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Talking to a little kitty

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I've been spending a lot of time lately talking to someone I met recently. She's a wonderful person and I'm really looking forward to meeting her in about a week. We were talking, among many other things today, about music. I realized that I love sharing music with people I care about. There's something really intimate about introducing someone to your favourite song, and telling them why it's important to you, or how you feel about it and why.

In doing so, I came up with the following CD, which would be the definitive “Music of Richard”:

1. Harmonium, Dixie
2. Stevie Ray Vaughan, Little Wing
3. Sting, Shape of my heart
4. Daniel Lavoie, Jours de plaine
5. Stained, It's been a while
6. Peter Gabriel, Don't give up
7. Creed, My sacrifice
8. Tea Party, Walking wounded
9. Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ain't gonna give up on love
10. Elle Fitzgerald, Someone to watch over me
11. Dire Straits, Your latest trick
12. Bet.e & Stef, It's over
13. Pink Floyd, Wish you were here
14. David Usher, Black black heart
15. Dido, Isobel
16. Starmania, Les uns contre les autres
17. Ella Fitzgerald, Summertime
18. Billy Joel, New York state of mind
19. Coldplay, Everything not lost
20. Rush, Subdivisions

These are songs that, for various reasons, have some kind of emotinal impact in my life. Now, to be honest, there's tons of stuff that would also fit on there (the complete Dark Side of the Moon album, for starters), but this is as close to a 20-song compilation as I could get.

As an exercise, gentle reader, what's yours?

Edit: this was a postdated entry, as I never actually got the time to finish it yesterday :)

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The Tao of the Supermodel

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Taking a well-deserved break from work, as I'm almost done with the document I've been working on for the past month, I found this online. Behold, the tao of supermodeling.

(And yes, these are real quotes)

ON SELF-KNOWLEDGE
“Everywhere I went, my cleavage followed. But I learned I am not my cleavage.”
–Carole Mallory
ON POVERTY
“Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery.”
–Beverly Johnson
ON FATE
“I wish my butt did not go sideways, but I guess I have to face that.”
–Christie Brinkley
ON COURAGE
“They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.”
–Cindy Crawford
ON CAREER CHOICES
“My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.”
— Paulina Porizkova
ON PRIORITIES
“I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.”
–Kim Alexis
ON INNER STRENGTH
“I love the confidence that makeup gives me.”
–Tyra Banks
ON TRAVEL
“I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.”
–Tyra Banks
ON BREAKTHROUGHS
“Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling.”
–Gabrielle Reece
ON EPIPHANY
“I just found out that I'm one inch taller than I thought.”
–Christie Brinkley
ON HEREDITY
“My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.'”
–Beverly Johnson
ON THE BASICS
“It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout.”
–Cheryl Tiegs
ON INTRODUCTIONS
“I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself — it's eerie.”
–Christy Turlington
ON PARADOX
“Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.”
–Tatjana Patitz
ON THE CONSERVATION OF MATTER
“I've looked in the mirror every day for 20 years. It's the same face.”
–Claudia Schiffer
ON THE CASTE SYSTEM
“We're not Prince Charles and Princess Di. We don't think of ourselves as royalty. We happen to be working people.”
–Christie Brinkley
ON OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS
“I tried on 250 bathing suits in one afternoon and ended up having little scabs up and down my thighs, probably from some of those with sequins all over them.”
–Cindy Crawford
ON ECONOMICS
“I don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.”
–Linda Evangelista
ON LOGIC
“I think, If my butt's not too big for them to be photographing it, then it shouldn't be too big for me.”
–Christy Turlington
ON BODY PARTS
“I don't know what to do with my arms. It just makes me feel weird and I feel like people are looking at me and that makes me nervous.”
–Tyra Banks
ON BODY LANGUAGE
“You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've gained weight.”
–Christy Turlington
ON VERSATILITY
“I can do anything you want me to do so long as I don't have to speak.”
–Linda Evangelista
ON THE GRIEF PROCESS
“When my Azzedine jacket from 1987 died, I wrapped it up in a box, attached a note saying where it came from and took it to the Salvation Army. It was a big loss.”
–Veronica Webb
ON VENGEANCE
“Girls are always getting mad at each other and they tell their hairdresser to purposely mess up another girl's hair.”
–Tasha
ON BATTING .667
“I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.”
–Cameron Diaz

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A shitty end of an otherwise good day

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I had lunch with hyde_grrl today, and I decided to start eating better, so I took a greek salad (but with no tomatoes, and only olive oil and balsamic vinegar as dressing). Lunch was good, talk was light. After coffee, she wanted to go shop for something for her boyfriend, so we went to Lush, which is kinda like a high0end body shop, where we sniffed various body products for the better part of 20 minutes or so.

I hadn't been in the office for 5 minutes that my eyes start watering and my nose, sniffing. To make a long story short, what I thought was just a bit of a reaction to something I must've smelled at the store turned into one pisser of a reaction, which required me to get my ass to the Vic, as my whole face was swollen and red and itchy. Fortunately, I didn't need to use my epipen, as my airways were fine. Benadryl took care of the rest, but I still spent the better part of 5 hours under observation at the hospital. At the end there, I was completely fine, but just waiting for my friggin discharge. It's ironic to have to wait to leave an emergency room.

Anyway, I'm fine now and I'm going home.

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I have weird friends

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So I was talking to a little kitty last night, and had my webcam on. I got up to turn the light on, and when I came back in front of my computer, I was told that my bed is kinky.

Now, IMHO, my bed is not kinky. Granted, it's comfortable, and I love the feel of my sheets when they just come out of the dryer, but my bed is just… boring. There's not even any kinky shit happening in it these days (more's the pity).

So, like I said, I have weird friends :)

Edited: cause a smartypants pointed out a typo :P

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