Whimsically Human

Donating blood

2009-10-09T16:16:18Z

ladynine Posted about this the other day and after some thought I'm passing it along.

I know that some of you on my friends list can't donate blood for one reason or another - but what about the rest of you? They've recently changed the rules on tattoo and piercing exclusions so that if you got one in a state-regulated shop you're good to go. There are 32 states that regulate, Oregon is one of them!

I also just signed up to be a marrow donor; I'm now waiting on my tissue typing kit. The only reason I hadn't joined before now is that I hadn't gotten around to checking how to go about it. Here's the link to where you can sign up: http://www.marrow.org/ (Just in case you are like me about getting around to things :)

In other news life is still damn good here - though I'm already about 300 pages of reading behind in school. Going to be a long weekend ;p

I which I prove I have actually been doing something with my time.

2009-09-11T05:56:45Z

I've been making jewelry again and I finally got the fall stuff uploaded!

The Trees Stand

a wind has blown the rain away and blown
the sky away and all the leaves away,
and the trees stand. I think i too have known
autumn too long

(and what have you to say,
wind wind wind—did you love somebody
and have you the petal of somewhere in your heart
pinched from dumb summer?
O crazy daddy
of death dance cruelly for us and start

the last leaf whirling in the final brain
of air!)Let us as we have seen see
doom’s integration………a wind has blown the rain

away and the leaves and the sky and the
trees stand:
the trees stand. The trees,
suddenly wait against the moon’s face.

e.e cummings

You'll have to excuse the poor picture placement past the cut. html and I are not friends.

If I were a bird I & II

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."

~George Eliot (pen name of Mary Anne Evans)

Harvest Eve

The rest are over here.

Rock star party...

2009-07-07T07:15:37Z

So I finally got around to uploading these. They're from a party one of Rob's friends threw - the theme was come as a rock star...
http://picasaweb.google.com/dragoncoral/RockstarParty?authkey=Gv1sRgCKzwyKOCi6mzZA#

I haz more than one :)

2009-06-19T04:42:07Z

If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

Check this out...

2009-05-17T05:30:43Z

Really. I mean it.

BAWTOF #17

2009-05-06T04:58:36Z

I've been getting questions and today I *finally* got something official from John. Mark off May 29th. might as well toss in the 30th for recovery, you'll probably need it :)

WHAT: The 17th Bi-Annual World Tour of Funk. Your favorite charitable night of drunken semi-anonymous escapades through the streets of Northwest Portland . With t-shirts and nametags.

After months of public debate, this year’s BAWTOF will not be a Team Competition. The past 4 years of organized team shenanigans has been nothing short of epic, but the BAWTOF Ethics Committee’s year-long investigation in to last year’s competition has put a temporary stop to the format. However- non-sanctioned organization of drinking clubs and individual stupidity is still highly encouraged. After all, what would BAWTOF be without blasphemous clergy impersonators, fake weddings, space pirates, pseudo-celebrities, serial killers, freelance amateur prostitutes, and public nudity? I shudder to think…

WHEN: Friday, May 29th. Later than usual- to avoid a holiday weekend and to improve our chances of good weather. In related event news, Ben Folds will be playing Portland on May 15th. No word on whether or not Fauxby Moby (ZDDY) will be making a triumphant return to the Casio keyboard or not, but there’s always a chance.

WHERE: Northwest Portland, as usual. The officially sanctioned itinerary will be published after final negotiations with our faithful sponsor (Pabst) and hearings with the Portland City Council.

WHO: Charitable drunks, happy drunks, fun drunks, yearbook drunks, sake bomb enthusiasts, dudes with ironic facial hair, faithful contributors to www.textsfromlastnight.com, women with unfortunate facial hair, animatronic monkeys, and even the obligatory kind non-drunks. We try to keep this event as d-bag free as possible, so if your idea of a good time is to pick fights and threaten to bite people’s noses off……this ain’t your cup of tea.

WHY: Face it… you need an excuse to drink with friends and strangers on a Friday night like Chuck Bass needs an excuse to wear an ascot and yellow pants. But….. never fear- just because the team competition is gone doesn’t mean we stopped raising money for charity (Cystic Fibrosis). We are still selling tees and taking donations. BAWTOF’s Global Creative Director (THOR) came up with a gem of a tee design this year. And for the first time since BAWTOF 7, they are black tees! You can check out the design on the BAWTOF Facebook page (search BAWTOF 17) or on the donation page.

Purchasing tees is easy- all you need to do is donate $20 (or more) to our CF Great Strides team- via the website: (http://www.cff.org/great_strides/JohnNaekel)- and put your t-shirt size(s) in the comments field. I’ll get you your tees as soon as they are available. Or feel free to make a check out to the CF Foundation. I’ll help you with company matching, as well.

24 days until BAWTOF 17…..( To quote Winger: “she’s only 17. Daddy says she’s too young, but she’s old enough for me”. I’m generally not one to compare pub crawls to 80’s hair metal songs openly dedicated to inappropriate love with underage girls, but I find it impossible to keep this song out of my head any time I hear the word “seventeen”. If you have a spare moment, I encourage you to bathe in the greatness that is Kip Winger and his ridiculous tank top: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlN3oEjMpUQ)

Stay tuned,
John Wayne Naeke
Chairman/Founder
The Bi-Annual World Tour of Funk

PS- Why CF? Most of you know, but some of you don't. Here's the short version of the story:

Brian "Homey" Craig was my best friend and roommate, as well as a BAWTOF legend from its early inception. Brian lived with CF since birth, finally claiming his life in September of 2003. Brian was 26. Since then, the Spring edition of BAWTOF has been dedicated to raising money for Cf's Great Strides event in the name of Homey. In our first effort (BAWTOF 7), we were able to contribute roughly $650 to the cause. To date, BAWTOF has raised over $15,000 for CF.

If you want to learn more about Cystic Fibrosis, and the Foundation, go to www.cff.org. It's a disease that everyone should be aware of, particularly anyone planning on starting a family. Ask your Doctor about being tested for the CF gene- and learn the facts. And please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any other questions about the CF Foundation or if you're interested in getting more involved.

In other news I am about half unpacked and currently freaking about about the school projects I have 4-ish weeks to finish. Holy Shit Y'All.

hate

2009-03-24T23:05:22Z

OMFG So, appointment Friday. I got the new patient stuff in the mail but it contains no instructions for preparation for the LEEP. I just called to find out what I should do/not do before the appointment. They don't have my records (my clinic faxed them on the 18th, I just checked) and they also *can't* give me instructions because this is my first time at their clinic. Apparently that counts as dispensing medical advice to someone who isn't their patient. The appointment on Friday is a new patient appointment and I may or may not actually get what I need done done that day. And they can't tell me anything about anything that I *need* to know.

I HATE THE FUCKED UP MEDICAL INDUSTRY WE HAVE IN THIS COUNTRY AND I HATE MORE THAT DOCTORS HAVE TO BE SO PARANOID ABOUT MALPRACTICE THAT THEY CAN'T DO THEIR JOBS.

Drop

2009-03-19T20:56:10Z

Thinking about the amount of reading I was looking at next term was making me vaguely nauseous. So I dropped the 300 level english course that required 9 books and am breathing a little easier. I seriously Did Not Want to read Homer again anyway. It means I'll be taking summer session but I'm going to have a lot of time to myself this summer anyway so it seems a good trade.

omg

2009-02-18T01:23:26Z

There a big fire festival in Japan every year. This is omg worthy for me for three reasons; I love fire, and want to visit Japan. Can anyone name the third reason? For a near give-away hint I will tell you that the answer is in fact a name :)

dragon_mintz @ 2009-02-09T17:23:00

2009-02-10T01:23:11Z

Flight of the Conchords is playing the Schnitz on May 14 :) But the tickets are nearly $40 :(

*grumblegrumblesigh*

dies laughing

2009-02-05T17:01:14Z

Just in case you missed it.

2009-01-20T19:24:58Z

This is well worth watching instead of just reading the transcript.

I'm going to keep my fingers crossed for all of us. And I'm going to figure out what I can do with my empty Fridays... I need to volunteer somewhere. Suggestions?

Did I miss a memo?

2009-01-19T21:03:01Z

I occasionally listen to right wing radio for a few minutes just to get an idea of what's going on over there. Last night there was some guy *still* harping on how Obama wasn't born here and has "refused to produce' his birth certificate - so obviously he doesn't have one. That's a bald-faced lie but EVEN IF IT WERE TRUE it ignores the fact that all it takes to be a natural born citizen is for ONE of your parents to be a citizen. IT DOES NOT MATTER WHERE ON THIS EARTH YOU WERE ACTUALLY BORN. No one has disputed that his mother was a Kansas born citizen of this country - not even the rabid right wing - so how is it that they get off harping on this in the first place? Aren't they the true patriots? The only ones who really know the constitution and the way this country is meant to work? Shouldn't they therefore know they're making utter asses of themselves in a way that is totally indefensible? Surely they're not *all* wandering around in an opiate and hate induced haze.

How the FUCK do these people manage to stick around and how the FUCK did they EVER get into power?

*brought to you by IamCoral'stotalimpatiencewithidiocy.com*

omg!

2009-01-02T05:12:12Z

My little brother got engaged last night! And his fiance is a wonderful woman whom I actually really like.

dragon_mintz @ 2008-12-22T23:59:00

2008-12-23T07:59:50Z

So we made it down to San Jose after a lot of strange and fortuitous things came together. After Rob (who is officially my hero today) drove all the way out to Hillsboro to get me Our flight out got canceled about 5 minutes before we made it to the front of the line to check in. The line we'd been standing in for well over an hour. I let Rob deal with it because my cranky factor kicked in a little at that point and I was in no mood to be nice. He was kind and understanding with the woman at the counter and after trying 15 different ways to get us seats to the Bay area she finally found two seats for us - PDX to seattle to Oakland. Counter intuitive but what the hell - it was a way down so we took it. The flight to Seattle was delayed 2 hours, then delayed 2 more hours - and then canceled. As we were heading up to the counter to find out what, if anything, to try next they were calling final boarding for a flight to Oakland that had been totally full when we first checked in. They were calling several names along with the announcement so we figured there must have been people who hadn't made the flight. Rob somehow managed to get the attention of one of the people at the counter to ask if that was the case and then managed to get us switched and less than five minutes after our Seattle flight was canceled we were rushing out to catch the plane. We literally got the last two seats and his mom drove the hour to Oakland to pick us up.

The downside, our luggage had no chance of making it, so we've made a small trip to target for necessities and are crossing our fingers that the luggage makes it tomorrow. But given the alternative of still being among those trying to find a flight out I'd take this one every time. especially since there was yet another storm forecasted to come in to Portland overnight.

So in short, we made it :) And just in case I'm not back on here before then - Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and have a wonderful holiday however you choose to celebrate it. *HUGS*

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2008-12-01T23:21:17Z

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Something sweet

2008-11-27T08:33:06Z

I just got done watching the Barbara Walters interview with the Obama's and I only have two things to say... Thank all the gods that we've got two very intelligent people moving in to the White House and it makes me grin to see how Michelle and Barack interact. They are the sweetest couple and it's awesome that we'll have that kind of an example of how relationships *can* be in such a visible place.

Shiny + gamer =

2008-11-27T01:17:59Z

From the listing:
This band binds on pick up but equipping it does not increase game playing skills =0).
(Oh, and by the way- FOR THE HORDE!)

It's listed here, just to give credit where it's due :)

O.O

2008-11-19T06:59:51Z

Abney Park is playing The Edison again. On New Year's Eve. Why oh why does The Edison have to be in LA?

Weekend photo post!

2008-11-10T07:28:38Z

Rob and I took off for Lincoln City this weekend for his friend Mike's birthday. Getting away for a couple days was wonderful - it helps a lot that so far I actually like 99% of his friends. We took a walk down to the beach Yesterday afternoon and I got a few good shots - even got a good one of him while he wasn't looking, :) it's under the cut and there are a few more good ones in the album.

From the beach outside of Lincoln City.

From Mike's Birthday/Beach

In other news I should find out more about the possible school option in the morning.

dragon_mintz @ 2008-11-07T03:55:00

2008-11-07T11:55:40Z

Happy Birthday underthethrow!!!

I hope this next year is everything you want it to be.

Progress!

2008-11-07T01:22:21Z

Finally making some headway in terms of knowing what I need to do next. Found the actual text of the WIA act(?) and form there got a lot more information. Turns out the reason I couldn't find the place I was supposed to go or a list of programs was because I didn't have the right *name* for them. The place I need to go opens at 8am tomorrow. I'll be there.

Also, Jeff Merkley(D) won the senate race against Gordon Smith(R).

Something I feel I must say.

2008-11-05T20:20:44Z

Alaska, you fuckers deserve what you get. Either you weren't paying any attention or you just intentionally sent a convicted felon (convicted on *corruption* charges no less) back to the Senate. In either case I have zero respect for you as an electorate.

In other news - it finally felt real to me this morning. And damn it's hard to drive when you're crying like Jesse Jackson on election night ;p

omfg

2008-11-05T06:24:49Z

It's over! We've won by a wide enough margin that there was no way on earth they could steal it again.

Time to get shit done!!!

And now I'm off to drag my boyfriend to bed ;p

dragon_mintz @ 2008-11-04T15:05:00

2008-11-04T23:06:04Z

I'm about to leave for Rob's place where I"ll continue to be twitchy and anxious until this thing is officially over. If you haven't voted yet get your ass out there! And if you have then you can join me with crossed fingers and prayer.

Unless the Universe is more cruel than I believe it to be in less than 24 hours we'll know that hope trumps fear and that there is a chance we're going to be ok.