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[miz_anneliese]

Dear god I'm bored. Here I sit at w3rk, nothing to do, 8 hours to kill.

I am cleaning my email inbox. WHEE!

I'm thinking of declaring a computer moratorium at home to catch up on my reading. I'm in the middle of about 4 books right now, none of which I've made significant progress on, because every time I pick them back up I waste a half hour going back over everything I've read. Plus, I have a ton of books I haven't started, and a bunch of "smart" books (Celtic history, Bertrand Russell, Sin and the Bible and the Gnostic Gospels, Myth of Monogamy, etc etc etc) that I can't read in small chunks just before bedtime... they don't register, because I'm tired, and my concentration isn't very good. What I should do is call in sick one of these days and have N password protect my computer so I can't get in at all >.< Then I can sit with my Canada Dry and some lo-fat Cheesy Poofs in my ridiculously comfy chair and read until my muscles cramp up. I remember when I used to do that in college - I think I actually impressed my roomie with my ability to sit in one spot for an entire day, only moving to eat, drink, and visit the bathroom. (I still remember the day itself, I was wading through the Terry Goodkind series again... I think I was re-reading books 1 and 2 so I could start on 3.)

Anyway. People, be interesting today... I'm probably going to risk the wrath of IT by leaving LJ up nearly all day (yay nonexistent workload), so make it worth my while ;)

If it helps, I'll even give you a task: Tell me something about you. Anything that I probably don't know yet, doesn't have to be interesting or weird, just... something, so maybe I can get to know the friends list better :)

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[ethereal-dusk.livejournal.com]

This is probably boring, but I am probably the oldest fan of Marilyn Manson. Okay, not enough? The last novel I read was in like 1997, and I never finished it. It was the 3rd book of Blade Runner (originally Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick). I hate reading. That should surprise you in itself. :)

[miz-anneliese.livejournal.com]

The book itself, not surprising. That you hate reading, does kinda surprise me, though :) You seem like someone who would be much interested in weird deep dark sorts of books :)

[ethereal-dusk.livejournal.com]

Well, honestly, I do not like to read, because I prefer to write. If I read everyone elses' writing, it tends to influence my own style, and that is not good. I cannot recall if it was Socrates or Plato, but one of them once said "If a writer, write. If a reader, read." I have lived by that since I was a teenager. Plus, I only have so much time in a day! Time spent reading could be time spent writing....

As for the "weird deep dark sorts of books", well, I prefer to write them. :) And one will be published in the upcoming year(s), and maybe many more. I am slowly getting back into my favorite passion, because a friend is pushing me to do so, and I need to be pushed.

[miz-anneliese.livejournal.com]

mm. autobiography, eh?

;)

[ethereal-dusk.livejournal.com]

Autobiography-- one that I did indeed start a few years ago. I got up to age 5 and decided "OMG, this is/will be too much of an undertaking." Seriously. Maybe one day I will begin working on that again. I have written 9 novels so far, and the last one I tried to have published was when I was 20.... 14 years ago. I have written since then, but it has always been just for me. The friends who have read my writings really like them, and I should get back to them. The newest book that I will be working on, and pushed by my friend, is a book on cemetery art and photography. Maybe if I can get into that, I can get back into writing the novels. Then maybe I will realize that my writing skills have progressed immensely since I last wrote. I just gotta make the time to write again. I am so trying to get back there again. The last few years have just not "been there" for me.

[foxhack.livejournal.com]

... third book? I thought Blade Runner was based on one novel only (Do androids dream of electric sheep?)...

[cag.livejournal.com]

gouldc [at] umsystem [dot] edu

[cag.livejournal.com]

Something you don't know, yet. Hmmmm, you've been reading my LJ for awhile, and I'm pretty informative there.

You really want to be creative? What don't you know about me that you'd like to? :P

Okay, here is a factoid. Although I have had as many as eleven piercings, I am currently reduced to three: one in each ear and the Prince Albert, though I have been flirting with putting the septum ring back in semi-permanently.

[miz-anneliese.livejournal.com]

ah, but I have been only privy to select pieces for a little while ;)

I have just a very bad thought involving looking for where the rest of the piercings may have been. (...whether or not I could guess right.)

Done now.

I'll trade you factoids:
I have had as many as 8 piercings and now only 7. Mine are boring, though, 3 in the left ear, 4 in the right, and one nostril. I'd like to get a lip ring, but I think I'm pushing it at work enough as it is.
I also have 1 tattoo on my upper right thigh that makes for very interesting times at parties, when people request to see it.

[miz-anneliese.livejournal.com]

I know what I could do in my spare time, I could work on my counting skills!
I've actually only had as many as 8, but now currently have 8. My upper left ear was removed before my nostril was added.

[cag.livejournal.com]

My upper left ear was removed before my nostril was added.

Wow, talk about extreme bod mod! :P~

[miz-anneliese.livejournal.com]

*laugh* you hush.

[cag.livejournal.com]

I have just had a very bad thought involving [...]

That could be fun. ;) If you'd like to guess, though, I could give you a hint....

Piercings are never boring. I just have an urge to chew on them when I see them, and not everyone likes having their ears nibbled.

What is the tatt of? I have six tatts: one on each calf, left forearm, right bi-/tricep, nape, and back/shoulders.

Email me, if you can, I have a question for you that I don't necessarily want to ask on open LJ....

[miz-anneliese.livejournal.com]

chewing on my ears has a tendency to make me giggle... I think it's the only place I'm still ticklish :P

My design is a circular celtic knot. Fairly small and really needs re-coloring. I want more tattoos *badly* though, and have 2 in mind - now I just need them designed :P

Also, about 2 secs ahead of you with the emailing :)

[cag.livejournal.com]

Why so you are. My response is one the way.

[trav.livejournal.com]

Currently I've got a overflowing bookshelf of "Books to read". I'm tending to read them when working out lately since I'm stuck in my game.

God, what don't you know about me? um, OK, I've got a copy of the original "Howl's Moving Castle" novel, that I picked up in a used bookstore because they name rang some bells in my head, but I didn't remember about the anime movie til a few days later (this was pre-release).

[miz-anneliese.livejournal.com]

That's coooooool. I loved the movie!

[trav.livejournal.com]

Book's pretty different from the movie. Scarecrow in the book is portrayed more as a threat than a helper. Black door leads somewhere else too.

[foxhack.livejournal.com]

I have over 100 paperback books and 30 video games that I haven't finished. How's that?

[miz-anneliese.livejournal.com]

well, get to it, mister!!

I'm certainly headed that way myself... I almost never finish video games, I get bored towards the end. Though I'm going to make an effort to at least finish a *few* of my damn books :)

[sadgirlseven.livejournal.com]

sorry i didn't respond in time to abate the boredom.

but i hear you on the reading. i FINALLY finished angela davis' "are prisons obsolete?" the other day on lunch break. the kicker is that the book is only 100 pages or so. if i'd sat down and read it, i could have finished it in a day. but i only read it in chunks. blah. good read, though, if you want to know more about the prison industrial complex. i admit i have a big crush on angela. she has a real gift for writing in both an academic and a "real world" kind of way.

i've also been working my way through howard zinn's "a people's history of the united states." i'm not sure if i'll finish it before school starts, but i'm going to try. i'm about 130 pages into the book; it's probably 500+. oof. still, it's fantastic, if you're a history nerd.

i need to finish reading the international socialist org's handbook as well. i'm doing that in sections. a pretty good case of socialism, honestly.

what else? not much fiction reading this summer. i wanted to read a LOT more, but got bogged down in other things. i did manage to read the elliott smith bio, but i can't say it was good. i've been reading bits of the essential rumi here and there, too. mostly before bed. hoping for erotic dreams. ;)

something about me: i lost my virginity at wright-patt air force base.

[miz-anneliese.livejournal.com]

History tends to = boring, to me. With 2 notable exceptions - Ancient Greek and Roman history and the period just after that, that includes the rise of christianity.
I hope you make better progress than I am :P It's so hard for me to read "smart" books because they are so much to take in.

Does the rumi/erotic dreams thing work? Might be worth trying :D

Re: your fact, I did not know that! That's actually pretty cool. I lost mine in a hotel in Sharonville, but surely you've heard *that* story before.

[sadgirlseven.livejournal.com]

funny, 'cos those parts of history are really boring to me! heh. i'm surprised at how much i'm enjoying american history. i admit that euro civ last quarter bored me to tears, but i think that was mostly the instructor's slapdash method of teaching it. she relied on terms and sometimes made connections between certain movements, but she focused SO MUCH on france. i admit i stopped going to her lectures about midway through the quarter. i couldn't take it anymore.

i'm most interested in women's history, 50s/60s/70s leftist movements in the US, nyc history (still have a book on the gangs of new york to read), and socialist/communist traditions. there is a LOT to read. it's overwhelming, but hey, i plan to spend the next 10 years studying and writing about this stuff, so i might as well get comfy.

"smart" books take me a while, unless i am very interested in the subject. but i'm such a history nerd that i really do enjoy reading non-fiction historical tomes. NERD.

i have not yet had an erotic dream after reading rumi at bedtime, but ymmv.

i'm not sure i've heard your "losing ye olde virginity" tale, so you might have to tell me sometime.