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this is the room one afternoon

when i was a kid i wanted to grow up to be an artist. i made my parents get me watercolors and palettes and pastels and nice paper; i dressed up as an artist for future career day during spirit week in 8th grade. i don’t even know what that means — i think i [...]

you don’t even have to sing on key

my mornings are good: i am waking up more easily; i have my coffee and walk to the bus stop past pink cherry blossoms and white dogwood blossoms and bright bright red rhododendrons. today a creaky old man with a squeaky old wheelbarrow walked past the bus stop, squeak squeak creak creak, and we all [...]

a long list of ironies

it’s not that i hate the fat – it’s the feministness that hates (SO FUCKING MUCH) the thought that i would be a better person if i weren’t.

(song: “meaulnes,” the palace brothers)

a sea of pens and feathers

so i’m sitting at my desk in my office, in front of my computer with my book (discovery and decision: exploring the metaphysics and epistemology of scientific classification, by rebecca bryant), and i’m trying to finish my reading for class at 1:30. i just checked my email so i still had my hand on the [...]

i’m going down to the station

so the interview turned to be not so much an interview but more like a test to make sure i wasn’t a stupid person, because they’ve been planning on hiring me since they had two applicants for two positions.
turns out i’m not stupid and now i have a summer internship in the field i want [...]

and it symbolizes something although you don’t know what it is

maybe the reason i’ve been in a bad mood lately is that i haven’t been listening to enough old 97s.

(song: “indefinitely,” old 97s)

tongue can get sharp

a list of mostly unrelated things.

i seem to have entered one of shannon’s peanut butter phases. i have never had peanut butter phases before – in fact, most of my food phases are brought on by finances, like the beans-and-rice phase or the ramen phase – but the other morning i was dreaming about peanut [...]

so high you can’t see over

i was going to post last night but the internets were broken – o horror! – so i couldn’t. it’s ok though because now instead of two posts in one day, i get to have two days in a row of posting! good for me.

i think i should buy shoes at target more often, because [...]

i was having this discussion in a taxi heading downtown

i hate XP: every time i right-click on the taskbar for any reason, i see “lock the taskbar” in the menu and i immediately get it stuck in my head to the tune of “rock the casbah.”

LOCK the task bah
LOCK the task bah

(song: “gumboots,” paul simon)

a busy sea of spinning wheels

monday i coughed, and tuesday i whispered and sometimes squeaked, and wednesday i croaked, and since then i have been trying to cough up at least one lung. yum.
bourbon helps, though.

i always felt kind of bad, like i was betraying my grammar geek roots, for wanting to abbreviate “though” to “tho” like my mom does [...]