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Dear Future Eleanor,
You broke up with Steve because of a lack of consideration he was showing for you, not because you are a crazy jealous bitch. Don't be friends with him unless he apologizes--for the behavior pattern, not any one specific instance--and don't sleep with him unless he's really changed. "Getting back together" is better because once you're happy and ( Read more... ) -
So there is all this drama in my life
and I end up just bitching at the persons involved about it, or bottling it up, and then suddenly I had a thought: Way back in high school, I used to unload those sorts of thing on livejournal! So here goes, an e-mail I sent to Sage Tyrtle of http://quirkynomads.com, one of the best podcasters ( Read more... ) -
Look! A meme!
Found this meme floating around . . . It is the LibraryThing.com 91 books most often tagged "unread" (numberically) meme! (Technically the mem is 106, but I was getting bored . . . I've recently taken up knitting and also for the first time in a very long time school is not a refuge. Not that this explains anything ( Read more... ) -
The North Pole
My dad's in China, and I just got his "I'm here & ok" e-mail. One thing caught my eye:
"I got to see the north pole, as it was light when we went over. It
looked icy with large cracks in the ice."
With large cracks in the ice . . . shit. -
Al Gore and The West Wing and so on
Hello, livejournal land! I just realized I haven't posted in wonks! Well, actually, I've been "realizing" that a lot over the past eight weeks or so. HOWEVER I just realized that I was going to post my posts from my "50 book challenge" thread over at LibraryThing. And the one I posted today seemed like a particularly apt place to get back to it. ( ( Read more... ) -
Memories and shit
I was just remembering--I used to be a total Oz junkie when I was a kid. I hadn't really thought about it in a while, but I might go to Chicago to see Wicked with the Theater department (although I have lost my checkbook and therefore need to purchase new checks), and I did "Over the Rainbow" as my audition song for the musical (didn't get in, ( Read more... ) -
Shit happens and so on
So I was going to be like, hey livejournal, here I am back to cry on your shoulders when something kinda shitty happened, but then I found out Heath Ledger died. So I'm going to distract myself with that tragedy, or maybe the tragedy of the media sticking its fingers in its ears and going "la la la la la" instead of covering John Edwards. Or ( Read more... ) -
Books! Or, And then I read: The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Tourism
I thought about doing 50bookchallenge this year, but the format felt like too much of a hassle. But then I found the equivalent LibraryThing group, and a forum thread seemed like a much more reasonable way to try to keep track. BUT one of my odder new year's resolutions is to post things places online, instead of just lurking. Because lurking gets to be no fun, ( Read more... ) -
Political chicken
So this is my take (and a bit of icklefickle's take too) on tonight's democratic debate, with contributions from an e-mail forward (Hillary) and a friend (angry young voter). Hope you enjoy ( Read more... ) -
Well, I may not be done applying to college yet, but . . .
I had early notification/scholarship priority on my Tulane app, right? And so we get back from New Jersey, 9:00 Friday night, and there's this letter from Tulane. Which looks quite important, not just those junkificatious ones that never stop coming. And it turns out I got in!! And also a rather nice scholarship. So that'll make these last few ( Read more... )