February 2010
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Home from family overdose weekend...
Our springer/beagle mix who has never had to be “home alone” before (except for her royalcatness Balari) was soooo happy to see us that she cried lovey/joyous noises for about a half an hour alternated with hyperventilating. Talent Boy came did very well as the third highest scorer at a 5 way? meet that had two of the best divers in the conference. He has a good shot at placing in...
January 2010
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NO Leg shortening surgery.
and-shesback:
yosamanthrax:
I think my obsession with being thin stems from being tall. I think it’s okay to be short and skinny, or tall and skinny, and you can be cute if you’re short and chubby or short and fat, but if you’re tall and chubby, a mob will run after you in the street yelling BEASTY MCVARMSQUATCH at you until you cry tears of blood and self-implode.
Nope.
I am not tall, and...
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While you all were SOTUing last night
Update regarding: last night’s post on crazy ladies and hecklers. Vitamin Girl reminds me that we were not booing the speaker, but rather snickering, and then laughing loudly. He was making egregious logical errors in his speech, [the one I recall, was along the lines of “I know this is true because the convicted felons told me”] and also made a highly inappropriate (and...
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OMG that's ME!
Was reading humorist/writer/director Nora Ephron’s book CRAZY SALAD, Some Things About Women when I had that “That’s ME” moment. In the chapter Crazy Ladies she talks about this woman who was the crazy/socialite of Washington in the Johnson era, and how the very staidness of the DC politic good ol boy atmosphere drove the woman to wild behavior.
In the chapter she quotes from B. Howar’s memoir...
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for the first time EVER in the WORLD???
until February 21st, 2011: group show elles@centrepompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris For the first time ever in the World, a museum presents its collection of works made by female artists. This new presentation of the collections of the National Modern Art Museum (Centre Pompidou) is entirely dedicated to female artists of the XXth-XXIth centuries. curators : Camille Morineau, Emma Lavigne,...
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Watch where you're pointing that finger!
This is whisper-y because I am afraid that publishing it is asking for the gods of chaos to point the zappy finger at my plans. BUT—I have a pet sitter, my sister in law said that I could crash at their apartment, and Bucky said we can swing the gas money…so —MAYBE I AM SEEING MY BOY AND GIRL AND GETTING THE HELL OUT OF DODGE this weekend! (Can you tell I’m excited?)...
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Eating Crow
When you have made a serious error and need to acknowledge it humbly, it is highly probable that the expression you use to describe the process has something to do with food.
The best-known traditional expression of this type in the US is to eat crow. The origin seems fairly obvious: the meat of the crow, being a carnivore, is presumably rank and extremely distasteful, and the experience is...
super manny?
morninggloria:
BECAUSE WE NEED A GENDER SPECIFIC TERM FOR A MAN WHO TAKES CARE OF CHILDREN.
since we switched off on childcare duties, whomever was the childcharge adult was called the “home-honey”. As in: “Am I home-honey tomorrow, or are you?”
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QUIET. Quiet, too much quiet.
Both my chillin’s have flown the coop. Missing the Vitamin Girl and the Talent Boy, tonight. Also still grieving for my furry best friend, who died about a month ago. Bucky’s got his nose in this week’s TIME, I got my nose in the laptop staring blankly at not much. CeCe’s got her nose, well never mind where her Spri-gal nose is….
I am hoping to go see Talent Boy...
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““Of course, there have been rumors in the past about a long-forgotten Caribbean...”
– Massive Earthquake Reveals Entire Island Civilization Called ‘Haiti’ | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
Once again, the Onion proves they’re not just for comedy. They do biting satire as well.
(via lemdi)
Move over Johnathan Swift
ACTUAL CONVERSATION I JUST HAD WITH MY BOSS NO...
crabbyalissa:
Boss: Did you just put someone through to my voicemail? Me: Yes, it was Mr. Lawyer returning your… Boss: WHY did you put him through to my voicemail? Me: You were on the phone. Boss: WHEN? Me: Just a minute ago, Mr. Lawyer didn’t call more than 3 minutes ago. Boss: I was JUST on the phone. Me: I know, that’s why I put Mr. Lawyer through to your voicemail. You were on the...
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some stole the children-hurray!
It is VERY quiet in my building today. My organization shares space with a charter school. There are no children here. The root-vegetable teens are missing! (Hurray!) It must be a hippie holiday that is unfamiliar to moi. (I vote for Rachel Carson Day!)
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re: Dogs and donations
WARNING: HIGH HORSE-RY going on HERE.
Thinking about the tumblr “discussion” I read yesterday about if it is ok to donate to save animals in Haiti when there are people suffering. And I got to raise the RED SWORD and say PAY ATTENTION for a moment.
First- I believe you are framing it wrong. and Second-you are framing the larger issue wrong as well. #1 I am firmly in the save the...
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And the shouty award goes to....
So Vitamin Girl informs me that some of you might think that I am shouty in a Tourettes-type way for my nonstandard use of the CAPs feature. So HEAR YE, hear ye, let it be known that because of the informal/chatty nature of this corner of the tumbl-world I’m doing what I do in personal emails and chats, which is to CAP LOCK on the words that I would emphasize in my speech pattern. She...
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color me cheesesnob
lickystickypickyme:
Kraft singles commercial:
A country is as good as its cheese. Good thing ours doesn’t have holes in it!
Shut up and sit down Kraft Singles. Your “cheese” barely made it to earn the title cheese. Pure chemical fabrication with a HINT of cheddar cheese. And you go and make fun of Swiss cheese? So wrong.
I am starting to really HATE commercials.
OH oh oh don’t even...
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mermen and sumo wrestlers
Talent Boy is a swimmer/diver; and long ago and far away I was also a competitive swimmer. My hubby, Bucky, likes to announce for meets, and when he can’t do that he is a timer (which means you stand at the end of the lane with a stopwatch in case the electronics in your lane fail.) So last night we go to the high school swim meet, although Talent Boy is doing his thing at college now....
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about blood and stuff
So because I am obsessing about Haiti, and feeling the need to “DO SOMETHING” and we gots no moola so I can’t provide it, I decide to save some lives by being a blood donor. I give a few times a year, and because I am that lovely and rare O neg type they like, do jetes and backflips in the aisles when they see me coming, so it all normally feels very positive. ANYWAY I get...
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To clarify: Jobs to get jobs to get jobs etc.
lemdi:
caraobrien:
It’s not really my degrees that are useless. Though they’re probably not the most useful degrees in this job market. Or any job market. But especially this one.
I’m ————— discouraged because I really have no interest in doing anything with my political science degree other than spending every day talking about politics/social issues.
Now you know why this tumblr exists.
...
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“The Supreme Court has just determined the winners of next term’s elections. It...”
– New York Senator CHUCK SCHUMER, on the Court’s decision to almost totally eviscerate campaign finance laws governing corporate contributions.
Schumer’s media whorishness usually makes me go ugh. But he’s right.
(via Time Magazine)
(via inothernews)
I agree with ION.
This is a giant tub of...
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Procrastinators of the world
lickystickypickyme:
I have a set of onesies and a cute stuffed animal mobile in a bag in my closet. I bought it a year ago for a then newborn. Never went to see the poor bloke, until he was 6 months already. Five other newborns were intended to get after that. Never went to see those either.
I will show off my own baby in those onesies I guess. Because, jeebus, I seem to procrastinate my...
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Difficult or Diva-less?
We have a lovely person-of-color in town for a show. She is a pioneering female actor of early children’s television. Tall and regal looking with an age defying presence; she is warm, and down to earth, with no diva attitude. Nothing to prove. And she is as “famous” as they get in my small venue.
The director on the other hand is now local because he/she came to work with a...
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Chattering Monkeys vs Tetris
I’ve been pondering my immediate family’s love of Tetris and computer tile games. We are not and never have been “gamers” and no X BOX or whatever the latest thingy is at my house. Silly games/kill games/fantasy etc. don’t interest us at all. But we FIGHT over the laptop with the tile games, and eagerly pick up the hand held tetris when someone else puts it down. SO...
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I'm just not that into YOU
Dear adorable actor’s parent:
Just because you know the first name of the Managing Director, does not mean that its a VERY GOOD PLAN to try to bypass the normal ticketing system, and make the man take care of you! WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF A CAPITAL project with no extra STAFF and YOU (of all people know) this; so perhaps you could get over your need for SPECIAL STROKES, and use the ticket...
Only the baddest Disney villain of all life!
rosasparks:
ubermichael:
moreisnotenough:
Rumor on the street: Tim Burton is working on a retelling of “Sleeping Beauty.” From the perspective of this bad-ass bitch.
LOVE IT!
And Johnny Depp can play Maleficient, the evil Fairy Queen.
GET. OOOOOOUT.
I am freaking out. FREEAAAKING OOOOOUT.
Maleficent is my favorite EVER.
Do NOT fuck up my spirit creature!
I wanted Maleficent as my...
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We all gettin' that bite in the ass
This is a whisper-y post. My arts advocacy group is giving a call-to-arms because they just announced that the New York State’s Council for the Arts budget is looking at a 10% cut. And although I WORK for a performing arts organization part of me is like, meh, because everyone everywhere is going take a hit in the NY budget, and 10% ONLY from the arts is, well, not as bad as it could be....
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Once the mom, always the mom
My lovely adult daughter “vitamin girl” is about to go back to college. She calls as I’m dressing for work and says “Mom, my appoint to get the Dr. to sign my college health forms is today, and it occurs to me I never had shots done there. So pull my immunization records.” So I go to the special spot, and the familiar little green form is NOT THERE! (I am very...
“`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All...”
– from Through the Looking-Glass