August 2012
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finished the last of the arabic bread
Bummer. This is The Good Bread, guys. I should have taken a couple of packs from my parents, but alas. Maybe I should just go to Bay Ridge on a Saturday or something and be like, “You know my mom. Can I have some bread, please?” Because it’s the best. I’m a grown-up. I can get there.
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-I’m at the point where I can finish a bottle of wine in two days. That’s definitely a good thing - less wasteful.
-It’s been 2.5 or 3 months since that jerk knocked me over with his car, and I still can’t put full pressure on my knee. I guess the knee really did take all 140-something pounds of me, since I had barely any other scratches, but still. It’s kind of...
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noted
-bad wine is *so* disappointing
-the music on NY Med is still godawful
-the Cute Divorced Doctor on NY Med is still very cute
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congratulations on your face
A year ago today, I altered my appearance/life, all because of an episode of Glee, mind you. Turns out it was a pretty good decision, and a heckuva birthday present. The two things that stick in my mind the most about that day - my father rolling his eyes when I very sweetly asked him if he could buy me the GQ with Mark Sanchez on the cover, and me being really psyched and then very nervous once I...
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sometimes
There are these days when it seems that every young girl in the city has the skinniest legs, and every dog is the cutest dog, and everyone is coupled up. I think to myself, “how did it come to this?” and I try to be poetic and dramatic, but the truth is that I know exactly how it came to this, and I have to remind myself that my “worst” is 10x better than what a lot of...
my modem officially hates me
All I want to do is watch “The Hounds of Love” video, and it keeps pausing and restarting and F U, modem! Related: how come it took me until now to really go watch the Kate Bush videography?
contact: initiated
One last note on the New Neighbors - it’s a lesbian couple! Hence the one bed and the studio! I met one of them in the elevator this evening and I’m pretty sure she’s younger than I am, and cool. More young people on this floor!
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Life on the 15th floor means wearing a cashmere cardigan in the middle of August.
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“I don’t know if anyone here is thinking about quitting drinking, but you need to...”
– NEW IN TOWN
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Listening to Josh Ritter and getting emotional and maybe (probably? I hope) making mountains out of molehills (because I’m SO good at it). I also got weirdly inspired by the Olympics to join a gym again, so I’m going to try to do that if I get out of work at a decent hour tomorrow (three cheers for overtime! (seriously)). Also, sometimes I think there’s a mouse in the apartment,...
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Unrelated Miscellany
1. I have now had 3 dreams in which I have to have more work done on my nose. The most recent ones have involved me thinking that it would be a quick procedure and then in reality, freaking out about missing work. Like anyone is back in the office *that* afternoon. Please. I suppose it all stems from the fact that there’s a little scar tissue left behind, which is possible to get rid of, if...
It’s really bad that I can’t stop singing “running up that hill” because honestly, who sings like Kate Bush?
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no, but really
What the shit, NBC? Why do you feel the need to have Tom Brokaw give us an 8th grade history lesson? What about showing some highlight packages or some interesting stuff that didn’t make prime time? We have to sit through all of the beach volleyball, and then we have these dopey bits with Carillo and Brokaw, treating London like it’s some exotic place.
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I mean, it would be swell to find a boyfriend and all, but who has the patience to read through these cheeseball profiles? If I see one more person describe himself as “passionate”…yeesh. Admittedly, my profiles are probably terrible, but at least they’re honest.
My opinion on Paul Ryan (other than “ugh”) is that he looks like the CFO of the real estate company that my company owns and it’s very disconcerting.
yes. good.
The unit around the corner from me now has blinds!
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Have had The Mountain Goats’ “You or Your Memory” running through my head for the past two days. And the stress is coming out - the stress that remains even though I’ve located it and addressed it. The nagging stress and anxiety. The burning in my shoulder and arm. I suppose it would do me well do find a cheap therapist, but then I just have to *explain* everything again,...
I have new neighbors?
I think? They would do well to get some blinds up. It’s kind of creepy that I can see right into their unit, specifically the part where their bed is (or maybe it’s not even a couple!). I had blinds the first day that I moved in, for Pete’s sake. I am also now confused about the layout of the floor. I thought the couple with the cute dog was right around the corner from me, but...
dawdling like a champ
Not like I have anywhere to be (I totally do have to be somewhere at 7). So much for washing my hair!
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