December 2007
New Years Assignment: DO THIS TODAY! And you'll...
(credit to the Chicago Tribune’s longtime columnist Mary Schmich, published originally December 2005) YEAR IN REVIEW When you consciously review your year, you may notice how little you noticed it as it whizzed past. To review is to re-view. To rewind, pause, look again. And in looking again, to see more clearly. You may be astonished by how much happened. And how much didn’t. By how...
What I Did This Year →
Sorry to those who already read this. I just felt a need to repost the link on the last day of the year. New Years is VERY symbolic for me.
New York New Years bound!
I’m going to try to take a 7am standby to New York, which means I have to get to the airport at 6 am, which means I have to leave the house at 5:15 am which means I have to wake up at 4:30 am which means I want to shoot myself. And I probably won’t even get on the damn flight! ARGHGHHGHGHGHGHGH. AIRLINES SUCK SO MUCH. I guess it doesn’t make sense to be preemptively pissed, does...
The El is our (crappy, loud, "elevated") public...
Britt: The El is free tomorrow.
Mom [irrationally excited]: Really!?! I want to go!!
Julia: You want to ride around on the El all night on New Years??
Mom: It's free!
Julia: How much does the El usually cost?
Britt: A dollar and seventy-five cents.
oh my god, the entire family (and Allie, Britt's...
Allie: A family friend's daughter gave her candling for Christmas to get rid of the earwax.
Dad: Isn't that what Bic pen caps are for?
Entire Family: EWWWWWWW!!!!!
Mom: That's why you're going deaf.
Dad: What?
Allie: I want to candle Britt's ears.
Britt [grimaces]: the wax *protects* my ears ...
Allie: ... from sound!!
Britt: You just want to do it because you're a clean freak.
Allie: No, I'm just really excited! It's like new undiscovered dirt.
Britt: Why don't you just enjoy your new electric toothbrush that I gave you for Christmas?
Allie: C'mon aren't you curious to see all the new things you can hear?
Britt: I think there's more things in Boston I *don't* want to hear.
Mom: The family that candles together, stays together.
Pimpin' on a Sunday night.
——— From: [redacted] Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 To: Julia@JuliaAllison.com Subject: eric lodwick & others Bonjourno, I’ve enjoyed your commentary on public figures for quite sometime and I’ve recently been following your tumblr. My friends and I have been curious about Jakob Lodwick’s brother, Eric. We can’t seem to determine if he is gay or straight and...
Dad: How do you get onto YouTube? I mean, what do you do when you get there? How do you find stuff?
Me: That's not as dumb a question as it sounds.
MSNBC Sunday morning
I’ll be on MSNBC at various points throughout the morning - 8:40, 9:40, 10:40, 11:40 EST - talking about the top movies and top YouTube videos of 2007, as well as Paris getting her inheritance revoked by Grandpa Barron (I think she’ll be okay).
Me: Don't you like having an outpost downtown?
Dad: The apartment?
Me: Yeah. A place to park ... and pee. A Park 'n Pee! I see franchise opportunities in your future.
This morning
Julia: Ugh, where are we GOING?!
Dad: The bank!! To get some donuts!!
Julia: You're the only one I know who goes to the bank for fun.
Dad: I'm a recreational banker.
How to get on Valleywag: Start dating me. ... →
Look at Nick’s dimples!!! I just want to mush his cheeks together!
So strange to watch this. →
Because I took or was there for at least half of the photos. So, someone interpret this for me. What are they saying with this video? I don’t know who made it or why, but I’ll welcome any theories. UPDATE: Nevermind, the girl who made it just made it randomly. Eh. I’m less interested now. Why make a random video?? It should mean something! Geez, what would your 10th grade...
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The Apologize remix I’ve been listening to...
Not a trace of cynicism at 14.
Feb. 27, 1996 I am very emotional. And so confused. I don’t want to be a bad person, yet I feel as if I will be one. So much of my time is spent on material gain - and not enough on what’s really important. But what is really important? Some people believe that would be getting good grades and getting into an ivy league school. But that doesn’t make anyone a good person. ...
Smart girl
July 10, 1995 Sometimes I get hurt because people know me *too* well. Sometimes I get hurt because people don’t know me at all.
“I can’t decide whether to get married this Christmas or come back and face...”
– “Overheard on the Barnard Campus” - from The New Yorker, November 1957.
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September 23, 1995
I’m going [to Homecoming] with my boyfriend, Peter [redacted]. I’ve been going out with Peter for 2 weeks. He has red hair and is short, but cute.
He was the first person I ever kissed - frenched. What a totally amazing experience. It is so different than you would think. It’s not that wonderful itself - what’s wonderful is knowing you’ve...
Ah, a junior high relationship - are they really...
July 10, 1995 [entry] PS. I’m going out with Joe [redacted], my 1st b-friend. For a month now. More later … August 21, 1995 Well, I broke up with Joe on our one month anniversary. Actually, *he* broke up with *me.* It was because we were hardly able to see each other. We actually only went out on one date - to Pocahontas. All we did is hold hands. I didn’t even kiss him. ...
I think I will now approach every intractable...
Rewind, more than a decade ...
So, I’m about to go over to a high school girlfriend’s house to see a few old, OLD friends (we’ve known each other since we were 10). In preparation, I was going through some decade old photos to bring over, when I found my diary from 1993. Jackpot, right?!!? It’s sooooooo cute. Listen to this: Saturday, April 10, 1993 Tomorrow will be easter. I am pretty excited. I...
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Save your partially-nude-dubious-poses for the... →
- PageSix.com My favorite part of this is the magazine cover itself. It looks like she’s demonstrating the correct method of finger placement for induced vomiting (AKA “Buleems” to the pageant-girls)
No thinking to be allowed on tv, says Wall Street... →
“The shows plan largely to rely on extemporaneous speeches from the hosts and extra banter between the hosts and the band directors (about the strike itself, among other topics), according to people who work on the shows. Since much of the “writing” on these shows consists of generating ideas for skits and segments, which are loosely scripted and then partially improvised on...
Ivanka Trump seriously intimidates me. →
She was the same class as me at Georgetown, but left after sophomore year to go to Wharton. Just a few hours earlier at her office in Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, she had acknowledged that there are distinct advantages to “being young, blond and, if you will, looking a certain way.” “I’m 26,” Ms. Trump said, “and I tell myself, ‘Why not have a little fun with that?’ ” You know what? Good for...
Mission Accomplished.
From my diary …Wednesday, December 20, 2006 2:43 pm En route to ChicagoThis year has been confusing as shit. I’ve made dozens and dozens of mistakes. I don’t know what the next holds, but I hope I grow the fuck up, learn to be decisive, stop hurting people I love and take some responsibility for my actions.
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A Look Back on 2007 - Part 1
I’ve kept a diary since I was 14 years old, and every New Years I write an exceedingly long and self-reflective entry on that year’s events - what I’ve learned, how I’ve grown, the mistakes I’ve made, the mistakes I vow never to make again, etc.
Here’s the entry I wrote, exactly one year ago today. Talk about dealing with a different set of problems ;)
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“I thought Christmas sweaters were awful until I noticed how happy those who wore...”
– A., a reader who’s seen the really bright Christmas light!