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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008After Omnomnomnom’s question on my last post…
I’m so confused on the car door thing. So girls DO want the car door opened? I’ve done it and then gotten yelled at for acting like the girl was helpless. There needs to be a standard practice that girls follow for these things.
I was curious as to what [...]
Those days are gone
Monday, June 2nd, 2008Former memories and moments of my life that, today, rarely ring true:
“I’m parked outside. I left the car running. Don’t worry, no rush.”
“Those low-rise jeans would look great on you!”
“What are you doing this summer?” “Family vacation.”
“Want to go see the Pirates game? It’s going to be a good one!”
“Are you working this week?” “Just [...]
Sex and the City of Pittsburgh
Saturday, May 31st, 2008A theater close to me, one of the newly-built, large, flashy cinemas, opened Sex and the City last night, and you would think that Pittsburgh was holding the national red carpet premier with all of the big hair, heels, tiny sequin dresses, and groups of squealing BFF’s flooding the surrounding Waterfront.
I didn’t see it, but [...]
Sport
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Besides lacrosse, I don’t talk too much about it, even though I live in the land on which all other sports teams go to die (besides baseball, but really, do we have to keep acknowledging that? A blemish on my good name!), and besides that time last fall when my punk of a sister got [...]
Over the top
Monday, May 26th, 2008I went to Kennywood yesterday and used a disposable camera for the first time in at least five years. I started using a cheap Kodak point-and-shoot sometime around 11th grade.
There was something kind of cool about being limited to twenty-seven shots. Where I would usually take five or six pictures to get something right, I [...]
Levels of decency
Saturday, May 24th, 2008During my off time from engulfing grilled sirloin Qdoba burritos, without the beans, and pulling Bello’s ears, I sometimes think about this website and the downfalls of so utterly breaking my anonymity.
I’m over-thinking, over-analyzing, and am somehow paranoid about ruining my reputation if someone clicks over and finds out that the reason they couldn’t get [...]
Bathed in white
Friday, May 23rd, 2008I was walking around the campus library after finishing my last day of class when I came upon these pictures taken at my college in the very early 1900’s.
And I’ve seen a lot of old pictures from other universities, staged sepia photos of fraternity houses and basketball teams and student governments, but these were somewhat [...]
A conversation I had with my blog this morning
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008Blog: Write something.
Rachel: No.
B: Write something.
R: I can’t.
B: What do you mean, you can’t? Don’t even say you’re not doing anything. I’ve seen your Twitters.
R: I don’t know what to say.
B: Why is this an issue all of a sudden? You haven’t had this problem before.
R: Are you crazy? Yes I have. Sometimes, the things [...]
Now please excuse me while I tend the goats
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008When I was little, every Sunday, my grandfather would wake me up and we’d hop the 51C bus to Carson Street to attend our tiny church.
There weren’t many children, but every summer, they shipped the few of us up the mountains to Northern Pennsylvania for church camp. From ages 10 to 16, we would be [...]
Birthday | La fin
Monday, May 12th, 2008Evident differences between year 21 and year 22:
Reduced appetite
Reduced quality of sleep
Increased beer tolerance (taste)
Decreased beer tolerance (effect)
Less worrisome
More worries
Emma is here. Again.
Overall, it was one of my best birthdays, better even than the time I turned ten and took eight friends to see Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco.
Pirates game (with these three).
Is [...]
Birthday | Part 1
Saturday, May 10th, 2008They won their game, and then we had cake.
How dare he!
Thursday, May 8th, 2008While I was watching The King of Queens a few days ago on daytime TV, a commercial came on for a bridal salon chain and I was sort of half paying attention until the end.
From what I remember, there was jaunty frolicking, lines of diverse bridesmaids in pastel green dresses, and several closeup shots of [...]
Sleepless nights
Friday, May 2nd, 2008If there was anything my friends could ever rely on me for, it was to fall asleep. In their cars. On their couches. Given the opportunity, I could go to bed at 11PM and sleep straight through till noon.
This year, though, something in me finally had enough sleep, and I’m up at 8AM, even on [...]
Six degrees of HATE
Thursday, May 1st, 2008Things I’ve had enough of for the time being, in six (or so) degrees of separation:
The gas meter slowing down to a painful crawl at $19.30 when I prepaid $20 cash
Gas prices
Tuition prices
Having to pay back tuition loans
Miley Cyrus’ naked back
Naked boy parts
Fall Out Boy
Falling behind on blog posts
Sweet stalkability
Sunday, April 27th, 2008So there’s this new thing called brightkite.
Let me start by saying I know some people who still aren’t sold on Twitter. A year ago, when the majority of my friends didn’t understand blogging outside of MySpace, I really didn’t touch it. Since then, though, those statistics have completely flipped, and now it’s a major form [...]
Season switch
Saturday, April 26th, 2008The weather has been exactly what I’ve been waiting on for the last five months and I haven’t been enjoying it as much as I would like to, mainly because summer is approaching and I need a job. I applied at Kennywood, the local amusement park, and if anything, it will serve for some decent [...]
A visit with grandfather
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008“Hey, how old are you?”
“I’ll be 22 in two weeks, Pap.”
“Aren’t you married yet?”
“No.”
“Why don’t you get away from that dog and go meet some boys?”
Shark teeth
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008Bello has been in the process of losing baby teeth. This means, mostly, that he’s gnawing on everything except his chew toys, especially toes. It also means I’ve been enjoying exposing his two, overlapping rows of teeth to guests, like, Look! LOOK! LIKE A SHARK!
I check every once in a while to make sure everything’s [...]
Quickly, a day
Sunday, April 20th, 2008Emma and I met Andrea and Jennie for an early brunch this morning. Then we had cupcakes.
And Jennie left us.
So we frolicked over to Oakland and Pitt.
Can you see the city there on the left? Sure you can.
We went to Phipps, the flower place.
Time passed.
In the meantime, here are some answers to your questions.
Ray asks, [...]
Hometown tourist
Saturday, April 19th, 2008Emma is in Pittsburgh with me this weekend, her first time in the city, and my first time meeting her, so I’ve been having a good time touring and eating, and mostly standing in one place and deciding where to take her.
Have you ever seen two indecisive people try to figure something out? The general [...]
