February 2012
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January 2012
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I think it’s really cute that my middle aged coworker goes out every day to have an hour long lunch with his wife. Apparently it’s their alone time since the kids are at school (they have two grade school kids, so it must be pretty busy at home). I hope I get to do that someday.
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For the first time ever, my dad is not claiming me as a dependent. So I have to do my own taxes.
Holy fuck I’m old now.
Did a bunch of other stuff concerning my finances and household today. It’s been a bit crazy here since my grandmother went off the deep end and moved back in with my parents. I feel awful for my parents-they’ve spent the last 23 years taking care of my...
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I am so ready for the next five months to be over.
It’s kind of like listening to a really lovely song but every few seconds, someone pauses it for what feels like forever and you’re just listening to nothing, waiting and hoping for them to push play again. I’m waiting for the day I have control of the radio and I can just let it play forever and ever
I’m being...
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I’ve never written down my top 5 celebrities/famous people I’d totally bang, and I always forget their names when it comes up in conversation (which is more often than you’d think) so here goes, for future reference.
Girls:
Olivia Wilde
Emma Stone
Miranda Kerr
Mila Kunis
Natalie Portman
Guys:
Ryan Gosling
Ewan McGregor
Michael Fassbender
Young Harrison Ford
Ryan...
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December 2011
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So it’s getting pretty close to the new year! I usually just party and let it pass without much thought. I haven’t made a New Years resolution for ages because there hasn’t been much I’ve been unhappy with myself doing, or any goals I really wanted to set, but this year is a bit different, considering the state that I am in now.
After a long bout of unemployment and...
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It’s midnight here in California and my...
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November 2011
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I got a Pinterest invite and checked it out. If you thought Tumblr was full of hipsters…oh man. I do not feel uncool enough to use Pinterest. Interesting concept though, so I’ll probably give it a good trial run before deciding if I want to really use it.
Anywho, if anyone is interested, I had a pretty marvelous birthday/Thanksgiving week. The week before was filled with anxiety and...
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I am incredibly proud of myself for living on $15 worth of groceries this week. Last week I purchased at Fresh n Easy:
2 bags of spinach
5 chicken boobs
1lb ground turkey
Artichokes
Tomatoes
A red onion
and at home I have some frozen tilapia, which is the only thing that I wouldn’t consider a pantry staple. Otherwise, I’ve collected so many things in my pantry like herbs, bread...
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I got a new project from someone. It’s pretty extensive, involving branding and logos for a entirely new business venture. For something so big, I like to take some time and peruse things, to throw ideas into my giant crock pot of creativity, while drinking tea in my sweatpants.
I don’t think this is what I imagined my life would be like post college. But I’m glad, because I...
October 2011
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September 2011
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I love when all my friends from my different walks of life become friends with each other and hang out and generally have a wonderful time together. They are all so different from each other and sometimes I’m not sure everyone is going to get on well, but at the end of the night, everyone has a good time. It’s been happening a lot the last few months and it definitely reinforces my...
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GRE Practice Test: ”What is the fraction equivalent of .25?”
Alice: “….wait what? are you trolling me? 1/4…?”
GRE Practice Test: “Correct Answer: 1/4”
Alice: “…..fuck, you are so useless.”
Seriously, what? What good is a practice test if they ask you easy shit like that? Give me some permutations or something, don’t trick...
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Bon Iver is perfect for those days tinted lightly...
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SLO was really fun! It always is. It’s lovely seeing my dear friends (alas I wish you all could have been there). I’ve missed the beach so much living in the Bay. And the food! Oh the food, I ate far too much at Firestones and nearly passed out in Peet’s five minutes later. I always eat too much at Firestones. Their tri tip sandwich was a weekly staple in my college career and...
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If this were two years ago (oh god, really?!) at this time I would be getting ready to head out to the bars in SLO, a bit of cash in my little Coach wristlet and a bottle of cheap vodka to pregame so I would only have to spend ~10 dollars at Frog and Peach. I’d probably be wearing a low cut top and skinny jeans and a pair of flats because god knows I can’t walk in heels.
But alas, I...
August 2011
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Oh man. I just spent way too long uploading, tagging, and making clever commentary for the photos I took in Europe. And I’m only halfway done. Jetlag is setting in and even though it’s only 10pm, I find myself incredibly tired already and ready to go smash my face into my lovely puffy pillows.
I miss Europe terribly already. I miss the food, the biking, the excitement that comes from...
July 2011
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I’m leaving for Europe in t-minus 10 hours!!
I’m not sure what to expect from this trip. I’m traveling with the three most wonderfully insane people I know to places we’ve mostly never been. I’m staying in slightly seedy places, with a used US Army duffel on my back ($15 dollars, even came with some camo spray paint on it!). And I now have a taste for beer and...
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I’ve aired a lot of dirty laundry on the internet. Anyone who knows what they’re looking for can find a plethora of blogs and photographs. All you need is an old username (dear friends, you know which ones) and bam, the heart and soul of a younger Alice is on display for you to peruse. I think at some point I even linked my old Livejournal to my Facebook. That thing has lots of old...
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“In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme → color synesthesia or color-graphemic synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored, while in ordinal linguistic personification, numbers, days of the week and months of the year evoke personalities. In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week elicit precise...
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I always wish I could play piano. Or guitar.
Cause it’s FUCKING HARD to sing with a violin on your chin.
Having musical talent might help too. I played violin for ten years, ten whole entire years, and I was still terrible. My vocal range isn’t very large. I don’t have a decent sense of rhythm, which is obvious to anyone who has seen me dance. About the only thing I can do is...
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Regina Spektor’s Begin to Hope is a perfect...
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I’m procrastinating on my HTML homework right now by leafing through my middle school yearbook. It’s weird seeing familiar faces that aren’t that familiar anymore. My friends have all changed since then, having grown taller, wider, thinner, sprouted pink hair, what have you. I’ve had many friends from middle school that I am still really close to, and it’s funny to...
June 2011
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Just flipped through my Livejournal, which I haven’t written in for about a year. Oh my god, I used to write so much. Or rather, I used to babble incessantly about my life and it’s intricacies and how goddamn important every little event was.
Now, I can barely recall what made me so enraged or happy. I see names and can’t connect them to faces. I see the inner workings of past...
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May 2011
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Can’t sleep. Cat is making gross licky slurpy sounds while cuddled up next to my knees. Ewww.
And my brain won’t shut up. I used to be so good at passing out right when I get under the covers but not anymore. Stop it, restless brain. I just want to sleep and move on to tomorrow.
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April 2011
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