January 2012
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St. Petersburg: Paris of the North or City of... →
When G8 leaders sit down in St Petersburg next weekend, the ground beneath them will silently groan with the weight of the dead. Known as “the city built on bones”, St Petersburg’s foundations sit above the skeletons of the press-ganged slave labourers who toiled to erect it. Historians believe the remains of some 100,000 18th-century serfs are buried beneath its wide Parisian-style avenues and...
Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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(that argument over the bar of soap!)
is an actual aside in the introduction to this book.
Jan 26th
every time I sweep my floor it seems that the product is made up entirely of dust and pubic hair. certainly more pubic hair than I remember leaving on the floor and generally more than I feel my body is at all capable of producing. sometimes I wonder whether someone else is secretly leaving their pubic hair in my room, but I’m pretty certain no one with access to my apartment is that...
Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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my Tumblr sex dreams are more like Tumblr sexual-tension, sexual-undertone dreams.  my subconscious won’t let me break the bonds of Tumblr-friendship! my subconscious really ought to get laid.
Jan 24th
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I’m quite intrigued by the parallels between the current state of the stories of Sherlock and the Doctor, both shows under the thumb of Steven Moffat. they’ve both just faked their deaths and gone underground, so to speak, after a period of attracting too much attention and putting everyone around them in danger. and I’m very excited to see where this takes them in the next...
Jan 24th
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my opinion of mandatory employee review meetings changed drastically when I realized how nice it is to be sat down by my employers and be told in no uncertain terms that I am awesome and they want me to stick around forever and ever and oh, here is a nice little raise, too. in fact, I want to have more meetings like these. can we do it once a week?
Jan 22nd
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Jan 21st
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I think I need some more decorative pillows.
Jan 18th
I hope you know that all I want from you is sex to be with someone who looks smashing in athletic wear 
Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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I really don’t understand the (new) people that Follow me, or their motivations.
Jan 16th
I may have just accomplished The Monumental Task
I’ve got to listen through it a few times before I’m sure.
Jan 15th
crushing on straight guys since the day I was born
at least this one is super cool and let me down easy.  straight guys in SF are a sort of double-edged blade. on the one hand they’re super cool and liberal and gay friendly and that’s great. but on the other hand they’re super cool and liberal and gay friendly and that’s super confusing because I mistakenly think they want to make out with me. and I Definitely want to make...
Jan 13th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
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tonight I did some sanding and made a bookshelf. it is not perfect (ergo I am a FAILURE) but it is pretty pretty. I still have to assemble the other shelf and finish them. I bought some tung oil to make them all pretty and stuff. never before have I finished the wood I build with. this is a step into adulthood. no you can’t see pictures yet because they aren’t done and they...
Jan 11th
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I’ve begun to realize that my new favorite quirk of writing is the Subtle Capitalization of a few key words in a sentence. I feel like it really conveys exactly the emphasis I’ve been looking for. not as annoying as FULL CAPS or as trite as italics, certainly much more elegant that the hideous underline and less blunt and textbook-clinical than bold.  it’s the perfect emphasis...
Jan 9th
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it took me nearly 24 years to understand the...
Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
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empty bookstores are lonely bookstores. sad face Jordan.
Jan 7th
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Jan 6th
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Jan 5th
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I’m reading the manual to this router I got for christmas and there’s a Spider Man quote in it. it refers to him as “the cartoon and movie character” in other news, I’ll be building some bookshelves this weekend and the rest of my week can’t go fast enough. I think I’m more excited about this than anything else in my life right now. if a Cute Boy were...
Jan 4th
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BAH HUMBUG
and that’s all I have to say about that.
Jan 4th
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Jan 3rd
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Jan 2nd
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Jan 2nd
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Sunrise bike ride with Joshua this morning
I need to do more Sunrise things. because Sunrises are cool.
Jan 2nd
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December 2011
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Dec 31st
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I spent all day thinking about things and talking out loud to myself. got some funny looks from strangers. continuing the trend at home now. except I’m the one giving myself funny looks.
Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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my nostalgia for Midwestern winters reached a new low this morning when a friend’s facebook status reminded me of the perils of ice on sidewalks. for a brief moment in my mind I thought thoughts like, “Oh! remember when you didn’t see the ice and slipped a little but caught yourself in a weird position with your arms splayed in an odd way haha! and then you looked around to...
Dec 29th
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Books by numbers
This year, I read 36 books. 2 of these were books I re-read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and Jitterbug Perfume 24 were fiction 7 books of short stories 15 novels 1 young adult book 1 graphic novel 12 were non-fiction 4 were on the city of Chicago 1 on San Francisco 3 were books of collected essays 3 memoirs 2 on music 1 book of poetry 4 were published by the...
Dec 27th
Dec 27th
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‎2011 is almost over. Inbox me something you've...
absurdlakefront: (via jesus—walks:hfml:bunnygloves)
Dec 27th
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the first 20 minutes of hook
sabastooge: are the 20 saddest minutes in kids movie history in my opinion.  ditto.
Dec 26th
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just got back from a 4 person surrogate-family potluck-christmas (which was fucking amazing but I digress) at which there were 2 cameras and 3 iPhones present but amazingly absolutely no documentation whatsoever. not anything. the only evidence it happened at all is my full stomach and maybe some vague text messages from the planning stage. I love living in the 21st century.
Dec 26th
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Dec 24th
“If you want to be somebody, if you want to go somewhere, you better wake up and...”
– ~Sister Mary Clarence~
Dec 24th
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“You get a phone call from your ex-husband telling you a beloved old friend has...”
– Kate Christensen has started a food blog. Kate’s my favorite fiction writer on the subject of food (and there isn’t a second place in that race), so I’m excited to read some of her non-fiction on the subject. (via thefeeling)
Dec 21st
tonight I made candied yams and cheese sauce to fullfil a promise to a friend. then I spent the entire party playing card games away from the guests and trying not to flirt with a straight guy. It was real hard. like, I’m still not over him.
Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
I got to be Uber-Bookseller today & I get to do it all again tomorrow and that excites me.
Dec 18th