November 2006

Tomorrow, oddly enough, I am running in my first ever race. It’s a 5K. Just over 3 miles. A measly, minor, scant, short distance. However, it is still the furthest I have ever run without my brother chasing me, and I am, predictably, spectacularly flipping out about it. Granted, my adorably quirky manner of flipping [...]

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I have a friend who is some hot-shot photographer and sometimes he takes photos of events that I am at. He even gets paid to do this, if you can believe. On really special occasions I muscle my way in front of the camera and — apparently — mug like a baboon. I just had [...]

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No really, how many times since I started writing in this blog have I suddenly been stricken with searing eye pain due to prolonged and/or idiotic use of contact lenses? Seriously! Let’s see… I’ve been writing for almost three years (cool!) and I seem to be afflicted with this type of pain, discomfort, and embarrassing [...]

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So I find myself once again needing a review of basic math. Or “maths” as my Brit friend Tony would say, which is a lousy way to say it if only because it is hard. To say. Or does that make sense, somehow, to make the word itself hard, as the subject matter itself is [...]

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