random-thoughts

  • We’re like a week away from the new season of Arrested Development being on Netflix. So let’s enjoy some help from the Bluths today, shall we? 

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  • I didn’t get the fellowship or a graduate assistantship   I’m really bummed about it and working on a game plan to finish my degree and live my life and whatnot.  My Thursday night was kind of a dark place to be.

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  • Until The Mister gave me this.

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  • Then he told me that this Bug and Goose Fellowship requires me to pay them.  So I’m kind of back where I started.

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  • Now it’s back to the drawing board to figure out how to finish my PhD and be a scholar and whatnot despite this setback.

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  • One of my coworkers decided to start clipping his nails again this morning. In his office. So it echoed through the whole hallway.  Do these people not have homes where they can attend to such needs? Because it’s just not appropriate to do that at work. Like, if you break a nail or something you can trim it. Fine. But a full on nail cutting session? Gross. I pray it wasn’t his toenails.

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  • Yahoo just bought Tumblr. They are “promising not to screw it up.”  Um…because your other pursuits have been so successful this decade.  See ya later, Tumblr. I’m sure you’ll start sucking very quickly.


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  •  Apparently the Billboard Music Awards were last night. I feel so old. I had no clue they were on until they were, well, on.  This used to be the kind of thing I cared about.  Now, I’m all…yep…rather would stare at pinterest and drink a Slurpee and eat some ice cream sandwiches.

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  • I am so sick of hearing about these poor conservative groups being “unfairly” scrutinized by the IRS. The entire purpose of your group is political (which does not make you a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, contrary to your filings) and centers on getting the IRS to close down.  You don’t think they might want to look into that a little more heavily?

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  •  I went to Motor City Comic Con on Saturday with The Mister.  Because of the presence of Stan Lee, the place was a nightmare. Too packed.  Too hot. And to get a snack from the concession stand you apparently had to sign a pact with the Devil.  As much as I tried to keep an open mind and as much as I enjoy some of the things that were on display, I totally did not fit in.  I don’t get the whole paying a celebrity to give you an autograph thing.  Or waiting in line for hours for it.

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Now I’m off to try and get a grip on the rest of my life…and you know, figure out where I have money hidden.

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What’s on your mind today?

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How I Handle Anxiety

by kim on May 16, 2013 · 1 comment

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I’m having an angsty morning. So much up in the air. So much up in the air that should have been solved by now.

I am not good with waiting.  My patience is worn so thin at all times that it is getting sent home by the principal for indecent exposure on a regular basis.  My patience is like the shirt that Right Said Fred wore in his (their?) one and only relevant video.

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It’s a nasty looking shirt, but then again summer is coming and that kind of ventilation might be necessary where Right Said Fred lives.  I don’t know.

So aside from rushing to find any anxiety medicine that may be left over in my purse, what do I do? (Other than still reconsider rushing to find any anxiety medicine that may be left over in my purse?)

I look at GIFs.

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I laugh that I have a dedicated folder for Joe Biden pics in my Dropbox.

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I clean the crevices of my mouse with a bent staple.

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I watch the Jim Mora PLAYOFFS?!?!? video.

I imagine what I’d do with $100,000. Not enough to pay off all my debts and house and live comfortably the rest of my days, but enough to cause me to have to think about it.  It’s like a puzzle.

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I laugh like a middle schooler when an email has the word “oral” in the subject

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I remember that time in college when Ms. MM had me pull over the car so she could ask some strangers if they knew how to get to Nellyville.

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I get stuck looking up reaction GIFs after looking up the spit take one above and remember that the last episode of The Office airs tonight.  Remember when that show was so damn good?


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I dream about movie theater popcorn.

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I think about all of the TV shows that I want to watch on Netflix or some other like form.

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I think about that time as a teenager when I considered going to clown college.

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Yeah…maybe I should look for that spare Xanax…

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Fool Me Once, Abercrombie

May 15, 2013

As George W. Bush so eloquently said, “”There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.” That saying…well, the real one…exists everywhere in America.  Yet in the past week [...]

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Random Thoughts

May 13, 2013

I attempted to post everyday last week.  It got close, but Friday got busy.  But I did post my Open Letter on Sunday, so that’s something.  I feel like I deserve a blogging gold sticker. Seth Meyers will be taking over Jimmy Fallon’s old show when Fallon takes over The Tonight Show…you know, for a [...]

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Open Letters Friday, Volume 118: The Sunday Mother’s Day Edition

May 12, 2013

Dear Mom: You don’t read my blog, so I’m going to have to print this out for you.  That’s fine.  Things might get weird if you do. I’m writing this, hurried as usual, by the sounds of a fussing baby.  But to me, that seems an even more poignant time to write it.  You see, [...]

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Random Thoughts

May 9, 2013

If I don’t find out about this fellowship stuff soon, I’m going to lose my cool…up in here, up in here. I got out my college copy of The Great Gatsby last night to reread it (again) before I see the film. I wasn’t up for reading, so I set it by my bed.  Within a [...]

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The Wall

May 8, 2013

Family relationships are never easy.  They’re even harder when the people we love have untreated mental illness and almost a century of emotional baggage that makes my thirty one years of such baggage look minuscule in comparison.  It has only been in the past two years that I’ve really come to grips with the fact that this is [...]

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Kim Explains Children’s Shows

May 7, 2013

You think with the whole “kids crave structure”thing, I’d only have seen one or two kids shows on TV since we only watch it a tiny bit each day (usually so I can eat or take a shower).  But between our schedule shifting a bit each day and the unpredictability of Sprout and PBS to [...]

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Mother of the Year

May 6, 2013

  When I had kids, I kind of assumed that I’d mess them up to some extent.  Therapy was inevitable and I’ll be glad to get them aboard the therapy train when necessary.  Everyone should have therapy…it makes us all better people.  My kids might need a few more sessions than some.  I mean…there aren’t [...]

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My Life Lately…A Tale of GIFs, Part 3

May 2, 2013

  When I had my first alcoholic beverage in over a year on a rather empty stomach…   When someone who shall remain nameless says something rather ignorantly racist at dinner and I want to make sure that I’m not judged as approving of what the other individual says…   When I had the audacity [...]

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