I've been feeling very much like a grown-up ( Read more... )

I was driving around today, and misread a street-sign. I thought it had read "Elsewhere," and thought about how it'd be cool to live there. Over on Elsewhere St.
"Where do you live?"
"Over on Elsewhere. The far end."
"Oh..."

( time is fleeting )

( Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it. )

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sometimes strange things happen when answering the phone.

today at work:
"______________" I answer and give the standard greeting.
no response, but I do hear music -- background music, not the elevator-music-you're-on-hold stuff.

"Hello?"

still nobody there, but definitely some sweeping classical tune being played.

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today I came across the best advice I've heard for a while.

"Find someone with whom you have a rapport, and proceed."

Oscar Wilde kicks thine philistine arse

--when they say "never put anything in your ear that's bigger than your elbow," it's best to heed the advice. it's very difficult to put ear-drops in by yourself, or to find someone with enough sympathy or pity for you after doing such a stupid mistake to administer the ear-drops for you. still some stubborn blockage going on, but this conductive ( Read more... )

"If it's good enough for Beyonce', it's good enough for me," declares my Uncle, discussing the finer points of the Master Cleanse diet and its lemon-juice, cayenne pepper, maple syrup cocktail. I confess to once going as far as buying all the ingredients at the supermarket a couple months ago -- all but the maple syrup -- deciding in the end to ( Read more... )