December 2011
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I just remembered: last night I dreamed that there was a huge bear in my parents’ garden and my dogs were trying to play with it.
Mimes, get out of my head please.
This is super fucking fascinating →
oportspangles:
Because for all the critique of cultural appropriation, there’s a seriously lacking discussion about how physical objects and designs become associated with certain ideas, and it’s not always clear-cut, and there’s always give and take, and what I’m trying to say here is that some of that complicated give and take is evident in this piece. It’s far from perfect, like a perfect...
Happy holidays, darlings!
bucklemyshoe:
Christmas Eve was lovely, if a bit long and rambunctious for my sickly self. Food was SUPER delicious, and my brigadeiros disappeared in record time (seriously, under 5 minutes. Make them, people will love you for it.)
I wish you all exterminators for brain bats, dollar trees for your gardens, ginger beards for those so inclined, and a happy New Sherlock. Love you all, mean it.
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sanfo replied to your post: I can’t get the things I mentioned in the previous…
Get your friend to sign an agreement to pay rent if they stay longer than a month. If they won’t sign, they don’t get to stay. If the situation with the government gets hairy, will you be able to leave?
That’s a good suggestion, but it feels a bit mean? I know that it’s not. I know it’s...
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I might rewatch the Downton Christmas special and see if I shriek as loud as the first time.
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Getting home, eating a cold apple and a piece of cake, and knowing that you aren’t going to work tomorrow and don’t even have to feel guilty about it because your boss told you sternly “DO NOT COME IN TOMORROW” is a pretty good feeling.
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I can’t get the things I mentioned in the previous post out of my mind.
I don’t know what to do about my poor, dear country.
I don’t know what to do about my friend.
I feel completely useless.
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Just looked at the lineup for 2011's Big Fat Quiz...
Miranda Hart! Yay! And Eddie Izzard!
But no Noel Fielding or Richard Ayoade. Sadface.
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A Genius playlist that plays, in order, “Drive My Car”, “God Only Knows”, “Wish You Were Here”, and “From Blown Speakers” is doing wonders for my day.
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In which I whine
I’m still sick, but obviously can’t really take any more time off, so I’m feeling like death at work rather than in bed. Fun times. A friend from the US, who’s coming in February to do grad school in Buenos Aires (I know, right?), just asked whether he could stay with me while he looked for his own place. Now, the last roommate I had, on the exact same premise, stayed 6...
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Happy holidays, darlings!
Christmas Eve was lovely, if a bit long and rambunctious for my sickly self. Food was SUPER delicious, and my brigadeiros disappeared in record time (seriously, under 5 minutes. Make them, people will love you for it.)
I wish you all exterminators for brain bats, dollar trees for your gardens, ginger beards for those so inclined, and a happy New Sherlock. Love you all, mean it.
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Progress report
Cheesecake - done
Crack pie - done
Spanakopita - all made, ready to go in the oven later
Brigadeiros - in progress
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I know one other demi on Tumblr and I consistently fill up hir ask with comments on the subject. I’m sorry! I have a lot of feelings and no one else to share them with.
The pic of the Navy ladies kissing is on my dash five times in a row. I wish I could screencap it and post that and fill up everyone’s dashes even more.
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Ended up taking a sick day after all. In fact, a sick rest-of-the-week, via doctor’s orders and with doctor’s certificate.
Now I’m at my parents’ with my dogs, feeling taken care of. Things are much better than yesterday.
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She just left. Fucking coworker just fucking left.
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And yeah, I know 6:30 isn’t that late, but it is when you can’t even do any work and you feel like shit.
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Ugh it’s 6:30 and I’m still at work, waiting on a coworker who promised YESTERDAY to show me what’s been done so far on this project I’m taking over and for which I have to show my progress to my boss tomorrow, which means I have to have some progress by tomorrow. Meanwhile I’ve been unable to do any work all day so I’ve read pretty much every single post on...
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Something I do like?
I was just going over my messages, and the vast majority of them are people genuinely thanking me for nice things I don’t even remember saying to them anymore.
Also, in things that I don’t like and other people do:
Ketchup.
It is vile. Even the smell makes me dry heave. I Get Not Its Appeal.
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lafave replied to your post: Midnight in Paris is a very pretty movie. If you…
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Sorry I’m not sorry :p
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Midnight in Paris is a very pretty movie. If you generally like Woody Allen, I’m sure you’ll love it.
I don’t like Woody Allen much, and as such, I have the same problem with Midnight in Paris as I do with most of his other movies (with a few notable exceptions.) The protagonist, even if it’s not portrayed by Woody Allen, is still him. And the women… oh boy. The...
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Eep a man that looks exactly like Danny De Vito just walked into the office.
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The decriminalization of abortion in Spain did not...
is a headline in today’s newspaper.
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Today at lunch one of my coworkers was talking about another coworker’s wife, saying she seemed nice enough but was clearly not very smart.
This from a guy who, not ten minutes before, had been saying how if you let your girlfriend have free rein when decorating, you’d end up with pink curtains and “that fluffy shit on the… crapper… thing.”
Oh also Tumblr is totally my internet home.
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I guess I’m weird on the home thing because I associate many places with that concept? My apartment, which I’ve taken quite a few pains with, is my home-I-live-in. My parents’ house is my childhood home. Their apartment in Milan* is my Italy home (I start getting badly homesick for it if I don’t go at least once a year, which is problematic, to say the least.) And NYC and...
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Goddamnit Tumblr why do you always think I’m including links in my asks even when I’m not?
I mean, there is a lot of overlap there.
In other news, I can’t decide the exact proportion to which what I’m wearing makes me look like a hipster, a douche, preppy, and out of the 80s. But it’s definitely some combination thereof.
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I texted her. She’s at a mall.
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I’ve got this one friend, V. About two months ago, I reached my breaking point with her when, after regularly ignoring my texts, she stood me up after we’d made plans (I waited outside her building for 20 minutes, texting, calling, nada. She sort of apologized later that day, but never gave any reason for her disappearing act.)
I decided I wouldn’t speak to her until she reached...
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Rafa doesn’t seem to be on his best game today, does he? I mean, one of his assets is his stamina, and he still has pleeeeenty of time to recover, but still.
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My live stream of the Davis cup just froze on Nadal picking his butt.
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I really wanna start posting more
But I always feel like the minutiae of my life and thoughts would bore you all to tears. I try to remind myself that I love to hear about all your lives and thoughts, and maybe you wouldn’t mind knowing mine - but then I remember you’re all amazing and funny and insightful and caring, and that’s why I enjoy your posts.
TL;DR you’re all too awesome for me.
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