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This Post is Morbid as Hell

December 13, 2010

During the first couple hours that Mr. B and I part ways on Sundays, I am extremely vulnerable to bawling. I don’t pick up the phone and I go do activities that minimize my contact with people I know so I don’t implode on them.  This weekend I happened to be in DC to run a mountain of errands including cleaning out as much of our apartment as we could, looking at new cars, getting Mr. B a haircut, shopping ...

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The difference between Washington and Philly in two screenshots

November 29, 2010

I guess I could make this all meta and take screenshots of this blog Before Philly and After Philly, but I don’t want to depress myself anymore.  I gotta go. It’s time for me to read more in-depth about that turnover and then, later, deer-hunting season.  Which, come to think of it, exemplify American exceptionalism.

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Great Falls and the Origins of Shashlik

October 19, 2010

The leaves are starting to change and the Russian community in North America is starting to think about turning the heat on in their houses, but not quite yet, because it costs a lot and so we might as well tough in out until the middle of November if possible by wearing the same amount of clothing in our living room as we do in the Siberian gulags. Actually, more, since they didn’t really have clothes in the gulags.  I ...

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Saturday in Alexandria

September 20, 2010

Mr. B and I live 10 minutes from downtown Alexandria and decided to go this weekend since the weather was so beautiful.  Everything was sun-dappled and the weather was trying to cling on to the last of summer like a middle-aged Californian housewife post-Botox to youth. We had a nice chocolate breakfast: And walked around the city for three or four hours.  Ever have those moments in life where you’re happy, but you can’t express how happy you are because it sounds ...

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What were YOU doing instead of getting heat stroke?

July 26, 2010

at a water stop. Thoughts I had while biking the Mt. Vernon trail from Crystal City to almost-Mt. Vernon this weekend in record-high temperatures (Mr. B abstained from joining me, for some reason): Mile 1: I’m going to get skin cancer, despite the fact that I have so many layers of SPF 45 sunblock on that I might as well be wearing  hijab.   If I get skin cancer, will my insurance cover it, even if it was kind of ...

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