Year: 2010

this

Right here, this is everything I like about hockey.   Also, this:...

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in which we learned nothing

Today there was an office holiday luncheon downstairs in the break room. For thirty minutes, I stayed upstairs at my desk, ignoring it. I knew exactly what was going to be spread out on those folding tables without even looking,...

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them chickens jackin’ my style

Like many other 30-year-olds, my concept of a great night out increasingly involves making a pot of white cheddar shells and cheese and staying in to watch House Hunters. I’ve always been slow to take to new trends —...

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hoarders: the christmas edition

I’ll admit it, I occasionally shop at Anthropologie. For a long time, the clerks would wrap your purchases in white tissue paper with little red dots on it. I saved this paper and used it during the holidays, because it...

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mixtape 7: electric feeling

I was never really that much into “electronic” music. Until one day, I was. To be fair, this isn’t electronic music in the sense of trance, or house. It isn’t inaccessible. It’s pop. Good, clean,...

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mixed bag

Friday night we went to the beau’s office holiday party. This is the fifth year I’ve attended his holiday party, but the first of those years that we’ve been married. Some things happened this year that...

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mixtape 6: head space

Sometimes I get in a zone. A musical zone where I want to be mellow and introspective without necessarily being slow or quiet. In those instances, nothing really suits me like a good trip hoppy/electronica/acid jazzy fix. Who...

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in which my antisocial tendencies surface

If only I had me a sharp knife. If only I had me a sharp knife, I wouldn’t have to go downstairs to the main kitchen at work to prep my food. Slicing tomatos, apples, avocados, rinsing lettuce — all that could be...

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