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[10 Apr 2007|06:02pm] |
i used to update so regularly, but now i've got nothing to say. it's this damn internet malarchy. there's so many stupid websites i use for daily procrastination (3 email accounts, facebook, twop, and now myspace), that everything gets spread way too thin. besides, it's much easier to change my music preferences on facebook than it is to write an actual paragraph. about something real. (not that i've ever done that here, but at least there's always the option.)
I'm stuck in a weird place. I've been lazy, unmotivated, and complacent the past couple of months. Which would be ok, except every now and then a day will come along where I have lots of energy and, hey, even "zest for life", and i inevitably wind up seeking out future work on those days. with the end result that i've got about a billion more projects on my hands than i have any desire to handle.
on top of that, i've suddenly realized (yet again) that i have no idea what i want to do with my life. there's all these options, but they all take a commitment. which i'm not very good at. hell, i can't even make a decision on whether or not to use capital letters, much less choose between school, job, or travel (to simplify my 5000 choices).
sometimes i just want to nap. and by sometimes, i mean always.
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| strange connections |
[01 Apr 2007|12:14am] |
maybe it's because i inadvertently watched his version of hamlet, but i've just realized that i really dont find ethan hawke at all appealing in any way.
(also, he kind of reminds me of a "professor" i particularly disliked in college)
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| sellout |
[27 Mar 2007|05:10pm] |
senior year of college i was so broke that more than a few times i walked from campus to my room (an hour's walk in good weather) in a snow/sleet storm. a car service cost $9, a luxury i resorted to something like twice.
today i spent $8 on lunch because i forgot to pack my own last night.
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| what will i do once my free 3-month subscription ends??? |
[04 Feb 2007|10:02am] |
the theme of this weekend seems to be "bawling your eyes out"
i'm a bit ashamed to say that jessica convinced me to watch "the lake house". and by "conviced me" i mean she said "you should put in on your blockbuster.com list, i liked it." what can i say? i'm easy.
so i watched it. and cried, cried, cried. i thought i would get away with it, too, but jess and pat got home about 10 minutes before the end of the movie, to find me a crying, sobbing mess, practically in the fetal position. i think they enjoyed it. damn sadists.
anyway, after that ordeal was over, we watched crash (yes, i know - about time!) the only reason it didn't make me cry much was because i was already so very dehydrated. but yes - a very good movie.
and tonight is blockbuster time again, so it remains to be seen what ridiculous tear jerker forces itself on me. maybe they'll have the entire 3rd season of arrested development in, and i'll be able to put this entire sorry episode behind me. i can only hope!
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| 4:30 in the morning |
[21 Jan 2007|04:25am] |
i have pushed th ebackspace button a million times and i refuse to di odo it anybrmore. mostly because its a delete butten now that it is a mac. and alnyway, i should not de i depend on it any longer. ishould take my mistyping s gor for what they are. the ramblings of a confused and drunken mind. '
why am i even aht home right now! ? we started off uptown. by all accounts si i should still bo e there/ but we pretended to take a hamster for a night on the town. ofjh, THAT i can type with no mistakes. because it is truth. even though we just pretended.
but drunk people deciding to go from harlem to bay ridge atfter midging midnight is always never a good idea. especially if they go through with it. even if they watch 40 year old virgin after making the traek =, even i thf if they mistype 60 worsds a minute.
i was abut to type about belly buttons but list the plot. lost the prlot. im sitil recfusing the delete key. its a plague upon humanity. celebrate your imperfections! relish! pickles! cole slaw!
u no i hate mayo. the end.
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| 2006 |
[20 Dec 2006|10:05am] |
places i've been in 2006:
-united kindgdom (england, scotland and wales)
-amsterdam
-paris
-southern france
-up and down italy
-brooklyn,queens,manhattan
-upstate new york
-boston (projecting a little into the future)
places i have NOT:
-suffolk county, long island
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| this is cute |
[18 Dec 2006|03:32pm] |
ok, i never ever ever post these, but this is kind of cute. it gives you a 12 days of christmas song based on your livejournal interests
On the twelfth day of Christmas,  maemime sent to me... Twelve tulips drumming Eleven sunsets piping Ten ears a-reading Nine books biking Eight vegetables a-knitting Seven cues a-sewing Six naps a-kissing Five da-a-a-avid ives Four wing nuts Three gilmore girls Two rebecca wells ...and a sleep in a sex and the city. |
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| boo |
[14 Dec 2006|02:01pm] |
i miss this
and this
the end.
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| year in review |
[12 Dec 2006|10:40am] |
2006 - year in review – first line of first post of every month
January
4AM indeed. i just got home. i should go to sleep bedcause imdrunk and i drunkdialed my mom earlier and had random guys in the streewt wish her voicemail a happy new year in multiple languages.
February
i need addresses, people!
March
all in all, a night of firsts.
April
three rules of office romance:
1. don't do it
2. hide it really well
3. don't blog about it
May
marathon updating
in edinburgh
manchester boys are SOOO much fun!
i'll take the high road and you take the low road
June
dear london,
have you ever heard of the sun?
(if not, please speak to italy. it'll explain.)
July
after 3 days in palermo, i've managed to:
get tan as a (very tan) lobster
eat 10 times my body weight in gelato
sleep and swim
that is all.
August
i hate money. in the sense that i hate people who are only/mostly concerned with money for the sake of itself.
September
I've come to the conclusion that all stage managers are creepy/neurotic/evil, and i no longer desire to be one of them.
October
i've taken the first step toward oblivion
friday's my first driving lesson
November
jess and i put down a deposit to rent a beauuutiful apartment on a very pretty block kinda way the fuck out in brooklyn, but really not that far in when you consider it.
December
2006 - year in review – first line of first post of every month
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| living, loving, learning |
[21 Nov 2006|11:26am] |
jess and i put down a deposit to rent a beauuutiful apartment on a very pretty block kinda way the fuck out in brooklyn, but really not that far in when you consider it. (bay ridge av on the r, which is 1 local + 3 express stops to manhattan)
it all hinges on the credit checks and the landlord taking our offer - and we should know by end of this week/beginning of next whether or not we'll be spending the forseeable future flushing money down the drain that is the brooklyn rental apartment.
i don't know whether to hope we get it or that it falls through. i'm just glad the decision's no longer in my hands.
is it sad that i'm very excited about there being a pub on our corner if we do end up getting this apartment?
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| learning curve like a cotangent. |
[16 Oct 2006|12:22am] |
i think i must have been born with some innate ability to drive which goes away with practice.
i've had 4 driving lessons so far and with each one i seem to get dramatically worse. or maybe moses (who, like his namesake, has been known to perform miracles. according to my dad, "moses can teach anyone, even a woman, how to drive." thanks, dad) where was i? that was a fairly long aside and now i'm lost.
oh yes, moses. moses, the sweetest old russian man on earth, keeps yelling. or at least snapping when i'm fucking up. which i've been doing progressively more of. on my first day i parallel-parked. yesterday i couldn't make a right turn. well.
oh, but... what's with all the racist russians??? i keep forgetting that they're ALL racist, so when i meet a new one (which doesn't happen often because i'm very good at avoidance. and generalizations), it's always a minor shock to my system when they nonchalantly slip a racial slur into a conversation about grocery shopping. moses is, sadly, at peace with the bigot within. as are most other russians i talked to this weekend (i spent a fair chunk of time in brooklyn...)
i didn't think anyone actually used the phrase "well, there goes the neighborhood" in a non-ironic way, but apparently they do, just in a different language. in this weekend's lesson from "Life and the Universe According to Brooklyn Russians," blacks are bad, muslims are worse, and once asians move into a neighborhood, the blacks are sure to follow and then chaos will surely ensue.
back to the driving - maybe it would help if i didn't keep getting how i learned to drive flashbacks every time i got behind the wheel?
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| about time |
[03 Oct 2006|06:30pm] |
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i've taken the first step toward oblivion
friday's my first driving lesson
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| wtf, mate? |
[29 Sep 2006|01:45pm] |
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And in Stupid News: according to today's NY times, the following are proposed regulations for NYC restaurants and bars:
"Diners will be required to chew their food for at least 12 seconds before swallowing. This strategy recognizes that insufficiently chewed food can kill if it lodges in the throat, city officials said...Steak houses in particular would be closely watched by health inspectors...Violators may be ordered to leave the restaurant."
"Customers would...be required, before they are seated, to study the Heimlich maneuver posters that restaurants are supposed to have on their walls."
"Another proposed rule would limit restaurant goers to no more than two glasses of wine or two pints of beer with dinner. Only one glass or pint would be allowed if the customer had a pre-meal drink....Two drinks struck City Hall as the reasonable limit."
"Some Asian restaurants may be ordered to provide customers with goggles, a protective measure seen as especially necessary at sushi bars."
And it gets better... "Because so many New Yorkers are overweight, other kinds of restrictions may be needed, the officials said."
"Such as what?" you ask? Well, some brilliant ideas are:
"Limit customers to two blintzes per order"
"Italian restaurants would be encouraged to serve only whole wheat pasta," with tax credit and cash bonus incentives for complying.
"One controversial proposal would require restaurants to serve only decaffinated coffee after 10pm. Caffeine consumed late at night is plainly not healthful."
"No one over 50 would be served red meat after 9pm."
What I love best about all this bullshit is the name. Proper Mastication Initiative.
Can I find a new city now, please?
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| absolutely random rant |
[27 Sep 2006|08:59am] |
i don't know if i've been living in a soundproof cave for the past 30 (or whatever) years, but does the pro-choice/pro-life distinction bother anyone else but me? the names themselves are so ridiculous!
"pro-life" is THE stupidest self-righteous bullshit EVER. ever. period. not only does it imply "pro-death" undertones for it's supposed opposite, but it also does not fully describe the standpoint at all!! you can personally be pro-life, never have (or even consider) an aborion yourself, and still allow for the possibility that somewhere out there, there just might be people whose life circumstances and situations would cause them to make decisions different from the ones you would make. and think that maybe, just maybe, they should be allowed to make those decisions for themselves. "pro-life" is NOT the proper shortening of "pro-bringing-children-into-the-world-no-matter-how-unwanted-they-are-and-no-matter-what-the-mother-thinks-because-WE-SAID-SO-DAMMIT"
(not that i'm crazy with the way abortion is a form of birth control for some, but i am glad (especially after reading cider house rules) that it no longer has the same stigma attached to it as it did in past decades.)
and i'm not going to go into an abortion debate. that is not my intention. my issue - right now - is simply one of names.
how about "pro-choice" and "anti-choice"?
i think that pretty much sums it up.
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| just overheard in office |
[25 Sep 2006|03:34pm] |
a muslim and an indian exec talking about setting up a meeting with someone outside the company:
"well, he won't be able to do it next friday?"
"why not?"
"it's passover!"
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| my first cross post! |
[22 Sep 2006|11:05am] |
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closing night parties are notoriously evil, especially on weeknights. (I just started writing "school nights"...how long does it take for this mindset to fade?)
last night was the last night of danny boy (for the forseeable future, at least.) so i came out for "a drink". just one. right. because that's ever worked in the past. (incidentally, turns out - the theory that "drinks purchased by producers/actors do not count toward total alcohol units consumed" was, while ingenious and totally worth testing, completely wrong)
so, cider has found me yet again. and has left me with: no cell phone, a half-hour furlough in jamaica at 1am, miscellaneous (and mysterious) creepy bruises, the most massive hangover on this entire island, vague memories of drunk-dials, and (possibly most traumatic) a week's extension of this crappy job (due to lack of cell phone to receive calls re: any possible new assignments.)
did i mention the hangover? because it's massive.
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| unbelievable |
[21 Sep 2006|08:56am] |
a shining example of "race consciousness"
no wonder the rest of the world thinks we're fucking morons
read this and weep
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| wwjd? |
[18 Sep 2006|03:40pm] |
"Asking What would Jesus do with Harry Potter? can be helpful. But it is only useful in dictating personal choice about personal conduct."
"Jesus might look on the multitudes reading Harry Potter as being like sheep without a shepherd, easily led astray."
"Learn how you can use the series to protect your child from real occult influences."
--What's a Christian to Do with Harry Potter?
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