Resolved: 2009

• That Joy-Z should not attend concerts where the audience does not dance, but instead sits awkwardly in chairs nodding and clapping periodically.
• That a minimum quarter of an hour each day should be spent with Chinese (the language, but hey, wouldn’t say no to the people).
• That, weekly, an uncomfortable but character-edifying task be [...]

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Not M.I.A. – Price Discrimination

Amazon! Wonderful service, loads of data for price-discrimination. <3 First and last item.
Mostly, I’m happy looking at M.I.A. search results. And yes, I’m the jnkn jnn jumpin’ off the decks girrrrl.

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Poem I’m Reading: “Candles” C.P. Cavafy

I don’t read a lot that’s not internet news, white papers, or the occasional new novel. I reread a lot of things. I’m pretty utilitarian in my reading these days. I don’t have anything to say about this poem other than, I wanted to share it and to have it for later.
Candles
Days to come stand [...]

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I’m not trying to start some kind of UPS feud

UPS managed to get me the Prescriptives package on the second try (thanks, Prescriptives!). It was the first couple of weeks of December. Busy mailtimes, sure. Not so busy that magical garages zap into existence to receive packages and then disappear, but busy.
And a company is always takings loads of risks anytime it hires someone. [...]

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Quotation slash New Link

“So I went to Value Village, a thrift store in Maryland where white people shop ironically and Latino people shop in earnest.”
Kind of slayed me, in the earnest way, not the funny way. (From this post.)

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Fun with Google Search

My friend has a shopping addiction. Not entirely sure we’re being cutesy with this phrase; think it’s an actual problem, assessing the damage done to life and decisions made, working on a fix, &c.
I figure, I will ask the internet and then just apply the results to shopping. I always ask the internet.
The number one [...]

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In which texting continues to piss me off

I suppose more accurately, the cell phone service providers are the ones pissing me off.
I am also slightly insulted by this line from this NYT article:
UNTIL Mr. Kohl began his inquiries, the public had no reason to think of the text-messaging business as anything but an ordinary one, whose operational costs rose in tandem with [...]

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Boys with Udders are just Sloppy!!!

The internet brings me so many wonderful things, including the thoughts of people I would probably not have heard from otherwise.* I have never seen an episode of this cartoon Back at the Barnyard, but I loved this review for reasons. I love reading it either out loud or out loud in my head.** Hey, important [...]

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Christmas Confessions/Miracles!

Merry Christmas, all!
Confession:
Today, I drove like a complete jerkface. I’m sorry and hope that you will forgive me. It was stupid and wrong and wrathful for no good reason. I apologize. Then there was an accident on I95N that closed down the whole shebang for about half an hour. I took my lumps, glad it [...]

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WordPress … of the Future?

Why are the dates shifted a day into the future?

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Some Race-Related Articles

What’s the point if I don’t offer commentary/reaction pieces? Well, a sort of reminder for me and a -pointer-> for you!
Two articles and two snapshots from the Life and Times of Joy-Z.
Article 1: You know I love Pasha Malla (who wouldn’t?). Self-Portrait of a Racist. I rather wish I could regularly be this honest, but you [...]

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Importance of Competent Staff and Not Acting Like You’re High While On The Job

Back when I was drowning in the drama-rama of my living situation with Escape from Whacked-Out Loon, I had been looking at new places to live down here in C’ville. 
 
Management Company 1:
This fourth-year undergrad is assigned to show me a unit. We are crossing a street on foot and make jokes about liability if I [...]

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My Favorite “Merry Christmas!”

… every year comes from my friend Syams. I never remember it’s coming and it always makes me glad.
Syams (From My Eyes) is Malay and Muslim and maybe doesn’t bother with the ‘Happy Holidays’ with me because she knows I identify as Christian. Which is sweet of her to remember and considerate to boot.
The thing [...]

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Heimat Heartbreak

The man at the used bookstore downtown, upon seeing my custom Texas credit card, decided to ask if I was from Texas and then insult Texas.
He says, too, “I would not be sorry if Mexico took it back.”
I had no response that could force its way out of my mouth before the gentler and [...]

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Songs from Middle School

Before I leave you to your appropriately Saturday night activities, I wanted to share with you the fact that one of the wordpress featured blogs re: member of Korean boy band H.O.T. reminded me of Korean girl band S.E.S. and the one song of theirs I somehow knew. In my mind, I picture my old [...]

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