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Massacusetts Thanksgiving
So, I traveled to Massachusetts to visit my sister for Thanksgiving. I was driving all day Wednesday, and she had no food in her house, so we were going to go shopping Thursday morning. We had a menu all planned out ( Read more... ) -
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Hurricane proved personally disappointing. Rain, yes, but not all that much wind, and not even any power outage. Stocked up on water and candles for nothing. We had wanted to have a candle lit slumber party--instead we just drank a lot of wine and watched "I Love You Phillip Morris" and went to bed after nothing happened ( Read more... ) -
London riots
I feel I ought to post about the London riots instead of posting about my usual more trivial things, but I don't really have much to say that hasn't been said elsewhere, and better. For instance, here. This is a very good post about it, and from someone a lot closer to the situation.
In shorter sound bytes, I like what my friend elizabrown said: "When the ( Read more... ) -
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I was linked to this site the other day, and ohhhh my goodness, it completely vanquishes any anti-materialistic instinct I may have (not that I was ever particularly anti-materialistic). I want almost everything listed there. It takes me back to my childhood fantasy of a house with many rooms just to fit in all the beautiful but unnecessary things ( Read more... ) -
Blue Steel
Today I watched Zoolander in full for the first time. It was ok. I still don't get why so many people like this movie. I mean, it wasn't bad, but I didn't laugh. Oh well ( Read more... ) -
July 2nd was the real day of Independence
and also when I (finally!) met up with shveta_thakrar and we had a day of exploring, capped off with fireworks ( Read more... ) -
Californication
So I've been catching up on Californication and it's... interesting. I really enjoyed the 1st season. It was raunchy and gritty and yes, very male-fantasy-focused, but in a way that I consider good fun sometimes. I read reviews complaining about it being misogynistic, but I didn't consider it particularly so. It was obviously written by men and ( Read more... ) -
Ladythoughts
When I was a little girl, I could never understand the phrase "I need my beauty rest." "Beauty sleep" or "beauty rest" just seemed like a nonsense concept--something silly and vain that grownups invented and that didn't really mean anything. In my head it went along with putting vegetables or sour cream on your face or whatever other bizarre ( Read more... ) -
Tax Day: Part I
Paid my taxes today, and had an interesting moment while I was waiting in line at the post office. I know I make little money. I'm unemployed right now, but I always knew my previous job paid me little money--$21K a year, and no health insurance once I transitioned from TA to Part Time Lecturer. ($21K was actually the high point--as a PTL I got a ( Read more... )