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| Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 | | 7:49 am |
Once again, the summer is here and I don't have to be around for a while. So, why not thrust myself into yet another unfamiliar stressful environment and see how freaked out and depressed it'll make me this time around! Poll #1406437 where to?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: Alla month in: Also, i was way too half-assed to make any birthday plan. (I really thought I'd be out of the country by this point, but I'm still here, dammit.) In spite of my lack of planning, the birthday still arrived...so come over to my house and we'll build towers out of legos together. Except I don't have any legos, so bring them with you. Also my room flooded again so we can't have sex in there, sorry.(Whoa, shouldn't have told you that, there goes any motivation you might have had to actually come over here.) Seriously though, apparently one of my roommates is going to make a cake. Anyway if you're at all interested in coming over or celebrating elsewise take the poll or leave a comment, I'll check them when I wake up on the couch in the late afternoon, and then, seeing the emptiness, drown my sorrow in an ill-conceived internet dating encounter. Poll #1406443 tonight
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: Alllet's meet up somewhere | | 6:59 am |
| | Monday, January 26th, 2009 | | 1:41 am |
| | Monday, December 22nd, 2008 | | 4:47 am |
Four rooms in College Park for about $400-$500 each
Our evil roommate is officially moving out, and now it's just me, Radha, and four empty rooms. 5001 Odessa Road College Park, MD 20740 It's a 15-20 minutes walk to Greenbelt metro. Less than a minute drive to the intersection of 95 and 495. Lots of street parking, washer/dryer, cable... | | Thursday, August 21st, 2008 | | 3:11 pm |
post-Madrid syndrome; SpaWorld!
Whereas in Madrid all I did was to go out all the time, now that I'm back I feel like I just want to sit at home and work on my projects (improving in singing, Hebrew, Spanish, and linguistics), with the help of various websites and gadgets. I'm not sure whether to give in to this mood or to consider it unhealthily antisocial and try to go out in spite of myself. Paradoxically, I simultaneously want to recapture the Madrid mystique, without having to fly there again. Where is that US city where, when you walk out into the street or other public place, you see people randomly singing and dancing, and someone hands you a beer? Poll #1245944 Madrid-like cities in the U.S.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllWhere is the next Madrid? For a completely different world that is neither Madrid nor U.S., I have recently discovered SpaWorld in Centreville, VA. It is one of the three largest Korean bathhouses in the U.S., constructed at a cost of 15 million dollars, and features ( Read more... ) http://www.spaworldusa.com/ | | Friday, August 8th, 2008 | | 1:19 am |
new address in DC
5001 Odessa Rd College Park, MD 20740 Still got the place in NYC available, not sure about when I'll phase it out. | | Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 | | 3:42 am |
party - good, communist - bad
Well, after getting my connectivity and food needs met, and somewhat getting over the constant touching, I started to like this place a whole lot better. In fact, I have completely fallen in love with the street life, and rather spoiled in that I pretty much expect people to be partying in the street at all hours, so much that I'm not sure how I'll readjust to the United States. Last night was the best one so far - dozens of people dancing until dawn to an improv jam session of flute, drums and guitar. ( Read more... )(The atmosphere of festive shiftlessness may be due to the fact that I live in Lavapies, which is considered by everyone to be the worst, ghettoest neighborghood of Madrid.) At this point, my top peeve about this place is how much people here hate capitalism as practiced in the United States. ( Read more... ) when they say that they don't like how in America people work really hard, work a lot of hours, and consume a lot, I just want to shake them. So, to summarize, tomorrow I am returning to a place of less partying and more capitalism! | | Thursday, July 31st, 2008 | | 12:04 am |
in order of likelihood of future regret
This place is still being pretty trippy. I'm going to stay here an extra week and run out the full 30 days I have in an effort to figure it out...meaning I'll miss Assateague. In further flakiness: I got a new name here: "Esve"! I really like it! I want to keep it! Or maybe "Esvi" would be easier to explain in the United States. But I like "Esve" better. This would just be for new people meeting me, kind of like when I tried to overhaul from "Lana" to "Svetlana". It's time for a poll: Poll #1232605 Name options
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllWell? In other horrible decisions, I want to get a tattoo. Of a fetal skeleton. On my belly. On one hand I realize this is a really bad idea; on the other hand I am absolutely in love with the image. When I saw it on someone's T-shirt I craved a tattoo for the first time in my life. That was two weeks ago, and I still want it :/ Yes, that doesn't mean I'll want it for the next 80 years. For some reason I got this notion it'll be one of those that age well - every wrinkle and sag I get will emphasize the message of mortality. OK, stop rolling your eyes and verbalize your feelings of disapproval. | | Thursday, July 17th, 2008 | | 10:09 pm |
my inner yankee triumphs over my inner Gogol Bordello
Now I realize how comfortably US-like Chile and Israel were. Here I feel like a horrendous yankee gringa. In good news, before coming here, I thought that the US was doomed and that the euro was going to kick the dollar's ass. Now, looking at this freakshow up close, I have faith that the good ole US of A will triumph over this mess. To sum up the culture shock, I will describe my first encounter with Madrid. Awakening from my first post-flight nap at 2 A.M., I venture out of the hostel to find something to eat. There is nothing, nothing edible in sight. I start asking passerbys...and suddenly see a group of people, two playing guitars, them and two more singing, about a dozen dancing. Just so, in the middle of the street. One of the ladies, who looks like she's past 60, grabs me by the arm, gives me a sip of her beer, and starts whirling me about in a dance. ( Read more... )In summary, here's what I want to say to these people: put down your guitar/beer/joint for just a minute and make me some fries/sell me a phone/install my internet, please! And quit effing touching me. Yes, I realize this makes me sound like a totally cranky, grumpy, unfun bitch. Gogol Bordello would be deeply ashamed of me. | | Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 | | 7:23 pm |
The appropriately numbered FAQ #69 of LJ
States that "You can neither add a new poll to an existing entry nor edit a poll after it has been added to an entry" So, I'm creating the obligatory poem poll here Poll #1220633 Obligatory poem poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllIt's that time again | | 6:22 pm |
a surprise Gogol Bordello appearance on the way to Madrid inspires more poetry
WTF, I thought I'd never see any of these people again, but by sheer coincidence I just shared the flight on the NYC-Dublin leg of my Washington-Madrid junket with a third of the band and crew (the one I was into wasn't there though). They were going NYC-Lisbon. What the heck were the chances of our schedules coinciding like that? Damn...just when I thought I was through with this band, something this unlikely and random happens. Out of all the international flights in the world, they had to walk into mine. Homer: "It's a sign! It's an omen!" Bart: "It's a coincidence, Dad." This experience, however, has inspired me to write yet another poem. Thanks, entropicalia and co, for giving me the idea to buy this thing. I got a new toy the other day, The kind you don't talk about. I got a new toy the other day, I wanted to try it out. ( Read more... )This attitude might not get me far, if there's more to life than this: New toy, new car, or new guitar, And someone to try it with. Due to some LJ quirk I haven't been able to figure out, the poll for this poem is in the next entry. | | Monday, July 7th, 2008 | | 7:52 pm |
better two weeks late than never
Finally, bought my ticket to Madrid today, leaving tomorrow. Definitely coming back within 30 days leaving of US, by Aug 7. Very very likely coming back sometime before the Assateague camping August 1. Perhaps coming back before Solnyshko music festival July 25. If things suck, coming back as soon as my friend from Chile leaves Madrid July 16. This trip should definitely go better than the last one, since it can't possibly go worse. Also, I finally paid those roommates that were slow in replacing me, in full, for what I owed them. Go me! | | Friday, June 27th, 2008 | | 1:38 pm |
| | Friday, May 30th, 2008 | | 5:18 pm |
finally back in the states...and about to drive to upstate NY
That's right, I made it out of Tel Aviv, via a stopover in Istanbul, and am currently in my apartment in Brooklyn, repacking my stuff because I'm about to drive to upstate New York for the Echo Russian music festival. Hopefully the sleep I got on the flight will get me through a nonstop weekend of camping, music, and hanging out. Then Monday (or whenever I wake up) I'll head south to DC and Baltimore land. Unrelated: written Turkish creeps me out. It just seems that such non-Latin words should *not* be spelled with Latin characters. Or perhaps just the whole cosmopolitan port-city feel of the Istanbul airport is too European for my Americanized tastes. | | Sunday, May 25th, 2008 | | 6:35 pm |
| | Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 | | 8:48 am |
and you thought the TSA was intense! this is as ranty as this LJ gets
So, I have spectacularly failed to get anywhere today. Apparently, I look suspicious, my pathetic story of why I'm trying to learn Hebrew and why I'm in Israel at all sounds suspicious, my ticket-buying habits are suspicious, my stuff is suspicious, my roommates are suspicious, and the congregation I belong to in DC is extremely suspicious, too. ( Read more... )Then, apparently, my computer was so suspicious that it needed further investigation, and would be sent on a later flight, likely on Saturday. ( Read more... )- I can declare that I have no intention of flying on this airline now or any time in the future. That is! For the low low price of throwing a $850 ticket in the trash, I got to walk out of the airport with my delightfully uninspected computer. ( Read more... )In summary, I am not in the US and don't know when I will be. ( Read more... )EDIT: My story of why I'm in Israel *does* in fact sound ridiculously implausible, and my congregation *is* extremely left-wing. And I was wearing pants with many pockets. And I was carrying hair conditioner and some such crap that wasn't mine but for my roommate. So my problem is not with the airport security, who I feel acted reasonably and competently in this situation, but rather with the airline staff rescheduling idea of "you and your stuff will be sent back on different, random flights at some point in the future ( Read more... ) Current Music: Vysotsky - Moskva Odessa; Rozenbaum - Manja; Violent Femmes - Give Me The Car | | Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 | | 9:04 am |
birthday
This lousy trip, which seems to be finally at an end, is making me kind of feel unwell about New York as well - the process of sitting around trying to make myself get used to a place I just don't like, trying to learn a language and failing... I'm not sure how symbolic it would be to spend or not spend my birthday Tuesday the 27th in NYC - I think I'd prefer to celebrate in DC...perhaps even this weekend, even though I don't want to conflict with Beth's birthday craziness... I no longer have a place in DC-land, so...perhaps a picnic? Or some event like a concert or festival that's already going to happen anyway? Opinions on the matter? Sorry about the short notice. Poll #1191469 birthday ideas
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: Allwhat do you think of the following? | | 8:34 am |
| | Sunday, May 18th, 2008 | | 1:47 am |
from bad to worse
( Read more... )This is like getting Gremlins wet after midnight, or however many movies I misquoted there... Things that might seem cute at first become disgusting and increase in number. Take me as you will I'm more than just a pill ( Read more... )I'm bad for you, said someone A long long time ago Printed in ink Sent as a link To prove I told you so ( Read more... )Poll #1189712 Criticize, please In comments, as well
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllOnce again, your opinion, not that of your high school English teacher | | Friday, May 16th, 2008 | | 9:20 pm |
Can we talk on AIM/MSN/Yahoo/ICQ/Skype/gmail messenger, please?
As yall have already noticed, I am doing a shit job of keeping up with LJ. ( Read more... )I am CityOfSpheres on all of them (at hotmail, on MSN, and just plain old CityOfSpheres on AIM/Yahoo/Skype/ICQ, and I'll even log into gmail, just for you). Feel free to tell me your preferred chat program and even your name on it, in a comment. Comments are screened. Did I mention this place is making me feel severely in need of distraction? That, too. Help... |
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