seven random things you probably don’t know about me

I love collecting Vintage Pyrex bowls (particularly the “crazy daisy/spring blossom green” pattern– I have a butter dish and salt and petter shakers in that pattern, along with a great set of bowls). Someday I’m going to have a completely retro kitchen for my vintage kitchen table and my pyrex.
I also collect old, abandoned photographs. [...]

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I do science!

First of all, if you’ve never seen The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, go out and rent it now. It has to be one of my all time favorite funny films. You might have to have an appreciation of old b&w science fiction movies to truly get everything out of it, but I think it’s hilarious [...]

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moving forward

Confession: I'm a pretty sentimental person.
I knew this, but I re-learned it during the day we spent cleaning out our basement storage. I save all kinds of odd things from years and years ago. For example, I have my last hall pass from my last day of high school. I have old sheet music, notes [...]

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coming full circle

I started out my undergrad life as a gung-ho theatre design major– lighting design, to be specific. I was never super serious about academic stuff (this is true of high school and my first couple years of college). I lived and breathed theatre day and night. Falling asleep at night I was likely to mull [...]

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behind the times at the life cafe

I just noticed that they made a movie version of Rent. (It also seems they remade the Poseidon Adventure, and the Fog- how completely unnecessary!) Jeez. I tend to be a purist about these things- I don’t think they should have made a movie out of an incredible musical like Rent, especially this one. It [...]

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on coming out

Since my present life is boring/excruciating/exhausting/dull, and all I am doing is wallowing in the misery of trying to memorize huge amounts of information, I thought I’d tell you a little story today instead of another prelim-post.
Why this story? Well, while I was eating dinner (amazing left over Squash Curry- only my favorite food ever) [...]

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I have no need for anger with intimate strangers*

I got an email today detailing some of my upcoming high school reunion. It was semi-long and even irritating in all the details. Something about how instead of the reunion lasting from 6-12 it was only going to be from 7-11 (I think 4 hours is plenty) and something else about a silent auction we [...]

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kid fears

Today on the bus ride home, I thought about this summer’s upcoming prelim. I was actually trying to figure out what I was more afraid of– failing the prelim, or the three months spent studying for the prelim, or the stress that I will need to keep in check while study, or it will wreck [...]

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