Wow, how long has it been since I last blogged? Well, things have been going pretty good. Grades haven't really gotten better, but what can I do about it? I got a C+ in Calculus. -.- I felt like I was going to cry, but I didn't. I'll just have to move forward. I've been feeling a lot happier these...
I made a purse. I sewed it myself. I actually followed a pattern and sewed a purse that looks good. I'm a bit stunned. I pretty much flunked sewing in Home Ec, never actually finishing the blouse we were supposed to make. I spent most of the class time ripping out seams (if they'd given us grades in...
i crawled into bed at midnight after i'd caught a bug - probably something i ate. my feet and fingertips were frigidly cold and i was writhing in dulled pain. pangs of nausea and persistent faintness as i tried to warm myself under the covers. then i shook myself awake. my room is at the front of...
Mein Gott, is it ever hot out there. After weeks of flirting, summer has finally cupped Toronto's collective crotch and asked if we'd like to go steady. There are bright sides, though. This edition of the Bradlands, being almost entirely underground, is perpetually chilly, even against the raging...
Happy Birthday Monster (cl, se) Olivia Helps with Christmas (cl, se) John, Paul, George & Ben by Lane Smith (cl) Cowboy & Octopus (cl, se) Strawberry Freckleface by Julianne Moore (cl, se) Minnie and Moo & The Seven Wonders of the World by Denys Cazet (cl, lb) Minnie and Moo & The Haunted Sweater by...
“What upset Theresa so terribly, she says, what contributed to months of nausea and overwhelming anxiety and repeated trips to the emergency room, not to mention an inability to work and hours of psychotherapy, was the book’s revelation that she had been the key witness in a statutory-rape case....
So how do I keep myself occupied when Matt's out of town? Apparently by sewing obsessively. While he was gone I started and finished the Amy Butler laptop cover. I think because I'm so used to knitting projects taking so long, it's amazing to me how quickly these sewing projects come together. The...
i had a whole post and it spontaneously disappeared. argh. on the way to Williamsburg this morning, i really had to pee, so i took a detour at the Whole Foods in Union Square, only to be greeted with this when coming up from the train station. i'm not really sure what's going on here; is it a...
"But by any standard, the portrait of his mother and the Turcotte family is brutal." I found this article to be very annoying. I thought that the way in which is was written was completely one sided. I don't like it when journalists take a side, and only portray it in that way. I felt like the...
sometimes i wonder if people fully recover after loss. when a relationship doesn't pan out, you're told that it happens to everyone, you'll get over it. tapping into the oft-referenced kubler-ross' 5 stages of grief and what-have-you. but i wonder how true that is. i wonder how these aphorisms are...
I finished The Virgin Suicides yesterday and I'm having mixed feelings and I'm not sure if I liked it or not. Some parts were fantastic and others just too slow and (dare I say... ?) boring... Maybe I need to re-read it after some time if I missed something... I really wanted to like it so maybe I...
I recently purchased and read Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (a book I never got around to) and When You Are Engulfed in Flames (the newest release). Both were satisfying and I've loved Sedaris for years. My best friend got tickets to a reading he did and took me for my birthday. It was...
Book #4 in 2008: Possible Side Effects, by Augusten Burroughs Yes, I realized I just posted about book #3, but The Tenth Circle was so not entertaining that I was forced to pick up another book just so I had something to read on the 45 minute MUNI ride in the mornings. Plus, I don't always find...
I have never drank so much pop in my life. Don't get me wrong, the discount is nice and all but this shit has to be killin me. There are two vending machines outside my office. One dispenses quarter cans and the other, bottles for fifty. It seems to be one of the only "perks" here. Well, every so...
Let me first start out by saying hello to the group. I'm new, fyi. Anyway, I will try to be as non-biased as possible but I admit I will fail-shamefully I read A Wolf at The Table shortly after it was released. If you don't know who Augusten Burroughs is, you may want to introduce yourself to his...
I just finished Dry by Augusten Burroughs. It was funny, touching, witty, disturbing, warm, comforting and crazy and I just loved it. It's been quite a weekend. I've read so many good books, and I'm not gonna stop now. I don't want it to be Monday, because that means work and a lot less reading...
More Augusten Burroughs. More amazingness. I'm going to spending entirely too much money on books. I'm now realizing how many books I've lost over several moves and lots of lending.
A new Augusten Burroughs? That I had no idea about? Where have I been? Yet another masterpiece. I only wish my life was so full and so crazy and so full of crazy.
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