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However I think, I mean I feel, that Typealyzer is generally right about my personality in terms of friendly disposition and wanting to help others. I don’t need to surround myself with aesthetically pleasing things, but who doesn’t mind them? Certainly I don’t like looking for conflict but I will definitely confront if I feel it’s necessary.
The ad never ran and glad it didn’t because there’s no correlation whatsoever to be made between the tsunami and the September 11 attacks.
However it helps put things in perspective for many Americans because I think we only feel terror if it involves a plane crashing into a building but we don’t blink twice at our acts of terror that killed so many more in the form of war, bombings and raids.
Watching the memorial service online this morning, the feelings are definitely still raw. I hope we never forget 9/11, or 3/11, 7/7, 9/4, or 11/26 for that matter and I hope that in the end, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars won’t be pyrrhic victories.
It’s been so long since I’ve written. The summer has definitely been a whirlwind of traveling, decompressing, hanging out and coming to terms with the boyfriend.
I realize I will never understand the dude and I feel extraordinarily relieved that we decided to become friends. After two years of breaking up and trying to make things work out, I’m just happy that it’s over. We’re just two very different people. Sometimes it just takes that long to admit…
I’m not sure why I kept looking for signs when I was ignoring the biggest sign that I just wasn’t happy and couldn’t love him for who he was. Of course we were both upset and sad the night we broke up. It was so sudden but inevitable. I was mopey, moody and wallowed in my sorrow. We wrote each other a couple of soulful emails. I made sappy playlists.
Two days after we broke up, I dropped by to return some CDs that I stole from him. After some cautious apprehension, we relaxed as we chatted, respecting each other’s space and our new relationship as we watched the Yanks sweep Boston. It felt good and it felt right to be friends. I’m sure we will miss each other and our companionship in the days to come, but I think we will be happy too.
I had time to:
peel garlic for lunch
jog
shave my legs
clean
budget
read the bible (but didnt)
(by Ian Kim)
other, foreign, exotic, not quite human…
interesting how much other people’s lives can briefly influence yours for a short period of time through random common shared experiences and interests…
Saw Treeless Mountain during the film festival couple weekends ago. My friend who I brought bawled at the end. I just thought it was bittersweet…
I caught up with last Sunday’s paper yesterday and read an article about two married directors, So Yong Kim and Brad Rust Gray, whose new movies have recently been released. It was Kim who directed Treeless and I want to see her older movie, In Between Days next.
Gray directed a movie, Salt, that was released 2003. It was set in Iceland and having gone to Iceland in March, I want to see that as well. I just don’t know how I’m going to track these two movies down but I really have to watch them now. (netflix is inevitable after all i suppose)
It’s nice to see how, as a couple, they can encourage and help each other make these award-winning movies. Their daughter Sky is absolutely adorable as well.
http://www.soandbrad.com/contact.htm
was fatally beaten by a group of male teens in Shenandoah, PA last July. Yesterday Brandon Piekarsky, 17, and Derrick Donchak, 19, were only convicted of simple assault.
I’m disgusted by the jury’s verdict and the finding of Ramirez’s death as a street fight that ended tragically.
Where’s the justice? Where’s the responsibility of pummeling someone and kicking him in the head while he’s down on the ground? I can’t describe how angry I am; it’s outrageous that those involved could get away with murder.
wish i had known about this in the summer
Only in Japan
On March 27th, 2009 at 11:36p.m. the victim was walking in the 4600 block of Calvert Road (http://tinyurl.com/cdurcx) when he was accosted by the two suspects. They demanded the victim's money while they punched him in his facial area. They stole the victim's jacket and began to flee the scene in a silver Cadillac. A Prince George's County Police officer responded to the scene immediately in his cruiser and was rammed several times by the suspect vehicle. The passenger exited the vehicle and fled. The driver fled in the vehicle and was pursued by several University of Maryland officers until he crashed his vehicle into a light pole on Route One. He was taken into custody and turned over to the Prince George's County Police. The second suspect is still at large. I've received about 25 of these alerts since I started here in the summer. Honestly I'm happy to leave.