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clevermanka) wrote2006-05-19 10:53 am
clevermanka) wrote2006-05-19 10:53 am
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The university is beginning an official investigation of the environmental conditions in Wescoe Hall. In the meantime, I'm going to bring some plants to the office. Word on the street is the CO2 levels are high and more plants certainly can't hurt. If anyone has an extra fern or whatever sitting around the house that you're not using, let me know. I'll give it a good home.
Thank you to all who came to Aladdin last night! Was great to see ya!
I think tonight I'm going to get slightly drunk while cleaning my apartment. That sounds like a mighty fine thing. I want to get a pegboard to hang my jewelry on so I will see and wear it more often. I've got necklaces in my traincase that I haven't worn in years.
I'm cleaning out some of my jewelry while I'm at it. Getting rid of a few mah jong bracelets. Eighteen is just a silly number of mah jong bracelets to own. That's not counting the dice, domino, and backgammon tile bracelets. No, that's just mah jong. I'm getting rid of the bone, plastic, and bamboo ones. Keeping the bakelite and celluloid ones. They're going cheap, $5 or $10 each. I've already soldtwo three four five.
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thefridayfive
1. What type of mood are you generally in on a rainy day? Unless it's the third rainy day in a row, the weather doesn't affect my mood.
2. What are your favorite things to do when the weather is gloomy? Pretty much the same things I do when it's nice. Thanks to allergies and sensitivity to sun, I don't spend a lot of time outdoors.
3. Have you ever been kissed in the rain? WTF? On purpose? No. I have enough sense to come in out of the rain. It looked sexy as hell in Spiderman, but in reality: Ew.
4. After the rain stops, do you continue what you were doing, or do you run outside to do something else? I don't go outside much at all.
5. What is your favorite drink/food to have when it's raining outside? Same as when it's sunny: red wine or coffee. Red wine followed by coffee. Sangria and iced coffee in the summer. Wine. Coffee.
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Uninteresting to me today. Pass.
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altfridayfive makes up for it, though:
May is Masturbation Month! Look for a local Masturbate-a-thon in your area! (Or just have one of your own!)
1. How often do you masturbate? As often as I like, thanks.
2. Do you need or prefer external stimulation (movies, pictures, stories, etc.)? Do you need or prefer to fantasize? I like to read. Pictures and movies leave me cold. The pictures in my brain are plenty.
3. Are there any objects that you need or prefer to use to masturbate (dildos, lube, etc.)? Any recommendations or warnings? Blue Dolphin! Blue Dolphin! But usually my hands are sufficient.
4. How old were you when you first discovered (or re-discovered) masturbation? Old. Really old. College.
5. What are your feelings, thoughts, or attitudes about masturbation? Is it a good thing? A bad thing? Something you are embarrassed to talk about, or not? It's fine, it's healthy, maybe not everyone's thing, but whatever. I certainly would rather have sex with someone else, but sometimes that's not an option. If I was embarrassed to talk about it, I wouldn't be answering the questions.
Thank you to all who came to Aladdin last night! Was great to see ya!
I think tonight I'm going to get slightly drunk while cleaning my apartment. That sounds like a mighty fine thing. I want to get a pegboard to hang my jewelry on so I will see and wear it more often. I've got necklaces in my traincase that I haven't worn in years.
I'm cleaning out some of my jewelry while I'm at it. Getting rid of a few mah jong bracelets. Eighteen is just a silly number of mah jong bracelets to own. That's not counting the dice, domino, and backgammon tile bracelets. No, that's just mah jong. I'm getting rid of the bone, plastic, and bamboo ones. Keeping the bakelite and celluloid ones. They're going cheap, $5 or $10 each. I've already sold
thefridayfive1. What type of mood are you generally in on a rainy day? Unless it's the third rainy day in a row, the weather doesn't affect my mood.
2. What are your favorite things to do when the weather is gloomy? Pretty much the same things I do when it's nice. Thanks to allergies and sensitivity to sun, I don't spend a lot of time outdoors.
3. Have you ever been kissed in the rain? WTF? On purpose? No. I have enough sense to come in out of the rain. It looked sexy as hell in Spiderman, but in reality: Ew.
4. After the rain stops, do you continue what you were doing, or do you run outside to do something else? I don't go outside much at all.
5. What is your favorite drink/food to have when it's raining outside? Same as when it's sunny: red wine or coffee. Red wine followed by coffee. Sangria and iced coffee in the summer. Wine. Coffee.
fridayfiverUninteresting to me today. Pass.
An amusing
altfridayfive makes up for it, though:May is Masturbation Month! Look for a local Masturbate-a-thon in your area! (Or just have one of your own!)
1. How often do you masturbate? As often as I like, thanks.
2. Do you need or prefer external stimulation (movies, pictures, stories, etc.)? Do you need or prefer to fantasize? I like to read. Pictures and movies leave me cold. The pictures in my brain are plenty.
3. Are there any objects that you need or prefer to use to masturbate (dildos, lube, etc.)? Any recommendations or warnings? Blue Dolphin! Blue Dolphin! But usually my hands are sufficient.
4. How old were you when you first discovered (or re-discovered) masturbation? Old. Really old. College.
5. What are your feelings, thoughts, or attitudes about masturbation? Is it a good thing? A bad thing? Something you are embarrassed to talk about, or not? It's fine, it's healthy, maybe not everyone's thing, but whatever. I certainly would rather have sex with someone else, but sometimes that's not an option. If I was embarrassed to talk about it, I wouldn't be answering the questions.
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omg *droool*
That. Sounds. So. Good.
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Down Under, too
Australian University Closes 2 Floors of Building After Cancer Scare
By DAVID COHEN <mailto:dcohen@xtra.co.nz>
Wellington, New Zealand
An Australian university has evacuated the top two floors of one of its major buildings in response to a cancer scare, after reports that seven academic staff members who had worked on those floors had been diagnosed with brain tumors.
The decision, which will directly affect more than 2,000 students and 600 employees, was made last week by RMIT University, in Melbourne, to allow an independent investigation into the cluster of illnesses in the building, which houses the university's business school.
The university was notified of five of the tumor diagnoses during the past month; the other two date from 1999 and 2001.
No other information about the cases, including the positions held by the employees, has been publicly released. The university, formerly known as the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, is among Australia's largest drawing cards for international students and employs hundreds of foreign-born academics.
A spokesman for the institution confirmed this week that two of the sickened employees -- both of them Australian nationals -- had been diagnosed with malignant tumors. The university would not comment on newspaper reports that at least one of them was terminally ill.
Australia's major academic association, the National Tertiary Education Union, which pushed for the independent inquiry, believes the apparent outbreak of cases within the same area was "much more than coincidence," said Matthew McGowan, a regional official for the union.
The union has called <http://www.nteu.org.au/news/current/13905> for investigators to examine the close proximity of the building's rooftop telecommunications towers to the floors in which the stricken employees worked as one possible explanation for the cancer scare.
"There's a connection here that deserves close investigation," said Mr. McGowan.
The university does not believe there is any scientific basis to draw a link between the towers and the incidence of tumors. Nevertheless, it has agreed that the inquiry will test the building's radio-frequency radiation levels near the telephone towers, along with any volatile organic compounds, and water and biological quality. The inquiry is expected to be completed later next week.
In a statement <http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;id=sxgie3zfxva3;status=a?qry=gall&stype=entire> released on Tuesday, the university said it had been heartened by the investigation's preliminary results showing no "obvious link between the tumors detected and any specific environmental hazard."
It has set up a telephone help line <http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;id=1mg6vk5ujzdc> where students and employees may seek more information.
Copyright © 2006 by The Chronicle of Higher Education </>
college is old?
Re: Down Under, too
Re: college is old?
I suppose...
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