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03:17pm 09/11/2009
 
 
Carol
Interestingly, due to various people talking about the slashable possibilities of NICS and I have never watched it. So being unemployed and extremely bored today I searched it and guess who is an actor on the show David McCallum plays the pathologist. The first time I saw him as an actor he played Illya Kuryakin on The Man from UNCLE and just yesterday I read a fic 'The Incident of the Fellow in te Fellow's Garden' which had Illya Kuryakin in it. The most interesting thing about it is that it was a Lord Peter Wimsey fic.
 
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12:13pm 01/11/2009
 
 
Carol
Moving is hard I know when I moved to Pittsberg from Oakland I was glad about a few things, less crime and more open space.

It's been 6 years and I wish we hadn't moved here there's fewer libraries, less choice of restaurants, less choice in grocery stores and fewer stores grocery and otherwise, very few buses run (once an hour) for my daughter to ride (she will never drive Autism), fewer places to look for a job at.

OK good points it has real summers 80+ most days from May through October, when I go some place I can usually find parking and it's free, I know most of my neighbors, I can leave stuff in the flower bed in front of my house and no one steals it, my neighbor knocks on my door to tell my that I left my car trunk open and no one has stolen anything out of it, indeed I can leave my car unlocked all the time and my door unlocked wen I'm home and I don't worry about it. The kids have good manners they say thank you and help you with things unasked.

It would be nice if you could have good points and the things I miss in the same place but so far as I know there is not any where here like that.
 
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07:33am 25/10/2009
 
 
Carol
Haaaha my daughter just showed me this.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/1028053.html


These cats are so funny, one if them looks like a sad little kitty.

btw I did not read the 'comic' book scans so this is not about them.
 
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I have a little Poll  
04:15pm 26/09/2009
 
 
Carol
I'm curious so I wrote this poll

Poll #1462936 1 The Eroica Readers Poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 45

Have you read the 'From Eroica With Love' books?

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Yes
42 (95.5%)

No
2 (4.5%)

What year did you read 'From Eroica With Love'

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Before 2005 in scans
4 (8.9%)

2005
6 (13.3%)

2006
7 (15.6%)

2007
11 (24.4%)

2008
9 (20.0%)

2009
15 (33.3%)

How did you find out about the books?

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Someone told me
25 (58.1%)

Fan-fiction
10 (23.3%)

Library
3 (7.0%)

Book store
7 (16.3%)

How many of the books have you read?

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1-2
1 (2.2%)

More than 5
13 (28.9%)

All the books released in my language
7 (15.6%)

All the books released in my language and any scan I could find.
27 (60.0%)

How important is the art?

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Mean: 7.56 Median: 7 Std. Dev 1.93
1 0 (0.0%)
2 0 (0.0%)
3 1 (2.2%)
4 1 (2.2%)
5 6 (13.3%)
6 5 (11.1%)
7 10 (22.2%)
8 7 (15.6%)
9 3 (6.7%)
10 12 (26.7%)

How important are the stories

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Mean: 9.00 Median: 10 Std. Dev 1.26
1 0 (0.0%)
2 0 (0.0%)
3 0 (0.0%)
4 0 (0.0%)
5 0 (0.0%)
6 3 (6.7%)
7 3 (6.7%)
8 9 (20.0%)
9 6 (13.3%)
10 24 (53.3%)

How important is the vibe between Dorian and Klaus

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Mean: 9.07 Median: 10 Std. Dev 1.65
1 0 (0.0%)
2 0 (0.0%)
3 1 (2.2%)
4 0 (0.0%)
5 1 (2.2%)
6 3 (6.7%)
7 2 (4.4%)
8 5 (11.1%)
9 2 (4.4%)
10 31 (68.9%)

How important are the other characters

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Mean: 7.53 Median: 8 Std. Dev 1.88
1 1 (2.2%)
2 0 (0.0%)
3 1 (2.2%)
4 0 (0.0%)
5 2 (4.4%)
6 8 (17.8%)
7 8 (17.8%)
8 12 (26.7%)
9 5 (11.1%)
10 8 (17.8%)

What do you dislike the most about the books?

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The early art
5 (11.9%)

The later art
16 (38.1%)

The vibe between Dorian and Klaus
1 (2.4%)

The clothes Aoike has Dorian wearing
2 (4.8%)

How silly Aoike has Dorian behave sometimes
16 (38.1%)

The fact that Aoike has not let Dorian and Klaus become a couple
17 (40.5%)

How many of the 'From Eroica With Love' fan-fiction stories have you read?

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Less than 10
10 (22.2%)

50 or more
15 (33.3%)

100 or more
10 (22.2%)

500 or more
1 (2.2%)

More than 500 but who's counting
9 (20.0%)

Did you read the fan-fiction before the books

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Yes
8 (17.8%)

No
37 (82.2%)

Have you read any other Manga?

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Yes
42 (93.3%)

No
4 (8.9%)

If so how many different series have you read?

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A few
4 (9.5%)

Less than 10
6 (14.3%)

More than 20
11 (26.2%)

More than I can remember
21 (50.0%)

What else do you read?

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Almost never
1 (2.3%)

1 book a month
5 (11.4%)

At least 1 a week
8 (18.2%)

Mostly fan-fiction
4 (9.1%)

Fan-fiction and books
17 (38.6%)

Mostly non-fiction
3 (6.8%)

News papers and magazines
12 (27.3%)

All/or most of the above
21 (47.7%)

 
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07:40pm 08/09/2009
 
 
Carol
I am without a computer right now even though I have internet. I am using my daughters Wii to post this. My computer should be fixed sometime this century. At least that is how slow they are moving.
mood: bored bored
 
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05:48pm 25/07/2009
 
 
Carol
I have grieved, I buried my sweet little feral in my garden between two scented geraniums, I lined the grave with branches of rose scented geranium and roses. I have consulted with the mother of the owner of the other cat and we are both determined to find the dogs responsible and make the owner/s understand that you can not let cat killing dogs run free to kill again.

I am thankful that the kittens I had been caring for are fostered in a house in Oakland as they would have also died and if I am sad now I would have been 100 times sadder if they had died.

 
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My cat Shadow  
10:10am 23/07/2009
 
 
Carol
My neighbors oldest  child 14 just told me what happened last night two dogs killed my cat Shadow.
mood: disconsolate
 
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Kittys  
08:47pm 15/07/2009
 
 
Carol
Some time in May I started caring for mother cat and 6 kittens, well Sunday the 12th all cats were spayed or neutered and one was adopted and the rest fostered. Thanks to my friends Darlene and Mickey and my daughter Jessica I would never have been able to accomplish this with out their help. Also the organizations around here 'Fix Our Ferals" in Oakland and HARP and HALO in Antioch really helped a lot.

I started with feeding them, petting and talking to them. The mother was at first standoffish but soon she decided I was OK and demanded to be petted. Then one kitten after another warmed up. I named them Mama Cat, Tiger, Tux, Big, Fluffy, Callie, and Shy, Mama is a marmalade, Tiger (boy)is just like her, Tux (boy)is striped in pale apricot with the white tux markings, Big (boy) is like Tux with out any white, Fluffy is very long haired and a creamy apricot no stripes (and a boy couldn't tell too much fur. He is the one adopted and now has and very aristocratic Spanish name), Callie (girl)is fluffy brownish, orangeish, and cream strips a camouflage cat, Shy (girl)is mostly black with orange and white and very timid. She was the last to be friendly. I would be petting and playing with her family and she would sit watching. Every time I came out to feed them and play with them she would come and watch. When she finally let me pet her she just leaned into my hand so sweetly as if to say love me.

Now they are all gone to safer places where they can't get run over by cars or hurt by large fierce raccoons. They are learning how to be house cats.

I MISS THEM!
tags: cats
 
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Mama cat and 6 sweet wild kittens.  
08:13pm 28/05/2009
 
 
Carol
Well I may have finally solved my cat and kitten problem. About 4 1/2 weeks ago I noticed a lactating female cat stealing food from my simi-feral cat Shadow's dish. So I put food in two places and the followed her. She had her kittens under the house next door so I talked to my neighbors and we started feeding them and trying to socialize the kittens.

They suddenly decided that they were going to call the pound to get rid of the cats too much trouble. This pound has a terrible reputation for euthanizing animals so I promised to take care of the problem. I have called and e-mailed about 10 places and no one would take them. Today I was in tears but finally I found a place 37 miles from my house in my old neighborhood Oakland. They say they don't euthanize they give them to rescue places. The same rescue places that won't take the kittens from me.

So tomorrow I will get a trap from a local rescue place (that won't take the cats) and Saturday my friend from Oakland will bring her cage and we will wrangle cat and kittens (6)and take them to a shelter. Wish us luck because we will need it. My plan is to withhold food from late Friday till Saturday morning less than 12 hours and as the kittens are weaned they will come to eat then we will grab and cage them my daughter says she will help.

God I hope this works.
mood: worried worried
 
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Butterfly migration  
04:04pm 31/03/2009
 
 
Carol
No not Monarchs, Painted Ladies we are having one of our big Painted Lady butterfly migrations this year. The last one like this was 2 or 3 years ago. If you watch the video you will see they fly very fast. They are a popular second grade life science project in California schools as the food needed for the caterpillars is easy to get as they are not picky.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P8t8dMNRiU
 
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10:35pm 06/03/2009
 
 
Carol
So now I've seen the first 4 episodes of X Files and I wonder how I missed this it is exactly my kind of show. So I checked when it came out in 1993 my daughter was 6 and very imaginative she could get nightmares off just about any slightly scary show and stayed up til 9 because she is a night owl. So obviously no shows that might be scary I need my sleep. Unfortunately I'm the only ordinary person in my house or rather the only person who sleeps more than 5 hours a night.

As to the show it seems very good I don't see why people think 'Fox Mulder' is so cute but then I like the exotic types, like Johnny Depp, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Mathew McConaughey and Heath Ledger. It's not that he is not good looking but just not so very, very handsome as the fan-fiction writers make out. I will have to wait to see what I think of Alex and Walter. But I like the shows stories so far.

I took a class today to get my Guard Card it is a card that you need if you want a job as a security guard in California. Well I can only hope that it will help me get a JOB having been unemployed most of the last 9 months that sure wold be nice.

My mother called and we are planning to go to a rock show near her house in Vallejo in two weeks that should be fun there is always lots of pretty things to see.
 
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RAIN  
09:08am 03/03/2009
 
 
Carol
Well we're in our 3rd straight day of rain Sunday it rained quietly all day not very hard but steady, yesterday it stormed hard rain and wind, today it was 60 degrees at 7AM and now its 45 and pouring with gusts of wind. Of all the family and friends I check only mom, and the Bay area friends are getting any weather of any note.

They keep saying drought, Drought, DROUGHT!!! when will have had enough rain? I know we have had 20 something days of rain and usually we have 45 something days but I have had enough rain thankyouverymuch you can stop any time you like, like now.
mood: wet
music: Led Zeppelin
 
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Writer's Block: AKA  
02:52pm 01/03/2009
 
 
Carol

What's the story behind your username?


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I was writing an original fic with the main character Kohaku Imaki (unfinished still) and added an under score for the space and 55 for my age. I wanted to use something other than my name as it is quite common and I rather love the way so many first names in Japanese are genderless
location: dining room
mood: calm calm
music: rain again
 
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Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World  
07:23pm 27/02/2009
 
 
Carol
 
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09:29pm 17/02/2009
 
 
Carol
Oh well I might as well confess I hate rain it doesn't matter when I can stay in all day and read or work. But when I have to go out in it for what ever reason I then hate it.

Wednesday I came down with a virus it acted like a cold at first, then I was so tired I slept 16 hours on Thursday and less on Friday. Saturday I was supposed to go eat gumbo and meet some of my mom's friends but I was still sick and driving 45 miles round trip just to eat gumbo and possibly give my bug to some nice old ladies just did not seem right. I was so sick I didn't even log on at all for 2 days instead I watched some movies and cooking shows while lying on the couch. When I felt really energetic I cooked dinner.

One of the movies I watched was 'The Importance of Being Ernest' the new one with Colin Firth and Rupert Everett two very delectable men, the very quelling Dame Jidi Dench and the sweet Reese Witherspoon and Francis O'Connor whom I remember in 'Iron Jawed Angels'. This movie is one I can watch any time and not be bored and yet not have to watch closely to keep up with the story a perfect movie for someone not feeling well. The other movie I watched was quite taxing 'Vantage Point' I watched it twice before I understood exactly what was happening. Don't get me wrong it was a good movie just not the right one for a sick person to watch.

One good thing it is not supposed to rain on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday I will be glad for the break because I have shopping to do for my friends birthday on Friday.
 
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02:07pm 15/02/2009
 
 
Carol
It is still raining it rained Wednesday, Friday and it started raining very hard last night and it is still raining today. If this keeps up for and while we should make up the rain we didn't get in Dec. and Jan. and we might not have a drought this winter.
 
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(no subject)  
08:21pm 08/02/2009
 
 
Carol
Finally rain it rained all day Friday, it started raining about 3 hours ago and it is supposed to rain all day tomorrow. Not only that it is supposed to rain on Wednesday and Friday or maybe it was from Wed. to Friday. We really need it.

Today I made homemade egg noodles (I really need a rolling pen) braised beef short-ribs and three bean salad takes all day but well worth it. Slow food yum!

I should have done the laundry but I didn't feel like it. Instead I washed the dirt off the outside of the windows. It is about time I started spring cleaning.
 
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Thankful every day  
08:00pm 04/02/2009
 
 
Carol


34. my daughter

35. funny videos on youtube

I wish I understood what they are saying but its about an owl from Africa.
 
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THANKFUL EVERY DAY  
04:39pm 02/02/2009
 
 
Carol
32. washing machines

33. people who make crazy videos for youtube

This one for instance.



 
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(no subject)  
09:48pm 31/01/2009
 
 
Carol
I have a request of authors on my flist an author I like is writing her masters thesis and she needs women writers of slash to take her survey so if you would please take a few minuets and help her with this. Thank you.

http://www.worldsbeyond.net/surveyfrontpage.html

She writes very good fiction for 'Fake', 'Harry Potter' and books by Mercedes Lackey she also has started an original story the 'Kings Man'. Link below to her ff.

http://www.fanfiction.net/u/327748/
 
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