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LAX
Things i forget about Los Angeles international airport; pretty women in heels and tight jeans, labrynthine corridors, terrible bathrooms, traffic and sirens and honking horns, foreign language soup. There are palm trees and it's 60 and I'm suddenly plain. The exhaust, right now, smells good.
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magical thinking
It's finally warm enough to rain and the rain is melting the ice on the ponds and carving a hole in the center while submerging the rest so that the surface shines white, opalescent. Through the hole I extricated two of our dead koi, a shimmering white male with an orange stripe along its side, and, the first to go, a plump persimmon-colored ( Read more... ) -
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it's so dark outside so early! I woke up this morning for work at 6:30 after snoozing several times and my head was swimming with excuses. Alas, no sick days, no personal days, no excuses. Do you remember being in high school and thinking that at least the summer would come and you could sleep in? ! IIt sucks being a grown up and knowing that ( Read more... ) -
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Two days ago the lady that sat at the cubicle in front of me came in my office. We talked about tea and her dog, Buddy, a golden retriever that once saved her life when she was in danger on a walk by sitting on her feet until she gave up walking and went back to her car. Dog and tea people, we talked about dogs and tea. I neglected to take her up ( Read more... ) -
dirty spanish and my GPA
I got my final grades for this semester:
Emerging Trends in Technology A
Capstone (web portfolio - view it here) Pass
Seminar in Indexing and Abstracting A-
Cumulative GPA for your little graduate - 3.89.
I am a little peeved about being 1/100th of a point away from 3.9, but I am lucky to have received an A- in Indexing and Abstracting considering that ( Read more... ) -
southern hospitality
Gawd. Let's be clear. There are a couple things I will miss about the South, among them are not the quiet racism and people telling me to have a "blessed day." For fuck's sake is that even grammatically correct? -
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Lars and the Real Girl
Dear everyone, please go see this movie immediately. I haven't felt so giddy and transformed in a theater since Amelie. So Good!
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that time of year
Though today is cold, yesterday was unusually warm - 70 degrees and sunny with a slight breeze and the ground littered in yellow leaves. All day it felt a little magical and I thought: a year ago I was on the precipice of falling in love.
I let the dogs run themselves weary in the backyard while I sit on the stairs of the back deck cupping a hot ( Read more... )
