January 2011
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“i could stay online and listen to your self-deprecating dribble, but i must put on something silk and gorgeous ;)”
imagine you were dying tomorrow.
How is it possible, knowing that this is your last day to live, to enjoy it to the fullest? How can you live in the moment if you can’t help but spend that moment thinking you’re going to die tomorrow?
It’s like Dostoevsky and the white bear. The only solution to that is to allow yourself to be redirected by some other stimulus. But if...
December 2010
32 posts
i dreamed in Sign again. happy birthday to me.
Day 4 - Favorite Book of your Favorite Series
Gotta be Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. A book with nearly no plot to govern it, it’s more like a series of connected vignettes about life at Hogwarts. It’s the really exciting turning point of the whole series arc and plus there are harry/ginny makeouts.
today’s job application:
Inclusion specialist in Boston.
Family are so annoying, I gotta get out of this town. The problem is, how do I find housing for only 6 months in B-town?
Days 2 and 3
Book you’ve read more than 3 times: Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes. My copy is even signed!
Favorite Series: I didn’t want to put Harry Potter, but it’s really the only series I still read. I read it for escapism, I think. When I get really depressed I go for books 6 and 7.
because
there is nothing to break my fall for you.
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Day 1 - Best book you read last year
Because it’s nearly 2011, I’m going to say 2010 is “last year.”
That makes my best book submission:
Bonobo Handshake by Vanessa Woods.
It was a truly incredible memoir—touching, informative, and in Will Hunting’s parlance, “it blows your hair back.” Add to that the charm of the fact that the title is a thinly veiled reference to bestiality,...
Oh god I'm really doing this. →
waltorr:
Maybe I’ll actually finish this one.
Day 01 - Best book you read last year
Day 02 - A book that you’ve read more than 3 times
Day 03 - Your favorite series
Day 04 - Favorite book of your favorite series
Day 05 - A book that makes you happy
Day 06 - A book that makes you sad
Day 07 - Most…
hello there stray blond hair! what are you doing stuck to my blanket?
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Watchholy shit yes.
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How the grinch stole catholicism
My friend and I spent a good hour tonight writing out our complaints against catholicism in verse that might read well in a dr. seuss book. Here’s my favorite submission, for which I’m sure I’m going to hell:
“Next,” said the aide, who was just being glib
“What should we do about this ‘women’s lib’?
How best to serve those who stole...
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I like my body when it is with your body
While I’m in the mood for translating English poetry into weird languages, here’s E.E.Cummings’ “I like my body when it is with your body” in Russian:
мне нравится моё тело когда это с твоим
телом. это такая новая вещь.
мышцы лучше и нервы болшье.
мне нравится твоё тело. мне нравится то, что это делать
Мне нравится его каки. Люблю чувствовать позвоночник...
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The Tollund Man
How much of a geek am I?
Once, I translated Seamus Heaney’s “The Tollund Man” into Anglo-Saxon for a final project.
I think it was bad enough that it dropped my final grade from an A- to a B, but whatever. It’s an exercise in geekery more than anything.
Anyway, in discussing my A-S class with a friend, I went through my hard drive and found this gem of 2006.
The...
“Afterward I went to bed and when they were all asleep and she was sure they...”
– A Farewell to Arms
"Don't go changin'!"
“Your face is like a mirror.”
“What?”
“You look happy.”
today’s job application: special ed teacher.
is this real life?
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The princess and the seven suitors
Everything with you is subtext.
Strictly a whiskey girl, you pour only that which is opaque. You drop seven ice cubes and I put my head in the freezer, but can’t manage to sever my neck and become the eighth.
If I had my way, I would give you seven mint leaves for juleps and a pestle so that you could grind them to release the oils and throw them out the window. They would sprinkle to...
OH, fuck off.
Don’t ever ever ever ever tell me you don’t understand how you got yourself into this position. Jesus christ.
"You Left..."
It’s nice to be validated like that. Thank you!
Not just because I get to be right and… maybe say “I told you so!” to one or two select people. Look, having to be right about everything, my whole “Facts over feelings!” campaign is, according to my therapist ex-boss, my biggest problem both professionally and personally. So it’s nice to be validated in the...