Ever After

Once upon a time, I was a gawky teenager in a Moroccan restaurant in the East Village talking about writing with a Real Writer.  And she was funny and smart and self-deprecating and I had a huge girl-crush on her forever.  Whenever I sat down to write, I thought of her.  When I started workshop, [...]

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I can do it right?

And now on to the third stage of undertaking a huge new life thing like college:
I think I can.
Y’all missed ‘There’s no way in hell I can handle this’ mixed with a little bit of ‘This is a huge mistake’ yesterday because I was too busy, well, freaking out.  You also missed my hard drive [...]

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Holy crap, I’m a dork

Today is my first day of classes and so I am dutifully printing out and sorting through syllabi and grading matrices and other big, Latin-derived words and I am SO FREAKING EXCITED!
*pants*
This is going to be a lot of work, y’all.  A lot of damn work, and a lot of making sure I stick to [...]

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Still no rants

I was going to work up a good lather about the appointment of Kristen Gillibrand to fill Clinton’s Senate seat but I’m just not feeling it today.  I’m sort of in a good mood, actually.  And feeling kind of, well, positive about life in general and the outside world even.  Curse you, Obama
Tomorrow [...]

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Transmissions from Babyville

We have officially entered the conversational phase of babyness.  There’s a lot of cobbling together sounds with arm gestures, actually, but we have been able to determine a few words that are used consistently.
There’s Mama and Dada, of course.  Ba for ball, buh for book.  Da for doll.  Appuh for apple, which seems to be [...]

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Routines

I have yet again lost several days due to my inability to focus on one task at a time.  I will be sitting down today to work out a schedule because clearly I need more structure in my life.  It was a fun weekend, though, complete with a playdate, an afternoon spent playing board games [...]

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Drip drip drip

First, can I just tell you that just hearing the word meningitis gives me the thousand yard stare?  It was a year ago right now that I was in the hospital in isolation having ridiculous green dreams (did I ever write about that?  All of my dreams were like old  monster movies or in ‘monster [...]

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And now for something that doesn’t make you want to gouge your eyes out

Ok, enough with the household projects.  Enough with the boring-ass posts about what I did on my winter vacation.  Even I am tired of reading that shit, and I’m the one writing it.  There is a world of other crap I care about, and I’m sick of not writing about it lest I out myself [...]

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A little bit fed up

Maybe that’s a bit dramatic, but I’m certainly not feeling it, at the very least.  It being (duh duh DUH!) this whole green, carbon-reducing, eco-warrior deal.  There, I said it.
It’s not the way of life, actually.  It’s not even the tracking.  It’s the pressure, both external and internal, to always make the right choice.  Like [...]

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It’s a Brand New World in Here

Last dork-out clutter clearing post, I swear.  But all of the boxes are gone, the glider, the cart, the easel.  Our emergency water supply is in the pantry instead of the foyer.  I can walk part of the way into my closet for the first time in months.  I feel like a weight has been [...]

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