August 2011

The Free Dignity Blog Giveaway!

August 31, 2011

Hi!  I’m a blogger and I used to be really cool and funny and as a result, I got TONS of traffic.  And, OMG advertisers started e-mailing me, too, which makes me feel really important.  So instead of writing the smart, moving, and beautifully-written content that I got noticed for, I am whoring myself out for a $20 Steak n’ Shake Maker, $100 Knife, or a book that I could have potentially bought by foregoing my weekly latte.  And I ...

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Grad school is hard.

August 30, 2011

Grad school is hard. I know this because I just got back from my first class, Microeconomics, and the only thing I understood was the Academic Integrity Policy on the syllabus. Aka, don’t be shady. Everyone in the class is in the PhD program, unlike me who would slit her wrists if she had to do anymore than two years,  and wears sweatpants and jeans and anime shirts.  I come in straight from work, buttoned up, hair up,  head still ...

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Book Review: The Magicians by Lev Grossman

August 29, 2011

My life has been pretty chaotic lately. New job, new school, new house, and, thanks to that whoreicane Irene, now we have a sinkhole situation in our driveway. However, when I started reading The Magicians last week, I could feel the chaos melting away and I knew right away this book and its sequel, The Magician King, were going on my list of favorite books. I heard about The Magicians when it first came out, but for some reason I ...

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Friday Links

August 26, 2011

So, this week I’ve been pretty busy with my new job, grad school orientation, surviving earthquakes, and devouring The Magician King (more on that next week).  And this weekend I’m ready to fight for my life.  So you can imagine I don’t have too many links this go around. Andrea GAAAAAAAALLLEEEEE. Links: Going to the minaret of Jam by motorcycle What explains the remarkable rise of Greek yogurt? The efforts to get the Israel natural gas project off the ground Anne ...

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Ways that I did not want to experience adventure in my life

August 24, 2011

Having a pane of Soviet-grade glass fall on my head when I was 3 Getting lost in my neighborhood in the dark when I was 8 and coming home, crying, to have my mom lecture me about rapists. Of course, there is no such thing as sex in Russia, so it wasn’t really rapists, but “Bad People.” Getting into a near-fatal car accident with Mr. B. We were both unharmed, the car was totalled. Working an internship in a country ...

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