February 2012
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The Husband and I walked past a building today, and the enormous sign on the wall announced that inside there were “Jade 8” condos.
Um…clearly this is just Jdate branching out in a weird, semi-secret way, right?
super sad true stories
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Yesterday, I told myself I was going to go to the gym, so of course instead I went to the IFC to watch the Oscar-nominated short docs, which is the the discomfort equivalent of maybe 17 consecutive hours on the treadmill? 117? Somewhere between 17 and 117 hours on the treadmill. We start off with pictures of Iraqi civillians blown to pieces by US helicopters! So many high-res...
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One of my co-workers just gave me a cupcake for my birthday, which is obviously the best, and also maybe the most exciting work-related birthday-thing that has happened to me?
But, more importantly, the note reads:
Happy (belated) birthday, old hag! With any luck we’ll all be dead soon!
Is there any clearer indication that I’m working in exactly the right place?
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I think I have an ear infection.
To add insult to injury (or, to illness?), I googled the symptoms, and realized that I was doing many of the things people with ear infections often do…tugging on them, rubbing them to try to relieve the pressure, etc…but! The people who do these things? Children. And babies.
I am apparently handling this the way people who have yet to acquire...
Twenty-seven
I turn 27 today, and, despite being very much on the record as loving birthdays and feeling they are Very Important, most of this year’s birthday-related thoughts are along the lines of trying to figure out what’s special/interesting about being 27.*
Yes, 27 is a cube, which is nice, but the math section of my brain is so atrophied at this point that it barely means anything to...
I was on the train just now with a girl I was sure was my freshman roommate. Like, it took maybe twenty or thirty seconds of pretty blatant staring before I decided that no, she was just another pretty blonde with a Mean Girls-esque vibe.
I felt pretty relieved, because I wasn’t ready for that particular impromptu reunion, but later, I couldn’t decide what was more unnerving:
the...
Terrible, Ironic Update!
Now *my* tumblr is blocked for “personals and dating” content!
Damn, you, Dickens!
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Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday is next Tuesday, so I’m hunting around, trying to find something to do with my students to “celebrate”…
PBS has a link to Dickens’ journal, which could conceivably be interesting, but I may never know, because my school has blocked the website.
The reason?
“Content Analysis Category:’Personals and...
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So, I'm "writing" a YA novel about a 16 year old...
The scare quotes aren’t meant to be self-deprecating so much as they’re meant to be accurate…I’m averaging maybe 8 pages a month, which means it should be finished by approximately…never. But! I think I figured out what my problem was: not my hazy-at-best sense of the plot, or my crippling lack of imagination, but my lack of the right musical accompaniment! Anyway:...