this is where to find me in the future,

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http://twitter.com/0vary

this journal is officially dead,
thank you for your participation


maybe i should tell you how i may have added you
there was a friend adding script made by dirtyfilthy
and i used and abused it on the following journals:

0vary
preservedmoose
f0lll0w
prantives
vaginasaurusrex

it was wonderful and quite interesting,
then lj changed things and the script stopped working

anyway, see you around the innernets :)

SO I paid a lot for a pair of shoes, because I had some extra money and thought, "why not?" I found this pair of "Chipper" shoes and thought "excellent!" Took them home and two weeks later, the finish starts peeling off, in chunks. I think, "the rest of the shoe must be made well, i shall paint them!" So I get out some acrylic medium and some glitter and coat the shoes, covering the quickly progressing peeling finish. This works for about another month, the glitter pulling off the finish even more




the box cut my story off, was going to go into how at six weeks the base tore off both shoes
and i then proceeded to ripp aapart the shoes with bare hands in the space of five minutes

dont buy MUDD the soles are made of cardboard
Welcome to the generation MUDD
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With this collection of versatile and irresistible comfy footwear at her feet, the Mudd girl moves through life with ease and confidence- her Mudd shoes are as unique as the individual that wears it!

LOLOLOLOLOL

"this is what they make you take the medication for"

remember to register to vote

elvis has 7 toes on each foot. hes also pissed.

Dawn Chorus

Artist Marcus Coates makes a stunning contribution to the world of birdsong related art with 'Dawn Chorus' - a video made by slowing down field recordings of birds singing at dawn so that humans can imitate them. The result is video of people in everyday settings sped up to recreate the original birdsong.

As you work, you'll get a sense of what kind of stitch is called for to achieve your desired shape.

A simple exercise you can do to demonstrate this is to try to make a more or less flat circle, beginning with a ring start and lots of increases (once in every stitch, in the first row).

As you enlarge the circle, you will need to make fewer and fewer increases. Pay attention to the angle of the stitch your hook is in. A line drawn from the hook to the base of the stitch should intersect with the center of your piece.

If it looks like your new line of stitches is “lagging behind,” make an increase. By keeping an eye on this, and on the curvature (or lack thereof) if your work, you can make an object of relatively precise shape without a pattern - simply by taking cues from the work as you make it.

Interpreting this kind of feedback will allow you to sculpt forms naturally and with little effort. Don't be shy of frogging - if what you've made doesn't please you, just pull the working end of the yarn until you're back to where things started to go wrong - you'll make up the difference rapidly. Even with error-correction, I find this method of free-form crocheting to be much faster - and more fun - than counting stitches.

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13 words not found in the English language

1. Waldeinsamkeit (German): the feeling of being alone in the woods

2. Ilunga (Tshiluba, Congo): a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time

3. Taarradhin (Arabic): a way of resolving a problem without anyone losing face (not the same as our concept of a compromise - everyone wins)

4. Litost (Czech): a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery

5. Esprit de l’escalier (French): a witty remark that occurs to you too late, literally on the way down the stairs…

6. Meraki (Greek): doing something with soul, creativity, or love

7. Yoko meshi (Japanese): literally ‘a meal eaten sideways’, referring to the peculiar stress induced by speaking a foreign language:

8. Duende (Spanish): a climactic show of spirit in a performance or work of art, which might be fulfilled in flamenco dancing, or bull-fighting, etc.

9. Guanxi (Mandarin): in traditional Chinese society, you would build up good guanxi by giving gifts to people, taking them to dinner, or doing them a favour, but you can also use up your gianxi by asking for a favour to be repaid.

10. Pochemuchka (Russian): a person who asks a lot of questions

11. Tingo (Pascuense language of Easter Island): to borrow objects one by one from a neighbour’s house until there is nothing left

12. Radioukacz (Polish): a person who worked as a telegraphist for the resistance movements on the Soviet side of the Iron Curtain

13. Selathirupavar (Tamil): a word used to define a certain type of absence without official leave in face of duty

Components of flow

Csíkszentmihályi identifies the following as accompanying an experience of flow:

1. Clear goals (expectations and rules are discernible and goals are attainable and align appropriately with one's skill set and abilities).
2. Concentrating and focusing, a high degree of concentration on a limited field of attention (a person engaged in the activity will have the opportunity to focus and to delve deeply into it).
3. A loss of the feeling of self-consciousness, the merging of action and awareness.
4. Distorted sense of time, one's subjective experience of time is altered.
5. Direct and immediate feedback (successes and failures in the course of the activity are apparent, so that behavior can be adjusted as needed).
6. Balance between ability level and challenge (the activity is neither too easy nor too difficult).
7. A sense of personal control over the situation or activity.
8. The activity is intrinsically rewarding, so there is an effortlessness of action.
9. People become absorbed in their activity, and focus of awareness is narrowed down to the activity itself, action awareness merging^[2].

Not all are needed for flow to be experienced.

Steve Carell on How to Act Brilliant

Engage in Reading-Type Behavior
If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended — for exercise. The more you read, the more you expand your — what's the word I'm looking for? — your stockpile of words. You must have a stockpile of words that you can pass along to your children for their stockpile.

Appear to Listen
I've learned to appear scintillatingly intellectual by asking people questions ("Do you like pizza?"). Then I just look at them, nodding and saying "Hmmm" and "Um hmmm" every few seconds. Try and keep one or two things in your head to regurgitate later. After all, what is knowledge, really, but high-resolution regurgitation?

Just Say Yes
I've been injecting human growth hormone into my brain for several years now, with no ill effects. I feel smarter, and I often feel compelled to show people — really show them — just how smart I am. HGH has also colored the way I perceive the world, which is now a sort of bloodred.

Get the Abs of Einstein
A healthy body means a healthy mind. You get your heart rate up, and you get the blood flowing through your body to your brain. Look at Albert Einstein. He rode a bicycle. He was also an early student of Jazzercise. You never saw Einstein lift his shirt, but he had a six-pack under there.

Don't Chew Your Food
I recommend tuna melts. Fish is very healthy, as is cheese, and toast. I also recommend eating peeled baby carrots. Carrots are very good for the eyes, but they absolutely must be baby carrots so you don't chew too much. I don't think I have to explain crunchwaves to people who read wired. They already know that when you chew something too hard, the vibrations fire up those crunchwaves, which shake the neurons in your brain. Do that too much and those brain cells shake loose and die. I usually gulp my food, and you should, too.

Practice Thinking by Yourself
Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone. I focus on one thing, such as Tree. I think about Tree. Then, after that, I think about Cloud. Then later, as I walk outside, I see Tree and since I have practiced thinking, I avoid hitting it. I try and have six or seven thoughts a day.

Match Your Shoes to Your Belt
If you don't look good, you don't think good.

Know Things
It's important to be well-rounded — not purely scientific and analytical. Explore the arts: poetry, music, decoupage (a visual art form I've been developing since the first grade). And remember, it's always better to have a cursory knowledge of a lot of things than to actually know a lot about any one thing. This is called a liberal arts education.

Act "Human"
When I go to parties, people often look stunned at how smart I am. But nobody wants to talk about astrophysics at a dinner party. Hey, when I want to talk like that, I head to the lab! Instead, I talk about "human" things they enjoy and understand: midrange wines, movie trivia, and mundane subjects like family and emotional fulfillment. I like to end my conversations with a quote, usually something in French, like "c'est la vie," which means "down the hatch!" But don't overdo it: Nobody likes a show-off.

Retain Your Childlike Sense of Wonder
Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are. My children are like little processors. They pick up all kinds of things, then process that into information. And what is knowledge, really, but processed information? We must always strive to be overly processed, like our children.