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Oct 6, 2011, 1:55 am
No real post due to training my cat to hunt cockroaches. He now has a taste for blood. Rar! This is Sparta! Comment - Like
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Oct 4, 2011, 11:38 pm
When I went to S’s confirmation on Easter of this year, GS and I stopped at a gas station between Albuquerque and Amarillo. It wasn’t Clines Corners, a semi-famous ueber large rest stop full of random trinkets, but a bleak, small, and empty gas station before or after the commercial monstrosity.... Comment - Like
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Oct 4, 2011, 12:08 am
I heard him grab the orange out of the bowl on the dining room table. He plopped down next to me and started slurping away. I first glanced over, then quickly turned to face him. “What…what the hell are you doing to that orange?”
A few weeks earlier we had bought some kiwis during our weekly ... Comment - Like
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Oct 2, 2011, 12:39 am
It was going to be Dairy Queen, but then was moved to Vani. Haven’t heard of? Neither had I, but then I got involved with a southern wind. More and more I’m understanding the winds, but among people my age, with the slang, you sit between understanding and assuming. For me, it’s led to fading ... Comment - Like
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Jan 14, 2011, 7:36 pm
The building I now work in is structured so that women from various offices can use their lunch hours to put on their tennis shoes, tight stretch athletic pants and throw on the old “1994 Gardening To Live” shirt to power-walk in the circles. Coming out of a meeting that left me questioning whet... Comment - Like
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Nov 5, 2010, 12:48 am
This is when the audience goes to get more popcorn.
Being an adult is fun when you’re allowed to make the decisions that let you eat your dessert first. Unfortunately in the same vein, you have to make those decisions that balance out the fun, such as, if I do not do laundry tonight, I will have... Comment - Like
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Nov 4, 2010, 1:32 am
The first time I was actually published as a journalist, my article went to the front page. I think my name was below the fold, but my by-line went with the main headline and photograph.
I had gotten this gig, as three-week reporter at my home town paper, after my first semester as journalism majo... Comment - Like
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Nov 3, 2010, 12:53 am
When I walked into my polling station this morning, by day a mild-mannered elementary school and by election day a place with more poll workers than voters, I was at first stared at blandly.
“Yes?”
“I, um, would like to vote.”
I heard a mechanical voice announcing to “Try. Again.” It... Comment - Like
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Nov 2, 2010, 12:32 am
Today just slipped through my hands. I’ve been noticing that my rationalizations lately start with a mental tagging the lack of time to being active in “life things”. I’m not sure if that’s correct. Sometimes, the hardest things to break are the mental mantras that one fixes up in their mi... Comment - Like
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Oct 19, 2010, 2:13 pm
You can’t, however, jump start a car with a scooter. The car revved, sputtered and died. I looked up at J, who stood outside the car door, “Can I get a jump?”
It felt good to drive my car around, albeit slow as molasses. Coming down from GS’s VW to a Volvo station wagon is like the feeling ... Comment - Like
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Oct 18, 2010, 7:21 pm
I will be going home to clean out my car. I will be removing the parking stickers, the base tags, the German license plate. I will be removing all the trinkets that made it an extension of my personality – my graduation tassels; Chuck the Duck, who used to be strapped into the backseat; a neon col... Comment - Like
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Sep 1, 2010, 6:09 pm
“I look like the statue of Liberty,” I said and shuffled around in the dress. The sales girl exhaled a touch less forceful to qualify as an actual sigh – very professional of her. “I think her …” and she pointed to her head, “is a bit more pointy.”
“And she has a tablet and torch,... Comment - Like
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Aug 30, 2010, 10:15 am
Shifting the Sun
When your father dies, say the Irish,
you lose your umbrella against bad weather.
May his sun be your light, say the Armenians.
When your father dies, say the Welsh,
you sink a foot deeper into the earth.
May you inherit his light, say the Armenians.
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Jul 23, 2010, 4:19 pm
I realized the other day, as I was attempting to move an e-mail from GS, that I had a conundrum. At some point, I will need to figure out another e-mail organizational structure. In a few months, he will no longer fit into the Friends category. And while I have a Family category… he’s not my Mom... Comment - Like
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May 30, 2010, 4:41 pm
For a moment I became vacant. The scene around me drifted away and it created its own sphere of creation with me watching because I had surrendered to the tug that kept me in place. To my left, his head bent over the shallow and thin ceramic bowl in front of him slurping the soup of green strips, of... Comment - Like
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May 26, 2010, 5:30 pm
When speaking of having children, I like to tell people that I cannot wait to have at least two kids. “Man,” I’ll start lightheartedly, “It’ll be something awesome to have them fight in the car seats behind me,” and my listener’s face inevitably drops, “I&... Comment - Like
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May 26, 2010, 10:17 am
Tell me about: field trips.
Topic submitted by CC, who was chasing her son around campus on a field trip.
The first field trip I ever went on, I forged the signature to go. For some reason I can’t quite recall now, I didn’t remember to get my parents to sign the approval slip. There was a smal... Comment - Like
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May 24, 2010, 12:57 pm
Dismayed again by a writer’s block, I gathered the only army one has in the world – one’s friends – and asked them to do the dirty work. I asked for subjects to write on, for them to just blurt them out and not to think too heavily on it, because that’ll be my job and sometimes is my downf... Comment - Like
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Mar 15, 2010, 9:08 pm
I sat him down on my chair and hovered over my computer to type in the Google image search. I clicked on the first random picture, shook my head, came back to the first search results and clicked a more well-known picture.
“See! Doesn’t he?”
GS cocked his head sideways, murmured, “Why yes,... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
1. Naming your portable drives something instantly recognizable like, HEY YOU, is invaluable.
2. I think stagnation is different than building a sense of self. Is it wrong to buy into the idea that, sometimes, making opportunities for yourself takes time and reflection about the direction you might... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Motivated in part by suddenly realizing how close we were to moving an hour ahead in time, I decided that I actually needed to sit my butt down and configure a new look for my site. And look, that header, I did it by mah self!
In other blogging news – which also precipated a renewed focus on ... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
I spoke earlier to someone who defined her role as a women as a direct reaction to the existence of men. I went on to query her about this and then reflected that for me, the role of female only is played out in the contrast and complimentary ways I see women around me. Femininity and the archetype ... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
For some reason, all my education has been focused around the idea of being intently focused on your audience. In journalism, you had to be highly aware of almost speaking down to your audience in an effort to bring the most concise information to the widest reach of your core readers. In rhetoric, ... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
I’ve been thinking on this theme of motivation for a while. I’ve been wanting to write on it and I thought of a story earlier this morning. It reminds me that I can be very motivated when I, amusingly enough, want to be and when I have that firm spark of will, I do well in fanning the fl... Comment - Like
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