So my mom has a hot mac tip for y’all, especially you Twitterers.
On your mac, hit alt+cmd+t and you get the special characters dialog (US Flag) and please thank my mom @sw33ti3 for the tip!
Now you can say cool stuff like this:
“
We do love to love our breakup songs, the songs that remind us we were perfectly fine before we ever had a run-in with him. That we might temporarily feel broken, but intellectually we know otherwise. We love the songs that give us strength, however silly, to remember that our worth isn’t defined by our romantic relationships and most certainly is independent of his friends, his family, and his existence.
…a goodbye to all the goodbyes, to the ache, to the fetal position of cries. I dedicate these breakup songs to you, my dear friend, as they’ll always be a part of your past, of who you are, of where you’ve been, but they in no way reflect where you’re going.
” —From Greek Tragedy (Stephanie Klein’s blog)
Incredible. And so true. I just wrote about this and then came across this entry of hers on my google reader. Awesome.
drew:
So my mom has a hot mac tip for y’all, especially you Twitterers.
On your mac, hit alt+cmd+t and you get the special characters dialog (US Flag) and please thank my mom @sw33ti3 for the tip!
Now you can say cool stuff like this:
Good to know!!!! :)
“
Heard standing in line to go through metal detector at a senate office building:
20 something girl intern on blackberry steps through metal detector.
Sweet-ass Security guard: “Miss your going to have to hang up your phone and run it through the machine.”
20 something girl Intern: “But I’m NOT a terrorist, and I’m on an important call. Can’t I just walk through?”
Sweet-ass Security guard: “Miss, that would be like Timothy McVeigh driving up and asking ‘hey, can I park my car here?’”
” —Eavesdrop DC: [insert inappropriate terrorism joke here]
AHAHAHAHA That’s awesome. Silly interns.
so many bills :(
[video]
I don’t really get the pommel horse. It just seems ridiculous. Name and concept.
Also, why do they not always compete with no shirts?
i too have noticed that the mens gymnastics team is exceptionally attractive this year…i wonder what’s up with that and more pict0rs with shirts off plskthx. :)
Do you have a sad playlist? I do. I wrote about it at Gawker but I didn’t say everything I meant to. Here’s what I did say:
I assumed until a few days ago that everyone had a playlist full of sad songs for when they felt really low. I mean I only had two mix CDs in college: Favorite new music, and the sad playlist. I’ve curated that sad playlist (now named “Blue”) for six years. It’s not that I’m a sad person, but a soundtrack soothes me in a time of sharp emotion, and certain songs will always hit me in the chest. I only thought about the playlist recently because I hadn’t played it in so long. In fact, it seemed like the past decade of my life can be told by recalling how often I played it: All the time growing up, to only rarely pulling it out now.I’ve listened to that playlist a lot lately. Life hasn’t been particularly hard, but emotions have rode high. And most of the songs still feel right. My songs of joy change over the years. Sometimes a song only works for a week and then it’s embarrassing or inappropriate. But the sad songs rarely stop working. I have songs in here I wept to on the edge of a creek in college, and at least one song that made me tear up during my bike ride home in high school. The meaning of each song changes as I find new reasons to be sad. New songs are added that speak to the sorrow I find before first hearing them. These songs express sorrow better than I can, and I am starting to lose hope that I will ever make such beauty out of my darkness. Do all the people who quote sad songs wish they had better words of their own?I thought everyone had a “sad song playlist” too. I’ve clearly thought about mine a lot as I have a whole blog post about it. I agree that the songs express sorrow and make beauty out of my darkness better than I’ll ever be able to. Sometimes it’s just good to feel.
I used to have a list like that - I lost it somewhere in one of my many moves. I had it on Itunes but in the transfer of info from PC to mac it got lost also. I do know that one of the most intense songs on it is “Insensitive” by Jann Arden. Also “Not Myself” by John Mayers - a lot of John Mayer songs. “Stories by Trapt are just a few that I can think of. A lot of songs invoke emotion in me, i’m big on associating music with times, places and people in my life and how i was affected.
Generally, at 8:45am, I don’t care to hear peppy, angsty, obnoxious rap music next to me. Common courtesy guidelines that you should turn your shit music down (yes I just called that fourth Beyoncé tune crap…that was after the other shit rap) on the metro so that others can not hear it. Please use your volume accordingly. Especially at 9am.
K thx bai.
- oh my. so…wrong and yet so funny. Silly narcissistic politician.
You’ll never read this. I haven’t talked to you in months and the last email was telling you I was engaged. But somedays, I hear songs that make me think of you, and I wonder what you’re doing. It’s a shame when we ended that I lost my best friend…sometimes I miss that.
*sigh* Life is too good to be dwelling on things I shouldn’t be. But sometimes…certain lyrics just make you a little nostalgic…
“On most weekday mornings for the past two years, a Capitol Police unit picks up Byrd at his modest home in McLean, Virginia, and drives him to a cemetery in Arlington. The senator is wheeled to a black marble mausoleum. Byrd reaches down and places a fresh rose on the grass, beneath the marker that reads ‘Sail on, my darling, beyond the stars, to be with Jesus in your Eternal Home.’ Then he talks to Erma Byrd, his wife of sixty-eight years, who died while he was running for reelection in 2006. He gets choked up and prays. And then he goes to work.” —
Love Robert Byrd. Bless his heart.
“ninety five percent of happiness,” I said, “Is picking the right person to love.”
“what’s the other five percent?” said Andre.
“That I don’t know.”
—
“The Big Love” by Sarah Dunn
So very very true :)
“
I have to block out thoughts of you so I don�t lose my head
They crawl in like a cockroach leaving babies in my bed
Dropping little reels of tape to remind me that I�m alone
Playing movies in my head that make a porno feel like home
There’s a burning in my pride, a nervous bleeding in my brain
An ounce of peace is all I want for you. Will you never call again?
And will you never say that you love me just to put it in my face?
And will you never try to reach me?
It is I that wanted space
Hate me today Hate me tomorrow
Hate me for all the things I didn’t do for you
Hate me in ways Yeah ways hard to swallow
Hate me so you can finally see what’s good for you
I’m sober now for 3 whole months it�s one accomplishment that you helped me with
The one thing that always tore us apart is the one thing I won�t touch again
In a sick way I want to thank you for holding my head up late at night
While I was busy waging wars on myself, you were trying to stop the fight
You never doubted my warped opinions on things like suicidal hate
You made me compliment myself when it was way too hard to take
So I’ll drive so fucking far away that I never cross your mind
And do whatever it takes in your heart to leave me behind
Hate me today
Hate me tomorrow
Hate me for all the things I didn�t do for you
Hate me in ways
Yeah ways hard to swallow
Hate me so you can finally see what’s good for you
And with a sad heart I say bye to you and wave
Kicking shadows on the street for every mistake that I had made
And like a baby boy I never was a man
Until I saw your blue eyes cry and I held your face in my hand
And then I fell down yelling �Make it go away!�
Just make a smile come back and shine just like it used to be
And then she whispered �How can you do this to me?�
Hate me today
Hate me tomorrow
Hate me for all the things I didn�t do for you
-“Hate Me” by Blue October
Having a bad day. Having a day where I think of the coulda-woulda-shouldas of my life. It all started with a bad email at 7:51am. *sigh* I hate when I get like this.