I've lived in my apartment for a little over a year now, and today was the first day I've ever had a guest. My brothers and dad have come over a few times, but they're the only ones - aside from the people who run the building - who've seen my place. No guests, ever. It just hadn't happened yet. I don't know enough people in New York City I'd want ( Read more... )

It's been just over a year since I moved into my apartment. August 11, as a matter of fact - a year and four days. I knew the one-year mark was coming for a while now, but I hadn't expected it to pass me by. I think that's a good thing, though ( Read more... )

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Mann vs. Machine.

Robots. It's robots. They added robots. Fuck me sideways, motherfucking robots.

The fandom's exploding all over Tumblr and the main message boards and my god, is it beautiful, I haven't seen it like this since Meet the Medic, and you guys, co-op mode against robots.

I don't even play the game and I'm getting all tingly!

Today was the first day I've gone swimming since December 25, 2011 ( Read more... )

It is not, by my standards, terrifically late. But it is dark and drizzling in August, something which strikes me at the very core of my being as being wrong, and I'm too wrung out from too little sleep last night to even think about doing anything serious. I can very clearly visualize what's necessary to do on this batch of cover letters, and I ( Read more... )

Last week I slept through my alarm, completely skipping therapy. This week I made sure to quadruple-check, and got there just a few minutes late ( Read more... )

It's distressingly easy for me to convince myself that no one is ever going to sell me things I want to buy, and as such, it's not even worth it to make an attempt to check out their website ( Read more... )

My therapist's moved her practice since last week; she's now in a corner office on the 24th floor of her new building. We both agreed the view is spectacular, but the old neighborhood was a lot more vibrant in terms of its residents and business offerings. I'd gotten to know her old neighborhood about as well as my own, and I liked it more, to boot ( Read more... )

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About three-fourths of the way through the set, after Neko Case introduced the other band members, Kelly Hogan took a moment to introduced her - "Neko Case, from the world." And there's no better way to describe her ( Read more... )