January 2012
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resolutions, notes, film
Have officially lived on the East Coast for over four years.
Must strive to reverse undesirable New England habits, including, but not limited to: not smiling at strangers on the street, deferring to awkwardness, inability to hold eye contact, expecting anyone who works a cash register to have a terrible attitude.
Meanwhile - allow conversations to transpire without first mentally projecting their...
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Books Read - 2011
Long Day’s Journey Into Night - Eugene O’Neill
Under Western Eyes - Joseph Conrad
Guerillas - V.S. Naipaul
Regeneration - Pat Barker
Angels in America - Tony Kushner
Wolf Dreams - Yasmina Khadra
Darkness Visible - William Styron
The Violent Bear It Away - Flannery O’Connor
Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
Wit - Margaret Edson
My Loose Thread - Dennis Cooper
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December 2011
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The English Patient
“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of...
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Looking For Each of Us, by Linda Gregg
I open the box of my favorite postcards and turn them over looking for de Chirico because I remember seeing you standing facing a wall no wider than a column where to your left was a hall going straight back into darkness, the floor a ramp sloping down to where you stood alone and where the room opened out on your right to an auditorium full of people who had just heard you...
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Over the years, Sammy had regretted nearly everything about his affair with Bacon except, until now, its secrecy. The need for stealth and concealment was something that he had always taken for granted as a necessary condition both of that love and of the shadow loves, each paler and more furtive than the last, that it had cast. Back in the summer of 1941, they had stood to lose so much, it...
November 2011
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1Q84
I’ve finished Murakami’s latest novel, IQ84, after a few weeks of reading off and on followed by a spurt of speed-reading. To preface: Murakami is one of my favorite authors, and Sputnik Sweetheart is in my top five favorite books, ever. And I read quite a lot of novels, to put it lightly. But 1Q84 really didn’t do it for me.
It’s possible that it was the translation - but...
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“My perfect date night: I pick you up. In my Kia Sorrento. You get in. There’s...”
– Aziz Ansari on his perfect date (x)
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Just Once, by Anne Sexton
Just once I knew what life was for. In Boston, quite suddenly, I understood; walked there along the Charles River, watched the lights copying themselves, all neoned and strobe-hearted, opening their mouths as wide as opera singers; counted the stars, my little campaigners, my scar daisies, and knew that I walked my love on the night green side of it and cried my heart to the eastbound cars and...
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your problems are not insightful, get over it. a...
Maybe I’ve been spending too much time on the internet (ha. ha.), but it seems as though every trendy word-based blog for educated, white-collar people in their twenties is full of so-called revelatory statements about being overly dependent on technology, how false friendships can be, downfalls of nostalgia, why it’s ok to not go out every weekend, and when it is culturally...
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november. or, how time flies.
Technically, November is National Novel Writing Month, but seeing as how that is not going to happen this year (or ever), perhaps it’s a sign for me to devote myself to this tumblr a little more this month. Browsing my ‘archives’, I realized that I used to update much more often a year and half ago. What happened? Who knows. Perhaps that’s something to boringly explore at a...
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the woes of company training
M: i was out with 2 guys last night. at one point and they were talking about how nice the waitress' dress was because it was so short
and i was like um great
thanks for confirming that you are
idk what the word is
but you know what i mean
me: that is depressing
M: i know. also cuz like
i was there.
just do not talk about that if a girl is there.
but it's just so like oh god
/men
/forever alone
b/c guys are such
douches
me: were they cute? ...
M: not really
i can't even use them to buy me drinks either
because it is all free anyway
October 2011
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“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– Steve Jobs. He changed our lives. RIP ♥ (via katherinesquier)
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"The Rock"
Yesterday, I visited the library I spent probably over half my waking moments during college in, to give a conservative estimate. I hadn’t been there since May, when I finished a horrible essay and wanted nothing else than to sit on the papa-san chair in our common room and kvetch about something non-academic.
Nothing had changed, not even me, not in any way that would be relevant to a...
September 2011
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Your Catfish Friend
If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by one evening when the moon was shining down into my dark home and stand there at the edge of my affection and think, “It’s beautiful here by this pond. I wish somebody loved me,” I’d love you and be your catfish friend and drive...
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I guess I forgot to mention the super manly watch.
[redacted]: so we have training next week
and there are 10 new hires
i am the only girl
hahahah
me: meat market
[redacted]: ............
me: hohohoho
[redacted]: ,................
me: w/e, I am waiting for the "OMG Yue, there was this _______ Asian guy who was wearing a pink/purple/yellow/coral tie and cuff links and pointy leather shoes and then he opened his mouth and little douchemonsters did not erupt, so OMG I wonder if he's interested. Except he went to [insert safety school from 5 years ago here] and omg how embarrassing for our future children."
