Month: December 2005
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December 2005 Books
I read one hundred and eleven books this year, according to my very sophisticated calculations, which don’t include magazines (although I wanted to count the \\New Yorker’s\\ fiction issue for this month, I didn’t, because a magazine is not a book and I think I should try to uphold some sort of standards) or guidebooks…
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New Year’s Meme 2005
**What did you do in the past year that you’d never done before?** \\ Got a UTI. Put soap on my green beans instead of olive oil.\\ \\Sang karaoke. Got a job that actually requires that pesky\\ \\MSW. Foiled my boss’ office. Wore fishnets in public.\\ \\Learned the Thriller Dance. Volunteered at the polls. Got…
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What I Learned In 2005
What I learned from Eliza: Left foot, right foot, breathe. What I learned from bellydance: Improvisation takes a lot of practice. What I learned from Rohini: There is so much love in the world and everyone is so beautiful. What I learned from KC: My hair should always have layers. What I learned from Ruth:…
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Reining It In
Friday night I went to a bellydance holiday party. Three troupes performed and then they opened up the floor for whoever wanted to get up and dance. I was feeling sort of underdressed but at least I had my gear on so I hopped up there and joined the choruses and had lots of fun.…
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How To Meet Hot Girls
I have this thing where I only hang out with hot girls. It’s not that I have any sort of “no uglies” friendship policy or anything, it’s just worked out that every single woman friend of mine happens to be gorgeous. Are you a girl? Do you hang out with me? Then you are hot,…
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Get On Your Hands And Knees
Monday night bellydance often starts out with up shimmy, which involves sort of leaning back as you raise your arms in the air and leading with your hips as you swing across the room. It looks very cool when a group of twenty or so dancers does it. We sometimes call it the, uh, snatch…
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Cheese Sauce
I am still in a really good mood, thanks for asking, especially since you all have been writing me the nicest congratulatory emails this past week. My beautiful friend Kate sent me a New Zealand Lonely Planet guide the other day and you best believe that I have been poring over that thing like it’s…
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The Culmination Of The Top Secret Plans
I have been smiling to myself since yesterday afternoon at about one o’clock, when I got a very enthusiastic email informing me that my application for a New Zealand working holiday visa has been accepted. I’m moving to New Zealand for a year in August 2006. This is the culmination of the Top Secret Plans,…
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I Don’t Want To Write
I don’t feel much like writing about my weekend, not about the gorgeous-yet-condescending Apple store guy named Marlon, nor about the fun Narnia party I went to, nor about the pea soup I made on Sunday that is really bothering me because I can’t tell what I did wrong to it to make it taste…