office space category archives
someone else is a copywhore too
Tuesday 20 March 2007 | I like a cookie
In researching Tartarus, where they are apparently very, very fond of us, we find the following breathlessly hysterical copy: The imagination of the community glimmers over the surface of the Town Lake, a formerly dry riverbed that now provides miles of natural beauty. [Let's not think too hard about how it got there....] Tartarus learned [...]
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the shudder-inducing early-week list
Monday 12 March 2007 | I like a cookie
fill out FAFSA online (well, I applied for a PIN) email Paul, Susan and 2 students at Hawaii email Ilya at San Diego email four other schools about timeline work on transparency chapter edit first seven chapters for length go by water company look up income tax [...]
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the rent was due last week
Monday 22 January 2007 | I like a cookie
And in profound avoidance of this fact, I hid all weekend at the Brujo’s house. It worked out in one way, because his car was in the shop all weekend; but in another, it didn’t, in that now it’s Monday and has been Monday for hours; I need a shower like you wouldn’t believe; no [...]
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the rent is due today
Thursday 18 January 2007 | I like a cookie
And I am utterly done in by today and by everything in it, unexpectedly (though it is horrible cloudy). Daunted by a) having no money, b) having no work, or more accurately having work I don’t do, c) the prospect of getting work which will give me money while simultaneously requiring me to put on [...]
join the uua…or else
Wednesday 17 January 2007 | someone left a cookie
“Member Pograms Coordinator. 20 Hours per week. The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Fe is looking for an organized and out-going person to support new member assimilation….”
weevil weevil weevil
Monday 8 January 2007 | 2 cookies in the jar
Which is why I post not, nor nothing. ‘Twould be naught but wintry premenstrual weevillity, which I would not dignify (to say nothing of reify) with language. Specially disgusted with squdlin self because just spent two and a half weeks in Baja and you really would think it would not have worn off quite so [...]
luna guitars’ single-cutaway pandora model (in moody blue)
Saturday 11 November 2006 | I like a cookie
Oh yes, it will be mine…. Only now, finally, am I motivated to get a job.
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overheard in group
Friday 27 October 2006 | I like a cookie
Therapist [finishing story]: …so I guess I was an old Taos hippie. Client [laughing]: Did you learn to knit? Therapist: Yeah, I made a sweater. [pause] It took me eight years.
fast food guru responds, astoundingly
Tuesday 17 October 2006 | I like a cookie
Dear Un, I’m deeply saddened to hear this. You are such a wonderful person and so undeserving of this haunting. Thanks for telling me and let me know if there is anyway we can help. I had an intuition that you were having a bad time. I recall a period years ago when I had [...]
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crushed
Tuesday 17 October 2006 | 3 cookies in the jar
every day I take a bitter pill to get me on my way for the little aches and pains the ones I have from day to day to help me think a little less about the things I missed to help me not to wonder how I ended up like this —patty griffin, “useless desires” [...]
