January 2011
“Idioms…yuck.”
me: Old MacDonald had a farm, ee-yi-ee-yi-oh. And on that farm he had some--
J: Dicks.
me: Well. He had at least one of those.
J: Ee-yi-ee-yi-oh.
aspiring aspirer.
“Can we analyse why this guy is so borin—wait, never mind, I’m bored.”
coffee and marijuana.
“I can’t believe that woman is capable of hosting life.”
girlfriend: hmmm i've only slept with two people this year.
me: ...this year?
girlfriend: i mean, in 2010! i slept with two people in 2010!
Splenetic. Solenetic.
“Postscript: it’s worth noting that another one of my favorite films of the past...”
– Black Swan « The Pinocchio Theory
i use the words “actually” and “probably” a lot, often in combination.
waiting room.
here, read some magazines.
would you like a glass of water?
oh, but i can get it myself.
suddenly a foreigner
(stranger in a strange land)
unsure where to sit or stand.
people get hella irrelevant.
my audience may finally be expanding beyond mentally unstable teenage girls.
mild panic.
which is a bit of an oxymoron, really, because the panic isn’t really mild, is it? it claws at the base of your throat, makes you forget to breathe, creates a tunnel vision as you stare blankly at one place because your brain doesn’t have the wherewithal to make your eyeballs move, it’s so concentrated on this sudden overwhelming paralytic fear. and yet you manage...
sometimes it is necessary to think about people in terms of their utility to you
(mostly when they think of you—however unconsciously—in terms of your utility to them).
continually impressed at the ability of people to not listen.
Health Insurers Caught Paying Facebook Gamers... →
people are boring.
“The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to...”
– Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
I hated the only work of Hemingway’s that I read in full[1], and I don’t even really agree with this sentiment all the time, but it is a good sentence. Sometimes I get really into it.
[1] The Sun Also Rises, for sophomore English in high...
now i am drinking tea, eating cheese and crackers, and intermittently reading and doing internet things and admiring my newly rearranged room.
only problem: i wish i had more soft sitting-type chairs.
spent my new year’s day so far watching tron: legacy, eating vegan chinese food, and listening to the 1996 broadway revival cast recording of chicago.