I’ve been reading a lot of decade wrap-ups online, of course, and some of them are about the best books and movies and television shows, and some of them are about what happened in the news and current events. There are lots of these out there. The AV Club did pretty well with the former, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Past Life Experiences'
My Decade Wrap-Up (or, What I Did in the Aughts)
December 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Summary, Past Life Experiences
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The Chez Is Dead, Long Live the Chez
April 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Past Life Experiences
This morning, I got a tour of the remodeled First Presbyterian Church, right up the block from my office. My grandparents are members there, but the church was really home to me in my college years. Quite literally. And not for any real particularly religious reasons. The Chez Coffeehouse was located in one underused wing [...]
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Wayback Birthdays
November 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Past Life Experiences
My mother has the amazing ability to recall minute details of events that took place years before. She not only knows what she did on her birthday since she was old enough to have a memory, but she remembers what she wore and what she ate and all kinds of stuff. And not just her [...]
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No, I’m Really Not That Surprised That We’ve Consumerized Easter Too.
April 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Endless Blathering, Past Life Experiences, Rants/Raves
When exactly did Easter become a gifting holiday? It was sometime in the past few years. 10 years. Or so. Because it was not a gifting holiday when I was a child. We got candy. In baskets. Perhaps a stuffed animal if someone was feeling generous and/or nervous about the current state of our teeth. [...]
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New Lenses Lead to Old Acquaintances
March 9th, 2007 · No Comments · Past Life Experiences, Photography
I cannot tell a lie: I bought another lens yesterday. Nikkor 24mm f/2.8, which is wide-angle but not so wide-angle that it distorts. Sure, I’d love the 12-24mm f/4G lens, but I do have a small amount of restraint. Also: tax refund. So I had an excuse. Also: bought it used for half the cost. [...]
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I Always Preferred Doug to Barry and Levon
February 27th, 2007 · No Comments · Movies/TV, Past Life Experiences
I was in high school when I ran across the sketch comedy show The State on MTV. I immediately become obsessed with it and started taping every episode. The show ran from 1993 to 1995, and I recorded almost every episode. I watched and rewatched every one of those shows for years. They burned into [...]
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The Kid in the Hall
December 12th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Past Life Experiences
I work for the University of Missouri, and although I don’t actually work with student employees, they do work in offices right outside mine. They do student employment activities, the nature of which I will keep quiet because this entry already feels stalkerish even though it’s very innocent and not stalkerish at all, really. If [...]
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It’s That Time Of Year…
December 8th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Holidays, Past Life Experiences
when you obsess over tracking the status of all of your online purchases, right? Or is that just me? I love tracking packages across the country. I love knowing that something is out for delivery, and that when I get home it will be waiting for me. Even if it’s not something for me, but a [...]
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Mystery Solved: Barbarella
November 21st, 2006 · 2 Comments · Mi Familia, Movies, Past Life Experiences
I sent Barbarella back to Netflix yesterday after watching it entirely on fast-forward. I’ve been looking for that movie for years. Well, I didn’t know it was that movie. I saw a movie at my cousin’s house when I was a kid (he had HBO and cable, and we saw lots of things at his [...]
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Columbia, Missouri
August 2nd, 2006 · No Comments · Past Life Experiences
After college, I took a job near Washington, DC, and I lived there for five years. I moved back to the Midwest just this summer- less than two months ago. In fact, I moved back to my college town. I know that “you can never go home again”, and I wasn’t really trying to recreate [...]
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