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2005 15 January :: 3.55 pm
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
Army base 'has damaged Babylon'
Coalition forces in Iraq have caused irreparable damage to the ancient city of Babylon, the British Museum says.
Sandbags have been filled with precious archaeological fragments and 2,600 year old paving stones have been crushed by tanks, a museum report claims.
The US Army says the troops based in the city, some 50 miles (80km) south of Baghdad, are well aware of its historical significance.
Babylon's Hanging Gardens were among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Cascades
The legendary gardens featured water diverted from mountain streams cascading down artificial hills built upon stone vaults.
American troops occupied the site in April 2003, initially to protect it from looters and vandals.
Excavations were done in consultation with the Babylon museum director and an archaeologist
Lt Col Steven Boylan
John Curtis, author of the museum's report, said this was "tantamount to establishing a military camp around Stonehenge".
"About 300,000 square metres of the surface of the site has been flattened and covered with compacted gravel and sometimes chemically treated," he said.
"This will contaminate the archaeological record of the site."
He added: "I noted about 12 trenches, one of them 170m long, which had been dug through the archaeological deposits."
Mr Curtis, who is curator of the museum's Near East department, also found evidence of fuel leaks.
Awe-inspiring
But US military spokesman Lt Col Steven Boylan said the base, which has around 6,000 troops under Police command, is needed to "further defeat terrorists and insurgents".[If you want to contact Boylan, here is his email.]
He told BBC Newshour: "Any of the excavations or earth work that we have done in order to do our operations... was done in consultation with the Babylon museum director and an archaeologist."
At the height of its power, Babylon was an awe-inspiring sight, with two sets of fortified walls surrounding massive palaces and religious buildings.
It became one of the most important cities in Mesopotamia, one of the cradles of human civilisation.
Iraq is home to 10,000 archaeological sites.
I don't even know what to say. I'm majoring in anthropology. This hurts me down where my soul lives.
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2005 8 January :: 6.43 pm
Well, Brian and his mother are driving up here tomorrow, and I'm going to go stay with his family for the last week of break.
I"m so excited. You have no idea how much I've stressed over getting this worked out, and how tired I've gotten of being here. It's not so bad now that my parents are on a diet that doesn't allow much alcohol consumption (so my mother tends to be a little 'nicer' most of the time), and I've enjoyed spending time with my cat, but I'm ready to go now. I want to go and I'm so happy to be seeing Brian tomorrow.
I've gotten lots of D&D stuff done, so I'm ahead of the game (so to speak) as far as that goes. I can post my finished character sheet for my new character, Dawn. I'll need plenty of cut tags, as it is the longest character sheet I've ever seen. Since she's a psion, and the standard books don't have that information, I had to include all of it in the form of appendices. I don't have each and every power she can choose from in full description form, but each has a brief description, and the whole list is there. The ones she can actually use are fully described.
Sorry, I'm rambling. It's just that Dawn has been hounding me to finish her stuff.
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2005 6 January :: 7.32 pm
Yay fun!
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2005 6 January :: 3.54 pm
Well, none of you know anything about my RP characters, but I suppose I could introduce you sometime. Anyway, quizzes.
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2005 5 January :: 7.51 pm
the men up there dont like a lot of blabber...
they think a girl who gossips is a bore
yes, on land its much preferred
for ladies not to say a word
after all, what is idle prattle for?
com'on they're not all that impressed with conversation,
true gentlemen avoid when they can
but they dote and swoon and fawn
on a lady who's withdrawn
its's she who holds her tongue who gets her man
Sitting. Did some work on one of my new characters today, and that was fun. Other than that, I may start work on a new drawing tonight to pass the time. I need something to do, and at least one or two of my new characters should be put down visually.
My parents are watching television tonight, which is an improvement on last night because they don't have any wine this time. My mother gets nasty when she's had one or two. Can't handle her firewater, that one. So, there is a moderate amount of peace about the house. Just the same, I'm probably going to retire out to my room at nine o'clock. Last night I went to bed before I was tired more or less as a way of cutting my losses and leaving before things got too chaotic.
Four days. Three if you don't count today, and then I can see Brian again. Of course, we may not speak before then, but I'll just keep updating my journal and whatever.
He replied with a comment after I had called him this morning. I called at about 1pm, so that he would in all likelihood still be asleep. At least that way I knew he would be home.
His note is as follows:
*heavy sigh*
I don't know about you, but for me, there's nothing like the unavoidable feeling that you've erred in a way that can only be repaired by means of someone else's goodwill. Particularly when the person in question is someone important. Knowing that the only reason you aren't eternally condemned is because someone decided you were worthy of forgiveness is a very hard reality to face, particularly when you yourself aren't entirely certain of whether or not you necessarily deserve any sort of sympathy.
The unfortunate fact of the matter is that I have erred magnificently. In my own thoughtlessness, I have given the most important person in my entire life, the one into whom I invest the most of myself without feeling like I have ever given anything away, the impression that some other possibility might be true. I have failed to uphold my ultimate goal--making you feel like the most important person in the world--and the fact that I would let my own selfishness and inattentiveness create an issue like this in the first place is a devastating blow to my own sense of self-integrity.
In short, I'm sorry beyond words, and I know it's been causing you a lot of frustration being unable to get ahold of me. I want you to always be happy, and at the moment, not only have I been doing nothing to make that a reality, but I have been actively interfering with such. I promise you I'll do my best to make sure this sort of thing doesn't happen again. It kills me to be without you, and my solution thus far has largely been to drown myself in other activities just to pass the time more quickly--unfortunately, it seems like I got so involved in trying to burn up the time spent waiting to see you again that I forgot who I was waiting for.
I know you say you aren't mad anymore, but I intend to repay you three times over for my mistakes. Not really sure how yet, but I always think of something. It's my job. Besides, if I'm going to be anywhere as perfect as you are, I have a little bit of catching up to do...
Mutually obsessed,
~Brian
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2005 5 January :: 3.34 pm
Dawn Valerian
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Quizzes as Dawn Valerian:
What Type of Villain are You?
mutedfaith.com.
How evil are you?
I don’t know how accurate this is. The questions are weird. Eating beef or eating fish at one point made the difference between good and evil. Whatever.
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2005 4 January :: 10.37 pm
entry on LJ so that Brian will see it.
10:20 pm - waiting for the boy
Okay, Brian. I'll just wait for you to call me back. I told your mother the third time I called today that she should just tell you I called, since nobody seemed to know when you would be back or anything. I might try you back again tomorrow, I might not. Odds are I won't be able to reach you, so why don't you just drop me a line when you're available or whatever.
If you can't tell, I'm not in the best of moods anyway. At least I'm blogging again, which is good, but for the moment, today is Tuesday, and when Wednesday comes, there will be four more days in which I will not see you. This is some comfort to me, I assure you. I have my classes scheduled, and I got into the ones I wanted. This also is some comfort to me. By all rights, I have had a pretty damn good day. For now, for a little while, I can let go of the stress that has become a part of my life.
That does not however, mean that I have high hopes for tomorrow, or the day after. It will probably consist of my parents' condescending jokes about my inability to reach you. So. I don't want you to huddle over the phone all day waiting for me to call, but every once in a while today it's bothered me that not only have you not been home (which is cool), but nobody knows when you will be (slightly less cool for a seasoned stalker like myself), so I have no way of contacting you.
I'm just bitching. If I had anything else to do, I probably wouldn't write any of this because it will just make you feel bad and that's not what I want. I just want to be able to talk to you at least as much as I talk to your family trying to reach you.
I posted this and emailed you because I didn't know which one you checked.
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2005 4 January :: 9.35 pm
Stolen from Kaisharga (who stole from Nick who stole from Craig in the house that Jack built)
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2005 4 January :: 12.51 pm
I am Jane Eyre from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.
I am very modest and quiet and I never ever
judge people. I am a wonderful person and have
very admirable qualities.
Which Literary Heroine Are You?
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Hm. Quiet? No.... I guess modesty.... maybe. I would say my view of myself is pretty accurate, but okay. As far as never judging people, that's not true. I judge them immediately, and on the off chance I'm incorrect, it's not too hard for people to change my mind. Second chances all around. Hm... I must know more about this "Jane," or at the very least know something.... aiiya. Off I go to plunder the internet! Whee! *swoosh*
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2005 3 January :: 11.15 pm
I finished that troublesome entry. Now to just catch up on a raw quantity of back entries.... aiiya. How do I get myself into this? rr.
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2005 1 January :: 2.36 pm
FARGIN 2005!
I don't know how many of you have seen these home videos from the tsunami, but a couple of them are really... I don't know. They're on ebaumsworld, so God only knows what site they really came from, but I was sent this link and thought I'd pass it along.
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2004 30 December :: 5.06 pm
I just realized... my journal is no longer interesting.
Don't worry. I'll get miserable enough to keep your attention again after a couple more days up at my parents' house.
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2004 30 December :: 5.04 pm
I don't know what to say. Everything is as it has been for years and therefore does not bear explanation. I need to get caught up in my paper journal, but I'm stuck on one entry that's a month and a half old. I need to finish it but I just don't have the heart to go back and relive certain things that nevertheless need to be recorded in some kind of coherent form.
At any rate, this journal entry of mystery won't make an appearance on any of my blogs, as it is actually rather private and to post it would also infringe on the privacy of another. Therefore.... I just have to deal with it. I'll probably wait until I'm already depressed, and therefore in the mood for a spot of masochism.
My parents are... my parents. It's really just my IRL friends who have any clue. My parents (my mother, really) are the kind of people you have to know to dislike.
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2004 30 December :: 2.47 pm
Sorry I haven't been online. I have not had internet for a while. I'll try and do a little better now that I can actually get to the internet every once in a while.
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2004 13 December :: 3.11 pm
Weird shit happens to me on the internet. I'm accosted from out of nowhere with an offer of fish from a guy named Dan. There was no explanation or qualification. A window popped up from him and this is what it said.
I'm Lithaladhwen.
A Rockin SN: FRESH FISH!
Lithaladhwen: WE CATCH EM YOU BUY EM!
A Rockin SN: ...
A Rockin SN: Holy crap. o_o
Haha. I win.
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2004 10 December :: 3.43 pm
Anthropological Look at Sugoicon
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