July 2012
June 2012
Today in Idiotic Facebook Statii
[From a “friend” in their residency.] “I will refrain from publicizing my political views and true thoughts on obamacare and all that comes with it, but I will say that had this happened 10 yrs ago (when I first started this educational journey) before I accrued hundreds of thousands of dollars in educational debt that I will spend the rest of my life trying to pay off, I would have abandoned my dreams for a more practical and far less expensive future.”
“It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications. It will not be anything like what you think it will be like, but surprises are good for you. And don’t be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I’ve had four careers and three husbands.”
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(via buildingaladder)
This whole quote was great (click through), but this part really got me.
“Ms. Ephron’s collection “I Remember Nothing” concludes with two lists, one of things she says she won’t miss and one of things she will. Among the “won’t miss” items are dry skin, Clarence Thomas, the sound of the vacuum cleaner, and panels on “Women in Film.” The other list, of the things she will miss, begins with “my kids” and “Nick” and ends this way:
“Taking a bath
Coming over the bridge to Manhattan
Pie.” —
“Taking a bath
Coming over the bridge to Manhattan
Pie.” —
Nora Ephron, Essayist, Screenwriter and director, Dies at 71 - NYTimes.com
Lovely.
“In other news, my bottle of wine is getting low, and I’m not sure I can make it through the rest of this episode without it.”
—Thank you, Pillania, for beautifully conveying all our thoughts on Miss Advised.
This is LITERALLY the best. news. ever. →
nypost.com
Per Sari.
OMGNORDSTROMINMANHATTANSQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
RueLaLa is en fuego! →
ruelala.com
Tory Burch yesterday, HANKY PANKY today! (Invite link, I get money if you buy stuff so go on and buy some underwear!)
Quickest I’ve spent over $100 on underwear… but only because the line at the Hanky Panky sample sale is always 100+ people long. PSA: Their boyshorts are amazing.
Pop quiz, hotshot
You can only eat at FOUR restaurants in your fair city for the rest of your life. Sit-down restaurants only, Chipotle does not count! What do you pick?
Welp.
I changed my J.Crew online shopping cart from three items to five. Oh, Friday night.
Calling all career advisory people...
Is anyone out there a career adviser, looking to make extra money on the side (who isn’t)? A friend (really) is looking for someone who is good with words and has a lot of experience with resumes to do a mass overhaul of theirs… and they’re willing to pay!
If you’re interested in the job and genuinely qualified, email me at lizlemonnn at gmail. Thanks!
Apropos of nothing at all, but...
why isn’t cancer capitalized? I mean, shouldn’t it be, really? Does anyone else always try to capitalize it or am I the only one writing the word cancer, which I’m not really but it’s just something I think about in my spare time? I mean, if something is going to kill almost all of us, shouldn’t we give it the courtesy of capitalization?
TV’s Best Talker: Aaron Sorkin on The Newsroom, Sorkinism, and Sounding Smart →
vulture.com
If you love Sorkin (and if you don’t, I’m not sure I want to know you), you’ll love this interview.
Long, but worth it. Includes some great bits about the most important show to premiere this week (ahem), as well as Sorkin on the Sorkin-less seasons of The West Wing… which he never watched.
This week in numbers
3 - Days wearing eyelet (hellooooooooo, summer!)
2 - Dinners enjoyed at work (sushi with a side of chips and guac, pizza)
1 - Giant bag of Israeli sunflower seeds consumed at work
0 - Trips to the gym (oops)
1 - Friend with gigantic “I’m moving to Denver!” news which made me sad/excited/jealous
4 - Hours left till I can nap
5 - Number of Wire related articles read (this one is the best)
2 - Number of videos of Snoop from The Wire watched on youtube… so far
3 - People imed about The Wire, which I’m sure is confusing for them because it’s not 2008
Being on the office Party Planning Committee is tough
- Coworker: hey
- Coworker: can you do me a favor
- me: yo
- Coworker: can you order mrs fields cookie cake from your desk
- Coworker: i dont want [coworker whose last day is today] to hear me
- Coworker: yeah
- Coworker: i will pick it up etc..
- me: want to come call?
- me: or do you just want me to tell them what I think it should say?
- Coworker: you can tell them what you want
- Coworker: what should it say?
- me: "We'll miss [coworker] almost as much as we would miss Elizabeth!"
- Coworker: not sure you can fit all of that
- me: I'll get two
hi
Oh, hello there. Long time no talk…
Y’all. I don’t want you to think you’re not a priority. It’s not like, “oh, I’m sooooo busyyyy but by ‘busyyyy,’ I mean, ‘I don’t give a quarter-crap about tumblr,’” it’s just.. life. I have so much to talk about, and no time/energy/wherewithall to talk about it. Topics of conversation include:
-The fact that I finally watched The Wire.
-Emotional consequences of me being done with The Wire after eight dedicated weeks of viewing.
-Great links of things people said about The Wire… four years ago.
-A list of deaths in The Wire and my level of sadness at their happening.
-Other things I’ve seen on TV recently (including a pilot of a new reality series starring someone whose name rhymes with -ahem- schmoolia schmalison).
-CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE WIRE? Shiiiiieeeetttttttt.
In other news…
(Menfolk, avert thy gaze.)
Can we talk about IUDs? I know many of you have them and I have a lot of questions, so please reply or message me. Ok, here goes: which kind do you have? Have you found any disadvantages? How painful was the insertion really? Related: how’s your pain tolerance? Do you have migraines? How does that work, compared to the pill?
