January 2010
20 posts
In preparation for February.
A bachelor’s effort to understand love - NYTimes.com
So tormented was Mr. Bowe by his inability to make the relationship work that he set out on a two-year quest to find out why. Not through conventional means, like psychotherapy, but by researching other people’s romantic experiences.
The result is “Us: Americans Talk About Love,” a new collection of first-person accounts of why love...
Thursday reruns.
Yesterday was a really bad day. It started out being a really great one and then took a nosedive after lunch without recovery for the rest of the day. Graphically, it would look like the stock market performance of 2008.
In the morning, the big deadline that had been haunting my ass got moved to next week. Big breath of relief. Then, I turned in part one results of a big project I’ve...
Do women actually have dating "checklists"? →
itsdaejeondarling:
Sorta reblogging two posts at once … the Screw Cupid one and the Dating Checklist.
hotyellowfellows:
Anyway, I think there’s something to be said for a kind of “interviewing” process, and I think that it seems less desperate than falling into a relationship. It’s just like, okay, we talk all the time, we spend all of our time together, we have sex… Let’s just call it a...
Part two
By the end of our grad program, Rimmed-Glasses and his girl decidedly could not get past their cultural differences. He was Korean, she was not, and that was never going to change. That was the given excuse reason. Their breakup spanned over weeks, although talks about this topic had gone on for months. Must have been terrible - to deliberate it in their heads, to talk about it with one...
Not my story but telling it anyways.
I’ve been waiting all day for the Nice Lady Upstairs to give me some documents. I’m kind of stuck here waiting because I can’t take on any time-consuming tasks when every email I get is prefaced URGENT and I still have to complete this hefty project (which requires me to look through Nice Lady Upstairs’ documents) by close of business on Friday. If I’d been...
I'm waiting for some information so can't proceed...
friend: so did i tel you that i have a mentee from [a college] he’s [Asian]
me: no you did not
friend: oh we’re doing a thing through a [program] and i’m his mentor and he is so good looking! if i were in college or younger i’d jump on it! lol
me: jump ON IT! :-d :-d :-D damn i was in capslock
I’ve redacted, but yeah this is why girlfriends are so important...
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computer woes
Boy determined on his own that my computer’s performance was entirely unacceptable. I’ve had this thing since August 2007 and I’ve honestly had no complaints. Yeah, it takes awhile to start up, internet speed slows down with the numerous automatic Vista updates, and can’t run too many programs at once, but this is normal right? So Boy investigates while I put my head in...
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gchatting current events
me: i think leno could take a hint from jordan's career. he went off to do baseball, failed, but still stepped down
boy: WHOA - a relevant sports reference!!
me: instead of goig back to basketball and ending on a high note. i am awesome :)
boy: well, actually jordan came back a second time with the wizards and people criticized him for not staying retired, but that was pretty impressive
All of a sudden, I am SLAMMED at work. Some of it is catchup for those months I neglected to do this one report - well I didn’t see a point for it until last week! No really, nobody was asking for it or needing it. And now it’s urgent.
On the home front, I’ve been having progressively worse breakdowns. Maybe the quarter-life crisis is finally hitting me, but a lot of the...
really?
Trying to study at a local coffee shop right now. There is a gathering of about 12 people around a good size table. Fine, sounds like a good thing to do on a Saturday morning. There is one woman who is louder than the entire group because every time there is a loud proclamation or cackle, I glance over and it is her. Attention whore much? I guess so since she’s the protagonist of this...
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wow, surprise!
Sitting at my cube, was just delivered a box of chocolate-covered strawberries! Boy did gooood! I’ve never received flowers or anything at work. This is pretty awesome. I think I flushed bright pink because I was so excited. he he, still smiling.
mid-20s crisis?
Tthis past weekend, I had a little bit of a breakdown. I don’t know, nothing was different, nothing out of the ordinary, but it suddenly dawned on me that I was wearing a completely inappropriate outfit.
forgot the top
loose blue cotton pants from banana outlet
birks
black zara fitted jacket
black chloe bag
I cringe even writing that. The pieces completely don’t fit together....
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thieves? robbery? and some talk on gas
Boy and I tried to go to this electronics liquidation sale downtown yesterday. Found parking and was trekking to the place when these two guys told us “Shut down. All stolen merchandise. millions worth. They got busted last night.” I took that to mean that they got busted by the police because they were trying to resell stolen goods. Boy took it to mean that they got robbed. ...
Write one leaf about your ritual in the bath or...
writeoneleaf:
If it helps, have a bath or shower first.
preface
my whole body gets cold in the winter, including places like my stomach (core) and thighs (most fatty). it is pretty terrible.
five minutes before the shower, i throw the bean sack into the microwave for three minutes. when it’s done, i throw the bean sack under my comforter - around the feet area. then i hop into...
finally.
it’s been.. years since i last wrote a blog, weeks since i decided to restart but couldn’t think of a witty name, and now, finally.