Category: writing
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The Liebster Award: Results of Friday the 13th
One reason last Friday the 13th was a great day for me: I was nominated for the Liebster Award by two fellow bloggers, Miranda and Tiffanie (M&T Bookish), who have kindly taken the time read my writing and not turned away in scorn. A warm and grateful shout out to you both! I wasn’t sure…
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I Gave Up Ice Cream and Acquired a Child
I mentioned in my last post that I was giving up ice cream for the month of December. As you may know, I am a bit of an ice cream eater (“a bit” meaning “I eat a large bowl every day.”) In my defense, though, I only eat pseudo-ice cream, and I only do so…
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Adios, Ice Cream (and Bye, Bye Restaurant Guests)
The first time I ate at the restaurant in which I now work—the only time, actually, prior to employment—was the day of the “Man Hunt” for the Boston bomber. I remember this clearly because I had been shopping at the Providence Place Mall, having had my credit card declined at the Verizon store (twice,…
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Compare and Despair
I’m about to go to Barnes and Noble with the intention of buying ONE thing, which inevitably means I’ll be leaving six hours later with four bags of books and a lost sense of time, pride, and money, so I figured I’d write a blog before I do that. Since I last wrote, I’ve…
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The Problem With Rejection
No, no, I’m not talking about that terrible guy/girl moment where one person says, “Hey! Thanks for loaning me your Algebra book. Here it is,” and the other person says, “I know why you’re REALLY here,” and the first person says, “Um. To give your Algebra book back?” and the other person says, “Noooo…” and…
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Cover Letter Highlight: Fruit Fly Assassin
There are few things in life more irritating than writing fourteen drafts of a blog and HATING EVERY SINGLE ONE, but having to deal with fruit flies while in a heightened state of “I’M GOING TO THROW MY COMPUTER ACROSS THE ROOM” is a recipe for disaster. I’ve been fighting with fruit flies all…
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Friendship is a one-way street
I used to be that person who could only think of stories by hand-writing them first. After multiple failed attempts to draft a blog while on a ferry (without my laptop), I realize I am no longer that person. Of the five pages I scribbled in a notebook, none were good. Here is the…
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Journaling 101: A sneak peak inside my journal
4 My I’s ONLY Whenever I tell people I journal every day, they seem to respond in one of two ways. 1. “Wow. Every day? Really? That’s…[insanity] dedication.” 2. “What do you [could you possibly] write about?” Obviously there’s no literary genius behind my writing, as you’ve likely been able to observe from my blog;…
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Beware the Ides of March
It’s Friday, y’all! And it’s the Friday in which Brutus earned his way into the 9th level of Hell! Here is a testament to my week. It all went downhill on Wednesday, hence the delay in posting a blog. As usual, I wrote a blog draft on the morning of Weekly Writing Wednesday, but I…
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