Offended or Harry Potter Again?

I found myself offended when the Eragon trailer told Harry Potter to ‘move aside’.
Yeah.
Ok, also, I love this new Dunkin’ Donuts commercial I just saw with the Fratalian.
I realize I seem a shallow tv-centric person, but that who I am for now. I am looking forward to having tv in the home again. Once I [...]

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Neighbors

I may complain about the upstairs neighbors and their noisy illy-timed parties, but there are other neighbors who make noise and I’m sure we make noise, too.
But now, with everyone cleared out for vacation, it’s kind of nice to hear some repetitive “bye bye, baby, bye bye” pop rock ballad. Lots of strumming. I’m not [...]

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Deathly Hallows, eh?

I saw a recent picture of Daniel Radcliffe and yelled “Stop it! Stop growing up!” and bugged my eyes out a little.
I don’t think I’m aging with very much grace. What will I do when I’m saying “I’m still young” and it’s met with “you’re only as young as you feel!” instead of “of course [...]

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Baltimoreans, your input? or Help, please.

So, who can tell me about Baltimore?
Which neighborhoods are stabby? gentrifying? way too expensive to live and park in? How’s commuting from/to? What’s to do? Who’s to see? What are the tax rates like? [state income tax is apaprently 4.75 if you are a resident?] Do people throw things at you when you say you [...]

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Small Happy Thing: Facebook Friends, Once Removed

There are some little things, more mundane than the prosaic, more quotidinial than the everyday, that I still get a kick out of. Maybe after documenting enough of them a pattern will become evident and we will know more about the kind of things I value or at least react to.
One of my favorite things [...]

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Home on the Range, not the mountain range

How could people who live in Maryland, on this hilly, forest-ridden, mountainous east coast of the U.S. know what a thousand-yard stare really looks like? How can you look a thousand yards in any direction here? There’s always something intruding, always something in the way.
I want to be able to stare a thousand yards in [...]

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“I definitely sense some Pringles”

For the past few hours, I’ve been smelling this vaguely barbecue chip-like smell. I figured it had been the smell of university-student study space that we were flobbing about in. The tiny aptmate and I were walking back in the semi-cold so my sense of smell only really started returning when we were back inside [...]

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Who in the heckfire is that?

Someone IM’d me with a mention of Seth Meyers. I have no idea who Seth Meyers is, so of course, the internet is the go-to. As it turns out, yes, we do know someone who resembles Seth Meyers, but very different tones to the hottness(es).
At the bottom, I see a picture of some guy named [...]

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Sloggi-tea Slog Slog

Wow, ’slog’ looks weird…
Tomorrow is my first and last sit-down, knock-down, drag-out exam. It’s worth  25% of my grade. I looked at my grades yesterday. I am actually in need of those 25 percentage points.
ze frank, the delight I am delighted has spread, outlines my study philosophy pretty well. The thing is, I’ve got great [...]

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Happy Anniversary!

Today, my car and I celebrate five wonderful, if tumultuous, years together.
It’s been a lot of ups and downs. There’ve been lengthy separations and moments when I thought no one could ever be as close as we are. Thousands of miles and hundreds of hours. Tire changes, hydroplaning, and speeding down open stretches of road [...]

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Why I Stopped Reading

I used to read. A lot. It may even be blamed for most of my poor vision. I would pick something up and read and read until I was done. I couldn’t stop.
I started Blink yesterday and stayed up to finish it tonight.
Instead of buckling down and finishing this paper so that I can do [...]

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When I Grow Up

I just read an email that said something about ‘when we grow up’ and realized that I have not been able to say ‘when I grow up’ for a few years now. I can’t tell if I’m grown up yet. I’m certainly not done growing, but I can’t say that there is much more left [...]

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