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Entries from August 2005

REUNION NOT UNION ’05

August 10th, 2005 · 13 Comments

I almost started crying in the airport on the way home. It seemed cruel that an airline would hold me hostage in layover limbo for three hours when I could have spent that valuable time hanging out with my friends just a little bit longer. It has been about 15 months since we all lived [...]

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Tags: Life · Portland

Go figure

August 5th, 2005 · 12 Comments

I zoomed out of my internship an hour and a half early to catch my flight to Portland. On my way to the interstate, I realized that I a) had to pee b) had left my razor and sunglasses behind and c) even if I got stuck in bumber-to-bumper traffic when I’d hit Albuquerque, I’d [...]

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Tags: New Mexico · Portland

“I saw my reflection in a snow covered hill” is not a lyric about Stevie’s coke days

August 3rd, 2005 · 14 Comments

For the record, I never said that I am not a Stevie fan. I am. I’m just not a big enough fan to spend absurd amounts of money to see her from twenty feet away. However, due to my roommate’s status as an uber-obsessed almost-groupie, I did see her from twenty feet away—and I had [...]

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Tags: Life

Things I learned this weekend

August 2nd, 2005 · 12 Comments

I love the city of Colorado Springs. Outhouses smell really badly, and there’s nothing you can do about it except breath through your mouth. The Colorado Rockies have ugly uniforms. I missed him even more than I realized. Come to think of it, I knew all of the above facts before this weekend. It’s late [...]

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Tags: Life