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Trail mix of dooooooom!
Or, actually, what I am calling:
This is the first time I have devised a recipe from scratch. I was worried about proportions, especially with trail mix, which I have always hated because I find it contains too much of the stuff you don't want (cereal, raisins) and not enough of the stuff you do want (chocolate). I think with this one I have hit on ( Read more... ) -
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Tonight I found my old penpal, Heather from Australia, on Facebook! There used to be this old series of books, the Penpal series, about a group of friends who were--wait for it, can you guess?--penpals! And at the back of each book was a form that you could fill in to apply for a penpal of your own. And I filled one out when I was 11 or so, and ( Read more... ) -
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There is a fly dying on my stoop; it's too cold for him and everytime I go down to smoke he has crawled a little further away but he isn't flying and I can't bring myself to mercy-kill him. I feel sentimental toward him, like "I will keep vigil with you on your deathbed, poor little fly," but I think this is taking my not-killing-bugs psychosis to ( Read more... ) -
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I wanted to write down some important goals that I am going to work on this summer. I'm feeling so much better, and I'm graduating in May of 2010. I'm not sure I want to take the bar, but I am pretty sure that I'm going to pursue a career in the nonprofit sector. Ostensibly I'd like a position as a program coordinator, marketing director, or ( Read more... ) -
Memorial Day, belated.
At the antique store this weekend, I found a poem in a scrapbook, written by an unnamed soldier in WWII. It touched me, so that I felt I couldn't leave it there. I had to take it home. Somebody had obviously put a lot of thought and genuine feeling into it and I feel it presents a very different view of the men who fought in the world wars. The men ( Read more... ) -
A list of animals I saw while driving home on Skyline Drive today:
- A herd of deer grazing in a field
- Two wild turkeys
- A bunny rabbit
- A hawk
- AND A MOTHERFUCKING BEAR.
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Little triumphs in my life, lately:- Driving again
- Finally starting my book review blog
- Getting an A-plus-plus report card from Dr. M.
- Seeing the light at the end of the tunnel that is this semester
- Feeling excited about summer classes
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I've started my book blog! It's constance-reader.blogspot.com. I'm still tinkering around with layout and stuff like that. I am so bad at it.
Basically the premise is that I'm Constance Reader, a play on Dorothy Parker's book review column, The Constant Reader. I'd like to make it Constance Reader and Friends, so would anybody be interested in ( Read more... )
