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February 21st, 2008
05:01 pm - A young -- and babelicious -- Qaddafi
Tell me your political crushes. I know saltedpin has a thing for Putin, and I know marketsquare and the rest of y’all go sweet on Obama.
Still, I’m something of an orientalist. As a college senior, I fancied the eminently stylish Hamid Karzai. And no ladies are hotter than Central Asian dictators’ daughters. But look at this guy: Seif al-Islam.
“Libya: A Seif pair of hands?” (The Economist)
Who knew Qaddafi’s son was such a hunk! A tree-hugging promoter of constitutions, courts, and central banks, whose nickname is the “Engineer”? He’s a strapping young man. He’s got soulful brown eyes under his glasses. And indeed, he has a most beautiful pair of hands.
Edit: Saltedpin doesn't quite have a crush on Putin. She describes it as a "bizarro fascination" (I hear ya, sister!) Instead, she reserves her affection for Australia's new PM Kevin Rudd. Alas, I only know Rudd as the cute silver-haired chap who sometimes graces my BBC World screen. Cheers to him for beginning an apology to the Aboriginal people.
Current Location: Choibalsan
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/opiummmm/foxies/happy.gif) cheerful
Current Music: Boots of Spanish leather -- bob dylan
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May 19th, 2007
10:20 am - Citibank Eagle Rock Phone Number
The phone number at the Citibank Branch in Eagle Rock, 5015 Eagle Rock Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90041, is 323.256.2242.
I am posting this here because it took me fifteen minutes of calling other Citibanks to get this number. Customer Service said that they did not have the number to give me -- but then refused to connect me to the Eagle Rock branch.
So I'm posting this in hopes that some google spider will catch this, and put it online, to help future annoyed citibankers with their searches for phone numbers.
Current Location: pasadena (did I mention that my flight to NJ got cancelled?)
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/opiummmm/foxies/okay.gif) blah
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April 29th, 2007
10:25 pm - Easily amused and perhaps a little disturbed
When I get credit card solicitations, I occasionally stuff the "business reply" envelope full of coupons. Then I send the envelope back to them, cause they'll have to pay.
Today I received several funding requests from scam evangelists in Tulsa, Oklahoma. They assured me of "financial success" and sent me a colorful paper "prayer rug." If I stare at the prayer rug long enough, Jesus's eyes will open. I may even recieve $49,997.96 which I can use to buy a fancy new car.
Grr.
I scrawled "Jesus is Love not Greed" on the envelope. Then I filled it with pistachios, candy wrappers, and iron supplements, and sent it back to them.
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Current Location: home
Current Music: the horsehead fiddle
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March 13th, 2007
12:55 pm - Actually... I'm so damn confused
Well, I could go to Mongolia and teach English and do community projects and live in a yurt.
But maybe that's just a waste of time.
Perhaps I should move up to San Francisco with my boyfriend and get a REAL JOB. Something in finance or quantitative research. Something that makes money. Meanwhile I can work on studying economics.
I mean, who needs Mongolian-speakers and English teachers?
The United States needs more people who can do math and game theory and cool things with programming. Not more whiny non-profity liberal arts majors like yours truly.
What do you think?
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March 7th, 2007
06:48 pm - Mongoooooooolia!
I'm going to be making friends with this kind of guy within a few months...
cause I'm going to Mongoooooolia!!!
(That is, unless I recover my sanity within the ten days I have to respond to my Peace Corps invite).
I'm also starting a new Sarah in Mongolia Blog:
Silk Road Freeways
...
Current Location: Los Angeles
Current Mood: crazy
Current Music: "The gallop of a thousand horses"
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March 6th, 2007
08:59 am - super super impatient
The Peace Corps has sent me an invite packet but it hasn't arrived yet. I don't know where they're inviting me yiiiikkkes! It could be Azerbaijan. I really want to go to Azerbaijan.
I love the trills of the Turkish tongue, I can immerse myself in Persian music for days, and I want to nestle myself in the folds of the Caucasus mountains. And Azeris greatly respect teachers and they want to learn English.
Unfortunately I can't talk to any of the Armenian Angelinos I know about this.
Ok telling myself to keep rational. I could be joining Borat in Kazakhstan for all I know.
Current Location: santa monica
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/opiummmm/foxies/energetic.gif) bouncy
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December 21st, 2006
09:24 pm - thank you erin
Based on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks I might be interested in
1. fluxus score: 6
2. ashtanga yoga score: 4
3. intransigence score: 4
4. women's health score: 4
5. tony blair score: 4
6. dekooning score: 4
7. cunning linguists score: 4
8. pronouns score: 4
9. (parenthetical asides) score: 4
10. university of chicago score: 4
11. tarepanda score: 4
12. kenneth branaugh score: 4
13. rothko score: 4
14. scav hunt score: 4
15. balthus score: 4
16. contradiction score: 4
17. contortion score: 4
18. oil paint score: 4
19. jasper johns score: 4
20. joseph cornell score: 4
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Current Location: on a silver carpet
Current Music: mohammed shajarian
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December 12th, 2006
10:45 pm - Didja know?
Current Location: If you lived here, you'd be home by now
Current Mood: Post-bellydance lesson
Current Music: White and Nerdy - Weird Al
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October 16th, 2006
08:19 pm - another AWESOME video
If I were to write a sci-fi/fantasy interracial romance novel set in Central Asia, and if it were to include bellydancers and boa constrictors and magical Kazakh lutes --
it might look like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7WXs79uUZQ&mode=related&search=
: )
Current Location: my mind
Current Music: "Sultan" -- Asylbek Yensepov
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September 8th, 2006
10:56 pm - Frankly, blehhhh.
Sometimes I feel that all this social networking technology (facebook, myspace, even livejournal) is an awfully bad idea. Because of this, I can keep up with all my friends and casual acquaintances, all their journeys to India to save the environment for adorable children or to participate in cool business ventures. People with great jobs. All the friends and photos and cute messages.
That, or the periodic post-college depression, has set in. Meanwhile I wish I didn't care so much. But I do, I try to make myself look cool to anonymous onlookers. I just don't have anything to say.
Most of all, I like to listen to folks in person.
Am I really twentythree? I feel sixteen.
I could work on any number of things to push myself further along the cool-career path. But perhaps I prefer to wallow.
I think Brothers Karamazov rocks, by the way.
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August 4th, 2006
06:31 pm - Please watch this and you'll thank me
Hilarious Tamil bollywood-esque video from 1981. Super funky disco dude who jumps around in gold lame booties and a 'fro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koqeSXJtvvo&mode=related&search=
Soooo sexy
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/opiummmm/foxies/enthralled.gif) enthralled
Current Music: Solla Solla Enna Perumai - starring Kamal Haasan
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May 21st, 2006
06:35 pm - Hmm.
There are no Peace Corps operations in Afghanistan or Tajikistan.
However, Peace Corps programs currently exist in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
Fun facts:
-- Kyrgyzstan has the world's largest natural growth walnut forest (2005)
-- Languages: Kyrgyz (official), Russian (official)
-- Economy overview
Kyrgyzstan has distinguished itself by adopting relatively liberal economic policies.
-- chief of state: President Kurmanbek BAKIYEV (since 14 August 2005); note - former President Askar AKAYEV resigned effective 11 April 2005 following widespread protests that forced him to flee the country on 24 March 2005
-- Environmental concerns:
water pollution; many people get their water directly from contaminated streams and wells; as a result, water-borne diseases are prevalent...
Current Mood: sunny
Current Music: "Raqs Bikun" -- Daler Nazar
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April 20th, 2006
10:04 pm
Soo...
I wonder if it is still possible for me to become an international bad-ass.
You know, not just a romance novelist.
Someone who can slice apart imprecision, tear apart statutes, and put all the words and numbers together for the greater utility of all. Someone to whom the Economist would devote a paragraph description.
But international bad-assness requires blood, sweat, tears, and lots of malaria vaccinations.
Whereas the models are so nice: online Risk and political cartoons. Life in the united nations barrios of los angeles.
Current Location: if you lived here, you'd be home by now
Current Music: Elisir -- Paolo Conte
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April 12th, 2006
06:37 pm
Oh. My. At the current moment I totally suck at online Risk. Boris and Alex are kicking my ass, and Aatif is laughing in the background.
Two bad turns on my part. And I had such a good niche at the beginning.
My pride aches.
Oh well, it is only the second time that I have ever played this game. Ajo tells me that it takes losing for many games before you start winning.
I will keep patient.
I like to surround myself with people who can kick my ass. In whatever manner. It's fun because it means I get good. At the very least, I get better.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/opiummmm/foxies/angry.gif) cranky
Current Music: "Ala Jakoum" - Rachid Taha
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February 17th, 2006
05:53 pm
There are times in my life
when all I want to do is get on a wild horse
and ride through the foothills of the Pamir mountains
with a Tajik rock singer named Oleg Fesov.
I imagine how the wind bites into my face and the cold freezes the strands of my hair, in the newborn spring. The afternoon sun slowly sets as we sweep into the village. Then in the dusky tea house the warmth scratches into my face, the tea burns my fingers, and the smoke of the fire makes tears well in my eyes.
Current Music: Amina -- Oleg Fesov
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March 22nd, 2005
12:24 am
There are times in your life...when all you want to do is go on lone midnight walks, and listen to Finnish love metal.
Current Mood: I want to be Serafina Pekkala.
Current Music: Endless Dark -- His Infernal Majesty
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February 9th, 2005
10:20 pm
Yay! The website I helped design for Mental Health Advocacy Services is up:
www.mhas-la.org
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December 15th, 2004
03:53 pm
Very disappointed. Well, life goes on.
I guess I'm afraid that all these good things will end when I leave yale, and I finally have to do things for myself. Well: that will be an adventure.
Those old guys from Tribunal, on the 2 de mayo, have the right idea.
La vida no vale nada si no luchas por ella.
I'm at the end of the semester tiredness anyway. It's been a full one.
Well. Always more to explore.
Hay que llevar la marcha adentro.
./..
I mean, yes, I’m quite bummed out, but yo. I could be a girl in juvie on a status offense. That would really suck. So LUCKY to be here and have these opportunities. REALLY it’s obscene how much I have when others don’t.
Current Mood: yhehheh
Current Music: cumbia accordeon ultramix
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December 13th, 2004
05:03 pm
So for the downfall of authoritarian regimes. What a shame, I thought that class would be about juicy dictators...You know, Khomeini, Batista, Qaddafi, the cracky Shah, the cancerous Honecker, Papa and Baby Doc. And my favorites: Putin and my very own "inner dictator," TITO.
Instead: it was about regressions and models. Kakoi uzhas.
But:
Yaya! I have only one more paper to write and that's due saturday. It's a final project on girls juvie in CT; the topic deserves good scroungeling and interviewing. but.
Now, I should take this time to sleep and recuperate and work off all that vanilla frosting that I consumed during this latest weekend of whining. And then get back to the grind.
But no, I have the urge to celebrate, which I will do through ivy, dance, squash, pot, and divorce court.
Then, day by day, I will slowly remove Sterling Memorial Library from my floor and return it to its shelves.
Current Mood: stomach hurts, brain is happy
Current Music: taraf de haidouks
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04:01 pm
twenty minutes, one 1-paragraph wrap up, one crazy run up science hill...and then i will be DONE with the worst paper i have ever turned in, all 25 Pages of its reekingness.
i can do this.
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