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#63 - LIST FRIDAY, Tiny Blue Flowers Edition

Things I Find Intriguing

• typewriters
• the personal lives of writers I admire
• rubber stamps
• heists and capers
• the Italian Renaissance
• songs in which the lyrics are full sentences*
  

PAUSE. I just sneezed and then felt very dizzy. How strange.

• other people's favorite quotations
• people with surprising voices
• the square-shoed (square-shod?) guy in my logic class
• words written in unexpected places

Things I Would Say To Some Of My Fellow Students If I Knew That They Would Get Amnesia Soon After The Conversation Took Place

• To the square-shoed/shod guy in my logic class: "Three things. 1) Are you gay? I think you probably are. 2) May I please borrow your notes? They are immaculate. 3) Why do you look so solemn all the time? When you laughed in class the other day (at a really terrible joke the prof made) I was so surprised I almost dropped my pencil."
• The the lady in my women's studies class with the really nice leather bag: "I really, really like your bag."
  
• To the guy in my logic class who I have secretly named Chuck: "The reason I call you Chuck is because you kind of look like a cross between Chuck Bass** and Chuck Klosterman***. This is unfortunate and I am sorry, but don't worry, the amnesia will set in soon and you will forget I ever said anything."

• To the guy in my English class with the awful haircut: "To be honest, I am a little flummoxed by the fact that you look like a complete hick yet have a seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of English literature. Also, I would like to give you some advice. If you absolutely must cut your own hair (which looks to be the case), next time find some scissors or something instead of using the electric knife that your father uses to carve roasts."
• To my French prof: "The pants you wore on Wednesday were much to tight. Much to tight."

*Both The Mountain Goats and The Hold Steady are good at this. See also the song Scattered Pearls by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.

I Am Just Wondering...

Where the hell did this snow come from?! I stay inside for a few hours and the next time I look out the window everything is covered in white. This day is so depressing.


Note: This post is not numbered because boring posts that consist entirely of me complaining about the weather do not deserve to be numbered. Looking back at the archives neither, apparently, do posts about me having baked cookies, eating the last of said cookies, or wondering about the possible existence of an Arrested Development movie. Posts that I have honoured with numbers include: a question about toothpaste, an unfortunate logic joke, and one post whose sole purpose was to discuss the newest Mariah Carey video. Clearly, I have my priorities well in order.

#62 - Look Around, Look Around

the second drummer drowned

An (admittedly very late) List Friday is forthcoming, but I have an essay due tomorrow that I have hardly started and a family dinner tonight. I was really planning to do in on Friday this week, but I went out and played Sega instead and I do not regret that decision. Sega is awesome.

SEEEEEEE-GA

#61 - The One In The Red Shirt

Do you know who it is?

It Is 2 am,

I have a French test tomorrow, and I just ate the last cookie.

Sad pandas on so many levels.

#60 - This Is Just To Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

-William Carlos Williams


I have not really been all that much for the sleeping lately, so I have been reading a lot of poetry from my English textbooks at, like, 3 o'clock in the morning. Here is a bonus list (because I was such a slacker this week) of some of my favorites.

• Helen of Troy Does Counter Dancing - Margaret Atwood ("My mother was raped by a holy swan. / You believe that?")
• Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley (He was married to Mary Shelley, who wrote Frankenstein, and after he died she kept his heart in a drawer for the rest of her life.)
• Meditations on the Declension of Beauty by the Girl with the Flying Cheek-bones - Marlene Nourbese Philip
• 288 - Emily Dickinson (I feel a special connection with Emily Dickinson because she had an avoidant personality, and that it what I would have too, if I had a personality disorder!)
• you fit into me - Margaret Atwood, which goes as follows:

you fit into me
like a hook into an eye

a fish hook
an open eye

Isn't that great? She is completely screwing with you! Margaret Atwood is hilarious in a creepy, creepy way.




On a completely unrelated, pretty inside-jokey note: Look at this thing!

#59 - LIST FRIDAY, Lazy Edition

First of all, cookie update: They are delicious.

Second of all, I would like to apologize for the lateness and also, in advance, for the lameness of this week's list.

Music I Have Been Listening To And Enjoying, Barry*

• Tim I Wish You Were Born A Girl - Of Montreal (I could make you spaghetti with tomato sauce / with just a dash of oregano / and a parsely stem. This song is so great)
  
• Elevator Love Letter - Stars
• Swimming Pool - Freezepop (so much less crazy than Freezepop usually is. Also, very long)
• Can I Get Get Get - Junior Senior
• Girlfriend in a Coma -Joshua Radin (this song is really repetitive and kind of boring and yet I cannot stop listening to it)
• We Run This - Missy Elliot (ever since I heard it at Kenzie's last weekend...)
• Chutes to Narrow - The Shins (the entire album, because it is such perfect winter-into-spring transition music)
• D.A.N.C.E. - Justice

*Spot the reference!

I Just Made Some Delicious, Delicious Cookies

There is a pound of chocolate and 6 Skor bars in here. Isn't that awesome?

#58 - I Am Mutually Exclusive...

... and collectively exhausted.

A logic pun! I am pretty pleased with myself.

#57 - Question:

Does eating an apple taste better after brushing your teeth with cinnamon flavoured toothpaste than with peppermint?

Discuss.

#56 - LIST FRIDAY, Rollercoaster Edition

I mean rollercoaster in an emotional sense, not a literal one. I am afraid of literal rollercoasters*. Basically everything having to do with school (except for English on Friday) was shitty this week, but everything else has been awesome.

Things That Were Awesome This Week

• Reading Questionable Content. Even though I do not think it is God's gift to web comics like pretty much everyone else I kno who reads it, it is still enjoyable. It is kind of like a web comic version of a CW dramedy, complete with traumatic event's in the characters pasts and gratuitous indie music references, only with more sexual innuendo. And I do love a good dramedy.
• The ending of Special Topics in Calamity Physics
• The new pen I got from Paper Umbrella
• The Josh Ritter show on Friday night!! It was like this:

Only with 50% more villainous mustache and 100% more dancing, disco, choreographed guitar playing and crazy people from

• My new clarinet. I can play middle C!
• Learning how to read Old English and then getting a really good mark on my Iliad essay. Incidentally, my English class now has 100% less outlandish mustache, but that is neither here nor there.
• Nicknames: Levity, Chicken Leg, Bibo (Bebo?) and... Breakdown??
• Dancing
• Watching Amanda drink whiskey
• Season 2 of the Wire
• New Bunny Day.
  
• The CD Matt made me that has a picture of an apple on it.
• Getting pictures developed, even though half of them failed miserably.
• Red pepper hummus w/ Sociables crackers.

*Literal rollercoasters? What the hell am I talking about?

I Will Do List Friday Tomorrow...

...because last night was Josh Ritter (awesome!) and tonight was vodka and dancing (also awesome!). Sunday is homework and list-writing day. Assuming I am not too hungover... because I am really feeling all that vodka right now.

P.S. If you have just gotten home from the bar: Girlfriend in a Coma by Joshua Radin is the perfect song to calm down your still-drunk self.