March 2011
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Me: (via all staff email) Would anyone like a pink and gold glass lamp for his/her office? Just hit “reply.”
Co-worker: Only if it has sequins and fringe on it.
Me: No sequins, but it does sing the "Macarena" if you clap twice.
Co-worker: LOL
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“Don’t you think it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you...”
– Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife)
new boughs began blossoming →
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Good news: Yoga makes you taller
not that i need to obsess over this, but… yeah. it doesn’t hurt. :)
tea-for-me:
Ha. I suppose that’s one way to lower your BMI.
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morning one →
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i had forgotten about the weather →
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“At times she thought of the books as old wives tales meant to impart moral...”
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“find your passion.”
– Dove Dark Chocolate Promises wrapper
(Um, given the fact that I’m eating this, I think I’ve already found it. DUH.)
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SNOW
this has got to be our last snowfall of the season. i mean, i walked to the gym in shorts yesterday. and now it’s slushy and the daffodils are dying. ugh.
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Watch(via rufustfirefly)
Leslie Knoppe, ladies and gents.
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“It’s like there’s this person that you want to be for other people… To make them...”
– Dawson’s Creek (via littlemiss)
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Why Food Matters, 1 : Ruth Reichl →
just read this, from one of my favorite food writers. my own thoughts about hospitality and community run along similar lines.
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no work today!
today’s no-work schedule included a leisurely breakfast (french press coffee, pb open-faces with sliced bananas, chocolate cake, multivitamin), a 6 mile run, laundry, some weightlifting, salmon-arugula-rotini salad for lunch, some quality time with my reading list, coffee (again) with the excellent HH, and a mentoring appointment. coming up: leftovers for dinner and a prayer meeting. oh,...
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Songs for Lent | A new album from New York Hymns... →
Great music on this. Lots of room for reflection. Available for free, but donations are encouraged. :)
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dreams from the past week
* something about two friends taking an italian class designed for portugese speakers
* burning everything i cook
* never-ending road trip with neil, in which we talk philosophy the whole time and never have to stop to eat or even to pee, never reaching our destination — we just keep driving
* i was late for work but couldn’t wake up, the whole time trying to stop dreaming —...
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Libya: Allied fighters hit Gaddafi's forces as... →
Gaddhafi breaks his own ceasefire, attacks rebels at Benghazi. French respond, other Allies rally to assist French in protecting rebels. Gaddhafi’s foreign minister Moussa Koussa claims third party groups broke cease-fire, not government troops. So many parts of me are drawn to situations like this — so much death, so much brokenness that will endure for such a long time after...
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WatchBrandywine (by The New Empires)
THESE ARE GOOD PEOPLE. Goodbye, Third Lobby, hello New Empires! Please come on up to St. Louis whenever you like.
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paint →
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“It isn’t possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can...”
– E. M. Forster, A Room With a View (via earlyfrost)
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women's history month quiz →
“Even if a full meltdown is averted, Japanese officials have been facing...”
– NYT (via gq)
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“i feel like you could make a really great dance mix btw. we’re listening...”
– Text sent from my sister, who is on spring break in Florida right now (meanwhile we in St. Louis are getting wintry mix… bleh)
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Orangette: They wake me up →
i get a strong vibe of hospitality-meets-life-well-lived from mw at orangette, latest post being no exception. thought you might enjoy it as well.
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WatchRun (by Up & Over It)
Can I just travel with this pair and cook for them? I also make coffee. And I’m good at figuring out fax machines and all kinds of copiers. And I can drive a bus. I’m just saying…
on my neck →
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