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my month without facebook
I am completely baffled by new Facebook layout. I think about the way I use Facebook: as a reference. If I want to find my (real-life) friend's birthday or phone number, it's there. I like reading people's status updates - this aggregator is what made the Livejournal model so successful. It used to help me keep in touch with what my friends were ( Read more... ) -
Resolution
Not as in New Year's. As in United Nations. As in governing body. As in law.
Is to put more colour into my life. For too long I haven't been terribly concerned about decorating, only the life of the mind and what I can carry with me when I run away. I'm beginning to realise that even if it's transient, more colour is always worth it. -
Kangaroo
Kangaroo
Kangaroos, then - the heart's skittish
marsupial awareness, the way it bounds
into the long grass, the sidewise kick
to the head. The long-legged
joeys, whose haven is with them
as far as they travel, the way I come
again and again to you. To outgrow
the pouch, the safe house.
To go alone. -
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delicious things I've consumed this week:
Miso ramen.
Gyoza.
Way too much sushi at the kaiten-sushi place last night. (Where oddly enough, one didn't pick most of one's food off the conveyor belt - you placed an order and they made it freshNabe (hotpot ( Read more... ) -
va-ca-tion
I'm on vacation, about three weeks after everybody else (and working through that Christmas/ New Year season) - but this is worth it. What am I doing this week ( Read more... ) -
updated: the One List
- one trip to Japan or Cambodia (I might be able to swing this. I have been saving like a mofo, and also forgot about the existence of the 13th month payout.) getting said trip. skiing in Japan in January. maybe diving in March or April...
- Gail Collins' When Everything Changed got it, read, it highly recommend it, could write it a whole new ( Read more... ) -
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sick. sicksicksick. woke up yesterday with a sore throat and an inability to move. woke up today with swollen lymph nodes and an inability to move. I wonder if I'll even wake up tomorrow ( Read more... ) -
one list
of things I want. sigh. this is more a note to self than anything else...
- one trip to Japan or Cambodia (I might be able to swing this. I have been saving like a mofo, and also forgot about the existence of the 13th month payout.)
- Gail Collins' When Everything Changed
- language software for the DS- totally forgot - the Professor Layton ( Read more... ) -
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- my father gave me flowers for my birthday. he is one of two men in the world permitted to give me un-ironic flowers ( Read more... ) -
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a poor life decision is buying wine and trashy magazines from the 7-11 after you have worked till 11.30pm doing a long-distance phone interview of someone six hours behind you, and then sleeping at 1am and waking up at 7am to crawl into the office at 8 and write up the interview before you have a 10.30am press briefing ( Read more... )