Below are the most recent 10 friends' journal entries.

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
anghara	5:49p	I want to know what kind of kitty-crack is in canned food... ...because THIS is what happens every time my two monsters smell one: (please note the imperial "NNNNNOW!" by the Fluffy Prince...) (and yes, this was the christening of my Christmas Flip camera...) (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
anghara	8:05p	Okay. I watched it. I wept. Copiously. I don't know what the next Doctor will bring... but I found myself resenting him for BEING THERE, for being there when MY Doctor was not. Dammit. David Tennant may have wrecked this for me. There never WILL be another. Not like him. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
anghara	5:33p	Ein Frohlischer Neuesjahr! It has been a tradition in my family ever since I was a little girl, back in the Old Country - every New Year's day, in the morning, we would park in front of the TV and watch the Vienna Philharmonic usher in the New Year with their "neujahrkonzert", a head-spinning confection of Strauss waltzes and polkas, of operetta overtures, of music often set to ballet in places like the Schonnbrunn Palace or one of Vienna's many art museums. There are always three encores at the end of the concert. The first is arbitrary, at the whim of the conductor. The second, ALWAYS, is the immortal Blue Danube Waltz, the tribute to MY river, mine, the river on whose banks I first opened my eyes to this world. I love it with an undying love. The sound of that first trembling chord of this waltz is enough to bring tears to my eyes; I am the child of this river, I am its bride, I am its devoted worshipper, and all other rivers on this world are but lesser incarnations of this god of all rivers, the thing that flows slow and dangerous and powerful through the city where I was born, whose textures and smells and airs I know so very well. This year they really did reduce me to tears, because they set this music to the entirety of the Danube itself. They showed me its birth. They travelled down its serpentine coils, through at least four different countries. They came to the place where it dies, subsumed into a sea, its wide delta merging with an even wider expanse of water, surrendering with grace and with nobility. They already have a video of it up on YouTube - a little truncated (because the person who did it apparently had trouble posting a video longer than 10 minutes, but most of it is still there. I give you my love. I give you my river. I give you the Emperor of Waltzes. Happy New Year. (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
anghara	12:25p	And Hallelujah to you all too! Ring in the New Year (well, damn near) with a good giggle (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
anghara	5:10p	Happy trails amongst the stars... When you're standing on the surface of this tiny delicate planet, that's ALL THERE IS, everything that ever was, is or will be... and then you put it into context... and WOW... (2 Comments |Comment on this)
anghara	4:27p	'Tis the end of the year... ...and the end of the decade... ...and I tried to put a glance-backwards-to-help-me-understand-where-I-am-now kind of essay over at StorytellersUnplugged this month. Happy New Year, everyone. (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 27th, 2009
anghara	10:04p	Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Nobody told them they were supposed to be enemies... (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, December 25th, 2009
anghara	7:25p	I *COOKED* Yes, even so. She-who-does-not-willingly-muck-around-the-kitchen (except when making chocolate brownies) actually contributed a dish to Christmas lunch. Red cabbage baked casserole, with apples and onions and red wine vinegar. And VERY tasty it was, too. Merry Christmas to accomplished me! We opened presents this morning. Among them is a BUNCH of bags of nice organic free-trade coffee (ya gotta love my hubby!), a jar of special honey and a note informing us that the special honey pump top that was supposed to come with it was "out of stock and on backorder" so I guess I'll still be getting that at some point, a cute little digital video camera which I'm still trying to figure out, a whole buncha books and movies (including the Torchwood "Children of Earth" miniseries and thenew Star Trek movie), and my personal favourite - rdeck had "Adopted" a gray wolf in my name, and in memory of Ari, my most beloved dog. I cried. Then we had family over for Christmas lunch (hence the red cabbage) and we opened up some more presents. Got a pair of nice slippers I'm wearing right now, and gave out one of my photo-calendars, and another whole bunch of books - at LEAST one of which caused a real jaw-drop, so I count it as a major success. And then we watched our perennial Christmas traditional movie, "It's a wonderful life". Yes, it's mawkish. Yes, it's sentimental. Yes, for all of you out there who might suffer from a surfeit of sugar, it's positively saccharine in places. *I don't care*. Love that movie. Love it. And it makes me cry every year. So that was Christmas. Now we need to gird our loins for 2010. And maybe there'll even be video... (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 24th, 2009
anghara	4:02p	And so it is here... (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
anghara	1:25p	This makes my star-loving soul dance... And God Bless Us, Every One! (2 Comments |Comment on this)