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Sunday, August 19th, 2007
4:40 pm	mine eyes Okay. So I was having a lovely afternoon by myself yesterday. Riding my bike, running errands, and I stopped off at this giant antique store near Lechmere because I'd never been there before. All of a sudden, while happily browsing the things, my left eye starts to feel weird, and then I experience INTENSE stabbing pain in it. Once, twice, a third time, and then I look in an antique mirror, and the right side of my iris is foggy and red and the whole eye looked incredibly bloodshot. I thought I was having some sort of attack, so I quickly left the antique store, rode my bike to Kendall station and to the Mass Eye & Ear Infirmary. There wasn't that much of a wait, but there wasn't really anything they could pinpoint my symptoms to... the stabbing pain had pretty much subsided, but it felt like there was something in my eye, so they looked in there, and PEELED BACK MY EYELID and SWABBED it. They put in numbing drops, but man... They got some "residue" on the Q-tip, but there was no scratch or anything. They did find I'm having a very low-level flare of my iritis in both eyes, but I'm asymptomatic of that ususally, and a flare that low would NEVER produce dramatic symptoms such as that. So they gave me a prescription for my regular eye drops, told me to use Refresh artificial tears, and make an appointment with my opthamologist. Hmpf. My eye generally feels weird. There's some pain occasionally and it's pretty uncomfortable... there's no redness anymore, though. The Refresh drops are seeming to help when it starts to bother me again, but... eesh. Totally unpleasant and disconcerting. They checked my eye pressure, looked at the back of my cornea and could find nothing else amiss, that they could tell. I never remember specifically something getting in my eye. It was INSANELY windy yesterday, or maybe something went up into my eye and irritated it at the antique store, as I was rummaging through old clothes and things. Kinda ruined my weekend a bit, and I really need to get it thoroughly checked out. I'm a little bit worried. It just seemed really sudden and random. But, I did go to the farmer's market today and got LOVELY juicy, beautiful, succulent, fragrant nectarines, and yellow peaches and butter n' sugar corn, and yellow string beans and golden tomatoes. I love harvest season. Everything is plentiful and bountiful. Tonight at the film archive: "pink" films and Cousteau's "The Silent World." Should be pretty awesome. Current Mood: uncomfortable (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 1st, 2007
4:45 pm	Happy New Years Day!!! Had very nice, relaxing New Years Eve dinner with some friends: delicious veggie stew, and then made way over to other various places in the Union Square area. Hope 2007 will see some resolution to my health probs recently (been going through a very painful arthritic flare) as well as some clarity in the job dept. Through this rough health patch I am being well-loved and taken care of by the one person who hurt me most this year, but I do not start the new year with anger or resentment... just love. I hope you all have a healthy, happy wonderful new year. My new year starts on Samhain, anyway, but I think many of you have great things coming your way this year.... Current Mood: calm (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 17th, 2006
3:39 pm	Inland Empire Saw the new David Lynch film last night for its two-week run at The Brattle and literally almost SHIT MYSELF it was so fucking scary. I'm not even exaggerating. SO FUCKING SCARY!!!!! And so fucking good, all you who don't have pacemakers and love Lynch need to see it. Totally abstract, though in the same vein, a bit like Mulholland Drive in the sense of the Hollywood setting, meta-narrative, time/out of time displacement, etc., but slower (not in the negative sense), longer, more artfully considered. But for some reason, despite how much this film was being touted as the craziest, most abstracted film, narratively, Lynch has ever done, I totally got it. TOTALLY. And I have to say, I think Badalamenti has to be given co-credit for authorship of this film: without his soundtracks, Lynch films would be halved in geniusness and terrifyingness. I didn't know at first, how to really handle the digital film: at first I really hated it. There's a certain look to Lynch films that I felt was missing upon viewing the first hour or so, but I think I've since revised my opinion of that. I'm not gonna say anymore because I don't wanna ruin anything. But seriously: not for the faint of heart. Current Mood: pleased (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
9:26 am	when the veil between the worlds is thin... owl-girl-cat Originally uploaded by clementlau1031. Happy New Year, pagans, and Happy Halloween! Hoping you all have a spooktastic, magical one. (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 13th, 2005
6:32 pm	new hair new hair Originally uploaded by clementlau1031. ...here's a nicer face. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
6:31 pm	le new hair new hair Originally uploaded by clementlau1031. haha. Here is a narcissistic photo of me, pouting for the camera w/new hair. (Comment on this)
Monday, October 31st, 2005
11:44 am	HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!! Originally uploaded by clementlau1031. I hope all my lj pals have a lovely, ghostly and enchanted Halloween. Remember that it is a night to revel in the blurring between two worlds, and is your opportunity to light the fires that will warm you throughout the winter season. Also, eating lots of candy will pad you to combat the cold. Snuff in the deep of the leaves and have great cackles with friends. I cackle heartily with you all. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 8th, 2005
4:23 pm	tiny bunny I would like to eat tiny bunny I would like to eat Originally uploaded by clementlau1031. I've posted pictures on flickr of some of the pictures I took at the Harwinton Agricultural Fair in CT last week. The fair is 150 years old and my family has a long history of attendance. We ate apple crisp and fried dough and clam fritters and kettle-corn, saw all sorts of animals, watched wood-chopping and draft-pulling competitions and just generally had a wonderful day out in the sweet-smelling grass of Northwest CT. (Comment on this)
Sunday, July 17th, 2005
11:42 pm	le weekend sunburned AS 220 3 Originally uploaded by clementlau1031. Posted some new pics to my Flickr site, and this one is of Sunburned Hand of the Man's performance, after the threw strings of fake flowers out into the audience. That's my friend MK with flowers on his head playing the saxophone, and my friend P playing guitar. The rest of the weekend was much more fun than the start. I did decide to go to Providence for the AS 220 Fest afterall and was really glad I went. We saw loads Sunburned and Growing and one other band I can't remember for free, and there was a street fair where you could drink beer and walk around, looking at homemade clothes, records, and LOADS of anarchist literature. I picked up a copy of Hakim Bey's Temporary Autonomous Zone, and was utterly sated. We had marvy sushi and saw a lot of friendly faces from Boston and Provvy, and was once again reminded of why I should make my eventual move to Providence happen within the next 2-3 years. I love it there: it's like a friendlier, more imaginative, rougher Boston. Things between J and I seem much better, inexplicably. Hands-off approach is good and I think I've come to terms with a lot of what's going on. I'm so focused on Sparrow right now, I can't even worry about J, and I think that's helped. I HAVE been reading all your advice and I was definitely focused on what was making ME happy this past weekend, and it totally worked. Funny how that happens: make yourself happy, make others come out of their idiocy in the process. A nice end to the weekend was a quick visit by my best pal Jenny who is now asleep in my bed (woo hoo!). We just gorged ourselves on too much S&S and too many celeb rags. Sparrow seems to be okay and I'm giving him lots of squeezes and kisses and encouragement. I think I will wait a bit to schedule his ultrasound: I want to take things slow and easy so we aren't too traumatized. I don't want to go back to work tomorrow. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 10th, 2005
1:10 pm	Malden headstones Originally uploaded by clementlau1031. I took some pictures at Bell Rock Cemetary in Malden of these beautiful pre-Colonial headstones. This is seriously one of the most beautiful cemetaries I've ever been in, considering the variety of intricately-carved headstones and is true testiment to how old and rich the history and culture of Malden (then, Maulden) MA was. How the denizens of the cemetary would weep now to see what's become of their people, and their town. I'm going to take more pictures there for the later stones which are wrought with some of the most heart-rending epitaphs I've ever read. I eat my lunch with these people everyday. Some stats: Malden boasts a history over three centuries old, from the small settlement called Mystic Side to the modern, energetic city of today. Malden was first settled in 1640 and was officially incorporated in 1649. The first code of enacted laws printed in New England was compiled here by Joseph Hills in 1648. Malden also has the reputation to be the first town to petition the colonial government to withdraw from the British Empire. More: It's hard to imagine now, but over 300 years ago, English scouting parties moved cautiously through an unknown wilderness. Today, the wilderness has evolved into the bustling city of Malden. In 1629, a section of hilly woodlands north of the Mystic River, was purchashed fromn the Pawtucket Indians, and called Mystic Side. It was incorporated into the township of Charlestown. But by 1649, residents of Mystic Side had petitioned the General Court to let them form a seperate township, to be called Malden. The town was named after a community of the same name in Essex, England. Some of the most prominent citizens of Malden, Massachusetts had emigrated from that English town. By the early eighteenth century, Malden Village was, according to an English visitor, "fruitful and well cultivated, being entirely cleared and enclosed with stone fences." In order to survive, the citizens of the new village had to be resourceful. Besides engaging in farming, they were also fishermen on the Mystic River, and worked as woodsmen in north Malden. Inhabitants numbered aound 1000 at the time. During the revolutionary period, citizens of Malden were early activists in the struggle against the oppression of England. In 1770 they voted to stop using tea until the notorious Revenue Acts were repealed. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 16th, 2004
11:34 am	The Ultimate LiveJournal Obsession Test Category Your Score Average LJer Community Attachment 21.51% You've got pals to cheer you up when you're down, but no audience to applaud you... Yet. 22.5% MemeSheepage 28.07% Easily amused 28.32% Original Content 53.23% Using LiveJournal to express a few strong opinions 38.3% Psychodrama Quotient 19.28% Your dark side's safe with us 17.12% Attention Whoring 15.91% Slothfully Seeking Susan 20.67% Take The Ultimate LiveJournal Obsession Test and see how you match up! (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 9th, 2004
5:36 pm	quizzle frizzle 1. IF YOU COULD BUILD A HOUSE ANYWHERE, WHERE WOULD IT BE? Vermont, Western Mass, Northwest corner of CT: Norfolk. 2. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE ARTICLE OF CLOTHING? shirt that makes my rack look good. 3. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE PHYSICAL FEATURE OF THE OPPOSITE SEX? eyes, shoulders, hair. 4. WHAT'S THE LAST CD THAT YOU BOUGHT? Sunn O)). 5. WHERE'S YOUR FAVORITE PLACE TO BE? London, bedroom, bathtub, Cambridge. 6. WHERE'S YOUR LEAST FAVORITE PLACE TO BE? At fucking work. 7. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE PLACE TO BE MASSAGED? back, uh-- naughty places. 8. WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT, STRONG IN MIND OR STRONG IN BODY? yeah, I gotta agree with Weeds: BOTH. 9.WHAT TIME DO YOU WAKE UP? never. 10. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE KITCHEN APPLIANCE? stovetop. 11. WHAT MAKES YOU REALLY ANGRY? flakiness. pretension. disrespect. 12. IF YOU COULD PLAY ANY INSTRUMENT, WHAT WOULD IT BE? drone harp. 14. WHICH DO YOU PREFER, SPORTS CAR OR SUV? I politically can't support cars. 15. DO YOU BELIEVE IN AFTERLIFE? believe? I KNOW there's an afterlife, and boy, is it going to be CRAZY. 16. FAVORITE CHILDREN'S BOOK? Wait for Me, Kitten. Makes me weep, everytime. 17. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SEASON? spring. 18. WHAT'S YOUR LEAST FAVORITE HOUSEHOLD CHORE? cleaning the fucking bathtub. 19. IF YOU COULD HAVE ONE SUPER POWER, WHAT WOULD IT BE? to make people fall irreversibly in love with me. 20. IF YOU HAVE A TATTOO, WHAT IS IT? no tat. 21. CAN YOU JUGGLE? this is gay. 22. THE ONE PERSON FROM YOUR PAST YOU WISH YOU COULD GO BACK AND TALK WITH? G. 23. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE DAY? Saturday, and every day if I didn't have to work. 24. WHAT'S IN THE TRUNK OF YOUR CAR? I don't have a car, but if I did it would be survival gear like an emergency pup tent, flares, and a bunch of blankets and cans of food. You know-- what with Peak Oil and all that. 25. WHICH DO YOU PREFER, SUSHI OR HAMBURGER? I likes it rrrrrrraw and wrrrrrriggggling!!! (Comment on this)
Friday, March 5th, 2004
6:11 pm	hahahah, really? You're just looking for love. You're very emotional, and a lot of sad teenagers are going to turn to you when they feel like shit. You're also into BDSM, you devil, you. What band from the 80s are you? brought to you by Quizilla (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2004
5:57 pm	the darkness Is there something wrong with me that I may actually *DIE* if I don't get Darkness tickets for the Avalon show in Boston?? I've already got a bid on eBay going right now. Ladies, do yourself a favor and go and watch the video on the Darkness website of "Love is Only a Feeling." It features Justin with feathers in his hair and his brother sitting on a rock by a waterfall, playing guitar. MORE DARKNESS!!! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
5:20 pm	yay! I love her! lifted from weedy--- Kathleen Hannah! Which RioT GrrrL Band are You? brought to you by Quizilla I've always had such a crush on her.... (Comment on this)
Monday, March 1st, 2004
1:02 pm	mo qizzles fo mizzle brizzle Postatem obscuri lateris nescitis. "You do not know the power of the Dark Side." There are two possibilities: you are a Star Wars geek, or you are unreasoningly scary. Which Weird Latin Phrase Are You? brought to you by Quizilla Ha. Somehow not surprised. Heart of Gold What is Your Heart REALLY Made of? brought to you by Quizilla So, I'm scary, yet I have a heart of gold. Yup. That seems accurate. (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 19th, 2004
1:35 pm	"And you fell for it. You want to wipe that 10-year-old's nose." All girls should read this. Hell, all GUYS should read this. You both know what this smart lady's talking about. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 12th, 2004
6:19 pm	if this doesn't amaze you, i don't know what will Holy crap. Didja hear about the Gorgoroth show? Why can't these dudes come to MY town???? Current Mood: enthralled Current Music: Ethiopiques 11-- The Harp of King David (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 11th, 2004
3:18 pm	mo quizzles, fo shizzle Morpheus ?? Which Of The Greek Gods Are You ?? brought to you by Quizilla and Waterfall ?? Which Natural Wonder Or Disaster Are You ?? brought to you by Quizilla (Comment on this)
3:11 pm	why is it that... anti-social Which Personality Disorder Do You Have? brought to you by Quizilla Every time I take a quiz, the answer is always that I am going to turn out into some sort of psychopath??? Figgers. (Comment on this)