February 2008
46 posts
School Boys...No Child Left Behind
Overheard by moi on the Q train to Brooklyn after work today:
Boy with ill-fitting pants 1: I was bleeding blood yo.
Boy with ill-fitting pants 2: Bleeding blood? Ha ha
Boy 1: Yea, I was bleeding *blood* yo. Can you believe it?
Perhaps I misunderstood and this conversation wasn't literal, so much as it was an existential analysis of the undeniable truth that as human beings, we all bleed. blood.
Nahhhhh.
January 2008
44 posts
Jeopardy Test
Today, I took the online Jeopardy test. I had previously registered for it and was even practicing by watching it as often as I could AND by playing it everyday on the train (via uploading it onto my cell phone). The odd looks from my train neighbors when they saw that little jeopardy screen on my V Cast phone did not matter to me because I was in training. The first night that the test was...
YAY!!!!!!!! The puppy who got stolen was FOUND -... →
juliaallison:
“I find ecstasy in living; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
– Emily Dickinson
“Calling someone fat doesn’t make you any skinnier. Calling someone stupid...”
– Mean Girls (cited yesterday on http://annamarie.tumblr.com/) So true, Tina Fey, so true. I won’t be one of those people who says that when someone criticizes, passes judgment, gossips or “talks smack” about someone, it means that they are jealous. However, most of the time, that...
Blondeness
Ch Ch Ch Chicken. I couldn’t do the brunette thing. Not after my colorist told me that if I hated it, I would have to wait at least 6 months before going back to blonde on the very real chance that my hair would fall out if doing it sooner & I would make the Donald look like Samson before Delilah “had her way” with him. Sooo, I decided to add two different lowlights, so that...
“I had to babysit my kids.
I love it when men say that. You’re not...”
– Law & Order Criminal Intent, Detective Eames
From Politics...to Hair Color
I am writing this post both to solicit the opinions of my few, but amazing of course, readers, and because I can be a superficial loon at times. My name is Miki and I’ve been a blonde from birth until about the age of 3 and then from 16 until present time (turning 27 in 2 months). I am contemplating drastically changing my hair color to its more natural brunette shade (with some funky...
Know Where You Stand... http://glassbooth.org/
Out of all places to find a handy dandy site for compartmentalizing your individual political stances & “matching” them to the most closely related presidential candidates, I found this on www.perezhilton.com. I was bored and wanting desperately to not be apathetic (I’m really not that apathetic, I mean, I am an attorney—ha, sorry), so I took this “quiz” or...
Pug screen clean. →
Thanks to reader Alexis for this. Seriously, click on it. It’s so cute. — juliaallison
“It can be a little distressing to have to overintellectualize yourself”
– Heath Ledger in a recent interview
I have a small, but adorable group of followers :)
http://www.tumblr.com/followers
“Curiosity, that’s what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about...”
– Mighty Aphrodite (1995)—Tonight was my first time seeing this film. I’m not a huge Woody Allen fan, but I really enjoyed it. I was 14 when this film came out. I vividly remember Mira Sorvino winning the Oscar for her performance as the hooker with a heart of gold. Weird how it seems...
Currently watching Failure to Launch with SJP & Mateo. Yes, at this moment, I am that bored and pathetic. Update: Zooey Deschanel has a part in this “film”…which totally redeems me for watching it…can you say girl crush
Masochist
I Am a Masochist. That Is All.
Don't Dump Me Anthony...We Never Got to Experience...
Tumblr is the magical happy land of the internet. Why? Because it seriously rocks. It is like a supergeek has combined smoking, coffee, cocaine and a casino all into a blogging platform. But. Yesterday I was away from the web for 24 hours. When I plugged back into the matrix, I was forced to read 64 pages of updates in my dashboard. This morning when I woke up, I had to go through another 30 pages...
My New Favorite Song...Best Cover Ever →
“He’s a reality check for me, and I’m a fabulosity check for...”
– KLS re: her relationship with Djimon Hounsou
“…and then I was addicted, baby. I was addicted to saying things and have...”
– Waitress
“Dear Baby,
I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for 20 minutes straight,...”
– Waitress
“Cal, are you happy? I mean, would you call yourself a happy man?
Well, if you...”
– Waitress
“I thought you were the kind of girl who knew when to say when.
I don’t...”
– Juno Hopefully, Juno will win something on tonight’s fake Golden Globes.
Impatience in Limbo
Isn’t it an interesting feeling when you don’t know exactly where it is you stand? Either with a situation or a person or, even on a more general level, in life. I am perhaps the most impatient person whom I’ve ever met. I know that patience is a virtue. It is a virtue that I unfortunately, do not possess. Can I learn to be patient? What can I do while in a general state of...
Get to the Fucking Point
Whenever I think about writing the next great American novel, I always have titles pop into my head before plot. I don’t really know what that is, other than that I like clever titles. For a few years, the title that I have had in my head has been: Price Upon Request. Perhaps, Get to the Fucking Point wouldn’t be too bad. That’s what someone told me the other night is a reason...
Lingerie Like Candy?
When I was a tiny tot, nothing would give me more pleasure than to take the dollar that my Grandpa would give me and go down to the local candy store to buy some brightly colored Push-Up Pops, Bubble Yum and Ring Pops. Now, as a 26 year old, I derive that same pleasure from buying lingerie. I literally feel like a kid leaving a candy store when I leave the store with brand new, brightly...
“Wherever I go, I know I’ll either be tossed out or accepted with open arms”
– Howard Stern on Letterman Live
Watching a hardened, formerly "judgmental, needy,... →
So damn true…I think this article is going to be interjected into one of my subtly made New Year’s Resolutions.
“I’d rather fail at something off-the-wall than succeed at something...”
– Diablo Cody Love her.
“I’m not pregnant”—B
“Good because I wouldn’t even...”
– Gossip Girl Hilarious quote to me b/c I do paternity hearings practically every day—Nanette Lepore works…
“All of the designers seemed pretty excited, but I think prom is horrible, tacky...”
– Christian—PR contestant
“Men can do nice things for women without expecting sex”—Leonard...”
– The Big Bang Theory (I haven’t watched & enjoyed a sitcom in ages!)
To all the people who didn't enjoy the film Juno
You’re all pretty stupid. Anyone who didn’t enjoy Juno either has a stick up their ass or isn’t that intelligent. The film was not your typical snort your soda out your nose film a la Superbad, nor was it a saccharine sweet cautionary after-school tale of teenaged pregnancy. It was, in short, a quirky and utterly charming story of an unconventional girl who was happy with who...
“In my opinion, the best thing you can do is to find a person who loves you for...”
– Juno (Juno’s father when they’re discussing love & relationships)
“Dear Miki,
Here is your single’s love horoscope
for Saturday, January...”
– too hilarious…the dumpster…yeah, that’s where my true love lies.
“And the roses were very much embarassed.
You are beautiful, but you are empty,...”
– The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupery
“But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall...”
– The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupery
I'm a Tomboy, sorta
My Mom: You're a tomboy.
Me: But I suck at sports. How can I possibly be a tomboy?
My Mom: Ok, you're like a boy who sucks at sports.
Me: So, does that mean I need to find a boy who's like a girl who kicks ass in sports?
Mom: Ahh, Miki
So true, so true
So, I was thinking today while watching coverage of the whole Britney meltdown thing that I don’t want to see any more. Thing is, Britney was a normal girl who cracked under press scrutiny that a normal human being couldn’t imagine. And its looking more and more like it is actually going to kill her. And we can all sit around and talk about how sad that is, but every time we click on...
It is not only okay, but healthy to be into... →