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09-10-2007, 05:35 AM | #961 |
Hauntress of the Havens
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: IN it, but not OF it
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Night strolls.
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09-10-2007, 06:28 AM | #962 |
Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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Watching really good Rugby when the ball is run with not just kicked ... it is just such a great game when played properly.
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“But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”
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09-12-2007, 02:43 PM | #963 |
A Mere Boggart
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: under the bed
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I assign whoever decided to sell things like rugs with Dragons on them in IKEA. This is A Very Good Thing.
And it even more deserves to go to The Shire because a visit to IKEA is in itself like Frodo's journey...the warehouse section where you try to find the Groett and Tatt parts that you need is Mordor; the towering, bleak shelves which do not contain your needed new chair parts are Mount Doom; and the Cracks of Doom are the greedy checkouts ready to swallow up golden credit cards...here you battle not with Gollum but with the packaging of your heavy Groett and Tatt because the barcode is helpfully (inevitably) on the bottom of a box of super-heavy MDF (which tears as you manhandle it over to find the sinister barcode, thus losing the all-important allen key in the process). The Field of Cormallen is the hotdog stand on the other side. Bliss. Though you have the Scouring of the Shire to get through with the ridiculous loading bay due to the 'no troilleys in the car park' policy, something that could easily have been dreamt up by Saruman.
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09-19-2007, 10:08 AM | #964 |
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This afternoon. It was ridiculously fun.
We had Freshers Fayre and had a cheerleading stall going to try and get people to join which went well, we even got some guys signing up. Then we did our demonstration which went almost perfectly (and I didn't fall off so that was good) and the American Football lot were cheering us on. After that the rugby guys came over and started lifting us up their way, so we taught them how to do it our way and they agreed to come stunt with us on Tuesday. It may go slightly better then as they won't be quite so drunk! But the best part of all was that in the midst of a rainy, dull, cold day the sun came out for the fifteen minutes that we were outside.
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09-27-2007, 11:44 AM | #965 |
Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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Getting a journal entry on one of your "Bookcrossing" releases after nearly 3 years. Amazing - it has travelled a hundred miles or so....
Submitting your tax return in time for the IR to do the calculation and 3 months (not hte usual 3 days before the deadline)
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“But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”
Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace |
09-28-2007, 01:20 PM | #966 | |
Odinic Wanderer
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A belated respons
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09-28-2007, 02:49 PM | #967 | |
Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
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I assign being tired and happy, the latter for no specific reason.
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Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris
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09-29-2007, 06:21 AM | #968 |
Itinerant Songster
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: The Edge of Faerie
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"Nine-Day Weekends" ~ if you know what I mean....
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10-04-2007, 01:10 PM | #969 |
Silver in My Silent Heart
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I assign 4kg on Echter Dresdner Christstollen coming by post on one totally random Tuesday. I'm not sure what my father decided, but whatever the idea was the surprise was nice.
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10-12-2007, 05:07 AM | #970 |
Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
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Good news
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“But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”
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10-17-2007, 08:04 AM | #971 | |
Cryptic Aura
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A not so senior moment
I assign senior citizens who know how to deal with Mordor. (And even if this story is apocryphal, it still belongs in The Shire. )
Apparently a 98 year old woman in the UK wrote this to her bank and the bank manager thought it amusing enough to have it published in the Times. I didn't see it there, but it was sent to me by someone who believes that no institution should go unrewarded for its customer service. Quote:
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10-24-2007, 08:46 PM | #972 |
Itinerant Songster
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Location: The Edge of Faerie
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Going for a long weekend color tour and hitting the colors just at their peak; finding a nice, not too pricey motel; happening upon a curving road we never had been down before, surrounded by maples, oaks, and other trees in full fire of fall color, and it goes on for miles.
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10-25-2007, 10:10 AM | #973 |
Drummer in the Deep
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Next Sunday A.D.
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Visits from relatives - almost all my family's back in the homestate, and it's so nice to see them again.
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10-29-2007, 03:31 PM | #974 |
Fading Fëanorion
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: into the flood again
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I assign the end of the daylight saving time. Finally, after half a year, all my clocks are right again.
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10-30-2007, 07:32 PM | #975 |
Messenger of Hope
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: In a tiny, insignificant little town in one of the many States.
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Daylight savings doesn't end until next Sunday, though, I thought? I hope I'm right...
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10-30-2007, 08:32 PM | #976 |
Reflection of Darkness
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Polishing the stars. Well, somebody has to do it; they're looking a little bit dull.
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Folwren- Daylight savings time ends at different weeks in other countries. So you're right...we don't change our clocks in the US until the 4th of November.
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10-30-2007, 09:42 PM | #977 |
Mighty Quill
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Walking off to look for America
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I assign this wonderful place with all of you very nice people, and going down to my nice quiet room with absolutely no brothers wanting to listen and scratch up your RotK or FotR soundtrack, reading a nice book. Or eating Pierogies eating veggie sausage links and drinking Henry Weinhard's root beer, and watching those PJ LotR movies and yelling at the tv screen for bad or worse.
And playing outside on a warm sunny summer or autumn day, and whacking the boys across the street with my awesome stick...(just wait 'till I can get myself a "Sting"). Or laying on the bright green grass in my front yard in the lazy days of summer break feeling the sun on my face!
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10-31-2007, 03:30 AM | #978 |
Fading Fëanorion
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: into the flood again
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Yep, as Brinniel said, it ends at different dates in different places. It really should be unified internationally. I can tell you from recent personal experience how confusing it can get.
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10-31-2007, 06:43 AM | #979 |
La Belle Dame sans Merci
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I'd like to assign a small Peruvian boy who will never know I exist for selling one of my teachers a bag of [knit?] finger puppets an indeterminate number of years ago.
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10-31-2007, 07:49 AM | #980 | |
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But to the Shire goes doctors who don't argue with you but instead accept that you know what drugs you need having been dealing with them for 18 years and that the asthma nurse is pointless so don't try and force you to see her. I like my new doctor.
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10-31-2007, 12:50 PM | #981 |
Itinerant Songster
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Sounds like a sensible Hobbit.
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11-01-2007, 08:48 PM | #982 |
La Belle Dame sans Merci
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I assign Lemony Snicket for this book. I don't like holidays. Anybody who knows me knows that. But I just bought two copies of it because it made me happy enough to keep one for myself and mail one off in the morning to an unsuspecting friend. Yep. Hecks yes for witty and erudite (by this I mean "learned or scholarly") children's literature which doesn't shy away from words and ideas of a gargantuan (and by this I mean "very large") nature.
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11-03-2007, 10:07 AM | #983 |
Itinerant Songster
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I assign staying up late and getting up late the next morning because there's nothing you need to get up for. Very rare these days. *sigh*
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11-03-2007, 02:46 PM | #984 |
La Belle Dame sans Merci
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Days that are perfect for coats and hats and scarves but don't require gloves, with sunlight and leaves on sidewalks and wind that is cold but doesn't insist you be that way too.
Hot soup for lunch in small establishments with live music. Good company. Good tea. Pumpkin pie! Autumn makes me happiest of all the seasons.
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11-03-2007, 02:48 PM | #985 |
Shady She-Penguin
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I assign reading a good book that is not fantasy.
I always seem to read either fantasy books or not-so-good non-fantasy books. Small wonder I read mostly fantasy.
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Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris
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11-03-2007, 04:45 PM | #986 |
Everlasting Whiteness
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Spending the evening with family members you don't see that often, and having a surprisingly good time considering you know a grand total of 3 people in a crowd of about 20.
Good food!
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11-05-2007, 12:55 PM | #987 |
Pilgrim Soul
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Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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Coming home - I love travelling but Dorothy was right....
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“But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”
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11-07-2007, 11:40 PM | #988 |
Reflection of Darkness
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Polishing the stars. Well, somebody has to do it; they're looking a little bit dull.
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I assign doing something for once on a whim.
I went to the box office to buy tickets for Wicked for Sunday's showing only to find out they were all sold out. I was ready to go home when I ran into a friend and he invited me to sign up for the lottery for tonight's show. And what do you know, I won! So I got two seats for a $20 discount. The last thing I expected to do tonight (a school night) was see a Broadway show...but I did and I had a blast!
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11-11-2007, 07:59 PM | #989 |
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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Moving to a climate where fall feels more like late spring or early summer.
Discovering that despite the miniscule size of your college (about 485 students, including grad students), there is still a large enough population of Tolkien fans to include someone who makes movies of The Silmarillion and enough people interested in watching the movies to warrant a Saturday-night showing in the lecture hall. Unexpected compliments, when even the complimenter doesn't realize what they're doing. Cheese and crackers, especially when good cheese is hard to come by.
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Gone for lentSeeyou at Easter! (And on Sundays too, maybe.)
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11-21-2007, 10:15 AM | #990 |
Hauntress of the Havens
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Singing in a chorale.
Learning to sing alto after having spent all your life singing soprano. Having a Christmas song (or several) stuck in your head. |
11-23-2007, 08:21 PM | #991 |
Odinic Wanderer
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I would probably send the latter one to Mordor. . .interesting.
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11-24-2007, 06:00 PM | #992 |
Hauntress of the Havens
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11-24-2007, 06:29 PM | #993 | |
Drummer in the Deep
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Next Sunday A.D.
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I assign good times at an otherwise crummy job to the Shire. Some of the sweetest memories can be gleaned from those times.
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11-24-2007, 09:17 PM | #994 |
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Location: Umbar, but before the corsairs took over. (Ave Maria University, FL, USA)
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Long holiday weekends spent with friends.
Almonds and cashews. Marathon games of monopoly. Summer weather in November Late-night outdoor conversations. Watching silly movies well after bedtime. Pumpkin cheesecake and bacon-and-cheese stuffed mushrooms.
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Gone for lentSeeyou at Easter! (And on Sundays too, maybe.)
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11-25-2007, 05:55 AM | #995 |
Hauntress of the Havens
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Together with your best friend, being able to install and get a printer working, despite practically being technologically Neanderthal.
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11-25-2007, 08:03 AM | #996 |
Silver in My Silent Heart
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Going to a restourant and messing around harmlessly.
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11-26-2007, 05:21 AM | #997 |
Odinic Wanderer
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The online alarm clock that helped me get up and do my "homework" this morning.
I realised at 3am that I had no other alarm than the one in my phone which I had left at my grandmothers place, knowing that I can easily sleep 10 hours I was quite desperat. . .but then I found the online alarm clock which helped me to get up after only 7 hours. |
11-26-2007, 09:30 AM | #998 |
Everlasting Whiteness
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Handing in one essay and already being 500 words through the other! It won't last, but it's heartening to know I can do it when I really try.
Oh, and chocolate chip cookies.
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11-27-2007, 11:03 AM | #999 |
Twisted Taleswapper
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: somewhere between sanity and insanity
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I assign CFL football, we just won the Grey cup and this city was just crazy,in a good way. Everyone gets into the spirit, from little kids to the really old. My boss at work even painted her face for 3 days straight to show her spirit. She now has the stained S's embedded on her cheeks. I like that it is something everyone can share together. Everyone parties hard and no one fights.
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11-27-2007, 11:55 AM | #1000 |
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Home. Where rolling green hills and clear rivers are practically my backyard.
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I assign still getting lettuce from your garden after Thanksgiving. Sadly, I don't think that will last long.
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