February 2012
15 posts
Oh good, the part of the day where I am just having some coffee and suddenly remember things I said or wrote over 5 years ago and get super flushed and embarrassed.
Whoa.
Weird thing. I had a best friend when I lived in Columbus, Wisconsin from 4th through 7th grades. Her parents were ex-hippies turned crazy Seventh Day Adventists. She was always rebelling and I was always there to lend a hand. I’m talkin tall boys in backpacks, watching The Craft over and over, hanging out at Kwik Trip and approaching random adults to ask them to buy us cigarettes, all...
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I hate being scent-sensitive. I was at the awesome Thai buffet and someone came in with grandma perfume and sat right behind me. So I had to bail out and now I’m laying in the car while Jeremy, the slowest eater on earth, finishes his plate.
My stepmom is like this too and it got worse for her when she was pregnant, so any time I mention it to her she gets all agitated about whether...
First married valentine's day
My husband and I decided on no gifts, just a dinner out this past Saturday. And so like any good Crazy lady, I have been torturing myself wondering whether I’ll get a surprise gift anyway!
And then, again since I am crazy, I realized that’s basically the plot of that episode of The Office where Pam is still with Roy and they’re trying to save money so they decided not to spend...
The webbing between my left thumb and pointer finger hurts really bad. I’m probably dying.
angstinmypants:
The Award For Most Unique and Least Stupid Baby Name On My Facebook Feed goes to “Isla Penelope.” That’s super pretty and the only one I saw. There are like six Olivias and a buuuuuuunch of Avas, and while those are both pretty too, there… are a lot of them.
The Avas DO all have Grace as their middle name! My cousin has one of those. Weird!
Excerpt from my calc book, bolding mine
“What we call Simpson’s Rule was actually known by Cavalieri and Gregory in the 17th Century, but Simpson popularized it in his best-selling calculus book, A New Treatise of Fluxions.”
What.
Screaming in the dead of night: anedumacation... →
Why can’t I add the text at the bottom without it looking like it’s part of blackbird’s post…like normal? Is it because I’m drunk? Anyway, I’d like to agree that Madisonians are weird about race. When I was in high school (this would probably be 2002) I went to a friend’s band concert and sat with her parents. They are a certain stripe of Madisonian...
January 2012
18 posts
Mind is a razorblade: rageissuesandballetshoes... →
angstinmypants:
rageissuesandballetshoes replied to your post: I have this problem
For a while every time I saw a girl with super short hair I was overcome with the strong urge to beat her senseless, because of a girl with super short hair who had fucked me over. I feel you.
It sucks, because…
Short-haired bitches! It’s as if they feel like they don’t have any facial flaws...
Ginger Crossing. Beware.: You know what I hate?... →
ginger—gal:
These douchey McDouchebags I went to high school with are all applying to med schools and graduate programs and la dee da succeeding in life. Meanwhile I’m graduating a semester later than I’m supposed to and I probably won’t go on to get my Masters. I’m aiming to work in a field that gets little…
Hey! Hey hey hey. I hope you feel better soon because I used to feel...
Props to you people who can still manage to party...
ginger—gal:
Come wintertime I hibernate in my room with 50 blankets. Only come May does the majestic drunk party GG emerge from her wintering grounds to partake in the mass consumption of alcohol.
This is one thing I miss about Wisconsin winter. Going out to bars felt like an epic event and made every drinking night into an adventure. If we did manage to venture out we would have to go...
So, I got that job at the research center. Upon reflection, I’m more excited about it than I was initially. I’ll be the only student assistant working there so it’s a unique and useful opportunity. And since I’m embracing this, I just drank two glasses of $3 wine and am about to try my hand at riding the bus in Baton Rouge as practice for when I really have to go over...
Milestone
I hid my scale in a closet. I’ve been weighing myself 2 or more times a day for years. I’ve always known that’s really really bad. But it became a reflex, plus it gave me a sense of control (and of course I’m always looking for more of that!) But yesterday, out of the blue, I was like “I think this should stop now” and I put it in the linen closet with a...
First day of class
7:30 am calculus: fell asleep while sitting in the very front row. Woke up, then fell asleep again.
Later, in Categorical Analysis, I made myself look like a douche by accident. Backstory: I took a class by the same name at UW and it used the same book (so I’m really excited to maybe have an easier class for once). Today, the professor was going over the syllabus and he started talking...
I’ll know at the end of next week if I get it, but internship/job thingy can’t guarantee more than $8/hr. And I have to take the bus, and the bus system here is awful. I’m kind of spoiled from having been paid way too much to call UW alumni and ask them for money, but I guess I’m just at a point where I feel like $8/hr isn’t enough to compensate me for the lost study...
I’m entranced by Tilda Swinton. How does she be so good?!
So, Valium
Is pretty good. Which I don’t mean in the cackling “I scored some benzos” way, but the “wow, jaw is relaxed and mind is calmer than I can ever remember” way. So that is great.
Tonight I am attending my second ever yoga class in Baton Rouge. This will also mark the first time I have gone to a class two days in a row. I’m super excited. I can already see some...
tehblackbirdisincognito:
hamsterpantsworld replied to your post: Am I supposed to understand what Honey Badger has to do with LSU?
This perplexes me and Mr. Pants as well.
It’s an LSU player’s nickname.
I assume that he doesn’t care. Nor does he give a shit.
Tyrann Mathieu. He totes doesn’t care or give a shit. I’m so grateful that the Smoothie King on my block posts topical...
December 2011
20 posts
No dawn! No day!
Say what you will about Florence and the Machine, but I wish the song “Cosmic Love” had existed when I was a teenager. Screaming along with it would be way more meaningful if I had a shitty ex-boyfriend right now. Whatever, I still absolutely love it.
hey so what part of "I'm Vegan"
squidarts:
Don’t you fucking get. I don’t understand why people do these things. Never do you cook like this and now that I’m Vegan suddenly EVERYTHING needs, butter, eggs and milk. Thanks, Merry Christmas, I’ll just eat my own fucking fingers tonight.
Best idiotic vegan-related question from a family member this christmas: “So, what about seasonings? Like, thyme and other spices, can...
Oh shit it's after noon
And the seasonal beer that I made my underage sister’s boyfriend buy and save for me until I came back up north is within reach. God I love break.
Not that I wouldn’t be drinking at noon on a Thursday during the semester, but now there’s Wisconsin beer.
What kind of liberal are you (quiz)? →
tehblackbird:
I got “New Left Hipster.” This is like the millionth time I’ve been accused of being a hipster and I SO AM NOT ONE.
I’m going to drink a can of PBR and smoke a Parliament Light while fuming about this.
I got “Working Class Warrior” which pleased me. The questions about “who to put before a death panel” and “which area of the country should...
Is anyone here good with proportional hazard models? …Anyone?
I have a facebook friend who is someone I knew in grades 4-7 when I lived in Columbus, Wisconsin. Back then, we did cool things like naming a small bride over a creek (or crick as one would say in that region) “The Condom Crossing” because we once saw a used condom floating by there.
Anyway, she’s since become some sort of bikini model and was recently crowned “Miss...
Arglebargle
ginger-gal:
Talked to my cousin who’s in the same class and he said she mentioned the requirement a few times. So basically I’m just stupid and can’t hear.
It really sucks, but know that you are not alone. This semester, my advisor set me up with a “study buddy” because I was struggling a bit. The first time I met with her, we worked on a take-home exam because I just...
I always get personally offended when Wesley tells Liz Lemon “Your food obsession is not as endearing as you think it is.”
No visit to urgent care (or anywhere people ask me things, really) is complete without people telling me what statistics means to them. This doctor feels that it is “the psychological part of math…you know, taking data and putting it in terms that nobody understands.” Intriguing! Well…thanks for the Valium.
