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I want a lover I don't have to love
I want a boy who's so drunk he doesn't talk. - Bright Eyes "Lover I Don't Have to Love"

Yeah, I quoted Bright Eyes.  Suck it.

Life plods on up here in the great white north.  On and on.  The weather here today was beautiful, over seventy degrees.  Probably the last one of the year.  Mom left on Sunday.  Life, life, ( Read more... )

"I wanted other things.  One day, you're there, and then all of a sudden, there's less of you.  And you wonder where that part went.  If it's living somewhere outside of you.  And you keep thinking - maybe you'll get it back.  And then you realize:  it's just gone." - Peggy Olson

Yes, I'm sunk on "Mad Men."  It's a good show, it works - hard.  In ( Read more... )

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Yeeeeehaw y'all.

I took Jupiter to the dog park today.   I met this woman who proudly told me her dog was a Hungarian Pumi, flown here from some breeder in Missouri.  I said it was a pretty dog.  She said "Thanks.  I wish I could return the compliment to yours."

So I slapped her.

No, I didn't slap her.  I felt like it, but I didn't.  Vermont must be ( Read more... )

Mike's here, we're cleaning and packing like crazy, and I sang for the last time at the Down Home last night.  Saying my goodbyes and still not fully grasping that tonight will be the last humid Southern night that I'll have for sometime.  Tomorrow, the truck's getting loaded and the road is getting hit ( Read more... )

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Turned in my two-week notice.  Powering through.  Figuring out just how I expect to do this.
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Office Manager:  "Hey, Susan, here's the ad we're going to run to look for a replacement for Kari."
Susan:  "That looks good."
Kari:  "Did you put 'gorgeous' in it?"
Office Manager:  "Of course."
Kari:  "Did you put 'spitfire' in it?"
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I am the proud new tenant of the weirdest little apartment in Burlington.

Full story at theratbat.blogspot.com

That's my project blog by the way.