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Step One: Dial the wrong number at approximately 4:46 am. Listen to the answering machine message when the person who is trying to sleep in the house you called fails to get up to talk to you. Ignore the part...
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J: "That doesn't mean they actually were robots. They looked like aliens."
Me: "Well, it would have been nice if they all looked like Jude Law, no doubt about it. But they didn't."
J: "You should acknowledge the possibility that they could be aliens!"
Me: "They had circuits in their faces. Robot circuits."
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In high school, I had a teacher named Mr. Vandeboe. He taught English and humanities, and he was about the coolest teacher any of us could imagine having. When we learned about ancient western culture, he showed slides of his...
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Last night, I filed... everything. No, really. This was a huge undertaking, as my file systems were truly a mess. I've been chipping away at it for weeks, and finally, I just decided to stay up until everything was sorted...
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Somewhere around 5:00 pm... "Wow, honey, you're still organizing?" "Yup!" I say, diligently separating the tacks from the nails from the screws from the picture hangers and putting them into their proper compartments in my handy sorting box. "That's really...
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First: receiving official documents of one kind or another and finding that someone has decided to append my husband's last name to my first name. I didn't change my last name when I got married. That was a conscious choice....
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On Tuesday, we flew into O'Hare, checked into our hotel, and were delighted to discover that: 1) it was really quite nice; 2) they had robes for us; 3) there was free cheesecake every night in the hotel lobby;...
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See, I like my cat. I like him a whole lot. We've had him for nearly four years, and we consider him part of the family. The thing is, I have reason to believe he's more vicious than other kitties....
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Wednesday, we slept in for a while and then walked over to the Art Institute. It quickly became obvious that we were going to have to come back if we wanted to see even close to everything we wanted...
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On Thursday, I walked over to the Palmer House with my conference paper in hand. There, I met up with the other Claremont folks with whom I had put together the panel. I also got to meet kricker for the...
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On Friday, it was back to the Art Institute with us. We spent a good amount of time at the Ansel Adams special exhibition, but I do believe I liked the street photography collection better. We also peered at...
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We found ourselves quite tired when we woke up on Saturday. We were incapable of moving quickly. Moreover, we later discovered that the maids had a nefarious plan to "clean up" the desk on which we had placed the piece...
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I conked out on the couch some time around 10 last night, woke up at 3, went back to sleep at 6, and then slept way too late. Usually, I'd feel terrible after getting so much sleep, but I actually...
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So, I was listening to the Pretenders today as I got stuck in traffic on the 91, the 57, and the 10, and it occurred to me that Chrissy Hynde might very well be the coolest woman on earth. Who...
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