September 2011
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Today, walking down the sidewalk in the torrential rain, I came across what appeared to be an entire box of unsharpened Ticonderoga pencils dropped in the road.
“What ho,” I said to myself. “Do I spy a dozen largely unharmed pencils abandoned in the bike lane?”
Then I said to myself, “Ew, don’t pick them up. They’re in a puddle. That’s...
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I had a dream about frightening death moths
I just finished reading Perdido Street Station, which is a book that largely revolves around huge terrifying monsters that eat your dreams and that are referred to as “moths.” That’s probably mostly responsible for this, though my dream had actual moths. I’ll put this behind a readmore because it’s HUGE and I’m not going to make you scroll through it if you...
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I was writing on something kind of old and silly just to entertain myself and unexpectedly a character went into an odd metaphor involving bees on a space station, and it occurred to me that I should probably look that up and see if they’ve actually tried that. The whole paragraph relied heavily on the fact that I assumed they wouldn’t be able to fly controllably in zero-gravity,...
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Whenever I have to write an email in French I put it through Google translate before I send it, switching it (roughly) back to English to make sure I’m saying basically what I’m going for. It works okay, once you know what to ignore.
HOWEVER. One of the directors of the study abroad program I was in is named Marie-Madeleine, and Google likes to translate that as well. Resulting in a...
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further comics you should be reading: Nawlz →
Slightly related to that Hobo Lobo thing I linked to a while back, I remembered I’ve been meaning to link this one as well. What are these things called? The Nawlz web page says “interactive comic” so that’s what I’ll go with for now. It hasn’t updated in a while, but there’s already a good bit of story there to play with.
ANYWAY, this one takes some...
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forgotten elements of college life #2
coming out of the art building in the middle of the night and, realizing there’s literally nobody looking, running home straight down the middle of the road like a mothbeast’s after me.
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Girl in dining hall: How's your cookie?
Second girl: SO racist.
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selected annotations from sketchbooks I've had for...
“I have been on the train for ten hours at this point”*
“evie, this is you”
“What!? I am not a man with boobs, you are an imbecile”
“no”
“no”
“eyeballs too high”
“okay what was I even going for here”
“what even kind of freaky troll?”
“This goddamn hat”
“head too big eyes too...
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“CORN ON CORN, FOOL!”
– Alejandra describes her diet
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essential elements of college life I forgot about...
“Okay, so we’ve got sandwich rolls… No, wraps. I’ll have one of those. White kind or green kind? What is that green kind supposed to taste like anyway? Eh, who cares, it’s more interesting, I’ll take that kind. Annnd start with… hummus. OH pepper jack cheese! No, that wouldn’t go with hummus at all oh whatever I’ll add that in anyway. Hm, okay,...
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Watchnnnnnnneat
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“I curse you with… a hundred years of bees!”
– I think I’m going to start summarizing my days with “statistically improbable phrases” 