I think my sister and I got the best of both worlds when it comes to idle talk that comes from both sides of our family. My dad's family (who are like stereotypical WASPS, except for being Catholic) are always very polite and talk about mild things like golf and the weather (as a joke, when we were in Catalina, I wrote a postcard to my Grandma where I talked about weather and mentioned that Connor almost went golfing, and that we'd heard that she and my grandfather used to go to Catalina to golf, I don't know if it was quite as funny if you weren't me) and other such harmless things. My sibs and I were unsure about how my dad and his wife had voted in 2000, and so we let my dad be the first one to say anything about the scandal that was the election. We now know that politics is a safe thing to talk and make fun of around them, becase it is relatively non-confrontational. My mom's family, on the other hand (particularly my mom's mom) must have deep important conversations, at all times. There is none of the, almost comforting at times, banality. She saw two operas this afternoon, (they were short operas) one was funny, the other was not, the the one that wasn't funny was good art.
Anyway, the point was, Jamie and I (when we can break out of the shy shell) are both pretty decent at doing either, at any given point. And I like that we can talk about silly stuff, or get so involved in talking about Shakespeare we don't realize that we're on 50 instead of 97 until we see the Washington Monument (this only happened once), or our depressing lack of love lives, or whatever. It's a good thing, I think, to be able to do either.
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10:36:58 PM,Sunday 20 March 2005
So, I bought a sample of this handcream last week. I adore it. But, I find this pricing thing odd. My sample was $5, and it has 1/3 of what's in the big thing for $21. I really really don't understand. i wonder if the samples will suddenly get more expensive, or stop being available when the line is actually available.
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09:24:29 PM,Sunday 20 March 2005
Why is everyone getting married in October? Note to Jonnies out there: if any of you are planning on getting married and want me to come to your wedding, three of my cousins are getting married in October, so don't get married in October.
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09:00:42 PM,Sunday 20 March 2005
It would amuse me greatly if St. Patrick's Day and Ash Wednesday fell on the same day.
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12:59:05 PM,Sunday 20 March 2005
When the extent of tech support is "did you try restarting it? did it solve your problem (which I am an idiot and didn't understand)? no? well, then, go to the website and send it in" there's something wrong.
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12:14:02 PM,Sunday 20 March 2005
Last night, M__ went out and rented Vanity Fair. She had gone out for L-Word, but it was all checked out, and she didn't know what else to get, and so she picked Vanity Fair. We all hung out and watched it. Visually, it was great. The costumes, the sets, they were beautiful. (I know the costumes were historically innacurate. They were still pertty.) But as a movie...eh. I had no investment in any of the characters, and I came to the conclusion that Reese Witherspoone can't actually act, and Becky is annoying anyway. I have never read the book, and I wasn't sure whether it made me want to go read it. The dance number at the end was...wow, was it ridiculous.
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10:13:08 AM,Saturday 19 March 2005
My uncle and I distributed newspapers today. We stopped at a used music store (downstairs was used CDs and records, upstairs were guitars) and I bought a new copy of Natalie Merchant's Tigerlily. I've been missing it for years. I've been blaming Jyles for taking it, cause Jyles had a way of taking CDs. Not that I didn't also have a way of taking CDs. But, it makes me very happy to have it again.
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08:55:34 PM,Friday 18 March 2005
It's amusing when hippy and trendy start to overlap. I'm thinking of shea butter. My roommate wants to buy shea butter for her hands, and I have shea butter for mine, and hers stems from a hippy place (I think) and mine from Bath and Body Work's classier stuff.
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12:21:34 PM,Thursday 17 March 2005
This could be important. It could also not be, but it doesn't really take any effort, so...
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12:39:31 AM,Thursday 17 March 2005
Driving with my grandmother, I felt like Matthew the raven trying to help Del drive.
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07:53:32 PM,Wednesday 16 March 2005
Picking out a puppy is its own sort of torture. They are all charming and cute and sweet, and you know that when you pick one you will have to say goodbye to the others, and it's horrible. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday I had a different favourite. Right now I am thinking I want the one who is most inclined towards independance, cause I will be working full time, and it would just be mean otherwise. The girl is crazy for affection, but she is so needy, it would horrible to have her, and then go to work, and she cries and cries when she is alone. The boy who is currently my favourite has the most beautiful face of all. This isn't a great shot, but isn't he adorable? (It's very hard to get a picture of the face of a 7 week old puppy.
Weaning puppies is hard work. You find a puppy nursing. You pick it up, put it at the food bowl. It takes a bite. It runs off, pees, and starts nursing again. It makes me a bit nutty.
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05:08:51 PM,Wednesday 9 March 2005
My face smells like peaches, because I ran out of my rose witch hazel so I used the peach that belongs to one of my roommates. I hate it. I miss my roses.
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12:27:18 PM,Thursday 3 March 2005
They sell Everquest II at the Penn bookstore. This strikes me as a really bad idea.
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10:55:52 AM,Thursday 3 March 2005
Do any of you watch Lost? Was Saywer reading A Wrinkle in Time while the guy from the Matrix was giving him a hard time for not helping with the boat?
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10:32:06 PM,Wednesday 2 March 2005
Evil. Numbers. Aah! I don't know what I think of Locke. I think he's a bit creepy, but it was very nice of him to build a cradle for Claire.
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10:02:38 PM,Wednesday 2 March 2005
My mom says that I am not allowed under any circumstances to send seeds to Katherine. Think of kudzu, was essentially the argument. And so. So people who got Katherine's essays know, don't send Katherine seeds. I had picked out damn cool seeds for Katherine. They were the coolest tomatoes and the coolest watermelons I ever saw.
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12:31:21 AM,Wednesday 2 March 2005
It finally began snowing. It started slowly, and then it as lovely. And then I had the brilliant idea that rather than studying in my apartment, I would get on a bus and go to Borders. I wasn't quite sure where Borders was, so I searched online. And found one. Ah, that was easy, same road as the bus that runs in front of my house runs on. Brilliant, thought I, and hopped on the bus. Turns out that Borders is a Borders Express in the shops below the skyscrapers. So, I went down to blocks and went to the Barnes and Nobles in Rittenhouse Square. It was lovely. I read Cicero, or at least enough Cicero that I only have two pages to read tomorrow, which is what I was shooting for, and then I sat back and read mindless chick-lit fiction--I started with some random book by Alicia Kwitney, because Neil Gaimn had talked about her on his blog, and I was thinking about getting her books but I had never read her, so I thought, hmm...will go to bookstore, check them out, then go to bookfinder and buy them massively cheap if they are any good. I decided it was good enough to by the massively cheap book from bookfinder, and started reading the third sisterhood of the summer pants book (or summerhood of the magic pants, or whatever they are), because I read the other two last winter while killing time at a bookstore, and figured I might as well do the same with the third one. And now I am home. The snow at one point was coming down in tiny tiny flakes, flakes that were so tiny the almost looked like rain, or like there was nothing. But now they are big and white and blowing. They are the sort of snowflakes that stick to your eyelashes and make you wander what the fuck Rogers and Hammerstein were thinking when they put snowflakes that stick to your nose and eyelashes in the middle of "My Favourite Things", because, while the novelty of it is briefly cool, then you realize that your eyelashes are starting to freeze together, and you can't see, and fuck it's cold, and where is that Borders you've seen on the corner anyway? But it was lovely. I draink a latte and ate a scone, and listened to the music at B&N instead of my iPod, cause I think my iPod is having battery issues. I swear, there is no way it's been on long enough to be as drained as it thinks it is, and I wanted it to work on the bus home.
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04:42:42 PM,Monday 28 February 2005
I must say, if we don't get this storm they're predicting, or it turns out to be no biggy, I will be very disappointed.
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12:40:36 AM,Monday 28 February 2005
My light has gone out. I don't know how to take the cover off to replace the lightbulbs. Not that I have lightbulbs. Fortunately, I have lamps.
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05:01:17 PM,Sunday 27 February 2005
