September 2011
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For @wilto
M: You taking it easy this weekend?
W: It’s like you’ve never met me!
W: Wah wah woh wah wah woh (I think he was talking about work, but this is what I heard)
M: Sorry, what was clearly implied there was, "I hope you are a taking it a little easy this weekend because you've obviously had a lot going on lately, but of course I know that you are not doing that at all because you are crazy.
M: The first was just a lot faster to type.
W: Man, I wish I could tweet that.
August 2011
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Sundays, amirite?
Oh how I wish I could return to the innocence and naiveté I possessed a few hours ago, before I saw the centipede cousin of Annie Hall’s spider scurry across my floor, and I still thought I might go to bed early and wake up at 5am to work out.
What a beautiful, delusional, time that was.
July 2011
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Never Don't Beatbox
Marie C: also...let me know if you think that's a super super hokey email becaaaaause I'm probably going to send it almost as is =)
Amanda : looks baller
Marie C: hahaha
Amanda : SEND AWAY EMCEE
Marie C: I was like...maaaybe about to beat box for a second there
Amanda : HA
Amanda : you should!
Amanda : never dont beatbox!
Marie C: but then I realized a) WHAT? and b) going to scare the intern
Marie C: and c) don't think I can beatbox
Amanda : this is the part where i do it and think no one can hear
Amanda : but can
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Got an ice cream cone tonight, remembered this:
Him: Hey, want to get ice cream?
Me: Sure.
Him: Awesome. I cannot even REMEMBER the last time I had ice cream.
Me: ...really?
Him: It's definitely been a while.
Me: huh. I had ice cream for dinner last night.
June 2011
10 posts
N SKY C: The average color of the New York City... →
This is awesome and clever. Go check it out!
Retard by Gabriel Gadfly →
goestoeleven:
gabrielgadfly:
You abuse the word.
You say it with a lightness that ignores my twenty-nine year old sister playing with Barbie dolls and unable to run her own bathwater for fear she might scald the skin off her thighs.
You say it with a lightness that ignores my family’s celebration when years and years of work finally paid off and my sister learned to read the year her...
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Favorite part
Oh HI, I guess I’m tumbling again? Fun surprise, right? Right.
Anyway, I was reading a bunch of posts tonight by all the lovely people I follow and I’m digging the “favorite part of the day” posts. It got me thinking that, for all that I was pretty #grumbleface for a while there today, a lot of good things did happen!
The best part, though, was probably seeing a coworker’s blog post about...
November 2010
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“I think your reasons for not voting today are completely original and even...”
– (via shitnoonehaseversaid)
October 2010
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September 2010
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Thanks
A little over two months ago, I woke up with a puffy face and what appeared to be mosquito bites.
Seven trips to the doctor’s, four fairly crazed encounters with an exterminator, and truly countless loads of laundry later, it was determined that I had urticarial vasculitis. In English, that means chronic hives, occurring as a result of inflamed blood vessels.
This is not ideal. Though of...
August 2010
3 posts
“Hey doc, go ahead and skip me a couple times. This waiting room is DOPE.”
– (via shitnoonehaseversaid)
You’re all reading this blog, right? They are fantastic! Here’s another thing no one has ever said:
“Navigating the US health care system as a patient is fun and not at all stressful or intimidating!”
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Dude, stop pretending you didn’t see me in the middle of that intersection you just blew through.
I look pretty nice today.
Plus, I was carrying a big stuffed dog.
As I head to CVS for the sole purpose of buying pretzel M&Ms, wearing the gym clothes I’ve been too lazy to change out of all day, I wonder what life would be like if I had any shame at all.
Less tasty, I suppose.
July 2010
2 posts
Things that look like bug bites (when you're...
Freckles
Pores
Glitter-eyeshadow that you should have washed off last night
Flecks of black paint that keep coming off your watch
Any spot on your skin that recently felt even the slightest bit itchy.
So, I’ve been kind of absent lately. Sorry about that. There’s been a bed bug/allergic reaction/stress hives kind of thing happening and it’s taken a lot out of me. Fingers...
June 2010
4 posts
Map: Where Americans Are Moving →
Fascinating, but also kind of depressing.
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May 2010
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On Eating Alone →
This is a lovely little post by Suzanne Lenzer over on Mark Bittman’s blog.
When I was planning my trip to San Francisco back in March, eating alone was the thing I was most nervous about.
Having read this, I might make more of an effort to check out some of the new restaurants in my neighborhood on my own this summer.
One thing I will say: When I was at Greens in SF, I found myself...
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April 2010
10 posts
Awkward at the drive-thru:
Please enjoy this guest post, unintentionally submitted via email by my delightful friend Claire:
“So I normally drive through a McDonalds close to my work on the days when I work to pick up coffee. And I usually pay with a credit card. And I usually spaz a little right before I get to the first window because the guy who works the drive through is really attractive. And everytime I leave...
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dandennis:
Tongue firmly in cheek, rural Kenyans beg the world to rescue London’s poor struggling theater scene: http://bit.ly/cWZjjE So funny!
Automatic Reblog for anything that mocks Harold Pinter
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jimray: Hipstamatic weekend →
A month or so ago, I picked up a much talked about iPhone app called Hipstamatic, which promised all sorts of new “toy camera” effects for my best camera (aka, the one that’s always with me). I loaded it quickly, dinked around for about 15 seconds at most, didn’t see what it did that was any…
In the extremely unlikely event that you’re reading this but haven’t read...
Thanks, AT&T
Kyle: You sound like you're having a stroke.
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Awkward in doorways
You know how sometimes you get to a doorway at the exact same time as someone else and then you both awkwardly fumble for the doorknob and try to figure out who has the right of way? Or when someone is behind you and you have to do a little mental physics to figure out whether or not to hold the door open for them?
I hate these moments.
I am pathologically incapable of figuring out how to...
Me: Why am I getting emails from Runner's World? Clearly they haven't seen me lately.
Susan: Maybe Sarah Palin signed you up.
March 2010
13 posts
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“You wouldn’t have caught us fretting about our future careers, because we...”
– Julian Barnes, Metroland
beigeinside:
May the subway be clean of vomit, May the parade route go nowhere near your office, May the crowds be sparse enough to navigate, May the drinks of revelers not spill upon your clothes, And, until we meet again, May you not get swept up in police crowd control.
-Traditional NYC St. Patricks Day Blessing
Reblogging for my fellow Bostonians to enjoy as well.
Watchthedailywhat:
New Music! Ted Leo And The Pharmacists - “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” (Tears For Fears cover)
Part one of an epic 25-part song cover project by The Onion’s A.V. Club: 25 songs, hand-picked by the A.V. Club, covered by 25 of their favorite bands, over the course of 25 weeks.
Learn more about it here.
NOTE: Click the A.V. Club logo to play video.
[avclub / thanks...
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Building a Better Teacher (NYT) →
I may be late to the game on this one, but if you haven’t already read this article about teaching and education “reform” in the New York Times, I’d encourage you to take a few minutes and check it out.
The part that had me saying, “this. THIS!” in my head:
“It’s one thing to know that 307 minus 168 equals 139; it is another thing to be able...