Date: 2008-05-18 21:53 Subject: a rare moment in which I don't entirely hate my job. Security: Public Mood: satisfied

I designed this cover, and I'm proud.

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Date: 2008-03-16 11:39 Subject: yahoooo! Security: Public

someone bought herself a macbook <3

( abuses of photobooth )

good things will come of this.

a resolution: i finally feel like i can throw myself into something (that i have something to throw myself into).

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Date: 2007-12-29 16:24 Subject: found in a notebook Security: Public Mood: lively, insistent Music: Destroyer - Rubies

The First, by Jan Richman

The first person who ever ate an orange
ate the peel. That's why love's so compelling, its
mainspring perpetually rigged up and ready to roll,
electing you. Yo! Recipe maker! Food taster! Saint
of First Causes! Bring your whelp of a tongue over here.

Passion's eyes say nothing of the string of goods
changing hands behind. Waves break their backs
over law-abiding currents, while a smooth skin of sand
sings bed over a restless, hot-fisted earth.
This is life, is all. It is the circle the saw makes.

Even death is penetrable, but watch that yawning
loophole. A canary dips into the mine shaft and breaks the
news, makes the news, carves out its peerless by-line. Yes,
the first mortal must have felt something like joy
when she unfolded her crowning assignment.

Her limbs sudden weight tearing a sigh from lucid air
and the peopled frame tightening, tightening she moved,
there must have been a lively, insistent churning:
I, I.

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Date: 2007-12-26 20:54 Subject: I got an Oktomat for my birthday. I need to practice. Security: Public Music: XMAS2.mp3

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Date: 2007-09-30 14:02 Subject: Alain de Botton, On Love. p. 43 Security: Public

9. If one is not wholly convinced of one's own lovability, receiving affection can appear like being bestowed an honor for a feat one feels no connection with.

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Date: 2007-08-07 22:22 Subject: making dinner... Security: Public

sometimes it's the only thing that makes me feel better.

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Date: 2007-08-05 16:55 Subject: he's right, you know. Security: Public Music: pb&j - up against the wall

John Hickey visited me this weekend, and it made me feel real good. This is a poem he wrote:


I am trying to sort out these contradictions

life is too short for playing around.
too short for fending off boughs of love
as if they were a school of gnats. often
i have treated love like this, my flailing
is also called drunkenness. my fighting
is called pretension.

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Date: 2007-08-04 12:54 Subject: pickled ginger, wasabi powder, soy sauce Security: Public

tuna, shitake mushroom, avacado, cucumber, carrot. this is beauty:



more here.

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Date: 2007-07-31 21:51 Subject: brand new accessory <3 Security: Public Music: #1radiohits1990-1994(currently INXS)

i am too excited by these:

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Date: 2007-05-30 20:33 Subject: all signs point to change Security: Public Mood: here's hoping

fortune cookie:
The coming month shall bring winds of change in your life.


On a related note (via nypress.com, via Kelly)

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
There’s nothing wrong with allowing yourself to be led from the path you’d chosen for yourself. That’s often how you discover new, better ways of living. Sometimes, though, you don’t even realize you’ve been led badly astray until you meet someone who reminds you of who you really are (or were). Some people challenge you to become something or someone new. That’s great. But some people don’t expect you to be anything more (or less) than you already are, quite naturally. You’ve done enough rising to the occasion lately. This week, find someone who’ll let you take a seat, relax, and enjoy just being yourself.

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Date: 2007-04-16 22:03 Subject: you say it, Frank. Security: Public Mood: I seem to be defying fate Music: PJ Harvey - Long Snake Moan

Five Poems, Frank O'Hara


Well now, hold on
maybe I won't go to sleep at all
and it'll be a beautiful white night
or else I'll collapse
completely from nerves and be calm
as a rug or a bottle of pills
or suddenly I'll be off Montauk
swimming and loving it and not caring where

*

an invitation to lunch
HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT?
when I only have 16 cents and 2
packages of yoghurt
there's a lesson in that, isn't there
like in Chinese poetry when a leaf falls?
hold off on the yoghurt till the very
last, when everything may improve

*

at the Rond-Point they were eating
an oyster, but here
we were dropping by sculptures
and seeing some paintings
and the smasheroo-grates of Cadoret
and mysic by Varèse, too
well Adolph Gottlieb I guess you
are the hero of this day
along with venison and Bill

I'll sleep on the yoghurt and the dream of the Persian Gulf

*

which I did it was wonderful
to be in bed again and the knock
on my door for once signified "hi there"
and the deafening walk
through the ghettos where bombs have gone off lately
left by subway violators
I knew why I love taxis, yes
subways are only fun when you're feeling sexy
and who feels sexy after The Blue Angel
well maybe a little bit

*

I seem to be defying fate, or am I avoiding it?


(1960)

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Date: 2007-04-14 17:22 Subject: oh, right. Security: Public Music: Ism - twice

So, my brother visited me a couple of weeks ago.

( related much? )

My dad's home again, for the first time since 2/26. It's been a long time. Things are looking up.

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Date: 2007-03-31 16:43 Subject: okay, some memes are okay Security: Public Music: tina.ogg

as dictated by sliding_doors

My 10 fave songs from a given letter, wherein the given letter is W.

(in no particular order)

1. DJ Shadow - Why Hip Hop Sucks in '96
Because I love this whole album and I'm happy one of the songs began with W. It's the money

2. REM - Walk Unafraid
Cheating. This is actually one of Steve's favorite songs, but it reminds me of him, and that's why it's here.

3. Portishead - Wandering Star
It makes me think of cuddling. And sex.

4. Fancie - Want your Child
Okay, no one really knows who she is, but I love her. I've listened to the album this is off of (A Negative Capability) so many times. She continues to be in my top 5 on last.fm

5. Harvey Danger - What you Live By
Because you die by what you live by.

6. Mike Doughty - Ways + Means
Because I love this man in so many ways.

7. PJ Harvey - We Float
Off of my favorite album of hers. I love the lyrics.

8. Lamb - What Sound
Of course I'd pick this song. It is highly listenable.

9. Beck - Where it's at
Some old school love.

10. Tori Amos - Winter
A song guaranteed to make me cry at least 50% of the times I listen to it.

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Date: 2007-03-30 18:29 Subject: oh, if it were only a joke. Security: Public Mood: manicmess Music: mirah

Note: I looked at tropical fruit for over 4 hours today. And got paid for it.

Tropical fruit. For a textbook cover. What subject, you ask?


---


A. Algebra.

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Date: 2007-03-02 12:44 Subject: a coupla things Security: Public Mood: wiped Music: Kid Koala

1) Do any of you Boston folk have United Healthcare? If so - do you have a Primary Care that you like (preferably one that's a Brigham and Woman's affiliate)?

2) Instead of focusing on this last week (I don't want to talk about it right now, but it's family-related), I've decided to show off some of the projects I've been working on ...

( the only meme I've ever liked )

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Date: 2007-02-23 12:09 Subject: I love it! Security: Public Location: 75 Arlington St. 02116 Mood: in love! Music: Pelican - Last Day of Winter

I am not generally one to get the vapors over some geeky mod from Make magazine, but hell if this isn't a gorgeous piece of tech:



Read all about it here, mirrored here.

And the best part is that Steve & I have a clicky keyboard sitting around, waiting to be used... O frabjous day!

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Date: 2007-02-10 08:22 Subject: rockland county area code Security: Public

A rhyme of this or that will simply not convey the fact
that the time of a lost soul will always take its toll
so forget my word forget my thought I've already
taken for granted the lessons I was just taught.
-txtmsg, caller unknown

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Date: 2007-01-13 22:27 Subject: cookery Security: Public

I am very tired.

07:30 wakeup, 09:00 errands, 13:00 visitor, cooking adventure

( cooking adventure )

I think I want to start a cookery blog - keep track of what I'm doing in the kitchen, what recipes/variations I come up with, what gadgets I have/want, what things Steve and I imbibe and how we feel about them.

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Date: 2006-12-24 01:28 Subject: Holiday Party! Security: Public Mood: Hear all the bombs fade away Music: Hear all the bombs fade away

It's a picture-post kind of week.

( holiday party! )

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Date: 2006-12-24 01:21 Subject: Rockport! Security: Public

** apologies for the repost, but the entry seemed to somehow get deleted?!? Argh/Sorry :-/ **

( Day off. )

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