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Carrie (a close friend from high school) came to visit me this week. We hadn’t seen each other in ages and it could have been completely awkward, but it wasn’t. It was easy. It was like we hadn’t skipped a beat, as if our 12th grade English class had wrapped up weeks ago instead of [...]


I just watched the new(ish) Pride and Prejudice again. Whenever Kiera Knightley wants to convey emotion, any kind of emotion, she does this thing with her nose — or rather, the strips of flesh along either side of her nose — where she like, flattens it. Kind of like what happens if you’re sucking in [...]


At least four mornings a week, after watching the sun come up, I’ll decide to stay awake an extra couple of hours until the grocery store opens. It’s my way of making the most of a sleepless night; this way, when I wake up around four, five p.m., I won’t have to rush to get [...]