Campaign for the Mundane
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Yesterday I came home as the kid from next door was walking her dog. Her new dog, not her old dog, but that is another story I don’t even have all the details of and kind of don’t want to know. I look down at this puppy, and this puppy looks totally happy, is sniffing […]
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I was pleased to make it home to visit my parents for Thanksgiving. While I fussed and fretted about the drive itself, it was not too painful and it was a relief to sleep in the new titanic bed they bought so that finally Jack and I can sleep in the same bed when we […]
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This weekend I found myself in social situations slightly outside my comfort zone three nights in a row. Friday our good friend Paul was having his birthday party which we were pleased to attend. Saturday our long lost friend Josh was having his birthday outing to the Pirates Tavern. Sunday our friend Brooke was celebrating […]
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I got up, popped my comfy slippers on, went downstairs and ate breakfast, read this fad diet book I might use as a guide, and watched CSI: Miami all at the same time. This is all various delaying tactics to stop me from having to go into the spare bedroom. Motivation is a funny thing. […]
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At one point last weekend during dinner I said: “I don’t want to be too high-maintenance [for the waiter] by replacing salmon with tuna.” And Megan said two of the potentially most productive words in the english language to me: “Shut up.” It wasn’t rude. It was friendly. It was a favor. All weekend I […]
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This weekend I got to see one of my oldest friends Genie in the flesh. I love this, because sometimes the internet doesn’t cut it. Lately she’s been my independent blogging inspiration but this weekend she just got to be my friend. We talked shit about shit, which brought up relationships. Genie said something like: […]
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I really set myself up for failure in 2008; I had all sorts of very rigid ideas about how to conduct myself, which was pretty ironic considering I hadn’t conducted myself that way at all in 2007 but had been really, really happy. I think at the time I felt I had a ball rolling […]
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I’ve been alternating between studying and being a total lump all day. 1 hour studying, 1 hour being a total lump. See how the unstructured time is doing me no favors? In part it’s that I’m not feeling very organized; I need a sequential approach. I have 2 large units of information to review some […]
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I had a post-election hangover this morning. Not from drinking, although I did feel celebratory. I was just so wound up & emotional. I’d wept, like alot of people. I woke up with a migraine of democracy. I dreamed about old… friends and a weird old haunted house. And decided to call in sick the […]
