Blah blah zines blah.

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You really have no excuse not to watch this.

So, I just went through what was probably the most painful thing I've ever experienced. I got my first branding, then had a cutting done that crosses over it in places, and two small skin peels. It took over 3 hours and now the healing process begins.

The symbol I got done has been something rolling around in my brain since I was 14, but I never felt ready to actually put it on my skin until now. It's a simple design, by it means a lot to me and, though I didn't think about it while designing it initially, ensured that the process of having it done would be longer and more intensive, because there are almost no straight lines.

I'll have pictures of it eventually, but it's all bandaged up right now, and frankly, I'm exhausted, so I'm probably going to go to sleep soon.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

_ _

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

Why the fuck is there radioactive material in my fire alarm?!

I nearly ripped mine out of the fucking ceiling just now because I couldn't get it to stop going off and it was quarter to 6 in the morning. Usually I take the batteries out of them, but this one is hanging from the ceiling and though it says the top plate comes off, I couldn't get it off for the life of me, to the point where I was trying to wrench it open with a butter knife and crying from frustration.


EDIT

"Most smoke alarms use Americium-241 to detect smoke and hot air, thus triggering the alarm. Some gamma radiation is emitted by the smoke alarm but all the alpha radiation is blocked by the black box.

Living for a year within 1 metre of a smoke alarm would give you a radiation dose of 1.5 millisievert per year, which is about 1/1000th of the radiation that we receive normally. If you held a smoke alarm in your hand then you would get a significant dose, but you're not going to do that are you?

The Americum is chosen because of it's very high melting point (it's designed to work in a fire). Even in a house fire, the material will not melt and would not be a health hazard."

- http://www.digitalspy.com/forums/showthread.php?t=715631


And yes I realize I greatly increase the chances of my place burning down without one.

Silly Metaphor. I put a mouse in her tank last night before going out, but she didn't eat it, so when I got up this morning I threw it out and now she's sniffing all over her rock looking for food *sighs*

I should probably go to bed now, but I just cut up my mouth eating toasted sandwich and I feel like it would be a shame to waste it.

Not to mention I don't know ANYBODY there! Ahhhh!

1. I'll respond with something random about you
2. I'll challenge you to try something
3. I'll pick a colour that I associate with you
4. I'll tell you something I like about you
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of
7. I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on yours

[14:02:57] shane says:
u live in montreal?
[14:03:20] [.bi.tti.rswe.e.t.] - "death by tray it shall be" says:
yeah
[14:03:37] shane says:
ru single?
[14:03:47] [.bi.tti.rswe.e.t.] - "death by tray it shall be" says:
yeah
[14:03:55] shane says:
we can date.
[14:04:17] [.bi.tti.rswe.e.t.] - "death by tray it shall be" says:
I don't even know who you are.
[14:04:47] shane says:
dating is a process of knowing each other.
[14:04:51] shane says:
u wud know me soon.
[14:06:15] [.bi.tti.rswe.e.t.] - "death by tray it shall be" says:
Maybe, but I'm not really interested in dating right now.
[14:06:40] shane says:
how bout being friends with benefits?
[14:06:55] [.bi.tti.rswe.e.t.] - "death by tray it shall be" says:
No, who the fuck are you?
[14:07:14] shane says:
its not that u never had a friend with benefit before or never had a night stand before .
[14:07:17] shane says:
im jason.
[14:07:45] [.bi.tti.rswe.e.t.] - "death by tray it shall be" says:
And where did you find my email?
[14:08:05] shane says:
must be from internet from some social networking website.
[14:08:16] shane says:
u need good sex.
[14:09:31] [.bi.tti.rswe.e.t.] - "death by tray it shall be" says:
I'm blocking you now.
[14:09:45] shane says:
u can but that wont help/

**blocked**

"People who remain, according to statistics, are less likely to finish school (the city has a 45 per cent dropout rate), more likely to be unemployed, less likely to get a physician, and more likely to become pregnant at a younger age than anywhere else in the province."
- http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/10/29/montreal-is-a-disaster/

Apparently I live in a city run by the mob. Awesome.

Happy Halloween everyone. I hope it was awesome. I will be posting pictures once I sort through them all, but mostly I will be holed up in my apartment reading, because I have no money but lots of awesome books and zines.

Here's a few pictures from the Zombie Strippers show: http://www.flickr.com/photos/amandacavaphotography/4066860182/
I'm sure there are more somewhere because I saw at least four cameras when I was attacking the audience...Tried not to spit blood on any of them and ended up getting Matt Maxwell apparently, haha.

Anyway, that's all for now...I want to read zines!

Home again, finally. I wish I could say I'd be staying here for awhile this time, but that's sadly not the case. I had a wicked fucking time. I agree with x_femme_x, we should have Halloween every month.

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Not at all.