Category: personal
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[Writing Meme] Day 01: Your Favorite Song
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6E2Mooz_LA] Don’t Rain On My Parade by Barbra Streisand I first caught ‘Funny Girl’ on the old classic movie channel when I was much younger, but I just viewed it as a Barbra Streisand vehicle. I have heard the Streisand jokes and the horror stories, but I still admired her for being able to produce-direct-write-sing-dance.…
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Stream of Consciousness
J.D. Salinger Dies at 91. R.I.P. I survived the miseries of high school by being schmartsy. It helped that my dark period in literacy (marked by Sweet Valley Kids, Twins, and Babysitter’s Club) hit me when I was 9. When I entered high school at 14, not wanting to call attention to myself, and finding…
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What are you thankful for this 2009?
For the most part, I’m thankful for surviving. I made pretty difficult decisions in the past several months, and while I’ve had to suffer socially and financially for these changes, it could have been worse. I am thankful for very new experiences. This has been a “Yes I can!” year for me – I’ve taken…
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I solemnly swear…
This is an attempt to update more often My biggest problem with treating this blog as my professional portfolio is that I overthink it. Overthinking this means I have abandoned this, and locked myself away with a more diarrheal blog and indulged my already horrible masturbatory tendencies. I solemnly swear that I will at least…
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A Brand New Day
Say hello to my little friend… I have been reconnecting with an old, dear friend on AOL, who referred me to Madi Ju’s photography and her “e-famous” Love Diary. I was so moved by the honesty and intimacy of the diary, I got inspired to start my own. To start, I got myself a new…