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Dec. 28th, 2004
Christmas Booty
Dec. 28th, 2004 12:28 amAs with last year, it's all the "swag" kind of booty and none of the, hmm, Beyonce kind of booty. Anyway. A stack of books, and an MP3 player which is waiting for my folks in the US before I get it, but it's a Sony MP3 player as opposed to, say, a Generic We Found It In Taiwan MP3 player.
and while I'm posting
Dec. 28th, 2004 12:33 amdreamstuff:
Attending a gathering, perhaps a party, and I get talking to this girl who, get this, is engaged by my discussion of the naffness of "The Da Vinci Code" despite my disclaimer that I've not read same. I'm telling this girl about "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" and what not, and hell, she's really interested. Anyway, comes to the end of the party and I figure we need something from my place (my car? can't recall) except it's $distance to my place. And so I decide that rather than tell the girl I'll jog the distance. For some reason there's a sort of toll booth run by francophones en route, and somewhere around there I realise that I'm taking too long and I'll have lost the girl. I woke up before I found out if I was right in this assessment. Weird, though. Normally I can peg at least one piece of such a dream to something that happened me in reality (in pursit of the "dream = brain doing quicksort" theory) but this is all completely unpeggable.
Attending a gathering, perhaps a party, and I get talking to this girl who, get this, is engaged by my discussion of the naffness of "The Da Vinci Code" despite my disclaimer that I've not read same. I'm telling this girl about "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" and what not, and hell, she's really interested. Anyway, comes to the end of the party and I figure we need something from my place (my car? can't recall) except it's $distance to my place. And so I decide that rather than tell the girl I'll jog the distance. For some reason there's a sort of toll booth run by francophones en route, and somewhere around there I realise that I'm taking too long and I'll have lost the girl. I woke up before I found out if I was right in this assessment. Weird, though. Normally I can peg at least one piece of such a dream to something that happened me in reality (in pursit of the "dream = brain doing quicksort" theory) but this is all completely unpeggable.
and finally
Dec. 28th, 2004 12:37 amSE asia flooded.
Ireland pledges €1 million in aid (I have no idea who comes up with the figures for this stuff)
America pledges $4 million in aid
I'm not trying to make a point here, because I'm still doing the stunned monkey impression.
update: (thx,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
canetoad) That $4m appears to be just the Red Cross' slice of a $15m package. (CNN article). Also, the rather paltry sum of €3m that the EU had initially pledged has been upped to €30m.
Ireland pledges €1 million in aid (I have no idea who comes up with the figures for this stuff)
America pledges $4 million in aid
I'm not trying to make a point here, because I'm still doing the stunned monkey impression.
update: (thx,
canetoad) That $4m appears to be just the Red Cross' slice of a $15m package. (CNN article). Also, the rather paltry sum of €3m that the EU had initially pledged has been upped to €30m.