February 2012
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Md. poised to become 8th state to legalize gay...
Gay marriage is all but legalized in Maryland after the legislature gave its final OK Thursday to the law that’s being sent to Gov. Martin O’Malley, who said he expects to sign it sometime this week.
(from the Washington Post)
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The Obvious Child - Paul Simon
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“Dear old world,” she murmured, “you are very lovely, and I am glad...”
– Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
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you need me like i need you, we can share our...
My iTunes shuffle REALLY, REALLY wants me to listen to the Backstreet Boys — recently they’ve been coming up all the time, even though I don’t listen to them, uh, ever. But since I’m up late working on these Navajo verbs for what seems like forever, I’m not resisting as much as I might normally. Sometimes you just need something really peppy and energetic to get you...
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Two conversations in the kitchen tonight
Me, while making pasta: Oh no, I put in too much garlic and onion.
Roommate: You say that every time you make something. I think that's just how you cook!
(and later, upon opening the fridge)
Me: APPLE JUICE!!!!
Roommate: I love hearing you find juice! You're so excited every time!
(100% accurate on both counts)
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40 Day Dream — Edward Sharpe and the...
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So this just happened.
Dylan: So I started watching a new show.
Me: Oh yeah?
Dylan: It's called, uh, Downton Abbey.
Me: ASJKHFKLSAGF YES I KNOW IT, I HAVE SEE IT ALL!!!
Dylan: All?!
Me: YES I HAVE SEEN ALL OF IT, IT IS WONDERFUL SO GOOD ASJDJHFJDHFASMFGLDKJGF.
Dylan: Yeah I really like it.
Me: YES YES YES.
Dylan: So do you want to watch it with me?
Me: YES.
(But if I say it, it won't count. I'm senile.)
While cleaning out my email inbox and I found this gem, sent to myself on 12/1/10:
EARL GRAY TEA AGHHHHHHHHHHHH [ARSCHLÖCHER]
No idea what the context was, but I do hate Earl Grey… thanks, past self!
(Also, the name always reminds me of that scene from Amélie when she’s going around to all the apartments and one of the other Dominique Bretodeaus creepily offers her Earl Grey...
the island of no pants, no pants, no pants, no...
Me: Things got better when I took off my pants.
Elinor: When has that ever gone wrong for you?
Me: Well, ok, never.
...
(Moral of the story: I just like not wearing pants, and by "not wearing pants" I actually mean wearing pjs, sweatpants, spandex, etc. Or, you know, no pants, but not exclusively no pants.)
toi aussi? j'ai le meme!
Went to a terrible lecture, which was basically just a guy shouting really loudly for an hour and a half. Thought my brain was going to disintegrate into a million pieces, especially when I finally came home and the lax bros who live above me started bouncing a ball on their floor, aka bouncing it around inside my skull.
In other news, in German today we went over how to write a resume and a...
January 2012
21 posts
(if you miss the train i'm on, you will miss the...
Hannah, to me: I just want you to know that when other people fail me, you always pick up their slack. Even from 100s of miles away!
John: a hundred miles a hundred miles a hundred miles a hundred miles
Hannah: MARY IS MY HOME!
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James Taylor — Fire and Rain
um, did i bring you your check already?
Went to a coffee shop this afternoon with Elinor and Dylan, under the pretense of doing work, but really all that happened was I read a book and we marveled at the not-excellent service. There was also a woman with her two young (incredibly blonde and incredibly cute) daughters, who were sort of running all over and who eventually came up to us, right up to us, playing with the cup holder things...
du bist die erste, an die ich morgens denke
Nathan and I talked about my thesis today (WILL IT NEVER END) and made fun of other departments, it was actually quite amusing
Arts & crafts time in the apartment this evening!
Aaaand my car won’t start
During the State of the Union Address tonight, I spent the whole time thinking about what tidbits of Obama’s speech might appear in future Language Log posts
Reading an...
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(seriously, the weird dreams need to stop)
Me: I had a dream last night that I had a kid.
Dylan: What kind of kid?
Me: It was a baby.
Dylan: Was it a goat? (giggles)
So, it snowed during the night, very nice, and as I peeked out the window this morning, I noticed that some kind student had propped up all the windshield wipers on all the cars on the street…except for mine. Thanks?
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This morning at work at the bookstore, Terry, one of our fearless leaders, was telling me a story about when I started working there, about two years ago. Elinor and I started at the same time and often hung out at the counter when the other was working and visited each other and so on. Apparently, one day someone was talking to me, and I guess there was some confusion about who I was, because...
Think - Aretha Franklin
SING IT, ARETHA!
From the Mixed-Up Files of Team Lanay
HI FRIENDS, I HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS RIGHT NOW. And I’m going to tell you about them! Even though I am really bad at dealing with feelings!
My thesis was accepted to a conference for undergraduate German studies! I will be presenting it in March!! AJSALKFHDSKJFHSDKFJH.
(I don’t mean to brag, really I don’t, but FEELINGS. Also the other things are not as...
Perhaps this has happened to you... →
owenparsons:
Perhaps this has happened to you:
You are having a pleasant conversation with a friend when the topic suddenly veers towards something that, while utterly obscure, is a treasured subject of obsession for you. Perhaps someone brings up the franchise history of the Los Angeles Dodgers, or famously-snubbed Oscar nominees, or the diverse moons of Jupiter, or Batman.
Abruptly, your...
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“Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt
Weiß, was ich leide!
Allein und abgetrennt
Von...”
– Some unhappy Goethe to keep your day on the right track! :D Also, thanks to Mark Liberman for bringing Sehnsucht up at Language Log.
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The Fisherman — Leo Kottke
(I REALLY need to get out more.)
So I used the word “girrrrrrl” in an email, completely without thinking. Sometimes you just gotta say it, though, amirite? I think High School Me would be very disappointed in Now Me. I like myself better now, though. I also got an email from a friend who just got her wisdom teeth out, which included the line:
LETTING GO IS HARD AND I FEEL EMOTIONAL ABOUT IT PROBABLY BECAUSE IM...
king of kings!
Sometimes, when I’m feeling particularly dramatic, destructive, or loud (such as when I’m lighting a big fire, or using a really loud blender, or cleaning a drain with baking soda and vinegar), I think, unbidden, My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
I think I might need to get out more.
December 2011
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My Lady and the Mountain - The Avett Brothers
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from town to town and state to state there's...
The weird dreams continue — all I remember from this morning’s madness was that I received a note from my thesis advisor, telling me how great my thesis was and how proud he was of me, except it was written on a notecard about half the size of a band-aid, and he signed it “love, Robert.” I think Robert might be his real first name (??), but it’s certainly not the one...
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