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things i won't be doing any christmas..

there's the HUGE lindy hop event the week between christmas and new years. everyone in the world* is going and they're all rabid about it on facebook.

whoa.

let me just affirm, here today in front of everyone, that you will never catch me at a dance event at the holidays. i don't know if i was raised that way, or if it's just born in me, but i think the holidays are meant to be celebrated with the people you love most...! when i hear about the whole world going to some dance event I think:

a) is your life SO UTTERLY EMPTY, that you care more about Lindy Hop and Lindy Hoppers than anyone else in the WORLD?

or

b) are you just so lucky, able to spend so much quality time with your family that you can spare the crucial holiday time?

or

c) maybe you're not a christmas celebrator.

a) makes me sad. b) makes me jealous. and c).. is just c. C is really the only one that makes sense, i guess.

As long as there is blood in my body, and people left in my life left to love, you will not find me at a dance event at the holidays. In fact, if you do see me at a dance event at christmastime, or new years, it's probably because everything in my life has fallen apart, and i'm just looking for any spark in life to keep me from ending it all.

in those cases, best not to ask questions.

Merry christmas! or: dreams of cutting people open. Surgery dolls!

SO this morning I woke up at 6 am to an alarm clock, because i had to do something quickly for work... 10 minutes later i was back in bed and HERE IS THE GOOD PART...

I began having the most fantastic and vivid Sci Fi dream, about a compound housing 'surgery dolls' (mad props here to Fox's Dollhouse).. where humans were kept for practicing new and difficult surgeries. back surgeries, knee surgeries, plastic surgeries, etc. And this they do willingly, only because their brains were manipulated to submit willingly, and more, to keep on loving and valuing themselves even after they've become utterly scarred and hideous from the repeated incisions. So they wouldn't give up. you have to want to live.. for the wounds to heal properly.

...and so I slept til 9. then fiance' and the cat came to wake me up and we had some christmas...

but that's another post.

Happy Holidays!

Team Vox
6 days ago
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Happy Holidays to you, your family, friends and neighbors from all of us at Vox.
See you in 2010!

i don't have time for anything that's not changing my headlight or sleeping.. but..

...but.... I would like to take this opportunity to celebrate my TWO NEW NEIGHBORS! who added ME, making me feel both Important and a little Self-Conscious (sorry about the mess... I've been.. away...)

My Two New Neighbors are REAL PEOPLE! they are not trying to sell me Christian Louboutin or Louis Vuitton, or get me to watch their webcam! their posts are frequent, and have REAL EVENTS and pictures in them!

So vox isn't dead, after all! Thanks new neighbors, for restoring my faith in the little blog site that could. I look forward to reading your adventures, and not being sold shoes or soft porn.

:)

QotD: Starting from Scratch

Alex
Dec 18, 2009
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What would it take to get you to start a new life on a new world?
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Nothing short of a catastrophic natural or political disaster. The vast majority of my ancestors were not explorers; they were refugees, in a sense. They fled poverty, hunger, and religious persecution. I couldn't leave my home for anything less than that, either.

QotD: The Worst Book Ever

Alex
Dec 16, 2009
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What's the worst book you've ever read?

If a book is really, really crappy I will put it down. Crappy as in bad prose and a boring plot. So "worst" to me means books that I have read all the way through and still hated. Wuthering Heights is definitely up there. I hated all the characters. I mean, really loathed them. I wanted them all to die horrible deaths. Heart of Darkness gets the prize for most boring book. It wasn't very long, but good heavens was it tedious.

QotD: Friends for a Day

Alex
Dec 14, 2009
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If you could hang out with any movie character for a day, whom would you choose as your sidekick?
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Listen, "Avatar Community", if I get to hang out with any movie character I choose, I'm gonna pick a leading man, not a sidekick. Let's be real.

If I had to pick a sidekick specifically, you can't go wrong with a wizard, elf, Dunedin, or a stouthearted hobbit, could you?

QotD: My Favorite Movie Quote

Alex
Dec 14, 2009
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What’s your favorite movie quote of all time?
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Perhaps not of all time, but certainly of Christmas time:

"Fra-GEE-lay....must be Italian!"

Followed very closely by:

"Merry Christmas, Bedford Falls!"

QotD: The One Movie Everyone Should See

Alex
Dec 14, 2009
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What one film do you think everyone should see?
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Oh lord, so many. Right now I'm in the mood for The Fugitive, though, so I'll go with that one.

"Care to revise your statement, sir?"

"What?"

"Do you want to change you bullshit story, sir?"

now i lay me down...

I like falling asleep, but i hate 'going' to sleep. falling asleep means i'm tired and comfortable, and i've found myself laying flat somewhere with time to sleep. falling asleep usually happens on the couch, on my fiance's lap, or in bed on top of a book. falling asleep always happens ON something.

Going to sleep is when I'm not really tired, but I head to bed because I should.. because i have to be up at some ridiculous hour, or i should be tired and i'm not.. Going to sleep is a drag. it feels like a waste of time. it feels like I should be up watching Hulu, or wrapping presents, or studying, or doing any of a thousand things I never find time to do in daylight. Going to sleep feels like giving up.

Lately, going to sleep has also involved my deranged brain conjuring up every possible painful scenario imaginable between now and forever. I've imagined the death, disability, dismemberment of everyone i love. I've seen myself with diseases, unemployed, dumped, childless, alone and lonely on my deathbed. I've imagined the deaths of pets I don't even have yet. No matter how I try to trick myself into thinking about something else, within a minute it always wraps back around to the many horrible things i will undoubtedly experience.. probably tomorrow or the next day. It takes hours, hours, to finally, blessedly, fall asleep.

i haven't always been this way. I don't know when it started or if it will end. is the whole world like this? what do you think about before you drift off?

tell me a happy story.