people say she’s crazy…

In case you’re curious, here’s the link to my last several weeks of photos, consisting largely of a long lunch with Mom, Morgan, and Claudia and le week-end in “the District.” i am not obsessed with the washington monument–it just seems like it. I have a really long post to write about Buttons, who most [...]

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today on NPR, an interview with a 21-year-old alternate delegate from CA. this lovely young man told a lovely story. see, it would seem that in 1992, this lovely young man’s father told him that if clinton won the election, the lovely young man’s allowance would go down. and bless his heart, clinton did win [...]

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i don’t imagine that i for any reason (other than being a menace to society) was kept from our nation’s capital for 21.5+ years, but it was nice to go. lots of security, lots of tourists, lots of sweat, lots of trolleys. anyway, without further ado… What I Learned in Washington, D.C. 1. Domestic peoplewatching [...]

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we had this conversation online today while i was at work, and i realized that so much of it is not in english that i just had to share. so basically i cut everything that made sense and saved some juicy cutlets of nonsensicality, which is not a word. points for the person who can [...]

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two posts in one day = someone has a problem… or not a lot to do today… my last several posts have all had references not only to high school but also to elementary school. what’s with that? maybe it was all sparked by running into the good old ’01 Meathead Brigade at P’tree Tavern [...]

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not phases, addictions. for instance: clippy, sparkly, overpriced things that go in hair = addiction ’96 – ’99, thus = phase, phased out text messages = phase, toned down to only-when-necessary (sorry radu. and i’ll never call them sms…es… smss… sms’s… sms’?) i’m talking real, serious, problematic addictions i have. you may say, “well doy, [...]

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Megan and I walked to the train this morning during the 10 minutes that it poured in Evanston. I don’t think it’s rained since. Well maybe it has, but I wasn’t here for it. Regardless, it was over by the time we got to the station. It got dark later but never rained. Odd. I [...]

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remember that book that was required reading in the summer before 8th grade, “Summer of My German Soldier?” Yeah i have no idea what that was about, but this has been the summer of my angry tonsils. 2 days into my first week of work I got really sick, nasty fever, mega tonsils, etc. That [...]

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so my mom and my aunt both gently harangued me after that last post. their general thoughts were: ~ everyone’s allowed to make mistakes ~ don’t be so hard on yourself these are very good points. thanks fam :) in other news… – olympic swimming is over. this makes me sad. because… watching people run [...]

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Mrs. Brown was my fifth grade teacher’s name. I think. I know her first name was Dana… isn’t it strange that I’m not 100% sure of her last name but I know her name was Dana? Yes. But right now, irrelevant. I’ve made some really dead-on generalizations about my life in the last few days. [...]

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