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11-04-2006, 08:04 PM | #841 |
La Belle Dame sans Merci
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No comments on this, Saucie...
I assign my parents for um... understanding me.
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11-05-2006, 06:20 AM | #842 |
Everlasting Whiteness
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Better post quick so Sauce can't get in on that one!
I assign seeing friends again after a long parting and lunch out when you're not paying for it.
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11-05-2006, 09:24 AM | #843 | |
Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Chozo Ruins.
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Fast cross country courses.
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11-05-2006, 09:36 AM | #844 |
Shadowed Prince
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Thulcandra
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Making a kick-donkey assembly! And incorporating the song "I'm Holding out for a Hero."
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11-14-2006, 09:17 PM | #845 |
Wight
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Behind the hills
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Opening Wikipedia and seeing that the featured article was on Tolkien. And then having friends to share this fact with!
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11-14-2006, 09:48 PM | #846 |
Hauntress of the Havens
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: IN it, but not OF it
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11-15-2006, 02:21 AM | #847 |
Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
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Finally contacting a friend from your early childhood after a few years silence...
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11-17-2006, 06:05 AM | #849 |
Odinic Wanderer
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Häagen-Dazs
The name totaly fooled me, I thought it was a German brand. |
11-17-2006, 10:56 AM | #850 |
Mellifluous Maia
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth
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I assign this thread to the Shire; reading it has improved my mood dramatically.
I also assign to the Shire: Curly, crunchy red fall leaves scattered over a wet sidewalk that reflects bare branches against an overcast sky. The conjunction of rich, strong coffee, Kate Bush, Borges and DSL. My two year old when she hugged me and said "that's my mommy!" Feta cheese, parmesan cheese, brie, provalone, fresh mozzerella, extra sharp smoked cheddar; oh, just, cheese in general. Pesto sauce, warm crusty sourdough bread right out of the oven, grapes picked from my own vines, matar paneer, rice noodles with peanut sauce, macaroons, baklava, tiramisu, peaches, chai, real homemade linguini...etc. The smell of garden soil when you first dig into it in the springtime. The scent of star magnolias. The color of the sky just after sunset, when it's the most saturated, glowing sapphire blue. Russian sage, lilacs, violets, lamb's ears, lavender, phlox, virginia creeper, thyme, roses, peonies, allium, physostegia... Warm, comfy slippers that don't look silly or fall off. Knowing I'm leaving in 50 days (plane tickets - $516. Travelcard - $25. Finally seeing London - preciousss!) The tiny red bugs that live in books; raccoons; white deer; wild geese. The moment when the whole semester's work is finished ... Sorry for being so long-winded. Once you get going, it's hard to stop. Last edited by Rikae; 11-18-2006 at 07:51 PM. Reason: silly Rikae misspelled 'raccoons'! |
11-17-2006, 02:05 PM | #851 |
Fading Fëanorion
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: into the flood again
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I assign Rikae to the Shire for this heart-lifting post.
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11-18-2006, 11:51 AM | #852 |
Mellifluous Maia
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth
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Awww, shucks. Then I assign Mac to the Shire!
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11-19-2006, 08:37 AM | #853 |
Fading Fëanorion
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: into the flood again
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Thanks, Rikae!
Though, I just realized that line above was my first assign-to-the-shire post at all! (eight to Mordor...) So I think I'm not really all that shire-worthy. |
11-19-2006, 09:58 AM | #854 |
La Belle Dame sans Merci
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Oh my... how could I ever have forgotten this? This is amazing...
I assign the smell of hot breakfast being cooked late on a Sunday morning... Oh, how could I possibly have forgotten that mum always makes a fantastic brunch? She'll smile as I come downstairs and tease about there being no better alarm clock than the smell of good food. It's what always happens, and I always forget... Oh, being home rocks.
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11-21-2006, 07:39 PM | #855 | |
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I started out thinking I wouldn't find any of my professeurs that interesting, but now I am sort of sad to be leaving them. Except, one more year with Madame Julie, which shall be tres cool. As thus, I would like to assign to the shire, wonderful french professeurs, who are as surprising as their expertise. Also, first year anniversaries. Je t'aime mon petit choux, Il me déraille, il est aimable, pensif, et l'oh si romantique, mon homme des lettres. Also, good friends, who haven't given up on themselves entirely. It is nice to feel that giving advice and having un peu parler has done some good. Last but not least, new paintbrushes and paint! I can't wait to try them out. ~ Ka
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11-22-2006, 02:41 AM | #856 |
Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
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I assign the feeling that you get when you know you're never ever going to have a chemistry lesson in your life. It just feels wonderful.
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11-24-2006, 09:32 AM | #857 |
Mellifluous Maia
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth
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A couple day-after-Thanksgiving things for the Shire:
-Pecan pie for breakfast -Internet shopping |
11-24-2006, 12:18 PM | #858 |
Itinerant Songster
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: The Edge of Faerie
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I assign that mysterious occurence when brand new plot twists come out of nowhere but are so obvious once you see them that the writing just flows.
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11-25-2006, 12:32 AM | #859 |
La Belle Dame sans Merci
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Cost of gas to drive to Toys 'R' Us on Black Friday: $5
Lego Vikings sets: $33.80 Staying up late after work with your big brother and some wine and re-enacting Beowulf's death scene with your brand spanking new Lego dragon: priceless.
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11-25-2006, 06:29 AM | #860 |
Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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Rainbows ...so pretty and the sun and rain thing so fascinating..
Oh and being proved right
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12-04-2006, 03:13 PM | #861 |
Pilgrim Soul
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Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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Unexpected peopel being king in the midst of a bad day.
Getting Christmas cards from friends across the country and across the world - after having the really horrible day on Friday it was great to receive news, good wishes, and invitations to visit. Getting the Christmas tree ( and a free glass of mulled wine) and starting to fill the house with lights. Finding baubles in exactly the right shade of rose red you coveted..... in an unexpected place..
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12-04-2006, 06:40 PM | #862 |
Everlasting Whiteness
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18 hours sleep after 3 days of getting up early and continual exercise. It was quite startling to wake up and realise just how long I'd been asleep, but it did feel wonderful.
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12-04-2006, 06:47 PM | #863 |
Odinic Wanderer
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I did not that was possible to do, Kath !
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12-04-2006, 06:48 PM | #864 |
Everlasting Whiteness
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Apparently so! I like sleep.
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12-04-2006, 08:11 PM | #865 |
Odinic Wanderer
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Me too I love sleep. . .but I seldom sleep more than 10 hours.
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12-05-2006, 09:00 PM | #866 |
Riveting Ribbiter
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Assigned to Mordor
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Lengthy conversations with my sister about the Krebs cycle via IM...written in 1337. Such fun.
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12-05-2006, 09:20 PM | #867 |
Flame of the Ainulindalë
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Seeing your (now) former students celebrating their day of getting out of the school!
How they and you yourself love the thing and still feel so sorry about it! When that feels both ways, it's heaven and hell at the same time. So good! So happy!
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12-05-2006, 09:55 PM | #868 | |
Hauntress of the Havens
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12-06-2006, 06:59 AM | #869 |
Riveting Ribbiter
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We were trying to come up with a story about the cycle to help her memorize it for finals next week. Finals, by the way, belong in Mordor, and I'm glad I don't have final exams anymore. It was a pretty horrible story. Example: It all started when Ox[aloacetate] and Py[ruvate] got together over orange juice [=citrus fruit = citrate]. Then they left, so the juice was alone [alone = isolated = isocitrate]. I think the 1337 made the story more memorable.
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12-06-2006, 07:56 AM | #870 | |
La Belle Dame sans Merci
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I assign the friends of mine that are paying for me to eat next week, because I've got about $30 left on my meal card to last me until next Friday.
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12-06-2006, 09:43 AM | #871 | |
Itinerant Songster
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12-06-2006, 04:01 PM | #872 | |
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I assign to the Shire finals via final papers. They seem to be less of a worry over, and much more rewarding to turn in. Especially when you can finally go to sleep at night and not have half of the paper going through your head, because you've re-read it millions of times. ~ Ka
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12-11-2006, 01:15 AM | #873 |
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Umbar, but before the corsairs took over. (Ave Maria University, FL, USA)
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Having one of your classes finish more than a month before all your others. And having the final for said class be a take-home test.
Tea. Especially chai. There's nothing better to warm you up on a cold day than a steaming mug.
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Gone for lentSeeyou at Easter! (And on Sundays too, maybe.)
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12-11-2006, 03:17 AM | #874 |
Everlasting Whiteness
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Sitting in the kitchen trying to revise, and being interrupted by the sudden need of my housemates to be 5 again. We made paper snowflakes and started a collection for Christmas decorations, and we made an extremely irreverent nativity scene. It was great fun.
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12-11-2006, 10:05 AM | #875 | |
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12-11-2006, 12:38 PM | #876 | |
A Mere Boggart
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Sent it before and I send it again: Christmas! Fab! I've just come home from an afternoon spent eating and drinking with colleagues and laughing about weird stuff, to a lovely fully trimmed up living room. I've got about 300 white lights and a load of blue ones in the window and its lovely and cosy. Two weeks today I shall be lying on the settee, full of roast beef and gravy and roast taters and sprouts and feeling all content, like any good Hobbit should.
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Gordon's alive!
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12-11-2006, 03:16 PM | #877 |
Pilgrim Soul
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finding a handbag you coveted but didn't really need has been reduced to a no-brainer price And getting nearer to finishing present shopping....
And my beautiful Christmas tree - killing a tree is the environmentally sound option, they are a local crop and it will be recycled
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12-17-2006, 04:15 AM | #878 |
Blithe Spirit
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12-19-2006, 05:38 AM | #879 | |
Hauntress of the Havens
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12-20-2006, 03:34 PM | #880 |
Odinic Wanderer
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That the Danish television is keeping up the tradition of showing LotR in the Christmas time.
the 26th RotK will be shown for the first time on Danish Television. |
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