My Dog is Chelsea

Just got back from my student’s. (For those of you who don’t remember, I am a volunteer ESL tutor for a refugee. My last student was from eastern Europe and force-fed me meat products—you may remember those stories. My current student is from northern Africa and I’ve never mentioned her here before.) Her son has [...]

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I went to the doctor last week about the persistant—albeit very minor—sore throat I’ve had ever since my second round of antibiotics ended well over a month ago. I definitely don’t have strep anymore but this constant sore throat is getting pretty fucking annoying. So he looked at my tonsils, announced that they looked normal, [...]

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I got home this afternoon to find a promise of a free trial issue of the Sun Magazine tucked into my mailbox. I like that magazine, so I opened the card to read more. Inside was a note to me (I KNOW! Can you believe it?! Although for some odd reason, they think my name [...]

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From xkcd.com, a brilliantly nerdy and hilarious webcomic I found via Laura.

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 A friend sent me some pictures from our “alumni camp” weekend. We took these late one night on the sailing dock in a fit of uncontrollable drunken giggles. We even managed to take several accidental shots of the night sky—turned out we were pointing the camera in the wrong direction. The sixth photo is a [...]

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