May 2011
36 posts
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Watch“Song for Ryleigh” by Me.
I wrote this for my niece a couple years ago. There was a family event in Vermont, and I spent a few days in a very small cabin with two very small and adorable children (my niece and her first cousin). Before I went to Vermont, I was in Montreal hanging out with my best friend and his new son, so I was all kinds of baby hormonal.
To stave off composing new...
April 2011
17 posts
WatchDuring a conversation with a co-worker she mentioned how she looks like Ryan, from The OC, and I told her that every time I do a “What Celebrity do you Look Like?!” quiz, I inevitably get a woman. So… here’s me morphing into my current celebrity look alike: Keira Knightley. Yup.
“Place your pot in the sink under the tap. If you have never used a sink before,...”
– Boiled Water Recipe
Important conversations with the editor
Margery: I'd *love* to spend a couple of hours reorganizing that bookshelf if I didn't think Donna would kill me
Matthew: I think you're a little over-qualified for that, Margery
Margery: oh I'm over-qualified for just about everything
Matthew: that is so equal parts arrogant and sad!
Margery: I knew you'd like that
Matthew: it's like, "man she's so pretentious, but also awwwwwwww!"
Margery: haha!
Important conversations with the editor
Both: [talking about bill bissett]
Me: did you know that poets are ten times more likely to commit suicide than regular people?
they did some study a couple months ago
Margery: really?
even more than dentists?
Me: oh I think that's a myth
Margery: you're probably right, at least these days
I'm sure the type of people the field attracted when you actually had to hurt people were mentally disturbed masochists
Me: yeah, or barbers
Margery: what kind of barbers do you go to?!
Me: no no, because dentists used to be hair barbers!
Margery: oh right!
Me: but wait... it doesn't hurt when you get a hair cut?
Margery: haha, that would explain *so* much about you...
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I don't eat between meals, but I always cheat for...
Me [accepting cheesecake]: thanks!
Kathleen [co-worker for a year]: oh my god, I think this is the first time I've seen you eat!
Beth [co-worker for seven years]: oh you're right, he's actually eating
Kathleen: no wait, I saw you eat a cashew that one time
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Backfired
Him: that reminds me of a movie... you're pretty young though
have you heard of Steve Martin?
Me: what?! Of course I have!
I follow him on Twitter!
Him: ...oh
Me: [making asparagus]
Co-worker: no one go in the washroom after Matthew today!
Me: isn't it the worst when you forget you ate asparagus and can't figure out what the smell is?
Other co-worker: are we really talking about this?
Me: ...
Co-worker: ...
Me: one time, a friend of mine ate like a pound and a half of beets in one day to see what would happen
*everything* was red!
