".
I love archaeologists' children.

When talking about death today in class, our professor shared the following:

it is entirely possible to kill someone with eyedrops. Eyedrops cause the blood-vessels in the eye to contract, thus taking away the bleeding. However, if a copious amount is injested, they can cause the blood vessels in the heart to react much in the same way, causing a stroke.

"In Shilluk ideology, the king represents the fertility and well-being of his entire nation, and for this reason no decay of his body can be tolerated. If the king dies, so does the land. Indeed, so direct is the connection between the king's well-being and that of the nation that not only is death a problem, but so are age, sickness and especically decreased sexual potency. ....At the first evidence of lessening powers, the king is secretly suffocated and his body walled up in a mud hut. One moment, the king is strong and unimpaired, the next, he has vanished." - Peter Metcalf, "Celebrations of Death"

(for more on regicide, see the excellent book by Sir James Frazer "the Golden Bough" 1963 and the reversal of Frazer's analysis in papers by Evans-Pritchard)

...At a typical Irish wake, the body was laid out in the home and family and friends gathered to pray. There was often storytelling, songs and music. As the night wore on and strong drink flowed, joke-telling, dancing, drunken brawling and rowdy behaviour increased. Mock battles might be stages, with one participant representing the dead person. The deceased might be dealt a hand of cards or even removed from the casket so that someone who'd had too much to drink could sleep it off in comfort!

...When I first heard of the tradition of buying burial plots ahead of time, I thought it slightly morbid and strange. However, it seems that such morbid thinking has prevailed since less prosperous times, when the colonies were just starting and the death rate was quite alarming.

During those days it was considered expected:
* to stock-pile lumber for coffins ("cooling boards")
* to store burial clothing in one's closet (women often prepared their wedding dresses, altering them as needed as years went on)
* front parlors were kept tidy in case a sudden death created the need for a wake
* In Pennsylvania, German immigrants built separate rooms - doedkammers, or dead rooms, with doors wide enough to permit pallbearers to enter and exit carrying a casket.

T.H. White, "The Once and Future King"
The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn."

Advertisement on my college bulletin board.

"Looking for a ride. Doesn't really matter where."

1) Ленточку интернетных друзей я больше не читаю. Можно со мной контактировать лично, бумажно-письменно и телефонно.
2) Журнал в основном будет себя вести на английском и составлять интересности моей прекрасной учебной жизни и чудесные факты нашего мира.
3) So long and thanks for all the fish.

- LifeGem, in Hove, East Sussex, charges between £2,000 and £13,000 for a diamond pendant or ring made from the carbon of human ashes
- Motorcycle Funerals offers a final ride, at £1.10 a mile, in a motorbike and sidecar — one way only
- Space Services, in Houston, Texas, charges £570 a gram for a loved one’s ashes to be blasted into space
- Eternal Reefs, an American company, adds the ashes of a relative or friend to a commercial reef in the Gulf of Mexico. Prices vary but the top rate is £2,900
- Heavens Above Fireworks gives displays of rockets containing cremation ashes. Prices start at £1,500

Запынали, Запынали.
Хочу сказать что виш-лист у меня в этом году короток и жизненн.

Для начала - если вы видите предмет и думаете "о круто море это понравится" - это лучше чем сказанное на вишлисте. Я люблю сюрпризы.

1) Мне очень хочется хорошую снарягу, в особенности мне очень хочется хороший, достаточно большой походный рюкзак. Желающим мне на него скинуться советую посоветоваться со стасиком, он же призрак. с ним же советую посоветоваться насчет любой другой снаряги. Вот.

2) Как всегда, я рада книгам. Но в этом году, поскольку у меня накопилось до фига непрочитанного, я буду очень рада книгам ниже по списку.

( knigo spisok )

Вот так. А в остальном мне ничего не нужно, у меня все есть, но от чего-нибудь забано-смешно-безумного я никогда не откажусь.

PS: А еще мне всегда можно дарить полосатые носки.

...все дороги ведут в рай...

Сегодня подарили пачку сигарет с надписью

"Smokers Die Younger"

Концептуально. Куда уж тут Минздраву. Он просто предупреждает, а эти сразу про гробы.
Европейский Союз однака!

Люди нелюди друзья!

9ого декабря я и Митька устраиваем новоселье, оно же мой день рож. Очень хотели бы вас всех видеть у нас на новом месте, вот. Отпишитесь если будете Ж)

- Маша и Митька