I can stay at my job. Probably loose lots of hours but still coolio. (Sry, sleeping pill, need to get to bed, just wanted to share this with you.)

I just wanted to share this with you guys: this is a bloke I know via echoingthesound, teh NIN board, and I thought it might be a nice thing to spread the word about his work because it's really awesome.

If you like it, please repost the link in your own journal or pass it on to people who might be interesting.

on Flickr

edit: Oddly, I can't manage to link it properly to the webpage, so you'll have to settle for the Flickr for now.

I'm spending the day reading up on gender in the work place, because I have meeting on diversity that I was invited to by the head-head mistress (and I can't afford to look stupid now), and came across this

One of my godlfish is sick. She's laying on the bottom of the bowl on her side, and she can only swim on her side. I hope she pulls through. It's just a stupid fish, I know, but she's *my* stupid fish.

Teh suck.
Okay, so the racist fascist Vlaams Belang is declining rapidly, but in its stead there's an empty populist liberatrian party on the rise, and a spectacular succes for a conservative nationalist party that wants to separate Flanders from Belgium. With a quarter of the votes in, barely 24% voted for a left or center left party. I am really, really sad. And for some reason, lefties are celebrating the decline of VB? With the actual left declining, two leftwing parties not even making the 5% voting threshold, that means two leftwing parties will be taking up residence in parliament, holding 22% of the available politicians there. 80% of our governmental work from now on will be in the hands of a center-right christian party, a right-leaning liberal party, a libertarian crap party, a nationalist party and an extreme-nationalist party.
Please, someone, show me where the joy is?

I know why teh Trent likes teh Mariqueen. Three guesses what instrument she plays.

Buttered popcorn tasted like buttered popcorn, which is revolting. Someone else can eat those. I mean, they were just as horrible as I remember. I'm sure someone who doesn't dislike popcorn as much as I do, will love them. Orange sherbert on the other hand is delightfully orangy.

I walked home from a visit to a nursery where some of my students had to read books aloud and play games (something to do with their finals), and it turned out to be a 50 minute walk. My feet are awfully sore now, but it was a nice walk. Also, I gave my first last lesson of the year today. This is so weird. It's the first time ever that I might actually teach them again next year, and they don't even seem to mind that much. Lovely!

Caramel Apple Oh my. First I was thinking: mmm, bit boring, mostly fudge. But then suddenly 'apple' kind of bursts through. Wow. Very, very good. Not as good as strawberry jam, but mmmm...

Also: IT'S TOO FUCKING HOT. Thank you.

Strawberry Jam
It has this dark deep red colour, and then when you put it in your mouth: BAM, strawberry jam. It has all the layers of real homemade jam: the sharpness of the strawberry, the heavy taste of the sugar and you expect to eat a little seed at any second.
Oh my. That is an excellent kick-off to 40 evenings of careful jelly bean degustation!

Sidenote: I bought my first fresh strawberries of the year today, but they were so worth the wait. Homegrown by local farmers... you can't get them any better.

Also a sidenote: I'm completely addicted to Colbert/Stewart slash. It's official: I'm a geeky 16 year old.

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And, on the topic of squeeage, I bought this:



From tomorrow on, I will be eating one flavour every day, and then post here all about it. BECAUSE OMG IT'S JELLYBEANS IN FORTY DIFFERENT FLAVOURS OMG! *insanity begins here*

Biggest mega thunder storm EVER! *excited girlie sounds*

First of all, the fucking lightning storm. That was the weirdest thing I'd ever seen. For 15 minutes it poured rain and hail from the sky and there was a non-stop flash of lightning and not one single rumble of thunder.
Then, suddenly, all rain and wind are gone, but still the creepy flashing. (I saw that stroboscopic flicker on the inside of my eyelids for half an hour after the storm ended, so weird!)
Then, phase three: huge, huge lightning bolts from one side of the sky (where it begins for me) to the end, and a roar of thunder sometimes 30 counts long. THIRTY FUCKING COUNTS! I have never heard anything like it.
I live next to a meadow in a very old, very unstable building, so watching lightning strike 3 times in a row was exceptionally scary and I was completely freaked out, but oh my god... it was the single coolest weather event ever.

Also: across from the road there's a pub, and they'd forgotten to put their chairs and stuff inside and this morning one of their chairs was in the middle of the road, and one of those huge umbrella/parasol things flew all the way to the meadow next to my apartment and now lays crashed in the field. And the crooked tree across my house is crooked no more.

Just stumbled across this page with so many gorgeous photographs by Mark Seliger, some of which I'd never even seen before (the young Johnny Depp ones are really different). If you have the time, go check them out. Seliger is probably one of the best photographers around.

Your results:
You are An Expendable Character (Redshirt)

An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 75% Deanna Troi 70% Chekov 65% Jean-Luc Picard 60% Geordi LaForge 50% James T. Kirk (Captain) 45% Uhura 40% Worf 40% Spock 37% Leonard McCoy (Bones) 35% Mr. Scott 35% Data 35% Will Riker 35% Beverly Crusher 30% Mr. Sulu 10%

Since your accomplishments are seldom noticed, and you are rarely thought of, you are expendable. That doesn't mean your job isn't important but if you were in Star Trek you would be killed off in the first episode you appeared in.

Click here to take the Star Trek Personality Quiz

Now I'm Nothing (OMG) / Terrible Lie and Trent in SHORTS!

Piggy (he looks oddly awkward and vulnerable singing that song in the light - it's a thin line between 'oh I hate my ex lover'-pathos and well... Tokio Hotel

The Downward Spiral

Non-Entity

Head Down - the chorus is truely amazing. I LOVE hearing him sing, he really doesn't do it often enough.

Physical (at the rate they're throwing around fan favourites, they'll play The Perfect Drug before long)

I Do Not Want This

And this is gorgeous. For the non-fans, still worth checking out: Lights In the Sky

Ahum.

Set list for the first NINJA (NIN & Jane's Addiction) show:

1) Home
2) Somewhat Damaged
>3) Last
4) March Of The Pigs
5) Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now) <-- DISCO VERSION!!! OMG!
6) Metal (he looks really sexy here, *grin*)
7) Hersey (white pants ftw)
8) The Becoming o_0
9) I'm Afraid Of Americans (this is actually a David Bowie song, so awesome!)
10) Mr Self Destruct
11) Burn
12) The Fragile
13) Gone, Still WOW! Just, wow!
14) Right Where It Belongs (the shouting is getting a little annoying at this point, but what a gorgeous version!)
15) The Way Out Is Through <-- wow, this is so impressive... even if you don't like NIN, just check it out
16) Wish
17) Memorabilia tease into Survivalism (wow, he's definitely feeling it)
18) The Hand That Feeds
19) Head Like A Hole

Okay, to most of you this is going to mean nothing, but really: OH MY FUCKING GOD.

*fingers crossed* I hope this isn't just NINJA, I hope Trent brings this amazing amazing set list with him to Rock Werchter.

edit: Man, I'm going to add links to some videos. Yes, they're crowd video's, but they're awesome!

Thank you dailanche. I do know. It's still evil.

On Radio 1 today.

( List & faves behind the cut )

dailanche tried to be cute and gave me Matt Damon.

1. Do you like this person?
Let's see, do I like Matt Damon? If by like you mean 'find barely tolerable', 'despise', 'avoid at all costs' or 'find extremely annoying' then yes, I like him a lot!

2. How do you call this person?
Teh suck.


3. Which color do you associate with this person?
I would say tan, but it's not bland enough. Or perhaps black, like my despair at his acting prowess.

5. Looking at his/her character, what blood type do you think he/she have?
I think he has long passed away to the other side and is now fuelled by menure.

6. What do you want to tell that person?
TO FUCK OFF ALREADY!

7. What do you want to do with this person: hug, kiss or shake hands?
If by 'kiss' you mean 'stab violently in the chest several times making all menure leak from chest cavity thus effectively stopping the bodily fuctions of the Matt Damondrone', I'd opt for 'kiss'.

8. Pick five of your friends and pick one person for them:

I could be evil and give dailanche someone really nasty, but perhaps I'd just give her adamwolf.

As long as it's online, I'm going to post it here because it's just awesome: one hour of live performance, high quality footage, of March this year. Thom York dancing.

carofant gave me Friedrich Nietzsche

1. Do you like this person?
I think we would've gotten along smashingly. He was a moody insane bastard and I am... well, not. I do think he was brilliant though, and brave for experimenting with existing metaphysical concepts. I also think he was a bit of an cry-baby, but then so are most of my 'heroes'. And I agree with him on the whole 'Germany sucks' thing. I know, Caroline, only Bayern. :P

2. How do you call this person?
FIETZSCHE! Frietzsche, Nietzsche, Friedrich. God, sometimes.

3. Which color do you associate with this person?
green - since he liked the mountains, I'm guessing he must have liked that colour too

5. Looking at his/her character, what blood type do you think he/she have?
I have absolutely no idea

6. What do you want to tell that person?
That he was right in all ways that matter, and wrong about the horse: really, it wasn't that bad.

7. What do you want to do with this person: hug, kiss or shake hands?</b Preferably stay away from him, seeing as he's been dead for a pretty long time now, and probably utterly decomposed.