March 2008
54 posts
Not to be totally emo, but I need a hug, for no particular reason.
Who knew that aquariums were so exhausting? I love oranges. And chocolate eggs. And beachy boozy drinks. (There should be more of those.) And, um, yeah, there are both too many people here and not enough people here, because apparently I am both a people person and a solitary person who OH MY GOD needs to NOT ARGUE ABOUT WHAT TO EAT for FIVE MINUTES AT A TIME. But I love you all. Anyhow.
I'm....
I’m in Monterey till Thursday. It’s very ocean-ey here. There are seagulls, and tidepools, and an aquarium, and it’s not very far from Stanford, and it’s very nice. This is an inane four sentences.
and happy easter, hipster easter, or heapster, whichever strikes your fancy.
I’ve gotten used to the way my hips sit when I sleep.
there goes your math book
there goes your bra
there go your heartaches
let’s burn them all.
“All we needed to do was accept the standing invitation that superhero comics...”
– Reflections: Secret Skin: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
100%
(at about 7:30)
90.5%
85.2%
81%
75.6%
67.6%
63.8%
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50.16%
I am 43.5% done. FORTY THREE POINT FIVE.
Can make it. Will make it. Must make it.
mah skillz
I’ve just realized why I chronically mistype “their” as “thier.” It’s because word auto-corrects me. Goddamn technology undermining mah skillz.
I just used the phrase “mired in ordinariness” sincerely. Mary ftw.
“We didn’t ask who was doing the dishes or taking care of the kids,” says Rudman....”
– Gals make passes at guys who wash glasses - Behavior- msnbc.com
Clueless guys can't read women, study... →
More often than not, guys interpret even friendly cues, such as a subtle smile from a gal, as a sexual come-on, and a new study discovers why: Guys are clueless. More precisely, they are somewhat oblivious to the emotional subtleties of non-verbal cues, according to a new study of college students. […]
Also, there is no possible way that Lois didn’t notice that Clark Kent and Superman are both totally Dean Cain. I mean, COME ON. She seriously never gets a good look at both her most consistent co-worker and her super boyfriend? I don’t believe it. (Because, YES, believability is really what I’m looking for in a show about a superhero. A girl can dream, yeah?)
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman →
This show is really, really, REALLY hokey. And the dialogue is stilted, and the costuming is dated. And I love it.
at this point
…there’s not much point in anything but sleep and copious chocolate. Possibly in the opposite order. Or with repetitions of one or more elements. I would really really like tomorrow and possibly Thursday to be over already. Dear god, the dragging.
my paper so far
Larkin. Philip Larkin. Philip Larkin writes wrote poems. The End
What’s Michael J. Fox like? HE’S AN ALIEN. Biff Song - CollegeHumor video
“Correction: February 19, 2008
An article in some editions on Monday about a New...”
– Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location - New York Times OUCH. Always check the punctuation of articles about punctuation.
Firefox web browser | International versions: Get... →
Firefox 3 is the bomb.
Am now fighting a vicious urge to eat junk food and watch TV rather than eat my veggies and work on my paper. BAD MARY.
As of now, I’m not supposed to get a new roommate when Jessica goes to France. Hugest single of all time!
“The Diversity Office centers its programming around eight
types of diversity:...”
– Bellarmine College Preparatory: Student Life » Diversity Check out the third bullet point. Oh, and FYI, it’s a boy’s school.
TED | Talks | Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of... →
This is amazing. Serious, and incredible, and amazing.
“My Uncle Is A Man Named Steve (Not A Monkey)”
– OBJECTIVE: Creation Education | Creation Science Fair 2001 Cassidy Turnbull (grade 5) presented her uncle, Steve. She also showed photographs of monkeys and invited fairgoers to note the differences between her uncle and the monkeys. She tried to feed her uncle bananas, but he declined to eat them....
the line of fire « The Garden →
My hair smells like dumpling. This is because I am: 1. a wuss and 2. not chinese and therefore did not 3. put the whole dumpling in my mouth at once, like Jay and so 4. it squooged out dumpling juice and 5. my hair is long and was therefore 6. in the line of fire.
Waving At You - The Mountain Goats (Live, from...
My paper! It is turned in!
And now we return to our regularly scheduled procrastination routine. This will include copious doses of internet TV.
Also, traditionally? It’s “Whatever shall I do?” rather than “What shall I ever do?”
Just F.Y.I.
chris keeps blogging about me blogging about him
wordvomit: Mary keeps blogging about me. I feel overscrutinized. And now she’s linked here, so more people can actually read this. What shall I ever do? They will judge me with unrelenting sniffs and flickers of the eye carefully designed to convey a jaded ennui. How can my creative juices flow as freely as those of a stomped-upon Capri Sun?
WRONG WRONG WRONG
Mary: name a book or article with a period in the title
Mary: other than one indicating an abbreviation
Mary: colons and semicolons don't count either
Topher: i don't care if no one's done it before, i don't see a reason to exclude them
Mary: because it's JUST NOT DONE
Topher: i also think there can be stylistic reasons to include a period in a title
Mary: like what?
Mary: your excessive lameness?
Mary: BEING WRONG?
Topher: playing with syntax, clearly
Mary: NO.
Mary: WRONG.
Topher: like in futurist poetry
Mary: PSH.
Topher: futurist poetry is not wrong
Topher: it is AWESOME
Mary: NO
Mary: NONONOBAD.
Topher: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179934
Topher: there's a period
Topher: i win
Mary: I said "book or article"
Mary: not poem
Mary: poems are different
Mary: you were not writing a poem
Mary: ALSO
Mary: ee cummings is an exception
Mary: when you are as important as ee cummings, you can make the rules
Mary: not before
Topher: when you are as unimportant as i am, it doesn't matter if you break the rules
Topher: to quote natalie portman, i never said i was a role model
WatchAfter this song, Chris had pretty much decided to have this man’s babies. Jeffrey Lewis : The Ramen Song - Live Fingerprint Records, Long Beach, CA on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Just busted into page six. I feel like I’ve run through one of those finishing line ribbons. I may go to sleep now, and then just perfect this thing tomorrow morning and turn it in after lunch. I hope that works. And then one more paper and one exam and I’m done. SO TIRED, BRAIN SO DEAD.
LOL Vogue : Tard Moddles & Bahlinceeyagga →
Page five, baby.
Now I see what Mike means about totally boring and unreadable micro-blogging. Just for you, Mike, I will now add that I like ice cream.
Mary out.
FOUR PAGES. I AM WRITER, HEAR ME ROAR.
God, my life is so boring.
And I now have 3 pages. Progress, progress.
I have a 6-8 page paper due tomorrow, and I, uh, still haven’t started.
Oops.
“It’s like there is NO satisfaction….you...”
– Professor Di Piero, Modern British Poetry