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What do you recommend?

I was just reminiscing about the trip I took to DC in my junior year of college, for a newspaper conference. One night, we went to a Thai place for dinner. K was sitting next to me and, well aware of my picky eating habits, suggested I get the pad Thai, because I would love [...]

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how to reconnect with friends when you’ve (maybe?) been an asshole?

…is it so difficult for me to keep up with all of my old friends? I WANT to, and yet….I am not doing it.
I hate talking on the phone, but I guess I should get over that. Is that how everyone else stays in touch?
I’ve gotten really skilled at keeping in touch with one person, [...]

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Ideal hobby

Last week, while I was in Barnes and Noble, I ducked behind some shelves to hide from an acquaintance I didn’t want to talk to, and found myself face to face with this book.

Now I kind of want to learn to crochet to make these things. I get frustrated quickly with stuff like this, though, [...]

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New approach

It occurred to me the other day that this blog has gotten sort of boring as shit. And that’s because I’m always hesitant to write embarrassing stuff about myself.
I consider my life, for blogging purposes, to fall into three main categories.

General daily / nerd / family information
Things that I don’t want people to know about [...]

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Tell me what to read.

I realized recently that in the past six years, I have pretty much completely stopped reading challenging books. I’ve known this on some level, of course, the whole time, but it’s only just now becoming unacceptable to me. I think the catalyst is probably the fact that I read the Twilight series in a [...]