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I had sushi tonight, and I absolutely gorged myself on the stuff on Friday.

I think I'm growing gills... :unsure:

Oh wait, that's just the mercury affecting my brain.... I smell bread.

 

By the way, do you know what the best cure for a sprained thumb ligament is?

Strippers.

The day before my sixteenth birthday, I went with my mom and her friends to this all-you-can-eat sushi place and gorged myself for two hours. I spent my birthday trying to get porridge down and having to run to the bathroom every ten minutes.

Still hasn't put me off sushi, though.

(Now for a very lame story. My last name is Su and my best friend Ziyi's last name is Shi. They used to call us "Sushi" in elementary school.)

I actually quite liked Capote's style, but knowing that the characters I wanted to know more about just made me not want to go on reading it.

I was reading Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, but I found myself more interested in the lives of the family that is soon to be killed than the lives of the soon-to-be killers, so I returned it to the library.

:D No, Brad Pitt is my nemesis because I was ranting about how I hate him and how he's not at all a good actor in the movie thread, and here I have a poster of him on my wall. Obviously, though, you can see that it's a poster of Fight Club, not a glamour shot of Pitt.

I recently got a hold of Lucifer: Nirvana and was wondering, could anyone tell me when this is set?

Also, I *heart* Supreme.

I think this sounds reasonable:

Was Britney's Hair Full of Drugs?

Shaving your head to beat the narcs.

By Samantha Henig

Posted Friday, Feb. 23, 2007, at 3:58 PM ET

 

Rumor has it that Britney Spears may have shaved off all her hair last weekend to avoid having it drug tested during her child custody battle with Kevin Federline. How much can you learn by testing someone's hair?

 

A lot. A bundle of hair about the thickness of a pencil can tell chemists what specific drugs someone has used and provide a rough timeline of when she used them. Narcotics like cocaine, meth, ecstasy, and PCP introduce toxins to the bloodstream that are then incorporated into each hair as it forms in the follicle. Urine and blood only retain evidence of these toxins for a week or so, but hair can hold on to them indefinitely. (When administered correctly, hair tests are about as accurate as urinalysis.)

 

Head hair grows about half an inch every month, so a woman with shoulder-length hair carries around a two-year record of her drug use. To test her, scientists would cut off a strip of about three months' worth of growth and then cut it into pieces for analysis. This segmentation allows them to approach each strand the way a dendrochronologist would approach a tree trunk. Like the cross section of a tree, a strand of hair can store information for thousands of years: In the early 1990s, scientists studying the hair of Peruvian and Chilean mummies found evidence of cocaine use dating back to 1000 B.C.

From Slate

Looking good, Balty.

Here's one of me, making what I consider to be a funny face. You can see my new red glasses and the poster of my nemesis, Brad Pitt, on my wall.

Plus, why is this not in the Show Your Face Thread?

Why are you sideways? And naked?

Gargh! My school newspaper has a deal with Warner Bros. to receive free tickets for promotional purposes. The first movie we were gonna get tickets for was this one and I totally raised my hand before that other girl, but the arts editor gave them to her! She didn't even know what it was about!

I finally got around to reading The Remains of the Day which struck me as being every bit as moving and well written as people said it was. It also impressed upon me just how effective an adaptation the film was. Nicely done, there.

Hey! When I told you that was one of my favorite books, you said that it was a really beautiful book or something, and you hadn't even read it?

I just watched a few episodes of Venture Bros on youtube and now I finally understand all those avatars.

My Christmas tree is still up. And it's actually a real tree this year.

Found in a different forum:

 

I fit makes you feel any better, when I lived/worked in Hollywood, a friend of mine was running sound on this film. The production team had a complete run of the comic on set as a reference for shots, characters, etc. My buddy decided (on the 3rd or so day of shooting) that he'd always wanted to read the book.

 

So he stole the whole box.

 

Could explain a bit.

Oh my God, that's the explanation right there! Man... Now we know!

:D A lot of the time I just eliminated what I knew was obviously wrong, and then made a guess. Also, not only do I not know my band members' names, I didn't know a lot of the bands. I'm not very cool.

Whoa, so many replies to my one-line post.

Thanks for all the congratulations, but it's not like it was very hard to get it published.

I actually had two stories in this week's paper, one on a 24 hour comics event the Comic Book Society Organized and one on a basketball game.

And that means, Christian, that they were news stories, more or less, and not fiction, which is I guess what confused you.

Can you recognise the band by the first names of the people in it.

 

i.e. John, Paul, George and Ringo = The Beatles

 

The quiz can be tried a few times as it chooses the questions at random it seems from a big pool of them.

 

Did it twice and got 9/10 both times.

I got 8/10 and I guessed my answers 9 times out of 10.

Apathy, your dreams are so cool, I'm starting to be suspicious of them...

I got my first story published in the school newspaper today!

Oh yeah, I know that schools in the US are much more expensive. Much much more expensive. Especially since I live in Quebec, the province with the cheapest tuition. But schools like Harvard and Yale have a really good financial aid policy. I have a friend at Yale who only pays $7000 a year, which is cheaper than McGill. But that's only if I can get in, and their acceptance rate is about 10% (McGill's is 56%). I don't really like to talk about this because I really don't know if I can get into one of these schools. I'm just too lazy to really study hard like those kids.

Actually, my real secret secret plan (the one my mother doesn't know) is to run away to London. England that is. Not Ontario.

And Christian, why don't you move back to Canada?

I had a dream that I beat Madonna to death with her own biography.

It was very disturbing. I don't even hate her.

I will go buy Hellblazer when Mina leaves.

Thanks for putting that up, Ade. I'd kinda dropped it a few months ago.

No, Canadian universities don't. I'm trying to broaden my prospects.

No, secretly, I'm planning to run away to the US.