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Hacked accounts and frozen email

Friday, December 7th, 2007

I left my computer for two and a half hours this afternoon to go meet with my thesis adviser one last time (got the final edits!) and go to the grocery store.  When I returned I discovered that my eBay account had been hacked and it had been used to send out a bunch of […]

Recent bits and pieces

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Sitting at my computer, I’m realizing that I don’t actually have enough mental wherewithal to create a single, cohesive post tonight.  Instead, here are two tidbits.
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There is an old man in my building who always used to flirt with me.  He’d see me coming and make a big show of saying something like, […]

Religion, faith and fundraisers

Friday, November 16th, 2007

One area of my life I don’t write about much is my involvement with an organization called the CA House.  CA stands for Christian Association.  These days the word Christian is fraught with right-of-center cultural assumptions.  Those people who consider themselves open-minded, left-leaning Christians are often afraid to “come out” as people of faith for […]

I have no taste

Friday, October 19th, 2007

I’m about to head out of town and while I can’t seem to get Viddler to cooperate and give me the embeddable code for the latest Fork You video (I’m sure this is a result of my own ineptitude) I still want to post about it before I leave.  So go check out this video, […]

Indy Hall, National Mechanics and random national linkage

Friday, October 12th, 2007

I’ve been immersed in the thesis quite a bit again lately, but sent off the latest essay earlier today, just in time to hang out with some of my favorite Indy Hall folks at National Mechanics. I had a terrific veggie burger for dinner and even had the opportunity to taste vodka that had […]

Forty hours in the Midwest

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

I am sitting in the Kansas City, Missouri International Airport (I do love an airport with free wifi), waiting for my 6 am flight back to Philly. I stayed in a Hampton Inn last night, going to bed too late to possibly get a good night’s sleep and then waking up every half hour, […]

I’m leaving on a jet plane

Friday, September 28th, 2007

I’m heading to Ames, Iowa in about seven hours to teach a Unitarian Universalist campus ministry workshop to a bunch of folks in the Prairie Star District.  I’m looking forward to getting off the east coast for just a bit and am hoping against hope that I’ll get a chance to eat some fresh Iowa […]

New-old flatware lends a needed boost

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

I’ve been sort of struggling lately.  I’ve taken on a lot and I’m finding that writing for pay, doing my school work and still having time to relax, is hard.  A couple of nights ago, I was on the phone with my mom, talking about how overwhelmed I was and she said, “Just find one […]

Three years is like 30 in the life of a computer

Monday, September 10th, 2007

I feel like it was yesterday that my trusty iBook and I came together for the first time.  I had it shipped to my parents’ house in Oregon so that I wouldn’t have to pay sales tax and it sat there for three days, until my I arrived from Philly, ready to be on vacation […]

An imagined visit with past and future selves

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Sometimes I wish that I could send myself, the Marisa I am now, back in time a few years to talk to the me I was back then.  I would give myself a little reassurance that things would be okay.  I would be careful not to tell myself too much about the future, I wouldn’t […]

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