Three more weeks and that feeling that I’ve got a snowball’s chance in hell when it comes to passing the bar is becoming more and more of an actual reality. And with this heat, “walking through Hell” isn’t so much of a simile anymore.
“Don’t lose your marbles,” Mike joked a few weeks back when I [...]
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People were out in lawn chairs, grills and coolers set out along with friends and lovers as the bus lurched and chugged past Pelham Bay Park; and as I looked out the window, I thought it almost odd that, for possibly the first time in my life, I am looking forward to the end of [...]
My entire extended family is cursed with the whole “unable to see clearly” thing. Literally. Family dinners will easily result in every single person wearing a pair of glasses. Once that fact sinks in, it’s up to the ones who can sort of see to take one for the team and self-consciously take off their [...]
Despite the hundreds of words I can write, the numerous sites I can read about bicycles, and the fact that my words stumble over themselves when I try to talk about bikes, I find it hard to explain my weekends to friends who don’t ride. There’s no drama in doing power intervals on my new [...]
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When significant others fail become less significant, I do what [I'd like to think] most others do: stuff all objects/memories/gifts/pictures associated with said person into some kind of receptacle [not the trash, though, apparently newly broken hearts like to cling not purge] and place it somewhere it can be easily forgotten.
Months later, I’ll come upon [...]
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It’s Ugg season, again.
Remember those boots that became popular in, oh, 2002? Yeah apparently, they’re still around, despite their highly unflattering, leg shortening and fattening qualities [unless you're over 5'10" and under 100lbs, of course]. Which inevitably gives rise to snarky jokes with my best friend:
“Is she wearing Uggs?”
“Yeah. Welcome to 2002.”
I’ve never been [...]
A classmate turned to me yesterday and asked:
“Okay, is the tie terrible?”
He was dressed in a dark gray suit and white collared shirt with dark blue stripes for a job interview. The tie was an olive green paisley kind of affair, and was honestly really, really ugly.
“I mean, I know it’s bad,” he said, “but [...]
It’s only human nature to be sort of resentful of people that make everything look effortless. They accomplish things ordinary mortals somehow can’t; they look good the second they wake up, they glow with the kind of charisma that’s reserved for the truly cool, and everyone thinks that everything they do is either awesome or [...]
I know, I’m using this “busy” excuse again…
[And yes, those are two scarves. Just because.]
I’m sorry. Forgive me, please. I’ll be blogging my little fingers off properly next week. I’ll even post on Columbus Day.
Have a good weekend!
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I’m actually not that much of a party girl.
Notwithstanding the complete lack of rack that is required to look good in backless club wear, a glass of beer can make the room spin for me. Chimay will absolutely floor me. Dancing in heels all night is a skill I never bothered to perfect. I’d just [...]
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