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I'm happy to be able to take my baby home, but I have to make sure all is well since he isn't eating or drinking much and I get anxious about that. Plus, I don't want to have to let him go for three whole days and worry about him each day that passes. This stinks.

Oh, Chens.

*hug*

I've been kinda sick all day and haven't got back yet. Sorry for that.

I recommend ballet, of course, but really she should take what appeals to her most - ballet, jazz, tap, or modern.

You want to absolutely avoid any studio that does competition dance. It's not fun, stresses rote memorization of moves rather than learning technique, and are massive money sinks.

Since studios are very different it's probably better if you check out a couple in your area and then back with me. We can go over the differences of each and look at what your options are.

You're in Portland, right? I'll do some googling and see if anything jumps out at me.

South West Portland area. (effen gas is what the fuck a gallon now?)

Thank you again, I appreciate the advice, really.

I'll send you the site for the place/people I am looking at right now (mostly just because of them literally holding class across the street from me) later if you wouldn't mind assessing it for me.

In the meantime, Stop being Sick Right Now!

Don't really want to get into the details because they're dull but I accidentally locked a large dog in a 4th grade class room last night. I started looking for a janitor but realized the owner of the dog would come back and kill me soon so I went back and tried to remember how people handle these types of situations in the movies. I was actually disappointed at how quickly the credit card trick worked. I was looking forward to trying to pick the lock with a bent bobby pin.

Then today, my sister called me to pick her up from work. I was alone in the house and said no problem. I walked out and locked the door behind me before realizing I'd forgotten both my phone and my keys. All of my keys. And I'm 20 so I don't know anyone's number by heart except for my parent's home phone and 911. It turns out, we don't have a cleverly hidden spare key. So I just sat outside, impotently, until my mom got home from work about 30 minutes later. I told her what happened and now she keeps saying, "I didn't go to college but I could probably figure out how to open one of these cheap windows from the outside."

She's Colombian. And she watches ONE season of Modern Family and suddenly she from the mean streets too.

Wow. I just realized I don't know anybody's number besides 911, my parents' cell phones, my casa's, and that office that offers bail bonds (777-7777). I don't like this feeling of dependency.

Chenoa, I would like to kick your ex in the balls. That's all.

You stay strong there for the boys. They have an awesome mommy.

I haven't really checked this site at all yesterday.

Only 26 new posts? lol Anyway...

I'm currently in Tucson. It is 5:45 their time. 8:45 Florida time.

I met my niece for the first time. Though I can't hold babies for anything. When I held her for the first time, she cried. I'll try again today.

I wanna hold a tiny tiny new baby.

We had the first class today and it was with one of the two native speakers. I wanna say he's English but at the same time he also teaches Scottish Identity at the British Studies MA, so I'm not sure. Hattie, how do I tell?

I feel like I am getting a head cold.

i think i want to move to canada.

Lets see how the election goes.

I want to move there for the winter.

There's a dead black cat in my back yard, and it looks like it's sleeping other than its eyes being gone and its skull being hollow through the holes, filled with flies. Perusal and poking has proven its hide to be unscathed, but it's stiff as a rock, and it looks young, like it was ambling about and decided all at once to roll over and die.

Do not poke it, Dan.

halloween decorates itself, in nightrious' yard.

Google search by image is the best thing on the Internet.

Hey, I used a stick... my boot. Which I'm definitely not wearing in the house as I type this.

Seriously trying to block out that horrible picture Nightrious just posted.

PA: Not going to Berlin at the end of the month anymore unfortunately (may go in December for the Christmas markets) but we are going to spend a night in a four star hotel and spa instead. I want to play Poirot in this room:

And Lady Chatterley by the lake:

Yup, My day is now fucked. I only saw it for a half second, but thats ebnough time for the rest of my day to be haunted.

It's the month of Halloween, you're supposed to be haunted.

Hattie, if you go to Berlin in December, perhaps we can meet up? I'd like to make it to Germany before the end of the year, and "Christmas markets" sounds awesome. I'll also try to see Barbwig while I'm there if possible.

I have a dinner date in about an hour!

Go me!

Also, I'm not very nervous, which is odd considering how infrequently I actually have dates...

IIIIIII... am probably going to ACL tomorrow. Awesome line-up this year.

So I guess I'mt taking 20 credits next quarter. Uh oh.

How many credits do you have to take per semester?

You only have to take like 12.

i really like disneyland though.

12? Holy shit! You have to take 30 here. You can go to the next year with 20 (if you haven't passed a few exams), but by the end of the 3 years of undergrad studies(the Bologna system) you have to have 180 credits. There are re-sits and if you don't take all your exams and have those credits you don't graduate.

Oh and the only extra credits you can take is Sports. 2 credits per semester.

I took 60 credits (which is a year worth of credits here) in one semester last year. I wouldn't recommend it.

I think I'm gonna start studying Capoeira, mostly on my own, though. $95 a class? Pfffffffft.

Hattie wrote:

Fano wrote:

Hattie, if you go to Berlin in December, perhaps we can meet up? I'd like to make it to Germany before the end of the year, and "Christmas markets" sounds awesome. I'll also try to see Barbwig while I'm there if possible. :)

That'd be nice! Although it may be a bit awkward as my boyfriend doesn't really understand the concept of internet friends. I will definitely go to Paris again in the near distant future though, so perhaps then?

Ah, okay. That sounds good! And yeah, I didn't even think about it, but I should probably be saving money if I've gotta move out because of rent and stuff, haha.

And if you ever come to London I will gladly show you around!

Deal!

I never look at "Other" under messages on Facebook. I apparently got this message over a week ago:

Hello
My name is Binue I am a good looking girl.I saw your profile and was delighted to contact you, I hope you will be the true loving, honest and caring person that I have been looking for, And I have something special to tell you about me, So please contact me directly through my email address at (binuebinue670@yahoo.in) so that I can also send my picture directly to you.
regards Binue

And also:

Dear Friend,

I am a British Citizen and would love to share a very important discussion with you which will be of benefit to the poor, the sick, orphans...

Reply for details.

Fatima

I need to check more often, there are interesting things going on there!

I got a message saying I should repent and find God. "It would help me a lot in my relationships with other people".

We have a lab in Canada. I'm considering moving there someday soon.

Americans running to Canada will become the new Mexicans running to America. We shouldn't move there. We'll ruin it.

I would really like a milkshake, but I'm not going to go get one. Instead, I'm going to make a bowl of fruit and put some yogurt on it.

Will?

I just want to live there because it's cold and it seems like a neat place. I like America just fine, i'm not an expat or anything.

I want strawberry-filled wafers. The super cheap but super tasty kind that can no longer be found. I should look around in corner stores and stuff like that.

There is something screwy with the heating element in my dryer. I've noticed a couple of times in the past week or so that when i walked by or through the laundry room there was that sort of warm lint clean cloths smell that dryers make, but even if I wasn't using the dryer.

last night when I was on my way to bed (you pass through the laundry room to get to our bedroom) the smell was really overly strong, almost bordering on a burnt lint smell, and I knew I hadn't dried anything since way earlier that day.

When I investigated the whole outside of the dryer was burning hot even though it wasn't running, there were a few items on top of the dryer and they felt like they were about to catch fire they were so hot. Opening it up the heat was still blowing out even though it wasn't spinning or anything.

I had to get Trevor out of bed to hop behind it and unplug it for me as I couldn't reach after pulling it out as far as possible.

So now I have to figure out where the warranty papers are and I can't wash any laundry until I don't know when. The rain started today so I can't even hang a cloths line.

grumble grumble grumble

Why?

That would be an awful lot. I know I spend far more time studying and doing work out of class than I do in a lecture. So if a non-genius person such as myself was taking 30 credit hours in regular classes... assuming that I didn't take time to socialize or sleep or eat for 14 weeks... I'd probably still fail all my classes because I'd die some time during week one.

30 credits is about 24-26 hours per week. We have 30/semester in the MA, too, but only 14 hours a week. I have to check next week what classes are worth the most, just for the fun of it.

I painted my nails black and nobody in my family likes them and they think they look creepy and too different. Booo, family.