May 2013
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One thing I love about train travel is the immediacy with which me and the one other single girl traveler waiting around always seem to find each other and agree to be seat buddies within moments. She was with her boyfriend at first but he left, and after he did I asked where she was going. She said Boston, and right away after said, “If you want to sit with me, I don’t know anyone. I...
There is a middle-age couple next to me in the train station. The man is dressed like a frat boy in cargo shorts and a baseball hat, the woman is in a skirt and blazer and manicured nails. She has a blanket over her lap. He went to go get her a cup of coffee from the cart around the corner and told her it was better if she didn’t know where he got it, but he put cream in so that should help. At...
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Never Have I Ever: My Life (So Far) Without a... →
Never Have I Ever: My Life (So Far) Without a Date [Katie Heaney] on Amazon.com. *FREE* super saver shipping on qualifying offers. I would like to tell you about a theory I’ve developed about a certain brand of people I like to call ‘lighthouses.’ Lighthouse people are beacons that call all the cute sailors in ships back to land
I have just discovered that my book is...
“What made my first year of full-time freelancing so happy, besides not ever...”
– Ahhhhh, this post of Emily’s. [Is so good.]
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OK, if insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results then I think best friendship is having the same conversation over and over again — you know the one: like, about YOU, like that conversation that purportedly starts off being about that one little thing but is really about your whole personality and life outlook and past and future, as this other person knows it...
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As if spending upwards of fifteen minutes each morning reading random shit on my phone in my bed weren’t bad enough — and, let’s be honest, that’s a minimum, because on a perfect-bed-temperature morning like this one (which means that it’s a little cold with shorts on) it could be, just as an example, a little over an hour — I have realized that I am doing it with the phone...
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Adulting: Some additional very important secret... →
adulting:
So we already discussed the crab — V.v.V (or, as alert reader penguinperverson put it, an emoticrab)— but here are some more. For science. And productivity. Scientific productivity. \m/ is the devil’s horns, for congratulatory or Satan-summoning purposes.
+/’\ is a cowbell that rings. Because,…
WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!
I guess this is maybe not how it’s supposed to be, but the parts I like best in books about hiking — like Wild and A Walk In The Woods, etc. — are the parts where the hikers get off the trail and into the checkpoint towns and they write everything they eat and drink when they get there and how much money they had before and how much they have after. It’s so soothing! Hike 57 miles, or...
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April 2013
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Normally I think I am really nice and normal to telemarketers and customer service people when I talk to them on the phone, because I think being nice on the phone to strangers doing their jobs is important to do. It only takes a couple minutes, and usually I’m just not that busy. I guess I always think, “Well, maybe this makes it so they have to call one less person today.”...
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It happens maybe two or three times a month that Rylee is out of the house all day (ALL day, ten or twelve hours) on business in rural Wisconsin or whatever, and when she gets home she’ll throw herself dramatically onto the small couch in the living room because I will already be on the big couch, because it is *mine.* And usually it happens because one or both of us is very tired and/or has...
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“I like aliens!” he says. “I think aliens are really cool, because they exist.”...”
– Jaden Smith says aliens are real and that President Obama confirmed it for him (via interweber)
THANK YOU, Jaden Smith, for speaking truth to power
Watchbobbyfinger:
heyveronica:
feferipeixies:
I’M CRYNIG IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THIS FUCKIGN VIDEO BEFORE I PITY YOUR EXISTANCE
^^^
Ugh. I laughed a lot.
Omg
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April has been a bullshit month and so, especially because Rylee is off in Florida texting me pictures of sun and rainbows like a jerk, I decided to go to my parents’ house to visit and complain and have a glass of actually good wine. I turned in my copyedited book today and soon it will be on paper. I was talking about all that with my mom, and that’s when she said she forgot to tell...
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The coffee shop I’ve started working in periodically now that I’ve committed myself to leaving the house at least once in a while is four blocks from my apartment, and that’s probably the only reason I come here instead of anywhere else. The people who work here are mean, like to the point that if you go up to the counter even when are standing there doing nothing they turn to...
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March 2013
22 posts
“The greatest mistake the American writer ever made was asking everybody else...”
– I love Jim Behrle so much. (Although I do think it’s wonderful to have even just one writer you really like to show things to and whose things you are shown. But just one I think, for me — she knows who she is, it’s fine — because otherwise I would become a lunatic and I’d never...
UPDATE RE: HOT CEREAL MIX: The baking mix company in question has responded to my email (two days later!! The suspense!!!) and my favorite hot cereal IS gone-gone and not just out-of-stock-gone, and they said “Items can be discontinued for any number of reasons, including cancellation by the manufacturer, defective stock, inventory changes etc. We are not always able to share these reasons...
Last night I emailed the customer support team of a baking mix company to ask them if my favorite hot cereal mix is GONE-gone or just sold out-gone, and I told them I hoped it was only the latter, and just now I caught myself actually peering through my blinds (a finger separating two rows of them) as first one boy in a cute outfit and, moments later, a second left the section of apartments next...
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WHAT IF I have a picture of me dressed as a queen (but with a 90s Hugh Grant haircut) and standing on my parents’ front step, and in the picture I am 13 but look 8, and what if I wanted to make a Beyoncé BOW DOWN cover just to, you know, belong with everyone on Tumblr, but what if, in theory, I didn’t know how to put … the words … over the picture?
What if before I...
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“All smart women are crazy,” I once told an ex-boyfriend in a heated moment, in...”
– TV’s New Wave of Women - Smart, Strong, Borderline Insane - NYTimes.com (via rachelfershleiser)
This is very, very good.
Today I let a cup’s worth of water boil for a few minutes before pouring it into that cup and setting it into the fridge to let it cool, the way I’ve done a number of times over the past month or two when I’ve wanted to use my Neti Pot because my sinuses hurt. I have boiled my Neti Pot water ever since I read about those two people in Louisiana who died from using infected water in their Neti...
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For the last week and a half when I’ve gone on Facebook I’ve been greeted by an engagement announcement (involving someone I was friends with in, like, my freshman year of college, but from whom I have long since heartily UNSUBSCRIBED) in that mini, upper-righthand news corner, and every time I’ve clicked the little x to the side to get it to disappear. (I mean, the first time I...
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