Ork Posters has a store open in Chicago for the holidays. I’m so psyched about stopping by later this week.
Books are better than boys
You can contact me at dommelr (at) yahoo (dot) com.
American Dialect Society: Now accepting nominations for the 2009 “word of the year”
After watching an episode of Degrassi: The Next Generation last night (while I should have been working on my exam that due today) I’m going to guess that sexting is going to make it pretty far this year. Staycation should make the list as well. What’s your guess?
“Once the wood was all delivered you were done and it was easy to see the progress and gain a sense of accomplishment. That is the real beauty of manual labor — you have a job to do for the day and when it is done, so are you.”
-A Continuous Lean on delivering firewood
Current dream job - delivering firewood. Or something like it.
Lessons in procrastination (part 2).
Create a new cross stitch pattern. Execute pattern while drinking a seven and seven (call it making Christmas gifts, so it sounds productive). Thus successfully avoiding that which you dread.
(via sister reba)
Lessons in procrastination.
Rifle through your closet (but call it cleaning or organizing, so it sounds productive) and find an old band t-shirt that you had completely forgotten about. Rock out to that band. Thus successfully avoiding that which you dread.
thoughts on Mucca Pazza
On seeing them for the first time, last year, at the Hide Out Block Party: “Are they going to play a song or are they just going to dick around.”
And last night, after Kate told me she accidentally agreed to go to one of their shows: “I mean, I love marching bands, and I love band music, but I don’t like Mucca Pazza. At. All.”
(Not an exact quote, my explanation for my poor memory.)
Step by step instructions for how to get the perfectly messy bun. I can’t wait for my hair to be long enough for this.
(Also, hair-related, remind me never to get bangs again. I always think that I want them until I actually have them. Then I remember why I grew them out.)
Holiday gift brainstorming: Green Porno: A Book and Short Films by Isabella Rossellini, for that someone who has you completely stumped.
