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note: i hate april fool’s day.  i hate pranks, i hate jokes that are designed to trick people, i HATE them.  so, nothing you are about to read is untrue.  fyi. well, i’m home sick.  i’ve been feeling crummy all week, a mixture of headaches/migraines, waves of nausea, a cough/cold thing…just the definition of “under [...]

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1. it has been awhile since a monday update, hasn’t it.  we won’t chat about that.  quickly moving on… 2. i watched the oscars last night, as i do every year.  i do enjoy steve martin and alec baldwin together, i don’t care for what.  we’ll have to add the hurt locker to our oscar [...]

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although many times it’s an ughpdate, emphasis on the ugh!, today it’s an up!!!date, because it’s my first lovely monday on break.  wooooo! Outside my window… is an ugly steel window well grate.  Oh, I should say that I’m in my parent’s basement, otherwise known as “my apartment” or “the well-appointed hovel where my parents [...]

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now that i’m back to the land of the living blogging, we shall resume with our regularly scheduled programming: the monday morning update.  i’m stealing this from the delightful sara, who i believe stole this from someone else. Outside my window… it is fa-reezing.  i’m looking at a snowy slushy mess from the loveliness of [...]

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1. i’m writing this in one of my afternoon classes.  i feel a little bad about that, except that even if i were listening, i wouldn’t get that much out of this class, which is sad.  i hate it when you are in a class which has so much more potential of being interesting and [...]

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1. man, my brain is fried, and it’s only monday.  sometimes i feel like i live a lifetime in a week.  anyone else? 2. i am listening to this old gem of a song: Keren Ann – Lay Your Head Down.  it’s dreamy, and wistful, and (like with most new songs) i can listen to [...]

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now that summer is officially over (despite my squeezing the last drops of leisurely summer evening dates out of the days before my workload goes nuts), routines are coming back in full force. and so monday morning ugh-pdates return, just as long as nobody mentions how it sometimes comes in the afternoon and how i [...]

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1.  finals week. due dates: today: 3 page analysis paper on fun home – turned in tomorrow: 12 page research paper on AP Testing and the effects on college-level writing.  1/2 of the way done, getting extension to turn it in on thursday/friday. wednesday:  two back to back finals.  chaucer at 8am, history of the [...]

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1. i’m sick. 2. it’s very near finals week. 3. as in, next week, next week is finals week, which means this is pre-finals week, otherwise known as the week i have to write final papers. 4.  this is also known as the week where my head explodes and it is VERY UNHELPFUL to be [...]

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i was trying to come up with an update on my thoughts, how i feel right now, what’s going on… but i had no words. some english teacher i’ll be. let’s worry about that later. instead i found this picture. perfect description. 2. drinks with tucker, julie, their friends, their kids, their friend’s kid at [...]

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