The news did its scare tactic bit of “uncovering the high prices at large discount superstores”.
What? What uncovering? Since Le Bon Marché and the fixed-price thing plus all those price tagging guns, how much uncovering is needed?
It is irritating as rock-in-the-shoe to have news be so ratings-oriented. Please, bombard me with idiocy, idiocy that will [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Information Can Kill You: Tonight at 10!
Posted in Grab Bag, tagged fixit, food, information, link, news, recycling, research, scary, television on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Years get shorter.
Posted in Grab Bag, tagged health, moment, mood, sleep, sunlight, tragedy, virginia tech, work on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I got overwhelmed by the past few years. It’s as if all of the years 1999-2006 just banded together and bumrushed me. (2007 kind of sat this one out on account of being too young still. Years can be dead and gone but still young. It’s a funny thing.)
I basically finished all my assigned [...]
The Shame of Being Nothing New
Posted in Grab Bag, tagged failing, growingup, job, quote, shame on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Young professionals who were carrying on as if history had never happened before because it had never happened to them.”
Where that quotation is from, I can’t recall, but it stuck enough for me to stick it here.
Part of living a shame-driven life (which of course I have been) is anxiety about marking yourself as a [...]
Shibboleth – laughing at econ grad humor
Posted in Grab Bag, tagged econ, gradschool, humor, link, nerd, smallhappy, the office, video on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I laugh because I’m a nerd.
Maybe I’ll be able to say I laugh ’cause I’m an econokid one day. Hope??
Till then, I confess I thought ‘that’s what she said!’ after the first couplet.
Two days till the The Office return! Hope it doesn’t suck.
People I Met Today 2
Posted in Grab Bag, tagged baltimore, people i met today on April 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Where: Parking garage elevator, down from Level 5
Name: Silvia
Best Guess Age/Gender/Race: late 40’s/F/Guatemalan (Latina? Hispanic?)
Opening: Me, asking where she worked
Summary: She’s been in Baltimore for three years, before that she was in Guatemala. She’s been doing her kind of work (women’s health programs?) for about eighteen years. We agree that Maryland is a bit cold. [...]
Funny if you know me
Posted in Grab Bag, tagged alcohol, meme, wrong on April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
… and my (non)drinking habits.
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People I Met Today 1
Posted in Grab Bag, tagged cats, charlottesville, city livin', dogs, grad school, people i met today, smallhappy on April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Despite being a through-and-through introvert (people tire me out right good), I have picked up the habit of talking to ’strangers’ in the past few years. I should keep track. Usually, I get a pick-me-up from the encounters. If not, at least I learn to deal with awkwardness and it’s good practice for caring about [...]
If I had done stuffchinesepeoplelike.wordpress.com
Posted in Grab Bag, tagged bookdeals, Grab Bag, monetizethatshit, stuffasianpeoplelike, stuffchinesepeoplelike, stuffwhitepeoplelike, wordpress on April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It occurs to me – if I made a stuffchinesepeoplelike, there would be no book deal, and if there were, it would probably not make a lot.
And not just because ‘chinese people are cheap’ but because most of us would look at it, laugh, and go, what a waste of time and money.
And then dangle [...]
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