Y’all, check out my new weekend wheels, courtesy of craigslist: Toward the end of undergrad, I wanted a bike and I got one for Christmas. It died a slow, rusty death on our balcony for two reasons: My leisure time and transportation choices were not entirely my own. It turns out you can totally forget how to [...]
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(I’m aware that a title like that is likely to pull in at least as many trolls as the ones I bounced from the post mentioning Mafia Wars. Yay for WordPress’s spam filters!) Sarah Palin and the easily led automatons who think she’s the second coming scare the ever-loving crap out of me, and I’ll [...]
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In January 2002, I was going through Some Stuff, including, but not limited to, finally finishing up undergrad (avec honors capstone/thesis) and working at my internship and living on bupkiss and dating the wrong guy (prior to marrying the wrong guy). I was relatively fit at the time. I was a vegetarian by default — Trader Joe’s [...]
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This Saturday, I left for yoga as the snow started. The snow that meteorologists were afraid to put numbers around, the snow that quickly blanketed my car so effectively that I felt TOTALLY GUILTY for not brushing off the whole car before pulling back out into my neighborhood’s main drag. I was one of “those [...]
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