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Ok, so I've come to terms with being a raging literary whore. I haven't been reading too much lately, but all of a sudden I have a list of half a dozen or so books that I REALLY want to read, but I'm broke and disappointed at the offerings of Western Mass libraries. Also, I don't have the patience to request books and wait for them to send them ( Read more... )

For those of you who don't know (which is probably most of you because I'm awful at keeping people updated) my job is the 9th circle of hell. Well, the job itself isn't, but the place most certainly is. It's the most atrocious work experience I've ever had and I've been looking for something else full time for a couple months now - faxing out ( Read more... )

I think maybe I'll just use this as an update of what's going on with me now that it's 2006. I love the convenience of being able to have a rough idea of what's going on in my friends' lives without the effort (isn't that awful) that livejournal and myspace provides me and I forget that other people probably feel the same way and that, from the ( Read more... )

What is it about Life that rewards the fearless risk-takers and only ever seems to confirm the darkest reservations of those of us who are less sure? He who hesitates is lost. But is he actually lost as a result of the moment's hesitation or because of what he reveals about himself in that moment? Maybe whatever split-second falter our protagonist ( Read more... )

( A little photo trip up a small piece of local history... )

Finally, I made my copy of that scarf that I loved from Anthropologie. Initially I was just going to try some stuff out with white yarn that I had, but I never was any good at making rough drafts before hand, so I just went gung ho and busted it out with the white. I think it would be cuter in two colors like they had it, but since I already had ( Read more... )

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I've recently decided that posting things I would like to buy is somehow closer to actually having them than wanting them in silence is. Fortunately or unfortunately, that means you'll be seeing a lot of posts from me about things I want, despite their complete irrelevance to your life and your possible complete disinterest in hearing about it ( Read more... )

For Rachel, the unpierced, here's an attempt:


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