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i am late more often than before due to the decelerations of my increasingly awkward gravity center. and while it is difficult to fully rectify myself to this loss of jauntyness, i am managing to avoid the telltale waddle thus far, and maintaining some small semblance of glamour per as cutedressings as possible. except for the other morning when i ( Read more... )

nitaawe came up with two worthy inquiries - how exactly does nutmeg grow (tree? bush? underground?) and what do the longest fingernails in the world look like? i wish to satisfy these points of curiousity directly, and it is bittersweet to realize the most direct route is to google, despite my stubbornly entrenched library loyalites. if computers ( Read more... )

all the msu youngn's are returning & the streets are busy with roaming packs of gender specificity once more. in case anyone is wondering how to gauge when exactly it is they are becoming a grownup, my estimate is that it has something to do with actually dressing for the weather. as in, shivering in shortshorts and tiny teeshirts vs. confidently ( Read more... )

nearly a week of days spent in the northern reaches of michigan, and not once did i fully realize the full significance of the air. churned about in the constant company of trees and water, such grades of oxygen are so very right as to invite a certain privileged greed. i just breathed and breathed, blithely unawares as to the woeful lack of ( Read more... )

i went to my sister's birthday party on friday. she's forty, so had plenty of longislands to ease the blow that our culture demands a lady consider such numericals to be. it was fun to monopolize the tiny karaoke bar, which was blessedly nonsmoking. i sang around 5songs, the most satisfying of which was kentucky rain. of course ( Read more... )

you know something, preparing spaghetti squash seeds in the same manner as one would pumpkin seeds makes for just as yummy of a treat. different flavour certainly, but duly satisfying ( Read more... )

yesterday, for under one dollar each, i found 4 cookbooks to add to what is becoming an unintentionally impressive collection of vintage tomes. my favorites are from the 70s of course, since that is when people started to rebel against the processed nightmare that began in the 50s. i found two like that, but the other two were also super rad and ( Read more... )

60plus undergrad papers successfully graded - and a day ahead of schedule no less! at the very least, i have no excuse for failing to be concise and transparent in any and all of my future academic turnings of phrase, considering that i berated oh so many analytic hopefuls over their woeful lack of straightforward statements. i wonder when ( Read more... )

what has been a rather shamefully unacademic summer is swiftly coming to a close,as this friday i am obliged to collect and correct approximately 65 undergrad papers. luckily, these are two separate classes, so rather than becoming totally ill with repetitions of topic, i only have to become partially ill with an even split between emerson and ( Read more... )