December 2009
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Romantic Matching Frames →
Zenni Optical has a new feature called “Romantic Matching Frames” where you can buy matching glasses for you and your significant other.
Fuck, now I’ve got to find a boyfriend.
new years eve
I hate New Years Eve. I have always hated New Years Eve. Something about the anticipation unsettles me. I don’t like hype. I’m not that into shiny dresses.
But I do like the idea of New Years Eve. I want to actually like this holiday, but every year it sneaks up on me and leaves me feeling restless and irritated. I still don’t know what I’m doing tonight - I have several...
“The whole hood’s on facebook now. Those guys in your neighborhood who tell...”
– Dawn, who finally joined facebook this past summer
Victoria's Secret gift card:
cara-ann:
No girl will ever be sad you got her it.
This is false. I honestly would be really annoyed.
oh my
Tumblr is always overwhelming when you haven’t paid attention to the internet for a few days.
The solution, particualrly given the next few days, is to continue to not pay attention to the internet.
Yeah, okay. Good.
tonight
1. The Hitching Post Tavern was both good and uncomfortable, as hanging out with people you went to high school with but don’t know that well anymore always is.
1a. When Fowler came in and sat down, he looked around for a minute and then said “this is where my mom met her boyfriend.”
2. I left the Hitching Post after one beer so I could go hang out with Julia.
3. As Julia and...
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Durham
Guys, I am about to go meet some friends from my regional high school at the Hitching Post Saloon.
For some reason I think this is hilarious. This is possibly because I haven’t been to that bar (Durham’s only bar, I believe, that isn’t part of a restaurant (and for the record, there are approximately six restaurants in this town)) since I’ve turned 21.
Gotta keep things...
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facebook
My mother just came into my room to remind me not to put those pictures of my grandma on facebook.
“Some friends of mine were commenting on your photos,” she told me me.”They said they were kind of wild.”
So I just went in and privacy-ed the whole thing up.
I miss the days when facebook was just for college kids and it was okay to have pictures of myself looking...
write-up up-date
Things have been busy. I have been sick: stuffy, scratchy, exhausted.
Sat around with ladies for much of the early part of the week. Sat around with my grandma. Went to the mall twice. Remember when going to the mall was an event you brushed your hair for?
Pictures with Santa. Danny and I wore jeans and the same sweatshirt in different colors. Everyone says we talk and walk the same.
Christmas...
“You don’t have no quietness with that damn thing.”
– my grandpa, on the iPhone
“That thing does a lot of harm.”
– my grandpa, on the internet
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pet peeve
I really hate when small groups of women play the whole “which Sex & the City character would we all be?” game. We’re more complex than that, y’all. And when I whine about it people get all “well, you just don’t like that show” at me. Unfortunately, I do like that show. It can be a little vapid at times, and I’m not totally comfortable with the...
hoitycoity:
When someone tweets serious condolences using internet speak (2=to, 4=for, u=you, etc) it really creeps me out and makes me want to throw my computer out the window.
I really hope this is in reference to this, because it totally creeped me out too.
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French race bike - $100 →
Uh, if this french race bike is small enough I might be all about it. I’ve been wanting a french race bike.
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on farming
“Do you have any friends who farm?” my mother asked me just now in the kitchen.
“Like, who work on a farm?” I replied.
“No, no,” she said, “friends who farm on Farmville.”
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phew
The last few days have been nuts. Nuts.
But at the moment my suitcase is packed. After at 13-hour day yesterday, I feel not-panicked about leaving my office for a week. I wrapped some fudge in foil and put it in my bag. I will eat it on the plane tomorrow, and my seatmate will be jealous.
I have purchased car insurance and looked up train schedules. Paid bills. I will call the dentist tomorrow...
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tuesday
It is Tuesday.
A bird flew into the window earlier. It sat on the ledge for a bit and bobbed. By the time we looked again it flew away. Or fell. We’re on the eighteenth floor.
We throw pens and make jokes.
on watching what I say
me: if your eye is not itchy and a little pussy you don't have pinkeye
ryan: that can NOT be the way that one spells the word for "the state of having puss"
monday morning
It is a sleepy sort of morning.
On the train I sat in front of a tiny child who was counting aloud. Ten plus zero equals ten. His mother told him he was going to see his grandma later. “Step-grandma?” he asked. His mother said no. Real grandma. Said he had three grandmas and that he was lucky.
“I have all the grandmas!” he said.
I am going to see my grandma next week and...
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oh jeez
The Trib profiled our organization for their hoilday giving guide and messed up our name.
Why is it so hard to for people to use apostropes correctly? I mean, yeah, my grammar gets a little worse each year I’m not at school. But I also don’t work at a newspaper.
On a lighter note, we do good things and you should keep us in mind if you’re looking for places to donate this...
photobooth photo essay
So I just tried to use tumblr’s new picture-taker feature. It didn’t work, so I opened up photobooth to see if the camera had to be turned on or something. But anyway, I realized that I only use photobooth in the following instances: haircut, ill, masked, and injured.
I have just gotten a new haircut:
I am sick and my hair looks gross and absurd:
I am wearing a face mask:
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“I love cable, and I love the internet, but I love my money even more.”
– Dawn on the phone to Comcast just now
to ALL women at logan square train station - 23 →
what what
Clearly this dude is talking about me, because I always look my finest at 8:35 in the morning. Trade secret, ladiez: frozen hair and eye crust is really what does it.
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wednesday morning playlist
Lauryn Hill - That Thing
Destiny’s Child - Say My Name
Usher - Nice and Slow
Next - Too Close
Mya/Pras/ODB - Ghetto Superstar
R. Kelly - Greatest Sex
Notorious B.I.G. - Mo’ Money Mo’ Problems
Jay-Z - Hard Knock Life
hipster child
This morning on the train there was a hipster child. He was dressed impeccably: gray skinny jeans, converse, chain wallet, expensive coat with clean lines, messenger bag, shaggy hair. Cellphone in hand. He was probably 10 or 11.
I wanted to take a picture of him, but the train got crowded fast and I’m fully aware that it is sort of creepy and sketchy to take pictures of unaccompianed young...
bad winter habits
It’s starting already. Tonight Ryan and I both talked each other out of trivia night at the Whirlaway. I just straight up skipped the Two With Water release party because I’d have to take both a bus and a train (and you know, put on pants) to get there.
But bad winter habits, or at least my bad winter habits, do not limit themselves to staying indoors. They’re a special brand of...