Slow response:

"braves are road trippin'"

Wed, 03 Aug 2005 23:05:43 GMT

nothing makes me more happier right now than the braves.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/nl/braves/2005-08-01-francoeur_x.htm

yeah, i might need a life, but who cares.

...because it goes hand-in-hand:

Wed, 02 Feb 2005 03:56:20 GMT

A driver who dosen't show up +
and food an hour late =
FREE food an hour from now.

:sigh:

marker:

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:52:17 GMT

January 31, 2005:

A baada on pizza is started.

...it's home, but i want out:

Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:35:21 GMT

I'm sick of ATL drama. I miss ATL a lot because of a few people and I am going back this weekend because of them and because I'm making them all hang out with me (I'm such a bitchy one), and I just want to chill minus drama, minus tension, minus the talking.

I'm sick of first impressions.
I'm sick of people who complain.
I'm sick of second impressions.
I'm sick of people who talk about others blindly.

Just shut up. Let other people live thier life. They'll make thier own mistakes, they'll have fun, they'll succeed, they'll fail miserably at times, it's thier life and it's not being lived for you to gossip about.

If I can't get into Terry, then I just may apply out-of-state for Accounting school and/or Law School. I know for sure I'm getting an Englsih degree here and I'm finishing out my Pre-business credits and am applying to Terry, which I don't think I'll get into because its so selective.

Just listen to the wind and follow it, dammit. I wish people would listen, for once.

...damn you, jeanne...

Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:57:15 GMT

it smells damned good outside but its too damned windy. blah wind.

wee, english. me gusta ingles mucho porque en miercoles nosotros veremos 'shattered glass'.

spanish is next semster.

six am:

Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:09:49 GMT

TO: ALL UGA FACULTY, STAFF AND STUDENTS

RE: UNIVERSITY CLOSED FRIDAY, SEPT. 17

Due to existing conditions Friday morning, and out of
concern for the safety of our students and employees, the University of Georgia will be closed on Friday, Sept. 17.

The College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
alumni events scheduled for Friday afternoon and evening,
and the Athletics Circle of Honor event scheduled for Friday evening, will be held as planned.

Back to fucking sleep. ATL is near flooded so I might be stuck here.

I'll worry about it when I wake back up in a few hours.

There's another one after Jeanne: MAKE THEM AND THIER BABIES STOP!

Good Mornin'.

...damn you, Ivan...

Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:44:48 GMT

So outside its shitty, but its not a bad day at all. The only thing that irks me is that when my mom called, she said that my sister is sleeping.

Why?

Because DeKalb-fucking-County closed for today and tomorrow. That's why.

Why didn't this ever happen when I went there?

Thank God its Thursday and that I'm done, haha.

:-)

...damn you, frances....

Tue, 07 Sep 2004 13:57:34 GMT

TO: UGA faculty, staff and students

The University of Georgia's main campus in Athens is open
and operating on a regular schedule today, Tuesday, Sept. 7.

All UGA classes and offices at the Gwinnett University
Center in Lawrenceville are closed today, Tuesday, Sept. 7
due to electrical power being out at the Gwinnett Center.

This morning was fuckng hell. My jeans are still soaked, my umbrella didn't do shit, and only seven people showed up for class. Thank God its Tuesday and that I'm done.

DeKalb County on the other hand is fucking closed. How come when I went to high school there, they never closed for heavy rain/wind gusts. Blah, blah, blah. I guess I since I'm awake I ought to do some work. I'd sleep, but I know I'd never wake up and I'd curse myself for wasting the day.

Ah fuck, I think I'll just freewrite instead.

On the other hand, hope you have a Happy Frances Day.

...alternate track...

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 05:01:06 GMT

this time, i want something new.

new music,
new books,
new topics.

music
ryan adams' demolition and love is hell, pt i
kanye west's college dropout
jay sean (songs from internet. see: http://www.jaysean.com)
better than ezra's closer
marvelous 3's ready, sex, go

books
narcissus and goldmund by hermann hesse
july, july by tim o'brien
war and peace by leo tolstoy (slowly but somewhat surely)
"thought magazine" issue six (see: http://www.geocities.com/thoughtmagazine/)

topics
- people who think that conversation is a one lane highway, so they ride it and leave the rest high and dry.
- aim can go to hell.
- writing paragraphs about nothing, in detail.
- how to pack lighter!

contribute and spread joyy.

if you have a minute, watch this:

Mon, 09 Aug 2004 19:53:11 GMT

http://griplimited.com/latest_work-flash.html

Click on BELL CANADA: Olympics.

Its simply gorgeous.

And I'll give you a treat if you can guess the song. ;-)

Sun, 08 Aug 2004 21:48:31 GMT

Sometimes I love Little India:

+ "That's not surprising. A bindi on Madonna may be cool but my mom wearing a bindi is still a 'dothead' and a target for discrimination," says Anmol Chaddha who is also a research associate with ARC, referring to the Dotbuster gangs that harassed and attacked South Asians in the 80's. "Our lives as South Asians are not improved because white Americans can go to malls and try on bindis. They after all can take them off when they are not convenient."

-- http://supra.websitewelcome.com/~little/june2004/Brownie%20Points.htm

+ "The colors seemed to have been drained out of her life. Says Aparna, "The small pleasures of life I used to experience in India, I do not experience here. In India, standing on your balcony, you see life, you see kids playing, you see people sitting together. Neighbors stop to laugh and chat and find out how you're doing.
"Here I would sit on the deck in the suburbs. All around me, there are beautiful trees, beautiful landscapes, and lovely cars. But there are no people. You might as well hang up a pretty picture in your living room and just keep on watching that. What's the difference?"

-- http://littleindia.com/august2004/UnhappyinAmerica.htm

...a reminder for myself...

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 02:22:26 GMT

"dimple, you know when we were little, just after i met you, i used to stare for hours at our atlas and where you came from, your family, halfway across the world. i couldn't believe my luck - or maybe your lack of it - that you ended up in plain springfield despite all those mountains and oceans and unpronounceable places in between. you're so lucky that you have more than one part of the map that maeans something to you. i wish i had something like that. a culture, a country."

- gwyn to dimple;
born confused by tanuja desai hidier

...garbage and city lights...

Sat, 24 Jul 2004 06:57:09 GMT

you guessed wrong.

try again and make it worthwhile,
like your existence.

Fitz has made the front page in the big City!!!

Fri, 23 Jul 2004 03:31:51 GMT

Townsfolk cry fowl
Wild chickens have come home to roost in Fitzgerald, and it's no paltry problem
Cameron McWhirter - Staff
Thursday, July 22, 2004

Fitzgerald --- Roosters stand on cars and crow at 2 a.m., mistaking streetlights for the sun. Clucking hens, a line of chicks in tow, stop traffic. Chickens scratch up flower beds and pine straw. They roost in trees and on rooftops. Gangs of 20 or more overrun people's porches, squawking and defecating.

Chickens gone wild lay eggs all over this South Georgia town: in bushes, under porches, in garages.

A few years back, these mysterious renegade descendants of imported Asian jungle chickens and Georgia domestic chickens could be seen on a handful of residential streets in Fitzgerald.

Today they can be seen and heard everywhere among the 8,700 human residents. The best estimate is that the feral birds --- chickens who have returned to the wild from captivity --- now number about 2,000. Their chicks, which most people here call biddies, are ubiquitous.

"If every biddy that was born lived," said Betty Pitts, 56, who has lived in Fitzgerald most of her life, "you couldn't walk 'round this town for chickens."

Cloe Harper, 66, doesn't care if the birds --- with black feathers (and bright red plumes on the roosters) --- are a notable example of nature's adaptability. With her bad legs, she daily has to chase the street-tough poultry from her tomato plants.

"Kill 'em all," she says.

Earlier this year, more than 500 people signed a petition to get rid of the odd birds.

Others in Fitzgerald, however, have grown to love the fowl. The Jaycees have renamed their annual "Rattlesnake Roundup" the "Wild Chicken Festival." Sales of "Love Dem Wild Chickens" bumper stickers are brisk. Self-appointed chicken advocate Jan Gelders has gathered more than 1,300 signatures to have Fitzgerald declare the chickens the town bird.

"They are part of our culture, part of our town," Gelders said. "To get rid of them would make this town very, very blah."

At a council meeting in June, about 80 people showed up to talk about the poultry problem. Half the room wanted to fricassee them and the other half wanted to hand the cluckers the keys to the city. No issue that anyone can remember had drawn so many people to a city meeting, said Tim Anderson, editor of The Fitzgerald Herald-Leader.

"If they weren't so serious about it, it would be funny," he said.

Stuck in the middle is Gerald Thompson, the longtime mayor. He wrote the state Department of Natural Resources for help, but the department replied that the chickens were not technically wild, and therefore not the state's problem. The department did offer to provide some future technical assistance on ways to deal with the chickens.

This month Thompson appointed a committee to try to find answers. The mayor balanced the committee with two pro-chicken residents and two anti-chicken residents. Ideas ranged from sterilization to limited hunting to trapping.

"We have to find some middle ground," he said. "I told the committee, 'If you want to keep all our chickens, you're not going to be happy. If you want to get rid of all of our chickens, you're not going to be happy.' "

Chicken paradise

The saga of Fitzgerald's wild chickens began in the 1960s. What exactly happened remains unclear.

State wildlife experts decided, with the help of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to import wild red bantam chickens from the jungles of South Asia. The chickens were raised at a state facility about 10 miles from Fitzgerald. The idea was to raise the Asian chickens, then release them into the wild as game birds. The plan flopped. The foreign birds were killed off quickly by predators and bad weather. The government abandoned the idea.

Some people say leftover birds at the state facility somehow made their way to Fitzgerald, like a roving band of guerrilla fowl. Others say someone --- some people say they know who, but won't reveal the secret --- smuggled a few wild chicken eggs back to Fitzgerald and raised them with domestic chickens. When the wild chickens grew up, they bred with the locals, creating new mongrel chickens. Some of these crossbreeds then flew the coop.

Once the hybrids got loose in Fitzgerald, they loved it. They could fly up and roost in trees, escaping the few predators that existed in town. There was plenty of food. People even set out birdseed for them. The chickens started nesting almost year-round, producing thousands of chicks.

Dr. I. Lehr Brisbin Jr., a biology professor at the University of Georgia who works at the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site, said he finds the Fitzgerald chickens an evolutionary marvel. Brisbin said he had been experimenting for 37 years to try to release birds into the wild.

"I have never had birds survive past the next breeding season," he said. "They all get killed off. Somehow these birds get away with it."

Brisbin said the population needed to be "managed" --- reduced through various methods, such as sterilizing roosters, painting eggs with chemicals to keep them from hatching, trapping chickens and selling them to breeders, and perhaps limited hunting.

Asked if complete extermination was possible at this point, Brisbin said it could be accomplished, "but it would be bloody and it would be awful. Chickens flopping around dying in the streets. Kids crying about their favorite roosters. You wouldn't want to do it."

Solution eludes town

Whether pro- or anti-chicken, most Fitzgerald residents agree that they have to do something about the uncontrolled poultry population. People just can't agree on what to do.

Chicken supporters say the birds are too special to just eradicate. Alesia Biggers, the city's tourism director, said that when out-of-towners come to her office, "the first thing they want to see is the chickens."

Dubois White, 73, an exterminator in town, said he wanted the birds to be protected because they make Fitzgerald distinct. "They can be a nuisance, but I enjoy watching them fly and feed," he said. He added, however, "Where I enjoy them, a lot of people don't."

He said he'd had several serious inquiries about exterminating chickens in people's yards. He politely declined the business.

Joyce Motes, 49, said she knew one man who had become an anti-chicken vigilante. Armed with a BB gun, he drives through the neighborhood summarily executing wayward fowl in yards and streets. "Problem is, he just leaves them where they dropped," she said.

She also said she knew one man who claimed to have caught one and cooked it. After eight hours on the stove, the meat still was too tough to eat.

Tara Reed, 21, who has two young children, wants the birds shipped out or killed off. She recently called police when one of her cousins was spurred by a rooster. Police told her she could not legally harm the birds unless they were on her property.

"I said, 'If you arrest me, I'll be going to jail with some fried chicken,' " she said.

Proof:
http://community.webshots.com/photo/166246615/166246907JqIHTt

...try this on for size...

Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:48:09 GMT

http://www.jem-music.net/finally/music_they.html

Check her out. I was listening to 99X for the first time in a long time, and I love this song. The beat is different -- fusion of techno and a lot of other things -- and the vocals are nice as well. I think I'll DL the album, but if it dosen't work, them I'm gonna buy it. And then I'll give it away 'cause I'll rip it.

tonight's summits with mel and crew. :-)

...new screenname...

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 04:46:17 GMT

call me NISHA

bravesviLLe will be used until I notify everyone about it.

...what i am composed of...

Tue, 15 Jun 2004 00:41:56 GMT

I find it hilarous. And true. Maybe even mercy.

How to make a 708-03j

Ingredients:

1 part mercy

1 part silliness

1 part joy

Method:
Combine in a tall glass half filled with crushed ice. Add a little cocktail umbrella and a dash of wisdom

Personality cocktail
From Go-Quiz.com

...your hand in mine...

Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:25:31 GMT

Looks like I'm ordering Explosions in the Sky's The World is not a Cold Dead Place, considering that I can't find all of its songs on Bearshare or Kazaa. I swear, Explosions in the Sky, Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service are comfort artists for me.

I want you to feel them, therefore:

Death Cab for Cutie mp3s:
+ A Movie Script Ending: http://music.barsuk.com/DeathCab_MovieScript.mp3
+ Title and Regristration: http://music.barsuk.com/DeathCabForCutie_TitleAndRegistration.mp3
+ Song for Kelly Huckaby: http://music.barsuk.com/Death.Cab_Song.For.Kelly.H.mp3
+ Champagne from a Paper Cup: http://music.barsuk.com/Death.Cab_Champagne.mp3

The Postal Service mp3s:
+ The District Sleeps Alone Tonight: http://www.subpop.com/scripts/main/download.php?url=/downloads/free/The_District_Sleeps_Alone_Tonight238.mp3&mid=238
+ Such Great Heights: http://www.subpop.com/scripts/main/download.php?url=/downloads/free/Such_Great_Heights214.mp3&mid=214

Explosions in the Sky mp3s:
+ Memorial: http://www.temporaryresidence.com/www/listen/explosions_memorial.mp3
+ The Only Moment We Were Alone: http://angels-gone.com/explosionsinthesky/media/Explosions%20In%20The%20Sky%20-%2020021024%20-%2003%20the%20only%20moment%20we%20were%20alone.mp3

Be calm. You'll live longer that way.

...she wastes time in a gorgeous manner...

Tue, 27 Apr 2004 23:52:35 GMT

This survey is my break. Taken from Rob's (rob417) LJ.

1. Your name spelled backwards.
ahsin (hah, sin)

2. Where were your parents born?
Panama and India for my mom and dad, respectively.

3. What is the last thing you downloaded onto your computer?
songs by Explosions in the Sky.

4. What's your favorite restaurant?
The Melting Pot, Fronterra (on Sugarloaf)

5. Last time you swam in a pool and where?
a year ago at Wingate, I think.

6. Have you ever been in a school play?
Nope, but I've watched one.

7. How many kids do you want?
two.

8. Type of music you dislike most?
Country, although I must admit that I went through a phase where I loved it. Hell, I live in the south.

9. Are you registered to vote?
Nope.

10. Do you have cable?
Yes.

11. Have you ever ridden on a moped?
Yes, in India.

12. Ever prank call anybody?
Yeah, who hasn't?

13. Ever get a parking ticket?
nope,

14. Would you go bungee jumping or sky diving?
Sky diving.

15. What color is your room?
It's lavender.

16. Do you have a garden?
my dad has a vegetable garden...does that count?

17. What's your favorite comic strip?
The one that's found towards the end of Choptalk

18. Do you really know all the words to your national anthem?
not sure.

19. Bath or Shower, morning or night?
Hotass shower, morning.

20. Best movie you've seen in the past month?
The Life of David Gale.

21. Favorite pizza topping?
Cheese and Jalepenos

22. Chips or popcorn?
chips.

23. What color lipstick do you usually wear?
I wear chapstick. Sometimes, it has a hint of color.

24. Have you ever smoked peanut shells?
no.

25. Have you ever been in a beauty pageant?
nope.

26. Orange Juice or apple?
orange. that tang gets me up.

27. Who was the last person you went out to dinner with and where did you dine?
A group of friends in downtown Atlanta's Pleasant Peasant on Sat.

28. Favorite type chocolate bar?
Crunch. Dammit, now I have a craving.

29. When was the last time you voted at the polls?
Never.

30. Last time you ate a homegrown tomato?
last summer, out of my dad's garden.

31. Have you ever won a trophy?
yes.

32. Are you a good cook?
not really. some wife I'll make, eh

33. Do you know how to pump your own gas?
Sure.

34. Ever order an article from an infomercial?
no.

35. Sprite or 7-up?
sprite, but 7-up cake is the shit.

36. Have you ever had to wear a uniform to work? how about school?
yes for work; we almost had to for school this year, it was implemented, but when we got to school, nobody followed it so they dropped it...power to the kids!

37. Last thing you bought at a pharmacy?
pictures developed.

38. Ever throw up in public?
yep, on the streets of India.

39. Would you prefer being a millionaire or find true love?
true love.

40. Do you believe in love at first sight?
nope.

41. Ever call a 1-900 number?
nah

42. Can ex's be friends?
sure, why not?

43. Who was the last person you visited in a hospital?
my grandmother in Ohio this past summer when she was dying.

44. Did you have a lot of hair when you were a baby?
yeah.

45. What did you eat today?
A grilled cheese sandwich and Coke for breakfast, a peanut butter sanwich and water for lunch, and cheese ravioli, salad and breaksticks from the Olive Garden with another Coke for dinner.

46. What's your all time favorite Saturday Night Live Character?
I think I've only seen it once, so I can't comment. I just watch "Full House," "Law & Order: SVU," and Braves games.

47. What was the name of your first pet?
Fishie.

48. What is in your purse?
my wallet, checkbook, chapstick, cell phone and a pen.

49. Favorite thing to do before bedtime?
take a bath, which I haven't done in forever.

...Time drags in the moment, but he flew afterwards...

Mon, 26 Apr 2004 02:01:05 GMT

I'd like to be like Time. He crams so much energy, patience, and adrenaline in a matter of hours that after spending your days with him, you feel sickenly tired, but fulfilled. Sleep will never come so easy as it will tonight.

Time has shown me what Atlanta and its suburbs is all about from eating at an expensive but tiny resturant to roaming and feeling the music in Fox's Egyptian Ballroom to having people roll down thier windows to snap a picture of you and friends dressed up, waiting for a table at Pleasant Peasant, to driving on highway 155, a two-lane country road, while you blast music sharing high laughs to sitting in his kitchen with friends at two in the morning, snacking and talking and laughing to locking out two of your friends out of thier own room so you can catch two hours sleep to eating breakfast for seven at eight in the morning with tired eyes to seeing him yell your name with music in the background and giving you a warm hug to bidding a goodmorning to sunshine seeping through blinds.

I wish Time were mine.

...you are my addiction...

Wed, 21 Apr 2004 01:34:33 GMT

An update because thinking about myself has reached to the point where I feel like shooting myself (and if you think that is literal, I think you ought to shoot yourself). I have 1.7 of 15+ chapters of my Senior Memory Book completed. I'd say that is an accomplishment considering that I had 1.5 chapters done before tonight. If I keep going at this rate, I'll be done in a couple of years, which will work for me but won't work for my grade. So...an order of staying up two Sundays from now, typing out incoherent pages seems to be brewing. I wish these last four weeks or so would hurry up and fly on by.

Score is Reds 3, Braves 2, which makes for a nice, tight game considering that the Braves have done pretty damned well in thier last few games -- a series against the Marlins -- surprising a lot of people. Giles has been on a nice steak, which is nice to watch, and DeRo has had some magic hands, which is even nicer to watch. What's the nicest to watch is them wearing thier grey jackets. I love looking into the dugout and seeing Bobby Cox's stern face donning that grey jacket. Hilarious.

Before I leave, nothing completes this entry like listing things that are making me love life/things that I am looking forward towards:

+ Braves baseball
+ John Mayer's "Not Myself"
+ Jump, Little Children
+ NYC trip next month
+ Graduation next month
+ Prom this weekend
+ Randomness
+ Psychology
+ Chapsku
+ Home movies with Nith

Security level: public

--fare well

what i wanna know...

Mon, 19 Apr 2004 03:48:07 GMT

...is how the hell did friendster become the new craze over the last year?

http://www.friendster.com

go make friends, and be ulkee.

...because baseball is fucking beautiful...

Sun, 11 Apr 2004 04:54:19 GMT

+ it makes conversations between my dad and i more enjoyable.
+ gives me something superficial to worry about.
+ i love watching baseball tonight, mindlessly.
+ i also love watching derosa on a regular basis.

NL East
Florida: 4-1
Atlanta: 3-2
Montreal: 2-3
Mets: 2-3
Philly: 1-4

AL West
Oakland: 4-1
Anaheim: 3-2
Texas: 3-2
Seattle: 0-5

...one word opinions...

Fri, 02 Apr 2004 03:02:57 GMT

Please sum up your opinion or impression of me in one word, leave it as a comment in this posting, and then post this sentence in your own journal.

---

I liked this idea because the thought of summing alot of qualities up into one word is ingenious. Taken from usp121sgn's journal.

...te amo el mundo...

Sun, 14 Mar 2004 03:34:22 GMT

That's all I have to say, but this owns.