October 2010
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DEFRAG DEFRAG DEFRAG!
So I have to bring my netbook with me to my shiny new J-O-B on Monday, which is fine and dandy with me. In preparation for this, I’m in the process of defragging it in hopes that it will run just a little more smoothly.
THIS reminds me of my first job right out of college, where my boss heard from…someone - probably our old IT guy (who managed to install the hard-drive in my computer...
I AM EM-MOTHERFUCKING-PLOYED.
HAPPY FUCKING HALLOWEEN, Y’ALL. :)
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How I Spent My Thursday Night:
Breaking in my new pumps from Tar-zhey.
Obsessing over what to wear to tomorrow’s meeting and wishing I had a suit dress and my long hair again.
Watching Always Sunny
Talking with Jen about how all the pretty girls from Jr. High and High School ate their feelings and married men who look like potatoes and have weird, lumpy children and how this is mildly vindicating
Eating half a bag of...
“Touched” - VAST
I’ll never...
Some of these bikes are straight weird-looking.... →
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YOU GUYS I CAN'T EVEN →
Because nothing says “ROMANCE” like flyers posted in pay-phones advertising your willingness to date hookers who are not actually hookers (but are totally hookers).
“Just entertain for a moment the possibility that Joan decided not to abort...”
– Brilliant But Cancelled on why Lori Beth Denberg of All That should be on Mad Men
HOLY FUCK PLEASE LET THIS HAPPEN.
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“Lost In The World” - Kanye West feat....
“When We Two Parted” - The Afghan...
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My idiot dog has put it together in her head that smashing her head into my leg enough times while making Chewbacca noises means she gets to go outside.
The fact that she has put those two things together as a “cause-effect” way of thinking is AMAZING considering she regularly bites it while going down stairs, or misjudges the amount of force it will take to jump up on the couch.
So...
“Doo Right” - Man Man
I’m outside...
“This week is taking FOREVER. I even have Friday off, but goddamn next week is so...”
– Brian Oliu - who will be in CHICAGO next week doing a badass prose reading and then drinking with yours truly at The Long Room.
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Husband Stands Up To Anti-Choice Protesters... →
This might be one of the best things I’ve ever, ever seen.
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Transportational Issues
Justin: Gym?
Stacey: Yes. Are we running there or biking there?
Justin: I'm going to float there on a rainbow made of farts.
Stacey: "A rainbow made of farts."
Justin: Yes.
“90 Mile Water Wall” - The National
I...
Change Of Plans
For Halloween, I think I’m just going to go as Selita Ebanks from Kanye’s “Runaway” video.
Great plan? Or greatest plan?
“Sax Rohmer #1” - The Mountain Goats
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“I want ice cream. Why doesn’t anyone deliver ice cream. SOMEONE should...”
– Dinner talk with Justin
“Farewell Transmission” - Magnolia...
“White Blank Page” - Mumford &...
“The concept of social identity seems to address the fascination of Tumblr that’s...”
– Tumblr: Showing, Telling, Watching | Mediaite (via somethingchanged)
for those of you who are new to the platform…..we LOVE Tumblr
Matthew, 24, US
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In Which The Metra Dicked Up My Wednesday And I...
Here’s how my Wednesday night was supposed to go:
Take the 5:30ish Metra from Ravenswood to Winnteka
Walk 2 blocks to the restaurant
Enjoy a free Greek food dinner with my roommate, courtesy of her job
Take the 7:30ish Metra back to Ravenswood & bike home
Go to the gym
Here’s how my Wednesday night actually went:
Took the 5:30ish Metra out of Ravenswood
Became very confused...
I am of the opinion that I have posted entirely... →
“I’m so glad I live with you - you have all these handy friends.”
– My roommate, upon learning that my friend Nick would help fix a flat tire
“All The Love In The World” - Nine...
“And the Chicago Cubs will beat every team in the league, and the Tampa Bay Bucs...”
– “Cubs in Five” - The Mountain Goats
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