October 2009
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Are we really going to refer to it as “The Rise of Power Jeans?”
We are basically amazing.
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Genetic testing.
We ate dinner at 5 o’clock.
What are we supposed to do now?
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What you really think when you repeat “absolutely, absolutely, absolutely,” so many times in a row, affirmatively, like that.
Why we can’t stop.
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“This woman from Harper Studio comes in and asks what blogs are popular right now and they get book deals the next day.”
Is this gem (dropped in the middle of a Rumpus interview of Meaghan) hilarious? Innovative? Efficient? Scary?
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I wanted to send a thank you note.
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She is the type of woman who is always leaving things like fabric softener at other people’s homes.
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Touch typing.
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Why haven’t you ordered a copy of Dear Old Love yet?
Dear Old Love, the book, costs only $9.95.
It is a wonderful book, edited by Andy Selsberg. (I understand this, and I am definitely going to talk about it.)
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The bus driver made the bus “kneel” even though I was the only person getting on at the stop.
It was like the beginning of a New York Times “Metropolitan Diary” story (I was riding the crosstown bus) but random children did not say precocious things out loud at opportune moments.
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There is a shot in Where the Wild Things Are of a toy sailboat and a blue bed sheet and it is a brief moment that is visually stunning and thoroughly heartbreaking and that is the shot that made me cry.
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The muscle-relaxant that you prescribed made me tense.
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Is that supposed to be a statement necklace?
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How to read lips.
How to wink.
Why it is important to remember dreams.
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All you want is the perfect love?
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The neurology of anxiety.
Equal temperament.
How to tell time.
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I wanted to tell him, “You cannot fact-check your friends.”
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I thought it was the type of problem that could be solved by listening to the Fleet Foxes song “Mykonos” on repeat.
For hours.
All day.
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At 7:01 a.m., when she stepped into the shower, she discovered that at some point during the night she threw out her toothbrush.
She recalled brushing her teeth at 11:42 p.m., minutes before she got into bed early and fell asleep soon.
In the morning, when she found her toothbrush in the trash, she wondered about what she’d been up to, unknowingly, overnight.