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timeripple) wrote2010-09-27 10:00 pm
timeripple) wrote2010-09-27 10:00 pm
this is so Carlos's personal theme song
I have to preface this entry with a link to This is Why I'll Never be an Adult, otherwise the next paragraph will make no sense.
Day Off. Woke up at 9:30, called dental and health insurance companies to make sure they’re not trying to screw me over, paid dental and health insurance bills, wrote a dreadful belated birthday walrus poem for my aunt so I could write it in her belated birthday walrus birthday cake card, forwarded a bunch of grad school emails to myself, hung out with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
a4yroldfaerie, who informed me that cumin is the essential ingredient in black bean burritos, went to the bank, mailed aunt’s belated birthday walrus poem card, bought food, came home, did laundry, got a little fiddling in, am now contemplating submitting multiple papers for publication (ugh, abstracts). Kind of a Get Shit Done Like an Adult and Still Have Fun Day, which will probably never happen again ever.
Pretty much the only thing that did not get done was Wash the Hair Like an Adult, but whatever.
Got a ton of new ARCs from work. Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares, the new Rachel Cohn & David Levithan collaboration, is super adorable. The characters almost make me want to be a teenager again. (I said almost, I am not insane!) I just want to carry them around in my pocket always. Cannot wait to start So Shelly by Ty Roth. The back cover says, "Ty Roth plunges into uncharted waters as he cleverly transforms poets Keats, Byron and Shelley into present-day high school students. Sometimes tragic, always outrageous, So Shelly captures the indomitable spirit of Romanticism." The plot sounds kind of like Looking for Alaska, only hilarious. Possibly not in an intentional way. I figure either it will be awesome, or it will be so terrible that it’s awesome. Either way: awesome!
In other news, I have decided to start reading psychology books, now and then. It is one of the sections I shelve, after all, and it is something of a family tradition. And I liked the actual psychology parts of the two weeks I was in PSYCH 101. Which was, um, not a lot, come to think of it. Any recommendations? I’d prefer something more accessible and less academic, though I’ve read and enjoyed some Freud, in a masochistic, Classics major kind of way. Lacan, on the other hand, made me cry, so maybe none of the dead white dudes. I just want to know how to manipulate people, okay?
Okay that’s a lie, I am just about the least manipulative person ever. What? Why are you looking at me like that?
Here’s the thing: all this seemingly calculated denial of my manipulative tendencies, which only implies that I really do have manipulative tendencies and am playing innocent, actually has another layer on which it’s entirely genuine. I would love to be a secret evil genius, but the fact is I’m not. But it’s pretty easy to manipulate people into thinking I am, on paper. Virtual paper. Or into pretending they think I am. And this is without even bringing internet personalities vs whole personalities into it...
Uh, the point is, I guess, that people are complicated. Even me.
In other other news, I need new jeans.
Day Off. Woke up at 9:30, called dental and health insurance companies to make sure they’re not trying to screw me over, paid dental and health insurance bills, wrote a dreadful belated birthday walrus poem for my aunt so I could write it in her belated birthday walrus birthday cake card, forwarded a bunch of grad school emails to myself, hung out with
a4yroldfaerie, who informed me that cumin is the essential ingredient in black bean burritos, went to the bank, mailed aunt’s belated birthday walrus poem card, bought food, came home, did laundry, got a little fiddling in, am now contemplating submitting multiple papers for publication (ugh, abstracts). Kind of a Get Shit Done Like an Adult and Still Have Fun Day, which will probably never happen again ever. Pretty much the only thing that did not get done was Wash the Hair Like an Adult, but whatever.
Got a ton of new ARCs from work. Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares, the new Rachel Cohn & David Levithan collaboration, is super adorable. The characters almost make me want to be a teenager again. (I said almost, I am not insane!) I just want to carry them around in my pocket always. Cannot wait to start So Shelly by Ty Roth. The back cover says, "Ty Roth plunges into uncharted waters as he cleverly transforms poets Keats, Byron and Shelley into present-day high school students. Sometimes tragic, always outrageous, So Shelly captures the indomitable spirit of Romanticism." The plot sounds kind of like Looking for Alaska, only hilarious. Possibly not in an intentional way. I figure either it will be awesome, or it will be so terrible that it’s awesome. Either way: awesome!
In other news, I have decided to start reading psychology books, now and then. It is one of the sections I shelve, after all, and it is something of a family tradition. And I liked the actual psychology parts of the two weeks I was in PSYCH 101. Which was, um, not a lot, come to think of it. Any recommendations? I’d prefer something more accessible and less academic, though I’ve read and enjoyed some Freud, in a masochistic, Classics major kind of way. Lacan, on the other hand, made me cry, so maybe none of the dead white dudes. I just want to know how to manipulate people, okay?
Okay that’s a lie, I am just about the least manipulative person ever. What? Why are you looking at me like that?
Here’s the thing: all this seemingly calculated denial of my manipulative tendencies, which only implies that I really do have manipulative tendencies and am playing innocent, actually has another layer on which it’s entirely genuine. I would love to be a secret evil genius, but the fact is I’m not. But it’s pretty easy to manipulate people into thinking I am, on paper. Virtual paper. Or into pretending they think I am. And this is without even bringing internet personalities vs whole personalities into it...
Uh, the point is, I guess, that people are complicated. Even me.
In other other news, I need new jeans.