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Important text messaging exchanges that I have had with my roommate while he is away in Kalamazoo:

Saturday, March 21, 2009

“Does the phrase ‘lushly orchestrated neo-Romantic beguine’ make sense to you? PS: I just taught my phone how to spell beguine.” “Sounds lovely! Beguine! Now mine can say it too!” “Good! Thanks! And now our phones can listen to Cole Porter together!”

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Nightmares of the bookish and nerdy

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Last night I had a dream that I had submitted an abstract of my Amy Winehouse paper to the AMS and they sent it back to me in the mail with every sentence crossed out in red pen.  And also “FALSE” was written in the margins, beside every sentence that had been crossed out in [...]

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And then I flew a rocket ship to the planet Marva.

Monday, January 19, 2009

Zarah and I went to the Pasadena Doo-Dah Parade, which, basically, is a parade for the mad.  And, in many ways, it renewed by faith in humankind.  Here are pictures!  And also, my new goal in life is to be a Lady in a Fancy Dress, Sitting on a Car, Waving at the Masses when [...]

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Dear person who said this to me:

Thursday, September 25, 2008

“Musicology?  What are you ever going to do with that?  Open up a dinky little sheet music store?” Why don’t you go fuck yourself. Truly, madly, deeply, yours, Alexandra, who has had a very long day.

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