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4.28.2003


"If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know. Is there any other way?"
(emily dickinson)


"may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone"
(e.e. cummings)


4.27.2003


"come to csusm, where the stone is cold and the grass is wet!"
(garrett)


4.24.2003


"but someone who's an english student isn't the physics department's puppy."
(michaelmas)


4.18.2003


"did i say laughter? i meant penecillin."
(harlequin)


4.16.2003


"As happens annually at this time, students in Mrs. Hassett's fifth grade class are grumbling about the teacher's famous exclamation tax: pupils are levied a fine of one nickel for each unwarranted exclamation point employed in the year's homework assignments and book reports. Collections support "more appropriate forms of exuberant expression" (Mrs. Hassett's words); most years, that means colored chalk."
(powell's newsletter)


4.15.2003


"I took the notes for today's entry on a twenty-dollar bill. I think I will use it to buy a juice smoothie after work. If you run across a bill that says Notes On Money, Physical vs. Intellectual, Minutiae, Quantity vs. Quality, Modest Mouse, About Being a Secretary, and Haircut written on the back side, you've just had a brush with the real me."
(bunnie)


"i invented a voicemail system where "7" means "delete"!"
lyle from achewood


4.10.2003


"he's not the brightest cookie in the lamp."
"not the sharpest knife in the deck."
(dnrc newsletter)


4.07.2003


"because you and jeff could be the same person."
(jenger)


"i laugh, but from love."
(chuck)


"happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it."
(anonymous via jenger via candie)


4.04.2003


sung to devo's "whip it": "when your job is goin' wrong, you must ship it."
(jeff)


"it's amazing how easy it is to succumb to our own fantasies."
(gl.)


" i can't believe i was ever attracted to that man."
(jenger)


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