December 2011
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Wedding Conversations
Jane: So who should be my officiant?
[beat]
Laura: So I don't have Engravers Bold.
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My Little Community Hiatus Project (keeping me...
I love typography. I’m not great at it now and I’d like to be better. I did a little graphic of one of my favorite Community quotes for Christmas, and now, since I’m going to spend the rest of break rewatching our perfect two and a half seasons, I’ve decided to do a graphic for my favorite quote from every episode. (Dafont.com, here I come.) Anyway, expect those. My...
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My mom has started doing the study group’s “rhyme the end of this sentence with someone famous” thing. I usually say “well, well, well, Harvey Keitel” (classic) but today I said “well, well, well,” and she cut me off to say “William Tell.”
IT’S THE GREATEST CHRISTMAS GIFT OF ALL.
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I have a new strategy when sitting through terrible meals. One part abed, one part sour face. No one talks to me and it’s perfect.
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“We’re just making comedy, that’s all we’re doing. We’re...”
– Whitney Showrunner Betsy Thomas. And now if you’ll permit me a moment:
There’s a lot I have to say about this interview, but I’ll keep this quick. Maaaary was watching Whitney and provided me with a lovely early Festivus present when she texted me about how bad it was. I was...
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'Community' Fans to Get Even More Annoying →
Thaaaaat’s right. (They’re just jealous)
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Songs to Die For
It’s a real bummer when some of your favorite songs are sung from the point of view of an evil genius or a serial killer. You’re going to keep singing them because the score is incredible and the lyrics are fantastic, but you’re also going to look quite mad to anyone who is in range of your car and/or shower.
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“Laura was filled with self-loathing. Had she been Jack the Ripper, she would...”
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The Frasier Really Has Left The Building Award:...
Kelsey Grammer does double duty in this series première, bringing his new character to life while he attempts to murder his old one but good. Grammer’s snarling, F-bomb-laced performance seems designed to let America know once and for all that he’s fucking not Frasier fucking Crane anymore, okay? At no point is that more vivid than when Grammer puts a man’s ear in the garbage disposal. Frasier...
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My Adorable Dog Snores
and despite how much I love her I still want to beat her with a crow bar whenever I hear it. This means there are some serious requirements for any guys I might be into.
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“Can we just rewind?
And I will try my best to hide
a heart that wants to be...”
– Sarah Don’t Shoot by Ken Yates. Go listen. He’s really something.
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I am Abed now.
I think my friends wonder why I say “cool” or “cool cool cool” or “cool. cool cool cool” or even the rare “cool. cool. cool cool cool.” so much.
I’m not telling them. I’m just glaring at them for not immediately understanding the Abed references.
Abed is Batman now.
I am Abed now.
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I left my trapper hat at school.
I have fun thinking about stuffing bags with only the stuff I’ll actually miss, throwing it into a car, and leaving. I pretended that’s what was happening when I was just coming back to Wisconsin. But if I ever do it for real, I’m making sure I bring the important stuff. And that includes my trapper hat. If I don’t have that, then I have to go back.
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Character Analysis
Over the break I’m going to rewatch all of Community. I haven’t done it in one big slog for a while, and I’m really excited to jot down some thoughts and feelings about each of the episodes now that I have some perspective with the group’s future. But before I get to that, I wanted to hash out something that’s been bothering me lately? Which member of the study...
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Stainless Steel Stallions
I miss the metro.
I’d used it a couple times before the start of freshman year - a little bit during my summer weeks at Georgetown, from my cousin’s apartment and back to the airport over orientation - I was never scared of it. DC’s has a great reputation, it’s incredibly clean, the stations I go to are known to be safe, and I’m smart about it. I didn’t use...
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State of the Block: My Big Boring Text Posts
A quick housekeeping note, as you may have noticed, when I’m back in Wisconsin I update the old BBOC less. I think it’s funny when I look in the archives and see how many posts there are in months like September, October, and November, and then see how those numbers are slashed in half over Decemeber/January and the summer months. I’m not exactly sure why but for some reason I...
I'm always happier when I've got a plan.
Spontaneity isn’t my thing. I don’t have an impulsive instinct.
No matter how many times it bites me in the ass, I feel better when I’ve got a clearly defined set of objectives and a path that’ll take me to them.
I need that stability. And when enough goes right, it feels just fine shaking all that off and going off book.
But for now, I’ve got a plan. I may...
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Everyone Likes to Be Loved
There’s no feeling that equals the one where you work hard on a project, sink into it, put yourself out there, have it presented in class, and your peers connect.
In sixth grade we had some assignment about poetry. I wrote about Martin Luther King Jr. We all stood up and read them. When I was done people paused and then clapped. I was the only one they clapped for.
As I got older I...
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GW Rants
I love people that talk about their parents buying them rewards for getting good grades. I brought it up with my mom once. We both agreed it was pretty stupid, almost immediately.
Really? A reward for getting good grades? You’re a kid, that’s what you’re supposed to do. Doing chores is part of being a family.
Or, how about this you Visa Visa Mastercard, Kappa Kappa...
Lately I’ve been in a really weird mood where I either NEED to be listening to Bon Iver or Childish Gambino. It’s weird.
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Quotable Woes
My instinct to be perceived as witty by my friends when I quote Community and they think I just made it up is always immediately undercut by my instinct to say, “and if you liked that, you’ll love COMMUNITY, Thursdays at 8/7c, only on NBC!”
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The Nutcracker
On Friday, Mary asked if I wanted to go the GW ballet troupe’s performance of The Nutcracker. I had the kind of visceral reaction most people have when presented with the idea of two hours of ballet. I think I physically recoiled and wondered why anyone would choose to give away a precious part of their life like that.
I don’t hate ballet. I’m not a fan and I would never go...
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“And so it was that Laura saved the life of her paper, while learning very, very...”
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“GW school spirit is like the blue and yellow pansies struggling to stay alive in...”
– A combined effort between Mary and me
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Not a Drill
The funny thing was, I had just taken a walk around campus.
I’m writing this fire follow up on my phone because I’m sitting on a Kogan bench and while I have my laptop with me, someone’s in Starbucks just got snatched. You’re stupid to use it when you’re by yourself in a place so public.
I had gone to CVS for shampoo and snacks and Whole Foods for my dinner (a burger, a soda, a cookie,...
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Arson Courtesy
If someone’s going to set their room on fire, I’d really prefer it if they’d do it on a Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday night. That way I don’t look like a bookish loser standing outside with my laptop and glasses waiting to get back in because I had NOTHING BETTER TO DO ON A SATURDAY NIGHT.
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Black and White Happiness
I think a couple days ago people were talking about how they got in early decision exactly two years ago.
We did the same thing last year actually. Someone brought it up while the whole floor was sitting in the hallway, and the ED kids (myself included) reminisced about that night. The kids who found out later talked up their nights too. We were all just talking about relief and excitement.
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I will continue to call them stockings.
And I thought you should know.
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“I wish there was a way we could stop all this. I mean I realize the stakes...”
– Meta Community Quotes Which Apply to the Hiatus (the stakes not being all that high is debatable)
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Community Hiatus Plans #1/?
Well, I’ve watched the Christmas special five times already. Today. It’s cool, it’s my celebration for being almost done with a 30 page paper.
So my first step to “enjoying”* this hiatus (making the heart grow fonder and all of that nonsense) is learning all of the songs. I mean I’ll work on the choreography too, but that’s easier when I’m home...
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“Oh fuuuuuck if you can’t belittle/help me, no one can.”
– Janeyboots
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State of the Block: Themes
So one of the endgames for this blog is to publish it. Not officially or anything. But after college graduation I’d like to sit down for a week or two, go through all of it, pick out the good posts, edit them, then self publish a nice little hard copy of my time in college. It won’t be a cohesive plot like I always insist upon, but it will be a collection that tells about my time in...
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“Move on with my life? Shmoo shmon shmith shmy shmife!”
– Meta Community Quotes Which Apply to the Hiatus
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“I’m sending you/him/them a strongly worded text/e-mail/letter”
– GOB’s best friend
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“I can’t believe you threw pizza away! It’s pizza! What were you...”
– We are literally digging through our trash for food.
(This is my thousandth post, and I can’t think of anything better.)
I like being five years old.
Today, Mary, Matt and I ditched Whole Foods and went to Dominos. We got two pizzas, one cheese, one with pineapple. They were okay as I ranted about ratings. We went back to the penthouse. We put on Law and Order SVU, worked on a facebook album, played and sang along to Childish Gambino, and cut out snowflakes.
It’s going to be a long winter break.
L: but you don't like diet coke.
M: but you don't like people! And yet you're at a party!
#ESTProblems
I had a very slight heart attack twenty minutes ago when I looked at the clock and saw it was 7:04. It’s been two years since I’ve seen the show live in Milwaukee, but I suppose I’m still a central timezone girl.
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Goodbye Thursday Nights
This morning I realized it was Thursday Night and there was no leap. No lurch. Just a sinking feeling. I know this episode is going to be unbelievable and I know I won’t be able to stand not knowing, not having a firm date to look at on the calendar, not being sure one of their new shows is going to tank until it actually does.
All day it went like this. It’d pop up and I’d...
Westward
Why did I go out east for school? Last year, especially starting last winter, I fully re-immersed myself in the western mantra. I’ve always loved the west. My life has always been better out west. I’m fully committed to the American romanticism of that place. Growing up in the mid-west I knew I was close.
I went out east because I thought this is what I wanted to do. I’m not saying it’s...
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Day 16 – Stony Brook
Roosevelt Day 7
Well, I think some of this has come to an end.
I only spent seven days at Roosevelt. Funny, what a difference seven days here and eight at Banneker makes. I guess I just felt more useful at Banneker. An after school newspaper felt more condusive to a student helping out. Being in an actual class, especially one as well organized as Mr. Spikes’ it was harder to fill in the...