Darling, it seems that you belong in Gone with the
Wind; the proper place for a romantic. You
belong in a tumultous world of changes and
opportunities, where your independence paves
the road for your survival. It is trying being
both a cynic and a dreamer, no?


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I've never read it (or seen the movie). J.Mo...help. Is it fitting? I don't know about that changes bit in the description...

I was looking around through other Blogs and I found this neat link to a short quiz. You should go here and see Which Classic Novel You Belong In :)

Here is mine:


I believe you belong in Pride and Prejudice; a
world of satire and true love. A world where
everything is crystal clear to the reader, and
yet where new things seem to be happening all
the time. You belong in a world where your
free-thought puts you above the silly masses,
and where bright eyes and intelligence are
enough to attract the arrogant
millionaire/prejudiced young woman of your
choice.


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That was fun stuff, I found some good ones!

The plumber's third wife
quickly dons her happy pants.
Everything is wet.

hmmm:
The stripper pauses,
wakes, deflates the air mattress.
Take two steps backwards.

The stone-faced matron
rubs her feet, closes her eyes.
I’ve got plenty more.

The home ec teacher
really needs to get kneaded.
Snow falls in Utah.

I saved it in my favorites - maybe my future 3rd graders could get good use out of it :) Kidding, a tad on the non school appropriate side! If anyone is going to be in Rapids this coming weekend let me know - I'll be there!

A random haiku generator! Most of the time, it does an OK job:

A lady from Minsk
beckons with a pineapple.
My tongue betrays me.

and

Paint dries. The brunette
rises, but won't run or blink.
His heart swells madly.

And sometimes it's not so OK:

Filipino Sue
greasens the stubborn crank-shaft.
Pat your head thusly.

and

The short cheerleader
removes her prosthetic leg.
Dogs dance like comets.



Anyway...I like it. I wish I knew how to code a random haiku generator. :)

there wasn't really an inside joke, I will post the earlier part of the conversation to provide back story. Space Children is an MST3K episode and Mike is familiar with it, the strange names and odd quotes are amusing things from that episode.

Ursalicious: I'm watching Space Children
C--------F------: what?
Ursalicious: "his sitting was out of control by the end"
Ursalicious: for some reason, I found that high-larious
C--------F------: ah, so
Ursalicious: so?
C--------F------: 'strue
Ursalicious: yep
Ursalicious: col. Manley, Dr. Woman, its great
Ursalicious: those names are quite metaphoric though, Manley and Warman
C--------F------: Manly is a sweet name, and I want to be Mike Manley
Ursalicious: I was in debate with a Lisa Manley
Ursalicious: "phone the devil"
C--------F------: the debate was "phone the devil?" what did you argue?

Interesting conversation Urs, but I have to second J-Mo - what topic was it supposed to be about? Maybe it was one of those 'inside' type of things that no one else really gets!

Anyways, Stink got me on AIM messenger thing, cuz that's what she uses and this way we'll cut down on our phone bills : ) So if anyone else has it my name thingy is LisaAGraf - original huh?! I don't care, I wasn't in the creative mood at all - not that I ever am very creative!

I am feeling depressed, not sure why really, and no it's not that time of the month thank you very much. I hate when everyone just passes any sort of emotional change in women off as a part of 'that time of the month.' Sig, I can't possibly imagine how empty you have felt through this entire grad school search process. I feel so empty and I don't really know why - not that I don't have everything I ever wanted, right, if life were ever so perfect! I went on a $250 shopping spree this past weekend with Ranee, I had a few too many drinks last night - alone on my couch, I took a hour long shower/bath this morning, I sat around today in my pajamas, i went for a walk/run, watched Mona Lisa Smile for the 4th time, watched Under the Tuscan Sun, and then Schindlers List and nothing really makes me feel better, not even sex. i don't know what's going on. Spring break sucks when you don't really have anything to do and no one else is anywhere around. All my friends from here went on a road trip to where ever they end up and no one really told me about it so that kind of hurts - but hey they sent me a post card and called tonight so that makes it all better right?! ugh i'm done bitching sorry girls, I wish I could magically make myself happy, I'm so sick of doing everything to make everyone else feel happy!

Ursula: you're not an AIM, so I can't tell you that way, but I'm afraid I'll forget. Everyone else, sorry for using the community space to relay such a personal message. Anyway.

I don't know what happened to Pam, but Karen is now the director at the museum. I emailed Pam (or so I thought) to ask if I could use her as a reference in my daunting job search, and got a reply from Karen saying "Pam has retired and I'm the new director." (She also told me to feel free to use her as a reference, so that's cool. Karen will give me a better recommendation than Pam anyway; Karen was actually THERE when I worked, she actually SAW me work, she actually KNEW what was going on at work, et cetera.)

Maybe the rumors that were flying around at the end of last year are true and the board of directors canned Pam? I'd forgotten all about all of that until just now. Interesting.

Sorry, Urs...come again? What the hell? What resolution were you supposed to be talking about that your friend misinterpreted?


Damn...I wish we had argued about hell one year. Oh!!! I just had a brilliant idea. Religious debate teams! I mean, not RELIGIOUS people debating, because that would NEVER work, but...intelligent people who had to use the debate format to discuss religion. Here is the first resolution for my newly formed debate league:

Resolved: That Pentacostal Christianity should phase out the use of exorcism rites in driving demons from posessed children.

That would be a good one. I'd definitely have to go aff on that. There are clear harms and significance (dead children) and there would be solvency (fewer dead children). Inherency? The unwillingness to regulate religious practice. I want to do it!!! The Religious Debate League!!! Hell yeah.

Not to change the subject (I sympathize though, I had food poisoning back in early 2001, not fun), but I had the greatest conversation with my friend Mike just now. He misread something I typed and I just ran with it. See below

C--------F------: the debate was "phone the devil?" what did you argue?
Ursalicious: well, one year, the resolution was "Resolved that: The United States Governement should substancially alter it's relations with the devil"
Ursalicious: and my case was to periodically call the devil - open talks, but not visit
C--------F------: hmmm... that sounds like a very strange debate
Ursalicious: talk about it, it was a very weird year for debate.... some schools took an atheistic point of view and there were many debates won and lost on topicality
C--------F------: is that bad?
Ursalicious: not really, I hated having to argue that hell did infact exist, but that was our plan...
C--------F------: did you direct people to look out their windows
Ursalicious: no, we had to point out that hell was in a different place than earth, that was part of the crux of our plan
C--------F------: how did you prove it?
Ursalicious: lots of crap, I can't remember - our coach found us a lot of evidence
C--------F------: I thought you typed "couch" :-)
Ursalicious: we had to point out all the nice things inlife that made this place NOT hell
C--------F------: evidence of hell?
C--------F------: like Loverboy records?
Ursalicious: like kittens and the civil rights movement
Ursalicious: I wished that I was negative that year, and for two tourney's I got to BE negative
Ursalicious: but they were the last two of the year
Ursalicious: MSOE and something else

Red Lobster seems infamous for the food poisoning - it used to be my favorite restaraunt, but Jacob & I went there and I had the liquid shits and hurling anything I ate within a week after eating there. We won't go there anymore. You are about the 6th person we know to have had to same experience.

I saw your dad on Saturday, Sig. He was at the home show at Lincoln, but I don't think he recognized me. I said hi and he said hi and kept walking! That would have been a better time if we actually owned a house :) But it's neat to get ideas for when we do get a house!

Never purchase birthday balloons from the dollar store in Rapids. We went to a surprise party Saturday night, and the people decorating had bought one of those packs of 50 blow up balloons. They were supposed to be caterpilars, but they looked like giant dicks with faces! They had 'wrinkles' on them and the tips were flared like a penis, and they had smiley faces on them, but some only had 1 eye and half a smile. It was quite funny! It was a bunch of little kids at the party, but none were old enough to figure out what it looked like. They hung from the ceiling so it was like walking into a room of dicks :) We played this game called Battle of the Sexes at the party, and it was a ton of fun! The girls won of course, but I was pretty proud of Jacob - he knew that lip liner went on before the lipstick : ) The point of the game is for guys to answer as many questions about girls as they can and girls to do the same with guy questions and to advance your tokens across a board. It was pretty fun!

So spring break isn't so exciting - I have to work on my senior seminar and get a bunch of long term assignments done cuz God knows I won't be motivated come any nearer graduation! I got my announcements in the mail last Friday and I'll be mailing them out as soon as we figure out what we'll do. Probably, just have an open house after the ceremony and pray the weather is nice. I bought an outfit for graduation/interviews so I feel grown up for real now : ) Anyways, I am totally psyched to finally graduate, it's been the same time as high school but college just seemed to drag on forever and ever! I have to go to the store, though, so I will talk to everyone later - miss you all : )

Well, if you were eating seafood, it makes sense...I love seafood, but apparently people get food poisoning off it more often than other kinds of meats...although I had that wretched 48 hour flu thing going on, and I know it wasn't food poisoning, cuz all I'd eaten before was a package of instant potatoes...so...it's possible you had somethin like that happening, too. I don't know, but if it was anything like my experience (throwing up billions of times and then getting mensie cramps on top of it, and then bleeding out the rest of my fluids) it SUCKED. Love you, Siggie...:-)

Do any of you know anything about food poisioning? I think I might have a very mild case of it. All I ate yesterday was Red Lobster - ate at the restaurant for lunch, had the leftovers for dinner - so I kind of wonder if maybe that didn't fuck me up somehow. All I have to say is that Jolene is a life saver and I owe her. I was supposed to work at noon, but I was far too sickly for that. I called her up and, with less than 30 minutes notice, she took my shift. THANK YOU JOLENE!!!

Sorry Sig, I found it funny that he was perfect in the 13th plane or something like that - those quotes at the bottom.

I thought it was amusing it was on a metaphysical chapel site - and that was the link it took me to right away so I have no idea why that was a part of the chapel thing. I was in a hurry to find what I was looking for because I had to email pictures to my art history professor by 6.

I am so excited - my graduation announcements came in the mail yesterday : ) I don't think I've been this excited to graduate before. High school was kind of sad cuz I was going away to college all alone, and everyone and their mothers graduate from high school. Yah - I am so excited : )

That wasn't funny. If it wasn't real, it would be funny...but as it stands, it's not funny.

I do have a question: What was a metaphysical chapel advertising with a dead retarded guy? That didn't quite make sense to me. If you ask me, it's not a good advertisement for the healing rituals (you know...crystals and all that other new age trash) that are often at the heart of the metaphysical traditions. Curious.

http://www.metaphysicalchapel.com/Joey.html

check it out for some odd experience! i'm searching for this Baroque chapel I visited in Germany, and somehow this page came up?! i know it's terrible and mean to find this funny, but Sig I thought you might need a laugh :) check it out!

I hate People.

Does that fix things? :-)

You forgot a category, Jamie:

"I Get to Decide Your Fate and I Don't Give a Fuck That I'm Defenestrating Your Life" men.

You know...the ones who say, "I hate you. You can NOT come to my grad school. Go fuck yourself - I don't care that you've only ever wanted to be a writer ever since you were seven." Yeah. Those.

Unfortunately, they're not just men...they're women too. Bitches.

I hate men.

Ok, I've said this a trillion zillion cajillion times before, but this time has special significance, because now when I say I hate men, I mean that I really hate ALL MEN. At least at this moment, which could very well be "Pre-lunar She Wolf Cycle for the J.Mo" time. So here's a list of all the men I hate, in no particular order:

My brother. I love him, but he's a fuckhead sometimes that I hate.

My father. See above.

Clingy Men that paw at me like I'm their property, and whose hands make me feel like I have spiders on me that I wish would die.

Player Men, psychotic "I'll call you/be nice to you when it's convenient for me" men that act like those freaky-deaky sultans that have harems and sex slaves.

Moronic Men, Please-Don't-Ever-Open-Your-Mouths-To-Speak-Again men. (See Jocks/Stoners/Missing Links/etc)

Pretty Men

Ugly Men

Arrogant "I can do anything better than you, including your field of study even though I'm practically illiterate" men. (See Nathan Thomas)

Tragic Artist men

Women haters/abusers men

The "I can have any girl I want, even if she's a model and/or genius, because any woman should be so lucky to have me want them" men. (See every single man that's ever lived)

Desperate Men (arguably the worst, depending on the day)

Bad-Kisser Men (Don't fucking get me started...this is for Clam Tongue and Darty Tongue and "Let me ram my fat tongue down your throat" man. Not to mention "You'll be wiping the saliva off your face" man and "I like to bite your lip so hard it practically bleeds" man. (See Hot Topic Guy...wait, don't. I don't want anyone knowing I went out with Mr. Vinyl Pants)

Drunken, "I'm gonna spill my beer all over you while trying to grind my cock into your ass on the dancefloor" men. You guys can just fuck off.

Writes tons of poems/essays/shortstories that suck because he knows you're an English Major man

Find Themselves More Interesting Than God men

Have Felony Records men

Married men

Single men

Military men

Christian Rock Listener men

Dirty Snitch men

Believe and Support Reaganomics men

Heartbreaker men

Anyone with a Penis men


I love guys. :-)

Lisa, I am very sad to hear about your hamster's passing. I can understand being upset; I'll probably be a little upset when good ol' Professor Charles Flywagon, age 2 1/2 (a.k.a., "Really frickin' old for a hamster"), dies. I love that little guy. He's good at living.

We already have a kitten - well he'll be a year old on Monday so he's not really a kitten anymore - yah he finally gets to upgrade to cat food : ) I know we spoil him so much, but he's absolutely adorable. He's a rag doll cat, and I guess if you would buy an actual pure bread he would be extremely expensive. Jacob's family knew the owner of his mom and the lady wanted to get rid of the litter and had problems finding homes for a few and she gave us this one FREE! Saved us $700! He seems lonely without a hamster in the ball to chase around at night or a cage to pounce at everytime the hamster would move the slightest bit in his cage! Anyways, Fooze is resting in hampster heaven (aka the dumpster outside our apartments)! The floods we're having in Ripon prevented us from burying him - there's standing water everywhere! So, Rascals is by far enough to take care of now, and I think I'm rodent-out for the rest of my life! One was enough! : )

Weird - although I'd be heartbroken if Hampshire or Yorkshire died and they're not even mine..... Hampshire is what I named the black squirrel on the Old West Side and Yorkshire, I've decided, is her son or brother, a grey squirrel in the same neighborhood. I would get a new hampster, or a kitten, kittens are nice. Kitty Amin will have new ones soon

My hamster died an awful death last night. His cage is 2 tiered and metal bars because he ate his plastic cage away, anyways he came out of his house on the 2 tier and he fell off the ledge, and sometimes he's so hyper he does this, so I laughed. Well then he just laid there on his side not moving and I pushed at him and his back was clearly broken as were his 2 back legs. That happened at like 8:30. Finally, at 9 after begging Jacob he called the vet and obviously we knew there'd really be nothing you can do for an almost 4 year old hamster with broken back and legs. The vet said if he hadn't died by this morning to bring him in and for $15 they'd 'take care of him.' Thank God he passed away over night, I didn't have the heart to take him in. So now we just don't know what to do with him and his cage, left over food, and ball. Throw it away I guess - how weird that it's upseting that a rodent died.

The picture I posted isn't the greatest quality, so it's hard to see the minute detailing. Spannish Kings as well as the Habsburg Kings liked these works a lot. Maybe you might have seen it in a castle in Spain somewhere?? If you get a chance to look it up in an art book or something, you should. It's hilarious and well worth your time! People in the 60's used to have Hieronymus Bosch parties. They would dress up like the scenes - men with genitals that turned into strawberries, the whipping flowers and flowers out of the butt scene, erotic men and women in 'bubbles.' Bosch had an amazing imagination. There's a scene where this guy is looking out of a strawberry through this plastic tube (plastic was obviously not invented in the 16th century) at this cute rat like animal. The foutains are very phalic in nature, too - kind of amusing. Anyways, I'll look around online and see if I can find a better picture of this work and I'll post it.

I think I remember seeing that [kind of art anyway] in a spanish room - isn't that sposed to be a picture of the aztec domination - let me look closer. Ok, still don't know but there are no people dying at the bottom.... Urs is confused. I would read the page but I have no attention span (blaming that on the brain injury today). But yeah, coolness

In case that didn't work: http://master-new.3dresearch.com/bosch/delight.html

Check that link out - it's to a piece of art work by Hieronymus Bosch, an artist I encourage everyone to check out. He's classified as a Netherland's Renaissance artist, however his work is still quite popular today. We have been studying this specific piece which is untitled, but for international inventory purposes has been called 'Garden of Earthly Delights.' The left pannel is supposedly representative of Creation, the middle is really unknown, and the third panel is a Judgement scene. The third is the one that most interests me - notice Satan (the mouse like character) sitting on a toilet, eating a human who has crows flying out of his ass, and then poops them out in little gas bubbles! Northern Renaissance artists tend to use a 'tilted' effect (lifting the background up so that there is no atmospheric perspective) and they are very detailed, they also include veiled symbolism. Bosch includes cranes, black birds, spoons, and tons of supposedly symbolic things, but people have studied this piece for years and they have yet to make sense out of the odd images. I'd like to think he was having a light hearted poke at all the clerics of the time. All the people being tortured are wearing Catholic garb. Some people say he was a reformationist, which would explain his hatred towards the Catholics, but who knows. Bosch was an extremely mysterious person. Anyways if you have a few minutes check out this site and look for other works - this is my most favorite, though! Oh yeah, if you look closely in the middle panel, I think, you'll find a man with a fist full of flowers whipping another man who is on all fours with flowers coming out of his ass : ) Entertaining stuff! : )

Ok, Jolene really irritated me this morning. She seems to reject me the same way that she rejects my parents and thats pretty annoying. Is it really a terrible thing that I said that they should visit me in Ann Arbor on the way to Cleveland from Milwaukee? And then found out that its only like a 2 or 3 hour detour on a whole road trip?

I was IMing with her and she either signed off or blocked me so I sent her TWO rather annoyed emails telling her that her behavior was getting annoying and to knock it off. I really don't know what I did wrong. I'm not demanding that she come tovisit me, but it would be nice and only a minor detour. I'm not asking them to stay here for even a night. I've dealt with rejection my whole life and its really irritating to have to deal with it from my own sister.

Urs: No clue about Pimp*4* Jesus. Sorry. Did you try searching without the asterisks? (Probably.) I vaguely remember him, though...probably from your OD, huh? :) I should delete mine one of these days, seeing as how I never write in it anymore, but the task of converting the whole thing into a text file (to save it for later) is so incredibly daunting that I've been putting it off for a long time and will probably continue to put it off for...oh...forever.

As for the John Cusak thing...



This means nothing to me. Help?