http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Laicristiel&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Laicristiel en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:20:07 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/20885932/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/20885932/ Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:46:16 PDT
I've got a couple things I've been working on. A scarf for grace with a nice tapestry design on it, a blanket for a good friend of mine who's been there for me above and beyond since I moved out here. And I need to post my first tapestry creation. I took a picture of it to post, but then my camera corrupted and I had to have K'Hill fix it for me. Hasn't really been my semester with electronic things. On top of that, I've got mountains of photography that I need to put up. Some of which I'm actually quite proud of. Some of which is mediocre, but tells a story that I want to put out there. I hope to start writing again at some point. Who knows when or if I actually will.

As for my life, I'm back at school. The yellow-haired boy and I are "official" now, whatever that means. I still like him, as long as I don't spend too much time with him. Not to say I don't like being around him, just that I can't spend every waking moment with him, otherwise he makes me want to bludgeon him with something. Probably not the best set-up for a successful relationship, but that's life, right? Sometimes things don't work out in fairytales. I'm teaching a lot, which is fun, but stressful. I'm still not very good at this whole coming up with lesson plans thing. Slowly but surely though, it's getting better. I started playing guitar. I love it. It frusterates me that I suck right now, but I've been steadily improving. Hopefully one day I won't.

I'm not even really sure why I wrote this journal. I suppose I just figured it had been long enough since the last one. Anyway, I should go. Wednesdays are busy days for me, and I'm going to be late for class if I don't get changed.

Namaste

]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/19276123/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/19276123/ Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:00:13 PDT
Hopefully Caitlin will be home soon, then we can make an adventure down to the farmers market and the thrift store. I bought a book at the craft store yesterday that was on sale about modifying T-shirts to make them extra spiffy. We'll see how that goes.

Oh, I also started teaching on Sunday, since the quarter has FINALLY started. Yay! I love it, big surprise there. I've got some challenging riders that are going to really keep me on my toes this summer, but I'm really excited about it!

I've also started working as part-time barn staff on weekends, so I'll be getting a pay check this Friday! HURRAY! Hopefully that will help assuage at least SOME of my money woes. Definitly going to have to look for a job in LBG next fall though, which is too bad. Of course, with a lighter course load, I'm not sure what I would do if I didn't have a job. I suppose I could find a life... nah, that'd be silly.

]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/18892164/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/18892164/ Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:19:16 PDT [link] . The stuff that you can make with this technique is just stunning. Of course, being the ambitious person that I am, I'm not planning a nice simple round piece for my first attempt with one of the already established motifs, but making my own pattern and doing a flat piece, which means I'm going to have to learn to use my left hand. Oh well, develops brain cells, right?

Anyway, I've got a long list of projects in mind that I want to get working on over the next few months. Some that I need to finish before the end of the summer, others before December, and still others before May. That's right, graduation gifts. As much as I don't want to think about it, I do want to make sure that I get a chance to leave the people who mean something to me with something meaningful. Did that make sense? I've got most everyone figured out... though some people are still escaping my imagination. I've got a while to figure it out.

The internship is going well, in case anyone's interested in that. I'm quickly finding out the danger of working for free... and desperately trying to come up with a plan to make more money. At the moment all I've come up with is mucking stalls at 5am, but we'll see if I can think of something better.

I'll figure something out. I always do.

Namaarie

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]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/17999810/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/17999810/ Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:17:52 PDT So. that's a slight problem. I can at least start on the next final I suppose. And if I can't get tired, I'll just grab one of my uber-boring text books and go out and read in the suite lounge. Can't in my room. The light's off. Because my roommate, being the sensible human being that she is, is sound asleep. Hope my typing isn't keeping her up.

oh, and the mood icon has nothing to do with eye candy. I just liked the bugging out eyes.

]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/17752299/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/17752299/ Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:41:27 PDT
School:
Ugh. I am so ready for this semester to be over. Exercise Physiology is with the same dumbass who taught my biomechanics class. that's the only painfully horrid class I have though. My equine business class is grueling and painful, but that's because I'm taking a 300 level business class with no prior business experience. Oh well. Everything else is alright. Finished with transitions (this is how you write a resume and get a job in the business world that you'll never be actually working in! Yay!) and CPR, so I am not officially certified to save your life. Go me. Our mannequins looked like dead aliens. Kinda freaked me out a little.

Music:
Just got back from choir tour. My voice is shot. Doesn't matter, still have a concert on Monday. Very tired. Caitlin and I did "What is this Feeling" for tour and we're doing it again for spring concert. ugh. I'm doing a lot of duets this semester, "Anything you can do" from Annie get your gun with K'Hill, "From every kind of man" from Mikado, and "As Long as you're mine" from Wicked. I do also have one solo from Jesus Christ Superstar, "I don't know how to love him". Which, seems oddly appropriate, actually.

Graduation:
My friends are leaving me.

Ponies:
we kind of gave up on IDA this semester. Laura almost made it to nationals but go screwed over at the last show. We took a couple of the horses to local schooling shows, which was a lot of fun. Corky's doing amazing, and his canter is slowly but surely improving. I really think I can make him go first level next fall. He'll be ready, as long as he does good things at Roaring Gap this summer.

TR:
teaching privates only this semester. Still have my 5 year old, used to have an older lady with Multiple Sclerosis, but she got given to another instructor who's student had to cancel because of sickness. Just got another new student, a lady with fibromyalgia. Pretty excited about her. Got everything finished for my registered certification a few weeks ago, so I'm just waiting on the official word from the NARHA offices.

Relationships:
Still confusing. Facebook would say "It's complicated". Same guy it was confusing with the last time I made a bulleted list, and we basically are a couple, but we're not actually calling ourselves "boyfriend and girlfriend" because he hates commitment. And we don't go on "dates" we have "social gatherings". Whatever. Words don't mean that much to me. He makes me happy, that's the important thing. He'll probably be coming out to visit at some point this summer, but most likely while I'm up in Seattle.

Summer:
Sorry guys, but I'm not really coming home. Well, I am, but for a short time only. I'll be back middle of May sometime, and I'm moving up to Snohomish the last week in May. I'll be there until the first week of August, then I'll come home for a few days and head back across country.
But Caitlin and I are planning to go to Vegas on our way back to Oregon this time. Should be fun times.

Alcohol:
Yes, I turned 21. Yes, I've had a few drinks. No, I haven't become a party animal. I've actually yet to feel more than a very slight buzz. If even that. I felt a little bit of heat after my second drink at my birthday party, but besides that, nothing. A little disapointing, as I'm kind of curious what it would feel like to at least feel... something, but I'm sure there will be plenty of opportunity for that in the future.

I think that covers everything remotely interesting for the moment. maybe I'll find some free time the next couple weeks to upload a few more pictures. I've got lots of them. We'll see.

]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/16943545/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/16943545/ Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:18:26 PST
1. Do you know anyone in prison at the present moment?
Not that I know of

2. Have you ever logged onto a boyfriend/girlfriend/crush's myspace?
No

3. When is the last time you ate peanut butter and jelly?
umm, Last Tuesday I believe. At the TR barn.

4. Do you have a desk in your room?
two, actually

5. Have you ever gotten naked at a party?
Those who were there know the stories, anyone else never needs to know them

6. What color is your couch?
I don't have a couch... but at my parent's house it's green

7. Are you named after one of your parents or grandparents?
nope, I'm all original

8. Can you walk a straight line when you're sober?
sometimes?

9. Do you throw up gang signs?
no

10. Have you ever broken a rib?
No

11. Would you rather be a girl or a guy?
I'm pretty happy with my femininity

12. Who is the most spoiled person you know?
Blair

13. Would you rather have a million dollars or true love?
Right now, a million dollars. Because I don't have time for true love yet. That comes later in my life plan (yes, I have a life plan. It changes daily) But if I'm making an overall decision for my life, true love.

14. Have you ever had sex in church?
No

15. Is your boyfriend/girlfriend a Marine?
No

16. Do you watch the Grammy?
No

17. Would you ever work for the border patrol?
No

19. Would you rather date someone 2 years younger then you or 20 years older?
2 years younger, dating a 40 year old would seem kind of creepy

20.Have you ever had a eating disorder?
no

21. Do you have a porn collection?
no

23. Have you ever been in an interracial relationship?
No

24. Is your birthday on a holiday?
What are you talking about? My birthday IS a holiday! It's also National Chili day, Floral Design day, and Tooth Fairy day.

26. Do you have any friends or family in the war right now?
Yes

28. Do you worry about global warming?
Yep

29. Do you like polar bears?
They're really cute, and fun to watch. I wouldn't want to play with one though, they're really big.

30. Have you ever been cheated on?
Apparently

31. What's your favorite brand of water?
Crystal Geyser or Arrowhead. Or just the stuff that comes out of the tap in HR, that's better than anything you'll find in a bottle

32 . What slang word(s) do you call marijuana?
Pot, Weed... that's pretty much it

33. Are you an atheist?
Nope, God is awesome! ( i like paige's answer too!)

34. Did you lose your virginity to your neighbor?
... My neighbor is an 80-something year old woman.

... So the answer is no.

35. Did or do you think your childhood dreams will come true?
Some of them. The one about being a Monster Truck driver... probably not. But the ones that have stuck with me, I think have a good chance

36. Do you wear your sweetie's clothes?
Sometimes

37. What's your opinion on gold?
It's shiney?

38. Are you a country boy/girl or city slicker?
Country

39. Are you an only child?
Nope, have a little brother

40. Do you want to hit something?
A couple people who were running things at the western show yesterday, apparently, but I don't know all of the details, and I don't really want to.

FINALLY THIS SURVEY IS OVER.

]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/16231910/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/16231910/ Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:50:48 PST Anyway, here's what I've got.

1. Practice Music.
Seriously. I love music. I love to sing, and I was getting pretty good at uber-simple piano pieces by the end of my one semester piano class. I can get by without practicing, but I will make so much more progress if I just would get over to the practice rooms a couple times a week. Therefore:
I Resolve to practice both Piano and Vocal music at least once a week. This does not include singing under my breath on my way to class, or plunking through Fur Elise when I show up early for choir.
I'm probably going to need your guys's help to stay on this one...

2. Get in shape.
If I'm actually going to pretend to be serious about dressage, and I'm going to fight with people about equestrians being athletes, I need to start acting like an athlete.
I resolve to do at least one cardiovascular and one strength training exercise per week. Walking to class doesn't count as cardio, nor does chasing Marshmellow around the farm when he gets out.

3. Ride more. And better.
Along the same lines, if I'm going to pretend to be serious about this, I need to push myself harder and really work. I need to take advantage of all of my practice rides and lessons, and I need to work my butt of during thsoe practice rides and lessons. And I need to do at least one no-stirrup workout a week, during which I will work on my sitting trot.

4. Don't waste time.
When I'm bored and have nothing to do, rather than fill out useless surveys on Myspace, I could read a book. Or work on my crocheting. Or upload images to DA. This one isn't as firm, just something that I should do. But it brings me to my next one.

5. Stop neglecting this account.
I really should post actual art from time to time. Photography or writing. Hopefully with the stop wasting time resolution, I might get some writing done. I'm going to try to get back into it a bit.

6. Get right with God.
This one's a little more personal. Just some stuff in my personal spiritual life that I need to sort through.

So yeah. A bit ambitious this year, but I figure there's no time like the present.
Anyone else making resolutions for the new year?

]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/16159546/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/16159546/ Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:44:05 PST
In other news...

Well, there isn't a whole lot of other news to give. I've been working, hanging out with a couple friends. Haven't been riding, sadly, but maybe this next week I'll make it up to the barn again.

I'll be posting New Years Resolutions here soon. I've got a few in mind so far, but I haven't made a definitive list as of yet. I'm going to try to stick to them this time. I figure maybe if I make an actual commitment to them...
We'll see.

Hope you all enjoy the pictures.

]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/15834286/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/15834286/ Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:47:39 PST
STEP ONE
Make a post to your DA journal. The post should contain your list of ten holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a ______ icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("all I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV."). The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you. *Note me for this, sorry folks. I don't post it publically.

Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your DA or link to this post so that the holiday joy will spread.

STEP TWO
Surf around your friends list (or friends' friends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now, here's the important part:

If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use -- do it.

You need not spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf -- to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not -- it's your call.

There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Give, and you might receive. and you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.


My Christmas Wishlist

1. A new dressage whip. Patricia brokeded mine.

2. A subscription to STRIDES magazine, sent to my Laurinburg address

3. Subscription to Practical Horseman, sent to my Laurinburg address

4. Pants

5. A really good cookie recipe

6. Raffi CDs

7. an invisible puppy, so I can keep him in my dorm room.

8. Shirts

9. Knowledge of how to go about getting a working student position in Germany after I graduate.

10. Peace on Earth

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]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/15495778/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/15495778/ Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:03:04 PST
School:
Ew. This semester sucks classwise. Personal Finance is about as exciting as sorting paint chips. Warfare and Society would have been great with the original teacher, but he up and moved at the last minute and we got this adjuct who came in and was like "This is going to be an american History class!" We were like -.- Biomechanics is enfuriating because the Wrestling coach that teaches it is a dumbass chauvenist jerk. And thats putting it mildly. But next semester is looking promising.
I will also officially be a senior next semester. I'm so looking forward to my senior year. I can take the minimum classes for a full time student and still graduate with credits to spare, and I'll only have one class left for my major, so I can take classes like Shakespear's Comedies/Tragedies, Guitar, and Children's Literature. I could graduate a semester early if I wanted to, but I'm going to hang around the full year. No reason to run off into the world sooner than I need to.

Music:
Still taking voice lessons, and they're doing wonderful things, if I do say so myself. We got a new voice teacher this year because Robin moved back to New York Her name is also Robin, she's fresh out of a Doctoral program, has had a successful career in German Opera, and is VERY enthusiastic. And we're doing mostly musical theater. Which I'm good with. I loved doing the classical stuff with old Robin, but musical theater is FUN! I'm doing Green Finch and Linnet Bird from Sweeny Todd, Goodnight my Someone from Music Man, and How could I Ever Know? from Secret Garden. Fun times. Also doing a duet for Christmas with a good friend of mine, and Andy and I are going to start working on "As long as you're mine" from Wicked. Caitlin and I are still planning to do "What is this Feeling" from Wicked for tour this spring. Should be lots of fun. I'm becoming more and more comfortable in Soprano land as time goes on.

TR:
I teach three different lessons this term. One group of elementary age boys with Learning Disabilities. They're pretty fun, though they can be kind of exciting sometimes. Overall, I like them. I also teach a middle school group with two kids with mild learning disabilities and ADHD. Those two are awesome, they pick everything up really fast and I get to do all sorts of fun things with them. In that class I also have one rider that I teach as a private who has a habit of pulling his helmet off and jumping off the horse. He's exciting. I can't remember his exact disability, it's one of the ones that's named after a person. Symptoms are similar to Autism or PDD though. My last lesson is a private with a 5 year old boy with Epilepsy and a Developmental Delay who LOVES music. We've been having a lot of fun together. He can be exciting sometimes just because he is VERY 5.

Dressage:
So, I quit jumping. I gave up on my school's program for it, so I ride only Dressage now. I've been to three shows so far this year with the IDA team. Haven't been doing spectacularly... but oh well. That's how it happens sometimes. I might pick up in the Spring. I usually do better in the spring. I'm hoping I do better in the spring. Still loving Dressage though. As usual. I'm considering applying to spend a year in Europe after I graduate and do the working student/slave thing so that I can learn as much as possible about the sport.

Relationships:
Confusing. That's the best way to describe it. But I've kind of decided that I don't care anymore, and I'm just letting things happen as they come. There's a guy I'm interested in, and he's interested back, but neither one of us is really sure that we want it to go anywhere. As of right now, we're just friends.

Thanksgiving:
Going home with my roommate again. We're going Foxhunting. It's going to be awesome.

Job:
Don't have one here. Sucks majorly. Getting broker by the minute.

Vacation:
I am leaving North Carolina on the 12th, but I have an interview in Seattle for an internship this summer on the 14th, so I might just hang out in Portland with Caitlin until after that since we're planning on road-tripping up there together. So I do... ]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/15368007/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/15368007/ Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:43:39 PST
Do you shower in the morning or evening? evening, showering in the morning means getting up earlier

Do you use liquid or bar soap? liquid

Do you use shampoo and conditioner or just shampoo? shampoo and conditioner, unless I'm in a major hurry

Do you brush your teeth in the shower? no

Do you shave in the shower? yeah

Do you sing in the shower? occasionally, it depends on my mood. But not all that often when I'm at school.

Do you use a washcloth? no, I use a scrubby loofa thingy

Do you have a door or a curtain on your shower? door at home, curtain at school.

Have you every taken a call in the shower? I think I did once because Sam told my mom it was an emergency

Have you ever showered in your swimsuit? yeah, at the beach/after swimming

Have you ever showered with a member of the same sex? when i was little

Have you ever showered with a member of the opposite sex? probably my brother when we were little

Do you share a bathroom with someone? 7 people, actually

Do you listen to the radio in the shower? no

Do you wear a shower cap? no

Do you wash behind your ears? sometimes

Describe your shower in three words: relaxing, warm, clean

What one thing would you change about your shower? fix the drain in our big shower

What would make your shower time better for you? pretty smelly things

What celebrity would you like to shower with? "no one, my shower, stay out" I have to echo Sarah on this one

What celebrity would you NOT like to shower with? all of them

What is the one thing you can't do without in your shower? water

What is the oddest thing that has happened to you in the shower? The showerhead fell on my face and chipped my tooth when I was 8

What is the best thing that has happened to you in the shower? I've had some pretty good ideas while in the shower

When was the last time you showered? Friday night after the Haunted Library thing

When are you going to take a shower next? pretty much as soon as I finish this survey.

]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/15320239/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/15320239/ Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:10:07 PDT
Thank you all!

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]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/15093608/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/15093608/ Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:05:26 PDT
I can be forgiving if you freak out. I can be forgiving if you're inexperienced so you kind of suck. That's fine. We all start out that way. My first semester teaching was aweful. I'm fully willing to admit it.

But you. You're flakey. You have no sense of time management or the need for it. You are lazy and try to get other people to do your jobs. You can't prioritize. You don't pay attention. You can't delegate. You don't listen. And, to top it all off, you don't TEACH! Holy crap, you never teach! I do more teaching in that lesson than you do and I'm supposed to be leading the flipping horse. And you know what? I could deal with every little bit of that if you didn't have such a freaking pompous attitude about it. I know you're new to this, but if you actually expect to get certified at the end of this year, you're going to have to pick it up pretty quickly, cause right now, I wouldn't want you teaching anyone, able-bodied or disabled. Because you kind of fail at life. Go back to your horticulture job. I'm sure the plants like you.

...

Thanks for indulging me in that. I needed it.

]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/15025978/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/15025978/ Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:00:41 PDT
What the heck is wrong with me? I used to hate teenagers! And these guys aren't exactly cream of the crop... they're in a program that's trying to keep them out of prison. Wouldn't know it with most of them though. They're all pretty sweet, and very gentle with the horses.

I still love little kids, but I've started to realize that I look forward to my classes where I'm working with teenagers a lot more than my lessons with the peanuts. I'm not sure how to deal with this new revelation... It kind of turns everything I've always believed about myself upside down.

]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/14649647/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/14649647/ Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:37:47 PDT I hung up the phone and it fell out of my hand,
But I knew I had to do it,
And he wouldn't understand,
So hard to see myself without him,
I felt a piece of my heart break,
But when you're standing at a crossroad,
There's a choice you gotta make.

[Chorus:]
I guess it's gonna have to hurt,
I guess I'm gonna have to cry,
And let go of some things I've loved,
To get to the other side,
I guess it's gonna break me down,
Like falling when you try to fly,
It's sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life,
Starts with goodbye.

I know there's a blue horizon,
Somewhere up ahead, just waiting for me,
Getting there means leaving things behind,
Sometimes life's so bitter sweet.

[Chorus:]
I guess it's gonna have to hurt,
I guess I'm gonna have to cry,
And let go of some things I've loved,
To get to the other side,
I guess it's gonna break me down,
Like falling when you try to fly,
It's sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life,
Starts with goodbye.

Time, time heals,
The wounds that you feel,
Somehow, right now.

[Chorus:]
I guess it's gonna have to hurt,
I guess I'm gonna have to cry,
And let go of some things I've loved,
To get to the other side,
I guess it's gonna break me down,
Like falling when you try to fly,
It's sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life,
Starts with goodbye,
I guess I'm gonna have to cry,
And let go of some things I've loved,
To get to the other side,
Starts with goodbye,
The only way you try to find,
Moving on with the rest of your life,
Starts with goodbye

(Starts with Goodbye, Carrie Underwood)

]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/14485740/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/14485740/ Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:59:51 PDT
"IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT- PLEASE READ:

So I was a little surprised to sign in to DeviantArt and see a note with "I LOVE you" as the subject. So I clicked on this note from !michellepfeffer and it said:
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OMG! you're a GENIUS! Why don't you join the poetry contest from [link] ? Free to enter, 100k prizes. You MUST win it!
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[Me again.] (link goes to [link] )
At first glance it looks a little suspicious right? So I clicked on the link and it took me to a fairly official looking site. Okay, looks professional. So maybe this note was from an advertiser, that was entirely possible. Out of curiosity I went to this !michellepfeffer's(interesting choice of name...) DevArt page and see plenty of outrage in his/her Devious Comments column. One person writes:

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Poetry.com, the website for 'The National Library of Poetry" IS A SCAM.

The National Library of Poetry is also known by the following names:
--International Library of Poetry
--Poetry.com
--Watermark Press
--International Society of Poets

Everyone who enters their contest is a "semi-finalist". It doesn't matter what you send it, you are told your poem is great and that they want to publish you poem in a book. They publish about 50 books of poetry a YEAR. Each book is jam packed full of other poems in small print. In order to be published in this book you have to buy a copy of this book for about $50. This book is NOT made available to anyone other than the poets who fell for the scam who and are buying their book copy so they can be published in the book. If you do not buy a copy of the book your poem WILL NOT be published in it.

After some time you will start to receive other letters from them. Saying they wish to publish your poem on a CD (for a modest fee) or frame your work in print (for a modest fee). You are then said to be a semi finalist or something similar to their contest and they want you to go to a poetry convention to claim your prize. You can go to this convention for a fee.. last I heard it was close to $1,000. You can then pay another fee to read your poetry at this convention etc etc.. you get the idea.

Please read up on Poetry.com before you submit a poem to their contest and before you pay for them to publish your poem.

ABC even did a story about this scam.

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[Me again.]
So they were right about the ABC story on this site. I googled it and several articles came up. I even checked wikipedia and this is what I found under the site's column:
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Criticism

There have been a number of complaints to organizations in the United States, such as the Better Business Bureau, by those who feel they have been misled by poetry.com. Some consider the International Library of Poetry and its activities to be a fraud and/or a scam; they cite the fact that poetry.com's promotional materials lead participating writers to believe that their poems were selected for the website's monthly contest because of their quality, when in fact virtually all submissions "advance" to the semi-finals. At that point, the would-be authors are encouraged to spend money on copies of the compilation books and/or visits to the poetry conventions.[citation needed]
Additionally, although Poetry.com's website claims that these books are available at "major bookstores",[7] attempts to purchase these books from major retailers such as Barnes and Noble or Amazon.com generally fail.[citation needed]
As of November 2006, there is no verifiable report of any successful legal action being taken against the company for alleged fraud. According to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's Writer Beware web site, however, the Maryland Attorney General's Office is interested in hearing from writers who have had dealings with the International Library of Poetry.[3]
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[Me again]
PLEASE don't let yourself, or others be fooled by them if they attempt to get you involved. PLEASE send this warning on to all of your friends. I believe this is all I can do for now about this. I am disgusted that pe... ]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/14319472/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/14319472/ Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:07:05 PDT
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So, yeah. yay?

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1. No Dying. No exceptions.
2. No Dismemberment. This does include cutting off fingers
3. No getting hit by lightning.
4. No plane/car/train/elephant crashes.

So, with that in mind, I'm looking forward to a fun trip! ]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/13209385/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/13209385/ Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:25:31 PDT
Photos from the trip will be forthcoming, as soon as I can get off my lazy butt and play with them.

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Our travel adventure starts Monday. I'll see you all soon!

]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/12806002/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/12806002/ Tue, 01 May 2007 16:50:09 PDT
So the flight up was uneventful, or at least, I think it was. I had to be up at 4am in order to get to Raleigh to catch my flight. That was fun. So slept on the plane. which was fun. We got into Newark and Jackie picked me up outside, and then we got the fun of experiencing New Jersey driving... oh boy.

On our way to the equestrian center, Jackie tells me about the gnomes. You see, Centenary College (where nationals was being held) had also hosted the ANRC nationals the weekend before, and one of the cross country fences was decorated with gnomes. Lawn gnomes. Yes, those creepy little things that hide under shrubberies. Well, apparently, Peggy saw them while she was there for ANRC and went nuts. There is a tradition in England of traveling gnomes, so Peggy proceeded to steal the gnomes and allow them to travel around the equestrian center the whole time she was there. The last day, she dressed them up. One had a little bottle of Southern Comfort, and another one was a cheerleader. She came back from ANRC and at the staff meeting during the week, she handed Jackie a pompom and told her that she hadn't been able to finish dressing the cheerleader gnome, and that she needed to carry on the tradition.

So Jackie gets there and finds said gnome on it's little raft out on the patio. So she adds the pompom, and moves him around a few times. The first few days are board meetings and formalities, so she was amusing herself with the gnome. She let Lanier, who is the IDA marketing and publicity person, in on the secret and Lanier went NUTS. She got so excited about the gnomes, and decided that they needed more gnomes. So they went to Lowes. No Gnomes. Then they went to Home Depot. No Gnomes. Finally, they were able to track some gnomes down at Wal-Mart. So they bought two more gnomes. All three gnomes traveled around the show grounds until I arrived.

When I got there, Jackie and I moved the cheerleader gnome onto the prize table and set him inside one of the perpetual trophies. A lot of people gave him very confused looks, much to our amusement. Then, Lanier comes up to us incredibly excited and says "I'm going to kidnap the gnome."

So she steals the gnome out of the trophy case, grabs a catalog, and proceeds to write a ransom note by cutting out letters. She leaves this on the show managers desk. Jackie and I just continue to allow the gnomes to travel. Under the judge's table, under the centenary banner alongside the ring, on the score table, on top of the snack machine, out in the bleachers, on the windowsill of the viewing room... they were well traveled gnomes. At the end of team day we walked in the parade of teams (just the two of us, without a banner. That kind of sucked.) and Jackie got inducted into the IDA hall of fame. That was cool. She got a crystal thingie. VI won, what a surprise, but they were actually just barely ahead of Mount Holyoke.

So Jackie and Jeanne (the regional rep from the Northwest) went back to the hotel to check me in (I got my own room! EHEHEE!) and then we went searching for somewhere "adventurous" to eat. We settled on a little Indonesian/Thai restaurant. It was really really good. I decided to not be so adventurous and I ordered Pad Thai, but Jackie and Jeanne both were feeling adventurous and ordered other things, though I don't remember what. I couldn't pronounce either of them particularly well. Overall, lots of fun.

We get back to the hotel, and Jackie and I are headed up the elevator when we run into Lanier. She has a shopping bag with her. She pulls out rope, duct tape, and a newspaper "for the ransom photograph!".
So we go back to Jackie's room, tie up the gnome that she gnome-napped, put duct tape over it's mouth, blindfold it with a kleenex, set a newspaper behind it (for the date) and snap a few pictures. Lanier plans to put the pictures on Andrea (the show manager's) desk the next morning, and hide the captured gnome somewhere in her office.

Jackie was stewarding the next day, so I was on gnome duty while I watched the morning tests. I had to be changed by 11:00 because my draw was at 11:30 and I didn't know where I would fall in the order. I ended up drawing a nice little gray gelding named DJ. I also drew the first ride. Wasn't particularly happy about that, but what are you going to do?

So I got on him, warmed up, got a good feel of him, and went into the ring. Now, understand, for the past two months, since I found out that I had qualified, we have been DRILLING accuracy. I've always been good at the riding the horse part, putting him where I want him, making him look really fancy, that's my strong suite. However, my accuracy an... ]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/12701064/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/12701064/ Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:31:18 PDT
RIP Dan.

]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/12475777/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/12475777/ Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:10:44 PDT

I will be on campus until May 5th for graduation, after which I am going up to Moorehead City, NC to spend a few days with Alyssa at her house, then down to Charleston on the 8th. Spend a few days down there with the boys, and then the four of us will begin our cross country journey on May 14th. During this journey, we will pass through Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, then up into Oregon. We should be back in Hood River on the 24th, if all goes according to plan. Kyle will be in Oregon from that point until approximately June 2nd. That date isn't set completely in stone yet, because he doesn't have his plane ticket. We're waiting to find out if he gets an RA position next year, because if he doesn't, he'll be coming back in August to help with the drive again.

SO, if you should want to meet this mysterious beau of mine, I would reccomend trying to be in Hood River over Memorial Day weekend. I know, that's Goose Creek, for those of you who know about that, and I'm probably not going to go up this year, just because of timing difficulties. If you can't make it down for the weekend, and you happen to be an OSU type person, we will be in Corvallis for a day or two at some point, probably the next week so that Kyle can visit some family that he has that live there. I need to talk to some of you about the possibility of crashing on couches/floors/doorsteps. Just the two of us. I don't know exactly when Caitlin and K'Hill will be in Hood River with us, we're still working out a schedule for the meshing of our visits, but we're going to spend a good deal of the time split up, with the two of them in Portland and Kyle and I in Hood River. Honestly, after the drive, it'll probably be good for us to have some time apart :-P.

Some highlights for our journey, as we expect so far: Cadillac Ranch in TX, Painted Desert, Grand Canyon, San Francisco, Red Wood Forest, Route 66, Petrified Forest, and introducing the sailors to the Pacific Ocean and the Oregon Coast. While in Hood River, I'm planning to take them up to the pub for lunch one day, catch a movie at skylight if anything good is playing (city kids, you know? I don't think it's a type of theater they'll have experienced before ) and get ice cream at Mike's. Overall, I want to show them a bit of the small town experience. Unforunately, unless the weather is particularly warm, swimming in the Hood will probably not be the best idea... but I really wish we could do that. Maybe we'll get lucky.

Catie, I'll give you specific dates where we'll be in your region of the world. If possible, I really think it would be fun to see if we can catch lunch or something

Vanya Sulie

]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/12420131/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/12420131/ Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:28:36 PDT [1] Put your library on shuffle.
[2] Post the first 2 lines from each of the first 20 songs it plays.
[3] Make people guess. NO CHEATING
[4] Bold it out when someone gets it.
[5] If you know it, feel free to reply!!

1. It's alright, It's gonna be fine. Let's give my momma and my daddy a little time.

2. Make way for Prince Ali!

3.Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy spell, a mystery?

4. I keep looking out my window at the driftwood floating by. Like a flock of birds in fall time, you're just itching to fly.

5. Nighttime sharpens, Heightens each sensation...

6. Fithos. Lusec. Vecos. Vinosec.

7. O come o come, Emannuel, and ransom captive Israel...

8. Hey, all you lonley, summer gone so slowly...

9. Dance Band on the Titanic, Sing here my call to thee. The iceburg's on the starboard bow, won't you dance with me?

10. It's just no good (fall in love with him) You know that you should (fall in love with him)...

11. Standing on the sidewalk in 1945 in Jacksonville, Il. When they asked what my name was there came no reply they said I was a, deaf and sightless half-wit boy.

12. I saw three ships come sailing in on Christmas day, on Christmas day. I saw three ships come sailing in on Christmas in the morning.

13. I'm a strumming fool out in the sticks for the glory and the breath. And you're wise enough to let me sing this music's in my head.

14. I reccomend getting your heart getting trampled on, to anyone. I reccomend walking around naked in your living room.

15. I've heard of an Ox, a professor from Quax, no longer permitted to teach, who has lost all power of speech.

16. Fierro! Elakanamen namen Atum Atum Elakenamen.

17. River full of stones when there's no rain. River full and rushing when the clouds let loose again.

18. It was an early morning barload, and the place just opened up. The little man came in so fast and started at his cups.

19. Look I find some of what you teach suspect, 'cause I'm used to relying on intellect.

20. Now, you've traveled far. But are we really nearby?

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How can a small flower grow
If the wild winds blow
And the cold snow
Is all around?

And where will the frail birds fly
If their homes on high
Have been torn down
to the ground?

Lift the wings
That carry me away from here and
Fill the sail
That breaks the line to home
and when I'm miles and miles apart from you
I'm beside you when I think of you
A Storin a gra

How can a tree stand tall
If the rain won't fall
To wash
It's branches down?

And how can a heart survive
Can it stay alive?
If it's love's
denied for long?

Lift the wings
That carry me away from here and
Fill the sail
That breaks the line to home
and when I'm miles and miles apart from you
I'm beside you when I think of you
A Storin
And I'm with you as I dream of you
A Storin
And the song will bring me near to you
A Storin A gra

So yeah, pretty song. Made me happy when I remembered it. Very happy. So yeah. No real update. Just a random song. Sorry to disapoint you guys. I know how fascinating my life is... :-P

Namaarie

]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/12155048/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/12155048/ Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:45:01 PDT
As I'm sure you've figured from my last few journals, things have been going really well. I'm loving this semester, although I'm as busy as ever. On January 20th Kyle asked me out, so I'm finding myself once again floating about in the euphoria of new love. I know it seems fast, but I've never felt the way that I do before. With anyone. He's... amazing. He makes me feel amazing. He doesn't always make things better, he doesn't carry me whenever things get rough, but he's there to offer me a hand, and help me back on my feet, then find the path again with me, and he'll try to catch me before I trip over the next rock. I think I took that analogy a little too far... Mostly, I don't feel like I have to put up an pretenses with him. I can be completely and wholey myself. I don't have to worry about whether he'll like what I have to say about something or not, it doesn't matter. I don't know. All I know is that I've never felt so completely comfortable around a person before. The unfortunate part of all of this is that he does not go to St. Andrews. He goes to USC Upstate in Spartanburg, SC. Which is about 3 hours away from here... So, yeah, I'm in ANOTHER long distance relationship. Apparently I have an aversion to living near someone that I'm involved with... I don't know. But I'm happy. Happier when we're together, but even when we're apart, I'm happy. And... it's been a long time since I've been able to say that.

My IDA showing has been going really well this year, I don't know if something just suddenly clicked in my brain or what, or if I just got some really good draws, but I managed to qualify for nationals, so I'll be going to New Jersey to show at the end of April. I'm ecstatic about that. This has been a dream for so long... even though I never really showed that much, competing in a national competition for something that I'm incredibly passionate about is... amazing. I can't wait.

I went down to Florida for the first half of Spring Break with the girls, and that was a lot of fun. Didn't hit any of the main party spots, so there wasn't any of the wild action that you would expect form a Florida spring break, sorry guys But we had a lot of fun. Went to the Strawberry Festival, spent a day on the beach, and hung out at an outdoor mall for a while. We came back up here the second half because Patricia had to be at the NARHA conference that we were hosting, so a couple of the girls stayed here and helped with that, but Kyle and I took a camping trip out near Lillington, NC. The campground we chose was Raven Rock state park, and it was a 2 mile hike in to the campsites. It was a lot of fun and REALLY good for me to get away from everything for a while and just be able to spend time with him. We did a lot of hiking and I had fun taking pictures of some of the gorgeous scenery.

As the horse show season is quieting down for me, the choir season is ramping up, and I've got concerts almost every weekend until the end of the year. I've got Easter off, which I'll be spending with Kyle, Caitlin, K'Hill and his mom in K'Hill's family's cabin over in the mountains. That should be really fun. After that is Choir tour, which we're going up to DC this year. I'm excited and worried about that. My city problems seem to have been getting better... but we'll see how much. Overall, I'm excited though. I might even have a solo or two this trip... we'll see. I need to work on my stage fright, and the only way to do that is to get out there and do it.

And now, for the stuff that actually concerns most of you reading this. I'll be driving back cross country with Caitlin again this year, going through the southern US this time (very excited about that). We have a few things planned to see already, the Grand Canyon, the Alamo, as well as visiting a few people along the way. The exciting part? We're not driving alone this time. K'Hill and possibly Kyle (he's still working out whether he can afford it or not) will be accompanying us for the drive, and will be spending some time in Oregon once we get back. We live in their culture all the time, we want to show them a little of where we're from. We're planning all sorts of fun things to do with them, things they need to see, places they need to go, We're all really looking forward to it. Once we get plans solidified, I'll let you all know when we're going to be in Hood River. I'll make sure there'll be at least one weekend when everyone will be in HR so that you can get back and meet them, if you want. Kyle is very excited to meet you all.
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I'm a member of the Intercollegiate Dressage Association (IDA). Dressage is horseback riding, for those of you who don't know. It's the sport that I participate in. I makes me happy inside. Anyway, the way IDA works is that we, as a team (one person for each level, intro, lower training (me), upper training, and first) travel to other schools in our region, and compete on their horses. We draw a horse and get 10 minutes to warm up and figure the horse out, then we go in and show. It's pretty exciting. And can be very interesting sometimes, depending on which horse you draw. We have 8 shows within our region during the year, and at the end, the two schools with the most points earned from shows get to send teams to nationals. In addition, the two highest ranking riders from each level get to ride as individuals. Virginia Intermont and Averett colleges qualified teams, but I managed to qualify for the second Individual slot for lower training. I'll be the only one from my school going. Naitonals are going to be in New Jersey at the end of April, at Centenary College.

So, that's the explanation for my overly excited post from earlier. I'm still really excited, but I've calmed down a little. I'm in Florida now for Spring Break, got in about 6:30 tonight. We're going to the Strawberry Festival tomorrow, then the beach on Tuesday, and I think Wednesday's plans include the mall and a movie. Then we head back up on Thrusday

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EEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

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soo... yeah. Um, I don't know. Luke and Sean are both visiting this weekend, it's been great to see them again. Went for a walk in the rain with Sean. That was nice. Luke's been being his usual social butterfly self, so we havne't seen a whole lot of him, but it's really good to have him around again. I wish it wasn't only for a weekend.

This is pathetic. I'm trying to procrastinate and I can't think of anything to write here. I fail. Anyway. Been going to a lot of horse shows. Been doing both good and bad. Right now, if I've calculated correctly, I'm tied with another girl for nationals. So it all comes down to this next coming show. I'm a little terrified, I'm not gonna lie. I really want to go to Nationals. Well, part of me does. Part of me doesn't want to deal with it, but this has been a dream of mine for so long, I can't not chase it.

One week left before Spring Break. Oh my gosh I can't wait. This semester is flying by, but I'm exhausted. I can't wait to head down to Florida and lay on the beach for a few days, then come back up here and go camping with Kyle. We found a remote little campground about an hour away from here so we're going to spend our overlapping break weekend out there. It'll be really nice. Then it's back to school in full force, and choir concerts almost every weekend. Gah. I can't decide whether this semester is going too fast or too slow. It feels like both.

Alright. Enough procrastinating. I need to go write lesson plans now.

Namaarie

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And I can't sleep, but for a good reason this time. My brain is a little confused. There's a part of it that's yelling at me "YOU'RE DOOMED! AGAIN!" but a bigger part is coming up with as many sentences as it can think of that combine the words "Kyle" and "boyfriend". The latter part is winning, obviously.

So, if you haven't already figured it out, I had an AMAZING weekend in Charleston. Along with stuff, I got to see the World Famous Lipizzaner Stallions perform, which was amazing. But not as amazing as stuff.

Now, in the words of... whoever it was that played Lizzie in 110:
Boyfriend. I like that word. Boyfriend, boyfriend, boyfriend. :-D

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1. When is the last time you held hands with someone?
Tonight, Bringing Caitlin down from a panic attack

2. What should you be doing right now?
sleeping

3. Have you ever crawled through a window?:
yup.

4. Where is your mom?:
probably in her bed in Oregon

5. Morning or night person?:
night

6. What was the last movie you watched?:
Dragonheart, I believe

8. Any cool scars?:
Um, the burn marks on my arm from when I tried cooking dessert before Junior Prom I think is the best story

9. Things about the opposite/same sex you notice first:
Hair and Eyes

10. What was the last cd you bought?
Music Inspired by The Chronicles of Narnia

11. Ever been in love?:
yes

12. What's something your friends make fun of you for?
A LOT of things! Being short, being blond, not thinking through everything I'm saying... other specifics pertaining to that particular moment in time/things going on in my life at the time

13. What is your curfew?
Don't have one. Yay independence!

14. Would you ever dye your hair red?
Possibly... not likely though

16. What's your worst personality flaw?
I hate confrontation, and will avoid it at all costs.

17. What place would you most like to visit?
India!

18. Who's your best friend?
Caitlin

19. Do you want a well paying job or a job you enjoy?:
Enjoy. There's a reason I belong to the facebook group "I picked a major I liked and someday I will be living in a box"

20. Do you wish to have the same friends when you're older?
Definitly. I love my friends!

23. When were you last on the phone?
Talking to Luke before Caitlin and I went for a walk

25. Do you like math?
no. I'm avoiding it like the plague

26. What about history?:
depends on what it is and the teacher. US history? no. Ancient history I love.

27. Have you ever seen 5 squirrels at one time?
Yeah, they're everywhere on this campus

28. Can you touch your nose with your tongue?:
nope

29. Do you have a brother?:
yep

30. Did your great granddad fight in the civil war?
not far enough back, my great grandad would probably have been born in the late 1800s. Some relative might have, but I don't know.

31. Who's your favorite person to talk to?:
Caitlin

32. Have you ever used photobucket?:
yup, very useful

33. Do you like hugs?
yes

34. Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?:
no

35. Do you want to be a doctor?
No, I thought about it for a while, then I remembered that I'm lazy and I don't like science.

36. Have you ever fallen asleep with gum in your mouth?:
no

37. What do you do right before you go to bed?
Check e-mail/facebook/DA/LJ/Myspace/etc., turn on my fan, plug in my phone

38. Right when you get outta bed?
turn on my computer

39. Do you love your parents?
yes

40. What music are you listening to right now:
just the sound of the fans, Anne is asleep

41. Do you want to be famous?
In no way, shape, or form. People knowing stuff about me when I don't know about them creeps me out.

42. Do you spend a lot of time thinking about life?
yes

43. Do you do your own laundry?
At school, always. At home, sometimes

45. Do you believe in love?
yes

46. Ever want to sky dive?
YES!

47. When was the last time you got angry?
really angry? Not fo a while. End of last semester. Annoyed, a few days ago?

48. Are you addicted to MySpace?
no

49. Would you consider yourself clever?
At times.

50. What do you hate the most at the moment?
My inability to pin down my thoughts and feelings

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Namaarie

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This Thursday (I know, late notice, sorry, we're not particularly organized), 7:00, my basement, as per usual. Bring snacks, drinks, anything that you might want in that fashion.

Questioning whether this invitation includes you? Note me! Questioning whether you can bring someone with you? Note me! Most of the time I'm fine with a few extra people showing up, but I like to make sure it's someone that will get along with the overall group, and I appreciate knowing the person at least a little bit. I still get kind of weirded out by strangers in my house. Any other questions? Note me, or, better yet, call me! I have a new phone that I've barely gotten to use.

]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/11117346/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/11117346/ Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:27:29 PST
This Thursday (I know, late notice, sorry, we're not particularly organized), 7:00, my basement, as per usual. Bring snacks, drinks, anything that you might want in that fashion.

Questioning whether this invitation includes you? Note me! Questioning whether you can bring someone with you? Note me! Most of the time I'm fine with a few extra people showing up, but I like to make sure it's someone that will get along with the overall group, and I appreciate knowing the person at least a little bit. I still get kind of weirded out by strangers in my house. Any other questions? Note me, or, better yet, call me! I have a new phone that I've barely gotten to use.

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So, I'm in San Francisco. I don't want to be in San Fancisco. I want to be in Oregon. But I'm not. Portland is currently being battered by a not-hurricane (because Oregon doesn't have hurricanes, we just have "wind storms" with 100 mph winds on the beach) so there's no power and PDX is closed. All fights cancelled. They offered to send us up to Seattle, but then we would be on our own to figure out how to get from Seattle back down to Oregon. So, instead, we're staying in a travelodge tonight, and going to the airport at freaking 5am tomorrow morning to wait on standby for tickets to Portland. We ordered in pizza for dinner, which made us feel a little better, and gave eachother massages with the amazing little blue massagy thing that I bought at Bath and Bodyworks last night. That made us feel a lot better. But yeah, I'm stranded in San Francisco with only my carry on luggage. So I have books, yarn, my computer, my Mp3 player, and my purse. No contact case or solution, because you can't carry liquids on the plane anymore. My eyes are going to hurt by the time I get home.

On the bright side, this hotel seems fairly decent. I'm still locking the deadbolt and the rape chain, and the walls are pretty thin, but the beds are soft and clean, the towels are soft, the shower is hot, and they're giving us a shuttle to the airport at 5 tomorrow morning.

I just want to be home...

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]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/10896651/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/10896651/ Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:27:55 PST
It's been outlandishly hot here the last few days. It shouldn't be in the 60-70s in the end of December. It's apparently supposed to drop down to 50 by Friday. Which will be nice, but it will be December by then. That is rediculous. There is snow at home, and I want snow. But I want it here...

There are a lot of things that I want here I guess.

I really don't know how I feel right now. In so many ways, I want this semester from hell to be OVER. Not that nothing good has happened, a lot of good things have happened, but this semester has just been... rough. I don't know, it's weird. But there are things that I don't want to end. Like Luke. He's gone after this term. I don't know where he'll be. He was planning to try to get a job in Wilmington for a while, but who knows what will actually happen. And it's coming up faster and faster. The neverending, hellish semester is coming to an end, and I'm losing so much with it. It makes me wonder, in 2 1/2 years, we'll all scatter to the wind again, flock off to our different regions of the world, and then what? Start over again? How many times do you have to start?

Sorry for neglecting deviations lately... lately meaning a long time, but my life has kind of exploded recently. I'll get to them eventually, I promise. Especially your story, Jon. I just really want to have time to actually be able to get into it, i don't want to be rushed through it because I'm late for class, or have homework that I forgot about, or end up falling asleep while reading it because it's 2:30 am.

You're deep, but in a good way. People don't like people who are deep anymore. They want to be able to figure you out. Maybe it's not anymore. Maybe it's just the romantic world that I live in in my mind, but I always imagined someone who enjoyed the challenge of figuring you out, but maybe that's not realistic. I've got a while to hold out though.

these musings seem to have served their purpose and I can feel my eyelids droop. Goodnight everyone.

]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/10779286/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/10779286/ Sun, 19 Nov 2006 15:11:29 PST Then takes a step back to clear her head
She got married at twenty one
After thirty years, it's hard to jump
It's hard to jump

Everybody was dancing on her wedding day
All her friends have been asking
How could you throw it away?
She doesn't know what to say

He is watching her from back in his chair
Wondering if she's bluffing, or if it's a dare
He'd like to tell her they can work it out
But the tender words just won't come out
They won't come out

Everybody was dancing on their wedding day
All her friends have been asking
Why would you throw it away?
She doesn't know what to say

She feels the terror most when she looks down
She drops a penny and doesn't hear a sound
And yet the silence in her own home
Begs the question, Why not be alone?
Why not alone?

Everybody was dancing on their wedding day
To herself she's been asking
Why do I stay?
She doesn't know what to say.

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Why does it have to end?

]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/10535471/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/10535471/ Sat, 28 Oct 2006 08:24:25 PDT
100 Horse Questions

1. How old were you when you first started riding? 10 when I started taking lessons. I'd gone on a few pony rides before that

2. First horse ridden: a little bay that was giving pony rides at a sprint picnic

3. First horse trotted on: umm, Royal's the first I remember.

4. First horse cantered on: Royal

5. First Horse fallen off of: Technicly, the little pain at the sprint picnic, I slid off while I was riding bareback. But that I actually seriously fell off of, Lace

6. Most recent horse fallen off of: Regis, I believe

7. First horse you trotted over poles with: Royal? I think we did a few poles once... Maybe it was Cooper or Lace

8. First horse jumped with: Kalina

9. First horse who ran away with you: Lace

10. First horse that scared the crap out of you: Lace

11. First horse shown? Royal and Luella

12. First horse to win a class with: Tina

13. Do you/have you taken lessons: Oh yes, way too many sometimes, I think.

14. First horse you ever rode bareback: One of the ponies at the picnic.

15. First horse trail ridden with: A horse at Black Butte, one of those half hour trail ride things. I think his name was Charles?

17. Do you ride English or western? English. Used to do Western, but I got bored with pleasure, didn't have the mindset for gaming, and didn't have the horse/anyone to teach me reining. Besides, I love Dressage

18. First Horse to place at a show with: Luella

19. Ever been to horse camp? Yup, Pony Club camps!

20. Ever been to a riding clinic? A couple of them. Mostly with Hania, a few pony club ones, and one with Dottie Morkis last weekend

21. Ridden sidesaddle? Not in a sidesaddle, but I've ridden sidesaddle in my dressage saddle

22. First horse leased: Lace

24. Highest ribbon in a show? 1st and high point award

25. Ever been to an 'A' rated show? Served breakfast at one, does that count?

26. Ever competed in pony games/relay races? Just for fun.

27. Ever fallen off at a show: heh, yup. First OHSET meet during jumping.

28. Do you ride Hunter/Jumpers? no

29. Have you ever barrel raced? Yup! I made Tina my barrel pony for a while

30. Ever done pole bending? ohh, Griffin LOVED pole bending!

31. Favorite gait(s): The canter. I love to canter.

32. Ever galloped bareback? heh, not on purpose...

33. Have you ever done dressage? <3 it's my passion

34. Have you ever evented? Yup, lots of fun, but I hate stadium and Cross Country still scares me a little

35. Have you ever mucked a stall? Oh so many stalls...

36. Ever been on a horse that bucked? Lace, Griffin, Blitzen, Denny, Regis, Pony, Jack, Winston, Peter, that's all I can think of off the top of my head... but I know I've been bucked off of more horses then that, lol

37. Ever been on a horse that reared? Not a full, sky scraping, vertical, I'm going to fall over backwards rear, but yes.

38. Horses or ponies? Either or. They're both fun in their own way. Horses just to prove that I can, but Ponies actually fit me, so it's fun sometimes

39. Do you wear a helmet? Always!

40. What's the highest you've jumped? 3'6? 3'9? I really have no idea. We realized my last summer with Mack that neither my trainer nor I can judge height. "How high is that jump?" "About 2'9" "I don't think so, I think it's at least 3'" "I'm sure it's not, it's not more than 2'9" "Fine, I'll go measure it" "Well, what do you know, it's 3'5" (conversation between trainer and someone watching my lesson.) Biggest looking thing I've ever jumped would be one of Heidi's prelim logs in her upper pasture. That thing scared the crap out of me.

41. Have you ever ridden at night? Couple times, yup. It's nice. But we have no lights now, so it needs to be a clear night so I can still see.

42. Do you watch horsey television shows? Not very often, but when I can

43. Have you ever been seriously hurt/injured from a fall? No, luckily

44. Have you ever ridden without anything (no saddle, bridle, halter ect.): Used to in the pasture with Griffin

45. Do you ride in an arena or ou... ]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/10525947/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/10525947/ Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:38:15 PDT
On the upside, I get to go see the Vienna boys choir tonight.

On the downside, Caitlin can't come with me like we planned because she has to drive Patricia to Florida so that she can be with her family since her father was almost killed in an electical fire yesterday.

This week Seriously needs to end. I don't know if any of us can survive any more of it.

]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/10417226/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/10417226/ Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:23:24 PDT Last weekend my school hosted a dressage clinic with Dottie Morkis. I rode in a group lesson the first day on Sierra, and oh. my. word. Wow. She is brutal. I have never felt so much like I don't deserve to be on a horse, but at the same time, when I was finally able to get what she was asking, I felt like I conquered the world. So yeah, I learned a lot, and I couldn't walk aftewards. My friends can attest to this. I almost cried when I got the stairs in my dorm. Patricia helped me stretch out a little, and that helped some.
So that evening we decided that we weren't feeling SAGA, so we all went out to Taco Bell, the went to get ice cream at Subs and Cream afterwards. We came back to the dorm, hung out for a while, Luke left, and we started heading towards bed, especially since Grace and I had to be at the barn at 7 the next morning to take care of Sierra. So I'm almost in bed when I get an IM from Luke "I'm hungry, want to go to Huddle House?" so, of course, being me, I say yes, throw clothes back on, and Patricia, Caitlin, Luke and I drive to Huddle house at midnight (which is actually kind of early for a huddle house adventure...) We had a strawberry belgium waffle and it was good.
So the next morning, Grace and I get out to the barn, pull Sierra out of the stall he was in for the night to move him to a different stall for the day and he looks a little off. We figure he's just a little sore from the clinic and he just needs to walk around a little. He's not used to being in a stall. So I walk him around for a few minutes while Grace gets his breakfast ready. He seems to be getting a little better, so we put him back in his stall so he can eat his breakfast. We come back to check a little while later and his leg has blown up. It's swollen all along the inside of the cannon, all around the fetlock, the inside and back of the pastern, and up into the hock (all up the lower leg back hind leg, for you non-horsey people) so I start to freak out a little. He's not standing on it, and when I touch it, not only is it hot, but he picks it up like it hurts when I touch it. I take him out to walk him so that Grace can watch him move and he's three-legged lame. He won't bare any weight on the leg, and he's dragging his toe really bad. We continue to freak out. I cold hose it, Grace rides someone else in the clinic, I continue to freak out, and we take him back to Proctor's. Thankfully, the Proctors are old horse people, and I love them. They're amazing. So they took a look at it, rubbed some liniment on it, I wrapped it, and he was starting to look a little better by the time we walked him out to his pasture. We figure he probably layed down to roll in his stall and kicked himself getting up. He looked a lot better today, so that made me feel better. I was just freaking out because Bri was at a show in Virginia on Sunday, so I'm thinking "HOLY CRAP! I BROKE BRI'S HORSE AND SHE'S NOT HERE!!!!" It's going to be alright though.

So, today was Grace's birthday. She's 19 now. We had to do something special for her, so we decided that we should kidnap her. Logical, of course. So we capture her coming out of work this evening, Bri and Luke grab her and blindfold her while Patricia, Alyssa and I tie her up with Polo wraps. She's screaming and struggling, and as we carry her past the call center the people she works for just laughed and waved at us. Caitlin was driving the getaway car, so we ran out into the parking lot and threw her in the back of the station wagon. She was still convinced we were going to throw her in the lake, so she kept trying to take her blindfold off, so Bri had to sit on her and hold her blindfold on. We drove out to a... ]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/10346146/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/10346146/ Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:19:40 PDT I'm definitly not ready for fall break to be over. I wonder if I can take a semester off from classes but still be here... probably not. Actually, I wouldn't want to live in this dorm if I didn't have to. Heck, I don't want to live in this dorm and I do have to. Our bathroom is broken. Again. Only worse. It's flooded. Very flooded. This isn't funny anymore. It wasn't funny in the first place, but it's really not now.
I'm almost out of chocolate.
And I still don't have a plot for NaNoWriMo. I've got a few random snipets, and the beginnings of a cast and sort-of-vague situation, but not an actual idea yet. We're working on it. I've got a few more weeks before the insanity ensues. Yay! Insanity!
Musicmatch has also gone insane. It won't let me upload any more music. My music library is dead. I don't really know what to do to fix it. There's nothing in the trouble shooting menu about it. I should probably e-mail their help people and ask where my music library went, and if possible, could I have it back?
meh. I need to go do something. I want to go to wal-mart and buy chocolate, but if I go to wal-mart, I need to go to the post office. And to the shoe place. I'm not sure if I want to be that commital. But I should really go do that now before I miss open hours. Again. Cause that would suck.

]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/10336975/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/10336975/ Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:17:58 PDT But I'm not doing any of those yet.

Your Autobiography:

Part 1: How I Came To Be:

*Were you a planned baby?:
Yup. I wondered for a while, seeing as there was that 7 year gap between the wedding and me... but my mother has assured me that I was, in fact, on purpose

*Were you the first?
why yes I was

*Were your parents married when you were born?: Yup, for 7 years

What is your birthday? 2-28-87


Part 2: My family

*How would you describe your family?: Close when we're close, I guess. And Extended. There are a lot of ways I could describe my family. When we're living together we're really close-knit and we, for the most part, get along wonderfully. But when someone leaves, it's not that they're not missed, but we just kind of gloss over the hole. As far as extended, I honestly consider all of the stray children that we feed and provide with video games family, which gives me waaay too many brothers.

*Are your parents married, divorced or separated?: Still happily married, 26 years and counting

*Are you the oldest, middle, or youngest child?: Oldest

*What are your siblings names?: Dustin (16)

*Which parent do you get along with best?: Mom. It's not that I don't get along with my dad, but I'm a lot closer to my mom. I can't really talk to my dad like I can my mom.

*Do you have step parents?: nope


Part 3: The Friends

*Do you have more than one best friend?: Well, Aileen is my best friend, but I can't really say that I'm any closer to one friend than any other. Aileen is still my one true love though.

*Who is (are) your best friend(s)?: Aileen, Caitlin, Patricia, Sadie, Paige, Briana, Grace, Luke, Travis, Sarah, K'Hill, Kelsey, Kelsey, Sean... like I said, I'm not really one for picking one above the rest

*Do you share the same interests?: I have something in common with all of them. My girls back home it's theater, my girls here at school it's horses, Luke is theater, and all of them are just general insanity

*Which friend can you tell anything to?: umm... I'm not good at telling people things. Can I tell anything? most of them. Will I? ... Aileen or Luke are probably closer than anyone else. Or Sean. I don't really keep secrets from him.


Part 4: Your Personality

*How high/low is your self esteem?: You know those graphs in Calculus that fly all over the place? Yeah... that would be me

*Do you get depressed about things easily?: About things? not really...

*Do you live life to the fullest?: I try to. We only get to do this once, after all. But I have an inherently cautious nature, so it doesn't always work out.


Part 5: Appearance

*Are you comfortable with the way you look?: Remember that graph?

*Do you have any piercings?: Ears

*How do you dress?: Jeans or Breeches and T-shirts or tank tops mostly... occasionally I'll dress up in a skirt or something, but not for day-to-day stuff.


Part 6: The Past

*Were you a strange child?: haha, I was definitly something else. That whole distinguishing fantasy from reality thing... not so much

*What did you love that you no longer do?: Sleep? No, that's not true, I never slept... Dance I guess, though I don't think I loved it that much at the time, I just wish now that I hadn't given it up. I guess just the carefree way of life. But I think we all miss that

*Do you have the same friends?: Some, but others have grown away. That's part of growing up I guess, I have new friends that I'm closer to, and the friends that I did retain are closer than ever.

*Was there anything in your past that was traumatizing?: ...


Part 7: The Future

*What is your ambition?: To make a difference? That's really most of it. I mean, I'd like to open my TR barn and rescue horses and work do missionary work in Africa and all of that, but really it comes down to I want to make a difference in the world.

*Do you want to get married?: I'd like to, someday. But that depends on a lot of things. I'm not setting my entire future around it, if it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen, but I kind of hope it will... someday... in the far far future.

*How many kids do you want?: As many as I decide to have?


Part 8: The Outdoors

*Do you prefer indoors or outdoors?: Generally out, but I spend a lot of time indoors

*Favori... ]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/10319501/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/10319501/ Sat, 07 Oct 2006 22:13:09 PDT
So, yeah. The Scottish Ball was a lot of fun. I definilty want to go again next year, though I think I will try to find some slightly more... scottish garb. And take some dance lessons first. Tim said something about taking a group up to Fayetteville where the group he dances with is. We'll have to see if it's possible.

I met the most AMAZING dance partner though! I got to dance two dances with him, because he asked me the first time for an intermediate dance and I got really lost and they basically just kept shoving me around and calling me when I needed to turn. It was still fun, but not the best dancing experience. Scottish Country Dances are kind of hard. Or, at least, complicated. The second dance we did together was a Contra Dance, and it had a lot of swinging in it, which is FUN!! Especially with him. He was so into it, he's doing a jig in between each move, and he actually taught me how to do the swing, to lean my weight back against his arm and pivot on my inside foot so that he can get up a lot of momentum and we can just fly around. His name was Michael, and he's an absolutely fabulous dancer. And a wonderful leader, which is awesome, because I love dancing with guys who are strong leaders. Bri was making fun of me after I danced my second dance with him that I'd been asked to dance by the same guy twice in a row (not quite in a row, but like, two or three dances apart) until I pointed out the single earring in his left ear. I think he may have been just a little too fabulous for us... but he was still an incredibly dancer. I danced with a bunch of other people too, and discovered that Bri is also a very strong leader. She makes a good guy. She's kind of like you Aileen, she needs to either be with a really strong leader, or be leading herself. :-P

Overall, that's probably one of the most fun evenings I've had in a long time. Pictures will be forthcoming as soon as I get them from Caitlin's dad.

]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/10149601/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/10149601/ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 05:47:46 PDT
I'm stressed. What else is new, right? I'm overly stressed. I'm not sure if I can handle all of this, but I'm going to try my hardest and push through. Fall Break is only two weeks away. if I can make it to that, then I can make it through the semester. I know I can.

I'm in a boat race this weekend. We (my suite-mates and I) built a boat. We're called Team Lacerta, because Lacerta is the star that Bri's planet orbits around. Bri's planet is the one that was recently discovered that is made of fluff. Our boat looks like a giant tobogan. I'll post pictures when I have a bit more time. It amuses me. I really hope that it floats, cause I don't really want to go swimming.

TH started this week, but I haven't taught yet. My class didn't show on Tuesday, and apparently they have a bad habit of doing that. So here's hoping that they'll be a little more reliable so that I can get some teaching hours in.

There's really nothing exciting going on my life. It's kind of sad. We might be going to watch some of the AECs this weekend, so that would be fun. And Caitlin and I are going to try to find some time to go dress shopping for the ball, since it's coming up pretty quickly, but we'll see.

Anyway, that's my life lately. Yay life.

Namaarie ]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/10014066/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/10014066/ Fri, 08 Sep 2006 21:44:58 PDT I know it's for the best, but that doesn't make it hurt any less. ]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/9831068/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/9831068/ Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:42:12 PDT
It's during fall break. It's a formal/semi-formal scottish ball as a benefit for the Flora MacDonald foundation. They're going to teach some simpler dances, and there'll be some more complicated ones for people who know what they're doing. I'm excited!

[link] ]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/9726362/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/9726362/ Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:59:38 PDT ) and we helped Patricia move her stuff up today. My legs hurt. A lot. 10 days of sitting in a car, then stair laps with weights. Fun Fun!

Overall, I'm glad to be back though. Don't get me wrong, I miss you all terribly, but I was really ready to get back and get going again.

If I have any free time these next few days, I'll upload some new pics. I have a bunch I need to put up. I'll try not to bombard all of my lovely watchers with tons all at once though. I love you all too much for that.

After watching Side by Side by Sondheim, I've gone on a real Sondheim kick. I need to get some soundtracks. Maybe once I balance my checkbook and see how much money I actually have left after my wonderful trip I'll order a few.

Oh, and in case your interested, my life is worth $79.50. At least to Caitlin. ]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/9693035/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/9693035/ Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:18:16 PDT ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/9496059/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/9496059/ Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:23:09 PDT
So anyway, if you haven't seen it, you need to go watch it.
[link]

And if you have seen it, go watch it again! We want to keep it at the top as long as we can! ]]> ~Laicristiel http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/9308502/ http://Laicristiel.deviantart.com/journal/9308502/ Sat, 08 Jul 2006 03:26:10 PDT
Without you... ]]> ~Laicristiel