February 2012
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Calling cops on neighbors… Now. Can’t believe I did that.
Edit:
and BAM!!! Who got sent to the call?! Cop-friend! The same cop-friend who has tried to sleep through their bullshit himself! WIN!
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Thesis Meeting, Day Two
First thing out of her mouth as I hand her my almost-completely-new introduction:
(in a harsh tone) “You know, I don’t usually meet every week and go through drafts like this. I know it helps keep you on track, but I really don’t have time to be re-reading things we’ve discussed. It would be better if you could just come in and be able to point me to the things...
“She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via mem0rylaine)
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Progress
I’m moving along, but I continue to lose focus more frequently as the hours wear on. I specifically took an evening nap and consumed caffeine so I could work this late as I can typically focus better between 10pm and 3am, but it’s not quite going as planned.
I have six pages, three of which need some serious fine-tuning. I’ve got four or five objectives left to hit (about a...
Bill O’Reilly standing up for Ellen Degeneres and comparing blacklisting gay people from business/endorsement contracts to McCarthyism… What alternate universe are we in?!
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I just devoured a bowl of unsalted pretzels even though I’m not hungry in the least. Writing makes me snack. I wish I had some cheerios…
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Thesis. Thesis. Thesis. Must write 6 more pages. Thesis. Thesis. Thesis.
GO.
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It went something like this...
Me: I know you said you don't remember the last time you cooked/ate real, home-cooked food so you're welcome to come have some of the pork roast I made today. I'm trying to work on my thesis, though, so you should probably just come over to eat and then leave.
Cop-Friend: (four hours later) Sorry, I took cold medicine and passed out for ten hours.
Me: Are you hungry? The offer still stands, but it'll be microwaved and not fresh out of the crock pot.
Cop-Friend: Yeah, I'm starving. Be over shortly.
Cop-Friend: Do you need to stay productive or can this be a sleepover?
^^^ Why my thesis will never be finished. I. Am. Weak.
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Fact:
I often examine the results of my Biore nose and face strip endeavors for at least a minute or two after peeling them off. I like to see what was previously in my pores.
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California's Same-Sex Marriage Ban Is... →
nprfreshair:
California’s Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled.
From last year on Fresh Air: Courting Attention: Covering Calif.’s Marriage Trial
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Today I will
-Shower
-Go the payroll office and figure out where the eff my W-2 is hiding
and subsequently file taxes immediately
-Prepare a prompt for unit two for my students
-Play with kitty
-Do laundry
-Make a roast for dinner
-Make serious headway on my Classical Rhetoric homework (Plato’s Gorgias)
-Rough draft my entire new introduction (needs to be at least 7 pages)
-And maybe still have...
Something I find fun:
Hearing about the insane things people do in this town before it hits the news.
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Leave Unsaid Unspoken
I think that music speaks to us. I believe that iTunes’ shuffle feature sometimes knows just what you didn’t even know you wanted to hear. I have had days and nights where Pandora read my mind and played just what I wanted to hear right after the song crossed my mind.
Kyle and I have this tradition of driving around aimlessly (but really, we follow the same path, more or less) and...
“But don’t forget who you really are. And I’m not talking about your so-called...”
– Louis Sachar (via danseurs)
I don’t know how I can love my thesis project so much and hate writing about it so much. It will never get written if I continue to give in to every distraction that pops into my head. UGH.
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging...”
– William James (via jacynthe-elise)
I want to share this with my students and see what they have to say.
Louisville Realization Three
I will be a long-term resident in a metropolitan area.
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the...”
– Franz Kafka (via troubled)
It's always your favorite sins that do you in.
Facts
-My cat is now on antibiotics. It is really difficult to force-feed a kitten pills, no matter what delicious thing you coat/wrap/disguise it in. She is still stinky as ever and her poo is still not solid.
-I, too, am back on antibiotics. I’d really like to stop getting sick.
-Neither of my parents called me on my birthday, called me when they returned from Jamaica, sent me a birthday...
“If we only walk on sunny days we’ll never reach our destination.”
– Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)