- I sit in a car all day: my knees creak like old doors. I repeatedly throw myself down a mountain: my knees are happy. What gives, knees? #
- @maymaym Yes, I noticed how distorted the audio was; I had a hard time following the story over the music, and I wrote the thing! Oh well. #
- @supertailz Americans almst always use “dreamed” & “learned” instead of “dreamt” & “learnt.” But on the other hand, I always use “sunburnt.” in reply to supertailz #
- @janek85 Aw, don’t cry. It’s just a story. I solemnly swear it’s 90% fictional. Which is sad, b/c I’d love to date the girl I wrote about. in reply to janek85 #
- @MajaMajaMaja It is in Much Ado! I forgot. “Thus goes everyone to the world but I, and I am sunburnt.” I still hope we do that show someday. in reply to MajaMajaMaja #
- Advantages of staying w/ parents: skiing, homemade limoncello, loving jibes. Disadvatages: 9pm on a Friday night, I’m sitting on my ass. #
- I’m not sure why this made me laugh ridiculously & hysterically until I stopped breathing: http://tr.im/hErq. Maybe I just needed to laugh. #
- I’m not sick. I fucking refuse to be sick, damnit. I refuse. #
- I also refuse to be depressed and miserable. Unfortunately that doesn’t work as well as refusing to be sick. #
- Tried fabric dye fr th 1st time. Created lovely slate blue jeans out of worn pearl grey denim. Completely converted, want to dye everything. #
- Also, decided to remove Dar Williams from my Five Stars playlist b/c she makes me cry. Looking forward *very* much to my upcoming hermitage. #
- Debate: A. have 3 fillings on my wisdom teeth, or B. have the bastards yanked instead. Costs are equal. Do I want my eroded wisdom teeth? #
- @MajaMajaMaja That’s what I’m thinking. But I hve a weird sentimental attachment to my teeth. Like, I *should* be able to take care of them. in reply to MajaMajaMaja #
- @TGStoneButch That makes sense. I don’t look forward to pouring more money into them. The doc said they’d prolly do 2 at a time, not all 3. in reply to TGStoneButch #
- @wendyblackheart Knowing me, I would not only keep my yanked teeth, but make them into some sort of utterly strange jewelry. Maybe earrings. in reply to wendyblackheart #
- @MajaMajaMaja Ouch! that sucks. No one in my family has their wisdom teeth out, and they’re all fine. Maybe mine are exceptionally cranky. in reply to MajaMajaMaja #
- @wendyblackheart I will definitely not be getting knocked out, as that is much more expensive. Mine are all grown in straight. in reply to wendyblackheart #
- Random reconnection w/ a local friend. 8 years later, I am sadder, smarter, crasser. So is he. He reminds me that I never used to swear. #
- @barrysaunders A New York mayor responds to corrupt cops with *martial law?* That is a terrifying concept and precedent. in reply to barrysaunders #
- So far I have 3 votes to salvage my wisdom teeth w/ fillings, & 6 votes to obliterate them. Would anyone else like to vote upon their fate? #
- Now we’re 3 for, 9 against the teeth. Remember, w/ the exception of the current cavities, these are perfectly healthy teeth, fully grown in. #
- @misscalico You are a highly respectable person, to my mind. I suspect I am not alone in this opinion. in reply to misscalico #
- @barrysaunders Even if the entire force is corrupt, surely using relief forces (from state police, etc) should be distinct from martial law. in reply to barrysaunders #
- @katebornstein I hve a separate Twitter accnt w/ @kinkis as a place to store sex thoughts. I abandoned it, but may start again; t’was fun. in reply to katebornstein #
- Curling up in bed & switching my brain off until it’s time to drive to Rhode Island tmrrow. A tiny house by the sea is waiting for me there. #
- I’m amazed how many people voted for me to pull healthy teeth. My dentist said, “Having 3 molars is a luxury.” Srsly? Like having 5 fingers? #
- A few of my Identica notices never made it to Twitter, and a Tweetdeck post as well. What gives? Debating reposting them. Hmm. #
- Time to drive. Maybe I should get a horse and a sunset. #
- At the New Hampshire liquor store, there is a sale on tequila and Alize. Makes me sad. I buy bourbon instead. #
- Walking a North Atlantic sunset shore, in the sand finding footprints & wave prints & shell prints & breathing silence. Scallops for din … #
- Apparently direct messages now come to my phone. Excellent. Yay communication! #
- I think I’ll do one job application a day while I’m in Rhode Island. I’ll stay sharp, be focused, and still have time to write my book. #
- I could fall in love with this life so easily. I can feel myself tumbling. #
- Although if I end up somewhere where it makes sense to cook for myself every night, I have got to learn to cook more than 6 dishes. #
- Notes to self: become confident cook, brilliant lover, eat steak rare, get sunburnt, write hard, go dancing whenever possible. #
- Harbor channel just beyond my window. Sleepy, but I stay by the fire, watch the running lights of fishing boats headed out to sea. #
- I keep getting up at dawn to see the sun rise then falling asleep again. The chair by the window is too comfy. Sun in my face at 9 wakes me. #
- @susanmernit I just applied for a job with @HuffingtonPost (I am ridiculously excited about that, btw) and thought of you. Hope you’re well! in reply to susanmernit #
- Mentally putting their proper voices over IM conversations with my friends makes the online world seem a lot warmer all of a sudden. #
- Just realized I’ve had ‘The Essential Leonard Cohen’ on repeat for 3 days. #
- I donated 6 bags of clothing before packing for this trip. Unpacking, it seems almost everything I kept is black, white, grey, or blue. Hmm. #
My Week on Twitter: 2009-03-27
Friday, March 27, 2009
Eeeeeeee PC!
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Twitter is magic.
After Friday’s extremely late, extremely ugly night (which I don’t think I am talking about yet), I woke up the next day in the afternoon, completely flat and sluggish. Dragged myself to my computer, opened Safari and got on Twitter. These are the sorts of things I do when I’m half asleep.
And right there, top of the page, my new friend Barry is selling his Eee PC 4G. It is just cheap enough that I can afford it and not regret it. I’ve been talking about a netbook for months now. I have a bad habit of not working well in my apartment, and so to get things done I take my Powerbook (her name is Quin) out into the city and do my work in cafes. Thing is, Quin is on the hefty side. I’m more likely these days to not work because I don’t feel mobile. I’ve gotten better at this, but in the meantime was thinking that a cheap, tiny computer might be just right.
So I jump on Barry’s Eee so fast I get Twitter whiplash, and a minute later he’s sold it to me and I wake Meitar up with my ecstatic babbling and insist that he needs to get his ass out of bed right now so I can go and get my new computer. There are clothes, coffee, train, and then we’re there and I squeal like a two year old with the thing in my hands. We go out into the city and I don’t stop squeeing, which I’m sure drives both Meitar and Barry a little mad. But oh well. Eee!
I haven’t done much so far except set up new users in Ubuntu and write this blog post. The keyboard makes me feel like a giant person, and my tiny little hands are not nearly tiny enough. I wonder if this thing will ruin my typing skills.
Don’t care. So excited, but with the rest of my life it’s a weird swinging between excited and dead on the floor in a heap, and I’m having trouble keeping up. But regardless, I love my new Eee. It needs a name, and then it will be mine.
