November 2011
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+/- 11/19/11-11/20/11
- yesterday morning, went to student health on a whim about my weird shoulder pain/numbness and the nurse practitioner thought i have SHINGLES. needless to say i think she is wrong. still, weiiiiiird time.
+ got some work done
- panic attacks
+++ serious girl time (and several pitchers of delicious whiskey sours)
- U St is goddamn awful on saturday night - some yuppie couple literally stole a...
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+/- 11/18/11
+/- working for the better part of the day at a board meeting in an internetless basement
+/- wearing heels was not THAT uncomfortable
+ first really, truly cold day of the fall
+ like my job
- procrastinating terribly
- hate school, wish it were over
+ bf cooking tonight :)
+ jaw swelling going down
+ candy apple grey
+ plans to get up early and work tomorrow
+ i’m basically just...
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+/- 11/17/11
+ jazzed on my new idea, doing Americorps
- still can’t wait to quit school/for the semester to be over
- worried about persistent swelling in my jaw
+/- want a dog or a cat in the worst way
+ TACO NACHT
- nauseating amount of homework to be doing
- professor being a dick about meeting with me
+/- doing nothing at work
- no coffee at work
- econ tonight :(
+ exciting volunteer...
September 2011
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here comes a regular
I can feel a really familiar sort of unhappiness creeping back into my life and it sucks. I just want to be alone all the time. It’s sort of fun to do stuff until the booze wears off and then I just feel awful and want to be sleeping.
Maybe this is the normal flipside of having a severely anxious couple of weeks preceding today. I still feel the same dread, but it’s less worrisome and...
August 2011
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This needs to be recorded somewhere
My boyfriend’s text message dispatches from NYC, where he is right now for terrible law firm interviews:
“In the heart of darkness: times square”
“I am at a yuppie bar because i don’t care”
“I am a terrible image right now: suit, tie, dumb bar, disregard for price”
“Drunk dude just fell over and slurred: ‘oh shit. I need to be back at...
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+/- 8/15/2011
+ beach this past weekend
+/- first day of work today and it was really strange
- had nothing to do
- arrived at the office long before anybody else
- don’t have keys/a functional login for the computer/ANYTHING
+ played a lot of tetris
- soooo laaaaazy and still need to do so much
+ luckily work will probably be slow tomorrow, too, so i can get my shit/to-do list together then!
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Ugh, Mother Jones
Why have you sucked so FUCKING MUCH recently?
I don’t care that Rick Perry ate a corn dog (LOLOLZORZ IT LOOKS KIND OF LIKE A DICK). Then there was this, which I shouldn’t have to point out as a SHITTY YUCKY PIECE OF WRITING but somehow I do, and then there was the time one of your dumb columnists printed a dumb thing about trap-neuter-return.
I want to like you, Mother Jones, but...
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+/- 8/7/2011
+ laziest day
+ did some grocery shopping
+ late night giant run means the line for the self-checkout only had a few people in it
- my throat has been kinda sore for a few days. i’m TERRIFIED that i have strep AGAIN and that this portends some sort of awful tonsil problem that i’ll have to deal with WHILE I’M IN GRADUATE SCHOOL. fuck. i’m also scared it will prevent me...
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+/- 8/6/2011
+ good hang with bf’s family last night :)
+ bridal shower today
- WRAPPED MY BRIDAL SHOWER GIFT IN CHRISTMAS WRAPPING PAPER BECAUSE I AM THE WORST
+/- ate fish again, god damnit (granted, it was for real like four bites)
+ everlasting life AGAIN
- throat has been sore off and on for the past few days… i think it’s just allergies, but given all my sickness this year...
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+/- 8/4/2011
+ leftovers for lunch from the excellent dinner my bf made last night
+ getting a lot of errands done
+ my prescription only cost $10 even though my insurance coverage expired four days ago… i guess that’s a good thing?
+ lemonade
+ baby canteloupe
+ early morning library trip
- kind of lonely and bored at home
+ boyfriend’s last day of work is tomorrow!!! :D
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+/- 8/3/2011
+/- super big opportunity came out of nowhere and i’m gonna run with it, but it might make some other shit awkward later on
+ vegetable garden last night — HOLY FUCK fake general tso’s chicken. it’s overwhelming to go to an all-vegan restaurant because i am totally unaccustomed to being able to order ANYTHING ON THE MENU
- sort of unimpressed by mock duck (i’ve...
Mapping Oil/Gas Drilling in PA
mattstiles:
From NPR’s StateImpactPA:
First, while 32 counties host gas wells, the bulk of activity is still taking place in a handful of drilling-heavy counties. More than 60 percent of the 739 wells drilled between January and June were located in the five busiest counties — Bradford, Tioga, Washington, Susquehanna, and Greene. Bradford and Tioga Counties alone are responsible for nearly 40...
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+/- 8/2/2011
- no longer have health insurance which terrifies me
+ boyfriend got a bunch of big-time interviews for next summer in philly and new york. (my fingers are crossed for philly!)
+ maybe vegetable garden tonight?
+ gonna try to go to a screening of “from the back of the room” tomorrow night
+ fort reno on thursday (hopefully)
+ finally not hot as satan’s asshole outside;...
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+/- 8/1/2011
- debt ceiling deal is so bad. so, so, so, so bad.
+ everlasting life lunch - always forget that everlasting life is there, and this was such a great idea
+ lemonade
+ tim and eric season 3
+ internet
- zero attention span
- trying to read the news and FAILING
+ maybe i should read a book?
- hot out
+ maybe i’ll make afternoon/evening coffee a reality today
- we haven’t...
July 2011
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+/- 7/31/2011
+ party last night was good
+ so much food
+ hangin’ with laura today
+ watched BOMMARILLU which was the first full-length Indian movie i’ve ever seen (although it was in telugu, which i guess makes it “tollywood” and not bollywood… right?)
+ so many excellent A+ moments/things about that movie
+ watching with laura is fun cause she’s hella knowledgeable...
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+/- 7/30/2011
+ slept in
+ good farmer’s market haul
- depressed about my blogging abilities (uuuuugh)
- hopelessly behind on news
- it’s 1 p.m. and i haven’t eaten anything real
+ birthday party (for a cat) in baltimore tonight!
+ words with friends
+ playing words with friends with laura, a friend
+ drive back to DC was not bad/got to hang with a friend who has been away all summer
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+/- 7/29/2011
- funeral and funeral proceedings yesterday were so rough and so grueling
+ really good time at a show and catching up with a friend on wednesday night
- out too late on wednesday and my own ineptitude at driving plus shitty unexpected roadwork everywhere meant i didn’t get home until early morning, fuuuu
- doubtless that made the funeral even more tiring
- have to leave to go back to DC...
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+/- 7/26/2011
+ chillin’ at home
- clearly neglecting this particular internet forum for public masturbation lately
+ fun stuff in the works for tomorrow, i hope?
- stressed because i will have to drive/park tomorrow if i want to do anything, bleh
- funeral thursday
+/- i love being back here
+/- those spirochete-shaped “honey bbq” fritos. so delicious but so horrendously unhealthy (and...
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ATTITUDE
YOU GOT SOME FUCKIN’ ATTITUDE
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+/- 7/19/2011
+ dentist appt went well
+ macarons
+ did some grocery shopping
+ sent off my signed offer of employment (!!)
+ reading american gods
- too hot to walk to the library for my other stuff
+ twilight zone
- desperately need to clean our room but i really don’t want to
+ fruit
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+/- 7/18/2011
+ lunch with my ladies
+ so good to see them again
- sad that i don’t get to see them every day anymore :(
- too cheap/tired/whatever to trek back out for drinks later
+ got a dentist’s appointment for tomorrow morning
+ planning a trip to pgh for a few days
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+/- 7/16/2011 and 7/17/2011
+ saw good friends last night
- three beers pretty much knocked me out
+ SO MUCH FOOD
+ laura made stuffed tomatoes that are delicious and i don’t even LIKE tomatoes
+ my strange addiction on TLC (I CAN’T STOP WATCHING TLC)
+ cupcakes for breakfast
+ making plans to go home for a bit
+/- trying to make a dentist appointment
+ got a job (did i mention that i got a job offer?)
...
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+/- 7/15/2011
+/- painted my nails chartreuse. jury is still out as to whether this as a good idea.
+ hangin’ last night
+ cupcakes from laura
+ recorded an entire 15 minutes today!
- i think i’m terminally boring/unfunny
+/- maybe i should stick to writing?
+ weather is great
+ party at our place tomorrow
- still need to get ingredients for carrot cake
- have to pay my student loans today
...
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+/- 7/14/2011
+/- podcast progressing haltingly
- everything i do is so masturbatory and self-referential and it’s only gotten worse since i left my job
+ doo wop
+ LAURA IS COMING OVER!
+ final interview for this job seemed to go well (it was by phone)… fingers crossed!
+ boyfriend has a hilarious story about veggie dogs as a result of today
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+/- 7/13/2011
+ new prescription for birth control
+/- why do birth control pills always have the silliest names?
+/- may try my hand at creating a podcast? i dunno if i’m funny enough for this but preparing for it should be fun
- chronically behind on news, whatever
- DC is a soulless sucking chest wound of a city
- so much gun violence in this neighborhood
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+/- 7/12/2011
+ visit to pp went smoothly, was able to use my insurance, didn’t have to get a pap (yaaaay)
- planned parenthood is in a lot of trouble nationwide. you can read about why this is such a huge bummer here, make a donation here, and contact your senator here.
- so hot outside
+ hugely crushin’ on bob odenkirk circa 1997 right now, it’s fine
- pseudoscience
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+/- 7/11/2011
+ too hot out to do anything
- i still need to grocery shop
+ feeling better, done with meds
+ reading
+ COFFEE
+ defaced the latest issue of cosmo, pictures to follow probably
+ TACO NIGHT TONIGHT (“taco night” is the best concept the boyfriend and i have ever come up with. literally.)
- so, so, so homesick. DC is truly not good.
+ friend has generously offered to facilitate...
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Glenn Greenwald shreds Obama, everything else →
Right fucking on.
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+/- 7/10/2011
+ last day of antibiotics!
+ parents in town
- ass hot outside
+ nice time at dinner with my folks
- at founding farmers the waitstaff literally travels back to the year 1776 to retrieve your diet coke or whatever
+ got to see laura and some other folks at a lecture
- didn’t bother to do this yesterday
+ feeling generally more optimistic than i have been recently
+ probably because...
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+/- 7/8/2011
- really homesick today
- antibiotics giving me the worst time ever.
- also making my breath smell weirdly sweet in a way that i DO NOT APPRECIATE
+ bf has agreed to ethiopian takeout tonight
- still never really hungry blah
- so tired of being stuck inside and not feeling well enough to do anything fun
- watched all the episodes of toddlers and tiaras available on ondemand :(
-...
portrait of the artist as unemployed
There are SO! MANY! THINGS! I want to tell Laura about (my aaaaaaaawkward coffeeshop interview, for example, or ~*recipes*~) but I no longer have a guaranteed venue for seeing her butt every day. I guess this is what chat programs/social networking interfaces were invented for but it isn’t the same. Oh well.
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+/- 7/7/2011
+ feeling better today. not totally better, but i can tell i’m improving in tiny increments every day. science! medicine!
- my throat feels better so i’m like “OMG SOLID FOOD PUT IT IN ME” until i have food in front of me and realize that i’m not at all hungry and my stomach actually doesn’t feel awesome. i think this is a side effect of the horse-sized...
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+/- 7/6/2011
++++ interview today went really well, i think. they told me i was one of their top candidates! eee! they also seem really nice and seem to think i’m smart and capable of doing a lot of cool stuff, which is AWESOME. even if it doesn’t pan out into a job (which i hope it does), it’s still nice to make it this far in the process.
+ throat feels a lot better today (though not...
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+/- 7/5/2011
- was too sick to do this yesterday!
- spent my holiday at an urgent care facility, discovering i have strep throat, and then on the couch sweating out a fever and frantically self-medicating with prescription cough syrup (supposed to help with throat pain, but it ISN’T HELPING)
- no lie, i was/still am in the worst pain of my life. my teeth hurt because i have to clench my jaw to swallow,...
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+/- 7/3/2011
+ got some produce at the farmers’ market
- farmers’ market dude only spoke to/made eye contact with the boyfriend (who he called “sir”) even though I PAID FOR EVERYTHING. this is not the first time this has happened. buuuh.
+/- excitement/apprehension about my upcoming job interview. don’t know how to handle it. will they find out that my old formal manager hated...
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+/- 7/2/2011
+ good breakfast with old friend
- sore throat making it difficult to talk
- felt too crappy to go PICK BERRIES ON AN ACTUAL FARM with LF :(
+ have insurance until the end of the month!
- ass hot outside
+ might eat vietnamese in silver spring tonight
- boyfriend is going to a show in s. spring later but i don’t feel up to going (can’t take the heat, literally)
+ reading no...
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Bread & Circus
In lieu of a +/- post—today was my last day of work. My three (3!) managers treated me like absolute garbage for the last few months. Then I quit, and my main manager was awkwardly sweet to me for my remaining two weeks. That doesn’t make anything better or okay. This job sucked and I hate that my first job had to be such an awful roller-coaster ride through an organization managed by...
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+/- 6/30/2011
+ work is finally okay
+ my last day is tomorrow
+ laura came over and we watched tim and eric forever
- sore throat/feel like i might be getting sick AGAIN UUUUGH
- almost fainted at work, not even a big deal
+/- supervisor being nice to me in a weird, uncomfortable way. whatever.
June 2011
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