December 2008
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I was going to write a long, reflective post about 2008. It has been an enormous year for me, and just about every facet of my life, from my own approach/attitude/psychological place to friends to neighborhood to job to relationships, is markedly different than it was at the beginning of the year. David and I were talking last night about how our years had changed and improved, and I mentioned how...
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Meat wagon
Me: So I had pork earlier this week
Mom: What? I was going to make a ham. You should have told me.
Me: Well, just because I had a bite of it doesn’t mean I’m fully back on the meat wagon.
Mom: Oh, the meat wagon. Everyone’s got to take a ride on it at some point.
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Presenting
So I ran into a certainly lovely lady at a wedding I shot a few months ago and we ended up syncing up via all the standard “social networking” channels. I emailed her recently to get a drink in my ongoing quest to balance out my guy-to-girl friend ratio in the wake of the great Girl Exodus of 2008. Plus, she is by all appearances Pretty Great, so regardless of said ratio, I would want...
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“Health-care spending in 1992 was $849 billion. Now it’s $2.2 trillion — slightly...”
– The Cost of Doing Nothing on Health Care | The American Prospect (via robot-heart-politics)
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You know what?
I love holidays. All of them. ESPECIALLY the ones that everyone else seems to hate, particularly New Year’s and Valentine’s. Not enough to be rabid or “really into” any of them, but enough that, objectively, I can say a holiday is “nice thing.”
As such, you can go take your holiday-hate elsewhere, people. Drink the Kool-Aid once a month or however often we get...
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myths
I think that a myth has been cultivated, I imagine equally by myself and by friends, suggesting that I don’t like sports. But then I’ll find myself getting way too into a silly game of Kickball or arguing when someone wants to change the channel during the Indy 500 (race cars for goodness sake!) or delaying brunch (brunch!) to watch the draft with lops and brian or uncontrollably...
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Let us live and love with abandon
Anything else is a life half-lived or love pursued with fear.
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New additions to the dibs markers on my block
A chrome clothing rack
Two buckets of kitty litter with dowels in them
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pumpernickletickles:
SECRET SANTA
I got my gifts today Olivia!! Thank you so much. I love them.
Nothing beats the joy of coming home to find a package on the dining room table and not having a clue what will be inside.
I don’t know if I misinterpreted the elfster site by thinking we were supposed to send instead of receive our packages on the 20th so my person has a couple days before they...
“WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Michael Connell, the Bush IT...”
– Bush Insider Who Planned to Tell All Killed In Plane Crash: Non-Profit Demands Full Federal Investigation (via apsies) (via robot-heart-politics) (via redorangeorangeonred)
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“A recent study by Harvard University researchers found that the average...”
– NCHC | Facts About Healthcare - Health Insurance Costs (via robot-heart-politics)
WatchVintage Ted “Hulk” Stevens.
An oldie but a goodie.
“I love him, but I love the Senate more!”
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Volunteering
I am anticipating have a good bit of free time in January and February, and I am hoping to spend chunk of it doing some volunteering. I emailed PPA about possibly doing some health care advocacy, but I doubt many opportunities will arise, so I’m looking for something else. I’m usually really good at finding organizations to get involved in and know of sites to connect me to places, but...
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jux so.
ennuipartie:
Seven years ago, or so, a friend lent me kitchen confidential. i don’t know why it took me so long to pick it up and start reading it. maybe because my books have been sitting in boxes. it is, quite possibly, the perfect book to read after finishing 100 years of solitude.
i love KC. never order fish on mondays or hollandaise!
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Predictions!
I am getting drinks with Jenny tonight in Bucktown, because we are both woman enough to not let the weather silence our desire to chat and imbibe. That said, if the weather is as disastrous as everyone claims, let’s make predictions on the details of the following evening ends (my predictions in italics):
Length of time to get home via public transport
70 minutes
Cost of cab
$32
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Mailbox Map - A google mashup to locate blue USPS... →
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“As President-Elect Barack Obama prepares to take office, his transition team is...”
– PPA Meets with President-Elect Obama’s Transition Team | Professional Photographers of America
I love PPA…and Obama. Also, for those of you that are photographers, please join PPA if you aren’t a member already. They do so much good work, and their lawyers are amazing (and free)...
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Tumblr wishes
I wish tumblr had the ability to set up “friends and family” lists a la Flickr. There are many times when I’d like to write something, but don’t neccessarily want to share it with the entire internet.
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haircut
booksarebetterthanboys:
tomatoallergy:
i am in desperate need of a haircut.
maybe i should not admit on the internet that i haven’t gotten my hair cut in a hair salon since i was sixteen and my mother told me i couldn’t look ratty for my national honor society induction ceremony, but it is true.
the haircuts i’ve gotten in the last seven years have been in friends’ bathrooms or in my...
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we don't do juice fasts
me: so i had a dream in which i was on a nonsociety esque show with julia allison and two other girls
talking about blagoevich
and then you and i started our own show
smart girls' society
so...we should do that.
Laura: haha
YES
love it
me: it would actually be a hit!
smart, cute broads talking about fashion AND corrupt illinois politics?
you also did some cooking in the show.
so food + politics + style = internet recipe for success
you could also get a cat that we could feature to push us over the top
Laura: YES
a cat
an adorable one
we rescued
me: start recruiting some of those silicon valley startup investors
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“Among them is the “right of conscience” regulation that is expected...”
– WSJ.com
So it looks like they’re passing that right of conscience regulation I wrote about a few weeks ago, and it will go into effect in about a month. I’m very curious to see what effects this has.
