January 31, 2013 at 12:30PM via Instagram
Author: Jana
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Didn’t plan for my après-dinner fun to include finding the breaker box to solve an electrical problem, but sorta proud of myself for figuring it all out. :)
January 29, 2013 at 08:16PM via Instagram -
IRL fetish #2: rubber cement
I decided that this needed to be a series.
Perhaps it’s because so many of my waking hours are spent typing at a computer that I find myself craving the oddest of analog tools sometimes.
Today’s IRL craving is rubber cement. I want to screw off that metal cap and brush a blob of cold, acetone-smelling gel on a scrap of paper and adhere it into a scrapbook.
Why? I have no idea.
(and of course now that I see that the rubber cement wikipedia article has no references, I’m also craving a few minutes to whip that puppy into shape)
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short shameful confession #28
I have an IRL fetish. I have a few of them, actually, but the one that’s on my mind right now is my IRL fetish for paper.
We have boxes full of creamy think white paper leftover from wrapping dishes in our recent move, and I love the texture of it, the color, and its soft wrinkles. This weekend Catgirl and I used the paper to create a skirt pattern for sewing, and it was an utter delight to use a thick artist pencil on that paper, too. So much so that I was dreaming about all kinds of ways I might use paper again (digital schmigital).
That, and I’m also thinking about the book that sits on the edge of my bathtub to entertain me during my evening soaks. Wet fingers on paper (and the wrinkles that those wet fingers leave on book pages after they dry) are a texture that feels so much more bone-deep satisfying than a swipe of a finger across a screen.
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Note: featured image is of the old-timey letterbox (and nearby elevator) in the lobby of the Hotel Allegro in Chicago. It made me want to mail a few snail-mail letters to friends…
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short shameful confession #27
As part of my “reading lots of books” project, I started reading Cloud Atlas (kindle edition) over the holidays. Quite frankly, I’d been completely underwhelmed by it but kept plugging away because of the hype assuming that it would eventually get better. Eveon so, yesterday, as I was sort of slogging through a low point in the narrative I clicked through to the “home” screen on my kindle and realized, with a sigh of relief, that I was nearly finished with the book. And it wasn’t until that point that I logged into goodreads to consult all of the ah-mazing reviews of this book and finally figured out that…all this time I’d been reading the wrong book.
Because, apparently, The Cloud Atlas
is not the Cloud Atlas
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Downright giddy about seeing cherry blossoms @thehuntington today #simplepleasures
January 12, 2013 at 07:35PM via Instagram
