urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka mekka mekka 2005-11-30T15:10:09Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:45183 2005-11-30T15:10:09Z 2005-11-30T15:10:09Z kiwi, josh, lookit!<br /><br /><br />"The Iranians are about to commit an "offense" far greater than Saddam Hussein's conversion to the euro of Iraq’s oil exports in the fall of 2000"<br /><br /><br />"Indeed, the author’s original pre-war hypothesis was validated shortly after the war in a Financial Times article dated June 5th, 2003, which confirmed Iraqi oil sales returning to the international markets were once again denominated in US dollars, not euros."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CLA410A.html">http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CLA410A.html</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:45033 2005-08-22T03:46:05Z 2005-08-22T03:46:05Z summertime is drawing to a close, nights are getting chilly again and i don't mind. <br />summer's end was intensely difficult and minimally rewarding, but ask me about it again in a few years and i'll probably tell you differently. <br />house full of humans still and all i want is my space back and my quiet time. <br />my car is somewhere. rich, if you happen to look at the internet, specifically my livejournal, please call or return my car. please. thanks. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:43878 2004-12-07T06:36:01Z 2004-12-07T06:36:01Z ...stolen from jpb, and in no particular order<br /><br />1. making big dinners with lots of people<br />2. friends who pick you up off the bathroom floor<br />3. friends who tow you out of ditches<br />4. summer's end<br />5. spring<br />6. adrenaline<br />7. (other people's) (physical) trauma<br />8. kinky sex<br />9. doing things i thought i couldn't<br />10. first time sex<br />11. three hundredth time sex<br />12. honest, direct communication<br />13. pushing<br />14. being pushed<br />15. the noodle<br />16. physical labor<br />17. woodstoves<br />18. fireplaces<br />19. singing<br />20. muscles<br />21. shoulders<br />22. geeks<br />23. passion<br />24. stories<br />25. reading<br />26. fantasizing<br />27. vermont<br />28. writing<br />29. marconi beach<br />30. farms<br />31. coffee<br />32. cigarettes<br />33. goats<br />34. jason's potato tacos<br />35. chocolate<br />36. sailing<br />37. feminisms<br />38. spalted wood<br />39. creative furniture<br />40. water<br />41. lightning<br />42. my littlest brother<br />43. erotica<br />44. cooperative living<br />45. friendly bickering<br />46. not having metal in my cunt<br />47. home<br />48. adventures<br />49. children<br />50. outside<br />51. whisky <br />52. claw foot bathtubs<br />53. drinking whisky in a claw foot bathtub<br />54. learning<br />55. flirting<br />56. the toronto subway<br />57. mirrors<br />58. zines<br />59. when caleb cooks steaks<br />60. when mariah makes dessert<br />70. swimming<br />71. tattoos<br />72. teaching<br />73. firefighters<br />74. camraderie<br />75. journals<br />76. falling in love<br />77. lolita<br />78. being silly<br />79. banjos<br />78. conversation<br />79. good beer<br />80. art from my friends<br />81. hoedowns<br />82. smart hip hop<br />83. dumb country<br />84. anarchism<br />85. laughter<br />86. long car trips<br />87. connection<br />88. charles/mgh stop on the red line<br />89. olives<br />90. fresh bread<br />91. masturbation<br />92. familiartiy<br />93. trust<br />94. snuggling<br />95. backrubs<br />96. npr<br />97. autumn<br />98. the west river<br />99. broad brook<br />100. intensity urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:42830 2004-11-25T06:44:46Z 2004-11-25T06:44:46Z nothing makes you insecure quite like your family.<br />can i go home now? urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:41763 2004-11-11T19:17:59Z 2004-11-11T19:17:59Z mwah ha ha. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:41400 2004-11-08T20:19:00Z 2004-11-08T20:19:00Z still can't find laura.<br />still playing phone tag with macon.<br />highly proficient flirts rock my world.<br />days off are delicious.<br />plasticking the windows is really a two person job. <br />dirty dishes are fewer than they appear.<br />it's going to be a cold cold night. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:39813 2003-07-31T05:12:41Z 2003-07-31T05:12:41Z 1) have home! yay vermont!<br />2) summer's end soon! yay nice people!<br />3) have tattoo! yay hot! and yay laura who held my hand!<br /><br />there is more, but i just came home from work and therefore need to focus on my drink. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:39451 2003-07-08T21:25:16Z 2003-07-08T21:25:16Z the devil makes three The past couple days: laura and martha sitting in sharon. drinking beer. smoking pot. smoking pot. not getting to greenfield. smoking...more...pot... oh god, where did my brain go? poorly-made bonfires, lake, barely tolerable high school friends...yup, definitely in sharon. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:39361 2003-06-26T05:37:21Z 2003-06-26T05:37:21Z today rocked. worked a double, did a good number of decent calls. it was hot and humid. it felt good to sweat until it got in my eyes when my hands were busy. we did a really good mix of medical and trauma and worked with some of my favorite medics. as much as i like the quiet days at work, i love being busy. (today we did a stabbing, a motorcycle accident, a pedi asthmatic, and a heroin OD. ten calls in sixteen hours- perfect.) my new schedule puts me in contact with all the people i haven't seen in months. my otherwise useless partner du jour said something along the lines of "gosh, you sure do get a lot of hugs" it was an accurate observation. (unlike his navigation which was anything but accurate)<br />drove home with jim, stopped for beer, went wading in the ocean while waiting to sober up. now i have cozy stolen underpants and the softest threadbare tank top in the universe and a drink. yup. practically perfect.<br /><br />tomorrow's agenda: deal with car crap. paint toenails (because it's been at least a year since i did, and i felt unexpectedly jealous of a nurse's sparkly orange nails today) get in touch with laura (HINT-HINT call me ::cough::) find out ryan's schedule and attempt to determine date of stuffdoing. nap. dine with the romi. obtain red lipstick and squooshypants. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:39136 2003-06-18T03:16:00Z 2003-06-18T03:16:00Z um... update:<br />spring was great- not lifechanging, but good and fun. <br />stupid jerkboy, formerly known as hotboy, made me cry and i hate his guts for it. <br />lost my partner to the world of per diem employees who only come out at night in varying degrees of frequency.<br />my car died, but only a little. it's still away from me getting fixed tho. missing easy mobility. <br />working with shitheads this week. <br />grrr.<br /><br />in better news, every time men abandon me, i start exercising ferociously. today i went for a long run, spent a few hours at the climbing gym, and didn't eat anything bad for me. (this means that i only ate food with nutritional value, not that i had an apple and a glass of water or something)<br />i'm gonna get so buff i will be able to beat the shit out of him. thinking of taping his photo to the punching bag... anyway, i shall soon be the muscled wonder and scare all the stupid jerks away from me. you have to be very brave to date me :)<br /><br />laura, call me. domicile related business. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:38784 2003-05-29T20:06:28Z 2003-05-29T20:06:28Z boys can suck it. i hate disappointments. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:38571 2003-05-16T04:11:37Z 2003-05-16T04:11:37Z i have almost conquered the math with a good bit of help from my little friend concerta. <br />i've decided that taking it is better than having mini meltdowns, provided i don't exceed the reccomended dosage. does kinda remind me of the bad old days, but that is quickly forgotten as soon as i start working. i look up, three hours have passed, and i have progressed. anything that can help me do that is ok with me. <br />missing "my young fella" as my grandmother calls him, but i shall be patient. i know i will see him next week. <br />wearing thin, but it's almost over.... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:38270 2003-05-13T05:54:36Z 2003-05-13T05:54:36Z meow mix meow mix<br />i hate phone tag :)<br />i obsess too much sometimes. <br />i hate math. i feel like i'm in an intensive language immersion program.<br />got mommy a kitten for mommy's day. she named it faye, and it is cuuuuuute.<br />i am a good detective- the paramedics said so. <br />adenosine is such cool shit. i was contemplating out loud that i want to feel what asystole is like. it's kind of the ultimate reset. the medics told me they'd give me some to try but that i'd have to take off my shirt so they could put me on the monitor. obnoxious. but i didn't hit them until they said that it works best when taken while jumping up and down. bilateral stomach punching makes everyone happier. as annoying as it is to work in a place where people make inappropriate comments, i love working in a place where it's fairly acceptable to hit people.<br />summah's end baby! staffy meety at my housie! rock rock! excitement! <br />to the bed now. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:37440 2003-05-04T22:51:03Z 2003-05-04T22:51:03Z laura and i went greeeenfielding.<br />greenfield is good.<br />the bike shop gentlemen weren't overtly sexist and were involved in local politics. the bead shop lady made hippie jokes. the british lady who made our coffee was adorable and smiled a lot. the guy at the co-op was nice. there is a womens' center. and a stable or tack shop whose motto is "making riding affordable"<br />we stayed with solon and haley who are rock stars. saw kiwi (also a rock star) and her lovely cohorts, gave out spring! flyers...<br />good stuff. yes. now the stressing out and the tests and applications and househunting ensue! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:37362 2003-05-01T06:17:34Z 2003-05-01T06:17:34Z <center>"Laura, when we live together, we can't do this every night, ok?"</center><br /><br />That's right folks, it's laur/amartha drunken/stoned livejournal extravaganza!<br /><br />Martha just went on a super stealth secret ninja mission to retrieve the cold chinese food from the vroom-vroom. Here's a short interview:<br /><br />L: "And how was that super ninja secret...mission thing?"<br /><br />M. "It was a success. It was a great, <i>great&lt;/&gt; success." (nods affirmatively)<br /><br />Martha deemed herself "Insight Central," and she proclaims, "Men lie."<br /><br />And we talk about sex<br /><br />and the politics of roadhead<br /><br />and the etiology(etymology?) of "shafted." M.:"I'll bet it's to do with penises. Those penises, they're at it again." She begins to softly sing to herself, "penises....those little teeny penises...<br /><br /><br />laura says i have to write now. she needs appeasibg so i will write now. laura and i are having one of our grrl time intoxication riots. i'm having trouble staying focusseed/.<br />laura hates boys, some more than others. i concur. we're having spelunkings. i don't really understand, either. adventures. journeys. with FUN!!! Joyous Glee! GLEEE!!!!<br /><br />hehe<br />plunk<br />we pass out sleepysleepy now.<br /><br />xoxo</i> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:36993 2003-05-01T05:26:36Z 2003-05-01T05:26:36Z <center>"Laura, when we live together, we can't do this every night, ok?"</center><br /><br />That's right folks, it's lauramartha drunken/stoned livejournal extravaganza! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:36637 2003-04-17T19:35:53Z 2003-04-17T19:35:53Z providence is pretty cool. went drinky-drinkin with josh last night, and slept late today. <br />goddam frickin paramedic school grrrr!!!<br />damn everything going on the weekend of the 25th while i'm at a staff meeting! damn it! i wanna go to ohio and go to the medic training and go to the meeting... and make it to work too. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:36303 2003-04-12T03:12:40Z 2003-04-12T03:12:40Z i have just returned from camping in new hampster with J.<br />yum yum oh geez wow i sure do like that there boy thang. <br />amazing wicked lots of wonderfulness. details to come :) urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:35386 2003-04-03T00:26:48Z 2003-04-03T00:26:48Z mmm. antioch. ohio-y goodness.<br />laura is one of the coolest people i know. <br />i can't believe i drove all the way to ohio. <br />i can't believe i have to drive all the way back by myself tomorrow. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:34917 2003-03-23T21:49:48Z 2003-03-23T21:49:48Z so friday night i took my little brother john, who's eleven, to the world/inferno show. <br />john now thinks that lucky is god. on the way home he said "i have to learn all the words to their songs so next time we go i can sing along" it should also be noted that he looked away from lucky only to stare open-mouthed at semra who is "the best drummer in the world"<br />it was really interesting that he couldn't understand interacting with the band, or that no, the band members are not millionaires. a good time was had by all. well, most.<br />anyway. much fabulousness. got to see the lovely kt, and finally got to hear black freighter. i was really impressed by them too. really melodic and fun, and john's got a freakin powerful voice. good shit. <br />did a rollover in the wee hours of this morning. crashed at like 65mph. put two patients in the back of my truck and bls'd em really fast to the general. with me standing up. and cutting everyone's clothes off. and taking blood pressures standing up. and stuff. standing up. yeah, standing up. i wrote all over them. put their names, dates of birth, complaints and vital signs right on their chests. best idea ever. i hate standing up. i'm in a van thing, not a box unit, so there is NO room when you've got two patients. <br />i may get to see all kinds of lovely folk this weekend, including the westernmass/new hampshire kiddles and the booooooy :) urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:34755 2003-03-21T18:16:43Z 2003-03-21T18:16:43Z being in the streets was like coming home. it did feel real, and alive. resistance is beautiful. <br />woke up this morning to the phone. my boy and i had late morning long distance coffe/cigarette/porch time. he wants me to come see him this week. ::giggle-twirl-swoon:: urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:34491 2003-03-20T17:37:31Z 2003-03-20T17:37:31Z ::sigh::<br />war makes me sad. i'll be at government center tonight tho, to be followed by hanging with a friend i haven't seen since last august, possibly the merryweasel at gargoyles, and other craziness. <br />manray was fun last night. hadn't been in months. danced lots. my friends are hott! rubber dresses make sweat pour off your legs. icky. many shiny ladies. ultrafabulous. rubber covered boobs stick together when you hug, causing boys to flee the area. abi came with me and got to meet the romi/kymberly/amy/snuh extravaganza. they are an extravaganza. abi is not my girlfriend in any sort of romantic sense, but since she's kinda butch and i am supafemme (or at least i was last night) everyone assumes we are dating. we probably play to it a bit much. ::grin::<br />manray is nothing but a mutual admiration society with beer and music. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:33879 2003-03-17T01:06:04Z 2003-03-17T01:06:04Z i have spent the last three days with an amazing young man. i'm a bit concerned that i might be falling/crashing/plummeting for him. actually, i'm quite sure of it and terrfied/excited. i'm convinced he's the sexiest man alive. more later. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:33786 2003-03-13T05:34:10Z 2003-03-13T05:34:10Z my supercrush is coming for the weekend tomorrow night.<br />i am seeing abi tomorrow afternoon. <br />i am working on the zine and making coffee shop rounds.<br />need to grab good book for time killing.<br />went for coffee with josh tonight. discussed the state of the world. got depressed. requested new topic. josh did not oblige. grr. <br />i know it's bad, ok? i'm not stupid, and i'm not ignoring it. i just refuse to spend the precious time i have with the people i really care about discussing it to the exclusion of all else. that is reasonable. <br />talking to my ex chris online. he's a good guy. strange, but good.<br />sleep now. good things come in the morning. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mekka:33478 2003-03-12T04:07:48Z 2003-03-12T04:07:48Z i have a crush on the nicest, prettiest boy in the whole wide universe. <br />::swoon::<br />that is all.