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[cybermule]

• DREAMS: random scattered family-realted nightmares, with a feeling of foreboding. Only cheerful highlight was being a fish out of finding nemo. Remembered an old dream from a few weeks ago that involved seeing a limousine driving round and round the block at my mom's house.
  
• theoden in Old English means 'lord', 'cept it's got an eth or thorn instead of the 'th'. Which I thought was neat, as was the "forth eorlingas" grafitti in the train station toilets in Bath.
  
• Had a great walk yesterday - bloody farmer trashed the footpath with cows and tractors, but I did see some deer!
  
• Pythagorus said that life was like the Olympic games - there are spectators [seeking knowledge], competitors[seeking renown] and those who trade underneath the stands [seeking gain]. That's strangely comforting, and adds support to my theory that there are just different species of human and we're doomed to not get along.
  

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[framlingem.livejournal.com]

That is... the prettiest picture ever.

And Théoden rocks my socks. Not quite as much as Faramir or Boromir, but more than Aragorn.

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[cybermule.livejournal.com]

That is... the prettiest picture ever.

Thanks - I'm very proud of it :) I'm developing more of a thing for Aragorn, I have to say... not sure where that's coming from.

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[framlingem.livejournal.com]

Meh. The man's too perfect. I like my guys with flaws :p

[fyatuk.livejournal.com]

but I did see some deer!

Is that unusual? I've almost hit deer on one of the busiest roads in town... Quite common in these parts, so much so they were designated a pest by one suburb...

Pythagorus said that life was like the Olympic games

Very nice. I'd definitely be classified as a spectator...

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[unsane1.livejournal.com]

heh we hit a large one a few months back. Well to be more specific, the car in front of us hit one, it flew over that car, and we ran into and then over it. Very scary!

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[fyatuk.livejournal.com]

Ewww, I can imagine. My family has a habit of swerving to miss deer to go headlong into trees and poles. Not fun. I've hit a few birds and a dog. The dog was frieky. Didn't hurt it all, just scared the shit out of it... Literally... Didn't enjoy cleaning the bumper...

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[unsane1.livejournal.com]

:/

I wasn't driving that time... The young guy driving jerked the steering wheel and scared the shit out of us.

I've only hit animals on one occasion. This huge giraffe... hehe j/k.

Middle of the night on a random empty highway in NY. I had been driving for several hours and was very tired. Basically driving straight forever in pitch black. Suddenly out of nowhere I saw a skunk or something a few feet in front and to the right of the car. By reflex I swerved crazily trying to avoid it, and of course, I still ran over the poor thing. It's like once it decided it was crossing, it was gonna go no matter what... If it had done anything but keep going straight, it would have lived.

Although you gotta wonder what it is exactly that they see... Two white circles getting bigger and brighter... Must seem harmless enough. Those lights pack a mighty punch! And you don't get to warn your brother and sister skunks about their danger.

The only other time I hit an animal that I can recall, was that same night, not long after, I hit another skunk or something. :( Major killing spree, how traumatising!

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[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Yikes! I've never hit anything - I don't think I could handle it if I hit something like a deer :(

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[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Deer are moderately unusual over here - it depends on where you live. In Oxfordshire, I used to see them in the woods alongside the road all the time, but not so much here (it's more open farmland). I did see a polecat walking along the road once though :) I guess that wildlife just tends to keep more well hidden in England.

[aras-55555.livejournal.com]

That's an interesting quote by Pythagoras. I wonder if his nickname among friends was 'Triangle Man'? ;)

[delabane.livejournal.com]

Where did you walk?

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[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Down the Frome for a bit, then a big ramble in the bit between Yate and Coalpit Heath. Ended up wading through a bunch of mud, then poppong out near Westerleigh.

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[delabane.livejournal.com]

I think I know where you mean, I miss living in that area. Bradley Stoke is crap for walks really.