"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
T.S. Eliot
Well, I am borrowing inspiration from my brilliant friend Jan, but I am actually stealing the format from a sports column I used to read, which I now can't even find. I know Jan will not sue me. I hope the mysterious sports writer from whom I am stealing will be as kind.
So, with all due respect to everyone, here is this week's Hot/Not/Ice Cold.
Hot: People who pass their qualifying exams! KB, Becky, Chase, Garrett, I mean you!
Not: People who are six months away from their qualifying exams and already feel nauseated.
Ice Cold: Any exams that involve someone touching your eyeball.
Hot: Sister blog posts.
Not: Sister Carrie.
Ice Cold: The spelling in this Sister Sledge video.
Hot: Advisors who tell crazy stories peppered with expletives while treating you to dinner.
Not: Advisors who are too busy to even email you back.
Ice Cold: Visors.
Hot: Reorganizing and de-cluttering living room bookshelves.
Not: Having to pack away beloved books until exams are over.
Ice Cold: Celebrity profile pictures on facebook. Doppelganger week is over, and you do not really look like Kim Kardashian anyway. If you did, you would probably be Kim Kardashian. And if you are, I mean seriously, can I borrow some shoes?
Hot: Gravity, that awesome force of nature which keeps you from flying off the earth.
Not: Gravity, that miserable sonnama@&$*#%$ which, when combined with inertia and momentum, sends your purse flying off the passenger seat of the car, so that you are guaranteed weeks of lip gloss surprises (surprise! It's not there when you need it! Surprise! It has melted all over the bottom of your shoe!)
Ice Cold: Gravitas. Have you watched a cable news program lately??
Hot: Memories of a fabulous salon blow-out.
Not: Blowdrying one's own hair in imitation of said salon, and managing it so that somehow, one side of one's head resembles Dr. Beverly Crusher's Season 3 triangle hair and the other side is all Mary Tyler Moore.
Ice Cold: Me. Seriously? Freezing right now.
Hot: Blaming punctuation issues on the influence of canonical authors (*ahem* Henry).
Not: Naming one's virtual secretary after Henry James' secretary in hopes the inspiration will be transferred.
Ice Cold: Having no more unread Henry James books to look forward to on the reading list.
Hot: My grandfather's weekend plans: skydiving.
Not: My weekend plans: readingreadingreadingreadingreading(olympics)readingreadingreadingreadingreadingchurchreadingreadingreadingreadingreadingreadingreading reading.
Ice Cold: The weekend plans of anyone in the DC area. Sorry, couldn't resist. ;)
Hot: Having a job you love.
Not: Having to get up for the job that you love after you stayed up too late watching the heroic exploits of this man:
Ice Cold: Having to go back to the job that you love, right now.
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