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That's so cool!! When I graduate in less than 2 years (wow) I'm planning on traveling back by myself. I really fell in love with Ireland and Dublin when I went. It was too bad that on the tour we took with SMI we only had 2 days there, and only one to ourselves. I didn't even get to the Clarence Hotel... :cry: I swear, it wasn't because of my rabid obsession with U2 that I went! I swear... :rolleyes: :lol: Man, I took this thread off topic...

I really love Clocks. It has the first lyrical line that I EVER put in my AIM profile in it. That's a big deal! :lol: "Am I a part of the cure or am I a part of the disease?" Love it. It was about a 10 day trip. Left on the 3rd of July and came back the 13th. I've really fallen in love with Europe, it was so exhilerating to be lost in translation in Paris (I speak absolutely NO french!), visit the Louvre, wandering around the streets of Madrid after 3 glasses of wine at dinner, shove pickpocketers on the Barcelona subways away from me.... Ah. The memories. Then there's Clocks... :lol: Seriously, if you ever get a chance to join a tour or go on your own, Sienna, do it. It's a great experience to go to a foreign place and take in it's culture, not just through text books in school. I blab about this too much. :rolleyes:

^Awesome! Was it through your school? Mine was four days in Paris, 2 in Barcelona and 2 in Madrid. Incredible experience. I went on an SMI tour to Ireland back in April! I absolutely loved Dublin. When I get out of school I'm hoping to work there.

^Beliiieeeve me. You here "do do do, do do do, do do, do do do, do do do, do do" over and over again, and your ipod ran out of batteries on the plane ride into Paris. And you have no other music. And the friggin adapter you brought didn't work in the cheap hotel EF tours put you in so there's no other music to listen to... It was mildly hellish. LMFAO LMFAO! It's just a big joke now, between me and him. Everytime "clocks" is mentioned, anywhere, I'll just groan and he'll start to sing it.... All day. It happened yesterday. :lol:

I'm hoping to go back to Ireland in April.... :sneaky: If we don't have a picture outta her by then, I'll force it out! :P :kiss: Patience is a virtue. Some smart dude said that, once. :lol:

Strangely enough, Clocks. I tend to actually not listen to this song that much... Just because I had a rather terrifying experience with it. I went to Europe back in July with a small group from my school. My friend Sean sat next to me during the 8 hour bus ride from a train station in Southern France to Barcelona, Spain. He listened to Clocks at least 79 times in a row. I'm not kidding. He slept the whole fuckin' way and had the damn CD player on 9/9. And I had to hear this goddamn song over... and over.. and I couldn't sleep. :o And now I can't stop listening to it. Ah! I don't know why I felt the need to tell that story. :lol:

A Woman Alone: Travel Tales From Around the Globe Very good and relaxing read, especially for women who are inspired by the idea of venturing into the world alone.

A story I enjoyed. source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9230423/ Survivor Story: 6-Year-Old Leads Five Toddlers, Baby To Safety In the chaos that was Causeway Boulevard in New Orleans last Thursday, one group of survivors stood out: a 6-year-old boy walking down the road, holding a 5-month-old, surrounded by five toddlers who followed him around as if he were their leader. They were holding hands. Three of the children were about two years old, and one was wearing only diapers. A three-year-old girl, who wore colorful barrettes on the ends of her braids, had her 14-month-old brother in tow. The 6-year-old spoke for all of them, and he told rescuers his name was Deamonte Love. Thousands of human stories have flown past relief workers in the last week, but few have touched them as much as the seven children who were found wandering together Thursday at an evacuation point in downtown New Orleans. In the Baton Rouge headquarters of the rescue operation, paramedics tried to coax their names out of them; nurses who examined them stayed up that night, brooding. Transporting the children alone was "the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, knowing that their parents are either dead" or that they had been abandoned, said Pat Coveney, a Houston emergency medical technician who put them into the back of his ambulance and drove them out of New Orleans. "It goes back to the same thing," he said. "How did a 6-year-old end up being in charge of six babies?" So far, parents displaced by flooding have reported 220 children missing, but that number is expected to rise, said Mike Kenner of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which will help reunite families. With crowds churning at evacuation points, many children were parted from their parents accidentally; one woman handed her baby up onto a bus, turned around to pick up her suitcase and turned back to find that the bus had left. At the rescue headquarters, a cool tile-floored building swarming with firefighters and paramedics, the children ate cafeteria food and fell into a deep sleep. Deamonte volunteered his vital statistics. He said his father was tall and his mother was short. He gave his address, his phone number and the name of his elementary school. He said the 5-month-old was his brother, Darynael, and that two others were his cousins, Tyreek and Zoria. The other three lived in his apartment building. The children were clean and healthy -- downright plump in the case of the infant, said Joyce Miller, a nurse who examined them. It was clear, she said, that "time had been taken with those kids." The baby was "fat and happy." "This baby child was terrified," he said. "After she relaxed, it was gobble, gobble, gobble." As grim dispatches came in from the field, one woman in the office burst into tears at the thought that the children had been abandoned in New Orleans, said Sharon Howard, assistant secretary of the office of public health. Late the same night, they got an encouraging report: A woman in a shelter in Thibodeaux was searching for seven children. People in the building started clapping at the news. But when they got the mother on the phone, it became clear that she was looking for a different group of seven children, Howard said. "What that made me understand was that this was happening across the state," she said. "That kind of frightened me." The children were transferred to a shelter operated by the Department of Social Services, rooms full of toys and cribs where mentors from the Big Buddy Program were on hand day and night. For the next two days, the staff did detective work. Deamonte began to give more details to Derrick Robertson, a 27-year-old Big Buddy mentor: How he saw his mother cry when he was loaded onto the helicopter. How he promised her he'd take care of his little brother. Late Saturday night, they found Deamonte's mother, who was in a shelter in San Antonio along with the four mothers of the other five children. Catrina Williams, 26, saw her children's pictures on a web site set up over the weekend by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. By Sunday, a private plane from Angel Flight was waiting to take the children to Texas. In a phone interview, Williams said she is the kind of mother who doesn't let her children out of her sight. What happened the Thursday after the hurricane, she said, was that her family, trapped in an apartment building on the 3200 block of Third Street in New Orleans, began to feel desperate. The water wasn't going down and they had been living without light, food or air conditioning for four days. The baby needed milk and the milk was gone. So she decided they would evacuate by helicopter. When a helicopter arrived to pick them up they were told to send the children first and that the helicopter would be back in 25 minutes. She and her neighbors had to make a quick decision. It was a wrenching moment. Williams' father, Adrian Love, told her to send the children ahead. "I told them to go ahead and give them up, because me, I would give my life for my kids. They should feel the same way," said Love, 48. "They were shedding tears. I said, Let the babies go.' " His daughter and her friends followed his advice. "We did what we had to do for our kids, because we love them," Williams said. The helicopter didn't come back. While the children were transported to Baton Rouge, their parents wound up in Texas, and although Williams was reassured that they would be reunited, days passed without any contact. On Sunday, she was elated. "All I know is I just want to see my kids," she said. "Everything else will just fall into place." At 3 p.m. Sunday, DSS workers said good-by to seven children who now had names: Deamonte Love; Darynael Love; Zoria Love and her brother Tyreek. The girl who cried "Gabby!" was Gabrielle Janae Alexander. The girl they called Peanut was Degahney Carter. And the boy whom they called G was actually Lee -- Leewood Moore Jr. The children were strapped into car seats and driven to an airport, where they were flown to San Antonio to rejoin their parents. As they loaded into the van, the shelter workers looked in the windows; some wept. The baby gaped with delight in the front seat. Deamonte was hanging onto Robertson's neck so desperately that Robertson decided, at the last minute, to ride with him as far as Lafayette. Shelter worker Kori Thomas, held Zoria, 3, who reached out to smooth her eyebrows. Tyreek put a single fat finger on the van window by way of goodbye. Robertson said he doubted the children would remember much of the helicopter evacuation, the Causeway, the sweltering heat or the smell of the flooded city. "I think what's going to stick with them is that they survived Hurricane Katrina," he said. "And that they were loved."

U2-Satellite of Love :heart:

Ok there was something about this in Rolling Stone or Blender or something, I know there's a scan floating around and I don't have it. Maybe search, but I'm sure someone'll post the picture.

^Amen. :lol:

Female. :dozey:

I get my singles at Newbury Comics. When SoS came out they had the Blue Room. I was a dipshit and got the SOS single instead. I will never. Ever. Ever. live that down. It was gone by the time I went back, like a week later when I had more money. Jaysus.... Anyways, if any Americans on here want the single, try Newbury Comics. They sell a lot of old singles really cheap in the used areas, as well. Just a heads up...

I watched the taped Letterman today, and WOW! She's so great. I have a major girl crush on Gwyneth LMFAO!!!! :rolleyes: :lol: She looked stunning, as usual, and all Dave and her did was talk about Apple. How she walked in on Apple in the play room and she was drawing with a big red pen, saw Gwyn and went "CHECK THIS OUT!". And how Chris, her and Apple went to a market in San Fransisco (I think?) and there was this cheese room. Apple was on Chris' shoulders and the second they walked in Apple just yelled "WOW! CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE!" I'd really love to upload this, but I don't think it'd work. Both my computers don't seem to have good software to do that. :cry: I hope someone comes through! That was too cute for people to miss!

:o :wink3: Dayum!

Sounds like my kinda girl, peas in a pod we'd be! :sneaky: :lol:

What if Jonny gets that and SERIOUSLY comes on here. :o I never seriously considered that till now. :stunned: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :kiss: Steph, that's amazing!!!! I really hope he gets it! I want to write a letter (card? I have no idea!) to them, because they mean so much to me, but I have no idea where to send it!! :cry:

^^ewe, I hate when that happens!!! I'm thinking that I should go to bed. :snore: Yep. I'm so interesting tonight! LMFAO

Well, I'll probably be in a straight jacket in this big white, padded walled room... Dunno if I could type... :lol: ;)

^I'm going to do the same, and print a bunch of pictures and put those all over it and dance around the cake singing happy birthday to the pictures.... All by myself.... :embarrased: :cry: Then my parents are going to bring me to the big white room again!! :( :lol:

Hmmmmm... I'll have to figure out how to do that. Maybe if I TIVO it, then record it to DVD, then rip that DVD onto here.... I'll try my hardest to do this!! :idea2: :)

^THANK YOU! *tivo's it* :kiss:

Yay!!

Something that I randomly thought of sitting here, after posting. This country really has voting and the selection of leaders ass backwards. This past election truly showed that. It seems people here care more about the PERSON they are voting for and not the party? You know what I'm trying to say? For example. Bush is against abortion. Dur. He's religious. He's against gay rights. He was an alcoholic. He likes to roll his sleeves up and chop wood. He doesn't have a big vocabulary. Bush is a meat and potatoes kinda guy. A lot of people in this country share those same exact traits. Obviously, it was enough to give the guy four more years. Why didn't Kerry get elected? He didn't relate to people. It's wrong. You shouldn't vote for the person because of what he PERSONALLY believes. You should be voting for... I don't know what! Jaysus, I don't even know what the fuck I'm rambling about. I should have tried to get my thoughts in order before I started to type this. Maybe you know where I was going though, I hope. :dozey: :lol: What I'm saying is people seem to think it's one man running the country, where there's a LOT of people behind the scenes helping to pull the strings and wire things up. I'm not referring directly to the current administration here, I'm talking in general.... I think? :huh: What the fuck, I give up.

^I agree with this. I deeply despise the Bush ADMINISTRATION. He is included in this, but I don't blame things solely on him. I don't blame Iraq solely on him. Nor do I blame the slow response to Katrina solely on him. It's just an entire system and administration that's completely fucked up. However, that being said, I DO disagree with the MAN on "moral issues". This fuckin' country and their morals... I swear... It's too bad that America handed the megaphone to some idiot with "good ole country values" and let him speak for all of us... I wish I could make a bit more intelligent post about how I feel towards the administration, why specifically I choose to disagree wholeheartedly with it, etc etc. But my brain's moosh. Maybe later I'll feel a bit more up to it... :rolleyes: