January 2009
110 posts
Employment Development Department Part 2
EDD Representative: Let me just look at your file here... Oh man, my stomach is making noises. I am so hungry.
Me: I'm sorry...
EDD Representative: I just don't feel like eating when my boyfriend is out of town and he's been gone for a month. But then my stomach makes these noises..
Me: Uh...can your coworkers give you something to eat?
EDD Representative: I have some junk food around here somewhere...
Make Money
Emily: I found a way we can make money
Me: How?
Emily: We can donate our eggs! You can get like 10,000$!!
Me: I think the correct word is "sell."
DC Improv
I went to the DC Improv last night and was quite entertained. I didn’t fall out of my chair laughing but I had quite a few hearty chuckles mixed with some guffaws.
Now, I don’t know that much about the comedic circuit (I just made that term up.) But ever since my friend Casey started performing stand up in San Francisco I’ve added “See more unknown stand up comedians...
Valentines Day Don'ts →
lindsey:
Valentine’s Day is coming up so Bill Cammack (Emmy award winning editor) and me (pink berry lover) teamed up to write about things you should not do.
I only have 1 Don’t for Valentines Day. Don’t celebrate it.
Where did all this pressure to make grandiose gestures of love on this one particular date come from? It is perfectly acceptable to show your appreciation for the...
“Just a Girl- acoustic” - No Doubt
my...
Alexandra Pelosi's (Daughter of Speaker Pelosi)...
via LA Times review
“The Trials of Ted Haggard” is a strange, disturbing, imperfect but in the end heartbreaking little film that may wind up being the most powerful indictment of homophobia since “Brokeback Mountain.” It’s not so much a documentary as it is a series of encounters with a man struggling to hold on to two mutually destructive identities: an...
10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2009 -... →
So the key is to classify an expertise for myself…. any suggestions, friends?
T. Boone Pickens: Stimulus and Energy →
I know nothing about the pros and cons of natural gas. I’m curious to hear a counter.
fun with rash generalizations: why...
ernsar:
I hate married people. I really do. I think there’s a difference between “a woman who is married” and “a married woman.” I consider myself in the former camp, and am here to tell you why the later one sucks.
A prime example of a maried woman is somebody I met a couple months ago. We started talking and I said, “Yeah, we should hang out sometime and go shopping or go to the pool or a...
Obama plan hits House floor today - David Rogers -... →
inches.
“There is something vaguely embarrassing—even narcissistic—about our new era of...”
– Farhad Manjoo on Slate, regarding “Put the camera down and enjoy a moment for once.” (via soupsoup)
I couldn’t agree with this more. I find myself wildly annoyed by over-documentation. Although if I was at the inauguration, I’m sure I would have had my camera up just like everyone else. Moments...
copycats:
“Please Send Me Someone To Love” by...
Stimulus Watch
Good one, Rush. That was cute. Give yourself a gold star for coming up with a joke about a woman in a leadership position.
Year of the Ox for Pigs.
Fingers crossed my horoscope comes true!
another relevant someecard...
If a guy sent this to me right now I would chuckle heartily and then ask him to take me out on a date.
"44 is no good for chinese born in year of Ox."
An email from my mother. Apparently change is no match for the fortune tellers in Hong Kong… such optimistic people, the Chinese!!
For those born in the year of the Ox, Good Luck! Everyone else, xin nian kuai le.
copycats:
“Hide and Seek” by Lights. Action!
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At the Inauguration - The Famous Fingers Were... →
Yo Yo Ma’s inaugural ceremony performance was pre-recorded!
Somebody took a page from Britney’s book…
Happy Chinese New Year
I almost forgot until my Jewish friend Jeremy sent me this e-card. Sometimes I forget I’m Chinese so it’s nice when my friends remind me.
Gong Hay Fat Choy!!!
Xin Nian Kuai Le!!!!
“Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new....”
– President Barack Obama, January 20th, 2009.
Metro Closes Stations After Person Struck by... →
Unfortunately, with so many people in DC right now there is bound to be chaos. Local news reports a woman fell onto the tracks at Metro Center and was hit by a train. She’s now at the hospital but it has shut down the red line.
Be careful out there!
Hand warmers and history will keep you warm.
brightestyoungthings: Best Inaugural Weekend Bets.
The hipster way to inaugurate. Although you would never guess which hipster-ette tipped me off to this wonderful resource…
Can’t wait to dance all my anxiety off at Jimmy Valentines. Got canned heat in my heels tonight, baby!
copycats:
“The World’s Greatest” by Bonnie...
copycats:
“First Day of My Life” by Bus Stop...