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Created on 2003-06-13 22:24:54 (#1117152), last updated 2009-11-18
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| Name: | Christina |
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go to work, send your kids to school
follow fashion, act normal
walk on the pavements, watch T.V.
save for your old age, obey the law
Repeat after me: I am free
follow fashion, act normal
walk on the pavements, watch T.V.
save for your old age, obey the law
Repeat after me: I am free

LJ mandated quotes go here:
fenelthin: Talking to you is like a teeter totter fortune cookie
Me: go on
fenelthin:I never know what it'll be like in the beginning. Its either very enlightening and fun and funny...or soul crushing :D
fenelthin: Yes but you're the good and awesome kind of crazy
fenelthin: The kind of crazy that people relish
fenelthin: The kind of crazy that people want around and more importantly want on their side
fenelthin: The kind of crazy that is revered but those it loves and feared by those it hates
Me: hahaha
fenelthin: aka You rock
Me: *curtsey*
Me: I'm pissed that james marsters died. Best char in there.
Me: most fully developed, most fun, best acting. I do begin to feel nervous for how I strongly identify with the bad guys
fenelthin: That's cause your lawful evil
fenelthin: You want to and do do bad stuff....but only so far as keeping within the confines of the law
love you! (don't kill me.)--The Jennifer
I've sat at a table with Right Wing Homosexuals. To me thats like being a vegetarian butcher. --Boy George
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
--Jesse Lee Bennett
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
--Harvey S. Firestone
Half of life is fucking up, the other half is dealing with it.
--Henry Rollins
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
--Henry Rollins
If I was a woman these days, I'd be killing motherfuckers. my handgun would never cool and my hands would be covered in testicular blood. I would have a horrible reputation with a lot of men because i would be calling them on their weak bullshit left and right.
--Henry Rollins
"I'm never having children."
"Really?"
"No. Think about it. Its pure narcisissm. People putting out little carbon copies of themselves going "Oh, look doesn't he have his father's eyes" and "Doesn't he have his mothers lips?" Its disgusting."
--Lucy, Across The Universe
Books say: She did this because.
Life says: She did this.
Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own.
--Julian Barnes
"I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like Martians in War of the Worlds. I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it."
--Neil Gaiman, American Gods
The Girl
AKA our hero!
I'm strong-willed, independent, opinionated, intelligent and loved. Not everyone loves me. In fact, a lot of people hate me and I'm pretty okay with that because the people who love me are some of the best people in the world. My grasp of the English Language has improved since I began writing this. The public entries are not really a good indicator of who I am, how I write or what I think--it has been too long and I have grown too much. Even so, I refuse to make my journal public. If you wish to know about me feel free to comment and friend me. We'll take it from there.
I'm strong to the point of being overpowering. I rarely mean to be though there are times I do it on purpose. My strength, my ability to express myself and my refusal to tailor my vicious honesty to others has won me friends and lost me friends--recently. I've been called everything under the sun: A paragon of strength, a weak-willed child, considerate friend, inconsiderate bitch, emotionally abusive, emotionally supportive. I've been called the poison and the cure in the same day. But the fact of the matter is that I am pretty happy with who I am. I'm not perfect but I'm not tragically flawed either (though I've been painted as both on more than one occasion). The unexamined life is not worth living so I'm always open to a new opinion about me, those I love, my surroundings, literature or hipogrifs. I am not open to substance abuse, psycho-babel, hypocrisy, drama, blamers, or emotional crutches. This keeps me from being popular but keeps me from wanting to be popular. Frankly if everyone liked me, I would know I'd been lying. I give this world indigestion.
My tolerance for bullshit is very low, which is ironic since I am frequently accused of being full of bullshit ^_^ Such is life. I'm a feminist and a sort of old fashioned Christian. I know, the tension in that sentence is bizarre but I'm still working out the fine points. I'm the youngest of nine kids and grew up blue collar. I am farm kid. I love animals.
I attended a small liberal arts college. I graduated with a BA in English. I want to be a college professor some day. I've been with the love of my life since January 20, 2004. I live in Eastern Indianapolis and I do a little bit of everything for a small Industrial Contracting company. I do purchasing, receiving, sales, administrative work and customer service for this kickass little place on the west side. Its a fun atmosphere and my coworkers are awesome. There are only 8 people in the entire company and 2 of us are under 25.
I'm very selective about who I LJ friend because I have had MORE THAN ENOUGH LJ drama. These journals can be so problematic if too many people read them. Get a sense of who I am by scanning the older entries, though I'm a bit more mature and a far better writer than I was when I started this journal.
Do not fuck with me--I am Ahab.
The Cast
The Core Four
Also Known as the Protagonists
Christina:Me!
Shayne: HUSBAND since September 22nd, 2008, boyfriend since 2004 and dear friend since 2003. Talented musician, loyal friend, reporter extraordinaire, beautiful human being and shining beacon of intelligence in a world of dolts. Recovering from a Central Indiana Childhood. Able to skewer with humor, shower with love and kill with a crowbar. Have him on your side when the zombies come.
Jennifer: Friend since 2002, roommate in 2005-2006, theatre lover since 1984. Dancer, reporter, lighting designer, battle-bot and tickle center of the universe. Recovering from a VERY Brady childhood. Able to calm my white hot rage so she can show the power of her own white hot rage. We make a fantastic transformer robot. Cynical, clever, a ditz, and the person I liver.
Aaron: Friend since 2002, determined drummer, ninja turtle and Jennifer's Yang. Calm, cool, collected and able to make a turnip cry. Funny, strikingly intelligent, level headed and impartial. Not really suffering from his Central Indiana Childhood. He's your secret weapon when the zombies come.
Drew: The sweetest man known to the planet, though sometimes to his own detriment. Drew is the person you would always want in your Zombie Shelter because he'd know what to do and he'd do it with little ado. To have Drew call you friend is a compliment of high order. Recovering from a Whiteland childhood nicely.
The Core Four is a group offourfive friends who have seen many good friends come and go. The group dynamic remains friendly, intelligent, fun and unaltered...no matter what drama goes on outside of it. The Core Four is stable, loving, supportive, powerful and formidable. Do not invoke the wrath of the entire Core. You would not like to suffer or witness it. Just as the Three Musketeers grew to a total of four, the Core Four now has five members who are integral parts of each other's lives. We love, support and take care of one another through thick and thin, across distance and against odds.
The Supporting Cast
Sometimes called the Antagonists though not always.
Currently under construction
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My life, in
You should be reaching Indianapolis soon
(“should be” isn’t strong enough; why Indianapolis?
you say, as if it matters but this is NOT A WORK OF FICTION)
You can’t squeeze your life poetic.
Not every little moment will feel like it’s scripted.
There are times when you will recreate an epiphanic moment,
and it will fall flat and bitter on the tongue, like cold coffee.
But when you’re honest with yourself, life will somehow seem full,
round, fleshy. It will have orange substance, pulp.
Your life is not a work of fiction,
but to others, we are mere fictitious characters.
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