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introducing the best idea ever: the terrible book club

jamelah — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:13:12 +0000

I must admit that I’ve never actually been in a book club before, so I don’t really know how they work. I guess it’s to talk about books or something and you try to pick good ones?...

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favorite things 6: sweet pea

jamelah — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:15:44 +0000

(There is, of course, the story of how and why I adopted Sweet Pea, but I’m going in a different direction with this today.) Sweet Pea is my dog. She’s a border collie. There is a...

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marginal

jamelah — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:28:40 +0000

The other morning I was reading this thing that appeared in my NPR Books feed (don’t you subscribe to National Public Radio book talk? what are you? not a nerd?): Chat While Reading: The Future...

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of independence day (and a birthday shout out)

jamelah — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:26:04 +0000

So, it’s the 4th of July, known as Independence Day here in the United States. How did I get fireworks photos already? Well, either I finally perfected time travel or we had them a day early...

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random question of the day

jamelah — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:47:51 +0000

Commence ridiculously long introduction: I like to sleep with my windows open, so as soon as the temperature is warm enough for me to leave my windows open all night without dying of hypothermia,...

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in which i declare myself the world’s only living authority on the hotness of reading material

jamelah — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:49:17 +0000

I was having this IM conversation a couple of weeks ago with a guy we’ll call Greg, because that is his name. It ended up being about whether or not certain books are hot, for example,...

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posting on a saturday? what?

jamelah — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:18:26 +0000

I just spent about an hour going through a bunch of posts in Google Reader, and there are 98 left. It’s down from over 300 yesterday, but you know, sometimes there is just too much internet....

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sinner

jamelah — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:33:47 +0000

Fraulein N tagged me, so I’ve decided to play along and make myself sound like an awful person, because that’s a good activity for a Friday. So these are my confessions. Except...

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favorite things 5: strawberries

jamelah — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:19:29 +0000

I was always a very picky eater. I mean, I still am, to a degree, though I’m way less picky than I used to be, mainly because over time, I’ve made myself eat and evaluate food I believed...

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things i learned from this month’s cosmo

jamelah — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:24:11 +0000

I forgot to learn things from last month’s Cosmo, and I couldn’t let myself continue having such huge gaps in my education. So I was in Walmart on Friday. I hate Walmart, and it’s...

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