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“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.” --Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast.  Repeat.

1. Gravity Falls . 4 Eva. I can't wait until it comes out on DVD so I can buy it and watch it as my pre-sleep lullaby while I'm far away from home in the UK. It takes place in Oregon, you understand. It is the story of my life. 2. Comics. All of them. A few I read this week (as a reward for finishing all my homework): Saga , Prophet , Marceline & the Scream Queens , and Are You My Mother?   (links are to first issues in the run--or, in the case of Alison Bechdel's book, Powell's--in case you want to read them!) 3. Breaking Bad, even though it is stressful and I sometimes have to play bejeweled while I watch because I am bad at handling tense situations (yes, even when they are entirely fictional). 4. The new F. Scott Fitzgerald story  that was in this week's New Yorker. It might be my favorite piece of his that I've read (if you read it, you'll know why). I can't believe the New Yorker rejected it the first time. Haters.* 5. These roasted pot...

Moving. It has been an... experience . Does that sound bitter? Good. It's supposed to. I'm in kind of a bad mood. Let's start with the neutral: --Our schedule over the last week was like this: Pack. Moving Truck. Train back to Seattle. Fly to Philly. Wedding. Fly back from Philly. Move the rest of the stuff to Portland. This all took place over seven days.  The negatives (or: Why I Bave Been So Angry/Tired for Weeks--the short version): --Visa trouble.  --Tons of tiny little hang-ups that have added up to Energy-Draining Pains in my Butt (ex: thinking our cat ran away the day we had to drive down to Portland with a moving van*, having important documents arrive at our old address the day after we didn't live there anymore, Comcast being butts, UPS being butts, the British Consolate being butts, butts just everywhere, SHALL I CONTINUE?) --I have another grad school deadline in 6 days. I'm not as behind as I was last time, but I'm not as ahe...