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# The @gabestein Twitter Weekly Digest for 2009-03-30
- URL: https://www.gabestein.com/mdf9kxq5/
- Published: 2009-03-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-24T22:46:30.000Z
- Author: Gabriel Stein
- Tags: First Blog Archive (2009), #Import 2025-06-24 22:46

- Just updated typography on my new site. Going with just two: Tahoma/Verdana for content, Georgia for everything else. Results are…mixed. [#](https://web.archive.org/web/20090402181219/http://twitter.com/gabestein/statuses/1376405543)
- My prof says to eliminate all pause words in dialogue, but I’m much more of a naturalist. Is perfect dialogue too slick for most characters? [#](https://web.archive.org/web/20090402181219/http://twitter.com/gabestein/statuses/1377685443)
- @[crowjonah](https://web.archive.org/web/20090402181219/http://twitter.com/crowjonah) If that’s true, given my last stat check, I think I need more sleep. [#](https://web.archive.org/web/20090402181219/http://twitter.com/gabestein/statuses/1377962679)
- I’ve got to write these damn essays, or study French, or do something productive, but I’m worn out and a tad sick. So, tea and TV anyone? [#](https://web.archive.org/web/20090402181219/http://twitter.com/gabestein/statuses/1378923668)
- Chose darjeeling: light and aromatic. Read somewhere that tea’s caffeine is more focusing than coffee’s (another vice). Wonder if it’s true? [#](https://web.archive.org/web/20090402181219/http://twitter.com/gabestein/statuses/1379109761)
- How much do you worry about repeating sentence structure in academic essays? I think I’ve already killed ‘Although Eisenhower X, he meant Y’ [#](https://web.archive.org/web/20090402181219/http://twitter.com/gabestein/statuses/1381465235)
- My TF has a great collection of student essay-related terms, among them: “defensive grading” and “assertive insecurity” [#](https://web.archive.org/web/20090402181219/http://twitter.com/gabestein/statuses/1383656643)
- Do your photos always seem less vivid than friends’? I think it’s that we’ve lived our own, but have to fill in others’ with imagination. [#](https://web.archive.org/web/20090402181219/http://twitter.com/gabestein/statuses/1391513268)
- I’m also a pretty lousy photographer, which could have something to do with it. [#](https://web.archive.org/web/20090402181219/http://twitter.com/gabestein/statuses/1391514505)
- Finished essay 1 on the Cold War, now transitioning to screenplay based on Desafinado. After that, moving to essay 2, Kant vs. Utilitarians. [#](https://web.archive.org/web/20090402181219/http://twitter.com/gabestein/statuses/1392808432)
- Finished screenplay based on Desafinado (Not to spoil the ending, but love is like a never ending melody). Bed, then only one essay left! [#](https://web.archive.org/web/20090402181219/http://twitter.com/gabestein/statuses/1393186105)
- The words ‘dear God, I love my fucking brain’ just popped into my head… Trying to tell me something, subconscious? (Sob, I’m so arrogant!) [#](https://web.archive.org/web/20090402181219/http://twitter.com/gabestein/statuses/1393195471)
- is thinking about accents in literature, how much he hates phonetic spellings by some authors (Brian Jacques!), but likes them from others. [#](https://web.archive.org/web/20090402181219/http://twitter.com/gabestein/statuses/1398124143)
- It’s amazing how much impact 30 extra minutes of sleep can have. Churchill was on to something with that micro-napping thing he did. [#](https://web.archive.org/web/20090402181219/http://twitter.com/gabestein/statuses/1400886085)
- is thinking that that was just about the worst response he could have gotten to his new script. My procrastination finally caught up to me. [#](https://web.archive.org/web/20090402181219/http://twitter.com/gabestein/statuses/1402425812)
- Just woke up from a dream that I will not repeat. But, it was a very fitting awakening to an alarm of “Fun, Fun, Fun! In the Sun, Sun, Sun!” [#](https://web.archive.org/web/20090402181219/http://twitter.com/gabestein/statuses/1403640259)
- Is it appropriate to say “bye” to someone if you merely saw them in a public place and said “hello,” 30 minutes passed, and then you left? [#](https://web.archive.org/web/20090402181219/http://twitter.com/gabestein/statuses/1408437308)
- Hearing the voices of people you know through $70 noise-canceling headphones makes a huge difference. [#](https://web.archive.org/web/20090402181219/http://twitter.com/gabestein/statuses/1409583130)
- Easy weeks are fun, but tough weeks are more life-affirming, in that they remind you that there’s plenty of room for improvement. [#](https://web.archive.org/web/20090402181219/http://twitter.com/gabestein/statuses/1410056696)