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so i went to the university of alabama's thingamajig where they hire for temporary positions. the pool, the receptionist told me, requires 40 or 50 wpm. dude. if a secretary wanted to work for me with that speed i'd laugh politely in his or her face. (oh, i'm sorry, you WERE joking?) of course, nwpm and gwpm show quite a difference (in my case of 20 or 30 words :p), but still.

dude.

off to make more voluptuous!icons.

was fingerprinted at the police station as my family are going to have a foster child. the 'technician,' on one of two cards, printed my left index finger twice and omitted my ring finger: 'oops,' she said, 'that's not your ring finger. maybe it'll get by.' and finished the card.

good thing for the world that i'm not a criminal, huh?

ATTN GHETTO HOBBITS! YOU ARE PAPERCLIPS! NOTHING BUT RATHER OLD-FASHIONED PAPERCLIPS!

hollsk, i'm gonna stick around as long as i can waiting for you.

51 icons:plus-size model kate dillon (ED awareness week!) :>

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STAR TREK!

nemoricultrix sent me this article from salon.com.

"Star Trek" uniforms remain timeless classics, ones that seem to have directly inspired '70s glam rock -- Ziggy Stardust, for instance, looked as though he would have fit in on the Enterprise. Certainly Kirk would have shagged him.

The spinoffs have produced an empire of nerdiness. Give me a stripped-to-the-waist Republican Kirk in full-body makeup, trying to remember to suck in his waist while battling a rubber lizard-head alien with half-learned karate and pro-wrestling moves, any day of the week.

("Star Trek" cost about $100,000 an episode; Enterprise costs $6 million.) From where I'm standing, those buttons and dials look like the most precious and promising jewels in the universe. By comparison, the "Next Generation" bridge displayed next door looks like the foyer of an expense-account motel.

( on kirk and shatner: k'sal, LOOK! )

Fortunately for the story lines, this meant that Kirk was constantly breaking the Federation's Prime Directive, which forbade interference in alien cultures. Currently, we see Adm. George W. Bush, with his apparent disdain for the Prime Directive and also the Federation (United Nations) itself, in orbit around planet Iraq, preparing to beam down a heavily armed away team. Bush probably thinks himself more Kirk than Picard, but he's mistaken: He simply doesn't have the same pathos. Or the twinkly eyes.

Moreover, Spock was obviously passionately in love with his rug-wearing bisexual WASP jock captain, something not lost on the bitchy, swishy and rather jealous ship's doctor, Bones McCoy, who wasted no opportunity to tease his green-blooded colleague. ...Interestingly, the stellar love affair between Spock and Kirk, which has its roots in Greek mythology and American literature (e.g., Alexander and Hephaestion, Huck and Jim, Ishmael and Queequeg) seems to have grown out of the clash of Shatner's and Nimoy's planet-size thespian egos: Roddenberry, driven frantic by their on-set competitiveness, was advised by Isaac Asimov, no less, to channel it by strengthening their on-screen relationship.

There was a kind of innocent intensity to many of those shows that is impossible to replicate today, an intensity that somehow manages to coexist with a campy tone, even down to the marvelous episode titles: "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky," "City on the Edge of Forever," or "Is There No Truth in Beauty?" ...That was the greatness of "Star Trek" -- at its best it was like an updated Greek drama for the TV generation. At its worst, well, it was still entertaining.

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DUDE, you're so luscious.

for my reference, from leyenn's trek chronology, for the ks!story

2233 - James Kirk is born, in Iowa on Earth, on March 22. (This is based on The Deadly Years)
2271 - STTMP (making him... 38 then)
...Then they do go on another 5-year mission, according to conjecture, returning in 2276...
2277 - Spock accepts command of the Enterprise; Jim=44
2281 - Kirk retires from Starfleet, age 48
2284 - Kirk returns to Starfleet as an instructor, age 51
2285 - STII - WoK - 'Admiral James Kirk celebrates his 52nd birthday.'

quizzzzz

this seven sins thing looked more interesting than it is. watch me edit indiscriminately: the thing's too long, too.
( and then the virtues too? oh dear. )

witty and URBANE, bitch

k/s. LOVE. lovelovelovelove...

also, on the subject, i'm sure you're all very interested to know that WAX.

(ahaha, i amuse myself so greatly. whee! i'm writing! k/s!)

still the prettiest

this is eating disorder awareness week, but i prefer to say 'love your body,' cause it has a nicer ring.

liv tyler's much more beautiful sister mia is the subject of this gip.

i knew you had to have a better half (::disgust::)--innit a great lyric? and--love your body!

another gip, beautiful plus size model kate dillon. rar. keyword 'princess.' it's been too long since i had one of those.

should i get my hair cut like mandy moore's or not? hmmm ::frown::.