January 2012
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“E: Also, what about that time when I was actually trying to date him? Because he...”
– Reading Between the Texts: There’s Been Some Kind of Mistake | The Hairpin
Yesterday we went shopping, and I bought nothing, except Mexican food and a magazine with Taylor Swift on the cover and some body wash that smells like vanilla. Please know that I was tempted by books and hot pink shorts and whole other personalities I could put on like hats if only I bought the right items. Also by hats.
Sometime last year, I seemed to have replaced the old compulsive...
nogreatillusion:
Caitlin Rose - New York
“So I...
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Deep Blue Something—Breakfast at...
People who still think that calling the internet ‘the interwebs’ is witty.
People who still start their Facebook statuses with “is…” like it has to be a complete sentence that begins with their name.
Dear Hot Guy Who Works At My Gym,
Thanks for growing a soul patch. Crush gone.
Love, utterly platonically,
Lily
railways asked: As someone who is (sadly) completely clueless when it comes to dating...tell me about how (your) dates even work. Do you know the guy very well beforehand? If you don't...what do you talk about? Does it help to be at least mildly attractive? If you go on a dinner date, where in NYC is your favourite place to go, and are you ever worried about eating the wrong thing and bloating afterwards?...
stupidlittletuftybeard asked: Two truths and a lie. I'll give mine and you give yours. 1. I am a big fan of Mumford and Sons. 2. I spent five summers at a camp that was both special and Jewish. 3. I have ridden the triceratops at the Creation Museum in Kentucky.
hosullivan asked: It's my lay around and watch Freaks & Geeks day too!!! What are your big planz for the week/weekend? I'm heading to Corvallis to wear my new Carmen Sandiego coat and peep-toe heels and hopefully seduce the ol' ball and chain.
onemorefortheroad asked: What is the most quintessential New York experience that you've had so far (good or bad)?
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Unexpected
So, last night, I ended up at the wrong event and, instead of attending an interactive showing of You’ve Got Mail, the classic 1998 romantic comedy about love in the digital age, attended a panelist discussion with addiction memoirists.
Which was, you know, super interesting, but did not have as much Tom Hanks as I was expecting.
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Fifty-Ninth Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy):
Got up early (ahem 11:15) to go to gym.
Good, though short, workout.
A few* slices of the best pizza in New York.
Chilly, windy, sunny weather.
And now I have a few hours to chill before I go to the You’ve Got Mail event at Housing Works.
And tonight I have a date.
*actual number of slices will remain unspecified.
“The storm had no sense of humor. There is little in Nature that does. Maybe the...”
– Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (via synecdoche)
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A joke for librarianpirate
notnadia:
What is Beethoven’s favorite fruit?
BA NA NA NAAAAAAAAA
Once I hear a joke I like, I have to tell it to everyone.
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Phone calls home
My Mom: Hello?
Me: Hey, want to hear a joke?
My Mom: Ok.
Me: What's Beethoven's favorite fruit?
My Mom: I don't know, what?
Me: BA-NA-NA-NAAA!
My Mom: [laughs] Lil, listen, can I call you right back?
Me: No, that's the only reason I called. Love you, bye.
“and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two...”
– James Joyce, A Portrait of an Young Man
You'll wear those shoes and I will wear that dress
A good kiss is hard to shake off. Just what constitutes a good kiss is less definitive, but we can all agree that once you’ve had one good kiss, you want more. It has to be some combination of tentative and confident, asking permission but not begging, demanding but not insisting. I myself am partial to the bottom lip between his two lips, then switch places and repeat. Tongues should...
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The Rolling Stones—You Can’t Always...
Weight Loss Plan 2k12
Me: I got a coupon for $10 off a $30 purchase at Crumbs. So we have to spend $30 on cake sometime before the end of the month.
Her: Doable.
Me: I mean, it has to be all in one purchase.
Her: Doable.
So, I'm going to go see Extremely Loud and...
Because openly weeping in public, alone, is a hobby of mine.
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“The boy I loved didn’t know I existed. Then again, he was obsessed with Camus,...”
– David Levithan, coauthor of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Will Grayson, Will Grayson at The Why We Broke Up Project (via housingworksbookstore)
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With apologies to Thomas Wolfe, and Demi Moore in...
A friend said there has to be one place, eventually, that you don’t run away from. What if there isn’t? I think, every day now, of Portland and of New York and I wonder if going back I would be running to or from. What if it’s a surrender? What if that’s ok? What if I can’t ever be happy anywhere, because I’ve been happy too many places?
Every time I know...
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Actively Rejecting Plans, or How I Am the Obstacle...
I have a date tonight. Woo hoo, right? It’s not even with someone I know from work. It’s an actual guy that I actually thought was cute at an actual bar and he introduced himself and I gave him my number. That is a thing that people do and I did it. I’m so proud. But I don’t want to go out tonight. All I want is to go home and eat a pizza. A whole pizza. Maybe...
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“If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do...”
– Really, daily interoffice memo quote? You really want to go there at the start of our 8-hour shift?
takesamuscle asked: I feel as though you're my happier spirit animal.
The thing about being in a good mood is that I’m dealing with this eternal expectation that wonderful things are about to happen. It’s just the way my good moods manifest. On the one hand, I tend to see wonderful things happening where in darker moods I would have dismissed them. On the other hand, rarely are the things happening so wonderful or so exciting as to live up to my...
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“I used to go to the bagel place, see a pretty girl in line, reading my favorite...”
– I’m almost done talking about How I Met Your Mother all the time.
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Things I Want to Yell at Strangers Sometimes,...
Allow me to introduce you to the concept of a ‘public sidewalk’
Really, right here on this busy corner is the perfect place for all five of you to stop and chat. Really. Awesome.
No, it’s fine, most of us here in the Subway Station weren’t hoping to GO ANYWHERE or anything.
Please, would you stand right in front of the turnstile but not go through it? That’s...
There was this kid I used to have staring contests with last year. He’s actually a really talented tennis player. I mean, he’s kind of a little psychopath, but I wasn’t his parent, just some girl who wrangled him before his lessons, so he could be precocious and not insane.
He would just walk over to the desk and if I wasn’t busy we would stare and stare until one of us...
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“Eventually, over time, we all become our own doppelgangers. These completely...”
– Ted Mosby
Dude, you guys, I’m so happy this week. I don’t remember being this hopeful, happy, or calm in a really long time. I mean, knowing my emotional equilibrium it could last until ten minutes from now, but I don’t think so. I think I’m just learning how to be happy with life in general, even if I’m not happy with all of life’s parts.
Here’s what I’m...
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She: I haven't had a B.L.T. in such a long time!
Me: I had a B.L.T. for breakfast. That was after the one I had at 4:30 am this morning.
She: I am simultaneously jealous and disgusted.
“This evening left me a little heartbroken.
At least there’s cheese.”
– Part of My World: Ugh guys