i want some milk and cooooookies

dear friends,

was just reading some gos between articles and found this image which brought a tear to my eye. it reminded me of my princeton "family" and of the summer. over the summer, a few of us started hanging out all the time (ms.e, rc3, akm, etc.) and cooking home-style food. we make a mean mac and cheese. we developed a bit of a rep as a family, and rc3 in particular liked to call us such. some of my fave rc3isms are:

"don't go into the light carol ann" (now that he has moved for law school, i just go into the light all the time)

"where your boo? do you want me to talk to him" (my boo probably don't even know what boo means and this is all the more awesomely hilarious since we were in the middle of his place of employment. bless)

"no, it's a tote, i got it at j.crew" (in response to akm asking him if he was carrying a murse)

and of course, "do you want some milk and cookies" (the first time i didn't understand why he said it like that, but we have come to say it all the time.)

rip bernie mac,
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isn't cabbage a great name for a palin?

dear friends,

so, as part of one of my most used work related reward schemes, i allowed myself to peruse ebay a little this afternoon. my target, moss lamps. but i got distracted by this charity auction for election related cabbage patch dolls.

observations:

(1) bidding suggests that republicans are bigger fans of collectible dolls. unsuprising.

(2) cabbage palin is my new favourite made up palin name.

back to the working,

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synergy

dear friends,

one of the reasons i go to ireland for free all the time is synergies. i am not even really sure what that means in the professional sense, but in the internets sense, this new pedro (sorry, david bazan) song combines my emo-music post with my election cuteness post.

also, isn't david bazan looking hella creepy there?
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ps- in what has become an annual tradition, i got brother by another mother one of each colour of these. they're always really beautiful and if you can snag copies on ebay, i would.

7th graders debate obama vs. mccain

the youths. i heart them on occasion.

a voice over moment

dear friends,

i hate that part of the tv show where there is a "deep thoughts" voice over. the worst of these of course come in any episode of sex in the city when carrie says "and so, i asked myself are men and women different? then i bought some shoes". but, as i do some work on not-my-book for the sfips today, i find myself listening to lemuria and wondering "are we destined to always like the music we did at 14?". i love the lemuria sound a lot, but perhaps it is because it sounds so much like the music of my youth. pants definitely has a rainer maria vibe.

this also reminds me of several ridiculous conversations (and instead of this nearly defunct blog becoming a place for deep thoughts, i'd like it to remain a place for the recording of minutiae that i may forget when i join the olds):

ridiculous conversation the first (two years ago):

ccd student: mrs. macgregor, is your husband like totally emo?

[i don't even know what that means. except that 90s emo as exemplified by brotherbyanothermother whom i assume they believed to be my husband (ew) is very different than the emo currently enjoyed or mocked by the youths]

ridiculous conversation the second (two months ago, instant messenger):

ms. hilarious: so, ryan romano?

ms. cam: i don't even know. i am not in the mood to make it happen. i just want to get this phd done and move. and here look- its a picture of him wearing a TOOL sweatshirt. can i really be crushing on someone that into TOOL?

ms. hilarious: maybe he got it for free at the record store? and well isn't he a few years older than us? you know how people a few years older than us... like were in high school when we were in eighth grade love NIN way more than us.

ms. cam: right, it could be a period or cohort effect.


ridiculous conversation the third [a few days ago, IM]

ms. hilarious tells me about some scenario precluding two people from dating

ms. cam: god you toronto hipsters are so incestuous

ms. hilarious: i am not a hipster! luke is a hipster! you have hipster musical tastes! i don't even listen to music pre-1975!


anyway, so i like music from the nineties or that sounds like music from the nineties. and i'm ok with it.

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throwin' some glitter on it

"if you've got a hunch back, throw some glitter on it and start vogueing down at boombox. "



Kele Okereke



dear friends,



lately, i have been reading a few of your blogs again (uberfrau, monkey chakra). and it reminded me what a nice record of times past it is. so, in the spirit of remembering what occupied my days other than trying to get ph dizzled here are some new posts.

we'll see how long this new/old distraction lasts,
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