January 2012
34 posts
1 tag
some pointless words.
I burned my tongue on tomato sauce earlier.
I went to LattéLand three (3) times today.
At work, a 50-year old woman asked if I like Zooey Deschanel.
I said, ‘Sometimes.’
Maybe if I pretend I’m confident, this recent onslaught of insecurity and doubt will subside.
This has been making me sick to my stomach.
But my stock looks great. I’m a few weeks away from...
I made a new mix.
Wait. I made a new mix a year ago. I shared it with my friends today. Let me know if you want it.
End transmission.
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable...”
– Carl Jung (via cyanideconfetti)
1 tag
Breakfast at Blue Bird Bistro
Drive-by house-scoping/-hunting in Midtown
WWI museum
The Filling Station — best au lait I’ve had in ages!
My first trip to the downtown Kansas City Public Library*
Homemade ginger tea
Arrested Development
—-
I needed this day. Holy moly.
Nothing like a through-and-through Kansas City Tuesday.
*I lost my shit over it. I forget...
I haven’t been sleeping.
I’m lonely.
French Farmers Will Have to Pay to Plant Their Own... →
Avoiding eating genetically engineered produce? Interested in products grown without the use of fertilizers? Encouraging farmers to be self-sufficient?
Seed companies are making all of this increasingly difficult, and the issue is quickly spreading beyond the US. Good luck eating anything truly natural just a few short years from now.
This week, I’ve been reminded how glad I am to have Nick as a close friend. We are the oddest pair, but I think we are good for each other.
3 tags
Friday, November 21, 2008 at 4:01am
Something about a bicycle and a backpack:
a camera (telephoto lens, please)
a notepad
a recorder
maybe a toothbrush
Something about Africa and the Middle East:
‘At least he had a gun! You want to go over there with some paper and a pencil!’
I couldn’t ever shoot someone, anyway.
sand in my camera
and sand in my skin
Something about the balance of journalism and...
2 tags
I've been
Obsessing
Trying frantically to organize things too far off to organize just yet
Worrying
Not sleeping
Letting anxiety creep in
Guilt, too
Being stubborn
Arguing over stupid things with people I love
I just want a little control. A little plan. Something resolved.
Our bodies
I swear, if I come across one more person trying to justify calling girls ‘too skinny’ or ‘almost anorexic’ or anything remotely similar to that with the excuse that smaller body types are ‘the ideal’ or ‘normal’ in American culture, and therefore there is no reason that girl has the right to be offended or hurt by stated comments….
Those...
4 tags
In other news
It is so cold that my chronic, bitchy shin splints are aching.
Someone explain to me how shin splints can last for 12 years. TWELVE! That can’t even be right. They started back in my Gymnastics Days, but they never really went away, even when I stopped spending 80 percent of my time running around barefoot on half an inch of padding atop concrete.
All I know is that when I don’t...
1 tag
Things I completed confidently today: 01.12.12...
Swapping a device that already had ACP on it
My first solo mixed repair ring out
A swap with new ACP purchase
Syncing contacts to a Windows computer
Navigating several Windows computers, for that matter
Setting up RoadRunner email on an iOS device
A Sprint swap — enough said
—-
Slowly but surely, I’m coming along.
On death
I’ve waited for these moments since I was 15. Nine long years of hospitals and life flight, chemo and a heart attack, two heart stints, medications, high blood pressure, low blood pressure, normal conversations turned uncomfortable with ‘your father is in the hospital’ inserted unapologetically halfway through.
For nine years, I’ve waited for the end. It always loomed...
1 tag
Things I learned today: 01.10.2012
Instant coffee.
1 tag
Things I learned today: 01.08.2012
I am learning to need someone.
It leaves me fragile, grasping.
Alive.
1 tag
1 tag
Things I learned today: 01.06.2012
The existence of/the meaning behind Settings > General > About > Diagnostics & Usage > Diagnostic & Usage Data*.
Once and for all, how to sell ACP post-purchase within 30 days. No more cheat sheets for this girl.
*Or at least how to comprehend enough of it to speak somewhat intelligently to its indications.
What if Kidz Pop did a version to "Niggas in...
6od:
dirtyluxury:
What’s Oodle, my Noodle? What’s Toaster, my Strudel? What’s drawing, my doodle? What’s that puppy, a poodle?
yeah.
4 tags
Things I learned today: 01.05.2012
What a mail merge is/how to make one happen (Pages and Numbers edition)
How to create a table of contents based on style in Pages
How to make Numbers continue a number sequence for me (i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4… or 2, 4, 6, 8…)
3GS displays can be swapped*
‘Oh my stars [and garters]!’
This. So good.
*Wtf, I am an idiot sometimes.
Are we still upset about the same things we whined about last year?
Okay?
Ooookay.
7 tags
Some places I've been missing lately
Texas: the endless parade of sunshine, a steady stream of guac and margaritas, 75 mph speed limits, the Monahans sand dunes, the crisp sky.
Monahans Sandhills State Park
St. Louis: City Museum, after-dinner walks by the Arch, the greatest internship of my life, riding the Metro, getting kicked off the Metro for breaking the bike rules, my favorite coffee shop (that just happened to be a...
1 tag
Things I learned today: 01.03.2012 edition
How to assemble a massive iPhone.
How to hang window display banners.
A lot of information regarding small business taxes, including, but not limited to, topics such as home office deduction, preparing a schedule c, and depreciation and amortization.
The most basic workings of assigning categories, values and equations to cells in Numbers.
Even the most steadfast individuals need to...
1 tag
Things I learned today: 01.02.2012
Sometimes, even a device that has been run over by a vehicle and is in multiple pieces will respond to connecting to iTunes. And then one can pull the serial number that way. Which is much easier than removing the battery, unsticking the miniature barcode and trying to find a scanner that will actually read such a tiny label — all while trying to dodge rogue glass splinters and extra sharp...
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via robynmq)
December 2011
20 posts
1 tag
Things I learned today: 12.30.2011
The easiest and fastest way to activate a replacement Sprint phone.
How to print a part label directly from iRepair (for personal reference: iRepair > action widget on right for repair part > print label).
Finally, once and for all, the most straightforward way to put a device into restore mode (power down, hold home button, plug into sync cable already connected to computer).
How to...
1 tag
Things I learned today: 12.29.2011 edition
How to finish up a mixed-ring out repair.
1 tag
Christmas
Went to Pryde’s Christmas Eve morning before work. I love that place. It makes me feel like everything in the whole world is going to be just fine.
The longest, slowest, most boring day at work ever.
A quiet Christmas Eve night with the boy making peanut butter balls and watching Elf in bed.
Coffee and present-wrapping and no-bake cookies in the morning with the boy.
He gave me...
2 tags
Stresses
Haven’t wrapped any Christmas gifts
Threw two weeks’ worth of clothes haphazardly in a suitcase for a four-day trip — with no idea if any of it matches
House-sitting for the next four days (and we all know I get terribly homesick)
Cat-sitting for the next four days (and we all know I’m terrified of cats)
Tried to spend time with my family only to be made fun of by...
One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I...
New things I briefly owned, but then lost, tonight
Alternate title: White elephant gift exchange is rough.
Sock monkey lunch box
Carlisle Cullen Barbie doll (his face sparkled!)
RAM-less blue+white Power Mac G3
Handle of UV wedding cake vodka
Book titled ‘All My Friends Are Dead’
In the end, I went home with a handmade image of a coworker as Magneto, iPhones flying around him; an award for ‘best smile;’ and a...
1 tag
Things I learned today: 12.16.2011 edition
-How to take the battery out of an iPhone 4.
-How to reseat the #4 cable in a 3GS.
-How to have an elephant-in-the-room conversation without turning bright red.
-There are kind people in this world.
3 tags
Things I wish I could say I learned how to do...
-Use SNAP to set up a new account and activate a new line.
-That’s definitely a no.
Tonight
I wish I was 20 again, listening to Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem in the backseat of a rental while Mark Hardy drives us to Minneapolis, through a blizzard, for a journalism convention none of us really care about. We mostly signed on for the free trip and the swanky hotel.
I was so alive then. I wasn’t afraid of anything and I took every risk without a second thought. The whole world was...
1 tag
Things I learned today: 12.11.2011
-How to use Voice Over on a Mac — or at least, the very basics. I can turn it off and on and do basic computer navigation. Using VO without watching where I am on the screen would be a totally different story, though! This is definitely something I want to keep working on and learn more about. A handful of my coworkers teach and work with this regularly; I’d love to be part of that...