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Posted Jul 25, 1999
I find it interesting that people who aren't into this form of communication often say things like "You need to get out and see the world", when I think that the only way to actually "see", understand, etc. the world is to understand, or at least communicate with, people from around the world. While this place isn't the biggest mixture of cultures... it's just limited to the english- speaking middle/upper class, I think there's still so much that *they* know, and they're telling others, and others are telling others...
This is a sort of Babel fish... there are really no languages if you think about it... there is definitely no distance...
Some people think that this sort of communication is a bad thing. Maybe it's because I'm young, maybe it's cos I was raised on computers...but I think it's one of the most fascinating things ever.
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Latest reply: Jul 25, 1999
My genetically-programmed natural terrorist nature is showing through...
Posted Jul 16, 1999
Well not really, but I'm beginning to regret my not learning Arabic when I was little. Just a little. I know I can't learn it now, it's when you little or never.
I can just imagine a visit to my mom's family in Lebanon now-
"Look! An American!" (repeated in French and Arabic, it's a three-language country)
"Let's blow her up!" (see above)
ME: "No, no, please!!! My mom's from here! Her father was Adib Sarkis--- really... look, look, my middle name is unpronouncable, that's gotta be proof-"
"Hmm..." (they think about it)
ME: "Look! I didn't get this nose from speaking English!"
"She may be right" (they converse)
"Okay, to prove you are the offspring of a Lebanese, speak some Arabic"
ME: uuh...well...I know some Arabic sayings...in English....just because the lion shows his teeth does not mean he---
"That will not work."
ME: "Uuhh...(pronounciation) bokticgha"
"That's all?"
ME: "Well....um...yah."
"It's not gonna work."
ME: "But---wait! I can name many delicious Lebanese foods, like zatar and menushi-"
"So you went to a store and looked in the foriegn foods section."
ME: "awwww...."
-=TO BE CONTINUED=-
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Latest reply: Jul 16, 1999
Oh...kay then.
Posted Jul 16, 1999
I felt it was time for another journal installment, but I really have nothing to say. hmm. My mind is completely black. That's what you get from working in a library. I don't even work with actual books. I work with video cassettes. For God's sake, for MY sake, and people like me, BE KIND AND REWIND. Those stickers are there for a REASON, so that we can see NOTHINGNESS underneath them, as opposed to the common video cassette response, which is TAPE underneath them. grrr. And the rewinder won't even fully close. I have to sit there and hold it.
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Latest reply: Jul 16, 1999
Singing
Posted Jul 11, 1999
Song brings happiness to life, hence the beautiful noise on my page(s).
Some people don't understand that.
My mom kicked me out of the kitchen when I was just trying to entertain her, I thought she must have been incredibly bored in there all by herself. I guess she doesn't like my Whitney Houston marathon. I thought I had a nice voice.
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Latest reply: Jul 11, 1999
Fat Bottomed Girls
Posted Jul 8, 1999
I was listening to Queen--nothing new.
Then I thought about something...If the Fat Bottomed Girls are the ones who make the rocking world go round...what about the little bottomed girls?
Are the Fat Bottomed Girls the only ones who make the rockin' world go round?
Why can't I make the rockin' world go round?
I wish I could make the rockin' world go round. If I had known when I was little that I wouldn't have been able to make the rockin' world go round I would have changed my eating habits long ago.
Oh well.
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Latest reply: Jul 8, 1999
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