September 2011
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“You are entitled to food, clothing, shelter and medical attention. Anything else that you get is a privilege.”
I was standing in line at the post office behind a guy who had this on the back of his shirt, and pondered the context on the walk back to Peter’s.
Turns out it’s the first line of the 5th point in the regulations for inmates of Alcatraz.
I linked to the full...
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You can buy some of the things all of the time,...
but you can’t buy all of the things all of the time.
Bank of America put a stop on my debit card, which is my primary sole key to finances (or so I thought, during a wave of panic, until I remembered that going into a bank in person is equivalent to shoving a debit card into an ATM).
The bank received two fraud prevention flags on my account. The first made sense, as I had booked a number...
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This is now a Yelp digest for online shopping.
I got a lot of autumn/winter things out of the way this week.
…which will last me like, the next 15+ autumn/winters!
I never could do that for myself when I left Florida for Virginia, and now I can, which is great, because I frequent the northeast, and it snows here in Austin.
So this is a big deal, crawling out from this rock and getting to travel, take care of my teeth, and...
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My dentist and her assistant were in more pain
than I was because I opted not to have any novocaine for a major minor procedure (borderline major procedure, basically), and their sympathetic/imagined pain was off the charts.
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Dentist: Are you ok?
Me [with a mouth full of hands and tools]: muh huh!
Assistant: …Still ok?
Me: heh… myup!
Assistant: Oof. Hanging in there?
Me (slight sarcastic chuckle) uh huh…
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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our...”
– Isaac Asimov (via jacobjoaquin)
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“When you watch Torchwood there is a warning at the very beginning that some...”
– John Barrowman (via childhoodgames)
Can’t wait for that world where (the idea or film portrayal of) violence isn’t sexy and sex isn’t violent.
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Out of curiosity, I married two favorites last...
Jeni’s Salty Caramel ice cream + Utz Dark Russet chips.
It was frighteningly wonderful.
Had I not intentionally left the ingredients at Marcie and Jerry’s place, I would’ve made that my breakfast.
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Moving is awesome.
I’m excited for Brittany: She’s moving to San Francisco in a day.
She’s asleep on my couch because her bed is gone and she accidentally packed and shipped the pump for her air mattress. She did the right thing: it allowed for this surprise situation to occur.
I’ll miss her a lot. She’s fun, I love doing her hair, and she’s the only work-from-wherever friend I...
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At last night's skee-ball match, Jerry got all 9...
His teammate: THAT'S MY TEAMMATE!
Me: That's my high school friend!
Marcie: I... share a bed with that guy!
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A bunch of separate conversations.
Mom: When I was pregnant with Jason (1979), I cracked a molar and the dentist told me they could drill and fill in order to put off a crown for a few years. It wasn't until last year that I finally needed to get that tooth crowned. Just do the drilling / filling thing and hold off.
Dad: If you were given a choice to crown the tooth or do some temporary, lower-priced thing to put off getting a crown, get the crown while you have insurance. You will NEVER have a problem with that tooth again.
Dentist friend: I don't even understand why they're telling you that you need a crown, but offering that a drilling and filling will take care of the issue, too.
Me, to dentist friend: I broke a cusp.
Dentist friend: Oh. That changes everything. I thought you just lost a filling. Get it crowned now.
Girl who is interested in a piece of furniture I've been trying to get out of my home: Is $500 good? I can pick it up this week.
Me to the world: Crown it is.
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This keeps cracking me up.
Character in a dream: Did you meet Awful Steve?
Me: Yeah. He's an asshole.
