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Things I Require In an Apartment
So I’ve now looked at a total of three apartments in The Great Apartment Search. Though I found a seemingly PERFECT one that both my potential roommate and I are in love with—it’s just too expensive to be worth it right now. We’re mostly looking at apartment complexes, a thing I’d never considered before. They…
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The Art of Losing
Another short I wrote. This one is entirely fictional. I was overly excited to lose my baby teeth and the shiny coins that resulted in the tooth fairy’s visit. And I wasn’t born with a full set of teeth, though fun fact: I was born with a full head of hair. I think this is…
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A Thing I Wrote a While Ago
I wrote this while still in college. I like it, I’m just putting it here so that I don’t lose it. I’m going to post a couple of these, just for fun. Just to save. Semi-fictional. I wrote it after I had lunch with an ex, where upon getting in my car I wondered why…
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Holidays Are Upon Us, and a Happy Festivus to You!
Didn’t think I’d be going through a breakup immediately prior to the holidays, but here we are. My inability to let go of people makes it a bit more difficult than most I think–it was only two months, it shouldn’t have meant much, and though my crying-my-eyes-out phase was confined to a single day it…
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Packrats and Treasure Boxes
As some of you may know, my father passed away in September of 2007. I use “passed away” instead of “was forcibly ripped from my life by the cruel hands of fate” in most instances because it just sounds more polite, but you know what I mean. This past summer, my grandfather (who he lived…
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Guess a Skimpy costume was the Least of my Worries…
Just an update that I survived the crazy Halloweekend snow storm that we got out here. In case you weren’t aware, the Northeast was hit hard by a Nor’easter, dropping 12 inches of heavy, wet snow onto the trees. Since the trees hadn’t lost all their leaves yet, the snow stuck to them and weighed…
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Happy Halloweeny
Anyone in my family can tell you, Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. Ever since I was little, I would plan out elaborate costumes months in advance. When I was younger my mom would actually make my costumes for me–a unicorn and a dinosaur being the ones I remember most, they were very well…
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Retail Miracle: In which I make an entire blog post about a shirt.
About a month and a half ago something mildly tragic happened: My favorite shirt was ruined. Being the clumsy fool that I generally am, this is not the first time something of this nature has occurred. My former favorite shirt, a gorgeous cream colored sweater-like v-neck with sparkles down the front met its untimely end…
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Am I the 99%?
…well, technically, yes. According to my income I am in the 99%. I could benefit a lot from the changes they’re proposing, sure. But is this a cause I’m going to be passionate about? I’m still not certain. I’m not a very political person. I tend to keep quiet about what I think and just…
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Ashley Blom, “Emerson Whore”: DEBUNKED.
In February of 2011 I made what I thought was an innocent comment on an acquaintance’s blog. Little did I know that this person was being attacked by an anonymous group/person who was targeting her supporters. What happened next sent me into a state of panic and anxiety for the next few months. Suddenly my…
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