“Do you want your meat in a separate bag?” “That’s not meat; it’s fish.” “Ok…do you want it in a separate bag?” “Yes, of course.” I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve had this conversation, or a similar one, with customers. Today it went even further. The customer in question informed me that [...]
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Last week my story was up for critique in my Advanced Fiction Workshop class. I felt I had written it well and wasn’t at all worried about the critique or my grade. When I first started taking Creative Writing class I got really nervous about the in class critiques, but I no longer get extremely [...]
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It’s the start of the new semester and I’m sitting in a class of forty or so people. The professor passes out the syllabus and then picks up an attendance sheet. In an attempt to learn our names, he or she decides to call out names instead of having us sign in for the first [...]
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The other day I sold back most of my books. I wound up selling most of them to a girl in one of my friend’s classes and she gave me $76 for them, which is not bad at all. However, she was only going to give me $3 for my $200 French text book (the [...]
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After a few weeks of not having much to blog about, I all of a sudden have quite a few things to blog about. I’m just going to put them in one entry to make my life easier. I woke up today to the lovely sound of my phone making a crackling noise that sounded [...]
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The other day I was zoning out in my Literary Analysis class, idling doodling on my notes like I usually do. There were fifteen minutes left in class and I was counting down. It was the last day we were talking about Sent For You Yesterday, which is a very confusing and boring book. The [...]
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I woke up today to the lovely sound of the fire alarm going off. Last semester I configured my schedule so that the earliest I would ever have to be in class is 11:30 am. What is the point of that if they’re going to do fire drills at 10? When the alarm went off [...]
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You all knew it was coming. You know school is coming when I rant about textbook prices. But you know what? I nearly had to not have a rant this year. I am only taking three classes that require me to purchase textbooks. My other credits consist of my senior thesis and working in a [...]
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I was recruited to run games at my church’s vacation Bible school last night. That in itself was an interesting experience. Some of the kids had endless amounts of energy. After it was over, one of the little girls from my mom’s group wasn’t picked up yet. Her mom was late. We were sitting outside [...]
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Well, it’s not really new since it’s been around since Leopard came out, but it’s new to me. I hate iPhoto on Leopard. Yes, it has some cool features like face recognition and stuff, but it’s not cool enough to make me like it. I was not expecting it to be that different from Tiger’s [...]
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