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I'm The Poisonwood Bible

  • Aug. 2nd, 2007 at 4:21 PM
luckyboy

Oh dear. That's a bit discouraging...


You're The Poisonwood Bible!
by Barbara Kingsolver
Deeply rooted in a religious background, you have since become both isolated and schizophrenic. You were naively sure that your actions would help people, but of course they were resistant to your message and ultimately disaster ensued. Since you can see so many sides of the same issue, you are both wise beyond your years and tied to worthless perspectives. If you were a type of waffle, it would be Belgian.

So, being me, I then tried it again in hopes of recieving a more pleasing response, and got . . . Lolita. Dismal!

Best FakeGayNews Ever!

  • Jun. 29th, 2007 at 10:40 AM
luckyboy

 

This is the best article I've ever found on FakeGayNews.Com. Pay particular attention to 1) the part about the L-word and 2) the fundamental definition of family

LGBTs Lobby for Own "Do Not Call" List

by Jen Ball 07/23/2006

donotcallInspired by the national Do Not Call list which prohibits unauthorized solicitations over the phone, LGBT non-profits are lobbying for new legislation in Congress. The bill would authorize the creation of a new national registry for LGBT persons who don’t want to answer straight people’s stupid gay questions.

luckyboy
For those of you that may not have heard, I'm working for corporate America. Specifically, the part of it concerned with buildings. I am an office manager at an architecture, design, and engineering firm (though I work exclusively with structural engineers)
 
For a number of reasons, I have rather a lot of free time on my hands at work (every now and again I see a tumbleweed blow by). Because my job is really extremely corporate, our IT people block most of the traditional Internet-based means of amusing oneself at work (youtube, online radio, personal email accounts, yahoo games, gizmodo, friendster/myspace/etc). Theoretically, they block all websites that are not directly business-related. The large, glaring, spot-lit, singing-and-doing-the-can-can exceptions to this rule are 1) Overheard in NY and its wonderful associates, and 2) Livejournal.
 
To me, these exceptions seem completely inexplicable. Perhaps someone made a case that Livejournal is somehow related to the business of a structural engineering firm. The more likely answer is that someone in IT likes Livejournal. Regardless, I'm not complaining.
 
Instead, I've put my time and energy into a painstaking and detailed examination of the most recent submissions to the three sites in the Overheard In New York suite: Overheard in New York, Overheard at the Beach, and Overheard in the Office. Submitted herein are a small portion of the fruits of my editorial labors. Enjoy!
 

"anthropologists and other friends"

  • Apr. 5th, 2007 at 11:17 AM
luckyboy
Deloria, Jr. Vine. Custer Died for Your Sins: an Indian Manifesto. 2nd Edtion. University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. Excerpt: “Anthropologists and Other Friends, Chapter 4, pg 78 – 79
 
"Into each life, it is said, some rain must fall. Some people have bad horoscopes, others take tips on the stock market. McNamara created TFX and the Edsel. Churches possess the real world. But Indians have been cursed above all other people in history. Indians have anthropologists.
 
"Every summer when school is out a veritable stream of immigrants heads into Indian country. Indeed the Oregon Trail was never so heavily populated as are Route 66 and Highway 18 in the summertime. From every rock and cranny in the East they emerge, as if responding to some primeval fertility rite, and flock to the reservations.

whoa, livejournal exists!

  • Apr. 3rd, 2007 at 11:16 AM
luckyboy

There I was, just sitting at my desk, wondering if my boss would have any particular work for me to do this afternoon (a prospect which continues to look unlikely) when I suddenly remembered that I have a livejournal account.  And then I thought perhaps I ought to post something.

One exciting thing in my life these days is my application for my Australian passport.  My meeting with the Consulate General is scheduled for the end of next week, on the most auspicious date of Friday, April 13th.  Further confirmation of that fine tuned sense of irony that characterizes an Australian sense of humor.  I'm looking forward to carrying two passports, like a spy.

I've been traveling rather a lot over the past few months, which is fun.  The best trip was definitely to San Diego in February. After the end of the event which brought me to San Diego (a conference on contemporary worship), I stayed overnight with rhiannondance's uncle and his 9 year old son J_. 

french proverb you might enjoy--

  • Nov. 15th, 2006 at 11:43 PM
luckyboy
Thank's to George Michael, you're familiar with "The clothes make the man" or "The clothes do not make the man"

While reading my wonderful French textbook (ps I'm taking French), I discovered what may be this same proverb in it's original french:
"L'habit ne fait pas le moine"

"L'habit" literally means "the clothes" (think of deshabiller, ie disheveled), but it's also interesting to note it's similarity to the english word "habit," as in what monks wear, because "le moine" means "the monk."

So this translates to "The clothes/habits don't make the monk,"

I love French

hello livejournal!

  • Oct. 4th, 2006 at 9:26 AM
luckyboy
um, photoprince set this up for me so I could keep in touch. but I can't type. if you want to know what i'm doing/thinking, call me.

I will try to read your journals but if there's something important, please don't assume I know about it.

love you all.

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