Category: Just Me
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What’s wrong with the Super Bowl?
Full disclosure: Tonight I’m writing my blog post from the Phoenix, AZ, International Airport. I’m writing here instead of in an airplane heading home because Super Bowl-induced air traffic caused some delays in my flight here, and I wound up missing the transfer to Indianapolis. There was also rain involved,…
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Being a Grown-Up
A few weeks ago, I celebrated my 25th birthday, and a few weeks before that, my sixth wedding anniversary. You’d think that at some point, I’d start feeling kind of like an adult or something, right?
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Some of you may remember my previous post about my new puppy, Baldur. It’s been a few months since then, and my itty bitty puppy is growing up.
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When to say no
Creon: My dear, I woke up one morning and found myself King of Thebes. God knows, there were other things I loved in life more than power. Antigone: Then you should have said no. Creon: Yes, I could have done that. Only, I felt that it would have been cowardly.…
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Happy 2014!
2013 has been a pretty intense year for me. It’s the year I got a house, the year I got a dog, the year I started grad school, the year I celebrated my fifth year being married to Boxy. Now that we had a place to hold them, we hosted…
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Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween to everybody! If you’re curious, Dean Winchester is a character from the TV Show Supernatural. Welcome to Night Vale is a free humor/horror podcast produced by Commonplace Books (very appropriate for Halloween!)
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Going back to the Potato Room: the power of places
The Potato Room I like to think of myself as a casual gamer, more interested in stories than actual shoot-em-up action– which is why Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a big favorite of mine (even if I can’t fix the stupid elevator). While playing Amnesia’s shorter tangent, Justine, I wound…
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So excited for Kindar’s Cure
A while back I won a signed edition of Kindar’s Cure from one of Michelle’s contests, and it finally arrived in the mail. Awesome~
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Personal Archetypes
According to Wikipedia, an archetype is defined as: A statement, or pattern of behavior, a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated. The Platonic philosophical idea, referring to pure forms which embody the fundamental characteristics of a thing. In Jungian psychology, archetypes refer to a collectively inherited unconscious…
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What’s kept me busy these past few weeks…
You may have noticed that I’ve dropped off the face of the earth since the end of my July blogging challenge. I’ve been tremendously busy lately, and this little guy is most of the reason behind it. We brought him home on August 4, and he’s a real handful!
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