University, Up to my ears, and Bobby Long

It's been forever since I last posted and I'm terribly sorry about it. School has been taking over my life. And when I'm not at school I'm at work, and if not there on the phone with a friend and occasionally visiting them. It's been crazy. Bear with me please! Don't you, forget about me (and don't forget the movie I got that line/song from = Breakfast Club!!). Seriously though, I have not forgotten about this blog, and I will make every effort to post as often as possible.

What am I currently reading? ILIAD by Homer for class, MOONSTONE by Wilkie Collins (for class too), LISYISTRATA by Aristophanes, BEOWULF, A DOLL'S HOUSE, and numerous other excerpts, all for class.

For now, I'd like to offer you one of my favourite songs EVER:

BEING A MOCKINGBIRD by BOBBY LONG

Being A Mockingbird

The night it rests like a hammerblow and breaks the morning it brings,
The mad men are down on the crypt floor sleeping through there favours and sins,
I trained myself to be hardened and greet the bird like the day,
I soared to greet lusty gamblings and drenched myself in the dusk where they lay,

I exchanged the dark for the darkness and hung the belt from the wing,
So the traitors may part with there malice but ill remember everything,
I stood up and danced round the heckles and planted the leaf from the book,
I admit i love my romances the blackbird, the wren, the rook,

The church house wont harbour the coffins but the docks they wittle there ships,
To the pleasure the feast and the memory and the soar of kissing her lips,
I gave up myself to the dawning, of the morning bird in first flight,
I thought i ran the road of the pauper,

I lost it all in the night,
I lost it all in the night,

In case video isn't picking up, HERE is the link.

Clever E-Scam

Got another funny email in my spam box today. I like to read them for a good hearty laugh. You know the emails I'm talking about. "I have X money in my account and I need your banking info to transfer the sum to you and to split the millions with you." Rightttttt.

If you had that kind of money, would you hand it over to me - a stranger - and expect said stranger to hand half back to you?

Here's a delicious extract:

SOURCE OF FUNDS:
I have a profiling amount in an excess of US$40.5M, which I seek you to accommodate for me. You will be rewarded with 40% of the total sum for your partnership. Can you handle this?

and another....

While I was on the process, my boss got arrested for his involvement in politics by financing the leading and opposing political parties (the [INSERT ORGANIZATON HERE], led by [INSERT NAME HERE], and [INSERT NAME HERE], a liberal/social democratic party led by INSERT NAME HERE), which posed as a threat to President [INSERT NAME HERE] as Russian president.

*I blocked out names because I don't know if they're real or not - aside from one which is so obviously a real name - and I'm not going there.

YOUR ROLE:

All I need from you is to stand as the beneficiary of the above mentioned sum and I will re-profile the funds with your data, which will enable the financial firm transfer the sum to you.

I wasn't addressed by name and obviously I'm part of a spam movement where they shoot out thousands and hope any will respond. One time I emailed another scammer saying "who do you think you're fooling." I didn't get a response.

I haven't been posting regularly because I've been so busy with work and writing. But I desperately want to keep up with this, I'm not giving up!

Take care,

Adaora

No Pictures, Just memories.....Legends Gone

I hate to do posts like this, but I really couldn't leave it unsaid.

Farrah Fawcett....what can I even say about this. I think she fought long and hard, and maybe it was time for her to finally rest. I hope she's relaxing on a beach in the sky with her blond hair - and flipper cut - blowing in the breeze. Such a classy lady, such a strong fight, and I'm hoping her love - Mr. O'Neal I believe - is coping OK.


RIP Farrah. You're resting as you deserve to be.


They humiliated him in life, they don't have the right to talk about his death." My twin on the media and Michael Jackson's passing.


I agree. I think what killed him was the lack of human connection. Human beings are social creatures by nature. When you isolate yourself - however justifiably as his isolation was - for the sake of your privacy, it must eat away at you sometimes. That lack of connection, the inability to find someone to talk to, to lean on, to rely on. It - in my opinion - might have been what killed him. When the media do what they do best - laud you, raise you up only to grab you and slam you down - you need someone who can be real with you and who you can have that 'I'm OK I have someone,' feeling. I don't know if he had that. I don't want to go on forever and ever about it, but I think there are a lot of lessons that can be learned from this. Living life to the fullest, not judging people, taking what is said about you with a grain of salt, finding someone to lean on when the salt starts to feel like a rain storm.


RIP Michael Jackson, you always were a thriller to me.



I truly feel as if it's the end of an era.



Adaora

More then a Feeling

Various bits of dialogue have been floating around in my head. And what annoys me about it - not annoyed that they're coming trust me, just the timing - is that I keep forgetting to bring my bleeding notepad with me. This morning I had to find blank pages in my pocket planner to accommodate the beast. I had to cram it everywhere that it could fit! This wouldn't have been necessary had I had the frigging notepad in my purse today.

The one I use is called a tablet. The pages are all attached and you roll it back to get to the next page. The back isn't ruled but the front is. It just makes me feel like a proper writer - using it instead of the hole punches binder ones - which is silly, but it is what it is.

Now I'm trying to sort it all out and put an order to all the stuff I scribbled down. I'm copying it to my tablet - which I should have had in the first place - and then I hope to get some clarity on how to order it once I've got it down neatly. But I'm starting to think my creative muse likes chaos and disorder.
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Also bought some new perfume yesterday - mind was running out - and I found ESCADA again!

Before I started wearing - Salvatore Ferragamo (Incantanto Smile) - I wore ESCADA's PACIFIC PARADISE. It smelled amazing. Unfortunately though, a lot of perfumes stop running after a year and require you to buy a new one. So I went and picked up three bottles (30 ml each) of ESCADA SUNSET HEAT. It smells amazing. It's honestly (in my opinion) even better then the other ESCADA they made before. Hopefully they will keep this one running because I'm sticking to it. The price was so cheap it was amazing.

Here's what the bottle/box look like:


I know you can smell the sunset heat wafting through your computer screens and up into your nose to tickle it.


Adaora

ARCHIE COMICS

WHAT JUST HAPPENED?

Well I just heard, the news today,
seems my life, is about to change....(Creed, Arms Wide Open)

DON'T READ FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILED....


YOU'VE BEEN WARNED....


Archie comics...heard of them?


It's been 70 years....

Archie has been torn between Betty and Veronica (he was with B first, then V at the same time...hard to explain...goes back and forth between them as the other seethes in jealousy before the pendulum swings back in their direction):






Archie and Betty:


Archie and Veronica (*fail*):



So when I heard the news today (I know, I'm really plugging this lyric but bear with me), I let out a battle cry unlike any that has been heard in my house in a long time (well...since I heard last year the latest Potter movie had been moved to July of this year). Seriously. I sounded like Zena the Warrior Princess. And if I had the ability, I'd pull Veronica out of the comic strip, put her in the real world, and place Betty in front of Archie so he can propose to HER as he should have.

What happened to the years and years of commitment with Betty. The strong and beautiful connection and relationship they had? (I feel like an idiot for being this passionate, but I basically grew up on this comic and I can't even fathom how this decision...how it happened). Veronica has barely got anything beyond fluff and a few rolls of $1000 bills in her brain. Betty is commitment, decency, compassion, THE soul mate, and YES she's even pretty too. Sure she doesn't pander to "what's in" with fashion, but she wears what she wants and she is might great in her outfits.

It might seem a bit dramatic to some folks that this is the reaction I would have, but I assure you I cannot be the only one.

The decision is (in my humble opinion), EPIC FAIL (as they say on live journal). It's such epic fail, that I can't even begin to process how it happened.


ARCHIE PROPOSED TO VERONICA. That's right, Veronica is going to be his wife.


Here's how the comic cover (which reveals all)looks:




Before I go, let's just take a moment of silence (to remember what could have been....

Summer Shopping

I have weaknesses, who doesn't? The kind of weakness in which I refer to (in this post) however, is of the retail variety.

Whenever I pass a book store, I can't help but buy books. I just cannot. So I dropped almost $50 on some books (that I'm finding to be friggin incredible).




D.H LAWERENCE'S: LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER, AND THE FIRST WOMAN IN LOVE
ANN BRASHERES: THE LAST SUMMER (OF YOU AND ME)

I'm currently reading LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER. I can't tell you much about it (because I literally bought it yesterday and have just begun it), but I will say it's amazing so far. I also must confess a bit of embarassment to be reading this on the bus home (when you consider the cover). Lady Catterley's bum is in full view and she's just had a tumle in the bedroom. I haven't had any of those scenes yet, but it's going to be cool to read this book. The back flap says:

"One of the major works of fiction written during the 20th century, D.H Lawerence's last novel is an erotic celebration of life. Described by the New York Times as "our times most significant romance," the controveral book was banned, burned, and the subject a landmark obscenity trial...It was not published in Great Britain until 1960, afteer having long scandalized society with it's sexually explicit decriptions of lovemaking, its bold use of four-letter words that were considered vulgar and a sotryline in which the lovers were of difference social stations..."

As I said, I'm loving it already, it's pretty amazing.

I also bought clothes (of course), and by that I mean dresses (because they're basically all I wear aside from skirts!)





And shoes.....



*Never heard of this brand, but their shoes are just as comfy. For someone who wears orthotics, that's an important thing.
*Clarks Artisans make the most incredibly beautiful and comfortable shoes. I have their boots, their summer sandals, their everything. It's all good. When I see their name (and my size) I buy.

It's not you, it's me (Swine Flue...er H1N1)....

I was just finishing up my essay and I couldn't help but notice the picture of a pig's HUGE nose enlarged to the point that it was pretty clear the pig wasn't camera shy! Along with the pic - of this fine swine hamming it up to the camera- came the heading "DID WE GIVE PIGS SWINE FLU?

Canadian scientists are saying we gave the flu to pigs in the first place. So people calling it the 'swine flu' probably wasn't a good idea.

But you know how we humans are; we just love to pass the blame like it's a hot potato or something.

Seriously though, why is all this debate going on about who started it? I really don't care who started it, I just want it to be gone. I think they're putting the fear of God or something else (if you're not Christian) into us, and it's really like pulling teeth. I just want to know what to do to protect myself (which I do know, after digging through who dunnit galore) and whether the numbers are going down.

It just seems like some people want us to stay in a constant society of fear, and it seems really ridiculous to me.


Guys....

Keep your money where your wallet is....not where your mouth is. Youldn't want to get sick would you?
Take care,

Adaora