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[joanna_d]

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i'm quite curious about what your dissertation is about Stuck...
good for you: you finished it!

that gallery talk was actually fine, that was the strange thing about it. of course i felt really tense about it, but i thought well who wouldn't be tense about something like this. it actually got to a lively conversation between us and the audience (that's what i wanted it to be. not a formal thing, with me doing a speech or whatever boring). like i wrote somewhere in my thread: that week in the states, i felt i got in sync with myself. i even did some lessons as a guest teacher at the art faculty over there, giving classes about the paths i've taken as an artist,because they asked me to. i actually felt my life until now made some sense looking back on how it all went.
also: being in another country with this, where i have no history and could just be myself afresh, was freeing to me.
after that, when i got back in Holland, things turned to shit. maybe the universe is trying to tell me something here :>

[joanna_d]

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and yes Bruun, the creative process is like a concentrated piece of life again and again, which is heavy but alive. this sounds a little dramatic, i don't mean to present it like that.
at art school i was taught it's 5% inspiration and 95% transpiration. of course, being an alky, the transpiration part is covered thoroughly. at a cerrain point unfortunately i coupled the inspiration part with booze.

[joanna_d]

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i read you have trouble with your dog, but not what kind of trouble.
i'm sorry for that. the doggies can be such a source of concern cause they depend on you so much... mine too

[Bruunhilde]

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Hi Joanna, what is transporation? The myriad attempts to express oneself in a way that feels true and gets across a mood or 'day in the life'?

My pup has a disc problem and drags his back leg. My last dog died of degenerative myopathy and I'm hoping its not that, waiting for the gene test. I swear, rescuing a dog is an expensive thing, at least rescuing a pure bred dog is. Cats never have these issues - at least the six or seven I've had were able to leap tall buildings at a single bound until they were old, and they NEVER went to the gym so I can't figure it out.

Stuck, the Almond Joy and Mounds are genius, I love that combo too. When I was in Petticoat Pileup (the girls play football while the boys play at cheerleading), the cheerleaders made me a sign that said CRUSH THEIR ____ and there was a Mounds bar taped right there.

[playland]

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Bruun, sending good energy for your pup and your wallet:h

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[joanna_d]

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ow, i'm so sorry for you and your pup. and yes i know, vets costs tons of money...
it's great of you to take in a rescue dog.
it's bad with the breaded dogs, not only with the myopathy, but also the cutting of tails and ears, breading dogs in such a way that they look cute (to some people) but their skulls have grown to be too small so their eyes bulge out (and they find that cute) and the dogs have permanent bad head aches, or dogs with noses too small to be able to breathe properly, and more of that torture to soothe the taste of people that actually say they care for their dog.

my dog is also a rescue dog, as was the one i had before him, but he's a stray dog, a mixture of all the dogs that walk the streets of southern europe (and there are lots of them over there). these dogs are pretty strong mostly. we call them garbage bins in Holland (how strange can an expression sound when you translate it)

i hope it's not myopathy this time! take care Bruun!

[joanna_d]

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where did that criticizing reply go? don't remember the name of the person who wrote that (sorry, there are so many people and names on this forum).
i was about to reply on it..

[Ne/Neva Eva]

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Yeah. I know, Jo. It happens. But it's actually nice that it's not here. And I guarantee you that a response would have just meant more negativity. Poor person. I hope they feel better.

La, my friend, just once ONCE I would like the day before an exam (or any other major deadline) not to suck. Ya' know? Today...Will be over tomorrow by 9am and for that I am verrrrrrrrrry grateful.

where the hell are you?

[StuckinLA]

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What's up peeps? Man, the things I miss not being subscribed to my own thread anymore... I've been not around, I know. Work, reading, bartender. Trying to keep up with y'all but not posting. Sorry for that.

Ne, I hear ya' sister. It will be over tomorrow morning. (OVER by 9 am!? Dear lord you take early classes. That makes my little heart pitter pat a whole lot faster just thinking about...)

Anyway, that's really all I've got for now, and my online job begins in 5 minutes so I need to switch over to a different part of the interweb. I'll be back, if not tonight then tomorrow for sure, as I do have some updates for everyone--and not just on the bartender's Halloween costume. That's worth a long post in its own right, though. Holy smokes...

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[Bruunhilde]

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P & J - thanks for the strength. Felt it I think. I blew off work around 3 and took said pup to his mkost favorite place kn the earth : DOGPARK. Nirvana except for me bkz I see the dog that was a puppy six months ago, he cant run like he used to. He drags that leg. Anyways I did get an estimate on the surgery and its a but mire than dkmoubke what the mrj a d ofbed costs have ben and I am planning on doing it if he doesn't have d.m.

Xxxoo. Good luck on the test NE. Stuck you will perservere dre and succeed as always. Sorry for my whit Kindling. Hope u know I mean well.:goodjob:

[StuckinLA]

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Oh Bruun, I know I said it already but I feel for you and your pup. Poor little guy! Sounds like he had a good time though, and maybe that's some comfort to know that this is only hard for you? No, that's not much comfort at all. The way animals seem so strong in the face of all this, when really it's because they aren't aware of what's going on, well that just makes it even harder. Geez, listen to me try to make things better! Sorry, just know that I'm thinking about you and wishing the very best. Maybe 6 years ago now, I put a cat down because the poor guy had d.m., and it was rough. I hate crying in public.

So there's no way to transition from that.

Ne, wow you're probably up already and ready for your exam. You're going to be great, as always. And in just a very short while it'll be OVER, and then you can get back to the real work of painting, and getting everything ready for the celebration of that time we stole a bunch of land from people to whom we gave a bunch of diseases... Er, well, you know what I mean. And where are the pictures of these painted rooms?

Love you all and miss you guys, but I'm off to bed. More soon for real.

:l:l:l

[playland]

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Hey Bruun and Stuck, what is d.m.? Hope that isn't a dumb question that I should know the answer to, thanks, just wondering about it considering it is about the poor little animals.

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[StuckinLA]

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Diabetes mellitus. It never registered with me outside the medical world context either. And I slapped myself in the face when I realized I'd missed all the symptoms with my cat. I should have known better, but I just never suspected because it was a cat, ya' know? Or am I totally confused? That's always a possibility...

[Ne/Neva Eva]

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I WAS up. :H But studying like a madwoman. Don't know if it helped. :H

omg don't get me started about the white woman's guilt I feel about Thanksgiving. The gluttony! The perversion! The poor turkey! Never-the-less, it's my absolute favorite holiday and I refuse to let any of those Debbie Downer thoughts in. Ed and I have fully embraced it. I like Easter too. And for much the same reasons...the tenor of it, the undercurrent. God knows (pun intended) it ain't for the bunny, the candy or the story. (I prefer my candy Halloween style. :H) That one we don't celebrate at all. In fact, we hardly celebrate anything, which is lame. (Last year I put up xmas decorations for a couple of weeks, then realized we weren't having any company, my friends had all been over already, and I took them all down two weeks before the actual day. On the day we were supposed to buy a tree. I couldn't stand the clutter! There were pine needles everywhere! ugh. What a mess. :H)

Anyhoo. 'bout time for an update...Right? While I am not particularly excited about what the bartender was wearing (I'm sure others are) I know I'm going to enjoy reading it. :H

EDIT: Look at all those laugh emotis!? Might as well round it out with one of these a la LA: :l

[playland]

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Thanks Stuck, guess I should have known that seeing that Im a nurse, guess I just didn't relate it to the little animals.

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