I really feel like Jay-Z missed an opportunity in the music video for "Empire State of Mind". He could have totally had a shot in which he was standing in front of a JMZ subway station sign where is head is covering the "M" part and you can only see "J" and "Z" on either side. Hilarity!!! Too bad he isn't nearly as clever as I am! Too bad ( Read more... )

Red Bull you are my loyal friend. I have learned to love you over time and in turn you have graced me with a preternatural ability to write over five pages in an hour, a skill which really actually doesn't cut it sometimes but hey WHO IS COMPLAINING HERE? Not I, indeed not I. If ever I shall leave thee, Red Bull, say it was not due to some sort ( Read more... )

I just lost this decently long entry I wrote about how I'm flying out to Seattle with my brother and mom for Christmas for the first time in years and how awesome it is. So recap: my grandmother is paying for us to go out there and it's going to be sweet because I love Seattle and I love spending Christmas with actual family instead of sitting ( Read more... )

 Okay, seriously, this needs to stop.  I keep thinking that guys I work with are hitting on me, and then it always turns out that they have a girlfriend.  It's not even like I'm so in love with these dudes that I fabricate flirtation, I'm usually not even that attracted to them (except Gabriel, but he transcends generalizations. mwahaha.) I just ( Read more... )

 I went to a Halloween party tonight at my friend's house off campus.  She lives in this really old-timey awesome house with large french doors and old timey furniture and wall paper and the house is heated by a wood stove.  She also only invited a certain amount of people, and they were all people I know, so I figured it was going to be a pretty ( Read more... )

 I have a purring kitten in my lap and need to go do productive things like laundry but she is PURRING and it is so cute.  We've discovered that Audrey (unlike her brother) really really really REALLY likes soft, fuzzy fabrics.  When she encounters them she snuggles into them, purrs, and kneads them with her little paws.  She is currently doing ( Read more... )

 Dear Danielle,
You do not only have to wear jeans.  You own many other items of clothing, and a couple other types of pants, even.  Just because it's getting cold doesn't mean you can't make a non-jeans outfit work with the weather.  Please keep this in mind in the future.

Sincerely,
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 3am - Got home with friends
3:30 am - Prepare for bed
4am - Unable to sleep
4:30 am - Still unable to sleep
5 am - Finally fall asleep
7 am - Wake up, feed guinea pigs
7:30am - fall back asleep
9:30 am - Wake up again
10 am - Can't fall back asleep, give up, wake up officially

So sleeping is never usually a problem for me.  I've always been really good at ( Read more... )

 I'm having this problem wherein all I want right now is to have an apartment to myself (MYSELF, no significant other, no friends, no nothing...well, a cat would be fine, too) and go to parks and cafes by myself and the gym in the mornings and on the weekends I can see friends who live nearby (go drinking, what have you) and on the week days ( Read more... )

So I've been reading a lot of articles about sex lately (sex in marriage, keeping your sex life alive, female sexuality, etc.) the most recent example being this one: www.theatlantic.com/doc/200612/nehring-sex.

I found the closing paragraphs of the article to be interesting, worth consideration, and at the very least, she uses the word "caesura":

I ( Read more... )