April 2011
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This weekend I’d like to find the line that separates ‘sun-kissed’ from ‘sunburned’ and stay on it, resolutely.
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“Am I sad because my allergies are acting up?”
“Maybe your allergies are acting up because you’re sad.”
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On any given night, any window can be in 1840, with a woman waiting to dump a bucket of ashes on a passerby’s head, so that people can come out from the shadows and pick the writhing body clean of money, jewelry, boots, coat, hat, and maybe slit its throat. Any corner can be in 1860, with the walker hit in the back of the head with a sash weight and taken to a cellar to be stripped, to wake...
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Pulling over to Shazam the background music on ‘All Things Considered’.
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The part where Darcy tells Miss Bingley that he’s long considered Elizabeth Bennett to be one of the handsomest women of his acquaintance, except I always remember it with ‘useful’ in place of ‘handsome’.
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Quiet and polite.
I sometimes (read: when I remember) sleep with a small notebook on my bedside table, for the purpose of jotting down things and ideas that pop into my head in the middle of the night.*
This morning I reached over for a drink of water and noticed that it was open, and I’d written:
1. ‘reenactors novel’
2. ‘goalie’
3. ‘flower water spray’
*I used to...
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Thinking about hosting a series of poolside salons for people who work (‘work’) from home, or don’t work at all.
Ladies only.
Watchninjacorgi:
I just emailed Dadbro at work to tell him that if he really loved me, he’d buy a hammock for the backyard.
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“Yeah, they’re going to play again, to try and win the trophy—”
“The what?”
“The trophy.”
“Don’t ever call Lord Stanley’s Cup a trophy again.”
“But it’s a trophy.”
“No.”
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Cantaloupe and Scotch.
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“You need to get an Ambien prescription, and then you can take one before bed and stay asleep so that you don’t wake up at 2AM and make those phone calls.”
“Does that work?”
“I don’t know. It’s an idea from Valley of the Dolls, so.”
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I just spilled a bag of coffee all over the kitchen floor because I was trying to reach something on a high shelf and my arm, waving around, knocked a bunch of stuff over.
My first thought was ‘now I have an excuse to clean the floor!’
I have small shoulders and all of my warm-weather dresses have straps that refuse to stay put. This used to be OK with me, largely because I’m a fidgeter and fussing with dress straps seemed like as good a way as any to keep my hands occupied, but now I’m worried it might be imprudent to be talking to people and sliding my clothes up and down my shoulders.
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“The notion of William James as a compulsive masturbator (but are they, as the protagonist of the episode in the Varieties says of himself, afraid of the dark?) has a certain sensational appeal, so it is slightly disappointing to discover that every one of the leaves comes off this biographical onion.
Townsend has, to begin with, made a mistake all students of the Jameses eventually learn...
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Is there anything more satisfying than feeling a crisp cotton dress swoosh about one’s bare legs?
When someone you’ve always disliked expresses a sudden and pure interest in a small pop-cultural artifact close to your heart and you think, just for a moment, that maybe you need to stop being such an asshole.
thenotes:
Fire is want and surfeit.
Heraclitus, Fragment 24
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“They’re showing one of my favorite movies. It’s called 400 Blows. Maybe you’ve heard of it?”
“Do you have any Scotch?”
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“Hey, the Phillies don’t come here until August, right?”
“Yeah, late August—I don’t think I’ll be here.”
“Oh, hmm. Well, they play the Mets a lot, so you’ll be able to catch them there.”
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“Please don’t start crying.”
