Latest Update (Mar 23, 2003)
I've gone missing again from h2g2 and would just like to say sorry... Life is busy, you know? On a lighter note -- this summer I am going to Germany! So !
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Death (Dec 28, 2002)
Yeah, seriously, the subject is death. Sounds like something more suited to Halloween than the approaching New Year's (and past everything that has passed), but I wanted to make some marks here of people who have passed this past year. I get this feeling I won't be able to name all of them right now and will have to come back later and add. Or perhaps I will forget that I even have this entry.

B.E.
L.M.
M.C.
Foo
all those dead due to war


Also, I will recognize--
everyone whose life is risked, especially D.S.
everyone who wanted to die this past year


May we never forget, yet at the same time, live past it.
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Caught up in the backlog (Nov 1, 2002)
I've done it! It has taken weeks.
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I passed my audition! (Oct 22, 2002)
Yippee! I've been working for months on this, and finally the day was there... But I did it -- didn't do as well as I thought I could do, but I still made it. Yippee! The waiting for results drove me crazy, but --- now they're in and so am I!

(I play clarinet for those who might not know...)


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Sorry Awix. (Oct 10, 2002)
Still haven't been around. Forgive me.....
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Gave blood again (Oct 9, 2002)
I gave blood again on Sunday, and I'm going sit here and encourage all of you to do so as well. It doesn't hurt that much and it is very helpful and useful and a wonderfully easy way to do a good deed without putting yourself out at all..... Everyone should try at least once.

(For anyone who is wondering, it went much better this time than it did last time... Took a while to find the vein, but once she stuck the needle in it worked, and I have almost no bruising at all -- just a little spot around where the needle went in. --Last time was a pretty bad experience, I guess, as they go, for anyone who is wondering. My veins aren't very near the surface either, so it takes two or three tries to raise enough blood to be able to see the vein in the crook of my arm...)
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dog (Aug 26, 2002)
Dog bit someone on Saturday...
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I've not written much lately (Aug 24, 2002)
Hello people. I'm realising that I've not included anything new in my journal for ages and ages, so I thought I would just mention a bit of what's been going on... Last Friday (a week ago), I got a dog -- German Shepard/husky mix -- he's beautiful and well-trained already and very nice to be around.

Last Wednesday I saw a performance of "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare, which was fantastic as well....

I've finally figured out how to tell my computer that it is in Germany and have gotten ahold of the addins for Microsoft Word that let me check both the new spelling and grammar....

I've got two entries in review, and one of them (Locks of Love) had an amazingly positive reception... The one on Sikhism started out about a page long, but once I'd added the stuff mentioned in PR, it doubled in length... Probably my fault, for not including that stuff earlier, but at this point no one has commented again, so nothing new to add. Unless someone knows something about a turban anecdote that Zarquon's Singing Fish mentioned?

Oh, and I love Brunel. Strider's made a fanclub, so go join it! *laughs*
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100,003 (Jun 2, 2002)
"100003 Researchers have registered since we launched on April 28, 1999."

Tada!
Now it's time to go find #100003.. If there *is* a 100003....
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Google (Apr 19, 2002)
You know what I just found out? (I think I've been told this before, but it's only just sunk in... ) Searching on Google gives h2g2 entries... Which means, right now, if I search for "Creatures Computer Game", my entry is at the top. That was amazing for me. Makes me feel important. (The edited one though, so... *shrug*) Yeah!
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Monastery (Mar 29, 2002)
Last night was Maundy Thursday, and I visited a monastery.... It was beautiful. I don't even know how to describe it. Everything was quiet and the incense was deeper than any fog I've seen in the past months.... It was absolutely beautiful. Amazing. It wasn't just because of what was going on in front of my eyes; there was also a feeling there.... Indescribable. Very peaceful. It was an amazing experience. I don't even know what else I can say, because everything is contained within a feeling that I can't express.... If you ever get a chance, take it up. Just to be there was spectacular.
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Lately... (Mar 18, 2002)
I have at least three friends who are going through lots of stress and/or depression, and beyond worrying me, my reaction has just sorta been 'ahhh'. I'm really terrible with people, the more I think about it... I *know* that I've gotten a lot better in the past few years, but I --sometimes I don't think, y'know? And I end up regretting lots of stuff. Usually it gets worse when I've got lots of stress or whatever, so I am very happy right now that I have almost no stress. If I did, I think I would be having more problems than I do right now. Everything just seems to pile up, ends up exponentially bigger than it began. And my own mental health multiplies everything by 10.

Eh, I'll keep looking up... *apple falls from tree, hitting her*

*grin* Okay, so it isn't *that* bad...
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War on Terrorism (Mar 10, 2002)
There's nothing in particular that is triggering this barrage of thoughts, but that I've been trying to think of something to do about peace and always end up coming back to our *lack* of it. Like, why are we even in Afghanistan? Since when is it *our* problem to take care of them? Yeah.. That sounds really cold-hearted.. But really. The people we help are not the ones with power; the ones we hurt by being there are. Which means, powerful people hate us. Great place to be, when people with nuclear and whatever else kinds of weapons hate your country, eh?. Even more than Afghanistan, I am very scared of this "global war on terrorism", because it seems nothing more than a method to let Bush have more power, over more countries. He's saying, if *you* do not move to fight "terrorism" within your country, I will do it for you. But it is not his right; he is not that country's leader; those people did not choose him. And terrorism is an awfully small thing to be frightened of, really... I look at him and try to find motives, and all I see is that he wants power and he wants to show people his power.. And that is not what I look for in a wise president that will keep us out of trouble and safe. No one is looking for us to lead a fight against "terrorism", but people are going along with it. Oh... *sigh* I really don't want to die because some upset country bombed us for doing things that I don't even believe are justified... What happened to the isolationism after WWI? I could probably have made this a lot better and clearer, but as for now, I am just going to leave it as it is without even proof-reading, and try to think about nice happy things...
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Be Nice to Me--I Gave Blood Today! ;-) (Feb 17, 2002)
Hello all... I'm rather happy.. I gave blood this morning for the first time and ran into some problems, but I'm fine now. My veins didn't pop up like they wanted, to find the vein, and I'm not sure what happened then--the nurses thought perhaps the vein had collapsed, or perhaps that she hadn't stuck it (?). I had to wear a blood pressure cuff, but I bled decently once it got started. I still feel a little funny; rather weak... Don't know. I got lightheaded sitting there; that's the first time I've been lightheaded for a while.

Anyway, I'm good and feeling very proud of myself.
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Sorry I haven't been around lately... (Feb 4, 2002)
Ditto the subject line.... I'm afraid some of you have been waiting for replies for days now--sorry. I haven't had as much time as I would have liked to get online... I'm hoping to get to ya'll today, but depending on the amount of backlog, it might take a while. Sorry again.

Pizza entry is edited!!!!


Shee
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A Message to the Readership (old Personal Space) (Jan 20, 2002)
Hello, all. Once again, I am changing my Personal Space. I would like everyone to know that I care very much for Willem*. I care very much for him, but at this point, I cannot continue to be caught up in everything that is going on right now concerning him. I have much too much going on in my life that is causing me worry and pain, and everyday reading more things that are said to and from him is compounding all the rest to a powder. I am unsubscribing from the conversations that I am involved in that deal with this. I am taking the "Reasons to Be Alive" link off my Space. He matters *very* much to me, but this is blowing my mind and splattering it on the walls. I will try to stay current with everything going on here (those of you with my email address, do not hesitate to use it), but I cannot make it my life, and I cannot spend the amount of time I've spent on it and not go crazy.

I love you all; you are human beings who matter, and this guarantees everyone unconditional love.

One last thing--if you want to get to know or to talk to me, feel free to start up a conversation. I have never minded, and probably will never mind, talking to people.





*You want a list of reasons?--he's a great person. He has given me a point to my life. He made me exude joy with a Christmas card. He makes a difference in people's lives. I am a happier person today than I was six months ago. He made me globally-conscious, something that I had never truly thought about. He made me believe that *I* can make a difference. He's made me smile. He's cheered me up. He brings well-thought-out interesting and welcome ideas wherever he goes. He has affected my mind, to the point that my goal in *life* is Love. I had no particular goal before, and this has affected my well-being severely.

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They're gone now... (Jan 19, 2002)
Tribute Journal
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Chris M
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/U157153


Wall flower girl
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/U188644
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All that LeKZ stuff... (Jan 16, 2002)
Okay, I just want to say here: I am very disappointed that all this is going on again. It bothers me, very much. I see reasons for both sides ("not banning" especially). I really don't want to get sucked into this, but I suppose I will be. Maybe I can get offline and write up a nice report on my beliefs and why they are as they are... But I don't have any beliefs yet. It is all grey area. (= no ban, not until *proven* LeKZ, because LeKZ are previously banned)

In case I do not get back to the original threads as per the Modest Proposal (hah hah, like I'll be able to avoid all *this*), when this all is over, would someone give me a yell and say what the outcome was?

I'm really sick of this all... There is so much going on right now in the politics of h2g2, and it *all* concerns LeKZ. Why can't there just be a second chance, tell LeKZ that if what originally got them banned in the first place was what was written, that that is wrong, and then let this all *go*?! Just one more chance; then if LeKZ do something that deserves a ban, then ban them. But get all this out from clogging up everything!

~a rather upset Shee
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I am BACK!!!! (Jan 3, 2002)


I'm back from vacation, and a very profitable vacation it was too! (h2g2-speaking, that is...) Two new entries (albeit short ones) and the completion of another, longer entry that I started right at Christmastime. So I'm happy, except for the backlog… I don't know how I'm going to deal with it all!

I also finished reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance--*amazing*. I kept making all kinds of connections to "the Bet" by Anton Chekhov... Love that Chekhov... I put lots of thinking into reading both those stories, and everything that arose just sort of blew my mind. I was trying to work on an entry for that (just for me), but there is *way* too much.

Glad I'm back.......

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Hi everyone... I made a mistake... *blushes* (Dec 16, 2001)
Well... Um... A couple journals back I mentioned Kentucky? I was under the mistaken idea that Ellen was in Kentucky... Um, yeah. Should I have thought about it, I would have realised that "Memphis" and "Kentucky" don't go, but I didn't think... Well, I was late to that party too, so again....

Please ignore all TN / KY mix-ups; I seem to do that a lot....



Sorry Ellen...
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George... (Dec 1, 2001)
...is dead. I'm still in shock. It is amazing--he's touched so many people in so many ways... Yes yes, and (please excuse me all you Paul-lovers ) he and John were my favourites--their lyrics make you think, which Ringo's certainly do not, and neither do Paul's. (Usually. I do happen to like Flaming Pie, for especially Song We Were Singing, because it captures my friends' and my relationship....)

I mean, (back on topic), the lyrics made me think... I love George's music. And I don't know what to say now, because I am *so* not into it.

I woke up this morning, and on the radio all they were playing was George. I half-heard the explanation, but I didn't hear the "dead" part--I feared it, but I didn't hear it. So I wasn't sure that first time. All day it didn't seem true--it still doesn't.

I didn't hear it yesterday, either. I don't know why; perhaps I block myself out from the world or something.... When I don't have to know, I don't try to know. Any music I listen to is CDs, and any TV I see is commercial....

Really, right now I am at a loss for words. Totally and completely.


And I feel sorta bad about taking my Personal Space away, because it is only partly because of George. It needs a remodel, and this was just an excuse .... It isn't an excuse in my heart, but it is at the same time... I don't know. It's too hard to explain what I am thinking about.

And I get the feeling this is going to be a long journal (journey?), and I also get the feeling that it hasn't said very much. It also doesn't convey my original horrific reaction to this.... Too much has gone on lately. I'm afraid I'm going to get jaded. *sigh*

Still at a loss for words...

I can borrow a "so long and thanks for all the fish" quote, or I can use one of George's songs... Or John's... Or Paul's... Or Ringo's... Or them all together... But I think I'll just leave you all with a candle burning:

/\/
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Creatures out of PR! (Nov 28, 2001)
Tada! I'm so happy; my Creatures entry is out of PR and has been recommended... Yippee! First one; I feel pretty good about it, too...

Oh yeah!

It's completely flown everything else out of my mind (can I use the word that way? ).... It hasn't been the greatest in these past couple days/weeks, but this is certainly an up point! (One of my friend's parents was in a car crash on Saturday, and his father is still in the hospital--his skull is cracked, but he's answering all the neurological questions correctly that they ask... That's a good sign at least!)


Anyway, for everyone!

Yippee!!
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Birthday Party--yippee! (Nov 17, 2001)
Ack, I pressed the wrong button!


Hello everyone! JEllenJ42 and I are having a birthday party together on 17 Nov at 3-ish pm Kentucky Time (for all you guys out there who don't know Kentucky time, it is 8-ish pm GMT. I think. What time zone is Kentucky in anyways? I suppose I should look it up using a map with political *and* time zones... All I have are two maps--one time zones, and one physical... Ugh.) Scorpios forever!

*tripped out hippy* "What's your sign?"

Anyway, you are all invited to stop by and have a good time! (We hope.) Neither of us has done this before, so....



Oh yes, the thread's probably going to be at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F77804?thread=148487
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International Moment of Frustration Scream Day (Oct 12, 2001)
Today, my dear people, heralds the International Moment Of Frustration Scream Day.

I will join in.
Will you?

(as america joins together, so will frustrated people all across the world)

Repeat after me:


AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
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