24 Oct
Writing papers on a Saturday embodies all that is evil in this world
And the paper is about idiom understanding in children with poor reading comprehension skills. So, double open-palm slap of the face there.
18 Oct
More stuff from the internets
1. Obnoxious. Just tell me how to bake the cute individual butterscotch pecan pies and leave the “I hate Walmart, grr, so awful… (even though I shop there all the time because they’re affordable). But aren’t they such bastards?” lame mantra to the folks who care.
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2. Phil Hendrie’s weekly changing of his facebook profile information is amusing. Friend the dude and be rewarded with these:
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3. Whut.
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4. My cousins, everyone. Hopefully Nathan’s joking around (please let him be joking).
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5. I went through a country phase when I was 19 – bought a crapstorm of country CDs, cowgirl hat that I never really had the guts to wear out in public, dreams to eventually move out the Nebraska because of ‘Wiiide Oopen Spaaces’. It wasn’t my finest hour. And from the dozens of country artists that initially grabbed my attention, about 7 where able to make the long haul into 2009. Blake Shelton is one. And his twitter feed has made him the one, if ya know what I’m saying (When he chopped off that unbelievably hideous horse tail/mullet/perm look he had for much too long, it was pretty much over for everyone else). I’m not saying to follow his twitter (he posts seriously 30 times a day), but if you enjoy childish toilet jokes, mocking PETA, and reading updates from someone in the middle of a hunting trip, do it to it.
Blake Shelton – “Nobody But Me” (mp3)
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18 Oct
Lorrie Moore (Books #55-57)
I’m generally late to the good authors/books party, and Lorrie Moore is one I’ve recently discovered. I grabbed three of her books from the school library and read them all in a little over a week. She can write an insanely good short story. I got more out of a 5 pager than a certain 600 page novel I finished last month *cough*.
Anyway, 2 of many favorite quotes -
“She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth… People talking were meant to look at a face, the disastrous cupcake of it, the hide-and-seek of the heart dashing across. With a phone, you said words, but you never watched them go in. You saw them off at the airport but never knew whether there was anyone there to greet them when they got off the plane. “
— Lorrie Moore (Like Life) This is me, basically.“This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she’d noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!”
— Lorrie Moore (Birds of America: Stories) This is most people where I live, basically.
12 Oct
Song Obsession :: Good Books – “Only You” (Yazoo cover)
Good Books – “Only You” (Yazoo cover) (mp3)
The plodding notes and background ambient/static effects are lovely. It’s like they modernized the electronic 80’s into indie electronic 00’s. Dig it.
9 Oct
Does 24 mean I’m officially in my mid-20s?
I turned 24 today. Oof. Thank God I found semi-normal activities to distract me today (Disneyland! Angels vs. Red Sox Game 2!), otherwise I’d be huddled away in a corner of the house reading/watching archived Mark Steyn articles/videos, binge eating on soft peaches and toasted Ezekiel hamburger buns topped with fat-free cottage cheese (what, it’s really good combo), reading in fits and spurts whatever book of the week I’m into, and cat-napping yet another day away.
I don’t do birthdays well.
5 Oct
Yeah…
Shallow Alert: I need to stop going on dates with guys who are better looking than me. It’s not right for the girl to feel like the hobgoblin…
