This community is incredibly disturbing. Particularly when I get to quotes like this: "How do you guys feel about Rice Cakes? Too fattening? It just when i get to feeling to weak i need to naw on something and I...
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As it is past midnight, and therefore officially September 3rd, I have two things to say: First, I would like to wish the happiest of birthdays to doctorgogol! It still amazes me that I had the good fortune to come...
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I'm developing a real hatred for one of our mail carriers. I know which one it is. It's the one who walked up with the mail not long after we moved in. "Hi," I said. "Keep your dogs in the...
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1) Waking up on a cold weekend morning, feeling warm in bed, realizing I don't have to go anywhere, and snuggling back under the covers to drift asleep again. 2) Sitting in front of a window and watching a storm....
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My former housemate is OK. I'm still waiting for word on my uncle. My boss's daughter is in Boston. She was about to take an American Airlines flight to San Diego. Her flight was scheduled to leave soon after American...
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"We face as a nation the deep, profoundly perturbed and perturbing question of our relationship to others—other cultures, states, histories, experiences, traditions, peoples, and destinies. There is no Archimedean point beyond the question from which to answer it; there is...
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I don't remember learning how to swim. It seems like something I've always known how to do. I remember learning one stroke—the butterfly—some time in elementary school, but learning the other strokes was like learning how to read. Once I...
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I got out of the house for a while yesterday. I received an email on Friday saying that my brother's band would be in LA this weekend, and it suddenly seemed very important that I see him. They were playing...
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Inspired by Kevin, I dug out some of my very first report cards. For the most part, they are unremarkable. The analyses of my academic progress are fairly predictable, except I didn't realize that I consistently did better in math...
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I went to see the oracle this weekend. I had heard that she lived in a cave up in the mountains, and since I had nothing to do but work or get further in touch with my ennui, I dug...
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