January 2011
20 posts
excerpted from "How Should a Person Be"
“When I strip away my dreams, what I imagine to be my potential, all the things I haven’t said, what I imagine I feel for other people in the absence of my expressing it, all the rules I’ve made for myself that I don’t follow—I see that I’ve done as little as anyone else in this world to deserve the grand moniker I. In fact, apart from being the only person...
"Haruki Murakami: On seeing the 100% perfect girl... →
Now, of course, I know exactly what I should have said to her. It would have been a long speech, though, far too long for me to have delivered it properly. The ideas I come up with are never very practical.
Oh, well. It would have started “Once upon a time” and ended “A sad story, don’t you think?”
Sometimes, moms are a bad idea. :(
Mom: I returned the boots and they gave me a giftcard. Why did they give me a gift card?
Me: I don't know. Why did you accept a gift card?
Mom: Because that's what they gave me.
Me: Mommmm. Why didn't you ask them why they were giving you a gift card if you had the receipt??
Mom: I don't know. It's what they gave me.
Me: SIGH.
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".on. .a. .freezing. .chicago. .street."
So if your lover should leave don’t get too sad,
and don’t compose epic poems to win him back.
‘Cause when your bird has flown, he’ll never return home—
Though all your life you’ll wait, he never will return…
WatchThis is sad but true for all of you English PhD hopefuls out there (including myself)…Fail.