A letter

I got an email from my grandmother recently (who, despite being somewhat taken aback by my language at times, reads this blog). Its contents:
Well, Rose, I'm glad you are at a better place this year, but please explain what was the problem about 3 L.D.S. cousins?
I'm posting my reply here because I have [...]

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And another Christmas is past…

In a lot of ways, this has been a happier Christmas for me than the last couple of years. Not only am I in a much better place in my life than I was the last few years, I'm also not surrounded by my Mormon cousins. I'm also not in a relationship that's either unequal [...]

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Background info: In Barrow, the temperature is what could be accurately referred to as “fucking freezing your arse off” cold. The ambient temperature might only be a few degrees below zero, but the wind is utterly relentless. Said wind then takes the temperature down to something like 80 degrees below zero – [...]

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"At last, a holiday movie without all that pesky hope and joy."

As anyone who knows me can attest, I have something of a twisted and macabre sense of humor. Therefore, when I saw the previews for the “A Series of Unfortunate Events” movie, I was rather intrigued. Unfortunately, I've been worried that, being a kids movie, it won't live up to either the dark [...]

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Doing an Ian post…

http://www.cooltechzone.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=863&Itemid=0
I find the last two paragraphs especially interesting.

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Y'know, I had an incredibly hectic day today, and now I've got to work five hours until 10:00 this evening. I thought I was going to feel grumpy tonight, but I've actually found myself going out of my way to be nice to people who call or come in today. Maybe it's just [...]

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*sigh*

Been a long weekend. Juneau-Brian was on his way to get me Thursday night when he hit a patch of ice on a really nasty turn on his way the the University…so now his nice red Honda Prelude is rather smunched on one side. The good news is, none of the damage is [...]

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*headdesk*

Addendum to previous statement:
Yes, having someone whom you love hurt you sucks. Hurting someone you love sucks. But I think it sucks more when they're suffering for reasons completely unrelated to you and all you want to do is comfort them or help them or make it better somehow and you can't do [...]

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I figured it out! (Non-literature geeks can skip this one.)

I spent the latter half of this semester turning over the various pieces of Thoreau's Walden in my mind, trying to figure out how they fit together. Ever since I read it I have had this niggling feeling in the back of my mind that there was a point to it in there somewhere; [...]

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Grrr…

Apparently there exists someone who has the special talent of being able to call exactly half an hour after I go to sleep and half an hour before I was planning on waking up.
Though I didn't answer the phone either time, it was enough to wake me up. Grr.
I have an odd feeling it [...]

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