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heavy fog

When I departed from the train this morning and looked out at the Bay Bridge, I saw that it had been swallowed by a cloud. The mass surrounding the span did not appear to be the usual fog, it looked instead like a large white cloud had fallen out of the sky and just landed […]

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what a mighty good maaaan

Brian had roses and chocolate delivered to my desk at work yesterday. But that was just the beginning. We met up for dinner at six, right by the ball park, and walked a few blocks over to Coco 500, a place he found online. Once we were seated, the waiter brought us ANOTHER vase of […]

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7:51 am

For my birthday today, I am going to treat myself to a Peet’s mocha. With whipped cream! Then back on the no-treats wagon. Well, unless there’s a dessert tonight that I can’t refuse. My mom called me this morning to sing me “happy birthday”. Today she is going to a small town in Oregon with […]

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eye shadow

We had a productive day of shopping. I got a couple of sweaters on sale, and bought a green dress shirt for Brian, also on sale. I also bought some makeup (a compact with some shadows and lip glosses) Being that it is the first day of the year, I thought of a good “start […]

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last day of vacation

How will I start the new year? Will I lay in bed until 10:30, petting the cats and squinting as the sun bleeds through the blinds? Will I make a pot of coffee, then screw around making a few new livejournal icons? Will I then remind myself that I am supposed to drive to the […]

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promises

I have a stack of unstarted and unfinished books. Using a gift certificate from my dad, I just bought three more. I have another stack of New Yorker magazines, stretching embarrassingly far back into 2006. So, here are two of my goals for the upcoming year: read at least one piece in each of those […]

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parklife

So I just read that BLUR are re-uniting with Graham Coxon and will record together next year. HELL YESPLEASE Tomorrow I don’t have much on my list, just buying cat food, reading, maybe making apple crisp, and of course, trying to finish this chapter I started. Only one of the most important ones in the […]

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“the craft”

I finished reading On Writing last night, and found it to be very worthwhile, especially for someone like me, who is working on a book in a kind of vacuum. Sure I have a couple people who give me feedback, but mostly I am plugging away in obscurity, and sort of wondered if I was […]

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