January 2010
December 2009
‘Baby-Sitters Club’ Returns With Prequel, Reissued... →
(via shirtdress)
Editors at Scholastic updated some of the references to technology and outdated fashions in the reissued books. So a “cassette player” has become “headphones” and a “perm” has become “an expensive hairstyle.”
Feeling lonely, why not blow up a plane? →
peachfuzz:
Apparently the TSA is going to make our lives hell with even more pointless restrictions because the Christmas crotchbomber was lonely, not because of any big terrorist plot.
You'd think I'd have better things to do on my...
Surprisingly, you’d be wrong.
WatchTaylor Swift - “Fifteen”
Ok, this is a terrible video. I realize that. But I’ve heard it about three hundred times over the past two days, and one line keeps jumping out at me, pounding me over the head really.
In your life you’ll do things greater than / dating the boy on the football team / But I didn’t know it at fifteen.
Holy truth bomb. I’m still...
A good reminder
wearethedigitalkids:
Six years ago, I moved from Chicago to New York to work at Saturday Night Live. I packed up and was going through my things to see what I would take with me and what I’d leave behind. I found an orange folder—a regular school folder—in a bookshelf. As soon as I saw it, I knew what it was. There were quotes written all over the front of it. Some of them were: “Greet...
Megantheories: It's like Freakonomics, but...
It’s funny. It seems the people making all the money either dress in three-piece suits, or wear holey jeans to business meetings.
A friend of mine consistently shows up to after-work drinks in a suit, an overcoat I suspect he stole from his grandfather and carrying an honest-to-god attaché case. I didn’t know they still made those. It probably doesn’t help that he’s my age but looks even...
WatchI need more girlfriends in NYC so I can see this movie on opening weekend.
Whatever, don’t judge me. It could be terrible, and it’ll still be awesome.
thedailywhat:
Movie Trailer of the Day, Too: First official teaser trailer for Sex and the City 2.
In theaters May 28, 2010.
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I'm not sure what this says about me...
But I feel much calmer after checking in with Tumblr after a three-day absence. It feels like home in a way that my real home - well, really my parents’ home - doesn’t anymore. Tumblr is with me every day; it’s part of my every day life. Like my morning coffee or my desk at work, it’s expected now. It’s comforting.
I love being home, but the holidays can be...
TAKE A GOOD HARD LOOK AT THE M'F*CKING PLANE
I’m on a plane y’all! Two cancellations, one midnight Greyhound ride and a near-miss on a detour to Atlantic City, and I am homeward bound, bitches!!
Merry Christmas!!!!!
JESUS WASN’T EVEN BORN IN DECEMBER YOU KNOW
I was, it seems, the only person who didn’t know the storm was coming. That’s why I’m still not home in Wisconsin, even though I was due to arrive this morning at 7am. Ignorance. Had I known about the Nor’easter blizzard headed for me like a bullseye, I keep thinking I could have prevented this. Avoided it somehow. Everything set in motion on Friday. I noticed my sister called me, and my...
Merry Christmas, Happy holida-a-a-a-a-a-a-y-s!
I’ve reached a new low in my lazy reblogging - I’m now cribbing from myself. A friend of mine who faithfully maintains a daily email list-serv with friends from college recently asked me to write a post for him as a ‘virtual Christmas present.’ I readily accepted, mostly because I’m happy to take the editorial load off his shoulders for a day but also because with a...
Best. Motion to Continue. Ever.
truestory:
From an actual motion, filed in by an actual lawyer in an actual Alabama court: [emphasis mine]
[A]ttorneys for the Defendants … move to continue the current trial setting of January 4, 2010 and as grounds therefore would aver as follows:
1. This case was set for trial several months ago before certain monumental events occurred that were beyond the anticipation of the attorneys...
Helping a co-worker pick out a present for his...
Him: Hey sorry, just to clarify...did you know the band on each watch was white and not silver? i just realized that...
Me: Umm, yes. I don't mean to ask this sarcastically, but are you colorblind?
I'm way more fun without you
Also, I got a new scarf tonight. I’m not sure how.
GASP!!!
Do you ever audibly gasp at something that in no way deserves an audible gasp and then everyone looks at you and you have to explain that you just extended an arrow farther than you intended on a PowerPoint slide and they look at you funny and return to what they were doing, vowing never to pay you any heed when you emit a sound of total shock ever again?
Yeah, me neither..
Last night
was epic. I love working at an agency that values team bonding and sees the merit in getting the hell out of the office every once in awhile. I’d been hearing stories for weeks leading up to last night’s holiday party, about parties of years past and the…well, I was going to say shenanigans, but I don’t even think that does the stories justice. Two years ago one girl...
My nemesis
Hiccups are to drinking as tells are to poker. You don’t mean for them to happen, they’re a huge hassle and inconvenience, but you just can’t seem to shake them…
karaoke
at 230am. God bless company holiday parties.
Not to brag, but...
Not one, not two, but THREE people at work today have commented on how awesome/big my boobs look today. Maybe there’s something to this whole ‘wearing a bra’ thing after all.
I accepted all compliments as they were intended - not in creepiness but rather a platonic, aesthetic appreciation of true beauty.
One of those days
I’m having one of those days where you say to yourself, “God, I need a drink,” and then you’re kind of horrified with yourself because you’re like, “When did I turn into Dennis Franz on NYPD Blue?” but then you’re all, “But no, seriously. Somebody get me a scotch.”
A conversation between '06 alums
Me: I'm exhausted. I slept like sh*t last night.
Tall Megan: Oh that sucks. I am too. It was my friend's last night in San Diego and $1.50 draft night at the bar down the street from us.
Me: Oh snap. So how ARE you liking college Megan?
TM: It's awesome. Living on my own is so cool! No parents telling me what to do. I feel so grownup....
Stephen Sondheim calls Angela Lansbury "Angie" →
…in a joint interview in New York mag
I want her in my family somehow. She can give me life advice and serve me gingersnap cookies and dish on all the now-famous guest stars that cameo’d on Murder, She Wrote.
“I’ve never driven this route, so you guys might have to help me.”
– Our friendly but possibly incompetent bus driver, as we’re getting into the city
Awwwwkward
I wrote all my Christmas cards this week. It’s one of my favorite holiday traditions, in fact. Throw some carols on the stereo, heat up some cider, and get down to some hand-written merry-making. It’s just one more thing that has me convinced I’m secretly a mother of three in Omaha somewhere. Seriously, I shouldn’t enjoy domesticity as much as I do in my single, tiny one-bedroom existence in...
Watch“Lift your head up, smile and look at the camera.”