I think I must have been under a rock all these years. So I was skimming through my f-page and saw that orangepaisley had used this awesome-cool icon. Tracked it down the the original Discovery Channel commercial, and loved it to bits. The Discovery Channel commercial that started it all I showed it to my parents too. They totally didn't get it. Why do they not get it? They just looked...

Some days, I look at the way that dance has eaten up my life, and I don't know whether to shake my head at myself or not. It's not that I dance too much; after all, I generally only attend one dance per week, much as I would like to go dancing more often. The problem is that I think about dance even when I'm not dancing. ESPECIALLY when I'm not dancing, in fact. To the point of what some might even...

Открываю комменты к этому посту. Идея сочинить его ко мне пришла, когда я (к своему удивлению) обнаружил, что моя френдесса orangepaisley учит русский язык. В ее посте я увидел очень трогательное описание некоторых букв русского алфавита: Then it went to Alphabet Bizarroland: Lowercase b with a bent top = B Upside-down and backwards L = G (as in "get") Capital A with a gladular problem...

Забавный тест на принадлежность к привелигированым слоям общества для студентов. Американский, стыренный у англоговорящей orangepaisley . Интересны метрики, по которым определяется принадлежность. Естественно, из-за культурных и бытовых различий не все вопросы к нам применимы в полной мере. Где мог, я старался пояснить. From What Privileges Do You Have? , based on an exercise about class...

Slightly modified book meme from orangepaisley . (I may have done it before, but there you go.) 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions. 5.Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is...

My company is sending me to Boston at the end of July and I am looking for places to go Argentine Tango dancing. Any special recommendations? x-posted at ballroom_dance

"Breakaway" -- Kelly Clarkson "Delilah" -- Tom Jones "The Former Miss Ontario" -- The Music Lovers "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman" -- Bryan Adams "What's New Pussycat?" -- Tom Jones "You And Me" -- Lifehouse x-posted in a different form at my blog

So after a really really difficult start to my weekend I managed to get some sleep, both Tuesday and last nights... which has greatly improved my outlook on life. For you cat lovers out there... I get a newsletter from CatsWalk, and they had some interesting information about the food recall. I'll post it at the end behind a cut so it doesn't take up a lot of space, but right now apparently Wheat...