December 2010
19 posts
Bailey Bill Clinton Hart 6/99 - 12/10
So, I’m still mid-finals. And I have to meet some obscene page count about transnational [something][something] by 10 am tomorrow. But I’m having a really hard time getting anything done because the dog I’ve had since I was 10 years old died yesterday, out of the blue. The thing about pet deaths, I guess, is that you have to assume their inevitability as part of the price of your pet. The...
“Happy holidays, everybody. Remember, every day is a good day. We’re gonna...”
– Man on the L train (to the tune of “joy to the world”)
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The first snowfall of winter means it’s time for me to recondition my body to call upon a skill I’ve honed through many long and agonizing winters spent in the Extreme North. Now, I’m going to share this tactic with those of you who didn’t get this character building opportunity in your childhoods.
What you need to do, when you’re walking down the street at night,...
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you'll get it
1. Stop what you’re doing.
2 Turn on “Life” (or “Planet Earth” but preferably “Life) on mute.
3. Turn on Robyn’s “Body Talk Pt 1.”
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making crafts is the love affair you can't quit
Shira: also guss what i'm doing right now
Shira: if you guessed "trying to remember how to start a zig zag friendship bracelet"
Shira: you're right!
I’m washing my hands in the bathroom at work and whistling the loop from “cabfare” by hieroglyphics, which is a song that always reminds me of living in brittany hall, and someone in the stall said, “taxi? you’re whistling the theme to taxi?” and what I should have said is, you honestly think I’m old enough to have watched TAXI??
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Highlight:
I’m collecting thesis-writing horror stories from my friends and cohorts and this is the best one yet, I think:
“we had to give 10 minute topic proposals. Using PowerPoint. I spent the first 6 minutes talking and the next 4 crying. But silently and in the dark, so no one noticed.”
(submissions welcome)