Sweetness and Light

Hi, I'm Natasha Simons, and I am a frequenter of zoos and a maker of soups.

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11/6
2009

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    Is there anything I can do/take for a runny nose ish that you've found especially effective?

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    the most attractive thing

    is when I take a nap and get drool down my chin and on the blanket, making a cute little damp spot.

    Return your internet crushes to the left, please.

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    as Raymond Babbitt.
  • as Raymond Babbitt.

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    Nicolas Cage as Dr. Ian Malcolm; from the un-missable Nic Cage as Everyone blog.
  • Nicolas Cage as Dr. Ian Malcolm; from the un-missable Nic Cage as Everyone blog.

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    Community

    • Piers: Let me tell you, before AIDS, sex was like shaking hands.
    • Abed: Hence AIDS.
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    This Supernatural episode is already ridiculous.
  • This Supernatural episode is already ridiculous.

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11/5
2009

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    • breakupsong:

      Ode to Divorce — Regina Spektor

      you’re eating something minty and you’re making that face that I love

    • Has been played 190 times.
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    • breakupsong:

      You’re gonna cry, cry, cry and you’ll want me there,
      It’ll hurt when you think of the fool you’ve been.
      You’re gonna cry, cry, cry.

      It’s nice to believe, isn’t it?

    • Has been played 99 times.
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    midnight, by me.

    in Pasternak’s house, there is no one.
    in this house, there is no one.
    but there is no future for this doorway.
    besides, my garments afford me little grace with which to welcome you.

    there are eight thousand things that have broken my heart—
    the sink leaking for the third time
    in as many days, for example.
    my utilities take to heart the theory
    that repetition can catch catch catch attention.

    that has never seemed to work for me.
    every corner reveals the lack of you,
    but the cotton that surrounds my thought says:
    have you left yet?
    come say goodbye.
    have you left yet?

    come say goodbye.

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    There'll be no one in the house, by Boris Pasternak.

    There’ll be no one in the house 
    Save for twilight. All alone, 
    Winter’s day seen in the space that’s 
    Made by curtains left undrawn.

    Only flash-past of the wet white 
    Snowflake clusters, glimpsed and gone. 
    Only roofs and snows, and save for 
    Roofs and snow - no one at home.

    Once more, frost will trace its patterns, 
    I’ll be haunted once again 
    By my last-year’s melancholy, 
    By that other wintertime.

    Once more I’ll be troubled by an 
    Old, un-expiated shame, 
    And the icy firewood famine 
    Will press on the window-pane.

    But the quiver of intrusion 
    Through those curtain folds will run 
    Measuring silence with your footsteps, 
    Like the future, in you’ll come.

    You’ll appear there in the doorway 
    Wearing something white and plain, 
    Something in the very stuff from 
    Which the snowflakes too are sewn.

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    "Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better."
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    Ecclesiastes 7:3

    Sometimes I look up Bible quotes that have to do with how I feel. I don’t know. It’s like looking up stuff in a really comprehensive advice column.

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    I'd just like to say thank you to Natface publicly.

    stillawannablessedbe:

    She did an asskicking proofreading job on my portfolio.

    Oh, no problem! Weirdly, I genuinely enjoy a good proofread. You’re going to do gangbuster.
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    Dear The Good Wife:

    You can’t make every client they defend on this show innocent. Sometimes guilty people need defense lawyers too!

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11/4
2009

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    Tumblrati, unite

    So this probably isn’t appealing at all, but I’m in kind of a bad place, and does anyone want a email with some dramz?

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  • GPOYW: Halloween pictures finally. I went as Sally Jupiter, or Silk Spectre I, and my costume was comfortable and well-fitting for once, and in addition I got to wear a garter belt/stockings combo that made me feel like a 40s pin-up.

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