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Name: roaringeileen
Country: United States
State: California
Birthday: 3/29/1985
Gender: Female
Interests: being silly and seductive.
Expertise: writing pointless xangas.
Occupation: Retired
Industry: Computers (Hardware)
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Member Since:
9/5/2003
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| maybe it's cuz i have a test next week. maybe it's because there is nowhere else in the world like LA. or maybe it's cuz this song brings me right back to sunny so cal.
 From an empty room on the first floor
As the cars pass by the liqour store
I deconstruct my thoughts at this piano
And it's all that I can do to stay with
All the things I didn't say to you
Before you moved across the country
And from the burning building where I lay
As I watch the stars become the day
The L.A. girls were lacing up their sneakers
They run the boardwalks and the beach
This fishbowl life is all they need
It's everything I needed, too
Until I heard the news
I'll send this message through the speakers
They told me that you moved
I'll cross this country on a frequency
I'm slipping through, I'm slipping through
I'm slipping into the airwaves
And this is nothing new, you are slipping through
My fingers and into the airwaves
The static's where you'll find me
>From the corner by the studio
The gold-soaked afternoon comes slow
I deconstruct my thoughts and I am walking by
On Third Street, the freakshow thrives
Santa Monica's alive, but
Something's not so right inside
Living with the news
I'll send this message through the speakers
They told me that you moved
I'll cross this country on a frequency
I am slipping through, I am slipping through
I am slipping into the airwaves
(The static's where you'll find me)
And this is nothing new, you are slipping through
My fingers and into the airwaves
Into the airwaves
So hold on, it's gonna be hard day
So hang on, now. Don't panic
Don't panic, there simply is no need
It's gonna be a hard day
It's gonna be a hard day
Don't panic, don't panic
We are hanging here
We are hanging here
I am slipping through, I am slipping through
I am slipping into the airwaves
(The static's where you'll find me)
And this is nothing new, you are slipping through
My fingers and into the airwaves
Into the airwaves
It's gonna be a hard day
(It's gonna be a hard day)
So hang on, now
Don't panic, don't panic
There simply is no need
It's gonna be a hard day
(It's gonna be a hard day)
It's gonna be a hard day
Don't panic, don't panic
We are hanging here
(It's gonna be a hard day)
We are hanging here
(It's gonna be a hard day)
We are hanging here
We are hanging here
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| Men want hot women, study confirms WASHINGTON (AP) -- Science is confirming what most women know: When given the choice for a mate, men go for good looks.
 In the dating game, men know what they want. And guys won't be surprised to learn that women are much choosier about partners than they are.
"Just because people say they're looking for a particular set of
characteristics in a mate, someone like themselves, doesn't mean that
is what they'll end up choosing," Peter M. Todd, of the cognitive
science program at Indiana University, Bloomington, said in a telephone
interview. Researchers led by Todd report in Tuesday's edition
of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that their study
found humans were similar to most other mammals, "following Darwin's
principle of choosy females and competitive males, even if humans say
something different." Their study involved 26 men and 20 women in Munich, Germany.
Participants ranged in age from 26 to their early 40s and took part in
"speed dating," short meetings of three to seven minutes in which
people chat, then move on to meet another dater. Afterward,
participants check off the people they'd like to meet again, and dates
can be arranged between pairs who select one another. Speed dating let researchers look at a lot of mate choices in a short time, Todd said.
In the study, participants were asked before the session to fill out a
questionnaire about what they were looking for in a mate, listing such
categories as wealth and status, family commitment, physical
appearance, healthiness and attractiveness. After the session,
the researchers compared what the participants said they were looking
for with the people they actually chose to ask for another date.
Men's choices did not reflect their stated preferences, the researchers
concluded. Instead, men appeared to base their decisions mostly on the
women's physical attractiveness. The men also appeared to be
much less choosy. Men tended to select nearly every woman above a
certain minimum attractiveness threshold, Todd said. Women's
actual choices, like men's, did not reflect their stated preferences,
but they made more discriminating choices, the researchers found.
The scientists said women were aware of the importance of their own
attractiveness to men, and adjusted their expectations to select the
more desirable guys. "Women made offers to men who had overall
qualities that were on a par with the women's self-rated
attractiveness. They didn't greatly overshoot their attractiveness,"
Todd said, "because part of the goal for women is to choose men who
would stay with them." But, he added, "they didn't go lower. They knew what they could get and aimed for that level." So, it turns out, the women's attractiveness influenced the choices of the men and the women. | | |
| Detroit is nothing like Los Angeles. the depression of the 1960s and 1970s took such a serious toll that most of the more affluent people moved out to the burbs and left the city racially and socio-economically segregated. though LA was most definitely divided, the divisions were not as sharp and extreme as the ones i've encountered here.
most of the people either live in the "ghetto" or more run-down areas right outside of detroit, or in the suburbs a bit further out, as a result-- the downtown area is pretty empty in terms of residents. by five pm, both the financial/ adminstrative district and downtown
are empty because all the working people have left to go home for
dinner.
therefore, downtown detroit has maybe a handful of grocery stores but is lacking its targets, walmarts, and costcos because people have not begun to move back after the economic slump. hence, the lack of "nightlife" in downtown detroit. bars and clubs and the hard rock cafe are open late but there are no ralph's (which they call fred meyer's) or stores that open late.
yet, i really enjoy living downtown. i am less than a mile away from the river and can see windsor, canada from my living room. despite common misconception, i can run/ waveboard/ bike down by the river and to the park if i wanted without feeling like i was going to be a victim of a crime. i can drive to the neighborhood (non-chain, more expensive) grocery store in less than four minutes and to the suburbs for all my other needs without EVER worrying about traffic. the city is gorgeous, by the way.
people visiting the city from all over michigan and california are absolutely impressed by the city. there are jazz festivals, great architecture, and nice people. though i still haven't found great sushi/ asian food out here, there's a greektown and a mexicantown that boasts great food.
i don't know if i'm being pc by saying this, but yeah, racism exists here. i know it exists everywhere but it becomes glaringly obvious here. for example, this church i visited was considered "phenomenal" and "crazy" because it was actually the only one in the city that had a mixed congregation. it's this quiet unspokenness between people that is just plain awkward. back in LA, (not because i think it's better or whatever), people were "racist" because they spoke different languages, dress differently, ate different foods, and actually came from different countries. here-- well, it's a different story that you can ask me about cuz i don't think i should post it here.
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| my family is going camping in zion national park in utah this weekend.
and i am in michigan. in case you'll be wondering what i'll be doing, i'll watching abc shows by myself and folding laundry.
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