Category: personal

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Still not quite sprung yet

It’s still a little chilly out there this weekend, but the blossoms around my neighborhood are peaking. I was up on Capitol Hill earlier today freezing my tush off and the trees along Pennsylvania Avenue are still keeping their petals...

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How do you eat an $8 chocolate bar?

I shared this with Kris the other day as he’s the biggest choc-a-holic I know, but it was too amusing an anecdote not to revisit. We’re pretty used to amusing and informative scribblings on the back of our food packaging...

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Who am I…?

You’ll have to excuse me as I just had a little geek-gasm. I was reading through some feeds while responding to work e-mails and the gawker sci-fi blog io9 had a story up today about the best space battle smack...

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Where Are They Now? — at Target!

Another interesting thing about the new (currently) Target-centric retail complex is the number of people one is likely to run into there. From neighbors to people that live across town. It’s barely been open 2 weeks so now is the...

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Would ya believe this is *clean*?

I meant for it to look this way, honest! How could I sleep on a bed full of dirty clothes?! The times I have done that in college notwithstanding, it’s laundry day! I woke up feeling like my stomach was...

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100% Acrylic…

Apologies to Meryn Cadell’s The Sweater Song, but it seemed appropriate. Also, I had no idea that Meryn had transitioned FtM. Of course he hasn’t released an album for about 10 years so I have kinda lost touch with his...

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Power Up!

I got something this weekend I rarely ever get, and then something else that indicates hell must have frozen over: a busy Sunday out and a date. Not too much to say about the latter, really. We met over at...

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Snail mail still has its benefits

In today’s mail I got my lease renewal and a letter from my bank advising that my secured account is being converted to an unsecured one. I have to admit that both of those things could have been sent in...