archives for April 2007
insomnia and optimism (illustrated with shoes and satchels)
Sunday 22 April 2007 | I like a cookie
(Y por que? Because I wrote to Mandarin, “What do I think—if I have the perfect leather satchel and platform pumps I won’t get completely overwhelmed at the State School? I’ll be the envy of the entire department? All will love me and despair?” Apparently. NB that Froogle is abruptly “Product Search” which is bafflingly [...]
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my strange obsession with gemelli
Saturday 21 April 2007 | I like a cookie
“Gemelli pasta is a kind of pasta in the shape of twisted paired spiral tubes,” per Wiki. It’s also increasingly impossible to find in stores. Annie’s quit making it and the Coppola kind is about eight bucks a box; but fortunately you can still get Albertson’s brand for like 69¢. Why am I so crazy [...]
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pen envy
Saturday 21 April 2007 | I like a cookie
The Waterman Carène Islands in Lagoon, $199.99 The Waterman Carène in Violet, $139.00 The Waterman Ici et Là in Blue, $42.00 The Sheaffer Agio in Whispering Pink, $39.95 The Sheaffer Agio in Coyly Coral, $39.95 The Pelikan Pelikano in Blue, $14.99 The Pelikan Pelikano in Pink (“Ladykiller”!), unavailable in the US; but soon to be [...]
couple months’ worth of weird searches
Saturday 21 April 2007 | someone left a cookie
new mexico theme song men of thought and deed [hooray] what are symptoms of having constant nervous anxiety [pretty much just that] hunchbacks [can't imagine we're near the top of the heap on that one] weltzschmertz [or that] the weevil twins [but there are more than two] little einstein theme song hawaiian centipedes [hell yeah] [...]
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the modem’s working! quickly, blog….
Saturday 21 April 2007 | someone left a cookie
I’m doubly thrilled because it’s actually after four a.m., and I went to bed at ten—so for the first time in a week my sleep was nearly normal. Of course I did drug myself freely with Rozerem and Tylenol (which for some reason has a terribly soporific effect for me, and I use it off-label [...]
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moping modem
Thursday 19 April 2007 | I like a cookie
Quickly, before it times me out—I’m trying to get a new squawk box, but in the meantime I can’t properly post and can barely download, much less send, email. I’m sorry to those of you who’ve gone unthanked and uncondoled and uncontacted and…just give me another day. In the meantime I drink carrot juice, read [...]
it. is. finished.
Monday 16 April 2007 | 2 cookies in the jar
Well, anyway it’s definitively Mostly Dead—good enough to email in its PDF entirety to Herself, all 200+ Courier 12-point pages of it. Tomorrow morning I’ll fix one chapter I still don’t much like (the most boringly Buddhistic one) and try to find some way to print out the whole thing without draining my HP ink [...]
four a.m. obsessions
Monday 16 April 2007 | 3 cookies in the jar
The hot psych drug with the smarmiest name ever: Abilify. (Though the Gorgon points out that Wellbutrin is just as bad.) The flashy new bipolar med that supposedly will not make you balloon from a size two into a size eight in a matter of weeks: Abilify. The hellishly activating happy pill that wires you [...]
an appropriately frivolous distraction
Saturday 14 April 2007 | 3 cookies in the jar
MOVIE STAR NAME: (grandparent’s first name + your favorite candy): Mildred Mentos OR Geneva Skittles SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name + birthplace): Samantha Dallas PORN STAR NAME: (first pet + street you grew up on): Sugar Dent I happen to know that Mandarin’s porn name is Dimity Mayflower (the Young Monk’s was Toto Delaware)….and I [...]
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famous last words
Saturday 14 April 2007 | I like a cookie
Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something. —Pancho Villa How long can I be almost-done with the Dying Book? It’s like being, après Max the Miracle Worker, mostly dead. The Brujo has given up on me and driven to Wobbledorky by himself to the cactus and succulent show, the cat is [...]
