something i've been meaning to stick up here so i don't forget where it is later:

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i read some of mary gaitskill's new book yesterday. some quotes ( Read more... )

excerpt from a 1975 commencement address by joan didion, as also excerpted in a NYT book review essay from 10/9/05:
"I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, ( Read more... )

"...she had not been able to force herself to truly accept the thought that they would never be together again, in any of her realities and the branches of her life. and now too, as she did every time she thought this way, she felt as if she were driving the wrong way over spikes in a parking lot."

frenzy by david grossman, p. 108

as you could probably deduct from the entry title, i encountered a Jackass At The Pool today. i was fully prepared to have to "circle swim," as i chose to swim during a time frame which i had been told (and, even if i hadn't been told, it wouldn't have been too hard to figure it out) was a peak time. so, when that third person finally got in the ( Read more... )

two things that i would have a personal assistant do for me, if i were well-off and annoying enough to have a personal assistant:
--stir my natural/naturally separating (smooth) peanut butter
--handle all my mail order returns and exchanges

There's a sign on BART that amuses me. Its main headline in the biggest text is "Whose bag?", and the photo is of a man sitting in a station looking askance at an unattended bag. It's a sign trying to tell you to, well, both look askance at and also report unattended bags. But I just love the fragment "Whose bag?" It sounds more like a question ( Read more... )

i almost never get full, uninterrupted nights of sleep anymore these days. either my roommates keep me up, my headaches keep me up, the tenants downstairs keep me up, or noisy people in my quasi-BF's apartment keep me up. last night, since my roommates were not about making loud noises i thought i might get that proverbial, mythical good night's ( Read more... )

Me: "Hey, me, I heard you just survived your first week at a new job! good job, me!"
Me: "why, that's right. thanks for noticing that!"
Me: "yeah! that is just so darn awesome that I'm going to buy you some awesome gift!"
Me: "yay! thanks! you're awesome, me!"

so i got a job. in honor of this job-getting, i thought i would briefly (?) account for all of my employment since i graduated from college ( Read more... )