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Monthly Archives: August 2004
There’s a mummified Jr. Mint under the fridge.
Somehow I managed to get on a cleaning/reorganizing kick today. I keep things pretty clean, but what I did today was beyond normal dusting and vacuuming. I went through practically every possession I own and had to decide whether I wanted to keep it or not. (Yes Bethani this includes all my original smelly Strawberry [...]
Posted in Directionless Nonsense
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Life of a bibliophile.
I’m a little obsessed with owning books in hardback … my feeling is that if the book is worth keeping and re-reading, it needs to under hardcover. Paperbacks are too cheaply made to last very long. The only problem with my theory, and it’s a BIG problem, is that some of the books that I [...]
Posted in Reading is Fundamental
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Down with the king and all who kiss his Big Toe.
I may not be updating here quite as often for a little while. Right now it looks like it will probably just be once a week or possibly two if you’re lucky. This will be going on at least until I can work out a computer-time schedule or something. Also, an old friend of mine [...]
Posted in Kith and Kin
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So I wasn’t crazy.
This used to happen to me a lot, and it was always at night after I went to bed. The pain would usually wake me up, and frequently it was bad enough to make me search out my parents and crawl into bed with them. My mom told me it was just growing pains, but [...]
Posted in Injury and Illness, Kith and Kin
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Stands the sun so close and mighty
That our Minds are hot. ~Emily Dickinson I used to stare at the sun a lot. I know, it was a very stupid thing to do. I’m not exactly sure who told me that by staring directly into the sun I could go blind, but I’m pretty sure I didn’t believe them. I didn’t stare [...]