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This isn't really a measure to keep people out so much as a way to tell people that memes and silly articles aren't all there is to me. More personal, perhaps even interesting stuff is kept under wraps. Don't worry, you don't need to prove your mettle in battle or give me evidence of your Nobel Prize in physics. Friend me and I'll friend you back!

This is how the periodic table should go:

Would anybody be offended by receiving paper made from elephant dung?

Just, you know, asking.

Going back to college soon. Not abroad. :( But I'll have to cook for myself soon and will not have a full kitchen set. The basics will be within easy access, but I won't be able to buy anything fancy or use fantastical devices like juicers and slow cookers. And, obviously, I'm on a shoestring budget, so judicious use of balsamic vinegar of Modena is verboten. Any suggestions?

Ten months into my stay in Japan, and I just faced my first boob gropage thirty minutes ago. Good news is, I have an idea of who it is, and he lives in the dorm across from mine. He'd better watch it next time he's on his bike. If not, I suspect karma will get him, hopefully in the form of a castrating bitch of a bride.

I just got word that Sena Jun announced her retirement. No news outlets have picked up on it yet as far as I can tell, but look for it soon.

EDIT, 4:50: Here it is.

EDIT, 5:08: There's also the, um, official website, which is, on occasion, useful. *headdesk*

Megan McArdle is getting married. Please encourage her to have oodles of children so that the world sees a sudden influx of gorgeous, intelligent people.

Which is why I'm not being too active. Sorry about that. Anyone have uplifting links/stories? I would appreciate it.

From DoubleX, on what famous women wanted to be when they grew up:

Judith Martin, Miss Manners

One day when I was a little girl with blonde ringlets, my father said, "I can picture you as an old lady, wearing high collars and a bun and tyrannizing over future generations."

And I thought to myself, "My daddy understands me."

There's a cat meowing piteously on the street. I don't have any food for him like I did last time he came.

XD

You learn to love it, but it takes a while.

Ticket Pia vs. Lawson: which offer better seats? For once I find myself having to choose, since previously I just used Lawson out of laziness. Is there an appreciable difference in the quality of the seats between the two? Quality meaning, of course, the shortest distance possible between oneself and the stage.

I knew there was a reason you were my not-so-secret crush.

Russian president Dmitri Medvedev will soon have his own LiveJournal. This was posted in April. No, it was not April 1st.

Thanks to the good folks at russiamagazine

Pictures of za Motherland taken with old cameras.

Some geniuses stole Trostky's ashes and baked them into cookies. Then sent them to the anointed. Damn. My one chance to literally be a part of the Communist Party--or rather, have a part of the Communist Party in me--is shot.

Also, hot women promoting Communism! Who will win Miss CHE-arming? I'm dying of suspense.

... But, hey, hot Russian women. Russian women are hot. I already knew that Germans collectively have the hotness of multiple supernovas, and, um, certain Japanese women can make you melt on eye contact. My eyes had yet to be opened to the gorgeousness of women from the land of awesome liturgy and depressing history riddled with ugly obese men drinking in dachas the corpses of their own. Well, Russia has one legacy it can be proud of.

HAMMERS AND SICKLES.



Lenin, I almost forgive you.

Scratch that.

P.S. Aran Kei's real name is Yasuda Touko

Just in case you haven't already seen it:

( Heeeeeeee )