January 2010
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Octopus Blind Date
The Seattle Aquarium has a Valentines Day event called Octopus Blind Date where they put up paper hearts and mood music and put two octopi in a tank together and hope they do it.
Witness what happens when sixteen arms, six hearts (three hearts each) and two giant Pacific octopuses meet on Valentine’s Day. Aquarium biologists set the mood with decorative hearts, roses and romantic music at...
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thursday
I am more interested in vintage dishware than in mailing various things or ordering colored paper for legal files or trying to figure out a way to convince this one volunteer that she’s supposed to use laptop 5 and not laptop 10. Clearly.
So I’m just going to listen to this song on repeat and ramble about nothing to you all on the internet. I’ll work on this timeline project...
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Help Yourself - Sad Brad Smith
wednesday evening
roasted red pepper, potato, and basil soup
grilled cheddar sandwiches
records
laundry
the State of the Union
beers with Nathan & Kristen
apple beer cake
Feeling pretty good about this agenda.
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“Oh yeah, everyone was talking about that this morning, and about how it was...”
– Dawn on the iPad.
I can’t say I’m that impressed. I’ve got an iPhone and a Macbook and can’t imagine what I would with this thing other than drop it and break it.
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on porch sitting
1/23 - first beers on the porch of 2k10.
I don’t know what the fixation with drinking beers on the porch is, but it’s important. It was warm out tonight, and why hang out in the kitchen. Alisha lives by the highway and it is noisy even late into the evening. Morning. Whatever. Forty-four degrees.
Walking back there we talked about our old house in Wisconsin and how nothing quite...
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saturday night
What I’m doing with my evening: getting dressed, going to Orion’s birthday party, probably biking down to the Barbara & Barbara opening, maybe going to the Hideout dance party, possibly just doing something a little quieter later on.
The highly unrealistic thing I want to be doing with my evening: sitting on the porch drinking beers with all of my friends, maybe having a fire in...
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"You can get me on mobileme. That's on the web."
Just got off the phone with an older man who just got his first computer. It’s an Apple, or as he calls it, a “snow lepoard.” It has a “wireless situation.” He “doesn’t know how to work this shit at all,” but “everyone’s going to start twittering once [he] tells them to.”
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Lilith Fair →
So, uh, Lilith Fair is happening this summer?
I really wanted to go to that in 1998.
(ht sean’s twitter)
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problem
Group health plans maintained by employers with 20 or more employees on more than 50% of their typical business days in the previous calendar year are subject to COBRA. Both full- and part-time employees are counted to determine whether a plan is subject to COBRA. Each part-time employee counts as a fraction of an employee, with the fraction equal to the number of hours that the part-time employee...
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on watching what I say
Almost a year ago I remember having a vague discussion with a guy I was dating about meeting his mother. “She wouldn’t get you,” he said.
He explained, a little, but I already knew what he meant. I’m twenty-four years old and I’m still not good with “grown-ups.” Or, I don’t know. That’s not it, even. I’m not immature. It is just...
Apple Touchscreens a Touchy Issue →
Ed: your phone is made of dead chinese people
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No "Excessive Photography" on the CTA - Chicagoist →
Does this mean I’m going to have to stop awkwardly snapping pictures of rude people on the train so I can put them on this blog and make fun of them?
Shit.
world's greatest secretary
I have lost basically all patience with my job. I do not work at a non-profit law office, I work in a zoo. Results of this frustration include
Taping a sign to the kitchen sink that read “If you do not put your dishes in the dishwasher, your arms will be removed from your body”
Sending out an email just now announcing new legal server training and threatening to “chase...
Baby Teeth - Looking for a Road
interactive seasonal ingredient map! →
This is pretty cool. It would be cooler if I lived somewhere that could grow things in winter, but it’s still pretty cool.
(via hulkhand)
SBC is still going on. I think this means success....
Yeah.
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“Don’t tumbl how terrible you feel— it’ll make you feel worse.”
– text from Rufus
SBC
It is like the BSC (Baby Sitters Club, duh) in wrong order.
Anyway the point of this post is to figure out who else is attending the Sunday Brunch Club this weekend.
So yeah. Are you in?
things on my mind in no particular order
I don’t have a lot to say lately. Things are good, but that flat midwinter feeling has crept under my skin and is hanging out. I don’t know how to get rid of it. So far ideas include a long bike ride and a day trip to go thrift store shopping in Indiana this weekend.
I’ve been thinking, too, about my “social life.” Plans and calendars and spontaneity. People and...
it is 38 degrees out
Can I go home and go for a bike ride now, please?
wednesday morning
A man who rents office space from us just asked me how to use the “email machine.”
All I am thinking about right now is breakfast sandwiches and organizing my external hard drive.
Leaving me a voicemail is the least effective way of getting ahold of me. I check my voicemail approximately never.
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tuesday
Tonight we went to trivia at the Whirlaway and did not win. After we talked about sports and apartments and which movies to watch. After that we talked about how things are and feelings and details. Lots of details. And after that I rode my bike home and thought about talking about feelings and got that sharp and half-hungry and uncomfortable feeling in the bottom of my stomach. This was less...
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on brunch & tumblr meet-ups
I’m not into reblogging to have conversations, so here are further thoughts on brunch.
Rebekah: Yes, Sunday Breakfast Club! Bloody Marys and pretty central location make it a good spot.
Monica: Don’t knock bloody marys by calling them “alcohol soup.” Alcohol and soup are two of my favorite foods, and bloody marys are pretty much the best.
Chicago Tumblrs: Brunch meet-up...
bottomless mimosas & bloody marys for seven... →
Apparently this place is new. Wicker Park. The menu looks okay, too. I’m so there.
Dear Diary,
I had a really nice weekend!
On Friday night I went sledding with a boy, and then we played bananagrams with pears. I didn’t even know that game existed! And then on Saturday I rode my bike the bowling alley and drank beers with my friend Zoe who was in town from California. Gosh, Diary, it was so nice to see her!
On Saturday night I listened to some jams with my roommates and then went to...
Lieberman Tanks →
liesandstatistics:
Joe Lieberman (I-CT) has a lower approval rating among Democrats in Connecticut than Pres. Obama has among Republicans there. Wow.
As a Connecticutian I am first to admit shame. So much shame.
(But I’ll also defend myself and say I never voted for him).
