January 2011
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Thursday: Dug out car for 30 minutes at 1PM. Went to Vira Yoga for an Anusara class. Dug out car for another 30 minutes at 8PM.
Friday: Dug out car from 7:30 AM to 9AM. Went back inside, steamed came off forehead. Went to Olio’s for dinner. Helped Audra pack.
Saturday: Woke up stupid-early because of stomach. Packed car in five up-and-down trips. Carried 35 lb. box (16 kg) of...
Dan Versus the Snow Block That Ate His Car
Or: How I Liberated My Vehicle From Ice Communists.
What I used:
a hand-window washer (used as make-shift ice pick)
$15 shovel
Hammer (claw end; used as actual ice pick)
The Decemberists
My ‘emergency’ Coke
How long it took:
one half-hour yesterday afternoon
an hour and a half this morning
Result:
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Proof I Am Learning
Saturday, at the crack of dawn, we are driving down. For almost the last time. Audra is moving-moving, down to Richmond, living in her mom’s house. Her’s is a different sort of mom: opposed to the paranoid neurotic LI-Brooklyn sort, Kim encourages her daughters and, more so, trusts them. Actually and acutely trusts them! (personal note: holy shit.)
Kim’s three general thoughts...
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Scene: The kitchen.
(Dan fills the electric kettle, places on its mount, and clicks it. While it boils, he talks to the cats)
Dan: Kinsey, if you keep pushing Zoe out of the way of the food bowl, she is going to bite you. But honestly, dude, you would deserve it. Yeah, I know- she’d take it out on Jack.
(Dan realizes the cat is too interested in food and that he is talking to himself....
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I have not been able to look at an asterisk and not snicker for a very long time.
So, thank you Kurt.
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8-Year Olds Publish Scientific Bee Study →
They initially tried to get outside funding for the project, but were rejected.
“One of the referees said the kids couldn’t do it. The other said it wasn’t high enough cost-to-benefit ratio,” Lotto said. “That just added fuel to fire.”
Getting the paper published was a struggle as well. In particular, several journals got stuck on the fact that the paper doesn’t cite any references. Lotto says...
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Orange kitten has a cold. She is sneezing all over the place. Her favorite place is my lap, so she is sneezing all over my pants. It’d be totally gross if it weren’t so cute. The Internet says to clean her nose with a Q-tip; this didn’t work at all and then she started attacking the Q-tip.
Sunday, we woke up at 5AM (I was up by 4:30 as I need extra time) and drove straight down...
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Don’t you know that afflictions are nothing more than wisdom,
but to cling to your afflictions is nothing more than foolishness?
As they rise and melt away again, you must remember this:
The sparrowhawk flies through Silla without anyone noticing!
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Don’t you know that afflictions are nothing more than wisdom
and that the purest of blossoms emerges from the mire?
If someone...
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day five: six things you wish you could never have...
Is this a question about regrets? what is this i don’t even
Being afraid
Being afraid to talk
Being afraid of my fear
Being afraid to stand
Being afraid to act
Being afraid of myself
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day four: seven things that cross your mind a lot
Audra.
My cats.
Mountains and rivers.
How to translate what is in my head onto paper.
What & where & when to write.
The life-to-be in Virginia.
Not a single thing at all.