May 2012
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“Do your skinny jeans fit? Is your skin glowing? Are you retaining water? I...”
– Fallen Princess: Please Stop Talking About Your Diet
Yes. Yes YES. and a Million TIMES YES.
Please read the entire thing. She nails it.
NOTE: For me, this is not about what people write on their own blogs about what is important to them and personal, because I’m fine with that, I don’t have to...
April 2012
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archives replied to your post: How long are you gonna be in New York for?
SWEET! I’m gonna come up.
Awesome, will you be in town overlapping the birthday celebrations? Otherwise, plenty of time to hang throughout the month!
balltillifall asked: How long are you gonna be in New York for?
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These are the last few days of my 20s. I am also...
Ask me things about life as a person who is almost 30. Or about life as a person who is about to fly somewhere.
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namssorg replied to your post: I sold my bike today!
What else have you got? :)
Two functionally-/behaviorally-unpredictable MacBooks from 2006 aaaaannnd some furniture and home items that I’m on the fence about selling vs storage. I figure over time you’ve seen pictures here and on FB, so if you’re eyeing something specific, let me know.
The MacBooks...
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gompr replied to your post: I sold my bike today!
You have an RX8? I am jealous. If I didn’t already have a car, I would probably buy it from you.
I know not whether you’re amidst financing your current vehicle or if it’s all yours but like, it wouldn’t be a lot* for the RX8, and the engine is under 10k miles new, replaced under warranty. I have all of the paperwork / history...
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I sold my bike today!
Next biggest thing will be the RX8. Blerg.
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Dear Diary.
[[MORE]]My friend Shannon is in town from Richmond, expanding her yoga instruction credentials in a 30-hour program that her trainer happened to be hosting at a studio in town. She’s known me since I was 17, through my brother and his business partner (who is now her husband), and I lived with her while getting on my feet my first month in Richmond.
Shannon’s six years my senior and...
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zombiecuddle:
I am really optimistic about the future of sexual misconduct policy at Yale. Which is a very surprising thing to realize.
I’ve been giving this a lot of thought recently. Today I went to an end-of-year breakfast for student consent educators, and a workshop where I evaluated a prospective employee of the campus rape crisis center. I’ve been working in health education and sexual...
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“Statistically, the most dangerous roads are those in town where the speed limit...”
– Jeremy Clarkson answer for “distracted driving” (via topgear)
He’s joking, but I attribute a large part of my never having caused an accident (been rear-ended sitting at a stoplight twice) to three main factors:
I drive fast. I always have. I don’t drive overly-aggressively or dangerously (what I...
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marcusshrock replied to your photo: My dad [taking a Google street view tour]: Is that…
wait, what? His sister was on the other end of the call? That is crazy.
Yeah! I told him to write the story down and he said, “I don’t need to write it down, I’ll remember it.” I meant write it down for me, obviously. Phone lines were a little different back then, I think...
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I'm repeatedly irked when my laptop screen doesn't...
I’m repeatedly irked when my laptop screen doesn’t respond to touch.
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“For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in...”
– —President Obama in North Carolina today on why Congress has to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling (via barackobama)
In the first half of my 20s, I often found myself cornered by friends asking why I’m not going to school. In the last half of my 20s, I found myself...
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wordharbor replied to your quote: Why are you so nonchalant about things?
Why is everyone else so chalant about things?
My hunch is it’s a mix of projections and unrealistic expectations. My mom, for example, speaks not in terms of who her daughter is or what her daughter does so much as in terms of who her daughter’s boyfriend is and what he does.
I am of little value in a...
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themattsmith replied to your quote: Why are you so nonchalant about things?
You do come across as remarkably even-keeled.
If you were to ask Peter or my landlords, I’m losing my shit (over trivial things, mind you), but regarding the shortening of a long-distance relationship, which is what all received “so nonchalant” remarks have been regarding:
Statistically, the odds are...
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“Why are you so nonchalant about things?”
– Half of everyone I know, all month… and my mother, literally.
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Packing for a month-long trip.
Lofty goals for springtime in New York: Two black dresses, two tank tops, two tees, one sweater, one skirt, jeans and a jacket.
I still have a week to complicate this.
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watchingithappen replied to your chat: I’m starting a war.
you are right. I just moved last month and spent the month previous looking for a place. Austin is 100% leased with 98% occupancy rates. Space is valuable, not people.
I believe it. And that whole space > people thing is inevitable in highly-populated areas; I get that they’re a business. It just sucks to be treated like...
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“I totally understand the economic system’s need to pump out an endless supply of...”
– The Coquette: The 13 Most Useless College Majors (As Determined By Science)
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tulipsandtea replied to your chat: I’m starting a war.
Good god. Your landlord is impossible.
I think she secretly hates me for complaining to her that the “landscapers” mowed over my entire freshly-planted garden last spring. They have butchered my garden a number of times since, so I took on an abandoning IDGAF attitude towards it, which is sad because I like having...
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I'm starting a war.
Landlord: Leasing activity seems to slow down come the fall so we’d prefer a move-out no later than July 31st so a new tenant could move in in August and not September [on and on and on].
Me: Hi [name], The statistics are all over the place that about 200 people are moving to Austin per day. I don’t believe you will have any trouble filling my space regardless of when it becomes free [on and on and on].
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kienan replied to your post: It’s a very Jerry Springer Monday.
Thought the title said, “It’s a very Jerry Seinfeld Monday”. Sounds like much more fun than crazy Craigslist people.
If only.
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It's a very Jerry Springer Monday.
Had to threaten to call police on a Craigslister who is REALLY ANGRY that something (a bike rack for a car!) sold.
From midnight until 9 in the morning I had 5 texts and 2 missed calls from him, and decided that was creepy as shit and responded / sold it to someone else.
Me: Stop contacting me, it has sold.
Him: You are rude and dishonest and liar!
Me: Stop contacting me or I will call the...
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So much evidence that my landlords are buttheads.
Me: Hi, [name], I'm curious if I can extend my lease or go month-to-month for a couple months after June 31. [Further elaborations of the point/request].
Landlord: We'd be okay giving you an extra month to decide. Your lease automatically renews on a month-to-month basis until either party provides written notice of termination to the other party [further elaborations, a side note that the rent will be hiked up by $200 for those two months, bla bla bla]. We don't allow a tenant to go much longer than a month or two without signing a lease.
Me: Hi, [name], May I have the option to do July 1 until August 31 at max on month-to-month, and give notice accordingly?
Landlord: So many possibilities! It's exciting not knowing and wondering how it all will unfold. Please keep us posted as to your plans for departure or not.
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kienan replied to your photo: Listing my bike, some bike accessories, my car,…
Give me that rollie table. How much?
The Lineberry cart is one of the tables I want to keep…!
But who knows, as I liquidate more and more things I may get comfortable with the idea of liquidating everything… I’ll keep you posted.
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“Why is it nearly impossible for women, even journalists, to talk about other...”
– Erin Gibson, “Pretty Funny (Minus the Funny)” (via drinkyourjuice)
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“Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men...”
– Ashley Judd in the Daily Beast Where She Slaps Media in the Face
This gives me hope that at some point, I won’t have to deal with this on a daily basis. Thank you, Ashley Judd.
(via undoneattheseams)
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themattsmith replied to your post: I’ve actually put something together with that same pairing you mentioned but I think I’ll go back and make a full version with just New Slang and Somebody That I Used to Know :)
New Slang’s chord progression is a little too busy to fit
While I absolutely trust your judgment in this, I’m stubborn; I’m still curious to see what can be done. I just...
djbahler asked: I've actually put something together with that same pairing you mentioned but I think I'll go back and make a full version with just New Slang and Somebody That I Used to Know :)
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Just throwing this out into the universe.
A mashup of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” with The Shins’ “New Slang”.
Because my ears.
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Developer: I have a fun project for you. I think...?
Me: Yeah?
Developer: It's in the realm of UI/UX stuff.
Me: Yessss....
Developer: All the pieces of our site have sort of been patched together by different people over the years with no cohesive syntax or order.
Me [with sarcasm, since my interview proposal project had to do with tackling this issue]: I couldnt tell!
Developer: And we need a style guide, badly.
Me: Fun.
Developer: Greuling, I know.
Me: No, really, I meant fun!
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On making light.
Me: If I move there, can we have a project... brainstorm a thing that we have together aside from, you know, our separate lives happening together in the same place?
Peter: In what way? We could start a band, be a power duo... or I could make inventions, you write the instructions... things like that?
Me: Yes, exactly that.
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