January 2012
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I'm ending this year with alcohol and a migraine.
December 31st has just been another day for me, and I just haven’t truly felt like going out and celebrating this evening. Part of me feels like there’s something wrong; the other part of me just sees New Year’s Eve as being another overrated holiday. What I’m really looking forward to is tomorrow: waking up to a new year, going to my spin class with my mom and sister,...
December 2011
106 posts
believemeashlee asked: I have decided that one of two things will happen if/when you attend grad school in California. 1, You and I will share an apartment or 2. You will live in the dorms and I will take a note form Andrew McMahon's book and live on your floor since the rents are high and LA's easy. I will of course buy groceries. Deal? :)
2011
has been an odd, busy, stressful, and somehow mostly-happy year. I could write some cliched post about all of the things I’ve learned, the people I’ve both lost and loved, and the conclusions I’ve drawn regarding my life and where I’m going, but I’m not doing that - mainly because I’d be here writing well into the next week. As I sit here and think about...
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littledank asked: Tag, you’re it! Here are the rules: Each tagged person must post ten things about themselves. You have to choose and tag ten people. Go to their blogs and tell them you tagged them.
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Alright Sarah McLachlan - you win.
You officially make me feel like an asshole every time I see the ASPCA and Humane Society commercials for abused animals, and instead of changing the channel I now sit there, cry like a blubbering imbecile, and consider taking out a loan just to adopt and love all of the mistreated animals featured in those ads.
I wanted to make myself immune to your guilt-tripping voice, to hate your stupid...
"It's just a death sentence."
“It’s not really living. I mean, I guess it could be temporary, but I don’t know.”
This is verbatim what my mum said to my dad five minutes ago as she got off the phone with my grandpa, crying. He’s still at the VA hospital, and while the doctors are apparently doing the best they can to help him no one can say with any certainty that he’s going to come home.
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Sometimes when I see the UNICEF commercials I wonder how much their celebrity spokespeople are donating to help save the lives of starving children in Africa. I mean, if Alyssa Milano is encouraging people who have a significantly smaller bank account than she has to give $15 a month to help support those who are sick and hungry, she should be doing the same thing, right? How many kids do you...
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Stream of Consciousness #5
Fuck fuck fuckity fuck dammit fuck ass fuck.
You haven’t conducted your own research.
You’ve made the grades, you been involved with other organizations, you’ve completed research hours for one professor, you’re getting ready to write a paper with another, and you’ve already started looking at masters/doctorate programs.
But you haven’t conducted your...
I had goals for today,
but after a successful session at the gym my stomach turned on me, and now I don’t want to eat anything for the next two days.
I was going to write, look for articles for a new, potential research proposal, and run a few errands, but now I just want to spend the rest of this day curled up on the couch with some Pepto Bismal, tea, and Mona Lisa Smile.
Ciao ciao, goals. I’ll see you...
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“Essentially, a whole bunch of guys you’ve never heard of begat even more...”
– Dad, summarizing the Gospel passage traditionally read at the Christmas Eve service
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“I wish there was a song called “Nguyen and Ari,” a little ditty...”
– Mindy Kaling, discussing the possible story for a song that could be the new “Jack and Diane,” from Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
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Reflections on Retail, Part 3
This is a poem I wrote two years ago, when I was both inspired by and disgruntled with all of the post-holiday shoppers who came into Target to buy out the rest of the Christmas stock and max out even more credit cards. As “team members” manning the front lanes, we were encouraged to ask customers if they wanted to open a Target credit account - as if the people in this city needed...
flyinglower asked: You be lookin' sexy in that moustache Ms. Lauren. Also, MERRY CHRISTMAS!
elcapitanoats-deactivated201202 asked: I love you're writing and relatable sense of humor. Since birth my I have wanted to become a writer. Although I'm quite young (18), I don't seem to have much in common with most my age. It's reliving to find a fellow writer, student, daydreaming individual interested in psychology.
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Christmas 2011
This Christmas was a really lovely holiday for my family and me. My parents and Kristen really liked the presents I picked out for them this year, and it felt really good to watch them get as excited as I was when I wrapped them up and put them under the tree. I myself received a number of wonderful gifts this year that I’m incredibly excited to use, read, and wear, and I thought I’d...
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“George Bailey, I’ll love you ‘till the day I die.”
– Mary, It’s a Wonderful Life
That moment when the priest continually pronounces...
Happy Christmas Eve, everyone!
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Reflections on Retail, Part 2
December 24, 2010
“Looks like it’s really going to be a white Christmas this year!”
Sarah, the front lanes supervisor for the morning shift, had ordered a drink from Starbucks and was looking out the windows of our Food Avenue when she made this statement. It was about 11:00AM, and I had five hours left in my shift. For every Christmas Eve after that first one in 2007, I had...
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Reflections on Retail, Part 1
For the first Christmas since December 2007, I will not be manning a cash register, making coffee, or running around the sales floor at Target during my holiday break. Over the course of the past four holiday seasons I have witnessed my fair share of emotional outbursts, fights, and miracles take place in that store, and I am glad to not be back. Since I have actually been able to enjoy my break...
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I was able to see him before he leaves.
I wouldn’t have traded that hour of catching up and cuddling for anything else in the world.
Merry Christmas to me. :)
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Final grades have been posted for the semester.
Three A’s
One A-
Full 4.0 credit for research
GPA goes up from a 3.78 to a 3.81.
It’s not quite the straight 4.0 I was hoping for for the semester, but overall I am very happy with what I have achieved. I hope this upcoming semester goes just as well.
"I'm responsible now, too. Just look at my...
I woke up twice this morning: once at 6:15, and then much later at 10:00. Upon realizing that I would only have access to my car for about an hour and a half, I decided to haul myself out of bed, put on real pants, and run some errands. Within the span of an hour, I managed to:
go to the bank (like an adult)
go to Aldi’s and pick up some groceries for my mom
stop over at Walgreens...
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1.) I’m really glad your first semester of college went well. I’ll admit that I was rather concerned about you at first, but in the end there was nothing for me to worry about. I just hope this next semester makes you even happier.
2.) I’m really upset about not being able to see you before you leave for the rest of the month. You’re going to a goodbye dinner with your...
While I'm happy being at home,
I can’t help but feel terribly lonely.
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And breathe,
just breathe.
I am going to try and remain hopeful and positive.
Bad things always seem even worse than they actually are when you initially discover them, but sometimes there’s a silver lining.
Tonight I went over to Marina’s and Susie’s apartment to say goodbye to Marina before she leaves for Croatia, and I was telling both of them about what happened to my dad and my grandpa. Susie told...
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My dad lost his job last week.
I just found out about this.
Pardon me while I try to not fall apart in the middle of Target or have a nervous breakdown later this evening.
Fuck this month.