I am watching the MTV Video Music Awards. I know, I know. I have no idea why I’m doing this. My only excuse is that I needed something on in the background while I made more GRE flashcards (Legerdemain! Propitiate! Dilatory!), but that does not explain why they are still on and why I am [...]
Entries from August 31st, 2006
Disturrrrrbed
August 28th, 2006 · No Comments · Issues of Modernity
Hey, girls! Remember in high school or junior high, when you’d read your Seventeen Magazine the day it came in the mail (or, if you were me, two months after it came to your house, because your mom “accidentally” stacked it with the 90 LLBeans and Victoria’s Secrets or whoops, there it went on that [...]
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Friday Afternoon Snacktime and Other Stories
August 25th, 2006 · 5 Comments · Screaming Inner Child
Story 1: Bad Decisions It is 3:51 PM.Things in my drawer in the fridge include:1 cup, watermelon Jell-O1 cup, vanilla pudding1 cup, Dole mandarin oranges1 bag, raw celery1/2 turkey sandwich, purchased yesterday at Ye Olde White Hen for lunch with a cup of soup, but not needed, as the soup was deliciously thick Things in/on/around [...]
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it’s not easy being green
August 22nd, 2006 · No Comments · maintenance
…So I switched to the chic pink and brown. It may be a little too chic for me, but that other green+green template was… too green for little old me. Also I started screwing around with it with the new Google/Blogger conglomerate and realized that I wanted a more mellow background, which was unachievable in [...]
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back from the wilds
August 21st, 2006 · 2 Comments · Screaming Inner Child, There and Back Again
warning: sappy Well. Now that I know that the other two people who read Kathleen’s blog read my blog, I am really gonna be in trouble if I fail to update this thing regularly. I have two excuses for taking almost two weeks off blogging:1) Nothing remarkable/funny/of interest has happened to me.2) My darling, beautiful [...]
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Shuffle and Glow
August 9th, 2006 · No Comments · Issues of Modernity
Today I woke up with an uncomfortable headache, the kind that’s pretty tame until you decide to sit up or take a deep breath, and then suddenly once you’ve sat or once you start exhaling the pounding just takes over for those 2.5 seconds and they last forever and you want that 5/8″ drill bit [...]
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Iowa! Where You Can Hear The Corn Grow!
August 7th, 2006 · No Comments · There and Back Again
I’m pretty sure you can hear the corn grow in Iowa, if only because there are about 8 gajillion ears of it. Per acre. And in the last three days, Dan and I drove past about 40 gajillion acres of corn, so between the ruckus that that much corn makes and the underlying hummmm of [...]
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behold! a new era!
August 2nd, 2006 · No Comments · maintenance
friendsromanscountrymen i’m sticking to it this time. i’m not holding myself to media reviews (thanks, RT, it was fun for those, what, two months?) and i’m not holding myself to highly personal factoids (my new mantra might just be, “tmi… tmi…”). basically the only thing i’m holding myself to is my boyfriend (tmi… tmi…), and [...]
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