voncookie | July 31, 2007
There’s this song by R.E.M., “Why Not Smile”, from their extremely underrated album Up. I don’t know why more people don’t listen to this album, because it is absolutely brilliant in certain locations; I’ll grant it’s an uneven and transitional masterpiece, but masterpiece just the same. Alternately melancholy and aggressive, I absolutely adore it. (Josh, [...]
voncookie | July 30, 2007
… reading. Just reading. Something from the list on the right side of this page. In fact, I’m going to pack up my stuff here at the coffeehouse, go home, put on my faux-silk pajamas and just read to my heart’s content. Sounds positively decadent. Maybe I’ll order a pizza, too. That can’t be good [...]
voncookie | July 29, 2007
Here are the results of a personality test that I took recently. Big shock: I like words, music and am a bit of an introvert. Go figure.
voncookie | July 29, 2007
My normal coffee drink is an Americano: two shots of espresso mixed with hot water. According to the Starbucks Oracle, this is what my Americano says about me.: Personality type: Asshat You carry around philosophy books you haven’t read and wear trendy wire-rimmed glasses even though you have perfect vision. You’ve probably added an accent [...]
voncookie | July 28, 2007
…don’t think I haven’t recognized this. I’ve looked over my past month of entries and it all chalks up to “The Diss This” and “The Diss That”. Nothing more, nothing less, with the exception of the earthquake to liven things up a bit. Oh, and some health issues as well. But you know what? Compared [...]
voncookie | July 27, 2007
Need I say more? I’m seriously wondering if it’s possible to administer Novocaine to one’s ENTIRE HEAD. I don’t even care how big that needle would have to be.
voncookie | July 26, 2007
Oh Hell, I just wrote that wonderfully ambitious piece about writing something today and now that I’ve sat down and done some outlining or other Assiduously Avoidant activity, I have reached the end of said Avoidant Activity and must now actually write. God bless me, my heart is pounding like it did right before my [...]
voncookie | July 26, 2007
Well, folks, today I realize I have come to the end of my excessively-researched rope and now must do what I’ve been dreading (and also wildly anticipating) for a few months now: WRITE. There is virtually nothing else I could possibly read… well, we know that’s not true, but it’s what I’m telling myself so [...]
voncookie | July 25, 2007
If you know anything about me at all, you know that I *heart* ice cream, to the nth degree. I love ice cream so much that I would eat it for every meal, every day, and twice on Sundays. But after getting my blood work results back and finding out about my murderous cholesterol, I’ve [...]
voncookie | July 24, 2007
The good news: I am not diabetic. The bad news: I have the cholesterol levels of a 65-year-old meat-eating man from Paducah, Kentucky. So now, another round of doctor’s visits, some serious reevaluation of my No-Exercise Policy, and no more Peach Cobbler Ben & Jerry’s. Time to start reading labels. Ugh. I hate thinking about [...]
voncookie | July 24, 2007
I went out shopping with my Aunt Bonnie over the weekend, and she was telling me about Michael Moore’s new movie, “Sicko”. She told me about how insurance companies look for reasons not to insure their customers, poking around for pre-existing conditions and the like. This struck absolute terror in me. I am an insurer’s [...]
voncookie | July 23, 2007
A woman in a bright aqua hooded t-shirt with an aqua butterfly clip (literally, it has a butterfly on it) in her hair, smoking a cigarette, and bopping along to some unknown tune on her iPod. I tend to bop along to my iPod. Now I’m thinking I must look sort of ridiculous when I [...]
voncookie | July 22, 2007
I am super-excited and more than pleased to report that I have had a dissertation breakthrough, and am finally seeing with immense clarity all the relationships between my proposed chapters, as well as the specific relationship that I am exploring: Literature & Science. I’ve got my gigantic post-its on the wall, and they’re filling up [...]
voncookie | July 20, 2007
Here’s why: That’s Oakland, the big red square in the middle. A lovely 4.2. I’ve decided that the scariest thing about earthquakes occur in the second after you recognize the shaking you’re experiencing as an actual earthquake. In that second, you start to wonder how long it’s going to shake, and if the shaking’s going [...]
voncookie | July 18, 2007
To quote the great Mötley Crüe: “Don’t know what you’ve got, ’til it’s gonnnnnnne.” Yeah. Sing it, my brotha. I was chugging along at a nice pace this afternoon, printing out my hard copy so that there’s hard evidence that I’ve been working my ass off, when—somewhat ironically—the TV snapped off as the local news [...]
