For me, anxiety and paranoia have always been a two-for-one deal. Whereas depression mopes in alone.
“It was as if the company’s (Chrysler’s) real customers were the stockholders not the people who bought the cars.” — The Reckoning, David Halberstam
Behind Photographs – The most famous photographs presented by their photographers by Tim Mantoani
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Hamper at my parents’ house. They’ve had this thing forever. I never gave it a second thought. Always thought it looked dated and kinda tacky. But upon closer inspection the yellow and the design bring a cheeriness to an otherwise utilitarian task. What else is out there, right under your nose, waiting to be discovered?
Uh-oh. I think today might shatter into a crescendo of anxieties…
When Dostoevsky met Dickens in 1862 — a meeting that is hard to imagine — Dickens explained that there were two people inside him, ‘one who feels as he ought to feel and one who feels the opposite.’ […] Out of these two people he constructed his universe of characters, good and evil. Dostoevsky’s comment is laconic and ambiguous. ‘Only two people?’ he asked.
—Verlyn Klinkenborg, “The Whirling Sound of Planet Dickens” (via fwriction)
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Little things
No longer in a rental car.
Scored a huge bag of dog food for free.
Gifted a cute little vacuum cleaner that fits in my tiny room.
Pretty good. And the weekend’s not over yet.
Capricorns are goats.
Goats are climbers.
Against all odds.
Yup, I’m a Capricorn.
Dear Chevy,
The terrible designing of your HHR continues to boggle my mind. Not only did I have to google how to open the door to the gas tank, now I had to google how to shut off the rear windshield wiper. I don’t even know how I turned it on!
Minor irritations, though. I’m not going to let you ruin what is starting out to be a very promising year. I’m just going to enjoy the remainder of my time cruising with you and know that it too will pass.
Dear 2012,
Just 10 days in and already I think I’m in love with you.
xoxo,
Me
