My parents worked for a local PNW (Pacific Northwest) burger chain, Burgerville, for 25 years. They were both fired about ten years ago within 24 hours of each other during a big muckity-much shakeup. For the last five years or so, my dad has owned a Pizza Schmizza franchise, also a local chain. Today, my […]
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For today: Made a list of things I’ll be buying from Ikea to furnish my new place. Suddenly an actual possibility now that I don’t owe $1133 in taxes. Also, new workouts with Health & Wellness program at work started today! yay! For tonight: another apartment showing! And then: homework! My Econ and Marketing classes
I’ve done my taxes about four times, and went from getting back $900 to owing $1100. I had finally resigned myself to giving $1100 of next month’s book check to taxes when I finally gave up staring down the cold, hard tunnel of multiple State returns and brought it in to work to take advantage
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“Coconut Skins” by Damien Rice(this guy is lovely. See also here. Another of my favorites) You can hold her handAnd show her how you cryExplain to her your weaknessSo she understandsAnd then roll over and die You can brave decisionsBefore you crumble up insideSpend your time asking everyone else’s permissionThen run away and hide Or
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There’s no need to think at all during the course of this movie, and that’s a good thing, too, cause thinking would much diminish the experience. Instead, the filmmakers have happily allowed the viewer to forget all that plot nonesenese alltogether by making Milla Jovovich JUST THAT KEWL: There are zombies, and some kind of
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I’m always curious to see how other people write books. Mainly because mine are always such a damn mess. When I hit the 3/4 mark, I have to go back and hack apart all the pacing. It’s all about timing action scenes and shuffling POV scenes into the right order. Putting in additional POV scenes
The fact that the two primary folks who put Nyx back together again are men really bothers me. So one of them will be getting a sex change. I mean, not within the book (though that certainly would be something interesting to explore in this weird body-swapping world… hm…), but an authorial one. Sometimes I
I’m applying for an apartment. I need my old landlord’s phone number. Do I have her phone number? A copy of the lease? Why, no, why on earth would I have that information! Jenn handled all that! Yeah. This is why relying on other people to handle stuff explodes in my face. I tend to
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