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anberlyn:

somebody slap me in the face because it took me THIS LONG TO START ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT.

See, Joies? It’s not too late.

joiesdevivre replied to your post: Based on the inside scoop I got, it sounds like…

Are you going to send a follow-up email tomorrow? You should. I know nothing about the job so I don’t know what you should say, but you should. GET THEE OUT OF YONDER HELL HOLE OF OCCUPATION.

I called them yesterday and told them I was interested and thanked them for meeting with me and all that…

Honestly, though, I’m kind of hoping I don’t get it. It’s such a great opportunity and the pay would be much better and all that… but I just don’t see myself doing this. It doesn’t seem right for me. I don’t know. I hope they hire someone else and take the decision out of my hands.

joiesdevivre replied to your post: glossylalia replied to your post: Just got out of…

You can do it. You are brillz and can do anything.

joiesdevivre replied to your post: Check out the GQ Fassbender photos. Panty dropping.

Damek brought a copy of it to dinner. Flailing all over my food. Make sure you’re sitting down.

You can always count on DameK to bring the smut.

joiesdevivre replied to your post: I bought a dress at the thrift store today and I…

I’ve got a bunch of dresses and other stuff that’s “dry clean only” and most of it I just rinse it in cold water in my bathtub (or don’t wash it at all).

Normally my answer would be “well, I just won’t wash it,” but I just bought it from a thrift store… I should probably get it cleaned before I wear it, right?

but it has one of my favorite brunch places EVER. But seriously, N.C. is the jam. You should totally move near Chapel Hill and/or Raleigh. Mountains on one side of the state, beaches on the other, REAL BBQ, and Bojangles as far as the eye can see.

It may, in fact, be the jam, but it is also humid as hell and full of rednecks and republicans and people with guns.

…but they do have moonshine. Boy, I am already missing the shine, guys.

PRECIOUS.

joiesdevivre replied to your post: glossylalia replied to your post: jessica-messica…

I adore Asheville but it is filled with yuppies who move down from New England and buy a place in the mountains. Also, lots of Greatful Dead-style hippies. With dreads.

Also Schmidt is exactly my former coworker who got fired a couple of months ago. Looks just like him. Talks just like him. Smiles just like him. Moves just like him. It’s fucking creepy.

I just watched an episode of New Girl in honor of joies, and I don’t know why, considering she has a vendetta against Arrested Development and therefore her taste in everything is questionable at best, and I must say that I laughed a couple of times, however the title song was cloying and I personally do not feel that there is a “dudes being douches” void that needs to be filled in my life - in fact I think I get more than enough just existing - but if I ever come across the show again I will probably watch it and not change the channel. The end.

joiesdevivre replied to your post: joiesdevivre replied to your post: joiesdevivre…

THAT IS TRUE LOVE I LURB YOU

WHY ARE YOU SO FAR AWAY COME EAST AGAIN I MISS YOU

joiesdevivre replied to your post: joiesdevivre replied to your post: Look at how…

Also you should know that I went out to the car to get my flash drive so that I could properly gif-respond to you. THAT IS DEDICATION.

joiesdevivre replied to your post: Look at how many people associate you with me. #meanttobe

And to think, once upon a time you didn’t even follow me. Because you thought I was a person y ou hated.

Once upon a time I was an ignorant bitch who didn’t know a good thing when she saw it.

OUR LOVE IS TIMELESS.

joiesdevivre replied to your post: I totally agree that simpler is better, but it’s just not possible when it comes to my thesis. That’s why it’s been such a mindfuck to write, because it’s all about what history -is- and how it’s made (like how there really is no such thing as “history” as it’s only in the now that we make and define past history and supply meaning to it). But I just figured it out: “reveals a heightened awareness of how history is constructed.” SHABOOSH.

OK I wrote that before I got other feedback so now it’s slightly more fancy. BUT ONLY SLIGHTLY.

joiesdevivre:

theraconteurasaurus replied to your post: If you want to explain an event as…

How about something like, “event ‘x’ self-historicizes through…?” Or send me your original sentence and I can tinker, if you wish, joies!

this is the sentence in situ:

“In this cycle of citations, the visual language of the 1979 Revolution was likewise injected into the developing history of the 2009 opposition movement. From the reenactment of bloody handprints in the streets, to the simple yet potent utility of the color green, protesters read the 1979 Revolution almost as a strategic text offering both exact instructions and flexible inspiration for new ideas. Overall, the complex ways the Green Movement harnessed the historic revolutionary visual language reveals a heightened awareness in the historicizing construction of the 2009 protests.”

my cohort mate and I just came up with “reveals a heightened awareness of the importance of contemporary history making” but I think that’s still too vague.

What about something like “The Green Movement harnessed the revolutionary visual language of the 1979 revolution to purposely create their own contemporary mark on the history of Iran.” ??? This is why I am not a historian - I think language should be simple and clear. I’m not one to try to FANCIFY my writing. Simpler is better. Just say what you mean.

…don’t listen to me. I am not a scholar.