June 2009
19 posts
Good call, Gawker
This wedding announcement from the NY Times really is a tear jerker.
Even Better Than Missed Connections →
—I could get lost reading these personal and sometimes troubling confessions of love lost, mistakes made, and “I’m sorry’s.”
"Fix You", by Coldplay
**I can’t decide if this song is sweet or co-dependent, or if I would ever want someone to fix me, but I guess I would and I’m going to go with sweet on this one**
When you try your best, but you don’t succeed When you get what you want, but not what you need When you feel so tired, but you can’t sleep Stuck in reverse And the tears come streaming down your face ...
Boys. WTF are they about, anyway?!
I met a guy through a friend.. it was one of those things when your best girlfriend introduces you to her best guy friend and him and you are supposed to have this crazy connection because you both love the same girl dearly? We talked and he already knew my boyfriend and such so we had plenty of people in common. So days passed and I friended him on Facebook (of course) and we started chatting on...
I miss Northern girls in large coats.
I miss northern girls in large coats. I miss them walking through the streets of center city during the winter, when it’s 10 degrees and without the wind and for the first time you kind of realize how Doestoevsky became so mentally unstable. I miss northern girls who play lacrosse, the worst sport in the world and don’t mind majoring in economics, political science or journalism. I...
“A good friend stares at your teeth when you need a quick dental examination,...”
– [now if we only knew what the riders in the cars beside us were thinking, as they watched Sammy D stare into the mouth of Erin E in the passenger seat of her Jetta on some random Saturday in PA]
“Ok, enough of me talking about my triumphs. Let’s talk about you”
– Christian, passing the talking torch on to me. A tough act to follow.
“You got offline before I could say good night, to the one that got away”
– -from a boy I met during a journalism conference in Kansas City, MO. I was a sophomore in high school. We spent one day together, just one. It was like “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist” only set during the day, at a journalism conference, in the south. Which really meant it was...
“please remember me, my misery
how it lost me all i wanted
-sam beam. the...”
– -Sean Price New Orleans, Louisiana
Man, with friends like these...
Erin: I'm so bored I want to rob a bank
Ying: Why don't you go write a song about it
Erin: Thanks
An email from Sammy D at 7:01 AM this morning
Just wanted to say again HOW EXCITED I AM FOR OUR ROMANTIC WEEKEND! I really miss you and can’t wait to see your face, I definitely think that when I’m in love with a boy, it will feel like this. xo
—She always knows how to make a girl feel good. Can’t wait to thrift with you!
If you're a woman, make sure he's only 6 years...
A German study found a man’s risk of premature death is 11 percent lower if his wife is seven to nine years younger, perhaps because healthier men attract younger wives. Women with husbands seven to nine years older or younger are 20 percent more likely to die early.
—from The Telegraph
“By day, I was a women’s studies minor, wrote a weekly feminist column for...”
– –Jessica Wakeman, as quoted in Gawker. Though spanking does nothing for me, I understand her plight.
For those of you in limerence, send this to your...
Send this post to them, or keep it for yourself; stick it in your gchat away message; write it as a reminder in your Outlook calender; Twitter it; make it your Facebook status—whatever, it’s 2009, you’ll figure it out. But remind yourself that your LO didn’t win. Now, give the best of you to someone who deserves it.
From my new favorite blog, I Wrote This for You.
A bone to pick with etymology
During a long catch up call with Megan last night, our conversation turned from engagments and med school (her) to the job hunt, unhappiness, and inequality (me). She said her fiance is having problems finding a job, and describes the experience as emasculating. I said I can relate. Interesting, said Megan. But did you know there’s no female equivalent to that word?
The definition of...