Below are the most recent 15 friends' journal entries.

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
zhongwen [ the_reda ]	2:26p	Share the squee YOUTUBE is back! Just thought I would let you guys know. youtube and LJ, omg what is China coming to Never sodding mind, it was a fluke. For ONE glorious afternoon youtube was back. *sigh* (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, July 6th, 2009
rainygreyday	11:36p	reading i'm making an effort to read through the stack of books i've purchased but not read, which is causing me to actively fantasize about reading other books. (it's very strange, after all i bought them because i wanted to read them -- i think i may be going through withdrawal from not being able to stop in at the main library on my lunch break anymore.) i like the idea of publishers whose catalog is editorialized or at least cohesive in some way, if only in book design -- i want to read a big bunch of nyrb classics and then a stack of europa editions. and there's a whole series of books i've only read once and now want to read again: perdido street station, independent people, personal days, the rings of saturn ... there's also a small pile of books i want to read in order to determine if i want to keep or get rid of them. but let's face it, it's going to take some will to get to those. (Comment on this)
zhongwen [ dailyunderhill ]	9:06p	Is there such thing as a crock pot in China? What would you call it in Chinese? (4 Comments |Comment on this)
elysesewell	9:31a	freedumb
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
vampyre_kitty	10:38p	weekend party recap Friday night: 1 super awesome party with awesome friends, mojitos, homemade donut holes, my little ham and pickle rolls, and later in the night, impromptu tater tots. SUPER AWESOME. Saturday: 1 mostly good party with mostly awkward but generally nice people, more of my homemade donut holes, homemade mini cinnamon buns, bacon-wrapped cheeseburgers (not mine, but supremely tasty).  PRETTY GOOD. Sunday: 1 mostly good party with awkward but nice (friendlier than the previous day's party, at least), my faboo caprese pasta salad, seven-layer dip that I must reverse-engineer at some point, burgers and brats, and a little too much vodka.  AWESOME until the alcohol and sunshine made me dizzy and short of breath.  Heheheh.... oops.  Back home, some propel water and a dark cool room and a nap fixed all but a slight lingering headache.  SWEET. Then awesome boy made popcorn and PB &J sammiches and we watched a movie. I was all excited that I had finally either lost enough weight or converted enough of it into muscle that I could finally fit into the largest sizes at old navy again. Then I have apparently inexplicably managed to buy a cute strapless sundress that is just a smidge too big for me.  It kept trying to expose me today during the cookout.  Or at least expose my bra.  Which is also... not good.  (I did look absolutely adorable though... asian girl in slightly froofy pink dress?  awesomesauce.) Apparently I must resign myself to going commando under this particular dress from now on.  Not sure how I feel about that, as am rather generously endowed.  Either that or need to buy nude-colored strapless bra. Now is time for sleep.  Big day tomorrow at work, have been promoted from pizza bitch to hot entree monkey.  woot? Current Mood: tired (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
elysesewell	6:05a	hungarian product bonanza Új! (pronounced "ooh-ee") = New! ( Read more... ) (138 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
beijingchina [ lady_yen ]	11:36p	Hello! My friends and I are students from Moscow (Russia). We are going to Xi'an for summer classes of Chinese. We get Beijing by plane, and then we need to take a train to Xi'an. Does anybody happen to know from which railway station trains to Xi'an leave? Or maybe anybody knows the website where we can see the train timetable? TNX (6 Comments |Comment on this)
elysesewell	12:58a	my place in the old world I may have slept too long on composing this entry: my Euro vacation is over and I'm back in Albuquerque; so much has happened between then/there and now/here that I feel like I'm trying to write about the distant past rather than two weeks ago! Oh well, I'll do my best to make it interesting even if it's not quite fresh. This entry is about Budapest. I never really got comfortable with the Hungarian Forint (US$1 = 193.77Ft). Every time I bought something, I'd scrabble frantically through my wallet, unsure whether the banknote I eventually thrust at the cashier would be enough to cover my tab or too small by an order of magnitude. I was so overwhelmed by arithmetic that my practice of vigilant change husbandry lapsed into chaos: by the end of the trip, my coin purse was literally bursting at the seams with Hungarian shrapnel of every denomination. The dudes on the bills gazed 'pon my fumbles with frosty disapproval. ( Read more... ) (143 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
rainygreyday	10:50p	the question you have to answer every day since changing jobs, i've been confronted with the fact that the only thing left in my wardrobe is jeans, thermals, and funny t-shirts purchased on the internet. the new place is pretty dressed down and jeans are okay, but i still feel like the scruffiest member of a scruffy department. my secret weapon used to be my natty collection of hoodies and jackets, but while my old desk was under an A/C vent and i could easily wear a hoodie all day, the new office is perfectly heated to room temperature so i just can't pull it off. i'm ruminating on what kind of style i should adopt, though. there's no reason to wear office wear if you don't have to -- i'm still a san francisco tech worker, after all. one possible source of inspiration is the uniform project, in which a woman wears one of seven identical dresses every day for a year. i always had an affinity for the idea of wearing the same thing every day... (2 Comments |Comment on this)
zhongwen [ ed_backhouse ]	9:29p	Informal survey Hey, I saw all the anime icons here and thought it might be fun to do a quick poll ( ...more... ) (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 29th, 2009
taschenrechner	7:30p	16:36 Wearing my blue dress shirt in rememberance of #billy mays today. Working outside has made it nasty, so time for some oxiclean. # 17:15 What is wrong with setting standards on light bulbs? Oh, the fact that it's Obama's idea. That's what. # 18:40 wow bit.ly/87iTy I think this is a really good tribute to Billy Mays # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 28th, 2009
clothdiapering [ sparkleandfade_ ]	8:10p	all sold ( small and extra small aios ) (10 Comments |Comment on this)
taschenrechner	7:30p	09:58 @YoungBillyMays Wait, what? I Read his tweet about having surgery. but that was Monday, no? What happened? Man, I hope you are all ok. # 10:02 RT @YoungBillyMays My dad didn't wake up this morning.. I'm sure you'll all hear about it. It hasn't yet hit me but it's about to. # 10:34 God, I'm really hoping that the news about Billy Mays isn't true. # 14:12 I just scrubbed my tub with KABOOM! in honor of Billy Mays. I realized I've got no fewer than 4 Billy Mays products in this house right now. # 14:27 @princessmargo Yeah. I mean I could MAYBE let McMahon, Fawcett, and MJ slide, but just barely. But Billy Mays was a goddamned hero. # 14:30 @princessmargo Yeah! I mean on twitter, he posted he had a hip replacement tomorrow, was heading back from a shoot someplace. Nothing major. # 15:12 #wearblue4billy - Wear blue tomorrow in memory of Billy- # 15:40 Fox is saying that Billy Mays hit his head on the plane ride home yesterday? #RIP Billy Mays # 17:35 Seriously, what's with all the anti-Brazil shit now? I mean were they just gonna lay down and let us win? # 18:21 @ailie You don't need a TV to know who he is. Just listen for the yelling coming from your neighbor's TV. That'd be him. # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (Comment on this)
lalaoshi	4:41p	Blogger on annual leave Like a good beer, Laowiseass will put itself on ice for the first two weeks of July and travel to the United States, the first time under Obama and recession. But first, an unwitting commentary on today's Taiwan from the Kaiser Chiefs. Average day in Taiwan (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 27th, 2009
taschenrechner	7:30p	19:47 God. History Channel is showing a docu. on Menzies and the whole 1421 deal. Last week it was a real thin show on the lost tribes of Israel. # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (Comment on this)