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from samsa :
You've been gone a whole six years. Where ARE you???
from raven72d :
welcome back...!
from division-day :
where did you GO? i miss you! write more! come to portland! one of our cats is deathly afraid of our ceiling fan, even when it's not moving. if you're carrying her and you walk under the fan, she freaks out and claws her way out of your arms. maybe she thinks it's a bat.
from zoela :
username: guest, password: guest
from cloverst :
oh i wish you would update more! i miss your entries. is scotland green and foggy? p.s. could you please delete that old note i left with my email address? i didn't realize search engines access the notes pages here, and i've been getting a lot of spam. also i don't want people to google my email and find my diary. thanks!
from division-day :
i'm reading a book about the tribes in northern burma, and your poetry friend sounds very similar to the views of the people in the book. fierce and independent. what tribe was he from, and what is his native language? i wonder if it's the same as in my book. how did he end up where you are? (where are you, by the way?)
from division-day :
hi!!! you know, i was actually thinking that maybe i could visit you over one of my breaks once i start working and have money. are you going to be.. in australia? are you just going to europe for fun or permanently? i'm actually going to malaysia on sept. 12 for a visa run so hypothetically i could continue on to singapore and see you, unless you're just going to be at the airport for 2 minutes. how strange. you should write in your diary again!! i haven't been reading anyone's but i'd read yours... let me know what you're up to! <3 becky
from angryquail :
Oh, Jenn, I actually miss you. I hope this isn't odd.
from piccoleia :
Cherie! You're back! I'm so sorry about your kat. :( That's just awful. You skirt sounds gorgeous! Do you have a photo? And I suppose I should read the Bell Jar again. I've been marvelling over The Lady's Not For Burning recently. I'm so in love with that play. *sigh* Write again soon. :) *hugs*
from sats :
HELLO LOVELY! you know, i had a feeling you updated. im very sorry to hear about your frances. my lump vanished too. it makes me scared for her when i think of her all alone in the bush. and keeto, well....i told you what happened to him. sniff...your mums photos are so beautiful! i was going to leave her a note telling her so. but then i came over all shy. BLUSH! how are you? are you still coming over? the weather here is soooo nice. it makes me all happy. hey! have you heard of a group called gogol bordello? buy the 'gypsy punk' album. they're brilliant! they're a ukranian group. very folksy, punky, circus-y music. makes me want to spin and skip around. very different sounding. im having deja vu about telling you this so im going to stop. jeeennnnnnnn jeeeennnnnnnn its so nice to see you writing. i miss your words. come visit me and live under my bed! BYE BYE!
from angryquail :
I was doing reading for class and read, "It is not surprising that Australia, a leading advocate of information literacy, and New Zealand have made it the basis of their information literacy framework" (referring to ACRL's 2000 IL competency standards, but that's not really here nor there). I hope all is well. Feel free to drop me a line at angryquail@hotmail.com.
from piccoleia :
btw, there's an easteregg for you hidden somewhere in my older entries... shouldn't be too difficult to find.
from piccoleia :
no, I don't have MT vol 3 yet. *weee* And I love all moleskins, they're beautiful... lined more than the blank ones though, but I do love them all. I'll tell you about the conference proceedings when I know, but do you want me to forward on Calls for Papers as they come up - you just need to tell me which one's you're interested in. I have millions. Oh, and my 2 choices for PhD places are Melbourne and Sydney. Currently I'm torn. Well email during next procrastination break. :p
from piccoleia :
merry christmas, and happy new year
from bluperspex :
a merry, merry to you - may it be blessed and utterly fabulous!
from bluperspex :
i'm just from SA... you caught my eye :)
from cloverst :
the Papatowai estuary looks beautiful.. empty beaches make me feel still and alive at the same time. like the waves resonate in my soul. i am so glad you are updating again.
from sats :
haha, they're the ones!! ahh..memories. london is definitely cold and grey at the mo, you'd be loving it right about now. and NO, you cant visit me. my god girl are you kidding? if you don't visit me you're so dumped. hehe..wont it be odd, after all these years? i hope i wont come over all shy. i hope i wont be dull. we can go to kew gardens, i've still not been there. at the moment they've got a Dale Chihuly exhibition on...i've always wanted to see his stuff. it'd be so beautiful in that kind of setting. i've always wanted to sleep on a giant water lily too...
from piccoleia :
i've just been to a conference on utopias, dystopias and ecotopias where fredric jameson was the keynote speaker. everytime they mentioned le guin and ecotopias and landscape i thought of you and how much you would have enjoyed the whole thing. a cat sounds marvellous too.
from sats :
gasp! a cat! awwww i want a cat..sigh. im all sulky now. i wish i had a cat over here. a house is just not the same without one is it? my poor little cat back home, keeto, has died. he was bit by a snake. double sigh. all i think about is how lonely and scared he must of been when it happened. it makes me really sad. he died all on his own, without his little ears. i didn't mean for this to be depressing. i just miss having a cat. i miss pets. i miss australian summers. you're entries have been making me homesick lately. i wish i was there. this morning is was so foggy you couldn't see beyond 100 meters as there was just a white wall...the road slowly faded into nothing...t'was very cool. i think its going to snow at xmas. find some bottle brush and hit it against your hand. you cant lick the nectar. there is another flower that grew in our old front yard. i cant remember what is was called. but they were yellow, red and orange. this thin tub stuck out down the bottom and if you bit off a little tiny bit you could suck out the nectar as well. i never knew they made 'i capture the castle' into a movie. hmm..
from bluperspex :
ooooh. an australian :)
from piccoleia :
so when are you going to email me, huh?
from piccoleia :
greece, rome, florence, brussels, geneva, cairo, amsterdam, casablanca, grenada, the hebrides, the giant's causeway, mont st michel... sorry, now I'm giving you my list. Go to places which sing in your blood when you read their names.
from sats :
i like it when you update, do it more. please. NOW! and then come to london. you can swim over and i will meet you half way in a little boat.
from piccoleia :
sounds like you're having fun with your family and books and meeting new people. :)
from division-day :
you came back! i'm waiting for the great leap forward...
from piccoleia :
yay for firefly
from jeanketeer :
just had to add to the cacophany of gratitude--yay! she's back! more, please. :)
from piccoleia :
so glad you're back. Missed you. That was beautiful. If I wasn't at work, I'd be crying.
from freshness :
I am glad you are back.
from division-day :
hey, i just started writing again, and i noticed you were missing, but then you came back. yay! i know what you mean about dream places. arcata was like that for me for years -- i hitchhiked through here once and thought it was heavan on earth -- victorian houses, palm trees, the sea, the sun, the fog rolling off the bay. i finally came back, and sometimes i walk down that street where i felt like it was heaven, but it's strange actually living here and having it be real. i'm trying to learn about this area so i feel grounded. remote northern california, the redwoods, the ocean, marijuana fields, lumber mills, hippies, travelers. i often think "if i had grown up somewhere with this much fog, would i have a more magical view of the world?" parallax. there are towns by the coast here called manilla and samoa, like east asian settlers named them, or like the settlers felt more like pacific islanders than americans. anyway, thank you for lovely place writing. love, becky
from softblossoms :
missing you! and hoping you're ok. also thinking of you recently because my father is in dunedin right now.
from freshness :
Oh where are you? I can't take much more of your absence from Diaryland. I hope everything is okay!
from division-day :
actually, i can't figure out an email address for you and we decided sydney was too expensive anyway. too bad. maybe someday. love, becky
from division-day :
hey wateryone sister, are you still in sydney? sorry haven't read diaries lately, but brian and i have a chance to go to sydney very soon, but i don't know if i want to spend the money if you're not there. anyway i wrote you an email about it, so check your email, i sent it to naeid at whatever, i can't remember. or call me 503 679 2815 i'm sure that's expensive but oh well. love, becky
from piccoleia :
people are remembering you lots here at the moment. And your scarf sounds positively wonderful. I do know what you mean about random places never been to and all that jazz. Maybe you just need to pilgrimage those places the next time in Dunedin and find out why it is that you seem to be recalling them often at the moment. Good to hear you're happy and your sister and Dan are well. And what six songs are on your ipod? hmmm? :) *hugs from chilly dunners*
from zoela :
You are delightful.
from freshness :
HI! Gosh your life is wonderful! I just had coffee so excuse all these exclamation points please. I was wondering if you would ever have the time or inclination to knit something for me? (a scarf) Of course I would send you all the wool and whatever else needed. I could also send you one of those notebooks, if you thought that was a good swap. I can get them cheap since I work at the DPAG, but I didn't realise they were the kind you meant until I just read that note below mine.
from piccoleia :
those norebooks are called Moleskines - people like Ernest Hemmingway used to use them. I found them in the art gallery in Melbourne and bought me one. Then I got one for Chris. I love mine, especially writing with a fountain pen in them. Chris is obsessed with his. I discovered that the Art Gallery down here has them as well... and the Chris decimated their supplies, so I have to wait before i can get a bigger moleskine for my Master's notes. They are fantastic, and they're awesome to write even random little comments and favourite poems in. You should get one. :)
from cloverst :
Orhan Pamuk! he's fantastic. when i read Snow i thought somehow those were the most starkly human characters i had ever seen, like he captured this layer of human-ness that somehow should be obvious, but is always being missed, going unnoticed.
from freshness :
fwiw, you should buy the notebook.
from freshness :
Hi! I like all those things except the soy. Did you talk to Eleanor recently? She came to an exhibition opening of mine and then out for tea with me and some other people. I think I made her laugh a lot. it would have been great if you could have been there too, it was at the Asian.
from miksti :
Ah Jenn, if only I was in Sydney (or you were in Dunedin) then I would be honoured to be part of your mutual admiration society! Being a long distance branch of it just isn't the same!! xx
from apparitional :
hi. i know i disappeared from diaryland for awhile, but you're always one of my favorite diaries.. i didn't see your email address on your diary, so mine is urbandusk396@yahoo.com, if i am to start a new secret diary i'll certainly send you the address if you'd like to read it. meanwhile, i hope you keep updating.. & i hope you're enjoying Australia.. somehow to me moving to another country, any country, seems to open all sorts of possibilities.. so many new things to explore.
from freshness :
thanks! Congratulations on your serendipitous ipod! Dunedin is really turning on the charm these days, sunshine through leaves everywhere you turn.
from katiedoyle :
dayam, a shooting??? be careful out there. :( i can't really abide rushdie. i have tried the satanic verses and something else he wrote several times, and i find them pretentious and rather pompous. can't really stand 'em. i think the last book i read that i really liked was whitney otto's a collection of beauties at the high of their popularity. i also liked this goofy sort of book by michael frayn called headlong. lastly i read dickens' great expectations, which was rather a letdown, even for someone who really likes dickens. i found it really depressing and kind of irritating. i skipped great chunks of it, which i never do with books, and certainly never with dickens. but there you have it. kd
from piccoleia :
there you are, I was wondering where you disappeared to... sorry about your valley, but the photos are lovely. Helen's got your swish 'anime chick' photo up in her office, and we all miss you! :p Hope you're feeling better, and enjoy the ipod. what colour, if I may ask? (^.^)
from bluephonic :
Speaking of which, sorry about your house.
from bluephonic :
I actually liked Melbourne a lot; it was my grandparents' reactionary paranoia that spoiled the trip. Anyway, I'm used to bad weather; compared to Michigan, Melbourne's amazing. (I don't remember New Zealand very well -- I was 6 the last time -- but it sounds beautiful (in a sort of foliage-filled understated way); I want to go there again sometime.)
from division-day :
knitting is fun, and so is being someone's italian daughter! :) guess what, my second cousin is going to med school in sydney. she's lived there for a year and is visiting chicago right now. this never occured to me but she told me summer vacation is right now, because summer is right now. how strange. i hope you had a good christmas... <3 becky
from raven72d :
I hope you have an excellent first Christmas in Sydney... And, yes, the bats do sound cool.
from trixxx :
i see what you're saying about the anime princess look...but the cut totally suites your face. great photto
from irishblueyes :
Extremely cute haircut!
from sweetker :
I LOVE the Westing Game! How fantastic. It remains on my bookshelf to this day (albeit boxed in my mother's basement). I am glad you are a fellow fan. And your hair looks absolutely wonderful. Boom said Madame Hoo.
from ivoryfaerie :
I'll be flying into Sydney, and hope to make my way down to Tasmania, then up the gold coast, and likely over to Perth eventually. I'm really just wanting to take it as it comes:) And yup, I am going on my own though an Aussie friend and I are going to meet up part way through and travel together for a bit. Looking forward to getting away from the -25C weather over here. Any suggestions on things not to miss??
from division-day :
wow, that picture is so beautiful. and i do always have a hard time imagining all the seasons reversed down there. for a while i was confused and thought maybe you guys reversed the month names too, like for you it would be june right now... but that would get too confusing for international business, i suppose. december just seems like such a cold word to me. so do november and january and february. brrrrr... january. i hate the cold. i wish i could have year round summer. i wish i could understand cricket, too. someone tried to explain it too me once but it was hopeless. but i like the name. cricket.
from ivoryfaerie :
Your picture of the blue mountains is beautiful.. makes me excited to see them in person when I go to Australia in January!!
from soulnaked :
Actually, the rain thing improves their chances for a draw. That's how badly the Kiwis are doing, their best hope and prayer is for rain, so that they have a chance of drawing. That's part of the beauty of cricket too, it can be so cruel.
from contour :
I wasn't trying to make you feel *that* guilty. ;) But should you find the time and rejoin, (1) it is possible to resurrect nations, you just need to email the game and ask, and (2) consider joining the "International Democratic Union". We are left of center, and everybody seems really nice in that region. We have another bulletin board that I think you'd enjoy ... and we have at least one Dutch player and one Canadian (American by citizenship, but still).
from division-day :
john lennon did do heroin, and even wrote a song called "cold turkey" about it. (i didn't know this until s. told me) but i read about those particular lyrics online and various beatles explained what they meant and it wasn't about drugs. it's funny, though, because another person emailed me and said they'd been listening to that album, too. so many connections between people.
from contour :
I tested as "Moly". Surprising or not? BTW I'm *still* playing that silly NationStates game ... you never should have suggested it cause I'm still hooked! :)
from raven72d :
Every lovely girl should have a pair of bright red cowboy boots for dancing...
from division-day :
oh, thank you for making one of my entries a favorite, that made me feel so good. i always wonder if non-drug people (you) can understand those entries, let alone find anything meaningful. i attempt to write about myself in a way that transcends myself, personal stories with multiple applications (i think that's the goal of any online diary -- to make connections with other people's worlds). addiction, to me, is this lense through which i view almost everything. once you're in the middle of it you realize the degree to which human behavior follows addictive patterns while remaining unrecognized as addiction per se... and all my other endless ideas about addiction and heroin.. but i'm always afraid the sane person won't be interested in my drug drivel, so thank you for making me feel appreciated and a little less alienated from "normal" people... the closer one's writing touches to the universal, the better, in my opinion.
from division-day :
hi jenn, your life sounds so lovely -- i wish i could see what those streets look like -- you should post pictures. also, even though i failed, during my first day of withdrawal i read your note and by the middle i was crying, when you said i'd inspired you to write about the interesting things in everyday life... and all the other things you said.. that was one of the nicest things i've read about myself, it made me so happy/sad (and you do know what i mean). even though i'm still stuck in this spiritual/ emotional wasteland, hopefully i will make it out and start writing about all those things i used to write about and start inspiring people again... until then, YOU will inspire ME with your beautiful writing... and i will try to imagine what a new zealand accent sounds like because i'm sure phone calls are tremendously expensive. love, becky
from contour :
Water smells are good! I actually wish it rained here more often.
from irishblueyes :
Yes it is by Aretha Franklin. Oh, and I saw Ben Harper and The Blind Boys of Alabama on Letterman the other night, they were great. I have all the other Ben Harper albums, he's fantastic!
from sweetker :
That was a really beautiful entry!
from raven72d :
Denis Cosgrove... Do you know his books? And kiwifruit in sangria...yes!
from dumb-john :
I don't think you're really a xenophobe; you're in Australia, after all. Xenophobia would be merely redundant. // off-topic: do you like Neal Stephenson and Dodie Smith?
from freshness :
I was just looking at your photos, they're really nice. I was happily surprised recently to learn the a cabbage tree is a variety of lily. Maybe you know that already.
from sweetker :
I have never read any books by him before, but have heard wonderful things about the book and am quite interested in it for political reasons. By the way you have inspired me. NOT a knitting blog, but a projects blog of which knitting is sometimes one, at www.nowdoing.blogspot.com.
from freshness :
Oh that Simpsons episode is great! Sangria on the porch sounds good. I suggest cutting up some kiwifruit (lengthways) and adding this to the drinks.
from sweetker :
Though I love knitting, I am absolutely terrible at it. Perhaps I could start a Mediocre Knitting Blog and bring the sport to the masses? Anyway, my friends Crystal and Erin (Knit Freak and Argyle Knits) both have excellent blogs if you are interested and they are linked on my site. PS- glad you are enjoying your new home!
from freshness :
do you live in Sydney now? that sux for me, I always wanted to meet you. Your diary is really nice, sorry i haven't told you this before. x rainy
from raven72d :
"Equilibrium"... I need to find out more.
from irishblueyes :
I can totally sympathize. We just moved too and I haven't even considered unpacking all of our books yet because we don't have bookcases either. It's so sad having all those boxes of books sitting out in the garage not being able to see them! And thank you for the lovely description in the buddylist...It would be lovely if we lived close enough to get together and listen to some great music!
from irishblueyes :
That's a really beautiful poem!
from raven72d :
YA novels... Ben Bova's "Star Conquerors" (1960) was the first YA book I ever checked out of a library-- long ago as a vur' small little long-eared desert hedgehog. I may find it again... I wonder if my memory of it is more vivid than the book itself... H. L. Konigsberg's, "Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver"-- I bought that for my older niece a while ago... And, yes: I always loved "The Endless Steppe".
from raven72d :
Congratulations on the library... And I hope the sunlight and community both o well for you...
from raven72d :
I do love your list of novels that convey a sense of place.
from raven72d :
"The Time Traveler's Wife" is a wonderful read. Thank you.
from raven72d :
Get a kitten. Write a novel. Do both.
from westyrex :
I've been reading for a while, and I really enjoy your diary. Thanks for making me laugh with your Mad Lib. Mad Libs? I never know if it needs an S even if it's singular. Like Mentos. Mento? Is it always a Mad Libs? Are they always Mentos? Lord, I'm actually boring myself.
from contour :
RE: "liberal boys never try to make a move on you without the UN Security Council?s approval" Tis true. Every time I've had sex it was in fact by order of Kofi Anna. Though I do remember that was that time China was threatening to veto the go ahead order if I didn't stop laughing. :p P.S. you have me hooked on NationStates. I have passed *2* resolutions, one on NEOs and the other on NEPs.
from raven72d :
Ann Coulter is a loathsome, vile, lunatic woman. I have total contempt for her as a person, as a writer/historian, and as a soi-disant "constitutional lawyer". And I speak as someone who won't vote Democratic in November. She did look scary/sexy years ago on Bill Maher's "Politically Incorrect" program when she had a black microskirt and an eye patch-- Evil Barbarella Space Queen", Maher called her. Still... hippie chicks are...well...not my type. My politics tend to be vur' liberal at home, the steel fist abroad. But if anything could dive me leftward, it would be Ann Coulter.
from hsiutime :
Hehe. I am near the Democratic Convention now...Ann Coulter's "article" was indeed exaggerated and America is not quite as scary as all that. The Convention's been okay so far, actually. The newspapers were prophesising Doom all last week because of expected traffic and early bar closings and general Too Many Out-of-Towners in town, but the world hasn't collapsed (yet), so.... But really. It's not that bad. Or maybe I only speak for Boston :)
from angryquail :
"<i>This picture is so harmonius it is grey - as grey as nature, as grey as the summer atmosphere when the sun spreads over each object a sort of twilight film of trembling dust</i> "That line is why I believe in writing about art. Some people say that writing about music is like dancing about architecture, and I have pointed out that I often dance over architecture. But what I find even stranger is some people's aversion to art history, or to art critics, or theory." I was just feeling irate over the whole "dancing about architecture" line this very morning! At any rate, I just learned my friend's girlfriend is abroad in Dunedin. So it made me think of you and I bebopped my way over here to check out how you are doing. Take care, Jenn.
from lucylurex :
oh! happy birthday!
from raven72d :
The image of the mailbox with all its mail for you was lovely. Glad to hear you're settling in to your new land.
from raven72d :
Ahhh... "King Arthur"... I hope you will read Rosemary Sutcliff's "Sword at Sunset"...
from piccoleia :
speaking of transgenic tattooed mice... I thnk I may have forgotten to tell you that I did get my beloved tattoo whilst sojourning through melbourne. Will send you a pic at some point. Have managed to keep it a secret here though... teeheehee
from fourad :
Dear Jen,I'm so glad that you are settling down in sydney and enjoying it :) I always guess that a bit of changing enviroment would do some good for you.The bad news is that I'm going back to Dunedin in two days(yes,I skipped the 1st three days of 2nd semester).Where are you staying right now?I wish we could have a time to have a coffee today or tomorrow,and if you don't mind meeting my gf I will invite her along.I'm leaving early on Wed morning.You can reach me on my gf's cell:04-15251398,or just drop a line on my guestbook.Enjoy your days,and good luck with the job applications ^^
from greentealeaf :
now that is funny, cause during the semester i always end up in borders! their '2 for 40' offers are totally irresistable .. too bad i usually end up buying some $30+ imported cd. anyway, the english dept. in macq has a pretty good reputation - and i'm not merely bragging cause i happen to be majoring in english there - as well as univ. of sydney. in fact, i'd say usyd has the best humanities dept. in nsw but if you're living near macq, i'd suggest you check out macq first. hope that helped a little. :)
from greentealeaf :
.... are you really studying in macquarie?
from greentealeaf :
it's probably too early to comment on your diary, but so far i like your layout, your tone and your outlook on life. yeah, i guess to you kiwis, sydney is a bit on the tropical side but i'm naturally prone to melodramatising so bear with me.
from clarity25 :
Hi, I just discovered your diary through Irishblueyes. I love your writing! I've always wanted to live in Sydney or New Zealand, those are my two dream locations. I love the words you use to describe your environment and your experiences. Your diary is truly captivating and I'll be back to read more.
from raven72d :
I hope you'll tell me about "The Time Traveler's Wife"...and about how Sydney is different from NZ... I do envy Becky, too-- finding a new place, learning the streets and the colors and light...
from irishblueyes :
That sounds like such a wonderful book, I am going to have to look for it. And I also think that game sounds great! Much more interesting than regular board games! Glad you're having a good time so far!
from apparitional :
have a good flight!
from torato :
hey. good luck with sydney. the library won't be the same without you.
from sweetker :
All the best to you! I don't know a lot, but I know that the world isn't really that big, and you're never far from home, and that exploring a new home for the very first time is a rare treat full of good surprises. I always enjoy your diary. xo
from raven72d :
"Three Stigmata" is a vur' disturbing and terrifying book...but a favorite. And Leonard Cohen always has the right thing to say... And you *did* send me read "A Pattern Language" again.
from miksti :
Hey Jenn - Amy here! Hope we can still have a chance to catch up (even for a short time) before you leave! Your schedule is much more hectic than mine at the moment so let me know if you happen to have any bit of free time. Feel free to ring me at work. Hope everything's going smoothly - keep collecting those Dunedin memories!! XX :)
from dumb-john :
oh MY you list Russell Hoban as one of your favourites! Thank you for putting me in mind of "The Mouse and His Child" and "Pilgermann" and "Turtle Diary" tonight. I think I'll go browsing through my bookshelves tonight, haply, happily, thanks to you.
from irishblueyes :
I just wanted to say hi and tell you what a beautiful diary you have. I found you randomly searching for other Ryan Adams fans and hope you won't mind me adding you to my favorites.
from jeanketeer :
Don't let "The O.C." fool ya, it is an ugly, gross, over-developed middling place. I stayed there for 3 days, and it is strip mall after strip mall, punctuated by gated communities and abandoned cement buildings and dusty parking lots. There are no parks that I saw, no natural earth anywhere: everything is paved over. Even the would-be creeks and rivers have been diverted into straightened out, colossal concrete drainage ditches. There is NO GROUND! There are sidewalks everywhere, but after a while you realize what's missing: PEOPLE! If you leave your front door, you drive. Freeways everywhere, it's disgusting, as is the very real smog. It's all just so gross, and the people aren't even beautiful, they're just average looking people who are tan and wear expensive trendy clothes. My guess is you'd enjoy Northern California more, esp. the coast and Yosemite, the high Sierras and sequoia trees and whatnot. As far as I'm concerned, LA is the sum total of modern man's hubris, a total melanoma upon our Earth's beautiful skin.
from raven72d :
Lovely small poem...
from raven72d :
I hope the trip goes well... I'm vur' possessive of places, too-- especially libraries where I've spent so much of my life and time... Say hi from Sydney sometime!
from apparitional :
yeah, isn't that shutter noise kind of degrading? it makes me feel like the camera was intended for some portly tourist in shorts and a foliage print shirt. and i love that about the moving guy having lived in your flat decades ago.. it's like the world is covered in invisible spiderwebs, but then sometimes we see where the threads connect. the interconnectedness of it all. did i steal that word from a douglas adams book? eh. a little drunk, sorry.
from ivoryfaerie :
...and I imagine both of our trips/moves are going to change each of our lives to some extent...hopefully for the better!
from contour :
That is a great compliament.
from raven72d :
It is a hard thing, making friends... And it was so easy once upon a time when we were all young...
from contour :
Don't let the move bug ya ... consider it an adventure and remember you can always move back if things don't work out. Also keep in mind that smiling is a great way to meet people, they either think you're happy or evil -- in either case, they will be curious about you.
from trixxx :
flapper, i am sad that you are so sad. i'm sorry your friend is going (so much depends/ upon an "i 'heart' lacan"/ t-shirt luvin' gal) away. and from everything i've read in your journal i can only believe you are at genius at love. being a genius doesnt' mean you are guarrantied to get it right though, or that badness doesn't sometimes slap you and your love around. whatever is going on though, you'll come back from it. hugs & stuff, trish
from soulnaked :
you are excellent at loving
from raven72d :
Majorly cool hat, Jennet!
from softblossoms :
yes! the silent hiking brain. at first i had random songs going through my head (to the beat of my footsteps) but then ... emptiness. like walking meditation. p.s. great hat! you are a talented knitter. i'm making my mom a shawl right now out of the loveliest yarn. it's golden colored, spun with green, espresso brown, and wine. she will be *so* fancy.
from lastyeargirl :
It is rather fantastic... and I never stop being taken aback by how striking your eyes are.
from trixxx :
you are one natty bat knitter!!!
from division-day :
i love your hat! i made one kind of like that, without ears... but yours is so much better! congratulations!
from piccoleia :
haha... Just replied to you at LJ.... lol.
from trixxx :
There is a power in a Union!!! solidarity sistah, xo trixxx
from spectralyne :
ps. I'm sorry you an't reply to me on the notes system - I just remembered - because I can't find my password from when I locked my diary!
from spectralyne :
dear Jen, I got that book ("You are Here") out from the Massey wellington campus library about a month ago! It was so incredibly wonderful. I hate to say it because of all the great illustrations but it actually left me wishing there were more essays in it.
from raven72d :
"Personal Geographies"... Sounds like Guy Davenport's "Geography of the Imagination"... But it's a book I will try to find...
from bluephonic :
Definitely. <grin> (e2 has a pretty good section on the subject, too -- http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1143021
from interstitium :
Jenn, it's me, Ine! I know, I'm a server-slut, I go from server to server without a backwards glance... but diaryland was always my fave. And you are my fave too! Anyway, I wanted to keep up with my saucy.diaryland.com-diary but my archives got all fucked up, and I couldn't debug them, and I am sad. Interstitium just doesn't sound the same. Maybe it's just an interstice though, until the next thing... MAYBE I'M JUST PAPERING OVER THE CRACKS! I love you and miss you, and am glad that even though things are stressful, what with moving and anticipating a changed landscape!, I am glad that you are still enjoying food.
from katiedoyle :
just realized i'm a loser and didn't answer your note yet. sorry! I don't think I'd take my kids to uber-perfect place either, but maybe if I'd had an uber-perfect life, I would. I had my mom's old tea set and it was totally cool, and I had tons of tea parties with it, so I agree with you on the subject of tea parties for children. :) I don't even know about the Frances and Gloria books, so no, didn't read them. But since I have no idea what backsies are, I am totally intrigued and must now find them to read. :) Hope you're having a great MemDay weekend. :)
from bluephonic :
Wow; thanks. It's beautiful metaphor (I don't like using the word beautiful but I'm tired and I can't think of any other way to put it.) and you explained it really really well. (I've got to read more LeGuin; I liked The Dispossessed a lot.) I'm not sure it doesn't stretch the science too far, though -- non-euclidean systems can be analyzed deterministically, too; the answeres are just different. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I think "non-euclidian" is too specific; a better way would be something identical in connotation but less directly tied to the math itself -- "non-euclidian" as a description of how the specific "non-euclidian" makes one feel, the type of thinking it engenders. (Also, Hyperbolic is only one type of non-euclidian geometry, if i remember correctly. Nitpicking; sorry. =)
from lucylurex :
hey no problem jenn! we played okay, but the whole tv thing was really nervewracking and weird. and i got called a slut as we walked up on stage by some testosterone-ridden punk boys.
from jeanketeer :
That was beautiful. God, you are so neat. I didn't know people like you existed, at least I've never met them...that your mind luxuriates in such ideas, it's so...transcendent. Where did you come from? Do you have friends like you, or are you kind of alone in these pursuits/endeavors/daydreams? Don't mind me, I'm just being rhetorical, but again, thanks for sharing in the most eloquent way :)
from piccoleia :
tell me, have you ever thought about lecturing?! And if you don't do your MA when you're in aussie I will have to cross the ditch and hurt you. :) That was probably one of the most enlightening essays I've read. :D Hope your trip to the farmers market was wonderful, and I'm going to take a break from making my next pair of cuffs for yet another one of my friends and make you a "post-modern princess" scarf. When I finish Gormenghast, of course. Which should be today. I hope. Right, off to the library to study. how refreshing.
from raven72d :
The Non-Euclidean entry was a delight.
from bluephonic :
I always seem to pick the most representative quote by blind luck. =) Becky wrote a whole nother entry on heat when i added her quote on it. (Also -- what does noneuclidean geometry have to do with LeGuin?)
from katiedoyle :
my god, you are a beautiful writer. i sent you an e-card, so i hope you actually have a diaryland email address. :) kd
from apparitional :
pineapple guava vodka... that actually sounds delicious. is it a major company producing it, where you might be able to import it? & yep, it's lily, just like the flower.
from bluephonic :
Thanks; I was hit by a weird burst of inspiration. All the ideas involve complex nested philosophies so I'm not sure how well they'll come off in a simple description. I'll make an attempt, though.
from raven72d :
Coffee yogurt sounds lovely.
from torato :
hello i didn't see your note. but i've seen you around before. and the third floor is great. i love it.
from chumped :
that's a good idea: a Comfort Shelf. what've you got on there?
from piccoleia :
oh yeah, for SBemails... there's two years, sibbie, techno, caffeine (loved that one) er...cartoon (yeah that's really funny) um... yeah that's what you get for living with comp sci's...
from piccoleia :
check my reply to your post. you must have seen it just after i posted. awesome! :)
from wateryone :
Ine, I don't have your email address at home, and damn it if I know where you are online now, you skip from host to host so indescriminately :0, but when I read your note, I wanted to email you tell you to make up your own file name for homestarrunner and add it on to the end of the address and see what happens. The error message made me fall off my chair laughing. Especially since I -was- trying to navigate the site using what I -thought- were the file names. I know, I am sad. You always leave me the best notes, yours are my favourite (see below, way back way back, the big long one you left me that began 'I didn't know you had one of these notes thingees' and went for about 102 more lines. I want to frame it. You are the most beautiful little infectious naif ever and I miss you. Hope you're having a good time.
from saucy :
I don't know if my fave is Trogdor ("let the burnination begin!") or Viklas!!!!!!!!! or the children's book one... Adam and I always used to say, "No two people are not on fire," and I have taken to saying "... has the shoulders of the linebacker."
from piccoleia :
my diary has decided to ommit several of my entries.... any idea why?
from trixxx :
hey you, sorry things are not so well with you. it is silly but you could distract yourself with the online journal of buffy studies, www.slayage.tv. or you could write poems, or bake a cake or... wish you well. xo trixxx
from sweetker :
I love your book passion! Good luck with the move.
from hsiutime :
Isn't Connie Willis fun? I love her :D Good luck in Sydney! I shall continue to live vicariously through your entries :)
from raven72d :
Go complain about the chai! I do hate it when people change my rituals!
from piccoleia :
and when I knit, and play scrabble and am in bed at 10 on a friday night, <i>I </i> feel like an old married woman. The thing for me is, I don't feel like a student becuase I don't really live like one. Sure, I flat, but that's about the extent of how studenty I am. I see myslef as an academic still trying to find my place on the food chain, even though I'm on the bottom rung. I think Dunedin may have something to do with that. I can't wait to get out of studentsville and go to Wellington. The smell of freedom and independence is on the wind there, just like Sydney. Here, you're alive already, but there... its the world of possibility that makes it all seem hyper real. :)
from katiedoyle :
your outside *does* match your inside. :) and your writing. :) kd
from raven72d :
Your thoughts on architecture really are lovely. I look at design magazines and want so many of the same things... I think-- the places, the buildings, where I've felt happiest and most inspired have been old libraries, libraries designed when books were housed in great faux-cathedrals.
from raven72d :
Murcutt's philosophy of design is wonderful.
from red-river :
hello... lovely entries lately.. catching up in a NY apartment. did you ever get my email with the pictures of the oak fields in california? i hope so... sigh... NY is the only place that could compete with the west coast... but only because the excitement drowns out my longing. love, becky
from jeanketeer :
I wanna live in your beautiful, magical, eloquent world. *sigh*
from contour :
Your pop is a hydrologist, right? Because when I was a kid I developed my own theory: each night when the Earth was put to bed, a blanket with holes would cover it! OK, I had a few other theories, but that one was chief among them. :)
from raven72d :
"Troy" worries me. The look of the film may be excellent, but I've read too much of Sir M.I. Finley's "The World of Odysseus". I may expect too much of the film. And I always prefer Odysseus (and Hektor) to Achilles.
from raven72d :
Wallace Stevens, "The Idea of Order at Key West"... An old favorite. And C.P. Cavafy, "The God Abandons Antony".
from bluephonic :
Yeah, I think that's a good way of looking at it. (It's tempting to corral designer's-intention and prevailing-1790-sociopolitical-philosophy and feeling-the-place-gives-you into one amourphous postmodernist blob but that's too .. . something. Detatched from reality, I think =)
from franka :
I found your diary because you like Patti Smith too, and WOW, I just had to tell you what a fascinating personality you seem to have! It's fun to read your words-- Very unique and exciting. Bravo.
from raven72d :
I loved "London Calling"... and there's The Waitresses' "Red Land"-- "It may not be better/ But at least it'll be different." I saw post-apocalyptic landscapes in parts of Bosnia and Croatia in '96. It's an eerie, terrifying thing: a landscape emptied of people.
from fourad :
dear jen,sorry for disappearing without any notice,i'm buried in loads of assignments and dissertation.I have 12 classes this year,about all 400-level ones,pretty stressful workload ;) I'll drop by science lib tomorrow.talk soon :D
from contour :
bus / train / light rail: Though you can read on a bus or knit (a pure guess ... I wouldn't dare do something like that for fear of accidently stabbing myself), there is something more regular about rail service. Though light rails kinda stop and go too much, so much that people tend to be a bit less respectiful of others. Too many times people have tried to engage me in conversation on a light rail, when I really wanted nothing to do with people, but was just trying to get from point A to point B.
from apparitional :
i think i flipped through To Say Nothing of the Dog in a bookstore and then wasn't able to get it for some reason (probably because i'd picked up far too many things already). & rituals.. i do the same thing. to me it feels like making up for the lack of grace in day to day rushed living.
from raven72d :
Small rituals are always lovely.
from trixxx :
yeah, i've noticed the ring banner on your page before, and thought i should join but you know i'm a drifty and distracted girl and so many thoughts just slide off into the void. but economy is important for my diss, and do quite adore her, and i'm looking forward to a talk she's giving next month so it seemed a good time to pay my respects.
from lucylurex :
awww. never mind. we're supporting mestar on the 7th of may, if you're still in town then. so what are you doing with your anzac eve?
from apparitional :
"I feel like I don't know what to do with this city at the moment. I feel like the autumn leaves aren't mine, because I'm leaving. I feel like it isn't worth visiting people, because I'm leaving." that was /exactly/ how i felt when i left Kansas City. and this might be a random misplaced memory, but is To Say Nothing of the Dog the one that mentions something about how the victorians were so reserved because you couldn't turn around in their houses without knocking something over?
from lucylurex :
heavens! i just finally saw the last notes you've left for me. yeah that bayton thesis was for me! i've just finished reading it, its incredibly thorough. i've been a bayton fan for some time now, and i share your admiration of old-fashioned names :-)
from piccoleia :
:( I'm going to miss having somebody to talk to about everything in the library. I did drag Simon by to see you last Thursday (He's probably going to do a DipGrad on ecocriticism in Fantasy next year... haha, another victim to my powers of persuasion), and I'll probably make him come in sometime this week too. The gloves look funky, and I went and visited that wool the other day. I WANT SOME! (not fair). But now I should get back to doing what I'm getting paid for. :D
from raven72d :
Autumnis my season, but I do like that crisp winter light... The glove is lovely, by the way. And what will you do in Australia?
from contour :
RE: Winter. It is so odd that I like really warm temperatures, and yet I love winter. All this has me wondering what the day time / night time temperature differential is like in D. Here it is pretty extreme, so even when it hits 90 F at mid-day, I can look forward to cuddling up in a wool blanket at night. Perfect!
from deepbluefunk :
loving the wee bebe hat and the blood red sky. good stuff.
from raven72d :
The knit hat looks like a vur' pettable little pokemon.
from raven72d :
I save all my letters and print off and save my best e-mails. I like having my memories-- the good memories --in tangible form...
from lastyeargirl :
A paperless world sounds fine in theory, but I'd miss the smell of it and the feel of it and the realness of it too much I think. Mind you, I'm looking at the mess surrounding me right now and wishing I had time for a clearout. And yet I'm time-wasting online. Oops...
from apparitional :
i remember reading perceptions back long before i thought of getting a dland account.. that's really strange to think about, the internet seems too ephemeral for real memories. i hope your job situation works out quickly.
from teanlemons :
why the past tense? spiral staircases are always the height of heavenly.
from vesselland :
and i'm the girl who lives in a house with a spiral staircase...
from raven72d :
Spiral staircases are way cool. Every library should have one.
from lucylurex :
the thing i miss most of all about the old central library is the spiral staircase. it made me think of that band pavement, cos um, the guitarist's name is spiral stairs.
from katiedoyle :
I think you're just wonderful. I'm sorry work isn't, though. :( You make me smile. kd
from contour :
While I hope you get to California someday, as a resident I can't help but be afraid that you've placed it so high up that you'll be disappointed when you do come out. However, I will add that the few Californians I know who have been to your South Island, would jump ship and move there in a heart-beat. ;) All that said, I'm less interested in places but times. California at twilight / dust any time between March and November is amazing. So when you do make it out, do so between Mar and Nov.
from jeanketeer :
What's the MLIS? Is it a perhaps more "vocationally sound" degree? I don't know where you come from, but I'd guess your mom is pretty hip and smart. Maybe she just doesn't know what you're talking about, like it's all too abstract? I don't know. My mom wanted me to forego college and work my way up the corporate ladder of Mcdonald's. She also encouraged me to "try" to get a job at Wal-Mart. Hey, are there Wal-Marts in NZ? As a joke/art, I'm thinking about creating a "Wonderful World of Wal-Marts" calendar, ostensibly to celebrate Wal-Mart in the traditional "12 months of spectacular scenery" format, but the joke would be, I guess, that from Florida to Alaska, they all monotonize the scenery and negate regional charm. Ok, maybe it's just funny in my head :) Anywhozers, I think ecocriticism is valid and necessary.
from tet :
yep. what'd you think of The Telling and wilderness, then? what with the big mountains and all. bit different, used to be all forests.
from apparitional :
communities of landscape.. i love the concept. in southern california i am always searching out the places that look like central or northern, like under the oak groves where the grass is long and bright bright green. i am just so effected by the landscape of where i am, it’s kind of ridiculous. anyway.. i just want to say i love your diary. it's so varied, and i just like the feeling i get from it. and thank you for being my first livejournal comment!
from raven72d :
One day I will go to Key West and read Wallace Stevens' "The Idea of Order at Key West" aloud at twilight.
from raven72d :
Life is always better if you speak in a heavy Bela Lugosi accent.
from samsa :
"Can anyone give me a good reason why they shouldn't be allowed to a)use the roads b)have the same rights and saftey as anyone else."</p><p> Spandex.
from raven72d :
As much as I like driving in my small Saturn, I do miss living downtown where I never ad to worry about parking or having a car or gas...where I could walk or take the subway...
from ivoryfaerie :
re:cyclist rights-I totally agree with you. Isn't it enough that the cyclists are inhaling all the lethal exhaust fumes from the cars , without having to pay in monetary ways aswell? And if drivers are fed up with taxes and related car costs, no one's stopping them from getting on a bike and riding to work once in awhile.
from contour :
I agree. Bicyclists choose to minimize the impact their transportation has on others. Sounds to me like they are "paying" a cost as well. In time the arguement will be moot, because gas will be so expensive that there even the jerks that don't think bikes have rights will be pumping along side the current crop of cyclists.
from raven72d :
I loved Russell Hoban-- not just for "Riddley Walker", but for "The Mouse and His Boy"...
from raven72d :
That's an utterly stunning and brilliant photo...
from apparitional :
that Croesus track photo... can you walk through the clouds there? it looks amazing. i don't know why, it just reminded me of this place in central california, called Lost Hills, somewhere before Bakersfield. there is fog everywhere, and mild green hills that go on forever next to the highway, it's like purgatory, but in a good way.
from deepbluefunk :
delving deeper: you know my daughter's name is pandora and she is named in part after that song? love the le guin passage--i haven't read enough of her. give tolkien another chance--get through the singing, the last book is so worth it. i trudged through the first two--sped weeping through the third. again, how you rock. love.
from deepbluefunk :
my day IS nicer thanks to your design entry. of course aesthetics affect how we feel, think and utilize our spaces, both macro and micro in scale. the japanese call it chi and think of it as energy; whatever you call the flow, the structure and arrangement of our environment has strong effect on perception, affect, mood and productivity. [elegance is an aesthetic but also the highest utility--all the most profoundly simple and important scientific experiments are described as elegant.] one of my country's saddest flaws is the wholesale neglect of pleasing aesthetic design in favor of mass produced cookie cutter strip malls and endless carbon copy housing, not in harmony with or enhancing our geographic environment one bit. it seems a desecration. sometimes i wonder if it isn't why we have such an excess of abnormal psychopathology here. anyway, thanks again for the great tangent. love love.
from raven72d :
Good luck on the Social Ecology program!
from lucylurex :
also hey my triumph has a red upholstery too, and you're TOTALLY right about that smell, it never leaves you. awwww.
from lucylurex :
oh i just noticed i have a spate of notes from you that i didn't get notified about, silly internet. yeah i've had a white triumph for about 4 years, her name is georgina and i think of her as a real person and a cantankerous friend, heh. sometimes, in poor taste, i call her my "triumph of the will". triumphs are way cool, but my dream car would be a hillman superminx. i'd like a white one with a blue racing stripe, i think. i've never seen a triumph heralds, though my drummer says his family had one too! hey, can you tell me more about these books that were purchased for a research grant? cos um i haven't ordered any. i haven't even enrolled yet! maybe it was one of my supervisors, hmm.
from softblossoms :
hey thanks for the comment about the moveable hearth :) and o my! yes i love carolyn forche. i've only read "the country between us," which i found in a box by a dumpster, if you can believe that. her writing blows my mind. is 'taking off my clothes' from "gathering the tribes? and that's the one quoted in your watershed, right? mmppff i need that book.
from jeanketeer :
That Le Guin character sounds intriguing...would that be Ursula Le Guin? Name sounds familiar. Anywho, get this--my geography dept. as an undergrad was home to none other than Tuan AND Cronon. I saw them all the time, but never took a class with them--I believe they're both emeritus professors or something, either way too busy for undergrads. Holy crap you would LOVE, absolutely fukkin' LOVE the geography building/library here in Madison, WI. It's the oldest bldg. on campus and...shit, trust me, you'd get a moisty. Even though it was vocationally unsound, I majored in geography just to be in the building and surrounded by these brilliant minds...alas...Tuan is the coolest little old man, always smiling and shuffling by with a huge parka all the hipsters are wearing, but it dwarves his skinny little 90-yo Chinese frame. He is too cute, I can't help but smile. I was too in awe to ever approach him, though...wish I had. Anywhozers...
from dwell :
i was just needing a new book. that one sounds good.
from raven72d :
Ah, librarian girl! You have a job that's like my days in grad school managing a bookstore-- you get to see books, read books, know about books... It's a lovely part of the job. Chickpeas... You know, I can't think what they'd be called in the US. Are those...field peas? Crowder peas? My mind only calls up chickpea = Cicero... But it's rainy, I'm home from work early (Mardi Gras here), and I mostly want to sleep... And somehow I remember being an undergraduate, and reading Leonard Cohen's poetry to girls...
from ivoryfaerie :
oops I meant to say I'd forgotten about it til I read your entry, not I loved it up until I read your entry. !
from ivoryfaerie :
Hey- My nation is the free land of Ivoire. I don't know how Contour does it, I seem to have the same problem as you- my economy is pretty sad. At least our civil rights are doing all right. Thanks for introducing me to the game! (By the way, I used to love boys for pele til I read your entry- I'd forgotten all about it!)
from lastyeargirl :
Not worried at all, when I was a self-obsessed teenager I think I rather did quote the woman's lyrics in vacuum anyway... well, hers, and Courtney Love's! "Last Year's Girl" is a Jesse Malin songlyric, from "TKO", but you're not the first to have suggested the Leonard Cohen thing. And I do love him just as much as Jesse, so it's no bad thing!
from deepbluefunk :
i have that same WTWTA critter! i love your bookcase.
from katiedoyle :
dude; how cool are you for thinking i rate the cool? no, it's pamie. and i wouldn't read without the snark either, though sometimes i think it gets a bit out of hand. i love that they (i think it's allie?) calls osarama or wtf ever her name is assorama. :) kd
from contour :
All those books, and yet I spy a "Where the Wild Things Are" monster! FYI: If you ever make it to San Francisco, near Moscone Center there is a "Where the Wild Things Are" maze ... or so I've been told. ;)
from apparitional :
i'm sick too. bleh. hope you feel better.
from raven72d :
Also-- Cronon's "Nature's Metropolis" is excellent...and he edited a volume on envisioning the landscape whose title I can't recall...
from raven72d :
Even "wan and despondent", it's a lovely photo. The photos of your bookshelves were intriguing... And do look for Wm. Cronin's "Changes in the Landscape", about the introduction of new grasses and crops and tree cultures that re-shaped America's landscape in the 17th-18th centuries. [Bill Cronin was in a Modern Germany seminar with me long ago... I'm not sure how heended up doing Early America]
from jeanketeer :
Oh, god how I loved his autobiography (Tuan's). My absolute favorite parts were those in which he honestly appraised his aesthetic beauty and that of others (intellectually taboo here in the states, so the dialogue goes about as far as "He's short" and "she's fat", and then no mention of the repercussions thereof--I think most people (Americans?), although "obsessed" with beauty(driven merely by capitalism), are in denial of its deeper aspects). Anyway, that he came out as a homosexual was icing on the cake! I couldn't believe it, but it all made sense. As for that "uniquely American values" passage...omigod, have you ever been to the States? I bet 85-90% couldn't find New Zealand on a map. You've never seen so much ignorance and wealth, it's astoundingly incongruous. To their credit, they are so busily focused on BIGGER BETTER FASTER MORE! they scarcely have time to think about others, much less the inclination to learn unless it translates into a bigger paycheck. Also, I too can appreciate the charm and unintended artistry of the human landscape, the checkerboards and topographic relief of contour tilling, but the beauty masks an insidious ugly, and that ugly is unsustainable agriculture. Oh, jeez, I'm totally rambling (sorry if I'm boring you!)--but here in the states we've intensified and extensified agriculture so far that we are now reliant on petroleum inputs (fertilizers, irrigation, transportation, etc.) to maintain our "high", 99-cent Big Mac standard of living. We are in fact "eating on borrowed energy", and this is one of those "American Interests" we are "defending" in the Middle East. In short, and I don't mean to be a joy-kill, I get concerned that the bigger picture might get obscured by romanticizing the agricultural landscape. I'm sort of generalizing here, but I can say for sure the trend here is an ever-increasing, desperate rape of the land. Pastoral is out: endless, unsustainable, chemical input-thirsty monoculture is in. Most Americans choose not to see that, but rather the pictures which you described. And that 's the only reason why appreciating the human footprint on our landscape sometimes bothers me, it lets us off the hook too easily, allows for indifference and ignorance. Ugh, I'm such a cynic! Sorry to blather on! You seem amazing, and I'm gonna add you to my favorites, if ya don't mind...
from raven72d :
Somewhere there's a book of aerial photos called something like "Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Landscape"... It's wonderful. I found it in an ancient (mid-1970s) Whole Earth Catalog. Haunt libraries and find 1970s Whole Earth Catalogs (Stewart Brand, ed.)-- the books they discuss are brilliant.
from lucylurex :
hi, i got a friendster invite from you but i accidentally deleted it. so i searched your name on friendster and there were six other jenn's with your last name so hopefully i requested the right one! (one had a photo which looked like you so i picked that one, five of em had no photo to speak of)
from sats :
i'll play mah jong with you jenn! i saw the ramones 'i wanna be sedated' video on tv the other day and thought of you :)
from apparitional :
the north coast is wonderful, i think it's probably my favorite place to be. and i fell in love with it just reading about it too. my family has actually been in southern california since about the 1870s, but i've lived back & forth between here and the south and midwest.
from jeanketeer :
Wow, you're a prolific writer...damn! You seem very enlightened. I don't know what else to say, but you seem like a wonderful person, and it's great you like Tuan, too. How'd you ever come by his work?
from raven72d :
Lawrence Durrell's "Bitter Lemons" evokes the most wonderful sense of landscape and place...and so does Peter Levi's "The Light Garden of the Angel King"... I loved your List o'100 Things...
from apparitional :
re:#57 you should come to california. you can probably find whatever you imagine it to be /somewhere/ here. someday, some summer, i'm going to have a car and drive up and down and find everything.
from softblossoms :
yay, we're friendsters! your pictures are so lovely. what a pretty lady! and i love your list, by the way. i feel like responding to so many of your items! here's one -- go vegan (or vegetarian) and just keep using leather if you want to. its about doing as much as you can, not being perfect or following a prescribed set of rules. for example, i use vintage leather. you can make your own vegetarian "rules." :)
from lastyeargirl :
Fridge poetry... now THAT is romance.
from bathtubmary :
thanks for liking my diary, love. i'll be back to catch up on yours soon. xo, d
from genibee :
I have to admit, I laughed like a jackass the first time I saw that particular chapter heading. It was so out of the blue: Wine of the Spirit, Companionship, Love and Life, Feminist-Anarchist wedding...whoa! Wait a minute!
from genibee :
Hee, that was the first thread I posted to. I'm Genevieve, dubious about the zubir without having the clarity to know precisely why.
from genibee :
Yeah, I do hang out at Bright Weavings - I have the Jennifer/Galadan and Ceinwein/Dave posters hanging on my wall. I've only just started talking a bit in the forums. I love the name Theodora, but I don't know if I'd use it - but I'd have to be talked out of naming a son Justininan. Or Lucius. Or Magnus.
from raven72d :
I realize it's silly to ask someone to describe a smell...but what *does* pennyroyal smell like? I like the idea of a small, fluffy mountain goat living on my roof... I wonder if a Swiss mountain goat would speak Rhaeto-Romisch...
from raven72d :
Ducks may or may not read sci-fi, but I'm sure small nutria and capybaras enjoy reading it. "Ecotopia" struck me as an unpleasant book... Callenbach's Ecotopia was a place I'd never want to live... I think small fluffy white mountain goats enjoy reading sci-fi... I much prefer Gibson to Stephenson. Stephenson tries too hard to be Thomas Pynchon, and he's just...not...funny.
from contour :
RE: Skiing. Yup, I think you nailed it. A friend in the same lesson said I wasn't relaxing but looked like I wanted to stab things with my poles. He was partially right, I wanted to stab the ground and STOP MOVING! ;) I think if I: (1) had a huge mirror, and (2) a bit to drink first, that I'd be fine.
from apparitional :
you have such beautiful (and photogenic) eyes! are they contacts? the dimension is incredible if not.
from bluephonic :
Oh, and I have a nationstate, too. http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/target=display_nation/nation=iyr
from bluephonic :
Diamond Age has the most brilliantly hyperkinetic conception of the future, but I think I like Snow Crash more (for the characters, and the action; and even if the concept of the metaverse is outdated it's damn cool). Also, Stephenson's social conservatism show through more in the Diamond Age, which kind of annoys me.
from raven72d :
Lovely New Years photo, by the way.
from contour :
Of interest to residents of the Republic of Over-the-Hill. In the 1960s or 70s Earnest Calenbock (sp?) wrote a book called Ecotopia about your country. (The Canadians I was talking to last weekend were calling the same creature Cascadia after the mountains that the define this country.)
from raven72d :
In Volpukia, we still use pounds-shillings-pence, 12s and 20s...and sometimes the Hungarian pengo... And we have famous wombats on our stamps. And whoever *did* you cast as Molly?
from softblossoms :
haha! yes . . . lately i've been wanting to stay up in the dusty shelves for all eternity . . .
from raven72d :
And, ummm...a fejoia?
from raven72d :
For Molly... hmmm... Andrea Parker?
from red-river :
oh, i love your entry about new zealand! it sounds so surreal and lovely. maybe i will see it someday.
from erato :
Spin, spin, spin. Let the words and colors spill out of you without holding the reigns. They are part of you, their meaning is your secret. What their eyes see and what their lips say are but a reflection of themselves. Shh, now, lovely, we spin.
from raven72d :
You're bright and lovely and a good writer. You're certainly not *ordinary*.
from softblossoms :
oh i just love that your husband said you are "sacred." !!!
from erato :
ah, but we are not defined by what we do, by a change in our last name, by the weight of another year added to our lives. No, we are the essence, the very dance of which you speak. The mistake is in dancing for others when the dance should be for ourselves. I do not know whether it is possible to not know who you are. I think it is possible to be confused about where you stand when issues within you are conflicted, but this makes you no less you or more you. This is simply something you hold inside yourself, the very thing that propels the dance. The creative self, the poet inside us, it is driven by conflict. We are born directly into it. Embrace it. Follow your impulses. Don't offer explanations, reasons, justifications. Don't apologize.
from soulnaked :
I would sell and burn everything to dance even the same three steps over and over with you. Dancing's hard, and it takes it's toll. I don't know where this dance leads but I'll spin you till you fall. And you ~know~ that I was made to catch you.
from onceknownas :
If growing up means 'giving up the dance,' then screw it - I'm taking my toys and going home. This game *sucks*. But seriously, I don't think that's the way it has to be. That's the way it is for a lot of people, but since when has 'majority rule' been synonymous for 'smart thing to do'? Keep 'dancing'. Or at least, retain the option to do so, when you're feeling more like it again. You, and the world around you, will be a better place for it.
from raven72d :
Geographer and science librarian, writer and photographer... You do many things well. Now-- is there a distinct West Coast (of NZ) culture? [After all...Osaka and Tokyo are so vur' different...]
from apparitional :
it doesn't appear that you need any help! i absolutely love your photo with the magnolia/window.
from raven72d :
"Constant Gneiss"... It sounds like the name for a Bond Girl... But I do love pre-Cambrian rock formations... "Primordial" is bad when applied to jungle, good when applied to rock. I like the Hammond bird people... Now-- the Maori are settlers themselves; they're not actually "indigenous". The bird people are *indigenous*.
from raven72d :
what do you think underlies the relationship of NZ'ers and their landscape?
from raven72d :
"constant gneiss"... Such an intriguing phrase...
from sirenslave :
You are more beautiful than your writing which is spectacular. I wish I lived in such a lovely world of light. *peers through the glass wrinkling her nose to get a better view, wishing she could come inside*
from bluephonic :
thanks. =) I haven't, actually; I never got all the way through Cryptonomicon (though i plan to start on it again soon) and I've heard Quicksilver is even more prone to tangents.
from lucylurex :
gah! i lost my bankcard last night too, sucks. i hope you find yours, mine was in my friends pocket.
from raven72d :
I always wanted to live on a cliff overlooking the sea... Or in a house on piers out over the edge of the world.
from lucylurex :
if its any consolation, i don't think you were being overly romantic. i don't know anything about architecture but the idea of what you call "landscape-sensitive" architecture is quite appealing. and now that i've reread your entry, i can see why you got worried. haha now "living on the edge" by aerosmith is in my head.
from lucylurex :
oh good heavens! i wasn't criticising your diary entry! please don't take my rambly entries literally, i'm usually just referring to my emotional life. ps i think that house on the cliff is very beautiful :-)
from raven72d :
I was born in the Year of the Pony... But-- Happy Chinese New Year! (And while I like coffee...I love yoghurt...)
from onceknownas :
Re: Your entry 1/18/04 - Sorry for the length, but I thought you might like this... A Warrior's Creed, Anonymous Samurai, 14th Century - 'I have no parents; I make the heavens and the earth my parents / I have no home; I make awareness my home / I have no life or death; I make the tides of breathing my life and death / I have no divine power; Imake my own divine power / I have no means; I make understanding my means / I have no magic secrets; I make character my magic secret / I have no body; I make endurance my body / I have no eyes; I make the flash of lightning my eyes / I have no ears; I make sensibility my ears / I have no limbs; I make promptness my limbs / I have no strategy; I make "unshadowed by thought" my strategy / I have no designs; I make "seizing opportunity by the forelock" my design / I have no miracles; I make right-action my miracles / I have no principles; I make adaptability to all circumstances my principles / I have no tactics; I make emptiness and fullness my tactics / I have no talents; I make ready wit my talent / I have no friends; I make my mind my friends / I have no enemy; I make carelessness my enemy / I have no armor; I make benevolence and righteousness my armor / I have no castle; I make immovable-mind my castle / I have no sword; I make absence of self my sword.'
from raven72d :
Actually-- *my* Small Mongolian Pony stuffling is named Dorian. He is vur' famous and well-traveled. Small Mongolian Ponies as a rule are named Edmund. They exhibit many Edmund-like qualities. Small *Caspian* Ponies (with golden manes) are named Jonathan.
from raven72d :
I marked Mongolia as a favorite place on your map! It's where the Small Mongolian Ponies are! They are small, stocky, shaggy, loyal, faithful, hardy, enduring, and brave. They have Roman noses and stubby little sea-horse manes and large, placid eyes. They are named Dorian.
from contour :
Ah, but isn't that what sibblings are for??!!?? Out of curiousity, did you share a room with your sister as a kid? I did with my brother, and the bond is much stronger between the two of us than it is between my sister and either of us. We'd talk for hours at night! =)
from contour :
*hitting chest* ACK! *hitting chest again* Oh wait, now I remember, you are just TRYING to break my heart. But I'll have nothing of it. :p p.s. tell your sister she is a saint and *right* for not having spoiled you. p.p.s. I remember when my brother was reading the books after I finished them, we'd talk for hours! =)
from contour :
I choose to REFUSE to accept that. You're just pulling my leg. Trying to get me to go into shock or something. TESTING me. Yes. Yes, yes. That is the answer. ;)
from contour :
I'm counting on their meeting as well as the orcs talking about how Sam is a "great elf warrior"! =) All and all, the 4-hour editions are soooo much better, of course, I also like thinking that there *still* remains a cult of true book fans, namely the people who know what was supposed to happen.
from softblossoms :
haha! i love your latest entry. i had my first cataloging class on saturday! mindblowing, to say the least. :) oh my, though, so sorry about the water damage -- sounds nightmarish!
from deepbluefunk :
such big wet adventures for a librarian!! you are my book-rescuing heroine.xoxoxo,kat
from angryquail :
Hello. I'm about to start reading Possession. More follows.
from vodka05 :
hey, ur diary is really interesting, i'll come back soon :)
from raven72d :
Absolutely! Drop me an e-mail ("Emil") at raven72d at-symbol yahoo-dot-com and we'll make up lists! I'm a great believer in lists, bibliographies, and booklists...
from raven72d :
Liza Dalby's "Geisha"... her memoir of becoming the first Western geisha in Kyoto...and her nobel (1999) "The Tale of Murasaki"... And Yasunari Kawabata's "Snow Country"...
from raven72d :
"My Name is Red" is pretty good... I had to read it in two tries, since I was distracted by Eco's "Baudolino".
from saxifrage :
*confusion* so is this poetry about biotechnologists and such? that would be fabulous, think of all the words to choose from! but oh, I hold nothing against science fiction, Im steadily working my way through the Dune series at the moment. xoxo
from raven72d :
Hannah Closs, "High Are the Mountains", "Deep Are the Valleys" and "The Silent Tarn"... worth finding. And do e-mail me...
from raven72d :
I liked the Byzantine ones myself... Could you order the new book from amazon or waterston?
from raven72d :
One day soon you must e-mail me... Raven72D at yahoo dot com...
from raven72d :
Guy Gavriel Kay! Synchronicity at work! I was just thinking about Kay the other afternoon... And which is your favorite by GGK? I'm also thinking about Zoe Oldenbourg's "Massacre at Montsegur" and Michael Arnold's "Against the Fall of Night" (about the 4th Crusade and Byzantium)... You seem to have a way of making me think of interesting things.
from raven72d :
You are making me think more and more about design and architecture...and--thanks for pointing the way toward freshness' diary!
from raven72d :
We must form a conspiracy to get apartments in that building!
from ktdream :
Yea it's great that there are some places that you can go to and it feels so incredible there.
from ktdream :
Wow some really nice pictures and the one you commented on.. the place you want to live, that looks so perfect. Oh yea good luck on your thesis! I hate that part too.
from lucylurex :
god i love that couch
from sbojo32 :
I apologize if you took offense to my rant yesterday. The reason I was so upset at the librarians was not because she couldn't find the book, rather because someone there had told me they had it and would hold it for me, when in fact this was not true, and when my bf got there, no wonder she couldn't find it, they had put it back on the shelf. I just thought this lacked a huge courtesy to me - if you tell me the book is being held, I don't expect that you should put it back on the shelves just because you can't hold that kind of book. That's information that you should know before telling someone it will be there. And, in the case that you absolutely can't hold it, call me and tell me that you had to put it back on the shelf. I was inconvenienced and it was the fault of the library, with no courtesy attempt made. That's why I was angry - and still am.
from lucylurex :
oooh thanks for the sherman tip-off. i love her film stills best too - i'm really drawn to the drag aspect. her Dianne B fashion shots crack me the hell up.
from raven72d :
Old Penguin paperbacks! Yes! They were so lovely!
from saxifrage :
Well thank you for the compliment. Its all because I happened to be flipping through my social textbook and came upon some brilliantly purple flowers in the artic with some weird name, I thought, like Saxifrage. Your name conjurs very interesting imagery, I see thin soup with small noodles becoming a pond overshadowed by a willow. Hmm, have a nice day.
from lucylurex :
thanks re: the skirt. i think that is a very sensible way to do a PhD, to sink ones teeth into it before officially starting it. plus it shows you are passionate and disciplined.
from lucylurex :
ha! you SHOULD be doing a PhD, not me. and i didn't think you were an idiot, how were you to know?
from contour :
I'm soooo glad you posted the lamp pic, 'cause otherwise I would have been a bit lost. I can see how something so unique like that would create a feel. If people had all the money in the world, it would be interesting to see how they _design_ their homes.
from raven72d :
Fairport Convention were a folk-rock UK group in the 1970s. Their version of "Tam Lin" has been a favorite of mine since I was a boy. Lovely and haunting and powerful. Worth finding-- as is their "Fothringay". Jennet is a lovely form of Jenn, however... "The Lady's Not For Burning"-- great play!!
from raven72d :
Situationism? All design has to begin with a concrete situation, but... if you were given a downtown oft apartment to decorate for yourself, what would you do? Jennet... do you know the old Fairport Convention version of "Tam Lin"?
from raven72d :
Oh, yes-- it is interesting. Do write or e-mail ("Emil") about the books you've loved most...and what they've meant for you. And it's not *quite* zombie fiction. It's...more and less.
from raven72d :
One day I'd love to talk with you about dsigning a room, about the way a place can be re-crafted, about what it means to do design... How *would* you do a room if you could do anything at all? [Ah-- a note: my first name is Lohr...]
from raven72d :
Find Shepherd's "Green Eyes" and see what you think.
from raven72d :
The photo of the rock-strewn coast was beautiful. "Riddley Walker"... I hadn't thought of that book in years (though I gave my friend Little Ellen--the Small Pika--a copy of Hoban's "The Mouse and His Boy" last year... (And "Riddley Walker" brings up "Fiskadoro"...) Post-apocalyptic landscapes... You must find George R. Stewart's classic "Earth Abides". It's well worth reading. I do like the idea of re-building a world and a vision of the Past out of half-remembered objects (think the whole Merovingian or medieval idea of Rome). That appeals to my whole Historian side.
from raven72d :
Lucius Shephard wrote "Green Eyes" (the first Lacanian horror novel) and "Life During Wartime"... Oh-- lovely photo of you and Ine, by the way! Now-- I was irritated by the politics of "The Wilder Shore", but I love the post-apocalyptic landscapes of Ballard. "The Crystal World" is a favorite of mine-- the imagry is so brilliant and haunting, and I'd give a lot to be able to film it. And his slow-motion apocalypse-- "The Voices of Time" --is maybe my favorite sci-fi novella.
from raven72d :
Theodora, yes... Justinian's empress. I'll have to look on the web for Murcutt's work. I started university in architecture, 'til it was discovered that I (1) can't draw and (2) am too clumsy to make models. So I went into History and Law. Harlan Ellison did the script for "Demon With A Glass Hand", which I love. I'm not so fond of him as a "personality", though. I like Lucius Shepherd more than Kim Stanley Robinson. ("The Wilder Shore" irritated me) I do like your entries... And I hope you'll read a few of mine.
from raven72d :
Ahhh-- a girl looking for "A Pattern Language"! Always a good thing! And who is this new architect you've found?
from teanlemons :
ps. hope all went well with the move.
from teanlemons :
aw! you noticed. that's so nice. you can come for tea anytime. i'm partial to mountian chi or black orange tea.
from lucylurex :
bon voyage! merry summer to you too, miss!
from contour :
Ah, but you see ... comfortable, snuggly, and content IS the very definition of HOT! He knew exactly what he was seeing. =) And yes, women look great in hoodies and should feel great looking when wearing them.
from lastyeargirl :
Don't worry, there will be... and pictures too!
from angryquail :
Sounds like a great job...like you said, jump at it!
from deepbluefunk :
actually darling, i'd just like a break. apocalypse vacation!! wish i could send you my umbrella. no one should be wet involuntarily. but sometimes, when faced with it, its not so bad if you *accept* the deluge, revel in it, instead of dashing in a persistant wince. but i get strange looks when it seems i enjoy the rain too much. hope you did not catch your death, love.
from soulnaked :
i just thought i'd reassure evermind that i'm very familiar with reservoir dogs. i would have rated it tarantino's best but then i saw kill bill (that's not a sentence i thought i'd be writing). still, in the boondock saints vs. reservoir dogs stakes, in my book boondock wins hands down.
from contour :
*nod* Yeah, I'm kinda like that with my music collection as well ('cept it ain't vinyl). And I love sorting and organizing the mp3's I listen to when I got out jogging.
from lucylurex :
hey anton told me he met you.
from angryquail :
1. My life just may be coming together (from collapse, obviously.) 2. Horses sweat, gentlemen perspire...ladies GLOW! 3. I miss hearing from you. I hope you have a marvelous experience in Australia and maybe I will hear from you soon. Hope you are enjoying my letters.
from katiedoyle :
Oh, oh, oh!!! PLEASE take landscape notes! And ***pictures***! I am in love with proteas, and we don't get them here all that much. Australia has like the *coolest* plants. Please, please, please take pictures and notes for your geeky readers like me! (and, you know, have fun, too.) kd
from evermind :
If your husband loves Boondock saints, tell him to watch Reservoir Dogs! Oh dear, that was busting in on a conversation wasn't it? I'm sorry, I just saw your note somewhere, and thought I'd suggest... all in the best intentions it was... um, have a nice day!
from contour :
Actually, I'm gonna suggest that *all* writing is a way to change the world. ;) Writing is for visionaries to share ideas. The visionaries then inspire the creators / workers, who then go about changing the world piece by piece, thus feeding the visionaries. It is an interesting cycle, and if I could live forever, no doubt it would entertain me forever (which is a good thing ... as a creator type, I hate to think what would happen should I get bored). *snicker*
from contour :
My theory (aside from the obvious anwser that many writers live out here) is that the climate is highly variable not by *time* but by location. You can drive less than 10 miles in many places and experience over a 10 degree F change in temperature on a very predictable basis. This means that the eco system of one town is totally different than the next, which means their are boundless opportunities for stories. They call 'em microclimates, and it is very cool and real. =)
from katiedoyle :
TCE was on AMC tonight, and I missed it! :(
from deepbluefunk :
as for apocalypse. . . glad you saw 28 days later and liked it as much as i did. i am also all about man made reclaimed landscapes--i used to play on a forest swallowed-vine ridden elevated train trestle as a child. and bookworm is lovely. thanks for all the sweet notes of late. love.
from katiedoyle :
fingerpainting - guy in the bar when doug tells his brother. :) I like that gretsky quote too. You're right; Dotrice has all the best lines. :) kd
from katiedoyle :
Rodents of Unusual Size? ::shaking head:: I don't believe they exist. What fingerpainting reference?? Kate said it, yes? I know I know it... I used to ask myself "what would Kate do?" when something happened I wasn't really sure how to react to. kd
from katiedoyle :
just so long as no speeding traffic endangers your life. i am in favor of walking, esp. after spending a month in paris. i HATE la traffic and would kill for the kind of subway paris has. alas, i live in america. oh well. i saw part of the princess bride today, my favorite part: the duel with wesley and inigo. ::sigh:: best dialogue ever...except for tce, of course. spindler say before he skate with her, he wear garlic from neck and sleep with cross. excellent line. :) kd
from katiedoyle :
kinda worries me you're walking to work next to a freeway/highway. please be careful...and no sleeping! why are you walking, anyway? (i have been remiss in my reading) kd
from katiedoyle :
i'm jealous. you're wonderful. kd
from contour :
I look forward to seeing your pictures! Please post 'em. On that note, while away on a Northern California water tour, I took my digital camera and took tons of pictures. I hope to label where they are from before uploading them, but I figured there would be at least one daughter of a hydrologist interested in seeing what Northern California really looks like. Please keep in mind that winter and summer California are two completely different places.
from bicyclelove :
actually, i've already done that walk! the camino de santiago... that's what originally made me interested in that book, that and i read an article about anne carson in the ny times magazine... anyway, yeah, i walked the camino in 1999... i started making a webpage about it a while ago here: http://www.geocities.com/bicycleaesthetic/spain.html there's lots of information about it, and i started chronicling the first 3 days and then never got around to the rest of it... it was one of the most amazing things in my life..
from bicyclelove :
oh my god!!!!!!!!!! i can't believe you've read a pattern language. i just stole that from my parent's house. my aunt marcia was dating shlomo angel, one of the co-authors, when the book came out, so she gave the book to everyone for christmas back then.. i just discovered it recently. it's so amazing. having a secret place in every house. etc. i wish she would have married shlomo.. he wanted to move to israel and she went but she just didn't like it there, and ended up marrying this idiotic english guy. she works for the UN and lived in thailand for 12 years. strange connections. a pattern language. i might move to spain with my boyfriend in the spring, but it's a secret...
from softblossoms :
your "watershed" entry made me cry. the part about the body being like the earth . . . i feel that way when i look at water, or think of rivers like veins.
from gal9000 :
the bendy lights look like they are having more fun than the students on board mothershiplibrary
from bicyclelove :
my boyfriend has these two german girls visiting him, they've been traveling around the world for a year. their last stop was new zealand and they said they'd been to dunedin and it was pretty. i should come visit you sometime, wouldn't that be cute?
from contour :
It reminds me of university libraries. And yes, these are places to DIE in. (Consider that a good thing please.) ;)
from angryquail :
Wow.
from contour :
If the vest really does make you a better person, then the rest of the world needs to start wearing it too! Would you be willing to share? ;)
from angryquail :
It TOTALLY makes sense, I love the way you put it. It's like when you look at a list of interests you made and realize they are all wrong and outdated. Don't worry, things will get better. I'm sure you know that but I'm just cheering you on. I think Jon and I broke up. It's very weird, I came back to school, it turned to fall overnight, and then Jon and I split. Very new. Feel free to e-mail me, I know you got my last e-mail. :-)
from bicyclelove :
no, it was all me.. but you caught the reference! i love forests and creeks and things where something might be hidden.
from lastyeargirl :
I don't like drinks that taste of alcohol... does that make me weird? But there's nothing better than being pleasantly, fuzzily drunk and listening to an album like Heartbreaker.
from contour :
Shoe patterns, you know, to this day I STILL love looking at the footprints that people's shoes make. Tennis shoes, dress shoes, boots, you name it. There is an art of trails that I imagine looks just as interesting to bugs as well as humans.
from lastyeargirl :
Thank you thank you thank you for the most well-thought-out answers I've had in my lastsongs survey to date. I like you, and the way your mind works, and the fact that you like Ryan Adams ;)
from lucylurex :
oh hi! so that was you! heh.
from bicyclelove :
hee hee. someone beat you to it. george macdonald "the golden key" with illustrations by maurice sendak, the best book EVER (ok i love exaggeration) but this book changed my life at the age of 10. mossy and tangle. 78 pages of pure bliss. and you should post more pictures! -becky
from angryquail :
1. I read Dan's 'yay' entry a long time ago, and read it again, and it made me smile every time. 2. Your photo is not loading on this computer! I had to go View your Source just to find the URL! I needed to see you! And I did. Adorable! 3. I am leaving, I don't know if you knew that or not. It's time for new projects. However, I will see you around.
from sats :
this is a good image hoster. it puts it in a photo album, but you can get the URL and show pictures individually through your diary [right click and properties, but you knew that]. its what i do: http://www.fotki.com/. hope you're well just jenn.
from fourad :
jen,this is rainer.I'm here in austin :) arrived yesterday morning,met some really nice ppl,love the city!UT is not that big,but accomodates 50000(?!) students,i can't wait to see what it will look like when all the students come back for school :) it's really hot and timid here,39 degrees,i like the summer smell.hope u r happy there,take care!xo.
from bicyclelove :
i am such a Place-whore (I just invented that word). back in minnesota i have friends/family/people buying me stuff/etc. here i have almost nobody and no money, but i'm 10 times happier. i don't get it but i'm not complaining! new zealand sounds beautiful. you inspired me to look up pictures of it on the internet. wow.
from contour :
It was exactly the same with me for oatmeal. I hated it (and tea) as a child. Now I love em both! Yummy yummy! :9
from bicyclelove :
happy birthday!
from angryquail :
Oh, Jenn, I mean and mean to write you and I do not. Do I really have spunk? It often feels a poor and feeble substitute for something I am lacking. I guess that's what my diary is all about.
from bicyclelove :
"All the way back home, I'm telling you I caught the sun, creeping up behind my shoulder, another day's begun. I was following a trail I'd never been along before. Chasing darkened skies above me-- looking like the spring, like the winter and the morning. Now a new day comes, clears the darkness out of sight. And the shadows that were sleeping, come and dance beneath the light. And I'm trying hard to hide, keep the sun out of my eyes, close them tight and now I'm waiting for the moon to rise. Don't try to say to me that this was never meant to be, cause the days are long where I come from-- the next few days I'm free..." (belle and sebastion) you are good at capturing a feeling i really like... space, lines, angles, landscapes, vantage points. parallax.
from angryquail :
Lovely. What resonates especially is what you wrote about ten pages being more solid than the earth, probably because in my last entry I wrote, "The surety of good writing, of a writer you trust, can't really be replaced by anything else on this planet", and when I said planet I meant the green world.
from angryquail :
Great quotation of Wallace Stevens!
from samsa :
"muffheads" I always wondered whether everyone else pronounced it out like that. I dare say I have seen one too many as well. My days...well let's just say there was a point when I had to retrieve several hundred holding records a day and update them. Overandover. I sympathize.
from katiedoyle :
that was hilarious, btw: those things don't happen to harpists. :) no, they don't. but the rest of us still manage to bleed all over our band uniforms...
from katiedoyle :
:) you *know* that's where i got the go-to phrase. :) yikes, so it is cold where you are now. it is roasty here in southern california, where the friggin' sun never sleeps. until i moved here, i did not know it was possible to have too much sun, but trust me, it is. too much sun makes me just as irritable as too much rain. just not as depressed, maybe. ::sigh:: i miss rain. hope you're having a good week, one batgirl to another...even though i *am* just a stand-in! :) kd
from bicyclelove :
wow, herodotus? in my first year at reed we read herodotus, and i loved it so much i read the whole book, even the unassigned parts, and my favorite part was the section on "the ends of the earth" which reaches a climax with-- "It is clear that it is the northern parts of Europe which are richest in gold, but how it is procured is another mystery. The story goes that the one-eyed Arimaspians steal it from the griffins who guard it; personally, however, I hesitate to believe in one-eyed men who in other respects are like the rest of us. In any case it does seem to be true that the countries which lie on the circumference of the inhabited world produce the things which we believe to be most rare and beautiful." he makes me feel the mystery of the earth before we knew too much for it to be magical. (i found that text at http://www.livius.org/he-hg/herodotus/hist11.html) and thank you for the entry about place, which is also most important to me..
from bicyclelove :
hi, i just wanted to say... hi. and i'm thrilled when anyone is going to read anne carson. her book "plainwater" is my favorite book of all time since i discovered it 3 years ago, specifically, pages 188-244 of the section "the anthropology of water". "life and no escape" is on page 245. i'm sorry if this is too much information but few people understand my obsession with this book and i'm trying to spread the word. ps. your diary rules.
from contour :
Sometimes the memory of a thing is more important than still having it, and it sounds like if the rock left this memory with you that he undoubtedly has many more.
from saucy :
God, I want that rock. I suffer from axiety, too. I like saying that, "I suffer from anxiety" - it makes me feel like such a wanker, but it's true, I'm a hardcore nail biter, I'm always soooo...well, anxious. My acupuncturist, who is so great, says stuff like, "Your pulse is quite good, but you have too much heat, and you have too much tension in your neck. I'll fix that. Oh, and you're too controlling - if you keep on cracking it when people don't do things your way, no one's ever going to help you." I say, "Oooh, can you fix that?" (I always fantasise about him being able to fix my personality flaws the way he fixed my chronic nose bleeds, hahaha) and he's like, "No, only you can. And for God's sake, you still think too much." Every time I see him, I'm always thinking too much, I'm always too neurotic. I love it how you say things like, "sometimes I remember something dumb that I said to someone that doesn't even matter, and I feel this heavy guilt and embarassment and find myself muttering to myself (quite often in the shower or on the way home from work)" because I understand that totally. I talk too much shit, sometimes I think I should fill the gaps, the silences, and honestly that's the worst thing you can do because it makes you say dumb stuff, and then you end up cringing about it later and it's always in the shower or on the way to the train station. I'll be walking along by myself and remember something I once said and I'll sort of half-groan and actually BHIH, and just want to disappear forever, even though the moment has passed, and the person I said the dumb thing to probably wouldn't remember anyway. I'm plagued by that sort of stuff. I'm going to Vietnam! For ten days. I wish it was longer but I decided on a whim, and it's in the middle of next semester, and blah blah blah. I miss you! xoxo
from angryquail :
Not only do things go from devastatingly bad to better, but recovery from malaise occurs when you least expect it. It happened to me, didn't it?
from katiedoyle :
and actually, YOU are the true Batgirl; I am just Batgirl's stand-in. Didn't know you had one, didja? :) kd
from katiedoyle :
i try to have hip library fashion, but these days the wardrobe is someone lacking in hipness, because all my hip clothes fit my formerly 118 pound frame, not the gargantuan 140 I currently am. <sigh> Cold winter??? Are you Down Under? kd
from sunnflower :
What a fabulous place that library hotel must be. I think I heard about it once but never really saw any pictures - thanks for sharing the site with me.
from sunnflower :
Impossible - no one is ever JUST a librarian because the librarian is the true vortex of knowledge. Found your diary via katiedoyle by the way.
from katiedoyle :
dude (i must stop starting notes in that fashion). you totally quoted ee cummings. how cool is that? kd
from katiedoyle :
Dude; Joan Armatrading? Awright. :) Nobody knows Joan Armatrading. She rocks. Tracy Chapman *wishes* she were Joan Armatrading.
from katiedoyle :
Tam Lin, totally hands down. I changed my major to english lit after reading that book. Of course, I am now a horticulture major. Go figure... :) *Love* TCE. Great chick flick. :) kd
from soulnaked :
Batgirl was a librarian? Well, you'd be one hell of a batgirl. What with all the sun chasing and sleepiness and listening to birds sing and stuff. Of course, Batgirl never had your style and she sure as hell didn't catch the light the way that you do. Worse still, she didn't even have a wardrobe budget, she just had that same damn uniform day in and day out. The Batgirl uniform I mean, but even her library outfits must have been constrained by the Batgirl uniform because it either had to fit under her library gear or had to be easy to change out of very quickly, into the Batgirl uniform. I like you better as a cat, but I promise, if you were a cat, I'd call you Batgirl.
from bicyclelove :
i always worry that i take myself too seriously too.. but hey, great people like you and me are worth taking seriously! here's something interesting... i stumbled upon the online diary of someone who went to my college, who wrote an entry about how much she hated me because i take myself too seriously!! i wrote about it here http://bicyclelove.diaryland.com/021217_56.html strange, strange. ps. i love your diary!
from shelly007 :
Hi, this is a random notes signing. Have a great week.
from fourad :
genious jenny ^ ^
from samsa :
I do I do - and it's much easier than inventing words (though I suppose the latter has its benefits...)
from contour :
RE: Finding good books to read. I've found that sometimes going back and re-reading a book you read 10-yrs ago can be a totally different, but still rewarding experience.
from made-again :
Thanks a lot, Geography is so much more than just the physical locations of places and the more people realise that the better. Thanks for joining the ring!
from dont-stop :
Life is full of lessons and we are constantly learning.
from angryquail :
What a lovely line! It's really MORE than I feel about Diaryland, but it definitely has the right feel. I hope things are going right again, it's quite lovely when everything unknots in your sleep. I'm going to read The Dubious Hills over the summer! Huzzah. (It's a promise.) Also, I wrote a paper on this article <http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?colID=1&articleID=0003014B-9D06-1E8F-8EA5809EC5880000> and it talks about art and metaphor and doesn't really have anything to do with your questions about music, but it's interesting and I recommend reading it anyway. I'm off!
from weezer1d :
Yeah, the NZ dreamworld let's see...very very green, like that lichen green you see in damp tropical places, growing on huge rocks, and it smelled very foresty & the grass was very lush & full. But it was also kinda in a valley, like with mountains growing around it. I think once in a botany book I saw some orchids of NZ & my pstche was borrowing from that a bit. But it was nice, all the same.
from angryquail :
Thanks, which one? If you mean the Wednesday one, I wasn't satisified with it, so it's awesome that I was wrong about that. If you mean Annie's, I totally agree. She is such a wonderful writer.
from weezer1d :
my dream last night was set in new zealand, & i knew this cos I thought to my dreaming self, oh, isn't this where the wateryone lives?
from angryquail :
You told Hsiu that American college life is so intriguing...how so?
from weezer1d :
mmmmm, pie....
from angryquail :
The girl Jon liked when I first liked him is 23 or 24, looking for a job, just finished with her masters. She wants to be June Cleaver to her boyfriend, and cooks fresh spring rolls and sushi and cookies and cakes and pies all the time. Maybe once I no longer have an online subscription to oed.com I will do the same.
from angryquail :
I have no idea, I've only been to Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and California. Also a plane stopped in Texas.
from angryquail :
Our seasons FINALLY diverge. You are talking about mittens and breath, and I am wearing a T-shirt for the first time this year and there is drumming outside. Well. Maybe it's just someone hitting something. Nevertheless, there ARE birds and I think there might be a nest above my room.
from alithiel :
Nope. But I will definitely put that book on my "to do list"!:)
from angryquail :
If this had a subject heading, it would read There's Always More. Neanderthal relates to the Neander Valley, yes? Eddies most certainly have to relate to wind, so I'd say your desciption is perfect. Yes, life is eking by one day at a time here, and yet I keep running out of time and running out of time. Therefore, it is time to write a diary entry.
from sats :
sigh. i miss having cats too. we cant own cats here. well we could but it wouldnt be fair really..we move around too much. but ooooh. your entry reminded me of something kinda sad. well not really but it makes me all nostaligic. when we lived at the pub there was a pub cat called lucy. and she was the sweetest little thing ever. only a kitten. well...a teenage kitten. if you get what i mean. and she loved me. when dean was around she'd go kinda crazy coz he's nervous around cats. he's a dog person. but oh, she ran away somewhere. never to be seen again. which was sad. i liked having her around. she'd always come into our room. we went back to that pub last night. its closing down. the lecherous chicken people next door bought it. but..yeah. i want a cat. i have to settle for the local strays though. i always do. im like a beacon for wandering cats. in 40 years time i'll be the crazy old lady down the street with 10 cats. like the gravel lady from my old neighbourhood. except she didnt have cats. she had gravel. i'll be like her. but without the beard hopefully. heh..that shouldnt amuse me but it does. *blinks* have a good weekend luv :)
from bicyclelove :
thanks for the nice note... i like your diary a lot. and phatic is my new favorite word too!!! i love it! also, i love the NACIREMA article referred to in the note below. (i'm assuming you've read it?) in my intro anthropology class, the professor made us read it for the first class, and we had a serious discussion about it for an hour before he told people it was a joke (me and a few other people figured it out on our own, but we didn't say anything, we just listened to everyone else discuss it using all kinds of intellectual theories and everything. it was so hilarious.) anyway, you seem very well-read and i like your style... -becky
from angryquail :
Jenn, I don't know that I'd say things are going well, but I do think everything is going to be okay. Read some on Virginia Woolf, looked up the infamous NACIREMA article, had an argument with a dear friend about his choice of girls, had an argument with nitram about message boards. Rather productive for not doing anything. As for the note below mine, I'd like to see your seasons go opposite to mine, but the weather has been so wacky we've here in New York been going hot and cold at the same time as you. And lastly, my friend Annie yesterday said it was all orange in her room, and I replied and she said, "Oh, no, it's all gone. The perfection only lasts for about three minutes." I thought of you and your light crossing the desk, your words and kindness and even you yourself are very dear to me, please take care and remember how nice it is to be balanced, which includes sleep.
from weezer1d :
It's thrilling to read about the change of seasons that is simultaneous with yet completely opposite of mine. Gives me goosebumps.
from hsiutime :
Your great-great-etc. grandfather illustrated Paradise Lost?? That's so cool! Do you know which edition? Our class read from the Merritt Y. Hughes edition, which just has a rather boring picture of Satan being tossed from Heaven on the cover.
from contour :
Earthworms, pipes, and bones ... you know you really do have an EXTREMELY cool way of looking at the world around you. *approving thumbs up*
from contour :
Note to self: Breathe in, Breathe out, Breathe in, Breathe out! (This is one of the funniest stories I've heard in a long time. It actually sounds amazingly fun, like destruction on a very small scale!) =)
from melpomene :
thanks for the note - i've moved (http://melpomene.net). do visit!
from fourad :
I don't understand why the students are suddenly all so crazy about study...I think the asgn period has gone...seems I'm wrong.the only place that I feel undisturbed is my lab,lucky I have access to the lab this year :)
from angryquail :
Glad you are feeling better, dear. Last night I went to a sensually themed campus party called Aural Pleasure and saw lots of nice breasts, and a burlesque show. Then I went to an '80's prom and danced a lot. No Electric Slide...no Rock Lobster! So we went to bed. Isn't it nice that days end with going to bed?
from weezer1d :
last night on the cartoon network was the Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome/Gladiator Samurai Jack episode. Nice.
from angryquail :
Oh, Jenn. HAHAHA! You fell for it! P.S. I leave you way too many notes.
from angryquail :
Ah, I very rarely add anyone to my favorites unless I've read their entire diary. It's the compulsive tendencies in me. I got your e-mail but am too tired to reply. My thing about Bowling for Columbine was, why did he start talking about welfare at the end when it was supposed to be about gun control? Sure, it's a good topic, but to my mind he didn't link it well enough. Plus I have to be wary of him because he's such a critics' darling, eh?
from trixxx :
hey flapper, its nice to glimpse the details and fabric now and again, though your musings are always wonderful. and, yeah, helplessness is such an overwhelming feeling. its hard not to retreat from it, and though the antiwar movement is really inspiring to me--that's no compensation to those who are suffering the invasion.
from angryquail :
Also, don't feel you had to write a description of my diary. Annie thinks you don't have the right impression of me, so you might want to try again later. (Nothing against you, just my own wounded pride.)
from angryquail :
*sigh* I didn't think Bowling For Columbine was as good as everyone else did, I guess I'm lucky that no one wants my head over it.
from hsiutime :
Hello! Thank you so much for dropping me a note! I love your diary an awful lot - you present things in the most interesting ways. I love flappers and children's books too ^_^ It's so cool to see the perspectives of people living in other countries on the war - like daysuit in Canada, sweet-indigo in England, and you of course in New Zealand. Living in the U.S., though there have been lots of anti-war rallies, it feels like we anti-war people are always fighting against the tide. So it's cheering to be connected to people in other places around the world. Oops, I'm rambling. Please take care and have a good day!
from contour :
Sad that you and your dad love electric trains??!!?? I think it is wonderful! The best think is that here in the US, electric trains have slowly been having a combeback in the past few years. But they've always been something to bring parent (or grandparent) and child together.
from angryquail :
Oh, crap, don't forget NOT to look down. D'oh/my bad/shit.
from angryquail :
A TALE OF TIME CITY, by Diana Wynne Jones. There is quite a story behind that book, perhaps I will make it into a diary entry. Much <3.
from angryquail :
That book sounds great! I haven't read it myself. (hehe i just wrote you an email) Diana Wynne Jones' children are so alive and real and grown-up, but in the real sense. They are always solving things and ending up finding grown-ups to do grown-up things with, with mums being sort of kind and unexpectedly helpful and then grateful at the end. You should check out, for instance, 'Aunt Maria', or 'The Lives of Christopher Chant'. Diane Duane is just this absolutely lovely writer (of fantasy, which I also don't like) but it's the GOOD kind. I cry every time I read 'So You Want to Be a Wizard'. Read So You Want to Be a Wizard as soon as you can, you will love Fred and Nita and Kit and Dairine and the train and the description of Timeheart. And don't forget to look down.
from angryquail :
Oh, and thanks for complimenting my profile. I just now realized what a good compliment it was. I forget, do you like Diana Wynne Jones? And do you like Diane Duane. Hmm, perhaps I should just write you an e-mail instead.
from angryquail :
http://angryquail.diaryland.com/030325_66.html pour vous.
from angryquail :
Thanks, but I didn't know my profile was new. I know my newest entry is noteworthy, though...
from angryquail :
I too had a red cardigan...it disappeared in the land of Laundry. There is nothing to say but :-(.
from contour :
On babysitting students: Think of them like seeds. A few years from now, a few of them may move from needing help printing "stuff" to doing some very real work. Now is your chance to plant a few ideas in their heads. ;)
from weezer1d :
yay cyborg handbook! i think i shall pick up my copy again so i have something intelligent to say here next time. oh yeah, i like how people w/ pacemakers can be classified as cyborgs. ok, ciao!
from soulnaked :
Shit your notes are daunting. I wandered in here feeling all cocky and made the fatal mistake of reading some of the other notes. Now I'm paranoid about your fame. Um, I was just going to say that your original idea (tm) entry really was great. One of my all time favourites. Mostly I'm glad you liked it though. Now I want to say nice things to you but I'm scared I'll say something dumb and now I am actually desperately scrounging for words. You know I think one of the things I love most is that you can dumbfound me.
from saucy :
hullo jennaiad! i started school yesterday, and i'm afraid to venture into the library without my own hand being held. it's so...vast. it's not about that though, it's about unfamiliar places/spaces. i have a fear of them, it's like starting a new job and not knowing where anything is. i am terrified mainly by doors--are they push or pull or do they open automatically? will they give me electric shocks? (i'm one of those people who quickly taps them first, fearfully, in case of a shock, and then actually grips the handle--my boss does it too, we are twins) i'm not afraid of getting lost, really, but just...when you walk through this building, do you go this way or that way? go left or right around that pillar? does that make sense? stay well xoxo
from angryquail :
I seriously love you.
from contour :
On Winterpeople: I actually like winter, but not being cold. Why? 'cause it gives me an excuse to sleep with my blankie ... er I meant BLANKET! ;)
from trixxx :
flapper, you are beautiful with the architects and with the words making the architecture.
from angryquail :
"When I sit infront of the computer I like to rest my elbows on my wrist pad, put both my little fingers over my lips, hook my thumbs into my neck just under my jaw hinges and splay the rest of my fingers across my cheeks. Do you know what I mean? Try it." Why are some things so hard to explain? I have a humongous ridiculous e-mail waiting for you in my Hotmail account. I hope you get back to me soon. Please e-mail me ASAP, because I don't usually check my notes. Thank you so much.
from angryquail :
I tried to send you an e-mail and I got an error message. I have been writing you a long one for a couple of hours. This is not acceptable.
from angryquail :
OH MY GOD I love Connie Willis as well! I'd better e-mail you. Or actually read your frickin' diary! (I am lame-o.)
from angryquail :
Damn, dude, I never am on Diaryland anymore and I JUST got your note about Ursula Leguin! If you feel like chatting anytime AngryQuail is my AIM name too.
from trixxx :
oh flapper, you make bagels at home? your genious astounds! i hope you had happy holidays. xo trixxx
from rsprice :
love flappers too
from weezer1d :
your words brought the day inside. ahh, to be in new zealand...
from rock-o-matic :
yeah, i feel like some std 4 "what i did in my holidays" assignment with mine lately, meh. i blame the heat. as it happened no-one had any preserves worth their salt [or sugar or vinegar either] so i ended up not consuming anyway, as it happened.
from rock-o-matic :
...and all the Dunedin anarcho-hippies end up living/squatting in Wellington eventually, anyway. Just like the Waikato ones do [five days there last week, saw almost every so-called weirdo from my high school, spooky]. i couldn't be content to live on 'locally' grown produce so far south. strawberries are finally in season! and stone fruit! and capsicums and eggplants! i actually got excited reading the local greengrocer's weekly specials two-tone-full-page ad in the Hamilton This Week community newspaper. spose i ought to find this tragic or embarrasing, really. much like the fact i've a pang of regret i won't be Buy Nothing-ing tomorrow. there are two, count em two, church fairs on tomorrow morning and my fingers're crossed for crabapple jellies.
from contour :
Wow, I think it would be cool to have a library that also serves as a garden. I don't see it being that different from how many public buildings here have people who feed and shelter the stray cats. Yes, that will be your excuse, "I don't know how these peppers got here, but as long as they were growing here, I figured ~somebody~ just had to water and feed them!"
from rock-o-matic :
happy, err, state of matrimony! also, i for one want to hear all about yr adventures in argyle. oh, yesterday my bike had a nasty run-in with a curve and my ass was saved from gravel rash hell by well-positioned kick-pleats. go the schoolmarm chic.
from contour :
*jaw dropped* Argh! You could have at least posted a short, "I'm getting married!" Well Congrats! =) As for pain associated with computers, I have a friend who can't use them either, but I'll suggest to you what I also have been asking her to do: get software so you can speak to your computer. Plants, Science Fiction, you name it, I like reading it. =) Oh, and so what was this industrial thing you hinted about? -contour-
from korax :
Congrats to you and Dan :)
from meretrix :
hey grl, i just read your diary entry and it made me cry - i miss you soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much. and dunedin and everything - wnat to meet for a coffee? love you love you p.
from alithiel :
Oh you are back!!!!!!! I had given up hope... sorely were you missed...:)
from contour :
(1) It is great to see you back here! (2) If things in the rest of the world are like they are here (US) there won't be any money for any govt sponsored space exploration for some time ... besides, I don't think I would want my govt. having any say on the Moon or Mars. -contour-
from fourad :
I was amazed by the magnolia tree too.Seems to me,it comes from another world just for a short visit,frightened but curious
from rock-o-matic :
you DO still exist! Much fanfare and rejoicing!
from fourad :
oh ho ho,I like this one,hehe.I had a glimpse at the action yesterday when I was in my lab.One thing I really don't understand:the registry had been cleared out,but they were still marching around it...and they sang songs.I was viewing an annual report from the "Transparency Organization" the other day,they investigate and rank all the governments around the world by degree of "Transparent",New Zealand's government is ranking No.2
from fourad :
Where are you now?I can't find you in the library,either in other corners of the campus?update me about you sometimes :)
from dwell :
the winter got you, didn't it?
from minmade :
Hey! Okay, so it's taken me a long time to write you a note back but I'm finally reading Tam Lin again. It is odd that Sharon and Peg -don't- have bunk beds, but I think it jkust has something to do with the strangness surrounding Classics majors. (Which is funny because my brother's now a classics major and I can't help but giggle about it.) But! Peg didn't borrow Molly's hockey stick, she asked to but Molly was worried that she herself had cracked it. So Peg was gone to the PE department to see if she could borrow one. And that's when Janet went into Peg's room to check the date on the book and it's discovered that they don't have bunk beds. (Wow I feel nit-picky) Oh well hehe =)
from fourad :
Hi jen,it was so nice to see you again.I've been wondering where've you been for weeks.Did you have a good time there?I've finally finished this semester,planning to take a break in Christchurch.Waiting for your entry about sydney,hehe.take care
from meretrix :
have lost you email - sorry. how was OZ? i have been amusing myself this afternoon by trying not to use the mouse. some people find library studies stimulating - i am not one of these people. love you p.
from miksti :
How's it going Jenn? What have you been up to lately? Hibernating from the Dunedin weather? Just to annoy you - it's just starting to get warmer and warmer over here! I'm gonna write you a long email soon cause I have a mountain adventure to tell you all about!
from fourad :
that was a stupid journey,hehe.I am fuming for the coming tests,study study study.I haven't added entries for weeks,neither do you,haha.hope well
from fourad :
ahhhh,I remember now.thank you thank you.I haven't missed it,(I hope)
from fourad :
Jen,do you know where is the Metro Cinema?Is it in the Metro Pub?There is a Gay and Lesbian Film show going on there,one of the projects they are going to show is a work of my favourate director.Pls tell me about it,thank you :)
from fourad :
Hi,there.Haven't heard from you for a while.Hows going?It's getting busier here for the up coming exams.feel lazying for everything,slept for 16 hours last sunday.hehe,you take care
from sats :
introSPECTION. damn...
from sats :
you what is good about winter? lazy days in bed. sundays are particularily good for that. thats what i like about winter. the fact that your bed is really nice and warm. inviting. i really dont have any advice for coping with winter. you just DO here coz its always sorta cold and you just gotta get on with it. but i have developed a love for scarfs. i cant survive without mine. maybe you could do more knitting. or read 'imajica' by clive barker. thats a good book. but im sure i've said that about a million times. but winter can be an inspiration. staring out at gloomy scenes through your window. dark clouds and blowing trees...use it to your advantage. i always find that weather more....romantic..than summer. winter is for introsception. listening to jazz in dim rooms, holding your loved one....... im full of shit.
from meretrix :
hey grl,weather sucks! these are the things i would do if i were you: bake bagels, sleep in, stay warm, take home old copies of New Scientist and giggle, make soup, hell - make soap, ummmm, wish i was there!
from vinylflower :
now at limn.diaryland.com. just thought you might want to know. XO
from trixxx :
dear fabu flapper, i know those blaaaahs. Here in Canada we're just starting to plow out from under the psychic snow. speaking of which, i think i may have a book that might get your own motor started. try Ten Good Seconds Of Silence, by Elizabeth Ruth. its more speculative than science (fiction) but lovely and smart. ciao
from trixxx :
dear fabu flapper, i know those blaaaahs. Here in Canada we're just starting to plow out from under the psychic snow. speaking of which, i think i may have a book that might get your own motor started. try Ten Good Seconds Of Silence, by Elizabeth Ruth. its more speculative than science (fiction) but lovely and smart. ciao
from fourad :
I've got lectures and labs through the whole afternoon,I'm afraid I won't be able to meet you again today.It was so nice talking to you,thanks for the advices for tofu.please have a nice day.see you later
from shannonwills :
Just realized I wrote your message from my personal diary...so sorry!! The last message was from "Librarians".
from shannonwills :
Just got around to checking our notes, who knows you may get one from Jess too because we check this at different times. Thanks so much for reading and we are always open for ideas!! Adding you to faves, we need more librarians in this here land!!
from fourad :
thanks a lot.I will bring him to see you sometime(if I got chance to take him into uni).He is cute.Tofu says hi to you,you have a good night
from rock-o-matic :
wow, your tea party sounds like wikkid fun! my life revolves around tryna keep an ever-tenuous grip on that dressups-and-tea-parties naif stage. growing up and becoming world-weary is just to frightening a proposition.

also, mmm, macaroons.

from meretrix :
hey grlfriend. wattup? sounds like all is very well with you. hooray for that. i am at varsity procrastinating. have fun times.
from miksti :
Hey there! Don't have anything of real importance to say - just wanted to say hi! Spring has arrived over here and the cherry trees are amazingly beautiful - I think you'd really like them. Tomorrow we're all going to the park to sit under the blossoms and picnic like all of those around us! Take care XXX :)
from fourad :
hello~have you seen the canvas painting outside of Science Library,just walk out of the library and turn left,along the Fire Exit Corridor,on your right hand side.It's Stewart Island,beautiful~~~
from saucy :
Oooh, I love Television Without Pity. I have a new job too, it's OK, my boss is great though, when I'm being facetious he calls me out on it, and he also calls me dogmatic. He is hilarious. It's a bakery, it's all Jewish, bagels and whatnot, and the customers are nearly always awful, but my boss is funny, he tells great stories about the time he had a peptic ulcer (!) and he didn't know he had one, and one day it burst, and the day it burst he'd only had three slices of smoked salmon to eat and half a bottle of vodka to drink, and he showed us the massive, twisted scar on his stomach where they'd... I dunno... fixed it? He nearly died, etc. That is my story for the day.
from soulnaked :
hey you, I don't need your sarcastic, smug little questions! need I remind you that you yourself have been similarly violated? so you can stow your cheeky smile and try and be a little more understanding of my paranoid and offensive charm. thank you.
from contour :
Ha! Sounds like time to learn something from goth boys ... dressing in clothes and makeup that you can't normally do by day is fun. Even if I rarely wear a skirt these days, and I've not put on the black lipstick in nearly a year, doesn't mean the time getting the stuff or using it was wasted. HINT: Use those sewing machines! :) Like putting on eyeliner, it isn't really about what people see, but how it makes you feel. -contour-
from saucy :
I've probably told you this, I tell everyone this, but up until like, two years ago, I would read those signs on lifts saying "In case of fire do not use lift." I'd be like, "What the fuck? In case there's a fire... don't use the lift? Does this mean I shouldn't use it at all in case there happens to be a fire? Oh help." Anxiety! Then I realised that they meant in the case of an actual fire raging around the building or whatnot, not to use the lift, not IN CASE THERE HAPPENED TO BE ONE... you know? I still hate them, though, but I'm paranoid, I don't like walking around those things at shopping centres, like when they have the hole in the ground so you can see down below, I always fear that I'll have some weird body spasm and accidentally THROW MYSELF over the edge and smash my body on the dirty tiles below. It's so fucked up!
from fourad :
I've just read your entry.I have a earache too,no kidding.suddenly realised the existence of space,hehe,we are in the same city
from fourad :
back to uni today.assignment harassment...my books are expiring tomorrow,haven't finished yet,hehe,talk to you later.
from contour :
Yup, geek boys are total putty when people start quoting shows like Futurama. Though I am still snickering about the imagine of you walking around your new library getting mild shocks. -contour-
from endless-loop :
Hehe, well, I have to admit, a few of those diaries I discovered through reading your profile. ;)
from saucy :
american upstart, yuk! no american upstart would dream of their own bed with crisp, white sheets.
from fourad :
I am going to the Physics Department now,can I visit you on the way?
from fourad :
that's you?!!hehe.Maybe you can't remember,I saw you once before at the student information center,and you were quirying about something like ID card,you looked worried,and I was sossing out my visa documentary.You smiled at me,like you've known me before.And I turned to tell my friend,you are my diary folk.I always feel giddy for the coincidence.SO SO NICE TO MEET YOU
from fourad :
u should go to China one day,really.I would like to talk more about my home if you want
from rock-o-matic :
not a superannuation plan??! those sensible shoes have gone to your head!

point of difference: you work in a library. i aspire to work in a library. Denise Roughan is my heroine. though yes, we should both declare ourselves the Queens of the Nerds and snort dirisively at those lowly subjects who would rather shake their booties at the Outback than stay in re-alphabetising their vinyl. hrumph!

from rock-o-matic :
maybe the bus driver reads your webdiary? apparently half of Dunners reads mine - i sometimes get drunken fanmail from Arc's $2 pint night *blush*.

currently reading Du Maurier's Trilby - i love the way it slips into phoneticised french and german. that, and Chomsky for a skool assignment...now who's the nerd?

from fourad :
hi there,haven't heard from you for a while.did you get the job?I will emerge in the sci lib someday sometime,hopefully I will meet you by chance.If you see someone on loan of heaps of books about Fourier Theories,that must be me~
from lucylurex :
i have been in the sci lib today and i have absolutely no idea who you are or if you are even working today. but if you perchance notice someone with not much hair in a calf length salmon sparkly dress with a big gold buckle, carrying a blue briefcase with a powerpuff sticker, wave to me!
from meretrix :
ion is cold and miss you more... wellington is cold and damp today. i wish i was home... have you seen mr aphasia??? he was up here for ages and i missed him. oops!! probably for the best. love youxx00
from alithiel :
That sounds crap. The luxury hobby farms blah.
from meretrix :
good luck with your new job. you might have been there a week by now??? have a good weekend. love
from alithiel :
yup back at school. and being annoying with fussy dinner habits.:P
from miksti :
I got the books, you wonderful thing. I'm going to write you a letter while I'm sleeping in the airport tomorrow night! :*)
from cantordust :
no not the medium sized marxist poet. the tall marxist is a woman...
from contour :
Though I've never been a reference desk librarian, your entry (which I'm now calling the 'walk a mile in my shoes') has me sad I never had your job ... if even for only a day. On a related note, your father is a hydrologist (right?), well, my mother was a librarian -- before becoming a 'mum'. Love that word. -contour-
from cantordust :
no i didn't know about the underwear. you're just everyone's favourite by default now that no-one i know has a crush on the tall Marxist anymore, and since last time i got a geek book out of the science library the librarian giggled and said "that looks interesting" real sarcasticly.
from alithiel :
Thanks for the compliment. :)
from miksti :
Wow! I'm so excited! I'm hoping that if I'm in London that they'll keep the package for me and not send it back to you - they shouldn't do. Fingers crossed! Thankyou, thankyou. Good luck for Monday ;)
from lucylurex :
oh yeah, and other than the fact that "gay movies" are a genre i am particularly fond of. everyone in that movie is remarkably attractive, too. in fact, i feel in love with the song "runaway" by del shannon after seeing that movie and immediately bought the 45.
from lucylurex :
i just wondered cos i did fime 101 a couple of years ago and ursula was my tutor.
from spectralyne :
How did you hear about In The Heart of the Valley of Love? It's one of my most favourite books ever.
yeah it's great i love it. i just happened across it at the dunedin library.
(but then again, I like Billy Bragg, so maybe I've got bad taste (happy grimace))
well, patti smith is one of my big yecks so maybe we have much closer taste in books than music!
from spectralyne :
Don't tell me you're doing your clit diploma. i wish. to my knowledge there's no papers on children's lit here, except teacher's college stuff. i did one in auckland that i (just) failed, but i loved it. i only went to 3 lectures and didn't do about 30% of the assessment, but i still should've passed!
from lucylurex :
its this synthetic material that lots of ladies wore in the sixties. its kinda rough and most people can't stand to wear it. often has lurex woven into it.

is your friend ursula film-studies-ursula?

from lucylurex :
i am very literal, so excuse me for taking you seriously if you made a joke, but gore vidal is a real person, i saw him in the movie "bob roberts".
from fourad :
generally speaking,family responsibility.Wish you good luck,I believe you can get the job.
from fourad :
I am studying Telecommunication,a major I can hardly put myself in,a major I chose for all the responsibilities I was born with.I am always wistful in authur-movies,literature and musics.It would be lovely if I can hear more from you.I guess you are working in the library now,but which one?
from saucy :
QUOTED! ME! I almost miss my diary too, I haven't updated my pita in forever (you and Mel both think they're weird, you guys are, LIKE, SUCH diaryland chicks), I laughed my head off at your jeans entry and porn-man, and I, TOO, LOVE VETTORI! Did I tell you how I learned to love cricket? I think I told Dan, but I'd gone to a 3 day forest rave and because we are girly girls we'd booked a hotel room (for showers, and watching cricket) on the 2nd day, and I spent the whole day laying on a single bed in great comfort pretending not to notice the extreme discomfort of the other, say, 8 people who were strewn about on the cheap-hotel-carpet, hahaha, watching cricket. It was a great day for cricket, it was very hot, and we had the blinds drawn and the door shut all day, and no a/c! Moral of the story: Vettori is the hottest cricket player ever. (PS. Australia played realllly shitty that day, I think Waugh went out for a duck, from memory--er, not the captain, the other Waugh, Mark?)
from mipol :
Hey :) Fellow Dunedinite/University student here, just came across your diary and thought I'd say Hi :)
from fourad :
I like Dunedin heaps more than Wellington or Auckland.As you said,the library is marvelous,I spend most of my days there.And the asian restaurant,yummy and cheap~~hehe.Nice to know you,I hardly have any friends here,for my late arrival.Can I make friends with you?
from sweetker :
low-riding jeans and librarying are a potentially terrible combo. I think the whole world has seen my ass by now! So I understand.
from ex-cowboy :
wow.. umm, you mean apart from the bad grammar? just that last i counted there was 8 new zealand kids and 8 chinese kids (exchange students? international students..?) in my maths class. i likes 'em, though, i wasn't being racist or anything...
from cantordust :
i can't believe i found you diary. Lucy is right, you should read Octavia Butler (but then you probably already have).
from dwell :
thanks. and congratulations on the new job. how incredible for you. good luck.
from lucylurex :
hey so you work in the science library now. congratulations! i went to the public library the other day, specifically to get ursula le guin novels, but i soon discovered i had about $20 of fines on my card. hey have you read octavia butler? (sci-fi writer that i keep reading about in donna haraway texts. )
from alithiel :
Pumps. Pumps are good. Conservative good. Flat pumps with very low heels. :P
from saucy :
On the Victorian era, also: random Capitalisations and Manifestations. And brilliant! I was thinking of my own argyle, come-fuck-me socks as I was reading your entry, and, cat in the hat socks!!!!!!!! I have some things for you and Dan too that I've been meaning to send and I swear: soon! Mel and I dance around the house a lot. Mel is very good at doing a crappy Robot and also she does excellent, excellent Flash Dance type stuff. Dan sent me an email and mentioned the Winter Olympics and I realised you're the only person I know who watches them. I remember you telling me about the thing where they have to ski and they have a gun and they shoot stuff. I think that's brilliant.
from dwell :
i was reading some of your back pages, found this and was wondering where it's from: Nobody wanted your dance. Nobody wanted your strange glitter - your floundering Drowning life and your effort to save yourself, Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil, Looking for something to give -
from lucylurex :
you SOO should wear argyle soX0r with pleated skirt. so nobody else does, big deal, that just makes you a trendsetter.
from contour :
Since when do socks have to match the skirt? OK, there is that work thing, but slowly train your coworkers that you like wearing the socks and maybe one day you can dance in the office too! (I dance around at home and in the office, but didn't at first.) -contour-
from saucy :
I just finished re-reading To Say Nothing of the Dog, so I know what you mean. For me the Victorian era is all ruffles and screamlets, "Oh! Oh! Oh!" and penwipers and cheating at croquet and quoting Tennyson and three men in a boat... to say nothing of the dog. But not Jerome's three men and Montmorency, but Willis' three men and Cyril, of course. I tried to get my friend to name his new puppy Cyril, but he named him Diesel instead. How ridiculous. But then he IS a panel beater, as if that has to do with anything, which is probably does. I think.
from alithiel :
Hi, back:) Good luck in your job hunt.
from deanybeany :
Hey there...never knew you educated my girlfriend on the tales of "Sandman". Look forward to your tales on time-travel. I would have loved to go back to the Victorian period of London. Just something about the fog filled streets of London make me feel all homely and nostalgic. Best of luck with the jobs. Hope you get lucky soon. Happy wang-what-ever day. We have two kiwis in our house so no doubt I will immerse myself in some of your culture *s*
from contour :
Waitangi Day? For us merkins, what is that? :) Oh, normally it has taken me months to find out about new jobs. It sucks big time waiting. -contour-
from lucylurex :
OMG! so do you work in the central library? i totally thought you were american... i dunno where i got that idea.
from lucylurex :
do you live in dunedin, florida or sumthing?
from sats :
its good you're writing again. i missed it. missed YOU. can i come live your life?
from contour :
YES! Glad to see you back. You might be the only person with a dinosaur on the top of your X-mas tree, but certainly not the only person to have dinos on the tree. -contour-
from miksti :
Hey Jenn! Welcome back! Your friendly Hirosaki-dweller here. How goes everything back in my tropical hometown?
from alithiel :
welcome back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:P
from lucylurex :
now i want to read ursula leguin even more.
from rock-o-matic :
list making and alphabetisation? young lady, i want your job! or something. [not the bit with the talking to people! muhh!].

i've got a half-cocked plan for a 'zine all made of lists and little thought snippets, Shonagon stylez, and lots of found materials [putting junkmail to good use!]. would you like to contribute some random lists to that, maybe?

p.s. welcome back

from lucylurex :
i am presently enjoying your diary, but now i have to go to meet somebody.
from saucy :
Oh Jenn! I didn't know you had one of these notes thingies! I would be leaving notes all the time if I knew. You have a very lively notes page. I miss you heaps, much more than I miss Jane's Addiction, but then Jane's Addiction is gone and you are still, wonderfully, here, and floating around. What's that thing that rhymes with dryad? *grins* I absolutely love your mum, she's great, that letter is great. My mum left a note for me the other day and it was like, "Dear Kaf and Mel, please do the vacuuming and the dishes [it went on like this for quite a while]... I will bring you home a treat!" It was awesome, I think it's because she's a nanny so she's used to dealing with two year olds (hence the promise of the "treat"--how cute is that?) and also she's used to dealing with us and well, you know, we are two year olds. Your diary entries about Possession have spurred me into reading it. Your obsession made me want to possess it too. I'm not far in, maybe a few chapters? I like it. I know I will love it because every book I've ever read on your recommendation I have loved. Today I loaned Ian a selection of Enid Blyton's greatest hits, I am very excited about it, so is he, he is reading mum's old 1956 editions of the Enchanted Wood and The Magic Faraway Tree, and they were the ones Jaz and I read too, they have such wicked illustrations and they are all falling apart. Not to mention the Cherry Tree/Willow farm ones. I asked him if he wanted to check out anything from my extensive collection of "sixties horsey brit chick fiction" and he was like, "No thanks." They are dead cheap, and EVERYWHERE in op-shops. I've decided to bring my kids up on nothing but 60s brit chick horsey fiction, they'll be begging me for "ponies" all the time I'm sure and calling them Pierot and Toadhill Flax and all, and they will be entirely socially retarded. I will ban them from tv except perhaps from Secret Seven or whatever. They'll be great, they'll be these weird, lovely anachronisms and they will be greatly admired, because they'll be forthright, "utter bricks" as those English schoolgirls like to say. God, I miss Jane's Addiction. They were absolutely the greatest. I hate that I missed them entirely, I should really be ten years older or something I think. This is very long, sorry!
from rock-o-matic :
mmm, lists...
from sweaters :
hi.. are you sleeping?
from sats :
*comes back in dribbling* im the the muse of tragedy? *grins lazily* how i love you my dear friend. *giggles* though i shouldnt think it, i think thats a wonderful compliment. *whispers* its wet season in darwin now..the dark clouds are rolling in and loud thunder is roaring all around me..*grins* im so excited..i must flee!!! eee!
from sats :
hi hi hi. miss you. keep your chin up beautiful :)
from addicted2ski :
You've got a great diary going on here. I really respect anybody who can open up their feelings the way you seem to be able to... I'm working on it! Take care, and I'll keep reading.
from oh-sweet-pea :
enjoy your leather-bound notebook and carry it with you always. the computer and diaryland can be very addictive (sigh), but your notebook will be your steady companion. or something like that!! enjoy :)
from meretrix :
hey grl, just in case you do check here - am trying to get hold of you - have been ring ring ringing - no luck *sniff* give me a yell at work until 1pm?? today is 21 november 2001 love!
from libraryvamp :
hello again! actually i can take no credit for starting the libraryfolk ring~ that honor is not mine! but thanks for visiting me and leaving me a note! love, LV
from libraryvamp :
i *heart* girls who love other comic reading girls. and i *heart* comics. just breezing through, saw your page via the libraryfolk ring. one more: i *heart* suzanne vega tambien.
from contour :
Hi again, is the point to say something or think about something in a diary? Perhaps a bit of both. BTW, I'm jealous that you seem to get many days of the wet evening rain sounds. :/ The few days a year of rain I get, I fully take advantage of and relax. -contour-
from alithiel :
Interesting note: My friend is pottering around in the background getting ready to go to see his psychiartrist (using his computer at the moment). He seems cheerier these days though.
from alithiel :
:) spamming too. That made me smile by the way. Thanks:)
from meretrix :
hey grrrl!! whatup? i am sooo bored!! have enjoyed my night though catching up on your entries that i have missed. went on a diary-fest. who is the poet? is the naughty one? love and hugs.
from miksti :
Amy C here!!The yakuza haven't persuaded me to start a diary of my own but I love to read yours!!The smells of summer are exactly the same for me!!I'm really going to miss them this year.But still I have the snow, a cheesy commercial Christmas and a Christmas celebration with Romanians and Americans to look forward to.Tell me, did you get the email I tried to send the other day (the computer had a break down). ;) XX
from alithiel :
Hey I just read your latest entry and I got an honourable mention?! WOW. *beams happily and turns cartwheels* oops. Bum too big to actually do that:)
from contour :
Yes, it does sound like a very relaxing day. Only way to make days like that better is to take a long bath, in a dark room lit only by a single candle. It works. -contour-
from alithiel :
Hee. Am I spamming your notes section? Hope not. Anyway, I think Morpheus is cute, tall, thin and pale and skinny (hmmm sounds like my BF:)) but I identify with delirium more. Lots of my friends think the series is depressing, I think it affirms life. :) Thanks for dropping by.
from alithiel :
Oh and try it with a dollop of vanilla ice-cream and heat it up again. I know that tea isn't meant to be reheated but trust me it's niiiiiceeeee... *delirium*:P P.S. nice to see another Sandman fan:)
from alithiel :
hello. I'm not sure where the stockists in NZ are. However, do you live in the North or South island? (Did I get that right?) Or alternatively you can buy vanilla pods and loose ceylon tea leaves from a good supermarket. Break the vanilla pods into little pieces and mix it with the tea in an airtight container and leave it alone for a while. Hope that works... although my own experiment with the vanilla tea wasn't too good, I bought bad tea leaves that were too tiny and too strong which overpowered the vanilla. One of the reasons you are comforting because my BF's from NZ and he tries to share NZ with me as well. I recognise some tiny bits of myself i your writing too. That's number two. And three, it's the general feel of your entries. You sound really really confident in your self and that's really reassuring. Everyone wants to look up to something. Having said all that, I have not read all your entries yet and that makes everything fluid. Thanks for adding me to your list too!:) That was long. Okay shutting up now.
from oh-sweet-pea :
sounds like you had a wonderously lazy day. my day too was extremely lazy. it involved a breakfast of burgers (!!) with my 2 close friends and laying around my new bachelorette pad watching angst ridden teen movies and eating homemade brownies. and i didn't feel guilty at all.
from premitive1 :
who are u, y did u leave me a note?
from oh-sweet-pea :
ah, i loved your story about the lost book and the blood and the american. bonding with strangers is lovely and joyously rare. being a public librarian is a good thing! you don't know how many worshippers you have. i used to work in record stores and despite the horrid pay, the main benefit was running into people who liked the same records as me. my *sigh* ex-boyfriend was a record store customer.
from deanybeany :
A librarian with overdue books?...talk about taking your work home with you *g* Must be an awesome job.
from contour :
*fingers crossed* <-- ghostly ones though, but they still count. So good luck on that interview. But if your interview went as well as your writting here on your journal does, then they must certainly will be calling on you. -contour-
from oh-sweet-pea :
ooohhh. being taught how to knit through guestbook haikus sounds lovely! thanks for your kind words. i love the part about being free. one day......
from erato :
thank you for dropping by and leaving a trail so i can follow you and send ripples in the pond of your words. yours is a diary of thought. these are hard to come by these days. the kind of work i can swim in again and again, regardless what the season.
from sweaters :
I miss Jonathan Fire*Eater, Tosca, Blue Apples, the New Sun and Alpha Flight.. sigh none of us are immune
from oh-sweet-pea :
hello! i tripped across your site. lurvy. dancing barefoot in the kitchen is a required activity. i have public library envy. good luck with the interview. everyone always appreciates good shoes.
from trixxx :
ah, that is, how i might not arrive
from trixxx :
stone, dead, or fortunate... you are just inutterably charming. its impossible, or you are. by the way, do you think that when you are drawn to an object it is to the touch, or just to pass around? i know i find a little lag in the approach comforting, but i'm still trying to figure out how not arrive.
from sweetker :
Thanks. And I love the Hula Hoop line. Exam induced delirium brings out an insanity you never knew you had.
from trixxx :
why did i think you had dropped out? sorry for the random projection. that sounds like the best exam ever-i hope i someday receive such a sentence. have you tried john crowley's engine summer. its a bit of a classic, so prolly. what about angela carter's passion of the new eve, or pat cadigan's mindplayers? i know, i know, i'm dating myself but...
from dryad :
*blush* Thanks for quoting me -- but don't think that that sort of thing happens to me all the time. I think too much, too, most always.
from ammonite :
i'd hurt to have a favourite book butchered, and i understand your emotional take on it. mourn if you need to, brace for the worst, and hope they'll see some of what you see in it. some.
from contour :
I hate to hear that an English degree is a waste. I don't think so. You've peaked my curiosity about possession (sp?). -contour-
from sweaters :
I miss Pornos for Pyros...
from wateryone :
does anyone else miss Jane's Addiction?
from sweaters :
if it lightens your hart than please I shall advie you
from contour :
If Minnesota can elect a professional wrestler, I'm wondering if Des Boyes stands a real chance. =) P.S. I loved the entry. -=-
from sweaters :
a sweater for a purtian and a most intelligent soul: the colour of enlightment prehaps or made from thoughts captured from a dying philospher named phil..have a lovely day
from sweaters :
hi. do you really like drinking tea? I like it.. Your writing style is mature. have a nice day
from trixxx :
hi jenn. what number are you? you read all that old stuff and said nice things. i forget of course if it was me you were interested in or someone else. i'll look for it though! yr swell and so i'm your fan.
from toothbrush :
Hi! I've read The Big Sleep, but that's all. I liked it though. I didn't know that there was a movie of Double Indemnity! Eeeek, I must see that.
from shanda :
'lo again, Jenn...*waves*...*stands on tippy toes and says 'lo to Dan as well*...yes, yes...seasons are changing and soon it will be winter...*shivers*...I'll be house bound til spring thaw...*pats her compy*...but I have my friend here...*grins*...and it keeps me attached to the outside world...literally......so how's life treating you, m'dear? *smiles*
from caerula :
Actually, no, it's describing the Cotswolds. But from what I've heard, you're right. King's _The Beekeeper's Assitant_ is a wonderful book. If you like Connie Willis, you should try it.
from contour :
Keep it coming! I was thinking about being 15 again (based on what you said recently). When I was 15 I only cared about two things: (1) sneaking around all the construction sites nearby ... I had that teenaged wanderlust, and (2) what girls might really be like. It really was a fun time, and in many ways I'm still preoccupied with both hobbies. ;) But there is one thing I have now that I didn't at age 15 ... the freedom ($$$) to do things that I like without having to live under too many rules from other people (like parents). Maybe the point isn't to be 15, but to act like you are. =)
from redapple :
thanks : )
from redapple :
yes yes yes! i'm there. (you might also like gerald stern. one of these days i'm going to type the poem 'alone' into my diary. i cut it out from an old new yorker several months ago.) the interesting thing about hearing ashbery read is that i'd always thought of his stuff as 70% poignant, 30% funny. it's much livelier, funnier and lighthearted in person. yay for poetry, and thanks for the note. --ps, what is up with this cdg-whozit?
from redapple :
is that from Your Name Here? i think i heard him read it in NYC a few months ago. my fave collection is A Wave. coolio--
from shortiger :
I think it was going to be AlwaysRemembr... but that was too long, and then I thought LoveAlways would be cute, but it was taken. Both have reasons behind them. I wish I could have used one of them. Oh well. This one works I guess. Oh yeah, I also wanted to use WonderlessWoman. But that was obviously way too long.
from cdghost :
jcrew?mucch
from cdghost :
don't be lite
from cdghost :
cool
from cdghost :
oh
from water-nymph :
Hey thanks for checking me out! Actually, my quote is from my friend, Jeff Pitrman. He's got a diary on here as well...he's digital.diaryland.com. I'd suggest checking him out :)
from sweetker :
I would love to jump into your words head first, but time is not permitting so I'm exploring as I go and I love it. So many things and I just know. You know? I can indentify with so muc you say. And thank you for your support throughout my physical ordeals (when I broke in half last week). Indeed, I am much much better.
from shanda :
*smiles*...ah, but of course, I remember you Jenn...so very good to hear from you...
from deanybeany :
Oh yes....very 1500's. Urine out of the window....they guy who did it is from NZ...is it a traditional thing?
from wateryone :
Jenn! Go do some work. Work is fun, you learn things. - Jenn
from rsprice :
i am v excited about our mutual 20s affinity and parker-esque leanings. ive written a story about ole dotty. now how did you become an extra for HC? do tell!

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