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I'm thinking of getting an iPod ("You don't have one?!" seems to be the common response.) or perhaps more memory for my computer to house all my music. Do people usually keep music on their computers now? What do you all do?

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In the course of five hours, I have:
Secured two letters of recommendation
Updated my resume
Scheduled an appointment to take the GRE
Applied for to a Master's program

I work fast when I'm dissatisfied with living.
And guess what kind of degree I'm planning on earning?

This business with my deteriorating fillings and bonding is more complicated than I thought. I appreciate the heroic efforts to fix my teeth when I was a child, but good lord, they are basically jerry-rigged to look straight. I spent three hours at the dentist this morning, and that was only for the bottom left side. There are three more ( Read more... )

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I donated four boxes of books to Goodwill today. Holy Jesus, I didn't realize I had multiple copies of so many books. l blame Borders and the used bookstore by work, with their tempting fifty-cent paperbacks and two-dollar hardcovers. 
I also got rid of several books that I did not like: Infinite Jest and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius ( Read more... )

She Thinks Ink

On the highway I pass a truck branded Syra-Cusa, or Syracusa, and wonder, 'Is there really a business named after a Samuel Beckett character ( Read more... )

The wretched mouse has by this time accumulated, in addition to the original nastiness, so many other nastinesses in the shape of questions and doubts, and so many unresolved problems in addition to the original problem, that it has involuntary collected round itself a fatal morass, a stinking bog, consisting of its own doubts and agitation, and ( Read more... )