March 2010
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Sometimes a seder is just a seder.
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Subpoena ad testificandum.
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He suggested that I “say good bye to Brooklyn.”
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Sometimes a space is just a space.
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On her day off, when she had nothing to do and everything to do, she had a panic attack. Because she finally had the time.
She felt in control, at least, of that much.
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“Anonymous asked: Do you understand anything? Do you talk about anything?”
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Blood pressure.
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Last night I went to a cocktail party in Martha Stewart’s office, and then to The Magnetic Fields concert in midtown, and then to see The National perform in Brooklyn. An evening built, it seems, entirely around the possibility of me crying, for unrelated reasons, at every stop.
Stuff White People Like: my night.
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If you have an abdominal sonogram/ultrasound for a reason that does not involve babies, then they will not print a photograph of the image for you to take home.
Even if it is the type of hospital that has a large framed Annie Leibovitz portrait of Joan Didion and her daughter hanging on the waiting room wall.
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She was tired, and on her way to therapy, and she wondered what would happen if she went into the doctor’s office, and, instead of talking to him, she took a nap.
This action during an appointment might tell him more than talking ever could.
“This is probably a valid form of some kind of analysis,” she thought.
“This is probably an invalid form of some kind of...
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Define “date.”
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That is all that it takes.