| Thursday, August 28th, 2008 |
| 10:45 pm |
i hope everyone is listening to or watching Barack Obama right now. He is being awesome and historic in his speech. |
| Saturday, August 16th, 2008 |
| 10:46 pm |
advice?
One thing i've learned by doing this whole working from home/freelancing thing is that it's impossible.
You take a 5 minute break and somehow three hours has passed. You manage to work for two hours, and then you're hungry again. 10:00 p.m. comes and goes and you haven't got anything done. even the three hours was eaten up by some dumb procrastinating project and not something important.
I'm beginning to realize why I was so horrible at Swarthmore. My time management skills are shit. I expect to get days off. I don't like having work to do on the weekends. I prioritize and prioritize and I never make it through my list. People invite me to dinner and I go. I always want to go to sleep at 11 pm and sleep until 9 am.
How do I do this? How do I improve my discipline and focus? When I'm at work, I don't have this problem. I am always doing something. always moving forward. I am on time. I am able to set everything else in my life aside and just focus on work. What do you do when you have to bring this into your house?
Current Mood: stress |
| Friday, July 4th, 2008 |
| 11:55 am |
and other cooking disasters
Most of you out there have probably read Calvin & Hobbes, and you remember that Calvin's mother always cooks this amorphous green (sometimes orange) blobby stuff for dinner, and Calvin finds it very threatening. ...
I've figured out the recipe.
Current Music: kid rock |
| Thursday, June 19th, 2008 |
| 8:00 pm |
Cooking with spam for dummies
Is spam any good in soup or is that just the sort of thing one should never try?
I'm assuming it works basically like hot dogs, which are ok in soup. Right?
Current Music: Evanescence sort of |
| Monday, May 26th, 2008 |
| 12:42 pm |
Cicada
The cicadas have arrived. They have this awesome sci-fi-ish sonic sounding buzz that is reminiscent of alien-movie-landings. |
| Saturday, April 5th, 2008 |
| 9:52 pm |
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| Sunday, March 30th, 2008 |
| 9:53 am |
Poll
1. If you are wearing a knee-length skirt to a job interview, what sort of shoes do you wear with it? What do they look like? Can you walk in them? Are they remotely comfortable? Do you think they're attractive or are they just something you bought to wear to job interviews and for that matter, you absolutely hate them? Do they have that necessary, I-am-sitting-here-looking-posh-but-not-drawing-attention-to-myself look? Where did you buy them and how expensive were they?
2. If you are wearing a knee-length skirt to a job interview, do you wear pantyhose? black socks? knee-high socks? no socks? something else?
Option 3: You never wear skirts to job interviews.
Option 4: You only wear long skirts to job interviews. |
| Monday, January 7th, 2008 |
| 6:53 pm |
:)
There is nothing so luxurious or awesome as owning a dishwasher.
Current Mood: jumping up and down w/ happine
Current Music: sweet dishwasher noise |
| Saturday, December 29th, 2007 |
| 5:30 pm |
cooking pancakes with coconut milk in place of butter
We got macademia nut pancake mix and maple syrup for Christmas.
I'm mixing it up. I realize I only have one teaspoon of butter. I'm out of cooking oils.
The only other option is to break open the coconut milk and use it as my cooking oil.
It burns. But the burned bits taste good, like little bits of burned sugar.
the mix creates light, fluffy pancakes, and the subtle flavors of maple syrup and coconut and macadamia together are fucking awesome. the best pancakes ever.
Current Mood: delighted |
| Thursday, December 13th, 2007 |
| 9:01 pm |
a book you should read
"Confessions of an Economic Hitman"
fascinating book -- sort of a personal narrative of global economics. that tells an indispensible history of American foreign relations in the past 30 or so years.
links together a lot of things i knew were related but couldn't figure out how they were related to each other.
sometimes the writer gets annoying, but it's worth the read for the solid info. |
| Monday, October 29th, 2007 |
| 7:25 pm |
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| Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 |
| 6:22 pm |
i was driving home and
i just saw a sign advertising hillbilly tacos and sno kones. |
| Saturday, September 8th, 2007 |
| 9:20 pm |
My mother finally gave me the wedding tablecloths back. She sewed them into the strangest, sweetest pillowcases ever. Thank you everyone for all your kind & beautiful words & pictures.
I also got a Bible verse. I'm trying to decide how I feel about it. |
| Monday, August 13th, 2007 |
| 5:07 pm |
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| Thursday, July 12th, 2007 |
| 1:41 am |
the gaping loophole in the Fair Housing Act Let me get this straight. I totally never knew this and stumbled upon it in a random and convoluted trek through the internet: The Fair Housing Act, as it stands currently on the books, which says that it's wrong to discriminate on the basis of race, sex, national origin, color, or familial status in housing DOES NOT APPLY TO THE RENTAL OF SINGLE-FAMILY UNITS unless the single-family units are owned by a person who is renting more than 3 or so single-family units and unless they publish or advertise that they are discriminating. So then zoning comes along and says multi-family units can only go in x location. and wa-la we have segregation. (i knew about the zoning already. i had that explained to me at "The State of Black Asheville" Conference a while back. but I had no idea the federal law itself had a huge gaping loophole in it like this). Here is the link. Tell me I am somehow stupid and wrong about this: http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/housing/title8.htm Current Mood: dumb |
| Saturday, June 30th, 2007 |
| 10:44 pm |
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| Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 |
| 11:13 pm |
history I thought I posted my sophomore paper to livejournal, but I can't find it. Does anyone remember? I wanted to go back and see how much of it came true. Current Mood:  weird |
| Saturday, May 19th, 2007 |
| 9:36 pm |
Swarthmore Alumni Council Election Ballot
I got this alumni council election ballot thing in the mail.
Does anyone else find it amusing that the South is in the same group as all the territories dependencies and foreign countries? |
| Monday, May 14th, 2007 |
| 9:48 pm |
Woot!
We have wedding vows :) |
| Sunday, May 13th, 2007 |
| 4:46 pm |
a riddle of my own
I want to know the name of an Italian movie about a movie director. The opening scene involves a guy calling his mother. The closing scene is a funeral.
That is all I know about the movie. |
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