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October 16, 2009 06:55 PM EDT --
(an email from Donna reminded me, yet again, that it is highly impolite to just disappear, regardless of one's disposition to do so......)
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June 06, 2009 07:30 PM EDT --
I am so pissed.
Don't you think there is something terribly.... UNETHICAL about depositing trash, albeit rather tidily bundled, at somebody else's curbside for pickup on garbage day? . . .
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June 03, 2009 06:36 PM EDT --
F ragments . An unfortunate misstep by the janitor at my office sent the tiny tricycles to the floor. I keep thinking I will glue them all back together, but, truth be told, . . .
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May 30, 2009 09:01 PM EDT --
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W hile I wait for the major medical journals to pick up my paper on CURES for POLLEN ALLERGENIC RHINITIS condition, . . .
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May 21, 2009 08:47 PM EDT --
I was reminded that I recently passed the three-year mark as a member of this august group. Three years is nothing in the larger universe but in the world of electrons, it is eons. . . .
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May 12, 2009 03:21 PM EDT --
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I am writing this from the top floor of my house. If I were to go any higher, I would be on the roof. I am huddled under a blanket, the door is bolted and there . . .
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May 10, 2009 08:11 AM EDT --
I have been thinking of making a career change during this economic unpleasantness until I realized that the doctor I was thinking of becoming would have to listen to people complaining ALL DAY . . .
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May 03, 2009 08:59 AM EDT --
On a scale of 7 to 15 , I would say this has been one of the more interesting things to happen in my life. I don't want you to infer that my life has been that uneventful, but if you were to, . . .
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May 01, 2009 09:54 PM EDT --
For the record: I am sixty-one years old. That being said, I am afraid of going to my basement.
There is a lot to fear down there. First, it is not the cleanest room . . .
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March 28, 2009 09:02 PM EDT --
In 1964, when I was a senior in high school, I read a book at the recommendation of TIME Magazine. It was a strange book for me, growing up as I did in the remote deserts of the Mountain West. . . .
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March 25, 2009 09:47 PM EDT --
Day Three: denial and resolution
I don't know what possessed me to think that a story about eBay would be interesting. It is not. I mean, who really cares? I THOUGHT . . .
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March 24, 2009 08:17 PM EDT --
Day two and my bid is still holding.
What is probably obvious by now is that the solution to my coffee dilemma is to get a coffee grinder for the office. And not . . .
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March 24, 2009 08:04 AM EDT --
It is all about coffee. In my company of seventeen, there are very few coffee drinkers, but those of us who do make up for the rest. Interestingly, the coffee drinkers are all about my age--well over . . .
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March 19, 2009 07:50 PM EDT --
IT is odd, is it not, to view excess in the time of depression?
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Las Vegas is like a one-line story . I wonder who thinks up these things. (Actually. I know: . . .
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March 08, 2009 02:24 PM EDT --
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Was it just a dream?
My first car was a 1954 Chevrolet 4-door sedan, given to me as partial payment for a summer job when I was seventeen. . . .
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February 22, 2009 09:00 AM EST --
I am generally a healthy individual. I eat right. I exercise regularly. I keep my weight down. I sleep well. I drink moderately to not at all. I do not smoke . . .
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January 25, 2009 12:12 PM EST --
I ONCE READ that the video cassette recorder (the humble VCR) would never have taken hold the way it did were it not for adult movies, for pornography. Makes sense to me. And if that is so, the . . .
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January 18, 2009 09:20 PM EST --
I have a very good friend who is an art historian. Let me correct that. Art History is not her day job but she DID get an art history DEGREE, from Brown University no less, and was once . . .
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January 18, 2009 12:24 PM EST --
CELEBRITY
For the past several days I have been pondering the concept of celebrity and how it forms pop culture. I am sure it has something to do with projection: that we, the unwashed, . . .
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January 16, 2009 05:21 PM EST --
STARING WHILE EATING
I saw her again today. The pattern remained the same. This is not a YOUNG woman. But from behind, I started looking at her because, you know, she had a thin and interesting . . .
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