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I might, maybe, have a job offer. I'm trying not to jinx it by thinking about it too much, but that is also difficult due to the amount of upheaval it would likely cause. As jobs are wont to do, I suppose. Hobbies I have undertaken in the meanwhile:

* watching cartoons of varying quality
* finding a gym having a free-membership-in-May promotion (hell of a promotion) & joined
* boggling at said gym's tiniest ever pool (THREE LANES!)
* attempting to finish planning a wedding
* helping lots of people move & doing some reactionary cleaning/donating
* emptying out my Netflix queue

So that's me.

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Books

Cleopatra: A Life, Stacy Schiff
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Volume 1: The Pox Party, M.T. Anderson
Assassination Vacation, Sarah Vowell
Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson

Movies

Kiki’s Delivery Service
Reservoir Dogs (rewatch)

Television

The Borgias 2x01, 2x02, 2x03, 2x04
Community 3x11
Game of Thrones 2x01, 2x02, 2x03, 2x04
Girls 1x01, 1x02, 1x03
Legend of Korra 1x01, 1x02, 1x03
Mad Men 5x03, 5x04, 5x05, 5x06, 5x07
New Girl 1x19, 1x20, 2x21, 2x22
Parks and Recreation 4x19
Shameless 2x12
Up All Night 1x21, 1x22, 1x23, 1x24
Veep 1x01, 1x02
The West Wing 1x02, 1x03, 1x04, 1x05, 1x06

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* The last two episodes of New Girl have been absolutely delightful. I can't believe how much I love that show. NOTE: IT IS A LOT, is how much.

* Speaking of things I never thought I'd like: I just finished my second week of Bikram yoga and ohhhh my goodness. I'm totally one of those people now, you guys, I'm sorry, but it's so amazing. After the first session my shoulders hurt for like two days, but they are so much looser now! I still look like I've been through some horrible botched surgery or something in comparison to everyone else during the opening breathing poses, but I'll take what I can get.

(Honestly, during the first session when they tell you to put your hands under your chin and lift your elbows, I started off like, yup, elbows just below the ears, that's how high they go, and I looked over at K in the mirror and his arms were parallel with his head and we both stared at each other in the mirror with twin expressions of What the fuck is up with your arms??? I mean, he has trick elbows, but I'm also broken.)

* I just started reading Assassination Vacation, by Sarah Vowell, and it's really funny, you guys. Way funnier than a book about, uh, presidential assassinations has any right to be. It starts off with an anecdote about her seeing the musical "Assassins" while staying in a quaint New England B&B and goes from there. I can also remember being That Person, creeping people out with how much you love "Assassins," but it's so good, you guys. It's Sondheim! It's about alienation and violence and your relationship with the state! I've never actually seen it performed, but I DO have a recording of it with Victor Garber as John Wilkes Booth.

* How about Sunday's Mad Men, eh?? Jesus H. I haven't found a review of it that expressed adequately how ballsy I found it, but I suppose that's not new either.

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Books

This Common Secret, Susan Wicklund
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
Just Kids, Patti Smith
Bossypants, Tina Fey
In the Garden of Beasts, Erik Larson
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver

Movies

The Dreamers

Television

Californication 5x09, 5x10, 5x11
The Crimson Petal & The White 1x04
House of Lies 1x08, 1x09, 1x10, 1x11
Mad Men 5x01, 5x02
Misfits 2x06, 2x07
New Girl 1x15, 1x16, 1x17, 1x18
Parks and Recreation 4x14, 4x15, 4x16, 4x17, 4x18
Pretty Little Liars 2x22, 2x23, 2x24, 2x25
Shameless 2x08, 2x09, 2x10, 2x11
Up All Night 1x18, 1x19, 1x20
The West Wing 1x01
The X-Files 4x23

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Horrifying as this may seem, what lies before you is the edited version of my feelings about the Pretty Little Liars finale, by which I mean, I have written you an illustrated novel. So. Spoilers ahoy, and discussions of the myriad issues. ( BE PREPARED )

Overall: this felt really rushed and haphazard for a show that normally deals with its revelations and foreshadowing at a good clip, but one that allows you to actually process what the show is telling you. This time, there are like three subplots that I can't even figure out how I'm SUPPOSED to feel about it, let alone how I actually do. (Except Ezra. Always.)

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You guys, I forgot how fucking intense the last episode of Pretty Little Liars! The last ten minutes of it blew everything else out of my mind. Rawles asked me if this show "makes sense" in the technical way, and I feel like I don't have the vocabulary to respond to that. If you have a doll phobia, you should not look at this, probably.( See for yourself. )

Jesus. I COULD NOT BE LESS PREPARED FOR THE FINALE.

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So, you know how no one here regularly watches Pretty Little Liars and it makes me sad all day long?? THE TIME HAS COME TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, because they have ramped up the already breakneck pace of surreality and I need to talk to you about Patty.

( EPISODE 2.22: Let's discuss. )

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I don't understand the emphasis on living in single-family-units sometimes. I moved so much as a kid and have so many far-flung friends as an adult I would love to have some of them (you) live with me, you know? That's always the saddest part of like, sitcoms, when best friends stop living together because one of them is moving in with their partner. I want my kids to grow up knowing who all these uncles and aunties that I tell them about are! I've told K's brother-in-law for years that we are getting a multi-unit house in Evanston so that we can all live together. I JUST LOVE EVERYONE TOO MUCH. I'M BUYING AN APARTMENT BUILDING AND EVERYONE I LOVE WILL LIVE IN IT.

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I finished the second season of Misfits and was consumed with feelings. Tonight's episode of Shameless was probably their best episode ever.

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Books

Paper Towns, John Green
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern

Movies

Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu

Television

The Crimson Petal & The White 1x02, 1x03
Glee 3x13, 3x14
The Good Wife 2x01, 2x02, 2x03, 2x04, 2x05, 2x06
The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, 1x01, 1x02, 1x03, 1x04, 1x05, 1x06, 2x01, 2x02, 2x03, 2x04, 2x05, 2x06
The Lying Game 1x13, 1x14
Misfits 1x01, 1x02, 1x03, 1x04, 1x05, 1x06, 2x01, 2x02, 2x03, 2x04, 2x05
New Girl 1x6, 1x07, 1x08, 1x10, 1x11, 1x12, 1x13, 1x14
Parks and Recreation 4x13
Pretty Little Liars 2x19, 2x20, 2x21
Shameless 2x05, 2x06

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Name a topic you would like me to discuss and I will tell you My Thoughts for at least 100 words!

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What kind of topics/entries would you like to see me posting about? Any particular questions you've always wanted to ask me but have resisted because the answer would be a huge essay? Ever want to wind me up and watch me go on a particular topic? Anything you've heard me say "I should write that entry about xx I've been meaning to write" and have been patiently waiting for?

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