Entries for 11.04.28

[tsukikage]

00:37
Oh god. This is so, so, so NSFW. Or maybe it would be if your boss thinks of it as art instead of simply inappropriate. Anyway, OH. MY. GOD. THAT THING IS NOT GOING IN THERE NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU TRY! WTF.
And of course I just came across another painting that's even more insane.

2:36
RT @BBCPeterHunt In her wedding vows, Kate Middleton won't promise to "obey" her new husband -- rather "love, comfort, honour and keep him". #BBCWedding
Seriously, I can't imagine anyone actually promising to obey their husband in this day and age. Has anyone actually been to a wedding with this in the vows?

~3:30 (Twitter)
RT @BBCPeterHunt In her wedding vows, Kate Middleton won't promise to "obey" her new husband -- rather "love, comfort, honour and keep him". #BBCWedding

~4:30 (Twitter)
@sarsfansubs *crosses my fingers for him, you, and all your family*

~4:30 (Twitter)
@killercherrypie Does your gaman-ability depend on what sort of job you have at the time? I imagine it's easier the less you stand.

12:33
Haven't had anything to eat since around 7 last night other than a slice of white bread, a bunch of mugicha, and now a mug of lavender earl grey and some dry rice Chex. Unfortunately, my stomach's starting to feel wonky, but I don't know if that's queasiness from drinking black tea on an empty-ish stomach, a side-effect of not having eaten much in the last 16 hours, queasiness as a new symptom of this bug, or if the Chex is causing me to start cramping again. At the very least the discomfort is very low-grade, so I''ll finish the Chex and then stop for a while, switching back to mugicha.

14:22
How my handwriting has changed since Kindergarten
I feel like a similar thing has happened to my print skills since learning cursive.
How to fix any computer
Hearing test - the highest I can hear is 16 kHz. :( Actually, no, if I turn up my volume and the volume on the test all the way I can hear 17 kHz too.

~14:30 (Twitter)
RT @ANN_Bamboo I'll accept that penmanship is a relic of a bygone era when kids figure out how to type a complete sentence without using numbers.

15:22
I wonder if I should force myself to write in print from now on, if only so people of the next generation can actually read what I write.

15:57
Really want chips and salsa, but scared that the salsa's gonna fuck me up. Really, I just want food, and I'm not 100% sure that even "easily digestible" food won't cause me pain. Then again, it's not like I can just starve myself, and a bowl of dry chex is not going to be enough to last me 24 hours. *decides to risk the salsa*

~16:30 (Twitter)
@lugia222 Congrats!!

~18:30 (Twitter)
RT @HeyItsLiam I'll watch the Royal Wedding only if The Doctor has to stop it halfway through to foil a Dalek alien invasion. #margaretthatcherwasadalek

19:16

Oh wow... This song's gorgeous. Love RSP.

19:56
Rebecca Rolling

21:19
Deciding between a layover in Union Station from 1:15 AM to 11:30 AM or getting in to Champaign at 12:45 AM (after the bus that goes by my house has stopped)... Idly thinking if I were still with Mike I could bug him for a ride from the terminal. ^^;

22:05
The fuck. Of COURSE when I manage to side-step the cramps with a properly tame diet, my body decides to amp up the headache and general body aches. Anyone know a free masseuse who does house-calls at 10 PM?

23:05
Risking a chicken pot pie. *crosses my fingers that the virus is gone-ish*

23:05
I'll say this: the only time I think war can be justified is when you will save more lives on all sides than will die on all sides in the process. As cliche as it sounds, I had always thought the European front of WWII was one of those few examples, but looking at this Wikipedia entry I now even doubt the justification of that war. Plus, I have to wonder if there might've been a better way to save those who were being persecuted, such as putting greater efforts into smuggling those peoples out of Nazi-controlled countries. Then again... I suppose without going to war the very non-Pacifist Hitler would have just continued to take over the world. See, this is why I can never come to any real stances on serious issues - I try to take absolutely everything into account.

~23:30 (Twitter)
Gonna be in MN 5/28-6/13: http://tsukikage85.livejournal.com/1415833.html

Comments

[jadeejf.livejournal.com]

Seriously, I can't imagine anyone actually promising to obey their husband in this day and age. Has anyone actually been to a wedding with this in the vows?

We used the traditional vows in ours! ;)

I hope you feel better soon. I wish I knew someone there still that would be up late and willing to drive you at random o'clock in the morning. :-/ Where are these entries coming from? Can't be all Twitter, since they're not 140 characters...

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

Did you both use the "obey" part? How did you understand the meaning of that?

I'm actually feeling much better - the pot pie doesn't seem to have caused any problems.

As for the entries, the few explicitly marked Twitter are from Twitter, but I basically decided to keep a .txt file in my synchronized folder where I plop anything that doesn't seem to merit an entry of its own so I don't COMPLETELY spam people's f-lists.

As for getting a ride home, I can just take a taxi - I live 1.5 miles from the terminal so it's not too expensive.

[jadeejf.livejournal.com]

Oh! That makes sense. Good idea!

I'd actually have to watch our wedding video to double check, but I think for his part, "cherish" was substituted? I wish I could remember *which* traditional vows we used- there are a lot! Anyway, I suppose I understood/understand it as our pastor explained during the ceremony- respect, honor, etc. To me, "cherish" holds the same expectations- that he will love, honor and respect me. But in the verse our pastor was quoting, he pointed out that the responsibility lays a little more heavily on the men, as they are called to love their wives as Christ loved the church- and Christ died for the church, natch. So, sacrificing one's self completely ... probably a little more difficult than "submission"/"honoring" one's spouse. It did offend a few of my non-Christian friends, to talk that much about 'submission' during a wedding, but they were also offended by the lack of alcohol, and probably five million other things, so I don't know that I'd take their input too much to heart.

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

Huh, I can kind of see it from that perspective.

WWII

[akaneko.livejournal.com]

...looking at this Wikipedia entry I now even doubt the justification of that war. Plus, I have to wonder if there might've been a better way to save those who were being persecuted, such as putting greater efforts into smuggling those peoples out of Nazi-controlled countries.

Even allowing refugees who made it to America to stay here would've been a huge improvement. Many people who managed to GTFO of Germany in time were denied entry due to immigration quotas in force at the time.

It's hard to give the US government an ounce of moral credit for its wartime conduct reading up on stuff like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner-Rogers_Bill

The US legislature of the time was unwilling to pass laws to not turn away children under 14 fleeing from the war.

Re: WWII

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

Ugh, disgusting. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. ><;

Re: WWII

[akaneko.livejournal.com]

History is sad and humbling. ( ._.)

Re: WWII

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

And yet we never seem to learn.

Re: WWII

[akaneko.livejournal.com]

(And then there are those, far greater in number, who desperately wanted to GTFO of Germany and would've done so... if there had been any way to get the papers for any other country to take them.)