January 2012
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October 2011
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“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap...”
– (via dcdocent)
August 2011
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A week of Netflixed Heroes and insomnia
It ends with a lousy Claire cliff hanger?
I can’t say I regret watching the series - season one and three made it more than worth while - but season four’s writing, character development, and ending makes me wonder if the writers were Haitianed after every volume.
After becoming so attached to the characters, it’s disappointing to realize that in the Heroes universe, there are...
July 2011
5 posts
Maybe it's how life works, but I'm realizing that...
Making grown-up friends
How do you make new friends in a place where everyone is busy? In college it’s easy to make friends, but now, out of college, in the grown up world, no one seems to make new friends - either they’re always your friends or you just make friends with coworkers…
I made friends with coworkers, but none of us know the area or know anyone in the area to help us find things to do....
June 2011
5 posts
Taking a moment to tumbl and breathe
Nine intense days of kids left me in a bit of a blur so these five days off have flown by.
This morning I woke up and had this weird feeling, couldn’t really get a deep breath or feel satisfied with my breathing. I felt cooped up in my hotel room, but not in the mood to go out or do anything. Tried a dozen relaxation techniques and nothing really worked - I just stayed antsy but...
Road trip from Hell (part III)
Halfway through South Carolina and the only thing keeping me going is the thought of South of the Border in North Carolina and Dinosaur World in Virginia.
Sombrero clad brontosaurs then more brontosauruses.
Road Trip from Hell (part I)
Certainly just expected. Mom has locked the keys in the car, won’t stop saying “I need a damn cigarette,” and was late by… oh about four hours.
May 2011
12 posts
Their shoes just wouldn't fit
I can never fall asleep anymore, so much worry haunting my mind refusing to subside not even for a moment just so I can find some peace. The boy is snoring, passed out after too many drinks to notice I can’t fall asleep. I scroll through Facebook reading the latest news about the people I have interacted with, learning about birthdays I didn’t care to remember and notifications from people who are...
Freaking out a little
Because I need to be in D.C. on June 5.
But I haven’t packed, paid my bills, booked a hotel room, sent my paperwork, or bought my flight. Haven’t determined what I am supposed to bring, who I will meet, or where I will meet them.
In other words, I am manic right now.
Not stalling anymore.
“We cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” Anonymous
When Isa asked me to write a blog last week I wanted to say no… should have said no, but I said yes.
This week I had to come down to Miami Beach for a conference. Miami is really, really hot in May so I sat by the pool, sweating and procrastinating, before I decided I should start writing the...
Got the job
but not I am not sure if I should take it.
I want it, I love the idea, I love the pay, I love that it is in D.C., I can’t stop being afraid though. I need to respond by Monday morning to get the job, but I can’t even stop my brain from being scrambled to see if I really want it.
I keep making so many excuses from getting my life started because I am scared. I have an apartment full...
“Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder...”
– The Wonder Years
“Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix...”
When did it all stop making sense?
I mean, it happens, it just seems like it happens more often than I can emotionally handle. Had a meeting with the Baldies and Reed - Friday I wrote an email to them to point out that grown up gossip is not grown up at all and building communication channels with the person who works on a project so on and so forth- so the Baldy consensus is that to agree to “part ways” which is HR for...
Faint Not by Jenny & Tyler
I love new music....
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For all the broken families, this will not and can...
“We must also reaffirm that the United States is not and never will be at war...”
– President Obama (via cosquilla)
I graduated today.
April 2011
10 posts
A sign...?
My twilight third book fell in the toilet. It shall not recover.
Goodbyes.
Things I text: “Bye! Drop a line!”
Things I feel: “This makes no sense! Everyone is leaving and I’ve said bye to everyone and haven’t cried. And of all the people, you’re the one that I cry about seeing go. I never see you and never hear from you, but knowing you are down the street made my life better, easier. I know I’m such a girl and I suck at growing up. I hate watching parts of my life...
life and death of baby ducks
Dan: pretty soon that alligator will be too small for them
Me: :(( he might eat them before then
Dan: I doubt it, he's pretty tiny... the ducks are fine and fed
Me: ...okay...
Dan: it's nature...
Me: BUT NATURE IS A SADIST!!!!!!!
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Am I the only one left wishing the dawn didn't...
Despite arrive several years late for the Twilight fad, I finally joined the ranks of the coming of age vampire-human-shapeshifter/werewolf love story. Being a fervent Harry Potter aficionado, I welcomed the potential for a escapist fantasy with open arms, voraciously consuming the four books within the two weeks following the Amazon delivery.
Having seen the existing Twilight movies before...
“There is something so demoralizing about reading Young Adult fiction at...”
little reminders
In the process of writing a book review of Twilight - yeah yeah, biggest nerd ever - I came across a remnant of my old ways of thinking hiding in the draft archives in tumblr. Although it has been months since I have felt anywhere remotely like this, I feel as though I need to publish this if only to show myself that saying this to myself and then hiding it from the world doesn’t make it...
tv shows I need to have dvds of immediately
So Weird
Family Matters
Brotherly Love
Are You Afraid of the Dark
Jett Jackson
Even Stevens
Phil of the Future
Pepper Ann
Angela Andaconda
Kablam!
Alex Mack
Magic School Bus
Wishbone
The universe is trying to tell me I totally...
Locked my keys in my car, got towed, owe five-hundred in cash for parking tickets if I want to free my car, realized I have the wrong registration paperwork, owe a late fee for a crap Netflix DVD, broke my phone again, ran out of coffee creamer, and reached excitedly in the box of granolas to find it was empty.
March 2011
2 posts
On sleeping.
I had a dream I swam in the English channel, my mom stole a jetski, the jetski lady chased us and tried to kill us - I think she was possessed. Then I met Michelle Obama and needed a camera and started running around looking for one. And then after I had to go to some group meeting and a bully tried to razor off a chunk of my hair, so I fought her. And beat up the girl. And I think I killed her.
...
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February 2011
4 posts
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Weird dreams
Tosh has a joke about people who tell their dreams looking like idiots for sharing them, but I am going to anyway because it was too strange to not write down.
Of course I don’t remember how it began because as anyone who has watched Inception knows you tend to find yourself in the middle of the action. For some reason I was wrestling a giant monster in an effort to save my family and...
I have a habit - among many bad habits - of making...
I’m tired of living in Florida. Nothing new of course, I’ve been daydreaming of cool breezes rolling in through an open window on a summer day in some fictitious New England my mind has painted with great detail. In reality I know that north of the Mason-Dixon line people live in sweaters and shovel snow, of neither I particularly desire in to partake. But it is a feeling I cannot seem...
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Capricious
Never been more disappointed to admit that even a stranger could peg my character.
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Finally starting to figure things out.
Throughout my twenty-two-and-eleven-months of life, I’ve wanted to “be” at least a dozen different things. Journalist, doctor, lawyer, weather person, newscaster, producer… I still don’t know what I want to be, but I am finally starting to recognize the critical missing piece of it all isn’t what I want to be, but that I have too often lacked passion for the...
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November 2010
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“There are all kinds of people in the world… and I’m one of them.”
– Mom
August 2010
1 post
“Slow down you crazy child You’re so ambitious for a juvenile But then if...”
– Billy Joel
May 2010
2 posts
April 2010
13 posts
Benefits of being sick
I sound very NPRish lady on the phone.
I put in an unproductive day at work and people thank me just for coming in.
I don’t eat anything and don’t really want to.
I’m pretty much expected to knock myself unconscious each night with the drugs typically found in a rural meth lab.
I get a lot more alone time.
I have a newfound empathy for the chronically ill and the...
I rode a motorcycle today and didn't die. Awesome.
“If I have to pay thirty-five bucks to see a Ultimate Fighting Championship match...”
– Vic Micolucci
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