{ let me / tell you that I am a rock, mythical / and heavy and unyielding. }

[delga]

True story: the Maltesers MaltEaster Bunny thing that has just come out? TOTALLY DELISH.

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Other things that are also true: despite having paid absolutely NO attention to the Democratic Convention 2008, I still have most of DemCon04 on tape. I say most. Tonight I went looking for the tape which had Obama's speech on it and couldn't find it. Seriously. What the fuck. I have speeches by random delegates, Al Gore, John Kerry and Joe Biden but not Obama, Clinton or Heinz or anyone that I actually properly cared about this time around. I did my Eng. Lang coursework on speeches, though, so I think it's possible that I gave my tape of Obama's speech to someone else. What?

Yeah. The guy took office yesterday, and I'm here talking about a speech he gave four years ago.

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Today I went into the community centre and worked my usual morning shift. I came home after midday and apparently lost all track of time because suddenly it was time to leave for the late shift. It's much quieter on Wednesday nights, but that allowed me to answer some calls, print off some leaflets, and have some one-to-one time with the newer/basics students. All in all, pretty great.

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Oh gosh, guys, I totally need to book a train ticket to Cambridge tomorrow. Stab me until it's done, please.

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Embarrassing: covered the death shift at the store on Monday night and ended up talking to a friend of mine from primary school. I was hit with a brickload of shame, guys, which I promptly bitchslapped myself for if only because: what. the. fuck. I should know better.

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And so, yes, I'm so tired, waking up too early on days I need to be out of the house, and massively overcompensating/oversleeping on the days I have off. On the plus side: I have two Donna Tartt novels to read (arms of yay here, yes thanks) and it turns out that I'm still in love with Big Love. Like. Massively. Completely. In love. I love it. I LOVE IT.

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So, I got a snooty comment and a defriending over poetry. Which. Whatever. Friend/de-friend, this booty is a burden to none but me etc. etc. BUT. Like. Seriously? This is a problem? Poetry? I guess if you signed up to read about the badassery of Ziva David or how much I want to stab Charlie Eppes in the face with a fork then the poetry comes as a bit of a surprise. But. SERIOUSLY. THIS IS THE ISSUE?

Maybe I'm being a bitch, but shit: get a bite of culture. What the fuck?

All of this is longhand for what I said yesterday, really: I'm not reducing the poetry posts, and I'm not filtering them, and that's what the scroll bar is for, guys. If it bothers you, then filter me out, or de-friend. And I'm sure there are some of you who, if you do cut me from your lists it's going to bother/upset me. On the other hand, the secondary instinct will be one of epic eye-rolling. Seriously? SERIOUSLY? THE POETRY? My mind boggles kind of ridiculously about this. What. the. shit.

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Whoop, whoop; new Lost! New Criminal Minds! HURRAH HURRAH!

Comments

[atlashrugged.livejournal.com]

You're looking for Obama's 2004 DNC speech? That is randomly exciting for me. I had it on my computer for the longest time and have the text of the speech saved as well, along with other random speeches, and are we the same person? I nearly OMG-ed (?) myself to death a few years ago when I found that American Rhetoric website. That's my favorite of his speeches, I think, because he was new to me at the time, I only remembered his name for the vowels, and it still gives me goosebumps. I also love the one he gave in VA in the pouring rain. But, yes, that 2004 one is awesome.

Um, who would defriend over poetry? That's stupid and poetry posts should do the opposite anyway. You keep posting poems I've bookmarked one way or another and along with NCIS/Spooks/other things, it's as if you're my brain.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

It's true: I'm actually a part of your brain which has siphoned itself off and set up shop in The Middle of Nowhere, England.

Yes, that's the one I'm looking for. I had it on tape, I know I did, but I can't find it. My tapes are labelled 1, 3, 4 etc. so where the heck #2 is, I don't know. I really hope I didn't give it to someone without claiming it back. I love that speech; there are whole sections that I still remember: if you feel the same energy that I do, if you feel the same urgency that I do, if you feel the same passion that I do, if you feel the same hopefulness that I do [...] this country will reclaim its promise, and out of this long political darkness a brighter day will come. I want to show it to my dad because I've been talking about Obama on-and-off since '04, and Dad only worked out who he is this year.

I KNOW RIGHT. Ridiculousness abounds. Haha, yeah, sometimes I read through your delicious links looking for stuff that I like, and sometimes I come across stuff I've already bookmarked or bought or borrowed. Kudos!

[general-jinjur.livejournal.com]

wow. i like the poetry? it's like the secret prize inside your lj.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Aw, I love that image; thanks for that! I feel like a Kinder Surprise.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

On the one hand: you read what you want, and if there's nothing here for you, then, goodbye, I guess. On the other hand: it was the snooty comment I got with the de-friending that wound me up. I mean: what the hell?

[tartary-lamb.livejournal.com]

I loved Obama's 2004 DNC speech so much that I saved a video file of it to my laptop. If I remember right, the quality's not great, but I'd be happy to upload it for you if you'd like a walk down memory lane. ;)

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Thank you - I've got it on tape... somewhere. But I just found it on-line, too. I want to show it to my dad.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Okay, so, I love you for that so much. I can't stop laughing; I just keep reading it and giggling. My mother thinks I'm having an aneurysm. SO GOOD!

[loki-dip.livejournal.com]

*sighs* If people don't like someone posting something they should filter/defriend. That's what those handy LJ functions are for.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

truth, yo.