January 2009
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New Years Plans
Watching ND Basketball at 8 and getting my shit together for a job interview on Friday. I am super cool.
New Years is an overpriced letdown anyway. (So says I.)
And, it’d be nice if this job thing works out.
December 2008
124 posts
Note to self...
Don’t shut out the world. Because when you have to face it again, it hits you full force.
And that suucks.
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Write a post telling your readers SEVEN things about yourself they are not very likely to know about you! (via, well, lots of people, but most directly here)
1. I am 5’10, and the “short kid” in my family. Even my little sister is now 6ft, making me the only sibling under said height. (My brothers are about 6’2ish and 6’4ish respectively.)
2. I usually read magazines back to front. If there’s...
My least favorite question
theengineer:
Where are you from?
It seems innocuous enough, right? Except when you have crazy parents who move every few years for some indiscernible reason. And when you are a person who somehow (read: because of a thorough discussion of lying in 4th grade CCD class) arrived at the decision that omitting any part of a story is a lie and therefore sinful, so you always feel compelled to give...
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“Instead, they tap the same vein of wistful, pensive melancholia that has found...”
– I was looking at one of those “Best Albums of 2008” lists and this is the actual part of an album review that made me go, “Hmm, I will have to check that one out later, that sounds great.”
Holy crap, what is wrong with me and my depressing music tastes?! I think I need to go...
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“But this was Sunday—the lovely, lazy perspective of the next twenty-four hours...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Crazy Sunday
Gnarls Barkley - Going On
The touch and feeling...
Mom: I can't believe your brother is still asleep. You don't think he's dead or something?
Me: He is not dead!
Mom: Just yesterday he was making fun of everyone for sleeping in. He can't still be asleep. Go check on him.
Me: To see if he's dead?
Mom: Yeah.
Me: So what if he is dead? You want me to be the one to find him? You'll live with that?
Mom: Yes. Go check on him.
(He was not dead)
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“…whenever I’m stuck on a design I remove the thing I like the most and...”
– Murder Your Darlings | The Ministry of Type
Applying advice from this article on writing by James Patrick Kelly to the design process. While it somewhat boils down to old advice (Don’t fall in love with your first idea) this is certainly something I need to remind myself constantly, and...
“Big Girls Don’t Cry” was just on the radio, and it took me until they identified the song to remember who sang it, and I realized that I had completely forgotten about Fergie. Wiped her existence from my mind.
It was a beautiful moment. However fleeting.
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Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Mel Torme
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“That’s not a unicorn, it’s a horse with a sword on his head and...”
– Scrubs
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“I have a secret to tell
from my electrical well
It’s a simple message...”
– This song is in my head. I have no idea why.
(Not to put too fine a point on it. Say I’m the only bee in your bonnet…)
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“I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via affremblequotes)
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Blizzard Warning.
Okay, who are the assholes who wished for a White Christmas? I want names, I’m coming after you if I ever manage to dig myself out.
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