August 2011
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Also I decided that Google is an easier calculator than my iPhone.
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Gosh, I like doing SAT math so much I should find a way to get paid for this.
Oh wait, I did, and that’s why I’m doing this SAT math now.
(“Now” being 10:30pm, the night before grad school orientation.)
I lost track of what test I assigned the student I’m tutoring tomorrow. So I either just spent 40 minutes making sure I clearly understand all of the hardest math...
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Night-before-orientation checklist:
Top Gear
The College Board’s Official SAT Study guide, next to you, closed
[edit: too many of] Boyfriend’s doritos
Weird wrist strain from getting said doritos from high shelf only giant boyfriend can reach
Theme song
4th Attempt at a "Let's Kill Hitler" post
chrisreblogs:
***WARNING! CONTAINS SPOILERS AND TUMBLER IS NOT LETTING ME ADD A CUT!
Edit: Took 5 attempts… finally took hold.
Every time I try one it becomes way too long winded.
I did love my title for my last attempt: “Let’s Kill Hitler”; or The Spoiling Of [REDACTED] (pointed out that was spoilery)
So now I am just going to list bullet points of things that bothered me.
Spoilers after...
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All of the good girlfriend karma I’ve earned by gamely, interestedly watching video games being played has been utterly obliterated by my behavior during tonight’s viewing of Ghost Rider.
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I got my fall semester course assignments today
I got both of my first-choice seminars, and the exciting master class for proseists who want to try this “poetry” thing. Very excited. Workshop is workshop and I am sad I didn’t get the lady who writes about trans teenagers, but c’est la vie.
I don’t know if I’m relieved or disappointed that I confused literary Bens and the Ben teaching my seminar on The Future...
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Re-asking for the morning tumblrers...
Anyone have experience with a cat becoming very meowsy in the middle of the night? At 6am? She has food, she has water, she has in the past been quiet through the night. I feel bad for spraying her with water for expressing her feeeeeeeelings, but jesus christ I just want to sleep. She doesn’t get interested in playing enough for me to tire her out during the day, really, either. Ideas?
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glittermixed replied to your post: I didn’t watch the VMAs but I do read the…
Sorry what I was trying to say is that Im reading it now and it’s kinda seeming that way in the book too? oh this one guy loves me from home but there is this new guy who is also dangerous and wants to kill me blah probably love him too & blah blah.
Okay I also want to finish saying that at least this girl...
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I didn’t watch the VMAs but I do read the internet, so… The Hunger Games movie is gonna be twilight with bows & arrows, isn’t it?
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awesomeringerud:
Warning on the package of medication I need to take for an ear ache:
Psychic derangements may appear when corticosteroids are used, ranging from euphoria, insomnia, mood swings, personality changes, and sever depression, to frank psychotic manifestations.
It’s going to be a fun weekend.
Oh jesus christ. Ladies and gentlemen, my hurricane shut-in partner!
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Anyone got advice for dealing with a meowsy cat in...
Or, maybe even more importantly, at 6am?
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I am going to try to watch Star Trek: The Next...
chrisreblogs:
You should watch the pilot, just ‘cause.
digsyfinallyhasa:
I want to watch Star Trek: The Next Generation because all my friends did/are (nerd pressure) BUT I recognize that, man, it’s a lot to watch and, man, there are some stinkers in there. Also from what I understand, the series as a whole is more episodic in nature. Right? So, because of this, I decided to watch the 25ish...
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I just saw an NYC style police box on Madison Ave....
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“I just wanted to tell you, for all our servicemen who’ve died in Somalia,...”
– someone apparently really upset that we’re giving babies food, calling a second time
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“I just wanted to tell you to fuck off, you pieces of trash.”
– a caller kicking off my last hour as a receptionist in style.
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“I am really, really getting tired of being cold called almost every single day...”
– Writes Dirt Candy Chef Amanda Cohen on her restaurant’s blog. She goes on “I tell them I only have 18 tables and don’t want to use their services but thanks for calling. Then, inevitably, they get angry and confrontational and say, `Why? That’s not very smart. We can make you a lot of money.’” (Dirt...
The summer of very short trips
I’m supes sleepy this morning, and just had the thought, Well, at least I’ve got a vacationish long weekend ahead of me! but without the exclamation point, because I’m sleepy.
I don’t know whether waking up at 5:45am tomorrow will help with the sleepiness or what, right?
But it will totes help me get used to the time-change to California within one day. Waking up...
One day and fourteen minutes left!
I typed “Jaime’s last day! Byeeeeeeeeeeeee!” in little letters at the bottoms of the conference room schedule sheets I print out at the end of every day.
Remember when my mom was horrified that I empty the office dishwasher? I feel like the conference room signs are a step above that. One step.
Not sure where student loan debt falls on this hierarchy.
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Julia Wertz: "Choice Words About Fashion" →
This is not the exact path by which I came to be wearing a dress today, but it’s not far off, and also it’s great.
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McNally Jackson Bookmongers: Mid-Week New Book... →
mcnallyjackson:
Time was I used to round up the new or newish books that came in each week. It’s been so long that this is basically just an excuse to talk about the books that I like that have come out in the last probably 4 months.
In paperback…
WORD, our friend in Brooklyn, has been advocating for The Chairs Are Where the People Go, which I will co-sign. Non-stop charm. Just when...
To answer your coconut followup questions
I do not have a nail.
I have already bored into one of the eyes (with the stick end of an electric mixer attachment) and gotten the water out.
(Apparently tumblr thinks the two questions I’ve asked today are enough, so, uh, reply here or hit the askbox with advice.)
I have a hammer, a screwdriver, and some dull knives. Can I open this coconut without taking it outside to the concrete?
kratlee replied to your post: I’m watching The American President and…
i thought the proper spelling was “all right.”
Ooh, I had not realized it was contentious! But according to the internet, it is. But also according to the internet, alright is valid. I like to differentiate them as “all right” meaning, literally, all right, 100% correct, and “alright” meaning...
I love you, lady, but what is going on? →
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I’m watching The American President and remembering The Kids Are All Right, and deciding that Annette Benning is the best ever.
“And when they did briefly notice us, in the Generation X media frenzy of the...”
– Carl Wilson NY Times
Aug 4, 2011
So when it’s you, it’s “paralyzing economic and ecological anxiety” but when it’s us, we’re too lazy to get jobs and crave constant praise for doing nothing because our teachers wouldn’t use red ink. Got it.
(via glittermixed)
Four minutes and two days more of job left.
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“Well, you’re gonna have a cohort of people who are probably gonna be the...”
– words of encouragement from a former poetry MFA student.
Fall Theatre Preview
This has the makings of something extraordinarily awesome.
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Hey dummy, if you tell the other customer at Babies R Us that the Preggie Drops she’s holding work really well, she will ask how far along you are, and then you’ll have to explain that you just get nauseous all the time, sans embryo, and you will feel like seventeen kinds of dumbass.
