Friday, August 28

She was the kind of a woman who noticed the troubling details--three hairs that hung over a sideburn, the second-to-last sheet of toilet paper, the hangnail of speech a coworker would repeat four times in four minutes. But she was the kind of woman who kept quiet, afraid that any attention would lend these weaknesses their full measure of strength.

Tuesday, August 25

said of liquids

Wednesday, August 26

Continguous: touching; or close to each other, but not actually touching

Thursday, August 27

electric rock instrumentation
a subtle use of vocal harmony
major key tonality
electric rhythm guitars
a dynamic male vocalist
prominent organ

degenerate humor (where I'm coming from)

One in the hand is worth two in the bush--that's what she said.~time-honored aphorism meets the sophisticated humor of a twelve-year-old boy.

Your MOM's face is all messed up.~my mom, describing her face a week after her fall down the stairs pushed the frame of her glasses into the bridge of her nose.

Sunday Post

Only people who were thinking about having babies would talk about their poop.~my wise and wonderful cousin

Saturday night

Don't talk to Reggie. He's bad, he's bad, he's bad.~some guy we played pool with at a bar in Allston

I only bring this up because I have recently encountered a plethora of people who repeat/paraphrase themselves at least three times.

Friday

I put the ho in holier-than-thou.~ on the balance between conservatism and open-mindedness that I display in my personal life

Discovery 101

My couch-surfer/subleasor, right after she warned me of the potential injuries associated with mating behavior among large animals. "Elephants need a matriarchal figure to know what it means to be an elephant; they need to observe her behavior very closely to function properly. There have been cases of elephants raping rhinos."

If then when.

cover letter--a bit wordy, though

I am a bonafide English nerd with travel credentials and an interest in creative non-fiction, and I'm looking for a part-time job that teaches me marketable skills without forcing me to remove my nose from quality literature.

hiatus

Jack Dye's moustache was the most airborne object at the Wild West Balloon Fest.

Y poco son los que van a zafar.~Viejas Locas, "Homero"

forbidden words

When I worked at our community newspaper, we weren't allowed to use the words "moist" or "tender"--luckily, we didn't write many food reviews. A few alternative terms to describe chicken, most of them disgusting:
It was slightly damp.
When prodded with a fork, the flesh sprung back.
On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being raw, 10 being overcooked, it was a 5.

August 1

Rabbit, rabbit, fuckin' rabbit.~apparently a means of making the month start off well.

mediocre

Thursday--Let's leave after Edward admits he's a vampire--it's all love and war after that, which has been done before. Also, the mosquitoes are out.~on viewing Twilight on an outdoor screen

Friday--You can't bring sand to the beach~an expression I just learned