January 2009
December 2008
Runner Up High of 2008 →
Willing this year to be Thailand, Brazil or New Zealand. I’m dreaming big, so even if I fall short I’ll land somewhere between here and there.
out in the West Texas town of El Paso
onefootinthegrave:
the Pittsburgh Panthers are playing the Oregon State Beavers. I could make some euphemism about my school’s coming victory, but really, I’m bigger than that.
who am I kidding? We’re gonna lick those Beavers!
Verne Lundquist is announcing. The man is an American Treasure.
…I fell in love with a Mexican girl (that’s me!) and I’m IN El Paso. funny.
“The sky is just as big as it ever was, but the margin for error has shrunk. And...”
– From The Devil at 37,000 Feet in January’s Vanity Fair on the Amazon plane crash.
This is a captivating read. Only, as I learned the hard way, I recommend reading it AFTER you’ve flown back from the holiday.
willing good things to come my way
they have to. there is no other choice.
PARTY WIN!
Games I managed to guilt my family & friends into playing with me on this, the day/party of my birth: scrabble, duck duck goose, the “who am I game,” salad bowl and wii tennis!
We also had funfetti cake (my fave) & s’mores!
“If someone makes a charitable donation in your name, can you regift it?”
– Pedna
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12.25.08
high: playing with cousins. six feet under. wii. rum cake. presence of a particular loved one.
low: generic christmas texts. draaaaama :)
"I also worry that if aid groups paid executives... →
It is frightening that such a deeply dysfunctional reality is acceptable enough to print in the Times.
“…not to mention Tumblr’s viral popularity as the liberal elite’s platform...”
– Fresh Inc.
OMG
I am STILL at work. In 10 hours I have to be back here. This is what I get for pretending I’m in still in college and taking a 2-week vacation. NEVER AGAIN.
“What if Bristol’s kid is five days late and is born on Christmas? The wingnuts...”
– Caroline McCarthy
not much to say as of late.
“If the guy you steppin’ with doesn’t treat you like the most beautiful woman in...”
– Veruca
“I would love to come to this meeting at the White House, but I actually have a...”
– Defense Secretary Robert Gates to White House Schedulers
- NYTimes.com
“She threw her drink, her glass, and then her purse at him – if there had been a...”
– Junot Diaz, from The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
WatchI am not religious, nor am I of the Baha’i faith, so I can’t figure out why I can’t stop listening to this song.
“September 11, of course, changed the building more than anything. It’s not just...”
– Because Just When You Take the Empire State Building for Granted, It Seduces You Again
Reasons to Love New York 2008 - New York Magazine
“But the communal compulsion is an amazingly hopeful phenomenon, no matter what...”
– Because Every Once in a While, There Is Dancing in the Streets
Reasons to Love New York 2008-NY Mag
mikehudack: langer: Just got a call from a friend in D.C. who’s privy to some of the finer logistics of inaugural event planning, and apparently if only a million people show up to the Mall (a low-end estimate) there will be a ratio of roughly 6,800 people to each portable toilet.
“My apartment is like a museum to the American childhood I never had.”
– Fe La Chila
“It remained unclear who on Bushes guest list outranked the incoming President.”
– Sorry, We’re Booked, White House Tells Obamas -NYTimes
12.12.08
low: I fired someone.
high: I recruited my favorite past assistant to come back and work for me.
“War is a jarring experience. Your kids are living it out, and you’ve...”
– Michael Ware’s Tortured World: “I Am Not The Same Fucking Person”
Intern
draaaaaama.
