This Sunday 18th May is INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENT YOUR DAY WITH PHOTOGRAPHS DAY.
Wouldn't it be fun if everyone did it? Pull out that digital or film camera and snap shots of your day - it's going to be such a beautiful long-weekend day - and then the next week of LJ will be filled with people's photo-updates.
I would like to see what EVERYONE is doing this Sunday.
Please take part!

dear the world,

someone called me yesterday afternoon and then i called them back and we had two whole conversations and the whole time i thought they were someone else and now i am really confused. so, if you called me yesterday, i don't actually have your number. please reveal your identity!

from,
malloreigh

Poll #1169769 mix cds.
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

when you make a mix cd for someone, what do you put on it?

what type of mix cd would you rather receive?

There are a few people who comment on my journal every now and again saying things like "I really envy your freedom" and "I wish I could pick up and go like you can" and "If only it were possible for me to travel and have adventures too." (You know who you are!) It makes me so sad (and a little mad) to read those comments. If you really wanted to do it, you would!

Do you think it's easy for me? To leave everything behind and go somewhere else without a safety net, without any guarantees that I'll be happy where I'm going? It's not easy, it's actually really scary, and yeah, there are a few things that I feel I've given up too rashly in the pursuit of adventure. But... I'm just deathly afraid of getting old and looking back on my life and feeling bored. Feeling like I've never done anything... and sure, having a paid-off mortgage and a solid career and a car can be really good, but when I'm old and decrepit I know that looking back on a life full of that crap will make me mega depressed. It already freaks me out and I'm not even doing it. I never want to be caught in that trap.

For all we know, we've only got one shot at life, and there are SO many interesting places and people out there. Like Micah said once, if your life flashes in front of your eyes and you don't get a boner, you're doing something wrong.

I don't want to become one of those people who's never really been anywhere or seen anything, whose perspective on life is limited to that of their own culture and their own geographical area only. I don't want all of my memories to involve the same bland colour palette, the same sounds and smells. I want to know everything and everyone and I realize I never will but I'm going to learn as much as I can while I'm here. It's hard to learn when there's nothing new in your life.

The small amount of traveling I've done has been a huge source of revelation for me. If I'd never gone to the Dominican Republic, I wouldn't realize how well-off Western society is in comparison to the rest of the world; stats on the news just don't give you the full picture. If I'd never gone to New Zealand, where I spent two months alone with myself, I wouldn't have learned what I want, what I value, and how to find those things. And a million more things. These experiences are indispensable.

So fuck, come on, just do something. There are enough people out there who are going to live boring and miserable and unenlightened lives. I just think it's so tragic for people to know that they want to do things like travel, or pursue a possibly profitless career in music, or tell the love of their life how they feel - and yet they don't do it. The meek won't ever inherit shit.

That is all. I hope I didn't offend anyone, unless that offense has inspired you to buy a plane ticket or something.

i know i've said it before but i'll say it again: i wish i was pat benatar. especially in that video. (love is a battlefield.) it's probably my favourite song of all time. and the outfits! and anger-dancing! yeah, fuck the man, let's take back the streets ladies!

Heath Ledger was found dead of an overdose in New York today.

Ktar.com, WTLX.com, Access Hollywood.

He was finished filming his role in The Dark Night as The Joker. No worries, it'll still come out.

Can anyone in Vancouver babysit my bicycle? Chelsea, who is currently keeping it, is leaving Vancouver in mid-January and my bike needs a home. Unfortunately, it's locked to itself, which means it can neither be ridden nor rolled, so it needs to be transported from her place to yours in the most ungainly fashion...

I would really appreciate it if someone could store it for me. I will be back to get it hopefully by March. As soon as I can be! (And if it could be stored inside that'd be even better. At least somewhere secure and not wet.)

Let me know!

If you have updated to OSX 10.5 (Leopard) you may have also noticed that your menu bar is annoyingly transparent. I have a folder full of background images that change every fifteen minutes which means I have a really ugly menu bar. Thanks to Mac TidBITS, I've found this simple fix.

Also, because liich expressed interest in it quite a while back, here are some photos of all of my tattoos. ( Not entirely work safe. )