messy glory

Dec. 13, 2012 at 11:29am with 15 notes View comments

Nothing reveals the utter inanity and repetitiveness of ad copy like translation.

Also, apparently working at my laptop whilst in the cobra pose is not advisable.

That is all.

Dec. 12, 2012 at 1:39pm with 8,777 notes View comments

Reblogged from superpunch2

superpunch2:

Female pilots edited out of the Star Wars movies.

1:25pm with 25 notes View comments

On being a late bloomer.

Me:	I've figured out the most amazing thing. In the morning, I eat a few spoonfuls of something, even if I really don't want to. Then, at noon, I eat again! EVERY DAY!
Mom:	[speechless]
Me:	I JUST INVENTED LUNCH.

12:02pm with 23 notes View comments

h/t thebenbrooks

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It was obviously an unfortunate incident,” she told Matt Lauer, who mentioned, master of the segue that he is, that he’s “seen a lot of you lately.” “It kind of made me sad on two accounts. One, that I was very sad that we live in an age when someone takes a picture of another person in a vulnerable moment and rather than delete it, and do the decent thing, sells it. “And I’m sorry that we live in a culture that commodifies sexuality of unwilling participants, which brings us back to Les Mis: That’s what my character is, she is someone who is forced to sell sex to benefit her child because she has nothing and there’s no social safety net.

— Anne Hathaway, regarding her wardrobe malfunction

9:00am with 39 notes View comments

I’m worried about the Pope.

He isn’t typically in my circle of concern. I’m not Catholic, his eyes are creepy, and ~~I’m sick of his lies about Mary Magdalene~~ he’s the personification of everything that’s wrong with the patriarchy.

But at the end of the day he’s an old man who should not be on the internet unchaperoned.

Somebody get him an adult.

Dec. 11, 2012 at 11:40pm with 57 notes View comments

truthfultuesday fibromyalgia

To sum up.

1. I worry that I’m a jerk. I hope that means I’m not a jerk, because jerks don’t worry about being jerks, right?

2. I’ve been taking gabapentin for a month now, and it’s really helping my physical symptoms. My chronic pain has quieted to a dull roar. I am slow to anger. I am becoming a better version of me.

3. But I’ve also been sleeping my face off. Like, six hours of sleep at night and then another six during the day. Maybe my body just needs the rest. Maybe my nervous system is finally calmed down enough that I *can* sleep. For that, I am grateful.

4. For missing so many hours of every day, hours when I could be DOING THINGS THAT MATTER? For that I am not so grateful.

5. I should be working. I have a translation deadline tomorrow. Three thousand words into Spanish. And then French. This project is my dream gig, you guys. And I’m so going to suck the marrow out of it.

Right after I take a nap.

9:02pm with 31 notes View comments

Client asks me to write my own service contract.

I’ve never done this before, but hey. I went to college. I can write words.

So I find an appropriate boilerplate, modify it to suit this particular situation, and submit it for client’s review.

Client then sends me an email: “This is a bit different than the version we usually use, so we’ll probably have to make some changes.”

Awesome.

I’ll be over here in the corner, sharpening shit.

Dec. 10, 2012 at 10:11pm with 4 notes View comments

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