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ANGH. i mean, really. eyes like that should probably be made illegal. jesus.
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lenticular!

while rifling through the downstairs luggage/camera closet looking for an extra slide carousel this evening, i happened upon my mom's old NIMSLO 3D CAMERA. i have seen a number of photos taken with this camera when my mom was younger (read: the 70s and 80s) and have always been interested in using it. needless to say, i snatched it up and scampered off to find my mother, who looked at it fondly. she did a google search and discovered a company in canada that still does 3D processing. I AM PLEASED BEYOND BELIEF. i will be shooting a multitude of rolls using it very soon and sending them off lickety-split to be processed (and cheaply!) in toronto. oh boy!

tomorrow morning i will awaken early (i woke up at 1pm today...) and drive up to new milford high school/labyrinth to hang out with kyle and see the art show. i missed bethel's art show this year, so maybe this will make up for it. maybe.

also, we are going to georgia this weekend for joe's graduation (!!!) and it is predicted that the weather will be somewhere around 90 degrees. obscene. and so good.
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oh! and this morning i picked kyle up (at the now-missing mcdonald's) and he had burned me approximately 300+ mike doughty cds so i am feeling exceptionally pleased and can't wait to listen to them after work.
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and nine

last night was the kiefer gala at the museum. i worked from noon until midnight. it actually went really well, for a gala. usually it is a nutty slightly drunk snobby crowd (granted, they did pay $375+ to be there), but they were actually surprisingly low-key. i mean, aside from the few awkward moments/ridiculous things. i was pleasantly surprised. ken wore a smashing suit and got a little drunk, and kyle crashed his car (and i had to drive him home), and we all stole dessert, and made fun of the drunken guests, and there were a multitude of attractive young men (with lots of ca$h), and a waiter who looked like he belonged in the mod squad, etc. all in all, a great night.

i got home around 12:40, and i have been back at work since 11. this week is the members' preview week for the anselm kiefer piece, so that should be interesting.

this weekend = georgia for joe's graduation (and seeing peter!!!)!!!1!!!1one

there is a small child trying to get into the delivery door, so i must go do my job.
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ALSO WHY DOESN'T ANYONE EVER CALL ME?
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i am depressed. i just cleaned the shower. now i am about to mop the floor.

fuck being home, fuck all the friends i don't have (any longer), fuck the gala tomrrow, fuck gas money fuck people who smoke fuck beinglazyfuckmoneyfuckfuckfuck fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck!

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ps- the tortoise has nothing to do with anything.

I AM COMING TO BOSTON TODAY.
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sad!

george lutz died on wednesday!
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forward motion

this is most definitely charles, the snake that lives inside ken and my nametag at work. he's still in montana. ken is. not charles.

work is OK. this coming friday is the dinner for the owners of the new anselm kiefer piece (read: $$$$). the 20th is the kiefer gala (read: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$). the tickets for the gala range from $375 to $20,000. it is always... a treat. people who have that much money to be spending on dinner/dancing/schmoozing at the aldrich are a weird crowd. and every spring, the staff at the aldrich get to enjoy their annual freak-out session. it's wonderful.

i went shopping for a "little black dress" yesterday. i fell in love with one from j. crew which cost $250 dollars. that amount of money on a dress is against my morals. so, tonight, my mother and sister and i will go scour more stores. i did buy a vomitously cute summer dress from h&m which i cannot wait to wear... if only it weren't 56 degrees and raining!

dr. boylan asked me to work tomorrow. i don't want to. i think being in connecticut is making me depressed.
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ps- burns, vomitous is so a word. ken says it as well. that is proof.

old school

i found these two photos in an envelope when cleaning my room. the first is me, just after being brought home from the hospital. i can't stop yawning, looking at it. my sister and i look SO YOUNG in the second. granted, we are. overall, my verdict is... so cute!

i think i need to go to bed.
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clean sweep

... my new best friend. seriously. this shop-vac is amazing. amazing!

today after i ate lunch in ridgefield with ken (who left today to go to montana for a week to see his son), i went completely mental and cleaned the entire upstairs bathroom/linen/medicine closet. there were tons of boxes/bottles of expired medicines and really old suntan lotion. i also took down the tacky old bronze towel racks, soap dishes, etc. then i moved on to vaccuming the carpet runners in our upstairs hallway, which probably have never had any real attention paid to them in the five years that we have lived here (mind you, we have three cats). now i am trying to decide whether to start cleaning my side of the basement or read a book. long story short, i am completely insane. i am on a cleaning binge. anyone who knows me well may recommend a therapist.


my mother is going to be in texas over mother's day weekend. so, i am planning to clean the entire house while she is gone (and my sister is druggedly drooling after her wisdom teeth surgery). i may not make it through the weekend, but goddamnit, this house is going to be clean. everything could use a really good vaccuming/dusting... and it will be good for clark's (our cat who is allergic to dust) allergies. so, anyone who wants to come laugh/lend a hand/moral support that weekend is more than welcome to come over.

oh also! my sister is coming home tomorrow! yeay!
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EFL

tomorrow morning my mother is giving a presentation called "english as a first language" to the members of the accounting firm where she works. it is basically writing for dummies (or math-minded people, i guess).

anyway, long story short, she had me quickly photoshop the heads of the bosses of the firm onto some images from the new illustrated "strunk & white's elements of style" (illustrated by maira kalman, writer/illustrator of sayonara mrs. kackleman, a favorite book of mine!).

the above is only one of the fine and hilarious images. my mom and i almost died laughing. thank goodness for my mom.
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WHAT

i have never ever never ever ever never ever ever ever seen anything so vomitously cute IN MY LIFE.

okay i am really going to bed now.
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puttering

i have been exceptionally productive since being home. i pretty much tore my entire room apart, and filled the guest bedroom with things to sell at a tag sale (soon!). now i am just in the process of unpacking my stuff from school. i'm almost done... just a few things here and there.

if i finish up unpacking my stuff today, then i can start to go through and sort out all those vintage clothes i got from poppy's house 430538034 years ago and maybe put some of them up on ebay. money money money!

i start work thursday... i am working at the "first thursday" event... the theme this month is "party like it's 1999." thank goodness for the aldrich.

grades were posted on myneu today. my GPA for this semester is a 3.5!!! jeez. so, my cumulative GPA is now a 3.417. hoorah!
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cat nap

i stayed up until 2:45am last night to win this copy of the script of psycho signed by: ANTHONY PERKINS, JANET LEIGH AND ALFRED HITCHCOCK. okay, best thing ever, thanks! i am tremendously psyched. i can't wait for it to come in the mail so i can drool on it every day.

other than that, i have been hanging out with the cats. and cleaning. and napping. mmm.
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