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    Secret Author - Rewind!

    By Valkyrie

    The posting of this year's Secret Author Contest will be delayed indefinitely due to Cia going through a tragic family emergency.  Please respect her privacy and do not reach out to her and ask questions at this time, especially about when the SA stories will be published.  We apologize for the delay, as we know this is a highly-anticipated event each year, but family matters take precedence, especially during a time like this.  Thank you for your attention and understanding.  Stay tuned for mor
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Back from DC

Well, the trip was fun and relaxing; no pressure, no hassle, it was a simple affair between strangers, who are equivalent to pen pals of old. Sometimes, I wonder how much people on site actually think about the "real" you as in the actual person behind the avatar. We're all different people with our own backgrounds and tastes.   I didn't picture Q being Mr. Dad or how cute lil' Q was in real life versus just pictures.   Cassie and I shared a hotel together, it was fun to be traveling compani
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W_L

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Changes - As I Saw It. Summer Anthology

Well joining GA has opened my eyes to a lot of different things, and one of them is the Anthology idea.   So summer 2012 was the first time I actually came across anything of the sort, and if it weren't for Bugeye pointing it out to me, it'd have slipped by unnoticed as I was caught up in reading some of the amazing stories on the site.   But thankfully I was encouraged to give it a whirl and submit an entry.   I actually got a good kick out of giving it a go. It was a lot of fun writing a
Yettie One

Yettie One

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The power of Google

The power of Google. It does so much stuff, I dont have to find the answers on the textbook!. Easier and quicker too! The power of internet is making us so lazy.   I was gonna ask my dad something weird, but decided to google it instead.   As the picture shows, idk why this was in the first google link search... Google is just so powerful!   http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/801/wtfoh.jpg/
Menace

Menace

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Getting ready for the train ride down to DC

Checklist:   1. GA anthology stories downloaded Can't do it, hope there's wi-fi at the hotel   2. Alternative reading for long train ride, The Lost Bank- Check   3. Clothing appropriate for DC in the summer (I am not going nude, it'd make a bigger scene than the protesters in front of the Capitol and White House)- Check, Cargo shorts and shirts   4. Music for the ride- Check, just downloaded the new album by The Maine and The Fray + my other favorite bands   5. An emergency escape pla
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W_L

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Back Home

Just back from a two day cancer conference in Manchester - woo hoo!!   Lots of the usual learning stuff - what we are doing to treat children's cancers, what the future holds, survival statistics, what we are doing better on etc etc etc.   More important - 2 nights out painting the town pink Lots of fun in the bars in probably the most well known street in England outside of London.       Had a few drinkies too many and committed the age old sacrilege of karaoke Stayed out each nigh
Andy78

Andy78

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So when problems strike

Alright I feel like hell and will be posting parts of this in a few spots so people know. I hate going anywhere without being all set. Considering I was the one who set up the DC get together let me simply put this as simply as I can. I won't be there   Three things made sure that doesn't happen. First Strike was my car. I had set over a thousand dollars aside for this trip. I figured no way was I going to be caught flat for it. However, my car in the last month alone stripped me of over $1100
comicfan

comicfan

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The Year That Ate My Life

As some of you may have noticed, I’ve been “gone” from GA for a while. I ended my last post of Social Skills, wrote a short story, chickened out about posting it, and disappeared into the mist.   It took me about a month to begin working on a new piece. At the time, I was moving from an apartment into a house, and my writing time was severely limited. In addition to that, I’m a very slow writer (or, if you choose to believe, as Carringtonrj so kindly put it, a “thoughtful” one ). I can’t seem
Sara Alva

Sara Alva

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What is natural law? - It's a question beyond politics or economics

You have given me a lot of things to think about in terms of philosophical arguments and concerns over the nature of “Natural Laws”. I am not sure if this is the best answer, but it is a probable answer to a question that is uncertain.   What is “natural law”? There are several ways to interpret the concept and I’ve seen several different perspectives trying to frame the idea.   First, some people assume natural laws mean absolute rules, based on certain facts of nature, i.e. there is
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W_L

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Some music for the nihilist in all of us

I was browsing Billboard to see what was hot in today's music just out of curiosity as I haven't gone on that site in ages and I want to prove my astrological chart wrong that I can enjoy popular things. To be honest, I don't follow many popular bands anymore outside my small circle of pop, punk, and rock groups, but I saw Linkin Park had a #1 rock song, so I thought why not, they're usually good.     Oh I love it!
W_L

W_L

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Technology is Amazing

I was finally due an upgrade for my phone which I've probably had too many years to truly consider myself to be trendy. To be honest I am no technophobe, I've just always figured that a phone is to make calls on and maybe send text messages.   Ok maybe a lot to send text messages. Actually I am quite grateful for the 'unlimited' number of text messages that my traffic offers me, as there are times when i can get quite carried away with my textual conversations.   However, I was really quiet
Yettie One

Yettie One

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A piece of my astrological chart

So I went to Cafeastrology.com and tried it out. It hit me right now on the mark, sadly.   Look at the quotes:     I actually do feel that way right now about my life and job. Heck, I'd love to be free being able to live my life as I want to and doing what I "feel". Like right now, if not for obligations, I'm feeling like flying South America and traveling down the amazon or going back to school and learning molecular biology.   That was just an attribute according to the chart, my core
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W_L

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On the road again

Let us be lovers; we'll marry our fortunes together I've got some real estate in my bag So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner's pies And we walked off, walked off, walked off to look for America "Kathy," I said, as we boarded the greyhound in Pittsburgh "Michigan seems like a dream to me now Took me four days to from Saginaw They've all gone to look for America All gone to look for America." Laughing on the bus, playing games with faces She said the man in the gabardine suit was a
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Movie Review: "Prometheus" aka Aliens prequel

Somewhere between the mock up spaceship, the android David, and the gut puncher coming out of someone's belly; I just said been there and done that.   I really tried to like this movie, it has everything the Alien franchise movies had, a good story, a decent cast more or less, and superb sci-fi themes. Problem is that the movie has been done over and over again for so many decades and I have seen enough incarnations to really stop "believing" as the movie holds as its central tenet.   I won'
W_L

W_L

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Reasons to be Greatful - Art

Art in its basic form should be viewed as a celebration of humanity. Be it paints applied to a canvass, or ink on a paper, music from an orchestra, or motion picture on a screen, it is the giving of pleasure from one to another.   Art is something we turn to for enjoyment, pleasure and contentment. I don't think we stop enough to consider how much art impacts on our lives, how it creates in us a world of emotions and expressions, how it helps us to communicate and record our history. It impres
Yettie One

Yettie One

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Looking forward and backward

What is human nature? A complex array of interactions, emotions, and systems of belief that conjures up a myriad of potential outcomes.   I guess for me I look to the future as much as I look to the past. A great thought of the nature of existence is that time is arbitrary, consequences are not. We can measure time based on human terms of seconds, minutes, hours, days, years, and centuries, but how can we measure consequences.   This is just me musing on the nature of existence, we base our
W_L

W_L

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Update, Flashing and Humping

I can't beleive it's been so long since I posted here. Things have just been so crazy. Among other things     I've become involved in a Flash Group. Basically this means that every Wednesday I post a 1000 word 'flash fiction' on my blog. At present, this is following two beautiful boys called Rune and Luke. They've gone through the mill but they're getting there Check out the story so far http://nephylim-author.blogspot.co.uk/p/luke-and-rune.html   I've published two new books. One is an ol
Nephylim

Nephylim

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Why are public Charities not giving 99%?

I saw the posting in the Soapbox and I promised not to get involved in any debates in there, but I have to at least correct some people's understanding on how non-profits work.   I hear people say, "You are scamming us and not giving our money to charity." a lot, since I've worked with charities and foundations in the past. I have worked with charities, sat on their boards as an unpaid director, and generally understand why on the accounting side of thing, it's hard to make them functional.  
W_L

W_L

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A sad day

Not the happiest thing to have as my first blog entry, but who ever said blogs had to be happy.   I've been working on a children's oncology ward for the past year or so, doing the data collection for our national cancer register and managing the medical files of the patients. One of the children (who for this blog I'll call Max) passed away a few weeks ago from leukaemia. It really is true what they say, "Paediatrics is the best and the worst of medicine".   Usually, I don't have much to
Andy78

Andy78

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Reasons to be Greatful - Youth

When you are young, you can't wait to grow up. When you get older you suddenly wake up to realise that you can't slow life down fast enough, and dream of going back to the days when you were a wee nipper.   I fondly sit and recall my youth. Those wild days of wreckless abandon when I didn't care about what the world thought, where it didn't matter to me if I was bunking off my lessons, or late to finish an assignment. The pressures of the world meant nothing, and the responsibility of being hu
Yettie One

Yettie One

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Smiling at our Strange Sayings

I've lived in the UK for a number of years now, and one of the things that's amazed me about this tiny Island in the sea is the number of people and accents that are packed onto it.   To name but a few you'd easily think of the likes of the Cockney's, Scousers, Geordies, Mancunians, the Cornish, the Welsh the Irish or the Scots.   Yet even within the more commonly known regional accents, there are more local dialects or variances of these, and it can get really confusing to say the least.  
Yettie One

Yettie One

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The Sexuality Conundrum

I read a blog recently discussing a gay man's response to sex with a woman. I've read a story on GA about a man who finally finds the strength to accept he's gay after 20 odd years of marriage. I've been asked about being gay by youngsters I know. I've been chatting with a friend on GA about sexuality and what they think it means for them.   If there is one thing I've realised in 38 years of my life it's that sexuality is no simple thing.   Personally I'd consider myself gay. Ok so this is p
Yettie One

Yettie One

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Keeping Up

Just figured I was a bit behind in my blog. Welcome to the first of June. The weather has been beautiful today.   I managed to fill in a hole in the yard, and get it seeded. Supposed to rain for the next couple of days so hoping the seeds take and the lawn comes in instead of the soil just getting washed away.   I also completed the beta work I had. I hate to fall behind but this week was crazy with the hours I was working. I also got back the latest chapter on Jonas. Lets just say I had som
comicfan

comicfan

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Guess I should rename this the Trebs' Health Blog

So... It took me a while to find my blog. Everytime I tried to search, it would just show me the GA New Blog because of all of the entries I've made there. But eventually - YAY - found it again.   Ya, blogging. I'm not good at it. I love FaceBook because I can do quick updates or thoughts on things, but kvetching about my health - heh, an actual blog seems better.   So - nothing as horrible as my last health problem but - meh...   Started a couple of weeks ago. As part of the follow
Trebs

Trebs

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