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Monthly Archives: July 2006
Battery Death
Yesterday, when I got into my car, I noticed that my clock has lost time and that my radio station presets were gone. I pondered the situation briefly, then quickly reset the channels and programmed the clock. I promptly forgot … Continue reading
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Cell phone newbie
My mom just called me, simply to pass the time. She said, “You always call me when you are in transit from one place to another, so I thought it only fair that I call you when I’m bored.” She … Continue reading
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Random Friday–Stormy weather
It’s Friday which means it’s time for another installment of the Friday Random Ten. The rules are simple, just set your iPod/iTunes/Creative (do people still buy those things?) to shuffle/random and report back the first ten songs it spits out. … Continue reading
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Signs from the universe
Tuesday night, I went to the Dixie Chicks concert with some friends. In the crowd of almost 15,000 I managed to run into the two sets of friends I knew were going to the show, as well as my roommate. … Continue reading
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Orange cakes, fainting spells and crapping ponies
For her 7th birthday, my grandmother gave my mom an orange-flavored cake. It was store-bought and lovely and made my mom, who would have preferred something chocolate and homemade, cry. During the celebration of her 8th birthday, my mom was … Continue reading
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The Passing of the Pastime Cafe
The first time I visited Walla Walla, WA I was 17 and was already planning on attending college there in the fall. My mom and I had driven the four hours out from Portland for a drama scholarship audition (I … Continue reading
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Standing behind the falls
Last night I wished fervently for a instantaneous transportation device that could take me from Philadelphia to Portland, OR in the time it would take to walk down a flight of stairs. My parents spent the late afternoon and early … Continue reading
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Random Friday–Covered with mosquito bites
I woke up at 2 am last night contorted and tangled in blankets, having been trying to scratch mosquito bites while I slept. I stumbled out to the hall closet, using my cell phone as a flashlight, to dig out … Continue reading
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Cheerio(s)
Yesterday morning, already more than half an hour late for work, I hurriedly ate a bowl of Cheerios while leaning up against the kitchen counter. At the bottom of the bowl, I chased the the last three uncooperative O’s around … Continue reading
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The joys of thunderstorms
I opened the windows of my apartment tonight for the first time in at least a month. Thunderstorms swept through the Philadelphia area last night, uprooting trees, downing power lines and ending the oppressive level of heat that had been … Continue reading
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