mom placation was ironing by which mens perrypops in a womansuit is the new child mystericating teats that can taint baconated digestive broads plastercasting gnostically from the great gospel wwjh

i have weird premonitions that i will end up living in seattle at some point in the next few years. though, my friend from hahschool days who has lived there forever is moving to quebec, so hmmmm...but all of his housemates were wonderful people without exception, as was the person that i sold stacks of record to at jive time when i was cash-poor and on the road. seattle just keeps on coming up in my psyche. i am hoping that an old friend who lives in alaska ends up living there, which doesn't seem like an entirely unlikely scenario

i just have never understood how a city which is so antiseptic birthed the "grunge" mvemnt

tza, tell us all about hawaii! and lxy tell us all about shanghai!!

oh god i am bored here ;_;

and it is FREEZING FUCKING COLD

itr has been on the move this week, it is quite odd.

wellington is freezing as well, but i love it.

ruby, i must confess that when you said you wouldn't be on here for the next few days i didn't 100% believe you<3

i just tried uploading photos and fb had an 'error'. baslkgj.

i am glad lxy and tza are back!

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aw, hi estela! how have you been?
what did i miss on itr?

non-tropical paradise shit, i'm guessing!

estela, my parents' internet connection is so painfully slow that i'm not on here nearly as much as i would like to be. this thread basically kills their computer every time i hit submit on a post. BUT i can promise that i won't be on here for the first four days i'm in the US... not until jordan goes back to work on monday. HOWEVER, i did promise estela that i would at least jump on here my first day and let you all know that i got to the US safely, so i will do that.

maui trip:

snorkeling and seeing lots of tropical fishes

drove to hana, then continued further south and hiked up the side of a volcano through a bamboo forest and swam in a pool/re-enacted days of our lives scenes under a waterfall at the top of the trail (and also in two other, more populated pools at the bottom later on)

ate mangoes that fell off the tree, attempting to hit us on the head

left at 3:30 am to drive to top of volcano for sunrise (sooo pretty)

rode horse into crater floor of said volcano (and back out) and saw silverswords blooming!

visited 1790 lava flow that actually did not occur in 1790

decorated condo with approx. 80 balloons featuring a picture of my parents on it for their anniversary (including surprise drop from the loft when they walked in and champagne toast)

no tv watching, phone calling, texting, or internetting for 8 days... so nice!

lots of swimming & boogie boarding

lots of sunburn

ate lots of fish, mainly ahi tuna and marlin (including homemade ceviche and sashimi)

read my first danielle steel book (provided by sister). was not impressed. worst writing ever!!! not even entertaining!

i am probably forgetting some things. i wish these pics would upload. most of mine are really bad, though, and i am waiting for my sisters and parents to upload theirs.

much/most/all of that is so awesome! wow!!!

the sunburn kinda sucks, but i suppose i really can not avoid such things when my incredibly white skin goes that far south.

can't wait to hear about shanghai!

visited 1790 lava flow that actually did not occur in 1790

discovered by sleuthing?

oh yeah also hi guys tomorrow is back-hoe day

go ahead dan or ned, do what you must

i think it was discovered by radiocarbon dating or something. apparently the first dude who came in 1788 did not put the flow on his map and then when la perouse came in 1792 he did so they figured it happened btw 1788 and 1792 and used 1790 as middleground estimate but it turns out the first dude just missed a lot of stuff and it had been there like 400 years or so.

EVERY DAY IS BACK-HOE DAY

it's true.

In fact: EVERY DAY IS BACK-HOE DAY

hi lxy welcome back

hi remy thx!

it's gonna take a couple of days of perspective-gaining to say anything about shanghai. at this point i'm glad to be clean and quiet and having a drink in my own house.

also, i fully support EVERY DAY IS BACK-HOE DAY.

omg Hawaii sounds awesome (minus sunburn and D. Steele. Although trust me when I tell you Jackie Collins is worse and should be arrested for doing those things to the English language)

Took the kids to see a dinner theater show where the cast also waits the tables; the entire cast knew J's name by intermission. She managed to meet and charm them all. It was terrifying.

i am watching pan's labyrinth and trying to smoke as many cigs as possible before my mum gets home.

I AM WATCHING DIRTY HARRY

And his back-hoes?

ts. back hoes vs black hos

new things to be concerned about: why is my penis falling asleep?

not personally, i mean.

Didn't even know that was possible! What was the point of taking anatomy and physiology anyway?

Also, just finished up a review of Mary Roach's book about sex research, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, which I highly recommend to you all, because, for one thing, it is very funny.

well, that sounds interesting! i just bought sleep a beer for his bday. i have to leave for work in 8 hours and this is killing me because half of my brain is still enjoying ocean breezes :(

mary roach's other book - stiff: the business of corpses - (or something like that) is also great.

tell me about this mary roach lady.

She's really funny and she doesn't hesitate to, uh, get involved in research herself. Her husband deserves a gold medal.

I loved Stiff, btw.

Apparently she also wrote one about ghosts or something called Spook, but I haven't read that one.

ok this woman is going on my summer reading list

Yes, A. kept walking around the house reading Bonk and laughing and raving about it... meanwhile, I had to read Dimensional Analysis for Meds. Bonk was at therefore at the top of my list!

Good night... time for me to sleeeeeeeeep.

<3 to you all!

night, sara! sleep well!!!

lalo schifrin is such a badass

obviously the only appropriate follow up to watching this movie is to continue drinking and watch the running man

*(lalo schifrin not included)

<3 runnig man

i want to make sure that everyone is aware that the dance sequences in the running man were choreographed by PAULA ABDUL

I didn't know that, but it doesn't surprise me to be brutally honest.

also, had forgotten about mick fleetwood and dweezil zappa in semi-important roles

There are dance sequences in The Running Man? Lord, my memory is shot to hell.

How is that going to even fit in my Netflix queue?

strange fact: dance "the running man" not featured in film "the running man"