“If Kierkegaard were on Facebook or could post a You Tube video, he would certainly complain that we, who have listened to Prozac, have become deaf to the ancient distinction between psychological and spiritual disorders, between depression and despair.”
—“Kierkegaard on the Couch” (NYTimes)
October 2009
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“Two months later in the Oval Office, I asked the Obamas just how severe their strains had been. ‘This was sort of the eye-opener to me, that marriage is hard,’ the first lady said with a little laugh. ‘But going into it, no one ever tells you that. They just tell you, “Do you love him?” “What’s the dress look like?”’”
—The First Marriage, NYTimes
Anne Of Green Gables Turns 100 and I still love Her :)
This week, the Anne of Green Gables canon (the Anne-on?) is expanding: Publisher Penguin is releasing the complete version of The Blythes Are Quoted, Montgomery’s very last installment in the Anne series. The book, dropped off at her publisher’s on the day of the author’s death in 1942, was published in part in 1974, lacking about 100 pages of stories and poems. This version includes 15 “new” short stories about Anne, as well as poetry ostensibly by the heroine and her son Walter, a soldier who died during World War I. The book is also a bit of a departure from the light-hearted optimism that marked Anne’s other appearances—this one includes references to some seriously dark subjects, such as murder, revenge, death, despair, bitterness, and reflects Montgomery’s own opposition to war.
I wrote my honors thesis on Anne of Green Gables! I bet this new book is a bit disappointing, but I don’t care.
Apparently, John is right when he’s always urging me not to try out a recipe the first time for company.
Hmm. Grocery run for salsa and chips?
well, that made my day
I got an email today letting me know I’ll be receiving a $6,000 scholarship for my spring semester at Simmons. Considering my measly salary at the current job, that’s like doubling my pay. For the first semester of my MLS program, at least, I’ll be going to school for free.
“I equate fame with being a blue alien. Some people are like [animated whisper], ‘Look at the blue alien, she’s so cute!’ and other people are like [disgusted sneer], ‘Oh my God, don’t talk to the blue alien!’ And, however they treat you, at the end of the day you’re still a blue alien.”
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Juliette Lewis.
This is also how it is to be mzungu in Uganda, though people are on the whole much nicer than they often are to celebrities.
vegetarian dog
John likes to taunt Bonnie when she dances around the living room pleading with her eyes, to use her words. Today, he forgot his lunch, my leftover sesame tofu, on the coffee table in a mad dash to the bus stop. When I returned, literally like five minutes later, Bonnie had snuck the styrofoam container into her kennel and laid waste to the contents. Everything but the broccoli was obliterated.
Is this her trying to tell us she’s vegetarian?
Despite the fact that I have to wake up at like 7am to finish work I didn’t finish tonight (not that it was too much homework more like I didn’t get started on it until like 11pm…), tonight was a great night. And much much needed.
I may require an email.
“Americans are still the undisputed champions of trash, dumping 4.6 pounds per person per day, according to the E.P.A.’s most recent figures.”
—A New Recycling Strategy Is Catching On (NYTimes)
“No pay-y, no washy.”
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the car wash attendant
Really. Like a bad sit com character. I now hate this man, and his stupid car wash didn’t even do a good job.
"Rev Eric Dudley, St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Tallahassee, Florida: The Nuts and Bolts of Anglican Liturgy" →
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A talk by the priest who married us, filed under “Liturgical Gangstas” on the Internet Monk blog :)
