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This weekend I brought the cats to the vet and one needs to lose 5 pounds and the other needs to have his teeth brushed every day. Also I had to throw out my houseplant that was making the cats barf, apparently. It was the saddest vet visit ever.
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen.
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Last night I decided a wind chill of -5 degrees was as good a reason as any to walk all over the city and go to the new pork sandwich restaurant. The first idea was bad, the second good.
Ne le Dis a Personne, 2006, dir. Guillaume Canet.
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Yesterday I walked around The New Museum with two artists and snarked about all the art. We all felt pleasently superior. -
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Yesterday Becca and I were very close to the camels but were to shy to ask to pet them. -
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Yesterday the cats had to spend dinner in the bedroom because they needed too many snuggles and kept walking over our dinner date. -
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Christmas break:
Yankee swap
Top Chef marathons
Teaching a little girl to make a slinky walk down a set of stairs
New scarf
Hiking with an enormous blue Texas sky above me
Magical candy shop, yarn shop, and book shop
Indian food
Stories about antique furniture
Standing at a concert surrounded by people of all ages
Mexican printmaking exhibition
New Years:
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Yesterday I clicked submit on my first grad school application! I am a little sad that all applications are online now, there was something exciting about finding the post office that was open latest in town, rushing over, and hearing the satisfying metallic slam of the mailbox when you put your big packet in. -
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Yesterday I walked through Central Park at dusk and the sky was a true violet, with bare black trees against it. -
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Somehow I missed this article on The Onion originally, and am reposting it now only because I still am filled with a bottomless pool of rage every time the movie Garden State comes up in conversation.
16 Films Featuring Magic Pixie Dream Girls. Key quote: "Like the Magical Negro, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl archetype is largely defined by secondary ( Read more... )