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People watching on a Sunday
I went to church today. (To an enormous cathedral to be exact.) I sat next to a man, and who I presumed to be his girlfriend. He seemed preoccupied. Down. He had his hands between his legs. His forearms resting on his thighs like an enormous weight was on him and this was all he…
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Weddings: I don’t like love and it doesn’t like me
I had the displeasure of attending a wedding this weekend. My mother’s sister’s daughter’s daughter was to be wed in Anáhuac, Nuevo León. It is a quaint little war zone of a town filled with the smell of compliance and the best flour tortillas you can find. Society is an important thing in the Mexican…
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Just another life after college blog
It’s the little, annoying things you can’t help but notice and dwell on when you are trying to write. Even when you think about maybe trying to write, you suddenly feel you can’t ignore this little blue cup that has been sitting on the corner of your desk since always. How did that get there?…
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Nightmares and witch doctors
If you were in Ohio yesterday, you may have thought you had stumbled onto the set of Jumanji for a minute. Dozens of exotic animals were set free in the middle of stormy weather. This morning started off like a nightmare too. Earthquake in a small town in Texas and Gadhafi is found and brutally…
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Twitter and telepathy
This morning I had a nice Twitter conversation with one of our readers. He thought we could have compared boot fest to a different festival instead of Austin City Limits in a recent editorial. He had great ideas, but if you don’t use Twitter, how would we know? Telepathy was the only thing I could…
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Do you listen to your body?
My first job out of college and three months into it I’m offered a free massage. No, we don’t have any openings right now, but I’ll keep you posted. I’ve never been a big fan of random people touching me. I get my nails done and still think it’s awkward that someone has to touch…
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Government shutdown or NFL lockout?
Yesterday, The Daily Beast dared readers to test their knowledge of the NFL and the U.S. government. A government shutdown looms and the NFL is locked in a labor dispute. But which conflict costs the most? And which has the most bitterly embattled players? Undoubtedly, both conflicts are going to cost Americans a whole chunk…
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Pelosi lights Capitol Christmas Tree
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, joined by Wyoming congressional delegation, Sens. Michael Enzi and John Barrasso, and Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal, light a 67-foot-tall Engelmann spruce from Wyoming in front of the Capitol today. This year’s tree comes from the Briger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming covered with 5,000 ornaments made by Wyoming schoolchildren. Helping…
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How do you explain this to your kid?
So today I miraculously heard something on the news worth reporting that wasn’t already being covered at work. Michelle Rhee, Chancellor of District of Columbia Public Schools, resigned this morning. If you’re not from around D.C. you may or may not have heard. She is in the movie “Waiting for Superman.” She was praised by…
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Toilet TV?
I’m a huge fan of Family Guy. More than anyone could know. I call one of my cousins Meg because she is weird. I LOVE FAMILY GUY. But I think someone just ruined it for me. I went to the facilities at work. In the stall next to mine I could hear the familiar sounds…
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