C. C. posted an article on Ink-Stained Wretch - Nov 26, 2009, 5:02 pm
A cornucopia is a horn-shaped basket filled with food such as fresh corn and wild ucopias. -- fakeAPstylebook Inspired by an old (in terms of decades known -- we're not really OLD, yet, Suz, righ...
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C. C. posted an article on Ink-Stained Wretch - Nov 24, 2009, 1:12 am
Random weirdness that I jot down to comment on when I have the time: -- If you've never seen me before in your life, you're younger than me, and you don't have the personality that will a...
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C. C. posted an article on Ink-Stained Wretch - Nov 24, 2009, 12:38 am
Forward, he cried from the rear, And the front rank died. And the general sat and the lines on the map Moved from side to side. -- Pink Floyd, "Us and Them" Not sure if it's the weather, the time...
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C. C. posted an article on Ink-Stained Wretch - Nov 11, 2009, 2:15 pm
The sun is shining and it's disgustingly warm for November here (50s!), but it's managing to be sort of a melancholy day anyway. And when I get melancholy, it's because I've gotten to ...
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C. C. posted an article on Ink-Stained Wretch - Nov 2, 2009, 8:58 am
-- Someone I know came through my line at Target the other day. At least she already knew I was working there, so it was only mildly humiliating. -- Yesterday, two harried parents of a fussy toddler ...
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C. C. posted an article on Ink-Stained Wretch - Oct 26, 2009, 1:20 am
aka "the Target dog." Two-year global economic disaster? Check. Completely useless degrees in a rapidly dying field? Check. And that brings folks like me to working at places like Target. It could ...
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C. C. posted an article on Ink-Stained Wretch - Oct 9, 2009, 4:58 pm
You see a teen or 20-something out walking around in public in an outfit you totally would have worn, without question, in your teens or 20s -- and you think to yourself -- "OMG! How can they leave th...
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C. C. posted an article on Ink-Stained Wretch - Oct 3, 2009, 10:07 pm
"WHY?" One of my junior-year-of-college roommates was a counselor at a summer camp for diabetic kids. She came home at the end of it with little things she'd made for all of us in their arts and ...
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C. C. posted an article on Ink-Stained Wretch - Oct 2, 2009, 4:27 pm

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C. C. posted an article on Ink-Stained Wretch - Sep 20, 2009, 10:01 pm
...I've already repeatedly been called Eeyore. ;-) And to you I say....
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C. C. posted an article on Ink-Stained Wretch - Sep 20, 2009, 7:59 pm
Just in case you're wondering: Losing teeth is not as fun at 44 as it is at 6. For one thing, it's vastly more expensive. For another, by adulthood most people find it considerably less enjoy...
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C. C. posted an article on Ink-Stained Wretch - Sep 15, 2009, 9:58 am
Herewith, an email I just received. Names have been redacted to protect the guilty. ===== Dear , As you can imagine, in this difficult economy, hundreds of individuals have applied for our job at. ...
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C. C. posted an article on Ink-Stained Wretch - Sep 6, 2009, 1:00 pm
...so much to say, so much to say, so much to say, so much to sa-aaay.... Open up my head and let me out... Random miscellany (is that redundant?): -- Seen on an anti-gay-marriage bumper sticker: "...
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C. C. posted an article on Ink-Stained Wretch - Sep 1, 2009, 10:03 am
As my brother used to say when he couldn't quite wrap his tongue around the actual Spanish: "OUCHIE WOW-WOW." Up and at 'em early this morning to visit with a woman who runs a moving service ...
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C. C. posted an article on Ink-Stained Wretch - Aug 24, 2009, 11:27 am
....gang aft agley when you go to bed without writing them down first. ;-) Well, hello, poor little neglected blog. I've thought of so much to write about over the past few weeks, but usually as ...
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C. C. posted an article on Ink-Stained Wretch - Aug 6, 2009, 10:29 am
Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom. — Mark Twain My mother was, and is, the queen of "safe places." The constan...
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C. C. posted an article on Ink-Stained Wretch - Jul 26, 2009, 6:12 am
Yesterday on Facebook I got a message from a high school pal. In the course of catching each other up, he mentioned that he still had some of the notes we'd passed in senior English. This got me ...
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C. C. posted an article on Ink-Stained Wretch - Jul 17, 2009, 5:38 pm
Loved 'em then, love 'em now, but the Thompson Twins: 3-piece band, one guy, one black chick, one blonde chick, none of them with the actual last name of Thompson. How uber-ironic we tried to ...
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C. C. posted an article on Ink-Stained Wretch - Jul 17, 2009, 9:15 am
Oy. Busy few weeks. After an immediate-family reunion in KC, I trotted off to Milwaukee for a couple days last week to attend "job camp." It was held at a casino. About 1000 people came. One of them w...
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