January 2012
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mrsmaria2b answered your question: Is this real life?
That’s an awesome itinerary! Plan ahead for London because of the Olympic Games though. There’s a boat from Dublin, but lodging may be hard!
It’s aiming high! [Defeated grumble…] I just became aware of the London Olympics this week. London will probably get skipped, maybe for Brussels or Erfurt. Looking at it from here,...
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How to start ALL of the rumors.
Friend: I want to have a baby just so I don't have to go to happy hour.
Me: Best text ever. Just lie and say there's a baby baking. Hell. Say you're carrying mine for me. Blame it all on me.
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Is this real life?
First thing this morning, my boss sent an email to tell me I don’t have to be in the office if I don’t want to between now and an important meeting in February. This after last week when he said, “you know, you don’t always have to come in every week unless something big’s happening.”
When I told him I like to pop in and show everyone I’m alive, like a...
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Best storm right now.
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I can't yet tell
whether I’m bummed or relieved that the doubling spike in outbound flight prices from Austin in mid-to-late March (damn you / thank you, SXSW) may keep me grounded and passing on two 90th birthdays and a wedding where I’m friends with both halves of the couple.
There’s a fine line between excited and overwhelmed in my world.
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erina replied to your photo: These are on their way to me. Leather upper,…
i’ve also been looking for “plain classic style” shoes for work. where have you been looking?
THE INTERNET! Etsy is great for vintage and unworn deadstock shoes (good search terms there include “deadstock,” “made in Italy,” “made in Spain”). So many...
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Let the meat cake!
shitmystudentswrite:
Mary Antwinet is famous for saying “let the meat cake.” She was a leader of the French revelation. She was very popular and fashionable until she died from guilty.
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I’m glad somebody did this (Coldplay’s...
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bringonthetragedy replied to your video: “Calm Americans” - Elliott.
Love this record.
I used to / want to be in a band like this. On drums or piano.
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“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping...”
– Leonard Cohen
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terminaleight replied to your post: pww answered your question: ? how goes the…
Your post reminded me that I needed to get caught up on the lessons!
Ha! Peter’s question about my progress reminded me to do the same (I had taken a few days away from it)! Except for me, “catching up” = starting from scratch again. Better at this point than any further along.
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liannakristine replied to your post: pww answered your question: ? how goes the…
I’m working through the exercises again too— I’ve found things change pretty quickly after leaving feedback when a hint doesn’t really help at all, which is awesome! Worth trying if you’re stuck.
Thank you, that is really helpful (re: leaving feedback). I hit a point where hints weren’t...
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how goes the programming?
In regards to CodeAcademy: According to my account, I am on my 5th of 8 lessons of the first course and have completed 31 of 42 exercises. I have gone back and repeated the last few lessons a few times because I am stuck and have not yet picked up on what it is I’m not catching. I may start completely over rather than limp along...
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chocolatecoveredsundries replied to your post: ?
What have you been up to this weekend?
In no particular order (and as briefly as I can after a long-winded post): I’m just about over being sick, finally had “Christmas morning” with Marcie and Jerry (we did gifts, dinner and dessert), started working on those shoes, had brunch with Taylor, and got your letter in the mail! It...
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archives asked: Tell me about Richmond! VCU is looking like a top candidate for me to transfer to (top rated art school within a public u. has a fibers program) and Richmond seems like a nice place to spend the rest of my undergraduate. It seems cheap? Talked to a teacher that grew up there and he told me it was "sleepy" but every place is sleepy compared to Chicago except forNew York. I don't mind...
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Video chat.
Peter: What if I developed a hygiene fetish?
Me: [brushing my teeth, laughing] ish dat eeben poshuhbow?
Peter: Yeah. Like, "brush your teeth, you clean, clean girl."
Me: [rebutting with a creepy, foamy-mouthed grin]
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Untraveling.
Pro: Peter booked LGA -> AUS!
Con: It coincides with his Bjork tickets.
Pro: Southwest doesn’t charge fees to change flights.
Con: It doesn’t really work out well to change the dates.
Pro: It’s awesome that he had a window of time free from studio projects to come my way so I could stay still and be home awhile.
Con: That said, I hope he doesn’t have a difficult...
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On education.
tigerfist:
“Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.”
— Huey P Newton (via thisbeautifulwound)
I especially hope my tween and teen followers read below:
Dear human beings of the first world, you face endless daily pressures to be and do and...
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“OFTEN
Incorrect pronunciation: off – ten
Correct pronunciation: off – en
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– 10 Words You Mispronounce That Make People Think You’re an Idiot | Primer
You will pry the t out of my cold, dead hands. And take it up with M-W.
(via rickwebb)
This is a word that I pronounced correctly as a child and into my teens and then got peer-pressured into saying off-ten because THE...
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“No. Ubiquitously and definitively no. Marriage is marriage. No other thing is...”
– drink your juice.
There were too many quotable lines so I quoted ALL OF THE LINES.
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Man.
I knocked on my newish neighbors’ door. They are loud; they moved in when I was out of town, a few out-of-townings ago. I’d knocked before, actually. Two months ago, at this point. It went unheard because of just how loud the loud was.
They are definitely breaking the rules of our landlord’s lease with the kinds of loud they are (amplifiers are involved), and something has...
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“Be careful not to employ magical thinking when it comes to mean people who other...”
– Adulting: Step 138: You are not the Mean-Cat Whisperer
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SXSW is coming up!
I am considering skipping town for a big chunk of March, especially since there are two 90th birthdays and a wedding I aim to attend that month.
Do you (or would someone you know) want to take my Austin apartment for the month of March? Or part of March?
Bonus if you have a lead on a place to crash in London and or Dublin (or northwestish of Dublin) around late July / August.
Drop a line to my...
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