Listening to NPR and obsessively copyediting my CV ( Read more... )

In 2007, not sure what month, I will also be going to SPAIN!

Thanks to Spoo for hitting me over the head with her frying pan on this one. How could I possibly have posted such an incomplete list?

At the beginning of November I was anxious about my lack of productivity and determined to get my shit together in November. Here we are, December. How did I do? Well, I have an actual Plan of Things to Do with actual specific dates on it, rather than a big messy list of things like Publish Something! and Oh My God Publish Something! I have not ( Read more... )

It's snowing! Makes me think I need new winter boots. I am sure that I don't, but I think that I do.

so, 
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So yesterday while on public transit I was treated to two first years discussing their workloads. I was listening to music, which is a great way to pretend you're not eavesdropping, just as wearing sunglasses makes it easier to peoplewatch. Anyway, these two so-obviously-in-their-first-semester young ladies went on about how one had a paper due the ( Read more... )

If all is going as planned, spoo_knows and shara_fares, with plus-one menfolk to boot (hey, do you think Spoo will bring her new slouchy boots? And Shara has so many excellent boots from which to choose! Ah, boots, je heart, je heart), are now en route to Massachusetts via Air Duggles.

To Do:
get beer
get ice for G&Ts
get some food
be excited

Best thing I overheard on the street yesterday afternoon: "...I mean, it's her twenty-first birthday! If I don't get her a blowjob, what kind of a..." So was she talking about a blowjob shooter, or an actual blowjob? Who was she going to get to give her friend a blowjob? If she doesn't provide said drink / actual blowjob, what kind of standard is ( Read more... )

Current deskscape: term paper from 2003; one novel, one lit crit modernism book, one poco book; one cute little gift-from-Chaz notebook with a "GEE!! I Wish I Were A Man - I'd Join The NAVY" U.S. Navy recruitment poster cover; half-finished letter to Grandma; 2 back issues Bitch magazine; letter from the Bank of America (isn't that a hilarious name ( Read more... )

I've been having trouble working. (Note to Friends finishing theses: please do not punch me in the head.) I don't know why. Internet distractedness is part of of, lack of real deadlines is part of it, but laziness is also a big part of it. I worked so much last year that it still feels really good to do very little. Don't get me wrong; I am still ( Read more... )