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[12 Oct 2005|10:50pm] |
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I HAVE A MYSPACE NOW ADD ME OR SOMETHING OK BYE
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[02 Oct 2005|10:21pm] |
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"I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is" -Vladimir Nabokov
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[14 Sep 2005|12:33am] |
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The words hung out in front of us, like items on a clothes line -- blowing slightly, but mostly stationary. Waiting for someone to take them down and iron them, digest the sentiment and try again.
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[28 Aug 2005|06:16pm] |
At work today, I was sitting around staring out the window, and this man [looking about 40 years old or so] walks in the door. He's short and bulky [not chubby, but strong looking], wearing a hat, excercise type clothes and a goofy, borderline creepy grin -- not our typical Fancy clientele.
I say "Hi, how are you?" and stand up to greet him, and he hears me ask, but doesn't respond. Rather, he walks quickly toward me with the same tilted head, same strange expression, same grin I can't be sure about, and then stands right in front of me. I'm thinking "He's going to rob me. He's going to kill me. Gun! Knife! Creep! No!", but he just stands there, and after a few seconds of awkward, fidgety quiet, he says "Well, are you going to take it?" to which I respond with a very confused, slightly quiet "What?"
He reaches across the counter and hands me and unscratched scratch ticket, then says quietly, sincerely, quickly "Good luck." and walks out of the shop -- not to be seen again.
By the by, I didn't win any money. Ross made the worthy point that not winning any money is the only part of the story that isn't strange. It would be 200 times more worthy of a story if I won thousands or millions or even just five, but I am glad it happened all the same, money or not. I think I love strange situations because as they unfold, you're very aware of the fact that your life is changing. Regular things change all the time, but most of the difference is only noticed in retrospect, and I think that's interesting.
Another thing for today is ( this picture ).
It's my new favorite because it reminds me of a dream I had once. I was all out of sorts trying to figure out where I'd seen it before, and then ta da.
That has never happened to me before.
Details about summer when it ends, I think.
And details about books then too because I've had a lot of time to catch up on reading.
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[23 Jun 2005|09:13pm] |
OK, here's mine! I was tagged by Danny Carson ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) cowboydan and Miss Tews rulette
Instructions: List five songs that you are currently into, it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words or even if they're any good but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artist and the song in your journal along with your five songs. Then tag five other people to see what they're listening to.
1. One -- Johnny Cash. It's sort of sad, but for some reason it makes me feel amazing. Sometimes I'll listen to it and just start laughing. The other day I was in the car, and I laughed so hard that I was crying?? What's the deal with that?? I don't know. It's a good song regardless of whether you think it is happy or sad. Most of the time I think it is both, but lately I think it is happy.
2. Bermuda Highway -- My Morning Jacket. I am just getting into them, and I like a lot of songs off this album [At Dawn], but I'm picking this one because my stomach always does a little flip when he sings "Don't let your silly dreams, fall inbetween the crack of the bed and the wall."
3. Wrath Pinned to the Mist and Other Games -- Of Montreal. If I could be in the middle of a huge crowd of dancing people with balloons falling from the ceiling and this song playing....I would probably pee my pants from laughing so hard.
4. You Are -- Built to Spill. I think it is amazing that a song with so few words can make me feel so much.
5. I'll agree with Dan and say Greg's new song about love breaking knees because it makes me giggle just thinking about it, it gets stuck in my head constantly, and it's spot on for how a lot of feelings feel. I'll also let the new Beestings song go here too, and I don't care if that's cheating because both songs make my knees wobble.
I tag
virginsailor
mblankgpb
linzkaum
ce_coeur
flyzerodive
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[05 Jun 2005|06:40pm] |
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"I remember spending an afternoon with Mr. Richter in the Central Park Zoo, I went weighted down with food for the animals, only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them, Mr. Richter told a joke, I tossed hamburger to the lions, he rattled the cages with his laughter, the animals went to the corners, we laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged, it was one of the best days of my life, a day in which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all."
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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[02 May 2005|08:20pm] |
Things have felt busy in a better way lately. I feel like I should post something that does service to the good things in my life, since they have been ignored on here for a little too long.
Today when I was walking, some sorta cute boy came up to me and asked for directions, and I pointed and told him the way to walk there, and he looks at me and says [with an excellent straight face, no less] "Well, I fly, so..." And I started cracking up so hard because what a terrific thing to say to someone. Then I gave him new directions for people who fly, which weren't altogether too different from the walking ones.
I might have found the extra grandparent that I've been craving, but I don't want to say too much about it because I'm terrified I'll jinx it. I will say, though, that it made my entire weekend A+ and thinking about having such a great, new friend makes me smile every time I think about it. More on that later.
I have an art history midterm tomorrow that I have A LOT of reading to do for. I like the reading, so I am not bummed about it at all. I do, however, need to get better at time management. I am learning interesting things and reading nice things in my classes, which I will tell everyone more about soon.
I love my job. I do. I have the funniest, craziest boss. And the funniest, craziest lady working next door. Fancy Schmancy is the best. If you do not believe me, you should go to www.fancyjewels.com and www.schmancytoys.com. Life is awesome.
This weekend, I'm heading up to Vancouver to see Magnolia Electric Co. play on my birthday. How lucky am I? LUCKY!!! Last weekend [as in yesterday and the days before], I saw a lot of people that I love. And last week, I saw Masha, Mike and Michael Cain. We also bumped into the lovely Lindsey Kirschenbaum [too brief, but I'll take it!]. All of those people are WONDERFUL. It had to be written. Weekends are the nicest idea. I am in love with them.
I got to see one of my favorite authors speak. I bumped into Ian at the reading [another fantastic thing!], and we were goofy and happy, and it was a great day. He [the author] made some interesting points about writing, and it made me over the top, out of my mind excited about writing. It was nice to have a refresher. Also, I finished his new book, which is by no means as great as the last one, but nice all the same. There are great quotes in it, which I will also post later because ideas are always better/more effective broken up. People pay better attention when it's not a bunch of text, hm?
I want to learn the favorite book of every person I know or even just meet. I think it would be interesting. There are so many people and so many books. Obvious, I know, but hey. What is your favorite book? ANSWER ME THAT!
Jamie and I get coffee quickly on tuesdays and thursdays now, and it always makes my day. ALWAYS. Jamie is another great thing, and I love that he has caught the love bug. He and his girlfriend are Cute [please note the use of capitalization].
I am going to have dinner with Hana and Paul on Thursday hopefully!! This would make me VERY happy.
Ross Kirshenbaum is the sweetest guy I know!!
There is a lot more to say, but I need to read!!!
I HOPE EVERYONE IS HAVING A NICE LIFE!!!
talk to you soon! ok! goodbye!
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[18 Apr 2005|04:30pm] |
"Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido."
(Love is so short, and forgetting is so long.)
-Pablo Neruda
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[18 Apr 2005|04:29pm] |
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"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket." - Sylvia Plath
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[18 Apr 2005|04:25pm] |
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"For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed. When you part from your friend, you grieve not; for that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain." - Kahlil Gibran
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[18 Apr 2005|04:23pm] |
"I belligerently submit that there is something to be said for essential goodness. There is something to be said for decency. There is something to be said for tolerance and endurance and faith and forgiveness and rugged hope and never, never giving up."
-Tim O'Brien
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[16 Apr 2005|12:53am] |
If you had to pay people a sum of money
based on how important they were to you,
and lots of money meant lots of importance,
then I would owe Ross and Amy enough money to buy them the moon.
And then, hey cool, we could go to the moon.
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[08 Mar 2005|12:40am] |
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Nothing ever goes the way I think it will,
and that's exciting or depressing
depending on what kind of day I'm having.
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[10 Feb 2005|07:58pm] |
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amy wants a myspace
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