February 2012
5 posts
January 2012
5 posts
on mice
i found some mouse poop (ew! ew! ahh! shit! literally!) in the kitchen when i got back from portland last weekend, so i promptly cleaned everything with bleach and called housing who sent over a very kind exterminator today to figure out what to do. fortunately i have yet to hear or see any actual mice, but i am still freaking out about every noise in the house that could be a hungry disease-y...
December 2011
3 posts
On Boring Ladies in Literature
The problem with The Marriage Plot is that Madeleine Hanna is the. most. boring. character. While Eugenides clearly states his intention to follow the conventions of the marriage plot so I can’t complain about predictability, the book still purports to be about Madeleine and, well, it’s not. I feel like the books he’s imitating still make the women more existent. We know them...
November 2011
6 posts
We are reading Don Juan in Romantic Poetry, in which Byron spends one or two stanzas bitching about smart ladies and how hard they are to deal with, and we learn in a footnote that he used to call his wife the Princess of Parallelograms. (He divorced her after a few months, but not before getting her pregnant with the first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace…the Princess of Programming? The...
October 2011
1 post
September 2011
8 posts
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shut up. tell me.: Glasses Instead of Contacts:... →
katieheaney:
Cons:
1. In trying to take a sip of orange juice this morning, I pretty much poured it directly into my lap.
2. I lost my breakfast for a little bit. I don’t mean I threw up, I mean I set my bowl down somewhere and forgot where and then couldn’t really see it right away, because of peripheral…
I got my first new pair of glasses since grade school last year, so I decided I...
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August 2011
5 posts
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The New York Times is starting a monthly column...
…and the first one is about GRINDING. It uses a serious reporting tone. It has quotes from “experts” as well as the teens and adolescents themselves. I can’t wait for the next one. I bet it will be about Facebook somehow.
Also I didn’t get grinded on until I went to college, apparently I’m a really late bloomer.
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July 2011
4 posts
7/14/11
themonkeysyouordered:
Here are the ten commandments, half in Chinese.
favorite tumblr.
Young Lady in Manhattan, 1939 →
June 2011
4 posts
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Watchinuksuit at morningside park. happy summer solstice!
things i have done on the continent of asia:
pet a dog
gone to a restaurant and eaten some fish
seen courtney love at said restaurant
peed in the same toilet as courtney love
ridden a seesaw
May 2011
3 posts
Hobnobs Cookies
This post will help me remember that time I was in England, and how I went to the grocery store to get milk then found and ate these glorious cookie creations.
April 2011
1 post
March 2011
2 posts
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Hark, a vagrant: 303 →
First Margie, now Hermione. I thought Kate Beaton couldn’t get any more awesome, but apparently I was wrong.
Read this if you are up for being sad. It’s almost exactly like what happened to Beanie.
I miss her every day, sincerely, not in a “I need a corny sentence to start this post” way. I miss her because every day I get sad. Sometimes because ow, I stubbed my toe, or because I saw someone being an asshole to someone else, or I am running out of money. Every time I am sad I remember...
February 2011
7 posts
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Baby's Touch 'N... →
