This lecture-writing is not going well.
It's weird, but it's possible to be completely alone here. I don't speak the language, I don't work with anyone younger than 50. I go to the conservation lab, I work for 8 hours, I come home. On the weekend, I do binding in the studio for research and thesis purposes. I guess I cook. I don't really have any furniture, even 2 months in....
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New city, new job, new big empty apartment. Hello again, Canada.
Back in NYC. Feels good to be alone in my dorm room again, listening to my neighbor shower. More than anything, this Christmas season illustrated how important space and solitude are for my personal sanity. And how quickly other people's idea of how I should spend my time warp my sense of reality and balance. Stayed up last night until 2:00a.m making a pinhole camera,...
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I spent the eve of 2010 graphing people's behavior on mylar. I'm writing it up as an experiment in optimal foraging strategies. I'm pretty sure that my friend's response towards liquor, conversation, and sexual attraction stimuli operate via Pareto equilibrium. But early number-crunching might also point towards marginal value heuristics.
Scoff if you want, but I was the only one not throwing up at 3:00...
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Scoff if you want, but I was the only one not throwing up at 3:00...
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terome:
Ouch! Big words that I don't understand make me feel dumb...or rather lazy for not googling and learning. 
Happy New Year to you!
Happy New Year to you!
Got a vacuum-former, water aspirator, mini-POV kit, i-Go board, and borosilicate coffee mug for Christmas. My family knows me so well.
Oh, and a biography of Rod Serling.
Oh, and a biography of Rod Serling.
dasha:
Thank you for the early birthday wishes!
Played hooky from the family tonight. Watched "Raiders of the Lost Ark" with a friend at the Bloor, and walked 'home' through High Park in the snow. Got coffee at the Grenadier before the kids closed it up. Walked past the pond, thinking about how long it's been since it was frozen - memories of skating on it with friends, falling, busting noses on ice...
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"For a long time, he had had a peculiar manner of traversing the country in all parts without being observed. He knew the bypaths, and favored solitary and winding routes; he had the shy habits of a wild beast who knows that he is disliked, and keeps at a distance. When quite a child, he had been quick to feel how little welcome men showed...
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hedy:
good point re: modeling. i shall point that out to any future potential models. my problem is knowing nothing but tiny girls. what i woudn't give for a model over 5'4"!
i'm still not sure how to break yourself of that habit. i've been trying for the past year, the trouble being that when i'm so much comfier being alone it can be difficult to put forth a sustained effort. a few days or weekends in a row of being social, and i'm just exhausted. mentally and physically.
i'm still not sure how to break yourself of that habit. i've been trying for the past year, the trouble being that when i'm so much comfier being alone it can be difficult to put forth a sustained effort. a few days or weekends in a row of being social, and i'm just exhausted. mentally and physically.
Thought I was getting pretty weepy and antisocial lately, so grabbed some librarian friends and had a Nerf-gun battle in CP last night. It was great, even if we did get stopped by the cops. New York cops are invariably assholes, and I'd love to know why. Right now some beat cop is wrapping up my confiscated toy as a part of his Christmas gift...
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biglove:
very thanckxx dear! 
dasha:
Styx is one of those bands meant to get stuck in your head.
Nerf-gun battles... I'm jealous.
Nerf-gun battles... I'm jealous.
Reading up on some epidemiology. I think I have a disease where the primary symptom is an inability to tolerate most people. I keep watching "Time Enough At Last," realizing I identify more with the protagonist than the message of the episode, and then turning off all the lights and sitting in disgusted silence.
I think I'm tired of being called a "basket-case" because I...
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So. I'm applying to schools to get my 2nd graduate degree. I don't suppose anyone around here knows anything about living in Southampton, or Aberdeen?
How To Watch the Stars From Inside the City
1. First, walk out of class. Notice the group of acquaintances who are talking amongst themselves, waiting for you (though you didn't sit near them). Watch as the scenester girl interrupts the smooth movement of headphones to ears to invite you to see the Hermit Thrushes tonight. Make a non-commital noise, and suggest that you "might...
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1. First, walk out of class. Notice the group of acquaintances who are talking amongst themselves, waiting for you (though you didn't sit near them). Watch as the scenester girl interrupts the smooth movement of headphones to ears to invite you to see the Hermit Thrushes tonight. Make a non-commital noise, and suggest that you "might...
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