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Jetcetera: Costa Rica, American Airlines &
Oktoberfest

post from Gridskipper on 06 October 2008 05:00:00 PM. © Gridskipper

Costa Rica [Flickr/flip.and.serena]

̭Costa Rica’s El Silencio Lodge & Spa epitomizes responsible luxury [CNT]
̭11 classic American dishes and their birthplaces [Forbes]
̭The Mandarin Oriental opens an outpost in Boston [Globorati]
̭American Airlines to use à la carte pricing [CNN]
̭Election-themed eats and drinks in the country’s capital city [Dcist]
·End of Oktoberfest stats: 6.6 million liters of beer, and no false teeth [Spiegel]

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jsakfjs

post from Ferroever on 06 October 2008 04:42:00 PM. © Ferroever

I hate not being able to write about stuff cos folks consider it taboo but every October I am reminded of my brush with death. I had 'cancer' between September 29th 2003 and November 21st 2003. Lying on the hard bed and having Dr Stewart - cancer spotter via sonar extraordinaire- say, 'Yes, it's cancer but you aren't going to die, bitch', kind of winded me.
Whip it out, whip it out, I protested.
You'll have to wait till at least the end of December.
Fuck that. I phoned the hospital daily and eventually got a slot for an op on Halloween.They took one ovary out and had my go-ahead to give me a full hysterical if they found anything elsewhere, which they didn't need to do. I repaired quickly; leaving the hossy on the 5th November. Then I had to wait days and days for the results. They eventually arrived, during which time I fell down Grampy's stairs, tee hee, and my stitches still fresh. Boy, did we larf. Anyway, nothing 'obvious' was detected but 'please come for check-ups twice a year for the next five years.' Well, I went for one check-up in 2004, in South Africa. I had a blood count test and an internal. During the internal the Dr said, 'Ooer, do you want babies?'
I hesitated because it has always been my major dream to have a baby.
Just kidding. I said, uh, no fucking way. She said, 'That's good cos your dooh dah is at a weird angle.' So basically, I am a freak. I don't feel the same as other women. I feel good, but different. Different angles. Etc. Anyway, this year is my 5th year and I feel okay. I just wonder how different I feel to men. Maybe I am still virtually single cos I don't do it for men? Who knows.

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ghhewe

post from Ferroever on 06 October 2008 03:59:00 PM. © Ferroever

Just had a mini-bath. I am still saving money by only turning on the water heater twice a week. This means that at some point the tank cools somewhat; like tonight. There was enough water to reach my shins, enough, enough to work up a lather to rejoice in 103 yen to the dollar. It's down to 103.180 right now. I have this cool widget thing in my sidebar and I watch it like a hawk. Just a few weeks ago I was telling the kids how much money I had possibly made if I changed my money at 107 and not 109. And now it's 103 and it's gonna go lower, much lower.
Let's just keep fingers crossed that the US doesn't get rid of the dollar that we know and introduce The Burger.
In other news, I love wine. I love how wine gives me enough of a buzz to make the day fun in the end. I'm able to forget where I am, how lonely I feel, how confused I feel about my everything. I just want somebody to come and scoop me up and take care of me. But that will never happen. Never, ever, ever.
So back to 103. Not bad. Not bad.
But it's gonna get better.
I want to write more. I don't want to leave this page. I feel connected when I am typing. When I stop typing I start flitting between this and that and this and that this and that and it's sooooooooooooooooooo maddening.
I need to read. Read. Hold a book. Not look at a screen.
I've gone crazy. In a bad way. Usually I am crazy in a refreshing way. But it's all a learning process. I thought I'd have it figured by 40. Obviously I don't.
Maybe when I am 103.
Not nite campers cos I am lonely.

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Last night in Seattle!

post from Adventures of a Gypsy Pirate Wench! on 06 October 2008 03:45:00 PM. © Adventures of a Gypsy Pirate Wench!

The Supervillians played at a place called Studio Seven! The Supervillians are a band that played St. Thomas a lot when I lived there, and I had met a few of them before so I was excited to go, also, my friend George from St. Thomas just moved to Seattle and he was going!!! So I met up with him and his friend and we all ended up partying on the tour bus with the band till like 12:30am, too late on a school night, I know. But I was fine today and nobody even realized I was sleepy cuz i just kept myself busy. Good deal. Here is a video!!!

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex sets $26
admission

post from NewYorkology: A Free New York Travel Guide on 06 October 2008 03:07:34 PM. © NewYorkology: A Free New York Travel Guide

Advance tickets are scheduled to go on sale later this month for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex, which is now scheduled to open in SoHo sometime during the first week of December, a museum spokesperson told NewYorkology....

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Peace & Quiet in London

post from Gridskipper on 06 October 2008 03:00:00 PM. © Gridskipper

Shhh%2C%20Quiet%20Please_london.jpg Some time ago an artist made a map of the quietest spots in the notoriously noisy city of London. From this map we can see that standing right in the middle of Hyde Park is likely to be quieter than standing in the middle of Hyde Park Corner roundabout. But what if you're in the thick of the most densely populated, noise polluted areas and you just can't take it any more. Londoners have a built-in coping system to deal with being in uncomfortably close proximity to people they don't know, bombarded with noise on all sides, while remaining courteous and not openly expressing their seething rage. The act of moving from point A to point B while being repeatedly elbowed in the face by people who compound the injury by cheerily chirping "Oops, sorry!" can be enough to raise stress levels to dangerous heights. But there are quiet, peaceful spaces hiding within all the craziness of central London. Here's where to step out of the city and be still, when you're right in the middle of it all.

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kifasklaskl

post from Ferroever on 06 October 2008 02:30:00 PM. © Ferroever

I guess my night wasn't over after all, as there was still something to do. The lighting of the 'katori senko'. These were a good buy. I lie. A few days after spending $8 on this big tin of mozzy coils for uh, dogs, I found some for humans at $6. Fck.
It's 74 degrees here. Or 24 degrees for the other way that folks read temps. This means that mozzies are still in the 'hood. Fckers. Mozzies like smiley people because only me and Mr Smile get bitten to death in the teachers room. I smile at school. I can't help it. I love my job. Thank god.
I was very funny in today's second year class. There's one kid in that class who totally gets my sense of humor. It's not that I'm making jokes all the time, it's just that I spice up the class by using funny voices that say, 'I really don't give a toss how stupid I look/sound as long as you guys are having fun.' Tsuyoshi-kun, he's awesome, he says stuff to his friends during my mad meltdowns like, 'Ha ha ha, she's lost it again. Ha ha ha. She's crazy!'
I tell ya, it's fun. Par example, when I read conversations in the textbooks cos I have mislaid the text cd,which I often do, I use a high-pitched voice for the males, and a deep voice for the chicks. It's funny. Sometimes, quite often actually, I have tears in my eyes from laughing so much in class. I think the kids love seeing this: a teacher having a bunch of fun in class.
Sometimes the kids ask, 'How do you spell such and such. Can you write it on the board, please.'
The other day a kid asked me to write, uh, forgot, maybe it was 'capital' on the board. So I wrote:
c-a-p-i-s-a-k-w-c-g-s-a-t-d-f-c-s-s-e-h-t-s-j-f-w-x-
Utter nonsense. Tee hee. And they all wrote it. I was cracking up inside. Eventually they realised that I was taking them for a ride and they all got their erasers out. Tee hee.
What a life, eh. Bit different to last year. Bit different to if I had decided to think about myself more and had instead taken up offers to sail on other boats in non-hurricane zones during Mexico's hurricane season. I really can't believe I came back. Stooooooopid decision based on misleading information.
But at least I will be 30,000 dollars richer. That's a lot of money. So far, out of a total of $15,000 in salary, I have saved $13,000. Not bad, not bad, especially when one considers that I had to spend 1000 bucks on a new computer - which I hate cos it's so fucking heavy but I was desperate at the time - and $3000 for the summer flights, plus other misc. expenses. Yeah, I know that doesn't add up but I had some yen when I arrived, left over from the last stint in Japan, and I was using that to get 'set up' so to speak.
So I am on track. I will leave with at least 30k, which will make me proud of myself again; cos right now, I am not proud of myself. I am feeling stupid.
October. November. December.
Please pass with speed.
Please.
Please.
I am finding myself getting really frustrated over the teeniest of things. Like picking something up and dropping it. I've been dropping heaps of things recently. Carrots, forks, books, bits of cabbage.
I'm dropping things because I am frustrated within myself. I often want to scream. I really do. I have so much pent-up energy.
And yet I hold myself together somehow. Sleeping helps. BBC Radio helps. My readers help.
Thank you.

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Hilton Garden Inn Tribeca aims to open in October

post from NewYorkology: A Free New York Travel Guide on 06 October 2008 02:16:03 PM. © NewYorkology: A Free New York Travel Guide

The 151-room Hilton Garden Inn Tribeca is scheduled to open later this month. And maybe a step up from Motel 6’s “we’ll leave the light on for you” motto, the as-yet-unfinished Hilton Garden Inn actually had a fire burning in...

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50 Sustainable Travel Tips

I’ve written before in Transitions Abroad on easy ways to lessen your environmental impact when you travel. With all the hype about offsetting airplane carbon emissions and eco-friendly travel gear, it’s easy to ignore the ongoing issues that require a slight shift in habits.I like this Sustainable Travel Tips feature that ran in a recent [...]

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October 6th 2008

I don't want to blog but I do. I do it because it's all I know this year. I hate going out. I don't crave any company. It's like I'm hiding from everything because I don't want to acknowledge that it's me here. I could have been elsewhere. If I had known what I know now, I wouldn't be here. But hey, things happen for a reason. Wtf this reason is I still have to figure out. I see no reason to it. Instead I well, I won't go there as I know it's boring for my readers to hear me whinge and whine and moan when hey, I have my health. I wish I could write all my feelings down here. All of them. But I can't. But in a nutshell; I feel like a fool.
I bought some fruit today. Persimmons. On special. $6 worth for $2. 10 mikans for $3.50. $3 worth of apples for $1.50. I bought the fruit because I liked the colours. When I feel down I crave bright things.
It's 17:18. My day is over.

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