Archive for December 2007
covetous
Only a couple minidisasters have befallen me so far as I scramble to get mentally and physically prepared for my impending trip to the Near East. The power cord to my Mac laptop went PAAH with some accompanying sparkage last night. Fun! Dangerous! My computer seemed fine, running on battery power, but then suddenly powered…
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So many thanks so many people that have found and created and amassed and enjoyed the delights that I have linked to over the course of this year’s Advent Calendar. I’m totally doing this next year — next time it’ll be a more collaborative process (with you!), and I can’t wait. Visual YouTube South Florida…
Read MoreDiary Entry: December 25 — Ages 14, 15, & 16
As part of my Advent Calendar project, I am presenting excerpts from my actual teenage diaries! Age 14: I got jewelry and makeup from Mom, Talking Heads and Boomtown Rats records from my bro and sis, a cat calendar from Auntie, and more. We made up a punk water ballet in the pool. A really…
Read MoreDiary Entry: December 24, Age 14
As part of my Advent Calendar project, I am presenting excerpts from my actual teenage diaries! Tomorrow’s Christmas. Can’t quite believe it. All those preparations, all those plans. Whew. I’m eager to get at all those presents. A little of that happy anticipation has returned. I was thinking maybe I’m not as adult as I…
Read MoreDiary Entry: December 23, Age 15
As part of my Advent Calendar project, I am presenting excerpts from my actual teenage diaries! Let me tell you about a Most Eventful Day. Backstage during the play, Danny kissed me, as in … um … french kissed me. I was a LITTLE stupored. Later, the Schullers had the cast party, and Mark J,…
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As much as I have wanted a robot friend, these spambots make it absolutely impossible to cross that divide right now. My word, spambots are like those shitheads in junior high school … you know the ones. Oh! So anway, I have changed my settings so that you, lovely reader, have to be registered and…
Read MoreDiary Entry: December 22, Age 17
As part of my Advent Calendar project, I am presenting excerpts from my actual teenage diaries! What a stupid day! Geez. Okay, I wake up at noon, Patrick comes over, I get a fucking Chemistry deficiency notice in the mail (Merry Christmas!!!), P. and I go into White Plains, fuck around for several hours. Xmas…
Read MoreDiary Entry: December 21, Age 17
As part of my Advent Calendar project, I am presenting excerpts from my actual teenage diaries! PS: Check out this mildy amusing 21st century tale! Michelle and Patrick and I hung out tonight. We (this is gross) went through the trash left out in front of Cliffhangers. It was mostly paper stuff .. we found…
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Day 17 of my this year’s Advent Calendar has proven to be a somewhat funny one. Contained within the contents of that day is a link to a gallery of Old Soviet Christmas Cards. I found it via a link from a two-year-old BoingBoing post. Two days ago, the awesome site Bedazzled posted the link…
Read MoreDiary Entry: December 20, Age 17
As part of my Advent Calendar project, I am presenting excerpts from my actual teenage diaries! Oh, we watch de movies of Lillian Gish Eet’s a perfect day for bananafish! Hey, I just made that up. Aren’t I terrific and slightly mad and just a great gal?? Oh christ, I have just gone completely insane.
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