I enjoyed this exercise… I liked the lines from Viegener most when he was telling me something he’d learned from visiting places and hanging out with people, like hearing it from a friend in conversation. That said, most of mine are I-oriented, but if it weren’t on a blog, I may have written more things about people I know and experiences we’ve had.
- It took me 13 years to feel comfortable saying I was an editor.
- My hand usually starts to cramp up within about 12-15 lines of manual writing.
- I’m always categorizing things as fair or unfair.
- I wish I’d been breastfed as a child. If I had, I think I’d have a much better immune system and memory.
- When I hear working mothers make fun of stay-at-home mothers, I cringe.
- My mom’s favorite saying is, “Fake it ‘til you make it.”
- My grandmother on my mom’s side’s favorite saying was, “Only boring people get bored.”
- My sister and I text each other a lot. Most times the texts are psychological reviews of our upbringing where we are looking for corroboration. Other times, they’re just about things we watched on Netflix.
- Lots of people believe good luck and bad luck both come in threes.
- Last year, I had to stop eating all citrus and chocolate because they started giving me migraines with aura.
- I’m not naturally an explorer. I have to force myself to go out.
- My mind always goes to the worst place first.
- There was a point a few years ago where I started curbing my exposure to glorified horrors. I stopped watching scary and/or violent movies and network TV news.
- There should be more time to think and do and dream, and less time spent working for the man.
- Whenever my dad orders food at a restaurant, he never likes what he orders. Then he sits and drinks coffee for the rest of the meal with this adorable, disappointed pout on his face.
- When I was a child, we would visit my grandmother on my dad’s side once every few years. She came from a family of Carneys and had an amazing collection of elephant tchotchkes. I remember looking at them for hours while my dad visited with her and talked. When she died, I wondered what happened to them.
- My brother and I look a lot alike.
- I wish I were smarter so that I could understand NASA’s website and my sister’s boyfriend when he talks about nuclear physics.
- When I found out the universe is flat, I had a hard time believing it.
- When you’re in a relationship for a long time, you can instantly tell how the other person feels without words because you feel it, too.
- Everyone’s at war. Everyone’s at love.
- There seems a point in people’s lives when they don’t want to be reminded of the past anymore, especially by photographs. It’s usually when they are older and have lost their partner and/or someone in their family/circle of friends.
- I believe in the serial comma.
- These days, when trying to give a sense of a band’s sound, people always compare them to Wire (but none of them ever actually sound like Wire).
- I always want to skip over text set off by parentheses and em dashes when I read, but I can’t bring myself to do it for fear I’ll miss something important.