November 2010
6 posts
cargohoo:
Local H - Bound For The Floor
at one...
i didn't drink at all last night.
although i certainly considered it. i just stayed up too late watching election returns, and watching the victory speeches of the guys who won in pennsylvania. to be honest, pat toomey and tom corbett don’t seem like terrible people, which puts them leaps and bounds ahead of a lot of the people who got elected last night. but they’re hawking policies that i just can’t...
October 2010
1 post
September 2010
1 post
checking in.
it’s been an interesting month or so. i suddenly began really liking my job, while simultaneously having a lot of non-job interests pulling me in different directions. my better half is seriously trying to find a job here, but is worried about his prospects. meanwhile i’m immersing myself in all my favorite domestic pursuits (cooking, knitting, canning) in an effort to distract...
August 2010
5 posts
no more vacation.
maine was amazing and glorious. i’ll post some photos later. the trip included boats (lobster and row-), copious and varied seafood, meteors!, s’mores, rainstorms (one that we got to experience from within a miraculously dry tent), seals, bald eagles, seagulls, hikes so steep they involved iron bars drilled into the rock, swimming, candlepin bowling, very poorly executed games of...
epiphany!
trader joe’s chocolate sorbet + jif creamy + spoon.
Prescient
lauraglu:
Home in Michigan, I am going through some old things and came across my 6th grade CCD Prayer for the Class:
Lord,
Please help people that are free to make the right decisions, and help the people that aren’t free to get their freedom. You created us all equal, so give us all the chance to live equally.
Amen
i hope against hope that someday i will hear this among the prayers of...
some things you might not know about me.
i always wanted to be a nun. for a long time i figured i couldn’t because i wasn’t catholic. then i became catholic, and now i can’t because i’ve realized i’m meant to get married and have kids.
i’m very glad to have met the right person for me, but it makes me sad that the fact that he’s a man means that i’m now invisibly bisexual.
i’m...
July 2010
7 posts
Post-Gazette: Suit charges Upper St. Clair... →
notemily:
amandaw:
Trigger warning.
So basically:
High school girl goes to teacher, tells teacher that high school boy raped her. Teacher goes to principal with concerns, offers to escort girl to her transportation home instead of leaving her on school grounds unattended. Principal has a different idea: use this girl as “bait” to try to catch teenagers “having sex” after school. Will have...
3 tags
BRENNAN: What are you doing?
BOOTH: Praying. Keep your voice down!
BRENNAN: You’re not a member.
BOOTH: It’s not a gym.
bananas.
i once saw kirk cameron on tv arguing that bananas are so well engineered to be eaten by humans (built-in packaging! built-in handle! curvature matches the shape of the human palm!) that they are conclusive proof of the existence of god.
i don’t know about that. but they sure make a good breakfast with a cup of coffee.
sometimes you just have to buy a frozen pizza and play online poker.
i really need to start keeping alcohol in the house.
June 2010
14 posts
it infuriates me when milk goes bad before the...
add on a little extra rage when i don’t realize this until i’ve mixed it with carnation instant breakfast powder and taken a sip.
giantevilhead:
trixietreats:
Local H | Bound...
fuckyeahshoegaze:
Ride - Vapour Trail
Possibly...
dear myfedloan.org.
when i request a payoff amount for a particular loan (which happens to be both the one with the lowest balance and the one with the highest interest), and then click the “pay off a loan” button and make a payment in the exact amount required to pay off that loan, WHY would you apportion my payment among all four of the loans I have through you?
now that is just fucking idiotic.
so wrong.
these kleenex hand towels ads are really rubbing me the wrong way.
environmental rage!
yes.
i like when it rains so hard, at dusk, that it looks like fog, and the sky is eggplant-colored.
and i love looking out my window at the lights that dot the ridge of polish hill. few and far between.
Driving in Pittsburgh →
hiplove:
brilliant
so true, and so affectionately snarky.
1 tag
food facts about me, #2.
i have only a limited appreciation of avocados, and i don’t understand the huge amount of avocado love that most people seem to have.
i do like a bacon, lettuce and guacamole sandwich. and avocado adds something to a tuna sandwich. but avocado in a salad or by itself: no. avocado as the universal condiment: no. deep-fried avocado: hell no. it gets all hard when you fry it! yuck.
i do...
whiny update.
i want to go to grad school. ridiculously badly. last night i stayed up late reading essentially academic porn.
why why WHY did i not develop this urge until i had already gone to law school?!
“Think of it this way: Picture a seesaw. Take all of the passages you can find in...”
– slacktivist (via azspot) (via notemily)
it seems fundamentalists miss the actual fundamentals.
Watchstevewhitaker:
Annoying, isn’t it?
what’s with “gooooo CAVS!” at the end? no wahoo-wa, etc.?!
May 2010
27 posts
we went swimming.
and then we sat in the evening sun and the wind off the river was blowing, and i watched the bees buzz around the newly mulched purple flowers.
and then we ordered a pepperoni, green pepper and onion pizza and some spicy barbecue wings, and ferris bueller is on tv, and my boyfriend bears an uncanny resemblance to cameron frye. especially his smile.
La vita e bella.: I am trying really fucking hard... →
I am trying really fucking hard not to be one of those girls. The girls that talk about their boyfriends incessantly and shove their happiness in every one’s faces with photos of their life together. Really, I am trying.
It’s just hard not to. I finally found the person I want to be with…
it’s true. finding that person means crossing a line you didn’t know was there....
okay, that helped.
i wanted some comfort food that wouldn’t make me feel disgusting. i am really struggling with body image issues right now. i won’t go into it, but while i know i am healthy and look good, i am having a really bad relationship with the number on the scale right now, and i don’t think i’m going to check it again anytime soon.
anyway.
so i sliced a fuji apple thinly and...
UGH
SAD AND WEEPY FOR NO REASON
am self-medicating with broccoli mac & cheese and baseball on tv. send better ideas.
Reuse the Igloo →
myownmelt:
three50eight:
the members of Reuse the Igloo have been joining forces to try changing the plans for tearing down the Mellon Arena. The project is a spin-off of Preservation Pittsburgh, a group dedicated to preserving the local history, architecture, heritage and Pittsburgh culture overall.
i can get behind this, you should too
i get that we (both the city of pittsburgh and...
i am sad that i don't have any pets.
sunday.
i should be cleaning and going running.
instead i am watching old episodes of bones and knitting.
confession.
since i bought a jar of nutella the other day, i have had nutella toast for breakfast every morning.
this morning will be no exception.
you know what pisses me off?
people who sit in idling cars for indefinite periods of time. what, are you running the air conditioning? the radio? um, it’s nice out. roll down the windows and listen to your ipod, for pete’s sake. or maybe just listen to the sounds of the city.
and also people who flick their cigarette butts into the street. a guy did this right in front of me this morning.
folks, it’s...
there is a fire out there somewhere, and not the...
i had to close the window because the air coming in smelled faintly of burning insulation. now i will sleep poorly, as i do when i don’t have any fresh air coming in during the night.
i hope it wasn’t a big fire.
back in law school, one time i looked out my window and saw a house on fire. it was in the next neighborhood over. it was a huge plume of smoke and a lot of sirens and...
yikes.
steve nash looks a little frankenscary with his big eye bandage thing. but still, ¡vamos suns!
deeply ironic.
an episode of gordon ramsey’s kitchen nightmares on hulu. sponsored by hot pockets side shots, cheeseburger flavor.