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	<title>&quot;I Don't Need Anyone to Hold Me...I Can Hold My Own...&quot;</title>
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		  <tagline>Generally a misanthropic, internet junkie, silly movie loving, sushi eating, pill popping idiot...I don't know.  Talking about myself feels weird at the moment.  Plus I don't know anyone on this thing.  I am a PhD student in religion (comparative).  No I am not going to be a goddamn minister (I put that "goddamn" in there just to hammer home my point).  I study Evangelicalism in America (and how to destroy them), Hinduism, post-colonial theory, feminism/queer angle to the Bible and religion in America...(Yes I will probably call you a latent homosexual if you blather on about how much you hate gays...and don't tell me anything about it, okay?)...blah blah blah.  

I don't like people.  I am on this to peruse and I have seen some interesting personalities and I like reading their stuff and looking at their art.  But mainly, I don't like people.  Hence, misanthropic as I stated above.  I am a writer.  But I have lost all my artistic skills since I have been in college for ten years.  Nevertheless, I can write a mean research paper.  And if you are interested in a real dissection of religious phenomenon, we can chat.  But it your ideas are limited with no real knowledge of WHY you have limited them in such a way, let's NOT chat.  

Other than that, I think I am pretty friendly.  Depends.  Who is one-dimensional enough to be satisfied with describing themselves in an "About Me" section anyway?  Its too difficult.  Or I am just lazy...I am going to bet on the latter.  I an an extremist.  If I am in a partying/dancing phase I do it to the hilt.  Then I will remain in seclusion for weeks on end.  I have lost many friends that way since they don't understand my need for ABSOLUTE space.  The real friends are the ones I can call a year later and say "Hey," and they be exactly the same.</tagline>
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    <name>melodya</name>
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	  <entry>
    <title>LOOK! I R NOT DEAD!</title>
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    <issued>2008--0-6-T27: 1:0:-08:00</issued>
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    <created>2008--0-6-T27: 1:0:-08:00</created>
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    <author>
      <name>melodya</name>
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  <entry>
    <title>Space Mountain...</title>
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    <issued>2007--1-2-T11: 1:6:-08:00</issued>
    <modified>2007--1-2-T11: 1:6:-08:00</modified>
    <created>2007--1-2-T11: 1:6:-08:00</created>
    <summary type="application/xhtml+xml"><![CDATA[My sister and brother are in front of me and my Dad...of course, me sitting next to my Dad. Its&#133;]]></summary>
    <author>
      <name>melodya</name>
    </author>
    <content type="application/xhtml+xml" mode="xml" xml:lang="en-us"><![CDATA[<a href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=24874611" ><img src="http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/melodya/default/gallery-msg-119742099953.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />My sister and brother are in front of me and my Dad...of course, me sitting next to my Dad.  Its like the right hand of God :-)

2002.  Not so long ago...but a time where I was unjaded, unhurt, energized and hopeful.  It may sound trite to say that I am no longer any of those things, so go ahead and think so...

My Dad = FUCKING CUTE AS HELL.]]></content>
		
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  <entry>
    <title>My Family....</title>
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    <issued>2007--1-2-T11: 1:6:-08:00</issued>
    <modified>2007--1-2-T11: 1:6:-08:00</modified>
    <created>2007--1-2-T11: 1:6:-08:00</created>
    <summary type="application/xhtml+xml"><![CDATA[Oh, how I wish it was then...even if my outfit did clash. As always, I planted myself RIGHT NEXT to&#133;]]></summary>
    <author>
      <name>melodya</name>
    </author>
    <content type="application/xhtml+xml" mode="xml" xml:lang="en-us"><![CDATA[<a href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=24874361" ><img src="http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/melodya/default/gallery-msg-11974208261.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Oh, how I wish it was then...even if my outfit did clash.  As always, I planted myself RIGHT NEXT to my Dad.  I did that until his last hours.  No exaggeration there.  My Mama is on the right.  We are at a park we always went to when we were young and had Easters and Birthdays...

I don't think I ever want to see it again.]]></content>
		
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  <entry>
    <title>Me and Davey Havok from AFI</title>
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    <issued>2007--1-1-T19: 0:9:-08:00</issued>
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    <summary type="application/xhtml+xml"><![CDATA[...for those of you that just concentrate on Davey himself and not the band he is a part of...
So, I&#133;]]></summary>
    <author>
      <name>melodya</name>
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    <content type="application/xhtml+xml" mode="xml" xml:lang="en-us"><![CDATA[<a href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=22911321" ><img src="http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/melodya/default/gallery-msg-119549216757.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />...for those of you that just concentrate on Davey himself and not the band he is a part of...

So, I am glad to finally have a picture of myself and Davey.  It is funny actually, he is super normal, sweet, engaging and then he sees Clint have the camera and its ZOOM..."Zoolander..." that is what that pose is about.  Super effing cute.  He has it DOWN.

Guess where this was?  Yep, Tarina Tarantino's launch party for "Tokyo Hardcore," in which Davey stars in the campaign as "Tommy Jet."]]></content>
		
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  <entry>
    <title>Me, Audrey, and Clint...</title>
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    <issued>2007--1-1-T19: 0:9:-08:00</issued>
    <modified>2007--1-1-T19: 0:9:-08:00</modified>
    <created>2007--1-1-T19: 0:9:-08:00</created>
    <summary type="application/xhtml+xml"><![CDATA[AGAIN, at Tarina's party...but this time it is Buzznet Buzzmaker herself (well, I am the only one NOT a Buzzmaker&#133;]]></summary>
    <author>
      <name>melodya</name>
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    <content type="application/xhtml+xml" mode="xml" xml:lang="en-us"><![CDATA[<a href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=22911011" ><img src="http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/melodya/default/gallery-msg-11954919999.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />AGAIN, at Tarina's party...but this time it is Buzznet Buzzmaker herself (well, I am the only one NOT a Buzzmaker in this photo...) Audrey Kitching.  It was my first time meeting Ms. Kitching and I have to say that she is a sweetheart...sorry to particular people, but she was sweet as pie.

Oh, and that is my Clint of course!  He grabbed me and said, "I have to introduce you to Audrey, she is not a bitch, I promise!"  Love it.  Clint gets along with everyone and all walks of life, don't he?]]></content>
		
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  <entry>
    <title>My brother, Ray and Nick 13 from Tiger Army</title>
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    <issued>2007--1-1-T19: 0:9:-08:00</issued>
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    <summary type="application/xhtml+xml"><![CDATA[My brother is a big Tiger Army fan so it was nice for me to have the opportunity to have&#133;]]></summary>
    <author>
      <name>melodya</name>
    </author>
    <content type="application/xhtml+xml" mode="xml" xml:lang="en-us"><![CDATA[<a href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=22910771" ><img src="http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/melodya/default/gallery-msg-119549169817.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />My brother is a big Tiger Army fan so it was nice for me to have the opportunity to have him meet Nick 13 at Tarina Tarantino's launch party.  Of course, he came with Davey Havok.  

I joked around with these two after I took this picture that they both automatically went into boy pose with the chin up right when I said, "cheese."  hahaha.  Cute.]]></content>
		
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  <entry>
    <title>Me, Clint Catalyst, and Jessica Louise at Tarina Tarantino's Melrose Boutique...</title>
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    <issued>2007--1-1-T19: 0:8:-08:00</issued>
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    <summary type="application/xhtml+xml"><![CDATA[...for her launch party for her new line, "Tokyo Hardcore."
I look like shit.  This is my surprised face, I suppose.]]></summary>
    <author>
      <name>melodya</name>
    </author>
    <content type="application/xhtml+xml" mode="xml" xml:lang="en-us"><![CDATA[<a href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=22910181" ><img src="http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/melodya/default/gallery-msg-119549123453.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />...for her launch party for her new line, "Tokyo Hardcore."

I look like shit.  This is my surprised face, I suppose.]]></content>
		
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  <entry>
    <title>A view of the Pacific Ocean from the coastline of my home city...</title>
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    <issued>2007--0-8-T16: 1:7:-08:00</issued>
    <modified>2007--0-8-T16: 1:7:-08:00</modified>
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    <summary type="application/xhtml+xml"><![CDATA[Again, this is Pacific Beach. A hipster, young beach of the many beautiful beaches San Diego has to offer. I&#133;]]></summary>
    <author>
      <name>melodya</name>
    </author>
    <content type="application/xhtml+xml" mode="xml" xml:lang="en-us"><![CDATA[<a href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=15129811" ><img src="http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/melodya/default/gallery-msg-118730961589.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Again, this is Pacific Beach.  A hipster, young beach of the many beautiful beaches San Diego has to offer.  I am very proud of where I come from, I love my hometown, and I think it is the best city in Southern California.  It is still urban, but smaller.  There are visible trees from the freeways, traffic is (relatively) predictable, and the weather is basically the same temperature all year round, fluctuating between 10 degrees low/high...but it is usually 70 degrees out.

This was taken in late Feburary, early March...Most places are still cold and this is what San Diego looks like.

Plus, we have the Heaven's Gate Cult!  

Or had...]]></content>
		
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  <entry>
    <title>Karrie and me...</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=15129541"/>
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    <issued>2007--0-8-T16: 1:7:-08:00</issued>
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    <summary type="application/xhtml+xml"><![CDATA[This is simple really...my friend Karrie who is absolutely wonderful. For some reason, women have an aversion to me. I&#133;]]></summary>
    <author>
      <name>melodya</name>
    </author>
    <content type="application/xhtml+xml" mode="xml" xml:lang="en-us"><![CDATA[<a href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=15129541" ><img src="http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/melodya/default/gallery-msg-118730921754.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />This is simple really...my friend Karrie who is absolutely wonderful.  For some reason, women have an aversion to me.  I find it odd because I am all about the sisterhood.  I would never committ any woman to woman violence knowingly.  I have had many women (little girls, rather) want to do it to me; try to steal my boyfriend, refuse to let their boyfriend talk to me as if I am not capable of a civil conversation, spread lies about me that I necked a woman's husband when I HUGGED him as I have known him since I was 13 and hadn't seen him in 10 years...Don't they realize that I have to make the active choice as well?

It isn't just the man that says, "Eh WOMAN I grab you..." Um, I have to be an active participant in this creating of an affair.  I don't need to take your man, honey.  Really.  And I think if a man I am interested in does the cheating thing it has nothing to do with me but everything to do with his need to be idol worshipped and well, sorry, I have a brain and I stick up for myself, yet I somehow am the one that gets called crazy all the time?  

Men. Strange.

Anyway, why I mention this is because Karrie is literally one of four women in my life (in real life, not internet life) that doesn't treat me like that.  She recognizes what I am about, she doesn't judge me, she trusts me...and vice versa.  I think most women will agree that maintaining female relationships can be tough, and it is a genuine treat to speak to women that feel comfortable complimenting other beautiful and brilliant women.  A woman's compliment to me means more than a man's any minute...well, more than a STRAIGHT man's compliment.  

I wish more women would feel like that.  Of course, that isn't to say it isn't lovely to have a man think you are sexy...it is, but if a woman does it, well, I believe her no matter what.

And my friend Karrie?  Unique, beautiful, accepting, hot, smart...and all those other wonderful adjectives...♥ my Karrie...]]></content>
		
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  <entry>
    <title>Awwww...</title>
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    <issued>2007--0-8-T16: 1:6:-08:00</issued>
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    <created>2007--0-8-T16: 1:6:-08:00</created>
    <summary type="application/xhtml+xml"><![CDATA[Notice that most of these pictures took place on the same nights...lot of pictures and only three different occasions. This&#133;]]></summary>
    <author>
      <name>melodya</name>
    </author>
    <content type="application/xhtml+xml" mode="xml" xml:lang="en-us"><![CDATA[<a href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=15127721" ><img src="http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/melodya/default/gallery-msg-11873080048.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Notice that most of these pictures took place on the same nights...lot of pictures and only three different occasions.  This one was for Brendon's birthday in December when we pre-partied at the house in West Hollywood and then went to Metal Skool on Sunset.

The sweet smile I am giving is because I am hugging my friend, Evan.  Who was a very good sport that night and has provided many LULZZZZ during nights that dragged on...We have sat in Brendon's house til the wee hours of morning with seven people screaming at the top of their lungs to "Livin' On A Prayer..."

You would too! Don't lie.  Its fun.  Its simple.  I don't have to be translating Plato every five seconds...trust me, I do that enough (no, for real...I do know how to read and translate Ancient Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit, but ask me to speak a sentence in Spanish and it is "Mi Llamo es..." and my father was born in Mexico...ah well...).  The type of fun one has isn't indicative of the ability one has to form complex thoughts and unique ideas...but tell that to my fellow graduate students.  *shrug*]]></content>
		
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  <entry>
    <title>Whoa....it smiles...</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=15126301"/>
    <id>buzznet:user:entry:id:15126301</id>
    <issued>2007--0-8-T16: 1:6:-08:00</issued>
    <modified>2007--0-8-T16: 1:6:-08:00</modified>
    <created>2007--0-8-T16: 1:6:-08:00</created>
    <summary type="application/xhtml+xml"><![CDATA[Yeah, sometimes you can catch a smile on camera. Truth is, I hate my smile so I just don't do&#133;]]></summary>
    <author>
      <name>melodya</name>
    </author>
    <content type="application/xhtml+xml" mode="xml" xml:lang="en-us"><![CDATA[<a href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=15126301" ><img src="http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/melodya/default/gallery-msg-118730760094.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Yeah, sometimes you can catch a smile on camera.  Truth is, I hate my smile so I just don't do it...and I am not fishing for compliments here, it is just the simple truth :-) 

This is a buddy named Jules in Typhoon Saloon in Pacific Beach on Garnet Ave. for PB Block Party before it was stopped based on the chaos.  

The good ol days...(April 2005)]]></content>
		
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  <entry>
    <title>"You should be dancin..."</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=15126151"/>
    <id>buzznet:user:entry:id:15126151</id>
    <issued>2007--0-8-T16: 1:6:-08:00</issued>
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    <created>2007--0-8-T16: 1:6:-08:00</created>
    <summary type="application/xhtml+xml"><![CDATA[I like the Bee Gees...don't hate.
Yep, self-explanatory. I dance anywhere, anytime, no music...any music...In the grocery store I will do&#133;]]></summary>
    <author>
      <name>melodya</name>
    </author>
    <content type="application/xhtml+xml" mode="xml" xml:lang="en-us"><![CDATA[<a href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=15126151" ><img src="http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/melodya/default/gallery-msg-11873073582.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />I like the Bee Gees...don't hate.

Yep, self-explanatory.  I dance anywhere, anytime, no music...any music...In the grocery store I will do the robot, the sprinkler...you know, the classic moves...]]></content>
		
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  <entry>
    <title>"He doesn't mean a thing to me..."</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=15044591"/>
    <id>buzznet:user:entry:id:15044591</id>
    <issued>2007--0-8-T15: 1:7:-08:00</issued>
    <modified>2007--0-8-T15: 1:7:-08:00</modified>
    <created>2007--0-8-T15: 1:7:-08:00</created>
    <summary type="application/xhtml+xml"><![CDATA["Just another pretty face to see...cause all of the time, not that I doubt you, honey. I'd never let him&#133;]]></summary>
    <author>
      <name>melodya</name>
    </author>
    <content type="application/xhtml+xml" mode="xml" xml:lang="en-us"><![CDATA[<a href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=15044591" ><img src="http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/melodya/default/gallery-msg-118722346038.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />"Just another pretty face to see...cause all of the time, not that I doubt you, honey.  I'd never let him next to me...

He's the kind of guy who thinks he's smart...
He's the type that always looks the part...
He's on the make...on the take...
and I'd never let him touch my heart...

He didn't mean to catch my eye,
Well, he's lucky he just walked on by...
Cause he hasn't met a girl like me, are you kidding?
Well, I tell him that I'd rather die..."

(Deep Dish--"FlashDance")

The song quoted is the song I was dancing to and it really is my favorite progressive house song ever created.  As well, as my "Going Out and Preparing to Deal with Idiots in the Club..." Theme Song...I just keep repeating the lyrics in my head...

And oh, do they always remain so very true...]]></content>
		
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  <entry>
    <title>One more minute...the beaches San Diego...</title>
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    <issued>2007--0-8-T15: 1:7:-08:00</issued>
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    <created>2007--0-8-T15: 1:7:-08:00</created>
    <summary type="application/xhtml+xml"><![CDATA[...One more minute...One more minute, the beaches Mexico...We're kicking back poolside...or down by the ocean side...(Authority Zero)
This is a pic&#133;]]></summary>
    <author>
      <name>melodya</name>
    </author>
    <content type="application/xhtml+xml" mode="xml" xml:lang="en-us"><![CDATA[<a href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=15044001" ><img src="http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/melodya/default/gallery-msg-118722289988.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />...One more minute...One more minute, the beaches Mexico...We're kicking back poolside...or down by the ocean side...(Authority Zero)

This is a pic of me and Sara, Rami and Sammy at the PB Block Party...and WHOA, you guessed it...live music in the sun, in bikinis, dancing...and yes, drunkenness...

I got so drunk and then ate sushi and it was a VERY bad idea...But we started drinking at, oh, 8 A.M.]]></content>
		
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  <entry>
    <title>Well, Americans, what nothing better to do?</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=15043151"/>
    <id>buzznet:user:entry:id:15043151</id>
    <issued>2007--0-8-T15: 1:6:-08:00</issued>
    <modified>2007--0-8-T15: 1:6:-08:00</modified>
    <created>2007--0-8-T15: 1:6:-08:00</created>
    <summary type="application/xhtml+xml"><![CDATA["Why don't you kick yourself out, you're an immigrant too..."
-White Stripes (Icky Thump)
Yeah, the lyrics don't have to go with&#133;]]></summary>
    <author>
      <name>melodya</name>
    </author>
    <content type="application/xhtml+xml" mode="xml" xml:lang="en-us"><![CDATA[<a href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=15043151" ><img src="http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/melodya/default/gallery-msg-118722224553.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />"Why don't you kick yourself out, you're an immigrant too..."

-White Stripes (Icky Thump)

Yeah, the lyrics don't have to go with the picture.  This is me in December 2006 for my friend Brendon's birthday party in Hollywood.

I was still sober here.  AND WHATEVER, I am sober most of the time...but I don't take pictures usually when I am walking around the mall...it is mostly out and about.]]></content>
		
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  <entry>
    <title>Doublefisting...</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=15042581"/>
    <id>buzznet:user:entry:id:15042581</id>
    <issued>2007--0-8-T15: 1:6:-08:00</issued>
    <modified>2007--0-8-T15: 1:6:-08:00</modified>
    <created>2007--0-8-T15: 1:6:-08:00</created>
    <summary type="application/xhtml+xml"><![CDATA[Beer in one hand...alcohol in the other.
One friend of mine said, "So typical Melody right there..."
This is also in Pacific&#133;]]></summary>
    <author>
      <name>melodya</name>
    </author>
    <content type="application/xhtml+xml" mode="xml" xml:lang="en-us"><![CDATA[<a href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=15042581" ><img src="http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/melodya/default/gallery-msg-118722174287.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Beer in one hand...alcohol in the other.

One friend of mine said, "So typical Melody right there..."

This is also in Pacific Beach at Moondoggies.  My old stomping grounds...Now, how do I get back to where I was happy?

Maybe moving back home would be a start.]]></content>
		
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  <entry>
    <title>My girl Sara and me in my beautiful home city...</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=15042361"/>
    <id>buzznet:user:entry:id:15042361</id>
    <issued>2007--0-8-T15: 1:6:-08:00</issued>
    <modified>2007--0-8-T15: 1:6:-08:00</modified>
    <created>2007--0-8-T15: 1:6:-08:00</created>
    <summary type="application/xhtml+xml"><![CDATA[...of SAN DIEGO. This is Pacific Beach boardwalk right in front of the always packed Lahaina's. So many great memories&#133;]]></summary>
    <author>
      <name>melodya</name>
    </author>
    <content type="application/xhtml+xml" mode="xml" xml:lang="en-us"><![CDATA[<a href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=15042361" ><img src="http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/melodya/default/gallery-msg-118722147978.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />...of SAN DIEGO.  This is Pacific Beach boardwalk right in front of the always packed Lahaina's.  So many great memories from a time and mindset far far away...

This was taken last year, however, in March 2006...even back then my world was completely different.

AND this is one of many photos taken from a very drunken photo shoot debacle that ended up with Sara and me in the parking lot in back of PB Bar and Grill doing poses on my old Ford Focus...UMMMMM...

What can I say?  Good times...]]></content>
		
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  <entry>
    <title>"I can see the red tail lights headin' for Spain..."</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=14718701"/>
    <id>buzznet:user:entry:id:14718701</id>
    <issued>2007--0-8-T12: 0:0:-08:00</issued>
    <modified>2007--0-8-T12: 0:0:-08:00</modified>
    <created>2007--0-8-T12: 0:0:-08:00</created>
    <summary type="application/xhtml+xml"><![CDATA[Elton. Love him.
This is me and my friend Sara in September 2003. Daniel and I went to Ibiza, Spain for&#133;]]></summary>
    <author>
      <name>melodya</name>
    </author>
    <content type="application/xhtml+xml" mode="xml" xml:lang="en-us"><![CDATA[<a href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=14718701" ><img src="http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/melodya/default/gallery-msg-118690283582.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Elton.  Love him.

This is me and my friend Sara in September 2003.  Daniel and I went to Ibiza, Spain for the closing parties after tooling around other select places in Europe.  Good times, good company...you can't go to Europe with someone who doesn't want to do the same things you do...you will kill each other.  Anyway, go with someone who appreciates it. Clubs start getting exciting around 3 A.M.  One club, Space, even opens at 6 A.M. you get a bracelet and go in and out...IT IS INSANITY.

This picture was taken my first day there on Bora Bora Beach at the Jet Apartments overlooking the Mediterranean on the Playa Den Bossa.  Drinking sangria, renting out a comfy beach chair, listening to good trance/house music, dancing on the tables at 11 A.M...It is a good time.]]></content>
		
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  <entry>
    <title>This one is for Steve...</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=14717731"/>
    <id>buzznet:user:entry:id:14717731</id>
    <issued>2007--0-8-T12: 0:0:-08:00</issued>
    <modified>2007--0-8-T12: 0:0:-08:00</modified>
    <created>2007--0-8-T12: 0:0:-08:00</created>
    <summary type="application/xhtml+xml"><![CDATA[SEE! Boobies! They are as big as my head. 
When I am with her in public, I never get attention&#133;]]></summary>
    <author>
      <name>melodya</name>
    </author>
    <content type="application/xhtml+xml" mode="xml" xml:lang="en-us"><![CDATA[<a href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=14717731" ><img src="http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/melodya/default/gallery-msg-118690232379.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />SEE!  Boobies!  They are as big as my head.  

When I am with her in public, I never get attention ;-) Which is generally fine by me...]]></content>
		
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  <entry>
    <title>...Cause Seb said so and I bow down to his will...</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=14709571"/>
    <id>buzznet:user:entry:id:14709571</id>
    <issued>2007--0-8-T11: 2:1:-08:00</issued>
    <modified>2007--0-8-T11: 2:1:-08:00</modified>
    <created>2007--0-8-T11: 2:1:-08:00</created>
    <summary type="application/xhtml+xml"><![CDATA[We are getting married after all...
This is my big-boobied friend Karrie and MOI at Les Deux in Hollywood earlier this&#133;]]></summary>
    <author>
      <name>melodya</name>
    </author>
    <content type="application/xhtml+xml" mode="xml" xml:lang="en-us"><![CDATA[<a href="http://melodya.buzznet.com/user/?id=14709571" ><img src="http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/melodya/default/gallery-msg-118689388294.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />We are getting married after all...

This is my big-boobied friend Karrie and MOI at Les Deux in Hollywood earlier this year...

See?  I go out as well...

And the effects?  NO IDEA WHAT THE EFF IS GOING ON THERE...]]></content>
		
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