June 2010
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overdosing on brown sugar & cinnamon (quick coffee... →
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As seems to be a new tradition, yesterday, with my parents in town, I went to see a girly movie with my mom (Letters to Juliet — don’t judge; it was surprisingly fun), and John saw a man movie with my dad (Iron Man 2, like anyone cares). Their movie finished before ours, and when we found them at Dick’s Sporting Goods, John proudly held up this wicked-looking knife. “Your dad is...
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So, last week my father-in-law was out of town, at the same math conference John and I attended, and my mother-in-law reported that their big, goofy vizsla mix really missed him. Apparently Tiger followed Kris around with a sad and lonesome expression all week, and she felt bad for the poor, lonely beast.
That is, until she realized near the end of the week that she’d neglected to pick up...
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at the laundromat
You want to know how to not make friends in striking up a conversation?
Observe the girl quietly reading on the laundromat couch. Rule out asking her about her book, commenting on the unusual heat. No, note her laundry day ensemble. It’s impressive, for sure. Hone in on the oversized shirt that so curiously says, in a manner reminiscent of the infamous Animal House COLLEGE shirt, MERCER.
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Guaranteed to make your morning more cheerful.
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roundup: opinions on lost finale from around the... →
Still trying to decide what to think. In part because I’m so horribly diurnal, by 11 o’clock, the tension was too much; I mostly just wanted it to be over. I liked the sideways timeline, even and especially those super-saturated flashbacks, and was just stressed and ultimately left drained by the island story line. I might have to watch it again to figure out how I feel.
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Yesterday on the airplane, when I flung open my eyelids and stretched out a rigid hand over a bit of minor turbulence, the woman next to me smiled kindly and asked, “First time flying?”
I blushed and mumbled a half confession: not a good flyer, hopped up on Dramamine. I skipped admitting that I fly several times a year, have flown intercontinental flights a half-dozen times. It...
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More on "Daria": A Take on the Series From Slate →
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Today I was able to detect that a math student I met, who is working on his PhD in Bristol, isn’t from Bristol, but, as it turns out, Essex. What is it about placing an accent that’s so absurdly pleasing?
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“Then I revert to my stock excuse that I’m a volunteer and don’t have...”
– Sarah Erdman, Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village
(Lovely, all of it.)
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Daria: Is It Fall Yet?
Mr. DeMartino: Why couldn't I have been born during an influenza epidemic? Or at the base of a volcano? Why did I survive, grow tall and strong, only to squander all my potential by becoming a teacher?
Daria Morgendorffer: ...When he would've made such a wonderful motivational speaker.
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Reflections on Washing Up in a Tennessee Motel
Listening to my husband and his father talk at breakfast is hilarious; they are basically the same person, with all the same raves and rants
I have apparently not missed much without TV in the apartment lo these last six months. I watched three ten-minute segments of movies that were ending last night, in my head cold grogginess, and about fifteen minutes of “Law & Order” before...
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roast chicken update
My chicken friend became dinner, in the skillet with potatoes, onions, carrots and parsnips, twice. Last night I cleaned off the last bits for tikka masala, which was also my lunch here at work. The bones, along with the last of the farm share parsnips, carrots, and onion, made stock, which tomorrow I’ll use for baked potato soup. Efficiency!
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“We are a tense but rainbowy tribe.”
drshutterbug:
“This sound like we up in the Cracker Barrel.” I lost it. I laughed/cried all the way through the rest of the song. It really did sound like something you’d hear at Cracker Barrel, but I laughed mostly because she said cracker… and I don’t think she saw the double entendre. Good times at choir.
I miss Georgia. Kind of a lot.
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“It’s so hard to keep my sticky little fingers off the controls of this...”
– Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions
“Me, I look like a malnourished urchin.”
– James McAvoy, on his success in period films
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adventures in cooking
I roasted my first chicken, all by myself yesterday (Enid did most of the hard stuff with Henry). We’ve been eating the occasional grocery store rotisserie chicken around here, and I really wanted to try out roasting, but expected it to be unbelievably upsetting.
“I started crying. It felt like a dead baby,” one of my mom’s friends said solemnly of her first experience...
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“P.S. I love it when you smile and you werent smiling before and your glasses...”
– John, as a seventeen-year-old in an email from our early courtship
“So my dad gave me a glass of wine at dinner, WHY? i don’t know, but it...”
– John, as a seventeen-year-old in an email from our early courtship
“BTW, why do these people all remember their flight number? Have you ever...”
– Lost Recap: Let’s Get Juxtaposed
How to Write An Awful Worship Song →
drshutterbug:
So you finally learned to play the guitar and now you’re wondering, “How do I write a truly awful worship song?”
You’ve come to the right place my friend. Here are some sure fire ways…
SO TRUE.
“How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have...”
– Alexandra Fuller, Scribbling the Cat
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For Shy Worshippers, Church Can Be Overwhelming →
I’ve been discussing this with friends all weekend — whether being introverted exempts us from certain obligations (like sharing), whether acknowledging our personality type can be a liberating thing. I think it’s good for church leadership not to equate chattiness with spiritual depth, and I definitely want people to cut me a break when I need to wander off by myself for awhile, but I...
