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Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in
ikyoto-chan's LiveJournal:
| Friday, June 6th, 2008 | |
| 12:09 am | Notable Event of the Day Today I saw someone scale the New York Times Building. He was wearing red pants, and appeared to be arrested as soon as he reached the top. I think the greatest part was that although I was watching it from inside my office, I could hear the collective cheering of the crowds in the street when he reached the top. He was the second person to attempt it today, so I'm hoping it will become a trend, and can be regularly entertained out my window. The other noteworthy thing is that some of my ties were given out as swag at the MTV Movie Awards Style Lounge, and some guy was photographed with it. Does anyone know who this is?  |
| Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 | |
| 12:08 am | Mysteries of the City Usually the 34th St. & 8th Ave. subway station smells like feces, but today it smelled like marzipan.
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| Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 | |
| 9:25 pm | Cabinet of Wonder: Interior and Catalogue I created this Wunderkammen for a swap, and had a great time coming up with "real" artifacts and descriptions. ( For another picture and the catalogue. ) |
| 8:49 pm | Tada!: Finished Corned Beef Here is the final product of my first home-curing. It was super easy and really delicious. The only really odd thing is that since I'd only had corned beef cured with nitrates in the past, my brain couldn't really draw the connect between the non-pink finished meat and the flavor at first. I would recommend looking at the Flickr photos to see the kind of face P. makes while eating freshly grated horseradish. Truly priceless. |
| Sunday, March 16th, 2008 | |
| 2:58 pm | Four Day Weekend Glee I finally was able to get some time off and recover my health and sanity. I spent two days mostly at home sleeping, cleaning and reading (The End of the Alphabet by C.S. Richardson, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver). Then went on an extreme media marathon by watching There Will Be Blood, Be Kind Rewind, Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day, and a night of one act plays at the New School for Drama in a 24 hour period. Today I woke up with a modest proposal in mind of making Dutch Babies for breakfast with frozen berries and sour cream. Yum! Then I'm beginning on a meat odyssey. I'm curing my own ( Corned Beef ). |
| Thursday, March 13th, 2008 | |
| 2:44 pm | Meatspace friends, please help! After an uncharacteristically unwise evening of free champagne, I lost my phone in a parking garage in Las Vegas where there was no reception. Since I was catching a flight in the morning, I was unable to recover the phone and am now using P.'s old cast off with the same number as before. Please help me re-assemble my phonebook by texting a message that includes your name or calling to say hello. Thanks! |
| Thursday, March 6th, 2008 | |
| 12:23 am | I was curious who was commenting ( Who comments the most on this journal? ) |
| Monday, March 3rd, 2008 | |
| 7:56 pm | Volter, Dark Denizen of the Night I'm so excited about this vampire squid stuffie that I made, that I just have to share it all over the internets. |
| Thursday, October 4th, 2007 | |
| 11:24 pm | Meme-o-matic bubble "These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. Bold what you have read, italicize those you started but couldn't/didn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list." Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149) Anna Karenina (132) Crime and Punishment (121) Catch-22 (117) One Hundred Years of Solitude (115) Wuthering Heights (110) The Silmarillion (104) Life of Pi : a novel (94) The Name of the Rose (91) Don Quixote (91) Moby Dick (86) Ulysses (84) Madame Bovary (83) The Odyssey (83) Pride and Prejudice (83) Jane Eyre (80) A Tale of Two Cities (80) The Brothers Karamazov (80) Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (79) War and Peace (78) Vanity Fair (74) The Time Traveler's Wife (73) The Iliad (73) Emma (73) The Blind Assassin (73) The Kite Runner (71) Mrs. Dalloway (70) Great Expectations (70) American Gods (68) Atlas Shrugged (67) Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books (66) Middlesex (66) Quicksilver (66) Wicked : The life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West (65) The Canterbury Tales (64) The Historian : a novel (63) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (63) Love in the Time of Cholera (62) *Brave New World (61) The Fountainhead (61) Foucault's Pendulum (61) Middlemarch (61) Frankenstein (59) The Count of Monte Cristo (59) Dracula (59) A Clockwork Orange (59) The movie was enough. Anansi Boys (58) The Once and Future King (57) The Grapes of Wrath (57) The Poisonwood Bible : a novel (57) *1984 (57) Angels & Demons (56) The Inferno (56) The Satanic Verses (55) Sense and Sensibility (55) The Picture of Dorian Gray (55) Mansfield Park (55) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (54) To the Lighthouse (54) Tess of the D'Urbervilles (54) Oliver Twist (54) Gulliver's Travels (53) Les Misérables (53) The Corrections (53) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (52) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (52) Dune (51) The Prince (51) The Sound and the Fury (51) Angela's Ashes : a memoir (51) The God of Small Things (51) A People's History of the United States : 1492-present (51) Cryptonomicon (50) Neverwhere (50) A Confederacy of Dunces (50) A Short History of Nearly Everything (50) Dubliners (50) The Unbearable Lightness of Being (49) Beloved (49) Slaughterhouse-five (49) The Scarlet Letter (48) Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (48) The Mists of Avalon (47) Oryx and Crake : a novel (47) Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed (47) Cloud Atlas (47) The Confusion (46) Lolita (46) Persuasion (46) Northanger Abbey (46) The Catcher in the Rye (46) On the Road (46) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (45) Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything (45) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values (45) The Aeneid (45) Watership Down (44) Gravity's Rainbow (44) The Hobbit (44) In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences (44) White Teeth (44) Treasure Island (44) David Copperfield (44) The Three Musketeers (44) I decided to pass on the "intend to read" marking, since I intend to read most of them. Also, I was surprised to find how many I had started, but never finished, and for vastly different reasons. A lot of the reasons were either it was too heavy, or I took it out from the library, and since it was on hold for someone else I didn't keep reading. |
| Sunday, September 23rd, 2007 | |
| 10:41 pm | Costumer joke I was looking at some fabric the other day, and was confused which side was the face (right-side). Then my boss pointed out: "One man's face is another man's back side."
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| Sunday, September 16th, 2007 | |
| 12:06 pm | Burning Man Photos Are On Flickr I didn't take many photos, since true to character I was focused on doing things rather than documenting them, but this is what I managed to stop and capture.
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| Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 | |
| 8:37 am | Leaving today for Burning Man! I'm leaving today for 12 days. Huzzah! |
| Saturday, July 28th, 2007 | |
| 8:22 pm | Prospect Park-luck (park potluck) bike route I rode eleven and a half miles on my bike today! Here's my route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=117935
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| Sunday, July 8th, 2007 | |
| 8:36 am | Why Pasties? Why Not?! I've been doing some swaps on swap-bot.com, and couldn't resist when I saw a pastie swap posted. They're the perfect thing to make as a quick project since they take almost no materials, very little time, and they can never be too fancy. I also made another pair that looks like the traditional tomato with strawberry pincushion. (You can see the other pair on my flickr site too.) On a related note, there is a weirdo at work who when he saw me making pasties said, "Do you dance burlesque? You should, since not only attractive people do!" Talk about being clueless! Then when I mentioned that the main reason I wouldn't do burlesque is that I don't have enough free time his response was, "It doesn't take much time to take off your clothes." Double Oy!
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| Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 | |
| 11:49 pm | Happy Birthday to Me! It was my birthday today! Hello at the end of what is hopefully a happy Independence Day. I know most of you have your schedules planned far in advance, but for anyone free I'm planning on having a birthday picnic potluck on Saturday July 7th at 1pm. Here are the details: What: A Birthday Picnic Potluck for Ikyoto! When: Saturday July 7th, 1pm Where: A Park in Williamsburg Brooklyn Who: You! In case of rain, please call to see if we're still on! If you want the actual details, and you haven't received them already, please email me for them. |
| Monday, June 11th, 2007 | |
| 8:45 pm | Sold my blood to the NYC Vampires So today I decided to give platelets away. I already had given whole blood, which caused the blood center to start sending me junk mail and pester me (since, I've begun to call them vampires). What finally made me quit being lazy and make the appointment is they send me a letter that said I would get a $25 gift certificate to Best Buy, Target or Macy's if I donated. I was excited to get compensated for what I was already willing to give them for free. Turns out that since I'm kind of small and have skinny veins, I'm not really an ideal platelet donor. I had to sit extra still to keep the alignment right, and they only took half as much from me as the big guy sitting next to me. The bizarre part of this is that they don't just take the blood out. I was hooked up to a big whirring machine which cycled my blood into and out of my body. When the blood was cycling back in, I could feel my pulse get stronger in that arm. My lips and nose got tingly which is similar to the effects of drinking alcohol for me. I was surprised how much I enjoyed watching the little holding container of my blood fill up and then drain repeatedly for 50 minutes. It was far more fascinating than creepy. When I was done, I got a kelly green bandage that matched my shirt, a glass of juice, a bag of cheez-its, some cookies hopefully the gift certificate won't take to long to come in the mail. Yay! |
| Sunday, June 10th, 2007 | |
| 6:21 pm | Work photos: ABT Sleeping Beauty I was underground several weeks finishing up costumes for a new ballet. It was exhausting, but ultimately very satisfying. Here are photos of two different versions of the same costume taken from NYtimes.com:   |
| Sunday, June 3rd, 2007 | |
| 5:06 pm | Found on the street... (Hand-written on wide-ruled notebook paper mispellings and punctuation intact) My Favorite Quotes "My mother and your mother were washing colthes. My mother punched your mother right in the nose what color blood came out" "I want to be like the wave on the sea, like the clouds in the wind but I'm me one day I'll jump out of my skin." If you know who I'd want to be? Superman. I'd be wearing glasses and
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| Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007 | |
| 10:10 pm | Alignment Quiz ( Read more... ) |
| Monday, May 21st, 2007 | |
| 10:29 pm | New with me This week P. and I are going to take a knife skills class at Brooklyn Kitchen. Afterwards we're going to have a knife-off. To do so, we'll have to put a temporary hold on our one house rule, "don't shank your roommate." Work is a little crazy right now with a big ABT production of Sleeping Beauty, in addition to our other 5 shows with orders in. Today was unofficially "kill the messanger" day. I got yelled at repeatedly for passing along project info, but I was having one of those bizarre days where nothing seemed to get me down. Perhaps the good mood can be attributed to spending all day in bed reading on this past Saturday. I can't remember the last time I did that. |
