February 2010
42 posts
I haven't felt specifically like this in probably...
The feeling of smiling without it reaching my eyes, doing things well and walking away before praise, the act of daily motions without desire or passion or real willingness powering it. I was shortchanged in my childhood, growing up with a drug-addict brother meant that I never had to go through a teenage-rebellion, all I ever had to do was go without saying a word and rarely did anybody notice me...
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We used to have a saying in photo classes about...
If you can’t make it good, make it big. If you can’t make it big, make it red. If you can’t make it red, make it nude. If you can’t make it nude, make it a photogravure.
Well, we’d say that or: Stick it on your fridge. Which was employed when somebody kept defending something boring. It hurt to hear but it was a way of saying to those people, “It’s nice...
January 2010
38 posts
What do you do when you don't like who your...
“The bdelloid rotifer, a tiny invertebrate, hasn’t had sex for 30 million...”
– Excuse me NPR, it’s only been 5 months.
Update! Omg, it’s only been 3 months! Guess who just worked her second 11 hour workday in a row soon to be succeeded by being at work at 6am?
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I know this is tmi
BUT I HAVE A STAFF INFECTION IN MY EAR.
IN. MY. EAR.
Dear Red Wine and Dark Chocolate Covered Ginger,
Thank you.
From the bottom of my cold, empty heart,
M
You guys, I watched Oprah today
She kept saying about Food, Inc. that this was JUST HER OPINION and that the audience SHOULD MAKE THEIR OWN. I wanted some ghetto Oprah to come out and say, “Look bitches, you been leeching off me fer years. Now stop.”
This is the shit I do on my day off, don’t judge me.
Something epic has changed in my life
But without sharing it with the person who understands, it feels like nothing has happened.
This afternoon I got a text message saying "OMG we...
Followed by “We’d turn around but we’re already halfway there.”
Followed by “Sry grl”
Let me know how Girls is tonight, then, I guess. Guh.
Things
I just posted a “Missed Thanks” in the MC section of Craigslist. Reality is, I will continue to go into my favorite coffeeshop everyday until he’s working again and insist on thanking him for the coffee. Not just because it’s damn good coffee or because I really, really needed it then but because he made me blush and his smile made me melt. And made me punch my gay husband...
Painted my nails tonight
And I’m pretty sure that I may have crossed over from hot-pink-ironic-Barbie color into uhhh-this-is-awkward-is-she-really-a-hooker color.
And you know what? I’m okay with this!
blah blah blah blah being twentyfive is sooooo...
I spent half the day at work with my head on the...
File this under: Days I Wish The Office Is Not In The Boss’s House And Her Teenaged Children Are Home Driving Me Crazy And Shouldn’t I Get Holiday Pay For Days When I Have To Take An Ativan At Noon?
You know how sometimes your laughter turns into...
You know how sometimes you just skip the laughter part?
The only cousin I was even remotely friends with...
Her first child she found out she was pregnant and decided to move to Texas so she didn’t have to tell her parents, until, you know, she was like a day away from labor. Cause your parents can’t see you through the phone. She named that child Ceci (seh-see). Jesus Christ.
Her second child (with a different baby-daddy, getting married because, you know, we do things traditionally in our...
I decided to give up last night and go to bed at...
And then I slept for twelve hours.
This is all normal, right?
I love you. Why weren't you there?
Tonight I was packing up the market and it started...
As I stood, my bangs getting wet and my glasses getting splotchy, a stranger ran up to me and exclaimed, “Did you know it was raining?!”.
Thanks for the clarification, sir. I thought it was just my tears getting out of control.
“And I don’t even eat bacon. But I do eat absurdism.”
– Me, duh.
Some days are slow on the farm
So today, first I read the NYT online and then later in the day when my boss came back from lunch and bank errands, I read the print edition of the NYT.
Alright, alright, I lie, I also walked around the farm, talked in Spanish, attempted French, called the Amish, talked to Virginian farmers, maybe scored a new land lease, heckled the horse for not liking carrots, coordinated two filming shoots...
Did I ever tell you about that English class I...
I laughed so hard in class at the sorority girls who put “weave” (gun get my hair did and then go get a tan) and “that one Louis Vuitton handbag” and “nose-job” on their vision board. I laughed so hard that I started crying. I laughed so hard that I got kicked out of class.
Did I mention this was my last year of college?
Jesus, I really need to upload those...
“Did you hear that Ed Hardy is coming out with a new line of trash bags? His...”
– Neil Hamburger, last night’s free show.
The crowd stayed quiet for a moment after this until they seemed to collectively realize that “His customers” was not just the beginning of the sentence, it was the punchline. And some guy I barely know spent the entirety of the show text...
I have so many stories to tell but instead of...
Hello, I’d like a speed pass to alcohol.
p.s. Does that whole vodka-soaked tampon thing work if you’re on your period?
Congratulations to me
For not sitting alone in a mostly dark house on Friday night with a glass of wine and sobbing to Bill Moyers Journal. I mean, I did all of that, I just didn’t watch Bill Moyers.
Now, since I have to be at work tomorrow at six am for the farmer’s market and our first CSA pick-up of the season, I will retire like an elderly all before the hour of eleven pm.
Clearly everybody including...
What do you mean you'd like to introduce me to...
I’ve already met myself, doofus.
I'm out of control
I was just screaming at my roommates. “NO DON’T EAT JUST SOME OF THE FUDGE. EAT ALL OF THE GODDAMN FUDGE OR DON’T EAT ANY AT ALL.”
I don’t know.
The head farmer at work is one of those old-school Hispanics that likes to tell people when they’re fat or pretty or ugly today.He just can’t hold back. He told my boss this week that she gained 15 pounds over...
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lieslieslies:
I am perpetually trying to get people to read this book. It is fucking gorgeous. For those of you interested, here is the opening to whet your whistle. Take the time to read this excerpt if you’re into cool things, magical realism, and cool things. Yes, I said it twice.
My copy of this book has visited people I love and people I don’t know in the following places:...
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La Familia (Guy Sigsworth Remix) -...
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Wilco - When you wake up feeling...
Why can't I get Battle Royale from netflix?
And has it really been nine years since I’ve seen that movie?
New goal: Leave before shit gets too real
I decided I needed to leave the party last night/this morning when two guys were making out and shoving their hands down each others’ very skinny jeans. I couldn’t stop watching, it was like a car crash. And then I think they forgot it was 3:30 in the morning and there still probably 300 hundred people standing around a quickly dying bonfire while guys were making desperate passes at...