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Name: Hannah
Gender: Female
Interests: WWI, reading, gaming, acting, drawing, singing, animals, bubble tea, Star Wars, history.
Expertise: WWI
Occupation: NYU student
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Member Since:
10/19/2006
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Citizen Kane
By Georgia Backus, Fortunio Bonanova, Sonny Bupp, Ray Collins, Dorothy Comingore
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Fuck. I took such good care him too, god dammit! Well, fish aren't
exactly known for living terribly long anyway. The new apartment thing
is going alright I guess, but there are a few things I'm rather unhappy
about. First of all, the floor is not complete. There was construction
on the apartment right before we moved in and the front area was
extended to give us more room, which is good, but they haven't
installed a new floor in that area yet--it's been two weeks already,
they should get on it. John should get on it, the landlords are his
aunt and uncle. They said last week that they had to order a new floor
from Home Depot because they don't make it anymore and it's not in yet.
Personally, I think that's bullshit, and they should be doing more to
ensure that our floor gets here. It's extremely annoying because we
can't set up that front area. And sometimes, it's really chilly in the
apartment. That's another thing I keep telling John to get on. Our
conversation went something like this. The landlord pays for our heat.
"Alright, I'll see if they can turn up the heat and we'll pay the difference."
"Um,
no, we're not going to pay the difference. They pay for the heat, so
it's their job to keep it at a comfortable temperature, not at the bare
minimum that is legally acceptable. This is reflecting very poorly on
your extended family, John."
I'm not paying for heat or any
portion of the heat. And I'm not living there if the heat levels are
unaccpetable by my standards, and that they are. | | |
| That I have not updated in over a month! Anyway, I discovered www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com!
I know, I'm unnaturally obsessed with perfumes.
Schools going okay as usual--not great, not terribly. My father broke his ankle a few weeks ago walking down a flight of stairs and tripping on a pile of books. He says he twisted it on the books, fell, twisting it further and it snapped. Fucking ouch. So my spring break wasn't much of a break. I was helping my father, helping my mother because she had eye surgery last weekend due to a torn retina, and over this past weekend, I've been helping John move himself into the new apartment I wrote about in my previous entry.
Why does Fluffy's water generate algae at a ferocious rate?
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| And in doing so, I ruined a very impressive bubble nest that he's been working on since Thursday.
Anyway, John and I have an apartment lined up for March so now I can finally leave the awful NYU housing system. It's in Brooklyn, which is not ideal but rent will be $1,600 a month--I'm not going to find much better unless I start looking in really grungy neighborhoods and this apartment is in a very safe one. I'm seeing it later tonight. Hopefully there will be room for two large gaming PCs and a big-ass dresser because the one I have at home is enormous and does not come apart but I'd rather not purchase another one. The only catch is that we need to start paying rent next month, which is not ideal for me, but John can move in by then. And it would allow me to gradually start moving my stuff over. Anyway, this seems really promising. Oh, and we'll have a garden!
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art has an exhibition through the 19th of February featuring works from the Weimar Republic. I had to see it for my Painting and Drawing Class, and I highly suggest that all of you readers who are in town go check it out. It's called Glitter and Doom, though it's less glitter and more doom.
It was interesting to see the artwork from a collapsing society. You could call it decadent, immoral, or whatever you want, but it's a question of economics. Inflation went crazy, German citizens were bitter, and anti-Semitism was on the rise. Germany had transitioned from one corrupt government to another, and an entire generation of men had been virtually wiped out. This affected the young women who had been raised believe that they would get married and have a family, but they couldn't because there were not enough men around. These women needed to support themselves somehow, and professional work was not exactly an option - This is Europe in the 1920's. Their families couldn't pay for them, most families couldn't pay for themselves. Becoming a prostitute and/or burlesque showgirl payed the rent.
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The Lost Boys
By Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Barnard Hughes, Edward Herrmann, Kiefer Sutherland, Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, Jamison Newlander, Brooke McCarter, Billy Wirth, Alex Winter, Chance Michael Corbitt, Alexander Bacon Chapman, Nori Morgan, Todd Feder, Christopher Peters, Keith Butterfield, Gerald Younggren, Eric Graves
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It's probably not cool that I'm advertizing but l'Artisan Parfumeur makes wonderful, long-lasting perfumes. And their candles are yummy-smelling.
http://www.artisanparfumeur.com/uk/index2.html
Anyway, I was trying to get through "A Vindication on the Rights of Women" (Wollstonecraft) but failing. I gave up on it after 50 pages. I admit defeat, I can't comprehend anything this woman wrote. I'm sure she had very valid points at the time (women shouldn't be treated like animals, women she be educated) but what the hell is she saying? One should not have to work this hard to be able to understand what he or she is reading. And I usually put books down if they bore me that much. So I've been catching up on reading that I've missed over the past couple weeks.
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