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and its like it was yesterday.

feeling the shockwaves against my chest
the smell of dust in the air for days
watching the dirty people escaping across the bridge
trying to comprehend what i'd just seen
walking through lower manhattan with a marine on every corner and ankle deep in ash
driving down the FDR a few weeks later, seeing a truck fire on the Brooklyn Bridge having an anxiety attack and trying to convince myself it wasnt a repeat


good night new york
i miss you



so the second plane hit at 9:02
I saw it live on a hotel tv, talking on my cell with you
you said this would happen, and just like that, it did
wrong about the feeling, wrong about the sound
but right to say we would stand down

an hour went by without a fighter in the sky
you said there's a reason why
so tell me now, I must confess
I'm not sick enough to guess

--John Vanderslice "Exodus Damage"
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I was talking to tmpst24myst and she pointed out how i havent updated my journal in... oh i dunno... a YEAR. So I really should pay more attention to the thing so I'm going to try. So I'll start off with something easy since this morning is going a little... ummm... slow. I stole this from someones page, I dont remember who so if it looks familiar just assume it was you.

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So, here's how it works:

Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, etc).
Put it on shuffle.
Press play.
For every question type the song that's playing.
When you go to a new question press the next button.
Ready? GO!

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Opening Credits : a camp - frequent flyer
i would love to tell my story from the ending
but the story is getting thin from heavy spending


Waking Up : the smashing pumpkins - tristessa
do you ever wake up and find yourself alone?
do you ever wake up far from home?


Falling In Love : porcupine tree - arriving somewhere but not here
ever had the feeling you've been here before?
drinking down the poison the way you were taught
every thought from here on in your life begins, and all you knew was wrong?


Fight Scene : feist - when i was a young girl
out of the ale house down into the jail house
my body's salvated and hell is my doom


Breaking Up : porcupine tree - the creator has a mastertape
the creator had a mastertape, but he left it in a cab
I stared into the void tonight, the best dream I ever had


Make-up : sunny day real estate - 8
i cant despise you
inside you


Secret Love : bonnie prince billy - god's small song
and tonight I'll go, into all of the places that you love
that is my place here, to have been in those


Life's Okay : amplifier - insider
it's all inside
when its all in your mind


Heartbreak : death cab for cutie - steadier footing
it's gotten late and now i want to be alone

Mental Breakdown : radiohead - you
you, me and everything caught in the fire
i can see me drowning, caught in the fire.


Driving : ida - les etoiles secretes
driving home in your car
listenin to the secret stars


Flashbacks : son volt - loose string
taking chances with no intent to make a killing
too much living is no way to die


Happy Dance : the new pornographers - broken breads
tormented kings
your children of the earth sing
under an embalmed clear sky


Regretting : tapes 'n tapes - insistor
and don't be terse and don't be shy
just hug my lips and say good lies


Long Night Alone : thom yorke - cymbal rush
you should took me out when you had the chance
all the rooms were numbered
and the losers turned away
don't turn away


Final Battle : jimmy eat world - nothing wrong
hold them down / burn, burn
hold them down our bleeding suspects
turn them off / turn, turn
turn them off our blacklist singers
we've done nothing wrong!


Death Scene : ...and you will know us by the trail of dead - worlds apart
how they laughed as we shoveled the ashes of the twin towers.
blood and death, we will pay back the debt for this candy store of ours.


Ending Credits : mew - am i wry? no
i'll have you know it's you and me potentially
farah don't pull the carpet
from under me
indifference is killing me!


I took all the songs and made a playlist... if you happen to want it let me know and I can get it to you.


Truth... its all about perspective.
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new day

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nice day today.  now that i'm single and never home i desided a month and a half ago that it probably wasnt fair for my dog that she have to stay home 10+hrs a day alone.  so i gave her to my good friend that i work for and his family.  he brought her to work today and it was nice being able to see her and play with her a little bit.  such a good dog.


really hooked on a new band i've been listening to, David Ford.  

link: davidford.mu/go.php?object=hom…


also if you are a Rhapsody + Last.FM user and have been pissed that there isnt anything to publish what you listen to on Rhapsody to Last.FM a guy has released a utility recently that will make the two work.

link: www.atlansky.com/dev/RhapsodyS…




Truth... its all about perspective.
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Red House Painters - Drop

so much that i can't say to you
my voice shakes from the hurt that i hide
ashamed of my existence
and of my petty often wounded pride
i'd like to come home to see you
and to catch your sickness by the bedside
but then you'd know how much i really need you

all the love in an instant
makes my life stop
but then my hate for you
makes my feelings altogether drop

if only i were blind to your selfish fling
and your desperate cause
and didn't press you for the details
that threaten my physical flaws

i'd like to come home to see you
and embrace your illness under soft light
but then you'd know how much i really need you

all the love in an instant
makes my life stop
but then my hate for you
makes my feelings altogether drop

so much that i can say to you
with affection that i burn inside
you're aching from the distance
avoiding strain that's running still alive
if only i could heal you in the sprinkling of the ocean side
but then you'd know how much i really love you

all the love in an instant
makes my life stop
but then my hate for you
makes my feelings altogether drop
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I fucking hate you for leaving...
I fucking hate myself for still loving you.
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so after being laid off for about 3 weeks or so i've gotten two job offers this week.  one of them is offering me 10k more than i was making before... the other 8k less.  of course i've informed the "good" job that a total of 5 hours out of the week i've made prior commitments that i cannot break... so for some reason they have a problem with this:

24 hours a day x 7 days a week = 168 hours

so out of these 168 hours i'm requesting 5.  i said i would work evenings or nights for them... i would even consider helping them out with holidays.  the person who's in charge of the local office here in colorado must evidently be young because any experienced manager would know that i'm not asking alot from them.  they even had me take an assessment test to verify i really knew what i said i did and i passed in the top 75% of anyone who had ever taken it in the country... which turned out to be THOUSANDS of people.  you'd think they would have taken that into some sort of consideration.  but i guess sometimes i'm foolish and expect too much from corporate america.

so now i'm anxious and nervous as hell again.  trying to work on some pieces to upload.  low resolution ones for now until i can get to the photo store and have my negatives scanned to get some nice high resolution ones that i can reupload.

i guess thats it for now... i'm going to be updating this more often now that people are actually perusing my page.  also going to work on doing more commenting, etc etc.

Truth... its all about perspective.
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