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Hey Ed I had to get a photo that no photobooth would could do. Where are you right now? If youre in the US go to Kinkos. I did and they just kept taking photos of me until we got the measurements excatly right. The photo being the wrong measurements/exposure/background color/face position is the number one reason applications get rejected

susan passport photos arent passport photo sizer anymore. theyre squae and there has to be an exactly amount of mm/inches from the top of your haed to the top of the frame, bottom of your face to the bottom of the frame and ditto for the sides

my typing is fantastic as usual today. you get the idea though.

ed, yes i had to get the 'special' US passport photo. but in nz a lot of the photo processing places do digital passport photos, and their software is set up with US passport specifications as an option, so it wasn't a problem.

Wow, my plan to flee the country to avoid this test has been complicated by photo passport sizing information. Dammit, you guys, can't you help me instead of hindering?! ;)

good luck, sara!

i am totally bummed out by this: http://tinyurl.com/69wgln
(currently pulling footage of him from a documentary for memorial use ;_; he was amazing.)

Wow, scarily similar to this: http://tinyurl.com/6e6zcj

J and I were in the chorus for this Falstaff production and yes, she was AMAZING.

omg i just got all misty watching him sing e la solita storia. this is heartbreaking.

i am having a bad bad day. :(

i haven't been around much recently because my girlfriend moved in with me temporarily (october and november) after her apartment situation went sour. and, frankly, i've been loving my life w/ her and not on ILX a lot.

we get along amazingly, and live totally compatibly, and it's the best happiest living situation i've ever had.

until yesterday. my lease is up on the first, and we'd planned on getting a place. but last night while we were sitting on the couch, she told me that she really wanted to get her own place. which was, like, a total blow. i've loved living together, planned on continuing it (we bought an advent calendar to hang in our future potential abode, and nearly a christmas tree) and things are otherwise wonderful. she made it clear she wasn't breaking up with me, that this was nothing to do w. me, etc., etc., that we could alternate nights at her place and mine, blah blah blah, and she was really suprised/upset at how bummed i was.

but it feels like a total shitty downgrade in status, and it's sorta making me question the relationship. as in: why do i want to be with somebody who doesn't want to live with me? i keep telling myself i'm overreacting, but ... i'm basically going from living in an awesome apartment with my rad girlfriend to a shitty bachelor pad alone, where my girlfriend may occasionally visit.

:((((

uh no, you have gone to having two places to live in based on where you go out at night

remy, i am not involved in your situation, but you have been in this situation a relatively short time, right? perhaps it was just a little too much too soon, which is not to say it won't eventually happen, but maybe just not this second. also, what hi dere said.

some ppl just prefer their own space, and it's nothing to do with the relationship dynamic. then there are those of us who are perfectly happy when we find someone to co-habit with - i'm like you, remy, me and j-dawg are perfect living companions and i never get tired of being round him, never need 'space' from him. he's the same, lucky for me, since i would have teh same reaction as you.

i doubt this enjoyment of living together is one-sided, so i really don't think you should worry too much about this right now. maybe she'll realise once she's in her own place how much she misses you.

:/

aww dude don't stress about it yet.. just roll with it and see how it goes for awhile.

some ppl just prefer their own space

I quite frankly can't emphasize this enough. Depending on the person, it's incredibly important.

yeah. stressing will only make it harder! (easier said than done, i know!)

remy, everyone else is absolutely right - I can see where you are coming from, but it probably is just that she's a "needs more of her own space" person. (I hide in my "office" in the downstairs of my house when I can't deal with my husband and kids, and I basically love to be around people all the time. Just would like a few weeks off sometimes!)

Btw, I passed my test (48/50!!!) and am done with that miserable class and also now half-way done with nursing school. Will officially be a "senior" when this year's graduates have their ceremony in December. Thanks for all your supportive comments/thoughts, ITR. You all rock!

Hurrah! Further success shall be yours.

Awwww, thanks! We started our new class tonight, which is basically OB/family health, and our new prof is hilarious. She told us that she had crashed her computer illicitly downloading episodes of Dexter, plus she yelled out "VAGINA" when she got to a slide of female anatomy. She should be entertaining.

FB yells out "VAGINA" during slide shows sometimes, but the proud new parents never seem to find it all that funny.

I'd invite him to come to class, but sadly our prof did specify that we could not have booze until after class was over. I just don't think FB would feel comfortable in that situation.

i am going to a show on weds that will make dan either lol or be envious or both

FESS UP, WHAT SHOW ARE YOU SEEING, IRISH?

(I'm asking on Dan's behalf, and will check back tomorrow a.m. after I sleep peacefully for the first time in months...

good night, all.)

another hint would be that ned will have the same reaction. and it isnt the cure. and i fear that the first avenue nightclub will not be strong enough to withstand the power of their mighty fog machines.

Congrats Sara! Not to say I told you so, but I told you so.

You are smarter than all this testing.

Yay Sara!

Remy, I'm sorry. It could be like someone else said that it was too much too soon for her. So take heart that it could change again in the future. But I do understand your feelings. I would be bummed to.

congrats sara!!! halfway done WOOOH!

Okay, I am absolutely freezing. I'd like to put on my gloves but that would make typing impossible. Really need to knit another Fetching. . .

I have a good fingerless pattern, although I never actually finished the second glove.

another hint would be that ned will have the same reaction

Hahah, I know exactly who it is now. But I gotta admit I'm just not thrilled by the idea of a show of theirs much now. (Though I was almost going to do a preview of it for the OC Weekly.)

SPILL IT

okay I was going to guess SISTERS OF MERCY but the website sez they're playing tonight

Are you sure you know what night yr show is?

xxpost. . .ah, the second sock syndrome.

I've done one Fetching but should probably try a different fingerless glove pattern to avoid boredom.

Typing with gloves on is actually working out well.

I did them in cheap yarn because I thought I would fuck up but failed to do so so now I am reluctant to finish but to start a new pair nice nice yarn.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2035/2246537107_33271accc1.jpg

That's the exact color I did the Fetching in. Debbie Bliss's Cashmerino Aran. One of my most favorite yarns.

God I love how double pointed needles look like some kind of insane medieval torture device.

Thanks for the support, guys. I promise to bandage all your future wounds. <3 <3 <3

John still hasn't fessed up to what band he's seeing? Weird. btw, someone told me last night at class that they had been to First Avenue over the weekend and it was CLEAN and even had a Corian countertop somewhere. I am having trouble processing this idea.

I had french fries for lunch. I feel so dirty now.

dan is right and this sisters of mercy tour date thing is troublesome. investigating...

further review of the current incarnation seems to push me pretty heavily towards the lol or maybe ._. reacton, maybe the best i can hope for (if i go, this may be a bad night for it) is o_O and ;_;

I refuse to allow anything to sully the memory of the '91 tour.

French fries!

John must go and offer a full report. Really, I insist.

FB's latest Twitter post suggests that he's going despite having what sounds like some kind of horrible respiratory infection. John please go and make sure he survives the night.

ha still so not on Twitter

I liked Twitter better when it had an "Election" page with all kinds of random election-related posts from all over the place. Now I apparently just use to to concern troll about FB's health.

guys i have to start work at 10:30pm tonight after working 8-5 today. WTF

wtf indeed!

i guess i should point out 8-5 was spent playing tomb raider II BUT STILL 10:30!?!?!

there was a 1/2 hour teleconference somewhere in there