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16 November 2020 @ 10:25 pm










Suicide in the Trenches

I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.

In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.


- Siegfried Sassoon

 
 
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Mad Dog
13 November 2009 @ 11:52 pm
meme  
Random: Any of you have a facebook? I'm curious, because sometimes, while I may not do much on it, I am able to check my facebook on my iTouch without being near my computer, so I'm on that more than livejournal recently.

I stole this from [info]vickibot. I wish you luck, this may be hard. =)

song meme )
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Mad Dog
29 October 2009 @ 06:26 pm

[icons]
|01-10| - Band of Brothers
|11-31| - Criminal Minds (+ AJ and Matthew)
|32-42| - Generation Kill
|43-52| - House
|53-61| - Leverage
|62-69| - Life
|70-88| - NCIS (+ Michael Weatherly)
|89-99| - The West Wing
|100-101| - White Collar


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There's a hole in my neighborhood down which of late I can not help but fall. )
 
 
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Current Music: 'Grounds For Divorce' - Elbow
 
 
Mad Dog
26 October 2009 @ 04:33 pm


   So, yeah, sorry I just replied to my recent comments. Last few weeks have been annoying, and this next week isn't going to get any better:

   Today is the year anniversary of my uncle's death. When it happened, it didn't really hit me until a few months ago, so I'm taking it a bit harder than I did when he actually did die. That makes no sense, I know.

   A family friend (my mom's childhood best friend) was diagnosed with brain cancer last month. She and her husband came to visit last weekend, and I saw how the cancer has been effecting her. She has no hair, and she looks weak. So, of course now that I spent a fun weekend with them, I'm feeling horrible about that. These two are just the sweetest couple, and she's supposed to die in six months. Not only is it horrible that a good woman like her die, but her husband doesn't deserve to lose her. 

   And frankly, I have no idea how my mom is handling all of this. In the last year, she's watched 3 colleagues/friends die (one had a sudden bone disease, one had a sudden heart attack and my mom (a nurse) had to try to perform CPR on her when she came into the hospital, and one was the one who was murdered a couple weeks ago), she lost her uncle, and she's watching her best friend die. I don't know how I would be handling it.

   And this is all just bothering me. And what's worse is that I have no one to talk to. It isn't a dilemma, so I can't be all, "can I talk to you?" to a friend, cause honestly, all I'd be doing is telling them facts, to which they'd say, "oh, that sucks". It's one of those things, where I really wish one of my friends would ask if I was alright, and then I could honestly answer, "no". I mean, today I gave one of my friends a ride to school, and she talked to me about a guy she has a crush on. Now, really, how am I supposed to bring up what's up with me when she's so happy? I'd just be bursting her bubble. But on the other hand, considering I've been there to listen to her constantly talk about this guy, would it really hurt her to ask about me? I'm always there to listen to my friends talk, why the fuck can't they be there for me?

   Ugh, I'm sorry. I'm just in a horrible mood. I'm going to post a new icon entry tomorrow, or something like that. Thanks for listening/reading/whatever. =)

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Current Music: 'Savior' - Rise Against
 
 
Mad Dog
11 October 2009 @ 10:07 pm

   Ughhh...

   So yeah, I spend the whole week making pies with one of my clubs so that we can sell them at our town pumpkin festival this weekend. Yesterday was the one day that I needed everything to go right. I had SATs, and then I would be working at a booth at the festival. So what happens? I get sick. So I canceled the SATs and rescheduled them, because it's pointless to take a test when I'd be too busy sniffling and coughing and sneezing to focus on how I'd answer the questions. But yeah, so my throat doesn't hurt as much, but my nose is still sniffly and it, along with my upper lip, are going through the typical "after I have a runny nose that I rub with hundreds of tissues" feel, which basically feels like your face is made of leather. That's my life right now.

   But on a more basic note, there are certain types of people in this world. Some are plain bitches, some do whatever they want when they want, some help other constantly, you get the gist. I'm a person who is logical. I'm too logical. I don't get in many arguements, because I figure that it won't help me much at all. It'll make the other person madder, and will thus make what I'm trying to get ever harder for me to get. Don't get me wrong, I'm not like Brennen in Bones, cause in that case, I don't blame people for being bitchy to me. But I figure, hey, as long as the other person is satisfied, I shouldn't care about the end result. Well I realized yesterday, that despite my logical attitude that usually benefits the other person, I'm still treated like shit for it. I got up at 6 in the morning yesterday (after only 20 minutes of sleep for the whole night), feeling completely lousy (like, horribly lousy) but I went down to the school (not even my school) so that I could cancel them in person, instead of being an asshole who just doesn't show up and deley the testing. I go to talk to the people, and they bitchily tell me that I should have looked at the website, because they definately did (not) tell me that when I was told about the SATs. I smiled, and walked back to the car, which I don't even know if I parked it in the right spot or not cause they didn't give us any parking directions. This seems like a simple thing to get so pissy over, but it's basic times like these that just make me realize things like this. I mean really, what did I do wrong? I did the right thing. I did that, and then came home, couldn't sleep, and so felt lousy the rest of the day. I didn't get any benefit from that at all. I still have to take the SATs at some point. I dunno. I guess it's just that I wish I could fully bitch out at someone without worrying about how they'll react, or what the consequences will be. I really do.

   Sorry for ranting. I'm just really, really annoyed. And my family's being annoying.

   Random. Since I'm sick and can't sleep, all I've been doing is watching tv (cause I don't have enough concentration for reading). Since I have an iTouch, I've been watching youtube. Therefore watching old Nicktoons. I never realized just how much better they are than today's shows. I've always known, but still. I mean, they said 'crap' on one of the shows. Not that that makes it better, but this was before parents decided to bitch for every simple thing.

   Ugh, eff my life. Seriously.

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Mad Dog
08 October 2009 @ 09:01 pm

Ok, I have a request for all of you guys:

   In the next town over from mine, and woman my mom worked with was murdered, and her 10 year-old daughter was seriously injured. She was sent to the hospital with a slashed throat among other injuries. The mother was stabbed several times. This was done by 4 teenage boys who went into her house to rob it, but they had the intention to murder before they went in. The house was picked at random, and these sons of bitches even went to school the next day. They savagely murdered a mother and injured her child, and went on like nothing was wrong. The mother didn't deserve this. Her daughter didn't deserve this. Her husband didn't deserve to come home to this from a business trip. 
   On facebook, there's a "light a candle" thing going around, so that people can light a candle for the victim. What I'm asking is, if any of you have a few spare moments, for you to light a candle for her and her daughter. Not simply because she was murdered, but the how and why. And the how and why her daughter had to go through what she did and what she'll have to go through in her future. If you read about what happened, then you probably wouldn't believe it at first. You wouldn't believe such a horrible thing could happen. But it did. And people need to know about it so that it doesn't happen again.


Light a Candle 

There is a link at that site that gives more information if you want to know what you'd be lighting a candle for.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, and a bigger thank you to those that light a candle. =)
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Mad Dog
05 October 2009 @ 09:25 pm
Just watched House. Can't believe I'm saying this. It was great.
...Then again, I blame Jesse Spencer. Oh Chase. =(

Still watching the West Wing. Epic. I want Martin Sheen to be our president (though I don't object to Obama).

Found out that all of the old nicktoons (you know, Doug, Rocket Power, Hey Arnold!, etc.) are on youtube. Not gonna lie, I've been watching them (when I should be working on schoolwork, ahaha). But then again, these are shows that I'm pretty sure parents didn't mind watching with their kids. I'm pretty sure that if these shows were on now, then kids my age would still be watching them. These shows make me proud to be a 90's kid. That, and seeing what preteens are supposed to like nowadays (Miley Cyrus, kill yourself).

South Park is new in a couple of days. Yay. =)

So yeah, if I don't reply to comments or anything like that as often as I usually would, it's because of school. I'm wicked busy. =(

I don't know why I'm typing like this. Maybe my inner self wanted to type a haiku, but it wasn't that skilled.

Making icons. Will post when I get to a reasonable amount. Have a good day, dears! =)
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Mad Dog
25 September 2009 @ 05:54 pm

      Hi everyone!!

lots of random crap cause I haven't been on in forever )
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Mad Dog
14 September 2009 @ 02:58 pm

   So first off, sorry I haven't replied to comments in a while (I had 90, holy crap!), but I appreciate all of them and am replying to them as quickly as I can. But anyway, as I've been sifting through my many comments, I saw that I missed a birthday! Happy [late] Birthday [info]mathhhh  !!



   Sorry it's so late!


   In other news, today is my birthday. I am 18 years old. Not sure if I should say yay or nay.
 
 
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Mad Dog
06 September 2009 @ 05:30 pm





One plus one equals one. )
 
 
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Mad Dog
29 August 2009 @ 02:08 pm

[icons]
|01-11| - Band of Brothers
|12-24| - Criminal Minds
|25-46| - Generation Kill
|47-63| - Leverage
|64-83| - Leverage quotes (up to 2x07)
|84-94| - NCIS
|95-99| - Psych
|100-100| - Extra GK icon I forgot to add


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we said we'd all go down together )
 
 
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Current Music: 'Goodnight Saigon' - Billy Joel
 
 
Mad Dog
20 August 2009 @ 05:57 pm

   Since I have this as a .psd file anyway, and since this should be quick and easy to do if someone wants to, I figured I'd post this as a tutorial, since I also have never done so before =).



From: this
To:

to the rest )
 
 
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Current Music: 'Hush' - Deep Purple
 
 
Mad Dog
16 August 2009 @ 11:33 pm

I'm back from Florida.

One was gentle, one was kind. One came home, one stayed behind. )
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Current Music: 'Two Brothers' - unknown (dammit =()
 
 
Mad Dog
31 July 2009 @ 01:36 am

no intro or anything )
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Mad Dog
25 July 2009 @ 11:50 am






The rest be here... )
 
 
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Mad Dog
25 July 2009 @ 11:43 am
I just tried to post a huge picspam I've been working on, and LJ fucked me over, so it didn't work and it disappeared on me. FUUUUCK. >=(
In other news, I got accepted into and elite icon community. Go me.
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Mad Dog
17 July 2009 @ 06:43 pm
Emmys. What the fuck.
Don't know why I'm surprised. So many times in the past, great actors and actresses have been rejected just so the same ones can be nominated, yet again. I mean, Hugh Laurie and Kyra Sedgewick give great performances and deserve the noms, but if they didn't get it for the past four years, then they most likely won't get it this year, and therefore new actors/actresses should be awarded the spot.
And I'm just baffled at the Simon Baker nom. I mean, I watch the show occasionally, and I didn't see anything more from him than other actors. I guess I wouldn't be so annoyed at that if the rest of the actors in that category hadn't been nominated already at least once. I really wish Damian Lewis had been nominated. Not only because he deserves it, but to show NBC that they made a big mistake cancelling Life.
I guess I'm just sick about the fact that the Emmys nominate the same. effing. people. every. year.
At least Generation Kill was nominated for best mini-series. I can kind of understand why Alex and James and such weren't nominated, since the whole cast did such an amazing job. Same thing happened for Band of Brothers. It still sucks, but oh well.

Ok, I'm going to the middle of nowhere for the next few days. See ya later.
 
 
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Mad Dog
16 July 2009 @ 01:04 am

Ok, just finished watching Generation Kill...


seriously, what is it with me liking mini-series about war? )
 
 
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Mad Dog
07 July 2009 @ 01:09 am

Ahhh!!! I just finished replying to my comments! I had over 60! O_o
I'm happy, I guess, but still, takes a while. I'm not even finished replying, but the ones I have left are ones that'll take longer for me to answer, and it's one in the morning. However, I will be leaving tomorrow for two days to a place with no internet access, so you might not hear from me for a day or two.

in other news...GENERATION KILL!! )
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Mad Dog
29 June 2009 @ 02:39 pm

no witty cut )
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