10/29/2005

"We hung five banners last week that read 'Hugs, Not Drugs.' We can't hug anymore. So now what?" -13 year-old Lexie Noram on her school prohibiting students from hugging in the hallways.

10/23/2005

She smiled.
"Really, though," I said, "you can learn a lot by feigning ignorance."
The smiling ended there. "Like what?" she asked in a serious tone.
I smiled. "I don't know," I said, and walked off.

10/18/2005

tomamama29: ooh
tomamama29: flamboyant.
dorkbyhabit: i know!
tomamama29: it's such a flamboyant word too!
dorkbyhabit: it seriously is
dorkbyhabit: you can't say it when you're in a bad mood
dorkbyhabit: which is what i discovered for "la la la", you can't be mean and say it at the same time
tomamama29: haha!
tomamama29: that's amazingly true
dorkbyhabit: I'M GOING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD... la, la... la.

10/16/2005

6+candle+paper=insanity

10/10/2005

"My bagel has a hole in it," said the woman sitting at the table behind me.
"Uhh, that's good," said the man sitting across from her.
She looks carefully at her bagel as she spreads cream cheese on it. She is more focused than a thief picking a lock.

"Is this thing necessary?" she says, taking a bite.
"What?" says the man, preoccupied with his newspaper.
"The hole," the woman complained. "I'm unfairly being stolen bagel. This would be totally unacceptable in other foods."

I want desperately to say "this is very true", but I feel now is not the time or place.
"Like, in a burger," she says in mid-mouthful. "If your burger had a hole in the middle, that wouldn't be okay. You'd complain. There had to be a time when bagels lacked holes."
"But what about crustless sandwiches?" the man says, finally getting what's going on. "They aren't unfairly robbing you of sandwich there."

"Yeah, but that's the sandwich perimeter," she explained as if this was geometry. "This is the bagel's core. If they take that from you, who knows what's next?"
"Oh yes," says the man, again involved in his paper. "Who knows? I hear they're making cheese with holes in it."
"Shock," the woman says.

10/09/2005

A lot of people say that a bad fortune to get from a fortune cookie would be "that wasn't chicken." I think I disagree. Because what if you didn't get chicken? Then it'd just be reassuring.

10/08/2005

Three Girls Plus Piano Equals Entertaining Insanity
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Apologies to Freddie Mercury.
Hopscotch
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Muffins

If you dream of eating muffins it is an indication that you like the good things of life, and if you overindulge in them you are likely to care more for luxury then you should. To bake muffins is an omen that you will work hard for your money, but your enjoyment of your success will be all the more sweeter.
-A dream website on seeing muffins in a dream.

10/04/2005

I have just finished watching an episode of Arthur in which Buster decides to become Amish. He reverts, however, come the episode's end, deciding that Amishism is not for him.

I swear I am not making any of this up.

10/02/2005

It's 1:38 in the morning. It is probably too late at night for me to be sitting playing piano, let alone blogging.
However, I just came to a conclusion.
Things are going to be all right.

10/01/2005

Hi, Emily
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