Category: Top Secret Plans
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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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Normal, Ordinary
I sort of feel I should be writing a follow-up entry to the one I posted last week but I don’t know what to write. Maybe I should just write that, that I don’t know what to say. I appreciate all the emails people have sent me, full of love and support and questions and…
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Top Secret No More
The Top Secret Plans were, and maybe still are, to move to London next year. I have been thinking about this for a long time. I have been wanting to live abroad since I was in college. I didn’t do a study abroad program for several of reasons, some having to do with being a…
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Top Secret Disappointment
I was this close to telling you what the Top Secret Plans are. I just wrote half an entry explaining everything and laying it all out and getting into all the work I’ve done over the past eighteen months and how yesterday I received some very disappointing news about the Plans. I was going to…
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Mission Pretty Well Accomplished
It would seem that the power of the good kind thoughts all y’all sent me over < a href="http://allchiara.com/2005/08/24/in-control/">my long weekend in New York worked their magic, as the whole thing with the Top Secret Plans and my dad and everything went rather well, I think. Now, quick, turn all those good thoughts and hopes…
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In Control
I’m taking a red-eye to New York tonight to visit my dad for the weekend. It’s going to be fine, I guess. I’ll spend a lot of time with middle-aged Italian-Americans in the East Village and Queens and try very hard not to unconsciously imitate their accents. Between Dad’s taste in restaurant and his own…
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Another Step
Last night I was at the old house to do yet some MORE cleaning up there so I can get my deposit back…which I am now not so sure is worth it anymore. I like money very much and I have many ideas on how to spend that deposit, but seriously all I did over…
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Hot And Cold
The weather in Seattle lately, it’s like I have to pack an anorak, scuba flippers, open-toed sandals, and a scarf every day because of the hot! Cold! No, hot again! Rainy! Sunny! I’m a little tired of all my clothes and I wish I didn’t have to wear all of them, in shifts, for some…
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Oh, The Top Secret Plans
I’m just really frustrated with myself at the moment. It’s the Top Secret Plans, of course, because what else do I ever talk about, beside the Top Secret Plans. The Top Secret Plans may never come to fruition. The Top Secret Plans are taking WAY longer to get started than originally anticipated. The Top Secret…
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Fret and Fidget
Well, NO, I didn’t get my [Top Secret] finished for my [Top Secret] which means I’ll have to [Top Secret] if I want to make the [Top Secret] deadline. It’s all sooooooo Top Secret, yes. What’s not Top Secret is that I am seriously going crazy here with trying to get these plans in shape…
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New Idea
Some of the girls in my office are playing, for some reason I have not yet fully understood, “I’ll Be There For You” by Bon Jovi. As in “I’ll be there for you , these five words I swear to you, when you breathe, I want to be the air for you, I’ll be THERE…