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    Miraculous Prompts

    By Valkyrie

    The saying "truth is stranger than fiction" exists for a reason - sometimes what happens in real life is so far outside the realm of possibility that if written in a piece of fiction, readers would doubt its veracity.  I recently experienced such a moment when a family member of mine had a medical episode that should, by all accounts, have left them dead.  It still boggles my mind when I think about it.  90% of people who have this condition die from it, with most of them not even making it to t
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Val's Blog

updates and a sleeping kitty

I've been having a bit of internet withdrawal here. I hate dialup! I tried to convince my mom she needed to get cable internet, but she's too cheap. Anyway, I haven't done anything more interesting than watch TV since I've been here, unless you count the minor crisis we had Saturday night. I woke up at about 2:30 in the morning and heard a strange noise coming from downstairs, so I went to investigate and discovered that the kitchen was flooded. A pipe broke or something under the sink, and m
lagomorph

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vlista20's Blog

Monday :(

I sat here for five minutes just thinking of a title for my blog entry. I don't know what it is but I cannot manage to come up with titles! The only reason I put Monday is because it's Monday and I did the sad face because I'm sad it's not Friday! BUT I do have friday off this week and Monday too so I got a four day weekend. YAY for me! I don't have any exciting plans and Sam still has to work but I'm sure I can find something to do with my extra time. I got more Spring cleaning to do which
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Little Buddha's Thatched Hut

Tell Me When the Whistle Blows

I can't really remember the last time I've had so much to do ... I've gotten so used to being bored, but now that my big move is looming closer and closer, I've got tons to get done. This week is going to be a killer, and I'm not off to a good start, since I got ZERO hours of sleep last night. I have the worst case of insomnia, and even the sleeping pills my doctor gave me don't do a damn thing except make me feel woozy and a little groggy ... but not enough to put me to sleep.   Anyway, I hav
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Daveys Blog

Weird Day

Hey Its been kinda a while.....   So today has just been kinda weird.   Chris is sick, I think he has the flu, he's got the usual symptoms and he's puked a little too, (nice I know ) so Ive been looking after him all day. Then eariler I got a call from my Mum. She talked for over half and hour when she said this.... I was in the loft the other day, oh! I found your old tennis racket it was right next to a box of papers. I found all the stuff on we kept about the miscarriage. Hold the pho
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Davey

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Viv's Blog

It's been a while I guess...

So let's see... the big news is I sent in chapter 18 to Myr and as soon as he is done partying and getting older it should be up for you to read... which means I have finished 19 and am on to writing 20. Can you even believe that?! Davey just reminded me of that fact and it is so shocking! I swear it feels like I barely started writing anything, but I really love it   Alright so I have been labeled the emoticon girl... and I can deal with that since it's no secret that I am an overemotiona
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Little Buddha's Thatched Hut

Well ... that was fun

So, I got to the Chinese department office about a half hour early and chatted with one of the secretaries for a while, and she gave me all of the information I need to get through the gazillions of procedures I have to follow once the final draft of my thesis is completed, which includes converting my MS Word document into PDF format (which I have no clue how to do), get three hardcover and one softcover copies of my thesis made, upload the PDF file of my thesis to the library's electronic thes
LittleBuddhaTW

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Luc's Dementia

More kitten pics

These are Marina's kittens also:   Butterball     Little One (2 pics of her--hard to tell her apart from Chicken, but she is darker and her eyes are not as big)     Baby Purr (girl)  
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Little Buddha's Thatched Hut

Typhoons & Landladies

There's a big ass typhoon that's hitting Hong Kong and southern China now, and we're getting hit by the outer bands of rain. It's nothing serious, but it's raining hard enough to keep me from going clothes shopping ... not that I wouldn't have found another excuse not to get off my lazy butt ... but I've definitely got to go tomorrow, because I have to have something nice to wear (that fits!) for my exam on Friday.   Good news on the landlord front! I just spent two hours helping her to file h
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LittleBuddhaTW

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Read my blog

Please, don't feel my pain

Ok, so I had the surgery yesterday and the doctoer removed the tumor. We have to go back today for a followup at the doctors actual office somewhere in Norfolk. When we're there, I think I'm gonna give this guy a piece of my mind. He promised me that it wouldn't hurt, and that I would hardly know what happened. The truth is I'm miserable. And maybe I'm just being grouchy, but I really think this jerk either lied to me or he screwed somthing up and I'm not supposed to feel this sore and tender.
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jamessavik's Blog

Woo-hoo!

I won! I won! I won!   I have recently started hanging out on E-bay. It's a really cool place to pick up things at a bargain.   I got a copy of IBM's DB2 for the PC for $25. A new purchase would cost me hundreds. Computer books , science and text books- always WAY overpriced new can be got for a song on E-bay. I got my Object Oriented Programming in C++ for $10 (90$ at the bookstore). College book stores- what a racket!   What I'm really pleased about is the auction I won tonight. I found
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Read my blog

Just call me Diddy......

Ok, so as of midnight, i'm not allowed to eat or drink anything. That totally sucks because I know that when I wake up from my surgery tomorrow I'm going to be thirsty and it'll probably be the same guy as last time feeding me ice chips with his bare hands   That said, I've come to a conclusion......I'm like P Diddy.....no, I'm not a famous rapper who lives in New York, and Suge Knight doesn't want to kill me (at least I hope not :wacko: ) but for the last few days, I've been saying things l
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Little Buddha's Thatched Hut

Too Low For Zero

It's Sunday night here as I write this, and I got absolutely nothing done this weekend, either packing or writing ... I just slept ... a lot. Very unproductive. I'm going to try to convince myself to go to Sogo (an upscale Japanese department store) on Monday afternoon to buy some new summer clothes, and also get something nice to wear for my exam on Friday. Maybe I should be nervous about my exam ... I tend to worry excessively about things like that ... but it's been the furthest thing from my
LittleBuddhaTW

LittleBuddhaTW

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Camy's Blog

The Traveller

I'm reading 'The Traveller' by John Twelve Hawks. Fantastically frighteningly plausible.   The concept is similar to 'The Matrix' in that he world is having the wool pulled over its eyes, this time by 'the Brethren' who are in control. Our world is one of many planes of existence, and only travellers can move between them. They are initially trained by 'Pathfinders' and protected by 'Harlequins'.   The methods of control cited by Twelve Hawks are all real as I write, except that some are sli
Camy

Camy

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Camy's Blog

The Cats who rule

Katy and Cody who's off on a mission.   Percy and Katy sun worshipers extrordinaire.   Katy in her most favourite spot.   Put a box down anywhere and Percy will sit in it. A lot.
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Read my blog

4 surgeries in less than a year.....this sucks

Ok, so now I know what the sore spot is.....another dang tumor. I'm getting so sick of this. They're sure it's not cancerous, but they can't be 100% sure until it comes out on monday   This is the third time I've had a tumor removed in less than 9 months. If you count the surgery on my leg, that's 4 surgeries in less than a year....wtf. Sometimes I wish I could just get hit by a car or struck by lightning and get it all over with. My dad's totally stressed out, and he hasn't slept in two day
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NickolasJames8

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Val's Blog

ramblings

In an effort to preserve my sanity, I'm taking a break from packing. I can't believe how much crap I own. You can't walk through the living room or the bedroom, because there's boxes and suitcases and trash bags everywhere. At least I know if I forget anything I'll be able to get it back. Some of my stuff is at Mark's parents' house, being stored, so we can't not ever speak to each other again. He has been nice enough to help me some with the packing, although honestly most of the time he's more
lagomorph

lagomorph

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Viv's Blog

the icing on the cake...

Okay so I sort of had a mini breakdown yesterday I think I'm going to mostly blame it on my monthly female hormones... but I finally got to see some pictures of my brother's wedding that I couldn't go to cause it was in Spain and I was crying! Then I wondered why I was crying and I think it was because I really, REALLY wanted to be there, which is REALLY selfish because it's not about me, it's about him and how he got married and that I should be happy for him, which I am, but... anyway then I
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Viv's Blog

watch this!

Okay so a crazy hectic week and it's just gonna get worse I'm pretty sure... but I guess it's all worth it since I'm getting a new sister out of it all and I get both my brothers home at the same time I do have to make a wedding cake though so it might almost be a trade off...   I just got home from work and Rich showed me this video clip, OMFG!!! This guy is awesome! You TOTALLY have to watch this! http://www.break.com/index/evolutiondance.html   I actually started chapter 19 this afterno
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