words of others

this is a muffin.  it has nothing to do with this blog post, but gee whiz it was tasty.

yesterday was #MSWL on twitter and i'm really on a roll with my draft right now. (mswl means "manuscript wishlist," by the way.  it is a twitter mass hashtag-fest where literary agents describe what they would like to see in their query inbox... writer geek stuff etc).

as a result i'm going to be letting other people do the talking today.  apologies in advance for this quiet blogging week (there's a good chance i won't be posting friday as we'll be driving to virginia for feasting and partying of epic wedding proportions... how can you not be insanely stoked to see two people who have already spent a decade together get married?  personally i think everyone should have an emily and colin in their life.  it's a freaking testament to the modern concept of soul mates, public shout out, you crazy kids).

"people love to be thoughtful at the very end of a tragedy because that’s the precise moment when nothing more is required of them." - gladstone

"What I see is a good man, m’lady. And they’re not like buses: there won’t be another one along in ten minutes." - anna [downton abbey]

"Deviation from social conformity is increasingly seen to be something in need of a pill." - giles fraser

"i chose a half-measure when i should have gone all the way.  i'll never make that mistake again." - mike [breaking bad]

"The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists." - arthur schopenhauer
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look at us caring about sports!

it's a rare sight!  usually only visible in the warmest days of fall (aka the better half of college football season).  neither steve nor i are big jocks.  sure steve still holds the middle school record for hurdles and he was captain of the high school pole vaulters, but we'd be lying to say espn is a common channel on our tv.

psh who am i kidding we've actively started turning off tv shows mid-episode to switch to breaking bad.  the only thing more addictive than meth is my confusingly strong attraction to bryan cranston on a murder streak (who is not only old enough to be my father... he's actually older than my father.  on the bright side steve is prematurely greying so it should all work out).

there are some things in ann arbor that eat the town alive.  there are all-encompassing events that wedge themselves into the local culture and thoroughly inconvenience anyone trying to go about daily life.  the art fair, the film festival, top of the park, and various bits of sports seasons all fall into this category.  sometimes the best medicine is a heavy hand on the horn of the subaru, but other times it's just easier to say, "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em."

my office does a weekly raffle for home game tickets to the michigan football games.  last week my name got pulled, so steve and i headed to the big house (ahem, that's the university of michigan's football stadium... not prison) for the first time since steve's undergrad graduation.  we watched an unexpectedly anxiety-inducing game against the university of akron, we got sunburned, we ate hotdogs and then got dinner after the game with my parents. on the whole it was a very festive weekend and we feel like lucky ducks for winning!

also can i just reiterate how happy i am to have steve home?

we're still making goo-goo eyes at each other from spending so long apart.

goodness me i love this guy.

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