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Sep 29, 2011, 6:25 pm
Dear beautiful B,
HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY my gorgeous friend! It was so wonderful to hear your voice today, but made me miss you even more. But since you spent the entirety of our brief call praising me and my adventures, crying "lies lies lies" when I tried to tell you how truly fabulous you are, I'm g... Comment - Like
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Sep 12, 2011, 12:44 am
I did it. I did something I honestly never really thought I'd do, and I don't regret it.
Yes, I bought an e-reader. A Kobo, to be exact - one of the last few before they seem to have gone extinct (much like its creator, Borders), as it now seems you can sadly only buy one from North America, it i... Comment - Like
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Aug 30, 2011, 11:51 am
Do you know what I love most about life in La Fortuna? The fact that it's a small town, about 5 times bigger than the one I've from, but a charming size nonetheless. It's small enough to walk around and navigate easily, but with all the ammenities you could really want or need (which is definitely m... Comment - Like
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Aug 29, 2011, 8:04 pm
Every time I watch these videos, they simultaneously make me want to cry, then fill me with incredible hope, and remind me that this is why I want to work in the development sector, this is why I want to volunteer with the Peace Corps, and want so very badly to work for the UN one day.
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Aug 29, 2011, 1:39 am
or VMA LIVE BLOGGING Y'ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!! (yes, said just like Oprah - I'm sure you read it exactly that way.)
Because it was so much fun last time, and I'm a massive fangirl like that.
8.11pm
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Aug 29, 2011, 1:36 am
I live right next to what must be the only discoteque for miles around here. Which means I party on all night to some of my favourite tunes, but all of them remind me of home. Right now David Guetta is ripping it up, trying to find the words to decribe this girl without being disrespectful yo. Which... Comment - Like
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Aug 28, 2011, 8:03 pm
Read this and tell me you're NOT a feminist:
"Do the women’s liberationists want to be liberated from being women? No, they would say, they want to be liberated from society’s stereotypes of what women are supposed to be…. Some very interesting facts have been uncovered by scientists which fem... Comment - Like
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Aug 28, 2011, 5:58 pm
I was over catching up with Trick Mirror when I saw she posted this fabulous comic:
A couple of years, Vini asked if I was a feminist. At the time, I hadn't even asked the question of myself, and so was a little taken aback by it - because it forced me to think, and consider my views on the topic, ... Comment - Like
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Aug 27, 2011, 11:13 pm
So it turned out, over lunch at the Baldi Hot Springs two weekends ago, that one of the guys in my group of volunteering friends (there are four of us including me - another girl working at the same school as me, and two guys working at a school in a smaller village about 10min away) is a massive Di... Comment - Like
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Aug 27, 2011, 6:41 pm
Not that I need alliteration as an excuse to perv (though I'm sure I could come up with some justifiable adjective for every day of the week...) but I was blog-surfing today, and thought I'd share. When they look like this, it's only fair.
Mmm...he can put the moves on me any time! ;) For 26 mo... Comment - Like
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Aug 26, 2011, 9:56 pm
We hear constantly about men in trouble over sex. Men in trouble for not keeping their trousers zipped, for groping and harassing women, men caught out looking at pornography, or gazing at women in the wrong way. But what we never hear about is men's restraint, the remarkable stoicism of current gen... Comment - Like
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Aug 25, 2011, 12:27 am
Just kidding you guys, as if I would ever rank my friends!! Mainly because I am truly blessed with the loveliest friends in the world :) however this is a toast I mean post in honor of some very dear friends who did some super gorgeous things for me before I left. They are listed in no order.
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Aug 24, 2011, 11:52 pm
Since I have been actively blogging for more than 4 years, it is well established that I am closer to technophillic (or techno-addict, as my dad is fond of phrasing it) than technophobe. But I am fearful of our relationship with and apparent dependence on technology in the future. More specifically,... Comment - Like
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Aug 23, 2011, 10:37 pm
Ever since his wise words penetrated my thick haze of self pity, I have loved - or, more accurately, LOL'd long and hard at - Luon. Here he delivers my thoughts exactly on Rebecca Black, only more to the point, and with better dance. Warning: you may lizz.
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Aug 22, 2011, 12:27 am
I didn't quite realise how much I love the beach until we finally went this weekend. I've always enjoyed the beach - basking in the sunshine, frolicking in the waves, getting dumped, being reminded by seashells of the beauty of small things, following (and pestering) crabs, feeling like you have no ... Comment - Like
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Aug 16, 2011, 11:18 pm
OMG YOU GUYS I AM GOING TO SEE* THE GIRL OF MY DREAMS EMAILS!!!!!!!! Yes you read that right, we are FINALLY GOING TO BE IN THE SAME PLACE AT THE SAME TIME!!
I know you're thinking OMG NO WAY, this cannot be true, it's just physically impossible for the world to handle the combined awesomeness of t... Comment - Like
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Aug 16, 2011, 11:13 pm
I just want to talk to my parents!! I haven't spoken to them for more than 2 weeks now, since I left Alajuela and came to La Fortuna, and I do believe that's the longest amount of time that's ever passed when I haven't spoken to them, actually, physically spoken to them (since year 9, when there wer... Comment - Like
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Aug 14, 2011, 10:48 am
I pinch myself, and I'm still here, surrounded by people who smile even as I massacre their language, and children who will hug me even if they don't know me (but usually more if they do.)
And I'm going to be here for another 2.5 months. Life is fabulous.
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Aug 10, 2011, 10:39 pm
If there are two films you must see in the immediate future, it's these:
I saw this movie with A and laughed SO DAMN HARD. I will admit, when another friend first asked me if I wanted to see it, I thought "sure, I'm up for some mindless chick flicky fluff." But this movie has SASS. Damn, is it bi... Comment - Like
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Aug 10, 2011, 10:00 pm
When I graduated, my mother made me this gorgeous chocolate bouquet, and that little blue robe for the bear - she even made sure it was the right shade of blue to match my gown! :)
I graduated with A, one of my closest friends from college - which was super lucky, not to mention all kinds of wonder... Comment - Like
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Aug 6, 2011, 1:29 am
So this is the view of the Volcan Arenal from Parque Central here in La Fortuna. Taken yesterday, which was a beautiful clear day. Usually it's quite overcast, and you can't make out the peak. It's still a very active volcano but mostly puffs out little bursts of white smoke and steam, like an old m... Comment - Like
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Aug 5, 2011, 8:44 am
Saw this on FB. Hilarious!
A couple of days after I arrived in San Jose, I realised that, for the next six months, I'm - for want of a better phrase - at peace with being single for the next 6 months. BELIEVE IT. I've accepted it, and I'm OK with it - I'm actually happy about it, because I'm footl... Comment - Like
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Jun 30, 2011, 9:57 pm
LE PLAN:
July 28: Melbourne to San Jose, Costa Rica
San Jose --> Panama
Panama City --> Quito, Ecuador (November)
Quito --> Lima, Peru
Machu Picchu
Lima --> London (December)
London --> Trondheim
Trondheim --> Paris
Paris --> Madrid
--> HOME just before Christmas
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Apr 27, 2011, 8:24 am
I'll admit, when all this "WILL AND KATE ARE GETTING ENGAGED ZOMGGGGGGGGG" hoopla started, I couldn't have cared less. I thought it was overrated, excessive, outdated, and, quite frankly, no big deal (I may well have needed a "Royal Wedding sick bag.") I still won't be avidly fixed to the TV this Fr... Comment - Like
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Apr 26, 2011, 2:16 am
You just turned 21 (!) and I gave a speech – affectionately teasing, but perhaps a little long on the embarrassment and short on the love. So here’s a little letter just to show how much you mean to me.
I’ve known you for 7 years now. 7 years! A third of your life (currently). You’re ... Comment - Like
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Mar 16, 2011, 8:38 am
Now that I've been thrust out into the real world with no experience or qualifications to speak of - or at least working casually alongside people who actually venture out into the real world - I worry that I've done a dead-end degree which hasn't prepared me for any industry and basically renders m... Comment - Like
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Mar 12, 2011, 8:26 pm
T minus 2 hours. Let's party on into the night mofos. Can't wait.
#myfirstfestival.
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Feb 27, 2011, 8:54 pm
I'm going to try my hand at this live-blogging thing. SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS. (everybody else, start reading from the bottom.)
4:00pm:
I now have an insane insatiable desire to watch the Social Network, and a competing need to watch The Princess Diaries, because I am currently reading the book.... Comment - Like
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Feb 21, 2011, 6:14 pm
My playlist for the summer:
Open Happiness, Michael Rose
A brand new day has begun...
We're Going to be Friends, White Stripes
We don't notice any time pass
Snake, Frightened Rabbit
So pack your pipes, pack your chapstick and your tights
Empire State of Mind, Glee Cast
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Feb 21, 2011, 6:37 am
Hi friends,
I know it's been forever and a day since I've blogged and I'm sorry. Peeps keep getting all up in ma grill about it, so I figured it was time to do something. Plus for the first time ever I've had something of a day off - I worked tonight, and since my parents were here, and I haven't ha... Comment - Like
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Feb 21, 2011, 12:14 am
So, I've fallen for yet another boy with glasses (yes, I'm developing a type) and it got me down for quite a while because I thought he had a girlfriend (and would have been the second successive boy with glasses I've fallen for who was already taken...go figure) BUT it turns out (thanks to my exten... Comment - Like
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Jan 16, 2011, 5:11 am
Somewhere, not to far away, an alarm is insistently blaring. A cool, crisp breeze is blowing, a relief from the humidity. The sun has pulled a sleepy blind on this side of the world, wearily pulling another endless shift, gently nudging reluctant eyelids in New York right about now. The lights are w... Comment - Like
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Jan 5, 2011, 9:52 pm
Isn't she BEAUTIFUL?
Cnr Collins and Swanston St
DeGraves St
The old W class trams they're taking out of service
Looking up the Yarra
One of Melbourne's many cosy little havens
The trendy - as opposed to classy - end of the notoriously high end Chapel St
Arts Centre
Flinders St Station
Luna... Comment - Like
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Jan 5, 2011, 8:00 am
The best thing about living in an apartment by oneself?
Being able to blast Katy Perry. Or Taylor Swift. Or Lady GaGa. Or GLEEEEEEEEEEEE - or anyone the hell I want, that's the point - no one to tell me no, turn it down, turn it off, I will not listen to that man masquerade as a woman!
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Nov 25, 2010, 7:02 pm
NEXT APRIL, IMMA SEE KATY PERRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOOK AT HER. She's sexy and vivacious and fun and FABULOUS and is gonna ROCK MY SOCKS OFF. So unprepared for such awesomeness that is going to BLOW MY MIND. ZZZZZZZZOMG!!!!!!!
Teenage Dream
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Nov 24, 2010, 11:34 pm
My response (word for word, from my journal) to the closing arguments of a murder trial we saw in Boston.
WOW! Was today ever an EYE OPENER! The murder trial this morning was absolutely mind blowing. We were very lucky to be able to sit in on such a case – and to hear the closing arguments, a ... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2010, 7:38 am
I'm about to graduate!!!! December 13 is the big day. I finished all my classes and final assessment a couple of weeks ago, and made the Big Move out of college into my parents' apartment in the city (it's fabulous. I love having privacy. I'm even learning to cook for myself! Sara came over for stea... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2010, 6:15 am
So guess where I'm going to be living for 3 months next year, volunteering as an English teacher in a primary school?
COSTA RRRRRRRRRICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm going to be living with a family near La Fortuna, helping teach english at the local primary school, from August to October next year. I'm d... Comment - Like
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Sep 22, 2010, 10:31 am
Hello, dear blog. It's a jolly good thing you're not something that requires constant watering, otherwise you'd have withered up long ago.
Would you look at that – several months have bitten the dust since I last blogged. Oops. This last semester has been crazy – I didn’t think it was pos... Comment - Like
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Jul 10, 2010, 7:10 am
This year, Sara FINALLY came to visit me over Easter! Which was mega-exciting, and also meant I got to try out her super-fancy-look-at-me-I'm-a-professional-photographer SLR. See if you can pick which were taken on my humble point and shoot (a beautiful, bright pink, Canon IXUS) and Sara's Nikon D90... Comment - Like
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Jul 8, 2010, 3:06 am
This time last year I was in the US, searching for the American Dream. Sigh. Was it ever AMAZING. Pretty sure there aren't enough adjectives to accurately describe how much fun it was.
Our first stop was Boston, which I adored, and it remains one of my favourite American cities, a must-return-to des... Comment - Like
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Jun 22, 2010, 1:07 am
My favourite TV shows - and though it may seem from my myriad of fangirly posts that my taste does not discriminate, believe me, it does (just not all that specifically) – increase exponentially in my eyes when they involve crossover from other revered shows. For example: Glee with Neil Patrick... Comment - Like
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Jun 20, 2010, 10:29 pm
Vogue. I've uploaded these songs more for the videos than the music. Sue's ad-libbing is hilarious, and the clip is a testament to Madonna's version. Meanwhile, Rachel is a melodramatic as ever
Run, Joey, Run - too funny!
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Jun 18, 2010, 10:32 pm
Writing itself is easy: it’s good writing, memorable writing, epiphany-inducing writing that’s life-challengingly difficult, and sometimes so overwhelming that it makes you want to give up altogether. I’ve just started reading The Best American Short Stories 2001, edited by none other than the... Comment - Like
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Jun 13, 2010, 8:02 pm
This week: songs that remind me of the Make Poverty History Road Trip. These are all songs we played on the bus (it's a long bus ride to and from Canberra!) that captured the spirit of what we doing and how we were feeling.
Home, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
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Jun 10, 2010, 12:49 am
A long, long time ago, Diana, being the sweetheart that she is, nominated me for the Beautiful Blogger Award. Awww!
On receiving an award you should: Thank the person that nominated you. Copy the award and place it on your own blog. Post a link to nominator. Express seven things about ... Comment - Like
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Jun 9, 2010, 1:59 am
So I can't go on Tumblr or Twitter or Facebook for fear of Glee finale spoilers. Omgleeeee!
Did anyone get to catch their live tour? I'm so jealous, I would have loved to be able to go, by all accounts it was AMAZING. Le sigh.
I just called my American grandmother to thank her for the birthday gif... Comment - Like
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