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looks just like the sun
My mom found this blog.
Ooooh, momma.
It’s my own stupid fault. I linked her to the entry about my dental adventures, largely in celebration of the fact that they are finally over – my permanent crown is now in place and I no longer look like a crackwhore. I wanted to share the surreal nature of [...]
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year two thousand and seven
As of 2:50 a.m., January the first, year two thousand and seven, these are the things I would like to do before I die.

1) Master a deadly martial art (until able to pass, at will, as mysterious hooded ninja type figure).
2) Become a (part-time?) drummer for an eighties-style synth-oriented band, the lead singer of which [...]
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allgrownsup
About six months ago, my mom hit me with a real… whopper(?) of a question. (Whopper? Apparently I am now writing to you from the 1950’s.) I talk to my mom every day on the phone; as creepy as it may sound, she is the single most important person in my life. I forget what [...]
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holiday epiphany 2006
Christmas has somehow come and gone already — a flurry of last-minute gravy cooking, wine drinking, ribbon untying, and Twin Peaks marathoning.
We’ve only got four days until The New Year is upon us.
Remember how, when you were little, the three short months of summer vacation would just go on forever? Friendships could be made, solidified, [...]
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ch-ch-ch-chaanges, part deux
So, continuing on from the first installment — I’m moving to America.
After a lot of thought, I’ve decided to relocate to Austin, Texas.
So far, four out of every five people I’ve told has responded with a knee-jerk: “Texas?? WHY?”
The fifth: “Austin?? COOOOL.”
…which proves… nothing, really. I mean, other than the sad fact that only twenty [...]
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ch-ch-ch-chaanges
I arrived in London last September. I have never, to my knowledge, been more bright-eyed or bushy-tailed. Not when I was seventeen and transferring to my dream high school, not when I first went to college, not even when I boarded planes to exotic places like Egypt or Reno, Nevada.
London was my fresh start, [...]
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