February 2008
95 posts
January 2008
66 posts
I forgot how much I like Queen. I wish I was in...
Instapaper →
Says Jakob Lodwick, Julia Allison’s meanie ex-boyfriend: marco, one of the Tumblr guys, created a new project. It’s worth signing up just to see the perfectly elegant handling of user accounts. “If you didn’t set a password, you don’t have one.” Oh, Marco! I’m ready to direct some traffic to my little side project, Instapaper. I’ve been using it for months and couldn’t live without it now....
“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of...”
– Carlos Castaneda
“One of the environmental groups in the US just completed a very extensive and...”
– Al Gore, in his talk with Bono and Tom Friedman at the World Economic Forum. Check out this and other webcasts here. Okay, it’s from Dihard. Okay?
you down with MHC?
Just read this interesting article in Time Magazine about how romance is linked to smell. We respond to olfactory cues and in fact, smell helps us narrow our choices of potential partners. MHC (the major histocompatibility complex), a set of genes that controls the immune system and influences tissue rejection is especially critical. You jive best with a partner whose MHC is sufficiently...
$600 for you to jumpstart the economy!!!
There’s a new plan in town - a stimulus package that will give $100B in tax credits for an estimated 117 million families by Spring. It awaits the House’s approval in early February, but once passed you could be rolling in the dough. Here’s how.. You’re single, earn less than $75,000 and pay at least $300 in taxes, you’ll get a $600 rebate check. (+ $300 per kid)...
Cloneburger - at a supermarket near you
Have you heard? The FDA recently approved meat and milk from cloned cattle, swine, goats, and their offspring as safe for food. And the FDA isn’t requiring that cloned products be labeled differently. Consumers will have no way of knowing what’s clone and what’s not (The FDA will consider “clone free” labels on a case-by-case basis. Though anything organic, and thus...
I want to marry him. Or be him. Or both. →
“And the best part is, in being who you are, you meet other people who care only...”
– Stephanie Klein in her blog “Greek Tragedy” I love this. Love it. Because I feel like I do a very good job of presenting myself, my real self, the self that I am happy to be, to everyone. And yeah, I’m single. Perpetually single. I’ve been on like two dates in the past...
“To be irreplaceable, one must always be different.”
– Coco Chanel
FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE I HIT PUBERTY
My skin is almost completely clear! My skin is almost completely clear! All atheists should be believers now. I want to thank my Retina-A, my Duac, my Brevoxyl, and my dermatologist. My fourth, maybe fifth, dermatologist. If only I could go back in time to prom.
If you want to make me happy, give me some paper...
I just picked up a humungous Relay for Life information packet from the open house they held for prospective team captains. I’m not a prospective team captain, but I am obsessed with paperwork and flyers and details, so I took a ten-pound packet anyway. I took probably $5 worth of copying from a cancer research organization, but I only feel sort of very guilty because I love information...
“…news is history in its first and best form, its vivid and fascinating...”
– Mark Twain
Now I'm just sick of this. Sick of analyzing his...
I wrote that on September 28. Now, almost four months later, I’m still sick of it, but I can’t stop. Well, maybe I’m sick of something else. I don’t analyze our communication anymore, because I know we’re friends. Maybe he says something boring, maybe we don’t talk for eighteen hours, but I know we’re friends. I know he doesn’t like-like me. I...
I'm whipped, yet I won't get any man-chocolate on...
Pat [on the phone]: GWEN! I'm back in Columbia. I'm in line to buy books. The line's eternal, and I have to pee. Will you come stand in line for me?
Gwen: Of course.
Jim: GWEN! It's so great to see you after five whole weeks. I have to make a resume. I don't know how to make a resume. Do you know how to make a resume?
Gwen: Yes.
Jim: Will you help me?
Gwen: Of course. I'm very Type A. I should just type.
Jim: You'll just make it for me?! THANKS!
& i want to be a housewife?!
I left my Thermos one-quarter full of coffee for five weeks. My room is like a closeted pigsty. Closeted, because no one would guess at one glance that the grime is practically a foot thick, but it is.
como'd.
My room is so dusty. By so dusty, I mean dustier than the dustiest room you’ve ever, ever seen. Yes, including the stereotypical old, abandoned attic featured in every movie that ends with someone discovering treasure. How did I not have asthma attacks 24/7 last semester? I don’t even have asthma, but it’s truly a medical miracle that I never had perilous trouble breathing. I...
oh great.
I’m packing, which means I’m starting to question WHY, exactly, I accumulated new black pumps, black flats, brown flats, black boots, rain boots, and UGG boots over break.
“He may not be perfect, but there’s no question that he’s the perfect...”
– Robin McGraw (yes, Dr. Phil’s wife…) This is what marriage means to me.
“She asked her rabbi, “Why me?” and got a surprising response....”
– The Commercial Appeal article After Mourning
Mummy and I had such the best girls’ lunch at Tsunami, and we ordered the yummiest dessert: warm ginger doughnuts with cocount sorbet. There were little pieces of crystalized ginger to scoop up with the sorbet—sooooo good! Then we saw Atonement, and of course we both cried. I have the most tedious to-do list tomorrow, catching up with all these things I’ve put off all week. ...
“Finally, a few days ago, there it was in my mailbox: The sad, anorexic envelope,...”
– Noelle Hancock on her rejection from the Columbia School of Journalism in her column in the Yale Daily News. FYI, Noelle is now a freelance journalist and just landed her second cover story in Maxim.
The Tipping Point
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell explores, as the subtitle proclaims, how little things can make a big difference—how ideas, behaviors, and products spread like infectious disease. A new fashion trend, a best-selling novel, or an urban crime wave, he writes, is the popular equivalent of a social epidemic. By studying the personality types of trendsetters, the stickiness factor of...
I'm making world peace [cookies]! →
I’ve rolled the worrisomely-crumbly dough into logs, and now they can firm it up in the fridge while Lauren, Meredith, and I see 27 Dresses. But when I get back, I’m changing the world. Or at least baking double-chocolate cookies. Edit: These cookies are far from world-peaceful. In fact, I don’t think I like them. They’d only bring peace to a group of Quaker pacifists.
I cried today in church for the first time I can...
“and if you wanna kill yourself remember that I LOVE YOU /
call me up before...”
– Kimya Dawson in “Loose Lips,” one of her many songs on the Juno soundtrack
“Be good. And if you can’t be good, be safe. And if you can’t be...”
– My daddy, as I was leaving to run errands. He cracks me up sometimes. My mummy, however, was horrified.
The sun will come out tomorrow.
Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you, tomorrow, I need to: visit Lauren before she leaves, wahhh; tan; practice; finish the documentary; and read a lot of The Tipping Point, because I still have two books to read after that. I also should bake something for my hair stylist, because I love her to pieces, and I think I might accidentally be the crappiest tipper in the world. My brother’s jazz...
Of course I want $200 Prada glasses. Of COURSE. →