"I think of you and I think of sequins"

Liza at her best/most incoherent....I love her.

This really is worth a watch, it's unclear if Liza knows where she is. Also, it appears that if you have knee surgery the way to recover is to start a fashion line.

Two Videos.

Tweed



Jazz Packing

My life has finally been made into a movie....

Or part of my life anyway....in cartoon form this was my daily encounter with D's cat.

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/08/cat-safety-propaganda.html

Wimbledon 2010

Started yesterday. Which means I will be a lump on a log for the next two week, overdosing on online streaming from ESPN3.com. God bless technology.

I want an Andy (Roddick or Murray) and Justine Henin to win.

But I'm going to go with Nadal and Venus as my predictions to take it.

Shoot me in the face

Jesus Christ,

I have said this a lot lately. I had a job interview on friday that went lovingly poorly and was finally dealing with the fact that I actually wanted to work for this other company I had gotten an offer from. And about an hour ago got the logistics ie: money. They want me to work for $12 dollars an hour. I am sorry am I crazy to think that that is just insulting. I mean this is a LARGE corporation. LARGE. They can afford to pay more, but I guess that also means they can afford to pay so less.

Basically every time my world seems to settle down, everything goes back up in the air and I want to shoot myself in the face and burn a brazilian flag.

Make it all go away.

I think I finally understood my mother

So I want to make an announcement. I will not be going to Brazil for the summer. Unfortunately my idiot of a non-boss didn't realize how difficult it would be to get my visa so offered me a position he could never provide. He had never hired an international worker and was too something to really talk to HR and realize this takes effort. So decided to lead me on for far too long and promise me a position he couldn't come through on.

I found this all out on friday after two days of waiting after receiving and email from him saying this: I need to talk to you asap- then waited a two days before telling me the news when I was available to talk right then and there.

But I guess the sad part was I had already turned down another position, terminated my apartment contract and complained to my parents all about there disbelief.

I avoided telling my parents fearing what they would say and finally after pulling it together enough by talking to enough people I was able to call my mother and talk to her. And she was a saint. And was so nice to me and did everything right. And then told me it made her sad that I didn't call her first and waited to tell everyone else before I told her. And I finally got her. I would feel the same way but I just couldn't face my mother even if only on the phone. I think she just wants to be my friend, and the person I can turn to. And all I want to do is go home and see my parents. Which is a huge first for me, which might make me a terrible person, but I just think it makes me an honest person.

I think I might be understanding my parents as adults and not just parents. And that in itself is enough of a reason to have my life be thrown to pieces and rebuilt.

Hopefully I will have lots of good news soon when I hear about my housing and internship options. I will let you all know as soon as I do.

hope all is well and talk to your parents
love,
J

Thesaurus strikes again!

i'm writing a paper.

and i look up the word "clearly"

and what do i see?

another scolding

well, at least this one didn't call me a pompous twit

the section is copied below:

clearly
Exaggerators like this word, along with its cousins ( obviously,undeniably, undoubtedly, and the like). Often a statement prefaced with one of these words is conclusory, and sometimes even exceedingly dubious. As a result—though some readers don't consciously realize it— clearly and its ilk are ‘weasel words’—that is, unnecessary words that supposedly intensify the meaning of a statement, but actually weaken it. Just how much clearly can weaken a statement is evident in the following example, in which the author uses the word to buttress a claim about his own state of mind: “Clearly, I am not to be convinced that this is a small matter.” (Stephen White, The Written Word; 1984.)

animals are ridiculous

i know this is generally A's territory BUT i couldn't resist. these are just so cute/ridiculous...particularly the 2nd one...question. mark. it is a dog on a turtle. question. mark.

this is my brain on blonde/law school

2 words:

carwash.

sunroof.



Yeah.


I was in the waiting room and the guy comes up to me and says:
Him: "You have the Honda, right?
Me: Nods
Him: "Do you have a sunroof?"
Me: nods,
nods,
nods
....moment of realization
Him: "Don't worry we're doing some water extraction"

I look outside and not one, not two, not three but SIX guys are outside vaccumming water out of my car.

Sigh. That's all for now.

I love museums

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=167171&id=148448587950

WTF? My Thesaurus just called me a...

POMPOUS TWIT or SOMEONE SO INSECURE THAT HE'LL USE POINTLESSLY BIG WORDS IN AN ATTEMPT TO LOOK SMART

what is this?

i'm writing a paper (hence the odd nightly hour) and i was using the built in thesaurus on my mac. and i input utilize. which gives me a few synonyms. along with the scolding.

there's this "Word Note" section below the synonyms where DFW just told me off.

DFW, show yourself!

(full word note entry below)

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WORD NOTE
utilize
This is a puff-word. Since it does nothing that good old use doesn't do, its extra letters and syllables don't make a writer seem smarter. Rather, using utilize makes you seem like either a pompous twit or someone so insecure that he'll use pointlessly big words in an attempt to look smart. The same is true for the noun utilization, for vehicle as used for car, for residence as used for home, for indicate as used for say, for presently, at present, at this time, and at the present time as used for now, and so on. What's worth remembering about puff-words is something that good writing teachers spend a lot of time drumming into undergrads: "Formal writing" does not mean gratuitously fancy writing; it means clean, clear, maximally considerate writing.
— DFW

Ohhhhhh Virginia

Watch

Yep W&M has a new mascot...the "Griffin", or maybe a "pantsless tailed eagle"....potato poTAHto

Also confederate history month? Really Virginia is this necessary?

You clearly do not grasp the point of jinx.

From an online cartoon blog/journal (?). Amusing though...

#378; In which Children suffer

I also quite enjoy this one

#556; In which it’s Hard to Tell

@!

http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2010/03/22/at-moma/

MoMA is killing it. (in a good sense of the word kill)

sort of obsessed with this right now...

british singer...this has been on repeat for a few days now
the video below's pretty poppy--but don't worry D, her other stuff has a little less sugar and a little more emotion

http://www.myspace.com/elliegoulding

MLK of fatties?

really?

(see 1st entry)

More spontaneous dancing

As much as I enjoy a good flash mob, does this one seem kind of lame?

also....

sorry for the repeat posting, but so GREAT!
i like that crocs are on there...and ironic mustaches

grammar notes

sort of interesting, from this weeks NYT magazine.

can you imagine being the lawyer that said "irregardless"?....although perhaps they were quoting mean girls