Friends

one piece of coursework is done!
(or as near as can be without being able to print)

two more to go :(

After I've had a coffee or three..




I also have to confirm a couple of lessons for today and there is something at the Venezuelan consulate that I would like to attend for a bit. What's that saying about London buses?

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When I went to my first gynecologist appointment at age 18, it was with a female.  Since she was part of a family practice, she had also recently examined my mom, and when she tried to make girl talk, she told me, "Wow! Deep vaginas must run in the family".  

Then, she sang "come out, come out wherever you are" to my cervix.  I'm 26 now, and I have only been to male gynecologists since then.  Whew.


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I always figured the male gynecologist paid more attention in school (it's the vagina.. come on..).













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About 3 hours ago I wanted to do just that, skip Christmas for once, but my best friend just talked to me, and I do not think she knows the impact she just had on my perspective...












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I am going home for Christmas. I'm scared my family will realize I'm addicted to cocaine again.  

Even if you don't post this secret Frank, please post a trusted drug help hotline on your site. It's so hard for us to go home at this time, because even if we want to get better, we often just can't do it in time.  We just remember what we used to be like, and how Christmas used to be.   

Christmas is the hardest time to be an addict.


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1-800-662-HELP, which provides referrals to substance abuse treatment 24/7/365. It's run by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Good luck - the holidays can be tough, but they are also a time of forgiveness.


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As someone who loves an addict, all my family wants for Christmas is for our addict to come home, and let us help. It would be the best Christmas gift ever. We are waiting with open arms for you.





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Whenever I am wearing clothing and shopping in the store I got it from, I secretly hope they will give me a discount.





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Dear Frank,

Last year I mailed you two postcards, "Next year, I want to get my tree with you" and "I will not wear mistletoe to work," both referring to the same crush.

I was bowled over just now to see that someone had wondered how my first secret turned out.

This year, I will celebrate the holiday with someone wonderful . . . but he's not the guy I wrote those secrets about. Even if I hadn't fallen in love this year, this Christmas would find me fairly indifferent to the person I mentioned in that postcard.

Time work wonders.


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But if you left it up to me
Everyday would be
A holiday from real

Oh, it's a picture of perfection
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today i have mostly been blocking max's interewebs.

I've wrestled with this for a few days now. How the hell am I supposed to make some kind of judgment based on so many conflicting voices?

Why do individuals I know believe, without question, the human induced climate change theory? Is there something they have read or watched that tipped them over the point of any doubt?

The climate models and proof of this theory seems to be so damn complicated that I can't see how anyone could possibly understand it. People seem to be interpreting the data in completely different ways and reaching opposite conclusions.

Regardless of the reality of this threat, it seems very strange that the government are lamping us with huge amounts of propaganda to reduce our energy consumption without ever linking these changes with how it will affect the temperature of the earth. How much CO2 reduction is enough from the UK? When can we stop? Should we all go live in caves and eat moss?

Gahhh I'm sick of hearing about it all. The only program I've ever seen that makes any sense is the Channel 4 doc explaining the sceptics point of view.
"An Inconvenient Truth" has been shown to be a complete pile of lies (mainly because the temp variations happened 800 years before the CO2 rise, not after) and everything else seems to just make the leap from a warming climate to a human induced warming climate.

I keep reading comments like, "the overwhelming evidence for human induced climate change is irrefutable!". Is it? How do you know that? Where did you find this mine of information and manage to get through enough of it that you were left with no doubts at all!

In short, when scientists are receiving millions of dollars worth of funding for climate research, can we really trust them to tell us that "actually it's not really a problem after all" we don't need any more funding this year.

The opinion that we should all fundamentally change the way we live "Just In Case" they are right seems so stupid when we've got so many more tragic and troubling problems in the world.

I don't agree with landfill, I do agree with recycling. That's just common sense but this CO2 thing is still just a crazy mystery to me!

But not shots

• Oh, ok; apart from the couple of Jägermeisters and the various Guinness and other imbibables.

• Inferno was ace. Had to leave early as, as is often the case, I have a busy day tomorrow.

• Blacklist, too, was good. Catching up with peeps I don't very often see, but should.

• Couple of episodes of the original Battlestar Galactica this morning. I'm afraid, every bit as bad as I remembered them; the reasons why I took so long to watch the new one that just ended (that is, I remembered the original one) still there.

• Did I mention a busy day tomorrow? But that's not a bad thing. Promise.

I'm currently drinking a rather suicidal bottle of wine, and tasty it is too.

First of all, it rolled out of my bag when I was on the train, and would have fallen through the for onto the track, had not the doors closed in time. Then, as I was walking back from the station, it managed to poke its way through the side of the Tesco bag, and plummet to the concrete, which surprisingly didn't break it.

From the label, it doesn't seem to be made from a particularly prone to depression grape, so I can only assume that it was matured in gin barrels.

very tired, very small and very sad
alone in a very big scarey world

You can get the same Christmas tree every year! I wonder if you can just leave the decorations on...

http://www.christmastreeman.co.uk/Content/default.asp

Interesting news story about a study that suggests that loneliness is a socially-transmitted phenomenon. (Found here on Graham Harman's wonderful blog. I'm not that bothered about Harman's philosophy in general, but his advice on writing and study is astoundingly acute and helpful.)

Right well I'm manually coding the html from my phone on the way to
atp (we live in the future), so can someone mail me if the links are
broken

Open the door 09 - day 4
( door 4 is the song which reminds me of being a teenager )

Urban Decay 1 by ~ink-alchemy on deviantART

Chicago IL