oh no megan!

It is really bizarre being in my childhood home because everything smells weird, but familiar weird....

Sat, 26 May 2012 19:08:00 +0200

It is really bizarre being in my childhood home because everything smells weird, but familiar weird. It’s not a bad thing, but nothing smells like my house - the laundry detergent is different and the fireplaces give off a wooden smell all summer long. I feel seriously out of sorts, which (at least in part) is why I came home, but being here is just making everything feel even more surreal. Part of that may be the fact that I am on antibiotics and feel like shit, but I think most of it is that everything seems like it has crash landed.

"I don’t know when I started believing that the world was going to end no matter what, and there was..."

Thu, 10 May 2012 22:14:04 +0200

“I don’t know when I started believing that the world was going to end no matter what, and there was nothing I could do about it but accept it. I don’t know when I started teasing the people who care, or when I started thinking that caring meant you were a flake. I think everyone around me seemed so convinced, so certain, that I let myself get carried away.”

- Overqualified: Ugh, granola.

This is why I love bull moose. Plus, they replace my card every...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:35:28 +0200

This is why I love bull moose. Plus, they replace my card every single time I lose it.

Welcome to 30,000 feet.

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:20:28 +0200

Welcome to 30,000 feet.

British Museum Reading Room

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:37:32 +0200

British Museum Reading Room

Yesterday I was on a treadmill at the gym and this dude came up and took the treadmill next to me...

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:40:38 +0100

Yesterday I was on a treadmill at the gym and this dude came up and took the treadmill next to me despite every single other treadmill being free (like, 9 of them). He started trying to chat me up and I made it pretty clear that I wasn’t interested and put in my headphones.

A few minutes later, one of the management folks was giving some new or prospective member a tour and is walking behind us when the guy next to me rips the loudest, smelliest fart that I have encountered in quite some time. He made an ‘oh my god’ face, I made an ‘oh my god’ face and had to cover my nose, and the management quickly scuttled away.

I think this moment is when he realized that he had absolutely no chance.

Apple & Raspberry Innocent Juice is my new jam.

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:43:07 +0100

Apple & Raspberry Innocent Juice is my new jam.

Today I learned that chia seeds are not deemed fit for human consumption in Germany.

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:26:00 +0100

THERE GOES MY FUTURE AS A HEALTHY LIVING BLOGGER.

Every time I think I've outgrown Something Corporate and Andrew McMahon, I listen to Konstantine

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:04:12 +0100

Then I realize that I was lying to myself.

"We can learn so much more from poetry than science."

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:43:39 +0100

“We can learn so much more from poetry than science.”

- Guillermo del Toro

"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy..."

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:06:42 +0100

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Rich Boy

what the ever-loving shit?

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:36:24 +0100

what the ever-loving shit?

I went shopping today on my way home from work. Two years ago, I...

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:26:00 +0100

I went shopping today on my way home from work. Two years ago, I loaned my copy of Infinite Jest to a friend, and it never found my way back to my house. I could ask for it back, but it was faster to just go buy a new one. My original copy of Oblivion is in the States, and I was planning on buying the German translation at the same time for a mini-project I’m thinking about doing for fun, in which I compare translations with originals (the translation of A Supposedly Fun Thing is horrible, for the record).

The Penguin Book of American Short Stories looks wonderful and is filled with Melville (Bartleby, of course) and Cather and Fitzgerald and Hemingway, so I’m down.

And somehow I’ve never read White Teeth?

It is really unfortunate that it is impossible to get the full experience of a novel unless reading...

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:37:45 +0100

It is really unfortunate that it is impossible to get the full experience of a novel unless reading it in the language in which it was written.

Guess I need to get started on a new undertaking.

Sometimes I just don’t understand how some people can exist.

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:25:01 +0100

Sometimes I just don’t understand how some people can exist.

"And when he came back to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was..."

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:53:38 +0100

“And when he came back to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.”

- Infinite Jest

It’s been a really long week - there’s been a whole bunch of stuff crowding my head that...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:43:00 +0100

It’s been a really long week - there’s been a whole bunch of stuff crowding my head that I really feel helpless about, and it sucks. Things I’m worried about but have no control over, people I’m concerned about but unsure how to help. Maybe it’s because I have been forgetting to take my vitamins this week, because I’ve hardly been home and haven’t been eating when I have been home and I can’t take my vitamins without food or else I throw up the most electrically yellow goop that I’ve ever seen, but I woke up this morning with the worst anxiety.

I probably haven’t made the sadness and anxiety any better by spending the past three hours reading David Foster Wallace, but sometimes that’s just the only thing that makes sense.

"It’s a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier..."

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:45:00 +0100

“It’s a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too.”

- Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers

Words with Friends me - mebak89 Wooeeeeeoppp let’s play.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:32:43 +0100

Words with Friends me - mebak89

Wooeeeeeoppp let’s play.

Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country Come...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:41:46 +0100

Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country

Come out, and live with a religious community in a beautiful place out in the country