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Just a whole bunch of fanfic recs from my Dreamwidth.

Enjoy!

Nice night, slightly cool without a chill.

Listening to Hejira by Joni Mitchell. Still sounds great.

Discovered my Frida DVD has a CD Rom with interesting items on it, must sit down and watch and look!

Watching Trueblood and 24 -- these are two highly addictive shows. On s1 for Trueblood , and s7 for 24...

Did some colorschemes earlier, however, colourlovers is being problematic with my antique internet.

Indulged in some gelato today. Guess Sunday is gelato day.
White chocolate and espresso, my favorite!

Nice day, very slow and lazy, and filled my creative well a little bit.

Bought two magazines, Preservation about historical preservation, and the latest issue of Orion. Just needed a little inspiration, I guess.

trek_news , it's in a newsletter update format, and will help keep you connected to trekfic of alll the different Treks out there.

I always find 2-5 things to read everyday, so yay!!

July 13

July 13, c 100 BC - Caius Julius Caesar is born in Rome. Taunted by the Roman aristocracy throughout his life for being a bottom to Nicomedes King of Bithynia it didn't matter he conquered Gaul. His name around court was "The Queen's Rival." In Rome it was fine to be a buggerer but not the buggeree.

July 13, 1981 - Toronto City council appoints former journalist turned lawyer Arnold Bruner to conduct study into relations between the police and the gay community. The appointment is made five months after the infamous Toronto bathhouse raids.

July 13, 1984 - Brothers debuts as the first television show in the United States with a gay lead character.

July 14

July 14, 1454 - Angelo Poliziano was born in Montepulciano, Tuscany. He wrote under the name "Politian" and was considered the successor to Ovid. He was tutor to the children of Lorenzo de Medici. Young men flocked from throughout Europe to study under him. And, it wasn't just poetry they were studying. He died at 42 of a heart attack in bed with one of his students.

July 15

July 15, 1865 - James Miranda Barry died in Kensal Green, England. It was only on his death that it was discovered Barry was a woman. For 40 years she was an officer and surgeon in the British Army in Canada and South Africa. With no one knowing it Barry was the first woman doctor in Canada.

July 16

July 16, 110 - Antinous was born in Bithynia. The Emperor Hadrian was smitten with him at first glance. Antinous was 15 at the time. From that time on he never left the emperor's side. On a trip to Egypt he drowned in the Nile. Some say it was because of a prophecy that had declared the Hadrian would die unless a sacrifice were made to the river.

July 17

July 17, 1859 - Ernest Rhys is born in London. Rhys was the editor of the Everyman Library a collection that totaled 967 volumes containing the classics. After he retired he wrote his autobiography filled with anecdotes about his gay clique including Oscar Wilde. It still makes for titillating reading.

Transitional, changing layout happening here.

I am going to be doing something different, but honestly need to get outta my hovel and suchlike, so will keep half of it here.

Mostly it will be color scheme changes etc.

SSU, other campuses cancel spring enrollment | PressDemocrat.com | The Press Democrat | Santa Rosa, CA

It goes on to say there won't be any new students enrolled Spring 2010.

Of course, from the headline, it sort of looks like the whole campus is taking a spring furlough, which would have been quite a blow...at least 300-400 people are employed at SSU in a variety of positions.

It mentions also the current fees are 4,000 adn some change per year.
I went there when it at most was 200 $ a year. Just sayin'.
And started when the CSU system was 85 $ a semester.

This is maddening, and I do not care what people think about education should be hard to get or people should have to work 600000 hours a week and try to study, well, no.
I see a lot of people in world, saying "this and this was hard for me, others should just toughen it up..."
I do not agree with that philosophy. Why make people run through hoops, suffer, and not be able to concentrate because they're working 60000 hours a week to pay for their education?

Of course, there are loans--but in this economy, I imagine anyone under 35ish is having a problem there, and have found loans a burden as well.

Some people don't do well under that sort of pressure, but are intelligent, and deserve a chance to go to college if they want.

Shakesville: The Beaver

LOL...read all about Jodie Foster's next film...

Absolutely gorgeous, although a little warm weather.

Good salad today, delicious bacon sammich.

The iced coffee was so good, I drank half of it in about 1 hour ( I usually linger over it at work)...

I started my project of doing collages, however, cannot find my tape, tried some gesso and got upset at the smooshyness and textureyness of it.

So will buy gluestick and tape tomorrow.
Maybe another 2 canvases.

And the neighbor is quiet tonight. Thank the goddess.

Positive:
This is going to be hard to do tonight and may only contain foodstuffs...alas...

I had a free (after 5 medium iced drinks, special promotion not good anymore alas....) freddo and it was delish! Peet's Freddos is a lot less sweet than S'buck's fraps, and they don't have chunks of ice on the bottom, and they're not as prone to separation after only 10-15 minutes.

Today I shall wax on and on about chile verde salsa from El Patio.

It always tastes a little different.
I think I might have been a curanderia in a past life, from around 1770ish-1840ish, and addicted to chile verde and tomatillos and tamarindo, possibly chocolate. I think I kept a fairly low profile, was fairly sardonic and might have read William Blake. I had the same mantilla for years, and no doubt, avoided sea travel like the plague.

Chile verde always makes me feel like life is a little better, it mellows me out, and I am sure is my own personal anti-depressant.

I cannot have too much though--because if I do, my stomach isn't happy, but if I take in a small amount, it's almost the perfect food.

I've never had tomatillos in anything else, and I've had a couple of storebought chile verda salsas and they were boooooring.

Funny thing is-- I can stand it being spicier and hotter than a red salsa.

It makes me happy.

I also had a crispy chicken taco, very good. Very good.
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