My skin glows orange in the darkness as I light a new cigarette from the remains of the old. As the stark bleakness of Nebraska comes grittily through the hifi, I wonder when and where my life derailed.
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Today I accepted the inevitable, bowed to the unstoppable onslaught of winter, and put the winter tires on my car. That's my productive activity quota for the month, so I refuse to do anything more until the next.
Now I will lie back and eat grapes. Unfortunately, I don't have a nubile young slave girl to feed them to me, but I guess I'll get...
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Now I will lie back and eat grapes. Unfortunately, I don't have a nubile young slave girl to feed them to me, but I guess I'll get...
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delancey:
Not only do I know how to drive but I am that rare breed of New Yorker who has a car in the city and is had to master the art of parallel parking. I also have 4 wheel drive and drive to the mountains... I just had new tires put in place for winter. Ok, I did have it done for me but I don't have a driveway
dryad:
I think it IS the cheese fry capital, a fact I did not know when I moved here.
Shit. I completely forgot that this morning I was supposed to go to a judges' training for a writing contest I'm supposed to judge. How irresponsible do I look? I don't even have an excuse as lame as being hungover from a Halloween night out. It just completely slipped my mind. I didn't remember until
I can't do anything about it now, of course, but...
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rubix:
wow its already snowing there!! crazy!!
haha that was the point of the slutty girl scout costume!!!
haha that was the point of the slutty girl scout costume!!!
otoki:
Good. Go look and leave a detailed fucking comment. I want this damned set to go up already. Fuck this spammy MR shit. I'm submitting through SR next time.
I don't have a specific retirement amount in mind, this is more a way to keep track of how much I've made through dancing.
I don't have a specific retirement amount in mind, this is more a way to keep track of how much I've made through dancing.
It's snowing. I have mixed feelings.
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necia:
And oh, man. Snow. That's actually more normal than last year, though (was it last year or the year before, or both, when it waited practically until Christmas to really start snowing?). Is it real snow? Like, going-to-stick snow?
sarianna:
I'm peachy keen! Did you dress up for Halloween?
Terrible news. The Minnesota Public Radio Morning Show is going off the air December 11. This is awful. I've listened to the Morning Show for almost 10 years. They play music you can't hear anywhere else. I can't explain it; you need to check out their playlists to see how eclectic they are. I heard Roy Rogers and Dale Evans this morning. They also do...
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necia:
Awww. That's super lame about MPR.
Unrelatedly, I don't think I knew you were a Fighting Piper.
Unrelatedly, I don't think I knew you were a Fighting Piper.
silently_sarah:
Something like that happened to me as well I guess. Not as unique a show, but a morning show I liked. The first morning of the new show, I woke up to something that really really offended and pissed me off. I no longer listen to morning shows at all now. Such things simply will not do.
The cat thought it was people. It sat up on its hindquarters and watched the computer monitor. Aww...
I've had a lazy day off so far. It's been raining all day. I did go to the store to get carrots, however, because I forgot them on Saturday. I don't mind carrots, but broccoli must be destroyed.
Ugh...now I must do laundry.
In good news, my...
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I've had a lazy day off so far. It's been raining all day. I did go to the store to get carrots, however, because I forgot them on Saturday. I don't mind carrots, but broccoli must be destroyed.
Ugh...now I must do laundry.
In good news, my...
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katieesq:
Doubtful, but I'm glad to know it nonetheless. Oh, Ginsberg. You and your hallucinogens and your anal sex and what not.
Why do you go for walks?
Why do you go for walks?
katieesq:
I've read some pretty interesting On the Road commentary. One of my friends in undergrad wrote about voluntary marginalization and did some research on him and Baldwin. Baldwin had some choice things to say about Kerouac.
I read this book when I was young, so a lot of the nuances of gender and sexuality were lost on me. I'd love to hear your conclusions...in a little less than a month.
Fucking test. Rin actually hates the book - thinks it's a sexist piece of garbage. I don't doubt her analysis, and kind of want to read it again with this in mind.
Also, I like walking too.
I read this book when I was young, so a lot of the nuances of gender and sexuality were lost on me. I'd love to hear your conclusions...in a little less than a month.
Fucking test. Rin actually hates the book - thinks it's a sexist piece of garbage. I don't doubt her analysis, and kind of want to read it again with this in mind.
Also, I like walking too.
Weird blog things going on; this blog deleted and rewritten.
I must go to the grocery store. However, I haven't left the house all weekend. Or even gotten dressed, bathed, or anything else that would make me presentable enough to go to the grocery store. I have brushed my teeth, though; I have to draw the line somewhere.
If it were after midnight I could pass myself off as one of the crazies that wanders...
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If it were after midnight I could pass myself off as one of the crazies that wanders...
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otoki:
The info I got from your posts helped me make money off of some bio-diesel guys, so there
It's now Saturday night, so I can finally sing Sam Cooke.
Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody.
I've got some money 'cause I just got paid.
Now, how I wish I had someone to talk to.
I'm in an awful way.
But I have what's important. I have my cigarettes, and I have my books.
I did everything I said I was going...
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Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody.
I've got some money 'cause I just got paid.
Now, how I wish I had someone to talk to.
I'm in an awful way.
But I have what's important. I have my cigarettes, and I have my books.
I did everything I said I was going...
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katieesq:
Apparently I was supposed to get a bound copy of my thesis (and everyone else in my honors class) but this didn't happen. I'm not surprised. I was kind of the prodigal honors student and the director and I did not get along. Whatever - photocopies.
I'm not even that opinionated on academic dishonesty. But at that moment it just seemed like enough is enough. I give a big announcement at the beginning that cheating is ridiculous on a practice exam because you don't get a fair idea of how you would do on the real exam. And if you cheat on the real exam you are effed in the A.
And you better leave me some Yeats comments. No one is picking up my assignment yet!
I'm not even that opinionated on academic dishonesty. But at that moment it just seemed like enough is enough. I give a big announcement at the beginning that cheating is ridiculous on a practice exam because you don't get a fair idea of how you would do on the real exam. And if you cheat on the real exam you are effed in the A.
And you better leave me some Yeats comments. No one is picking up my assignment yet!
sick:
D'oh. I didn't want to leave a comment on my own blog! Let's try again.
I think a rabbit nibbled on my corkscrew hazel (Corylus avellana). With most plants, I wouldn't care; rabbits need to eat too, after all. But the hazel was expensive, and I just planted it this spring. It's more of a twisty twig than the large shrub it will grow up to be.
I think it will be all right. The rabbit didn't strip...
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I think it will be all right. The rabbit didn't strip...
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rubix:
haha i hope i get one more hurrah- well its supposed to be 20 degrees this weekend!!
smythe:
Fridays are overrated! I made pasta sauce and jarred 10 pints of it and then went to be before 11! Woo! Watch out, I freaking wild!
I finished Anathem. It took me a few days, but cut me some slack; it's just shy of 1000 pages, and I didn't get a good start on it until Friday afternoon.
The simplest way I can explain it is that it's a work of speculative fiction whose main theme is Platonism. That is, in the philosophy of mathematics, the school of thought which...
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The simplest way I can explain it is that it's a work of speculative fiction whose main theme is Platonism. That is, in the philosophy of mathematics, the school of thought which...
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meow:
You're the best. 
rubix:
blue rules!!
its getting really chilly here now too!! summer has come and gone!!!
blue rules!!
its getting really chilly here now too!! summer has come and gone!!!
Where is everyone this week?
My ear still hurts like bezoomny. Perhaps if I stick a pencil in there and jam it around a bit, it will help?
Do you get enough fiber in your diet? No? Don't worry; no one does. I suspect that to get the recommended 25g a day, you would pretty much need to eat sawdust all day. I'm up to...
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My ear still hurts like bezoomny. Perhaps if I stick a pencil in there and jam it around a bit, it will help?
Do you get enough fiber in your diet? No? Don't worry; no one does. I suspect that to get the recommended 25g a day, you would pretty much need to eat sawdust all day. I'm up to...
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sarianna:
My class seems like it will be pretty engaging and thought provoking. Most of the women in my class are middle-aged and have a self-satisfied, smug air to them. But I usually hate everyone when I first meet them.
And then, months later, I like them.
You could always say you are too busy to fix said aunt and uncle's computer.....
you so have a book to read , after all...
And then, months later, I like them.
You could always say you are too busy to fix said aunt and uncle's computer.....
you so have a book to read , after all...
is everything ok!?
im fine, gots a new job!