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theladyrose) wrote2005-07-04 12:50 pm
theladyrose) wrote2005-07-04 12:50 pm
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229 years and counting, America
Laundry detergent: $4.19
Stain remover: $3.17
Laundry bag: $8.99
Total cost for using a washer and dryer in Weld Hall: $2.00
Being photographed lugging a gigantic bag with your roommate and her gigantic laundry bag by those crazy tourists in Harvard Yard because your dorm is too old to have laundry facilities: priceless
(I am being corrupted by advertising!)
In other words, my clothing doesn't seem to have shrunk or been dyed a different color. This is a good sign so far. I spent a good five minutes deciding whether or not I should put my clothes in the color or bright color cycle before pressing the button that I didn't mean to press.
I seem to have all sorts of mysterious bruises on my arms and on my left knee, so I look vaguely like somebody's been using me as a punching bag (in Ellie's own words). Perhaps I'm sleepwalking and bump into things in the night? Or maybe it's me being clumsy and randomly walking into things again without remembering what happened a few hours later, a more likely possibility.
I had lunch and dinner with my parents, and then we listened to the Pops starting with the 1812 Overture (why everyone is celebrating a Russian victory here, I don't know, but yay for a thawed Cold War!) and waatched the fireworks across the river. Danielle, lucky duck, got great seats at the Pops concert and had a spectacular view of the fireworks along the river. Did I mention that the conductor, Keith Lockhart, is actually pretty cute besides the fact that he has a really smooth conducting style? As much as I love him as a composer/conductor, Bernard Herrmann, on the other hand, looks a little like he's having a seizure if you watch him conduct "the Storm Clouds" in the remake of the Man Who Knew Too Much. Life is currently conspiring to mock me every time I'm in the Boston area by preventing me from seeing every single concert that John Williams, only one of the greatest living film composers, is conducting. I'm missing the Williams-conducted Pops concert as well as his Tanglewood session, and in April I also missed that concert that he conducted. It's a conspiracy, I tell you...
Stain remover: $3.17
Laundry bag: $8.99
Total cost for using a washer and dryer in Weld Hall: $2.00
Being photographed lugging a gigantic bag with your roommate and her gigantic laundry bag by those crazy tourists in Harvard Yard because your dorm is too old to have laundry facilities: priceless
(I am being corrupted by advertising!)
In other words, my clothing doesn't seem to have shrunk or been dyed a different color. This is a good sign so far. I spent a good five minutes deciding whether or not I should put my clothes in the color or bright color cycle before pressing the button that I didn't mean to press.
I seem to have all sorts of mysterious bruises on my arms and on my left knee, so I look vaguely like somebody's been using me as a punching bag (in Ellie's own words). Perhaps I'm sleepwalking and bump into things in the night? Or maybe it's me being clumsy and randomly walking into things again without remembering what happened a few hours later, a more likely possibility.
I had lunch and dinner with my parents, and then we listened to the Pops starting with the 1812 Overture (why everyone is celebrating a Russian victory here, I don't know, but yay for a thawed Cold War!) and waatched the fireworks across the river. Danielle, lucky duck, got great seats at the Pops concert and had a spectacular view of the fireworks along the river. Did I mention that the conductor, Keith Lockhart, is actually pretty cute besides the fact that he has a really smooth conducting style? As much as I love him as a composer/conductor, Bernard Herrmann, on the other hand, looks a little like he's having a seizure if you watch him conduct "the Storm Clouds" in the remake of the Man Who Knew Too Much. Life is currently conspiring to mock me every time I'm in the Boston area by preventing me from seeing every single concert that John Williams, only one of the greatest living film composers, is conducting. I'm missing the Williams-conducted Pops concert as well as his Tanglewood session, and in April I also missed that concert that he conducted. It's a conspiracy, I tell you...
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I'm trying to read this super-intellectual book on perspectives on the "new" journalism, and it merely proceeds to make me feel like an idiot because I always end up reading it at 3 in the morning. I already have a decent feel for the basics as I've been (theoretically) reporting for the last six years, and we haven't really gotten to the interesting bits about media ethics and whatnot since everyone has the same views. Everyone in my class claims that she would go to jail for not revealing their anonymous sources so that they could become really famous and get a job at the New York Times. Pathetic, huh? You could practically see all of the angels' halos coming out. Besides my terrific instructor (and I'm not being sarcastic), I seriously believe that I'm the only one in the room who's had to face the consequences of not giving up her sources.
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Now for the story: I published an article on student computer hackers that only the admin ended up reading anyway. Needless to say the Tech Dept. was very upset with me, and the next week it just so happened that our newspaper was apparently spending too much on toner to print out our copies. Once the toner budget was slashed (i.e. toner every two months, and if you're printing out 415 copies of newspaper that's 11x13 you're pretty much screwed) we ended up having to photocopy 414 copies of the newspaper in the faculty workroom. Eventually the dean of students got so annoyed with us hogging one photocopier that she convinced the Tech Dept. to restore the budget four months later. The monthly newspaper had the same paper size and printed even more copies, yet their budget was never slashed. Yay for freedom of the press at a school where the Constitution is legally second to the school guidelines...
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I made it but it won't load on lj...and I loaded it on my geocities account and when I clicked on it, all i got was one of those [x]'s, no icon...*is sad*, help me!!!
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Are you sure that you saved it as a GIF and didn't accidentally leave it as a Photoshop/ImageReady-only compatible file? There also might be an issue that the file is too big in size (can't exceed 40 KB for LJ) or the dimensions exceed 100x100 pixels.
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