December 2010
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2010 in review
2010…
2010 has been a weird year.
Yep.
As previously noted, every year I make a New Year’s resolution that is intended to be both mindset-changing and achievable. Specifically:
2004: Wear pearls more often
2005: Be more vain and selfish
2006: Embrace flakiness
2007: Live a life of integrity—aka the three-drink-maximum
2008: Date. Like, a lot.
2009: Flirt with life
I...
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Christmas, 1984
This is one of my most treasured photos, a happy cozy moment from when I was a very small Katie Jane indeed.
Some important things about this photo:
1. The plaid shirt Mum is wearing has a bit of a family history. One year at the Cottage, some time in the late seventies or early eighties, Grandpa and Oma gave every one of their children and children’s significant others in...
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(non-) MS Paint Portfolio: Sing Forever Ceasing...
Of all the holiday traditions that our family observes, singing dramatic Christmas carols with Mum is my definite favorite.
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Post-celebrity moment from Sanam's birthday
Beller: to thine own self— KJ: be true! We finish each others’— Beller: ….wait, what?
(C’mon Beller. The correct answer is always “Sandwiches.”)
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A weekend visit
Carrie: Mmm, can I smell someone’s coffee please? Richard: Here’s mine—do you want to drink some? Carrie: No, I can’t drink coffee. Richard: Don’t worry, it’s mostly bourbon!
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(non-) MS Paint Portfolio: Zaf Dingbats
In an attempt to give Mac Paintbrush a fair go, I decided to use some non-work time to illustrate my top interview gaffes of 2010, which I’ve been meaning to do for a while now. I actually enjoy interviews and generally do fairly well in them, but occasionally my compulsive honesty gets in the way:
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Not-so MS Paint Portfolio
After I complained to friend Ezra that the Mac I’m using at work doesn’t have MS Paint, he sent me a download link for Paintbrush, the closest Mac equivalent.
I don’t have much goofing-around time at my new job, but on my lunch break I gave it a whirl and recreated two critters I’d doodled earlier that day during a client meeting:
My thoughts on the differences...
Fall Moments
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MS Paint Portfolio: my room
Sorry for the dead air of late, life is all chaos and noise at the moment (but generally good). A quickie drawing I did while trying to get my mother to solve my space shortage issues:
My current solution is to stack all the boxes on top of each other and hang everything on hooks, which gives things a nice sailboatey feel—but I think a mini-loft may be in my future. (Possibly...
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Happy bday SNP
“He lives on Sesame Street and is green.”
“Elmo!”
“Groucho!”
“Can I be on a new team?”
“This guy has a bunch of books named after him.”
“Salman Rushdie!!”
which led later, in the two-word round, to:
“…Not wizard.”
“Salman Rushdie!!”
“President. Dead.”
“Regan!”...
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What a way to make a living
Was going through old letters to friends, and found these snippets from my time as a temp in 2005:
“Actually, being a receptionist is a lot like it’s portrayed in the movie Secretary, except without all the S&M.” *************************************************
i
am
currently
getting
paid
to
sort
paperclips.
i
am
separating
the
big
ones
from
the
small...
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$8 a pop, too.
Uhoh:
And this isn’t even all burritos consumed in the past few months (ever since I discovered there was a Chipotle near MRS, and then subsequently discovered one near my new work); this is just a record of Chipotle burritos paid for with my debit card. It discounts cash-purchased Chipotle burritos and any Park Slope-based burritos (of which there have been at least 2 in the last two...
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Wasted Youth
Okay, maybe there’s more than one person out there with whom I can have a sensible conversation about music:
Apparently Amar and I have one thing in common, and we make the most of it.
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COTB the best
One of the great things about putting on COTB events for the past year has been the planning stages, in which we have incredibly serious conversations about incredibly ridiculous things. Generally in the moment you don’t even realize how silly you sound, and it’s only upon reflection that such things become apparent, as with these snippets from the last scavenger hunt:
» Sanam:...