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god I should start sleeping earlier, look what happens.
The rise of the super-rich hits a sobering wallThis is by far one of the most interesting articles I've read about the financial crisis. Beyond talking about why the rich have, for the first time in around thirty years, stopped growing richer, it discusses inequality. Apparently in 2007, the top 1% of earners in the United States pocketed 23.5% of ( Read more... ) -
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There are holes in my world, geometric voids in Manila I know only be the places that surround them. On the map I see a constellation of stars, and glowing lines which link them. They're the streets I know, the buildings, the neighborhoods, the districts, lit up by a recollection I have of making my way between them. And then there are the voids ( Read more... ) -
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My phone was stolen on the train today ( Read more... ) -
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I've been having the strangest, most wonderful dreams ( Read more... ) -
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"who is lady gaga? you are sure cute. wish i was there to take you out to dinner."
What? Who? No. -
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My mom gave me her first month's pay for her new tutoring job ( Read more... ) -
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My last birthday was a happier one; I was in love, and thinner and sexier. It's midnight though, and 525,600 minutes have passed, and I finally saw Rent, so really anything can happen now ( Read more... ) -
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After months of excuses, I got tested today- yesterday- for HIV. There were eleven of us. Five tested reactive for HIV antibodies, that's almost half. I knew one of them. The counselor asked the six of us who tested non-reactive to leave so he could tell them. I walked out of the center at 10 am, and lost myself in Quiapo for hours ( Read more... ) -
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Can I just say this. You never get into a relationship because of how great you think your partner can be after you're done fixing them up ( Read more... )