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A sea-change into something rich and strange
Boys and girls, the time has come. I now have a Wordpress blog: http://quoththegirl.wordpress.com/Read more... ) -
I am going to cause a tiger.
I was going to post something all meaningful up here, but by the time I got through putting in the links below and raving about books below that, I ran out of steam. Er, next time?
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Last night two friends of mine and I all dressed up as cows and got free meals at Chick-fil-A! Highlights of the excursion involved hats with cow ears, getting my braid pulled by somebody in a legitimate cow costume, and consuming ridiculous amounts of chicken. Afterwards, we all studied Latin, still in bovine dress, just for the heck of it ( Read more... ) -
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.
Went exploring today with Sam, thinking we were going to a lovely arboretum in Apex. Turns out the arboretum hadn't actually been built yet, so we explored around the brush and old buildings that were there instead. I love the feeling of exploring a new place, when you have no idea what you're going to find next. As it happened, we didn't find ( Read more... ) -
"Fifthly" is a fantastic word.
I had a tiny chip in my windshield, which my parents warned me would crack and cause all kinds of mayhem, so I called AAA out to patch it. The glass dude was quite the character, a hard-core Bostonian with an accent that could probably cut glass all on its own ( Read more... ) -
You have never talked to a mere mortal.
If anyone finds out what happened to May, let me know. I seem to have lost it. People say time seems to pass more quickly the older you are; at the rate I'm going, by the time I'm 60 years old I'll blink and miss a whole decade.
My brother is the coolest young entrepreneurial upstart poised to take over the world out there, and don't you forget ( Read more... ) -
"You speak treason, sir!" "Fluently."
Angsty, stressful week! No more of that ( Read more... ) -
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
Oh dear, it's been forever, and I have accumulated so many things to share with you, most of which are now old and outdated.
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In which I am remarkably out of character
During the last meeting of the esteemed Literary League (currently comprised of myself, Sam, Sarah, Charity, and Anne Elisabeth, with satellite member Danielle), we got to talking about literary characters we sighed over when we were young. Anne Elisabeth and I said we should definitely write our book heart-throbs up for our blogs, particularly ( Read more... ) -
Tell the ones who need to know: we are headed north.
I'm always pleasant surprised when it turns out there's a word or phrase already in existence for something like this that would normally take far too long to describe with the typical set of vocabulary words.
Check out The Saga of the Lemon Poppyseed Cake, a hilarious blogpost by friend Anne Elisabeth Stengl, who also just so happens to be a ( Read more... )