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258 photos at the Ferry Farmer’s Market– less fattening than Cowgirl Creamery Cheese.
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The Ferry Farmer’s Market: like heaven, just foggier.
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BLC (out loud): (To guy nearly kneecapping me with his cane) Hey, watch it!
BLC (internally): Oh, shit. Another blind guy.
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I’ve never been afraid of heights before. But I [...]

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Poodelate.  Well, it made sense at the time.

Revolufried?  We couldn’t decide if it meant some newfangled frier machine that revolves, or some wonderful new fried food that was so revolutionary that it was, well, revolufried! (And really, it’s all my fault, because I was the one who played Wii on the second turn and got [...]

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Yesterday morning on my way in to work…
Oh my God, WHY is it taking so long for this line to get to the front? All I want is a dozen doughnuts!  I swear they’re conspiring against me.  This always happens!  I hate this, I am never shopping here again, I should totally leave.  But I [...]

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Ok, it’s perhaps anticlimactic to name my new bra as my second-ever secret girl(s)friend, but really, meet my new inner beauty. I introduce to you the “Barely There” Invisible Look Underwire Bra.

My girls are not as, ahem, generous as the ones in this picture, so I can use the light padding and underwire to [...]

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I was coming out of my building at the end of work one day this week, and as I breached the corner of our entryway, I was nearly run over by a blind man wielding his cane like a jousting lance, and holding a cellphone to his ear with the hand not brandishing his lance.
So [...]

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I love everything about The Onion, and every week it’s a reliable source of laughter and appreciation of the finer tunings of nerd humor.  But this week’s might be one of my all time favorites:  Oprah Launches Own Reality.  I appreciate the piece not only for its handling of the sense of impending doom that [...]

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Awakening

Awakening
The chirps aren’t sharp–
the trills aren’t shrill.
But the waking me, at dawn,
thinks their proudness
and their loudness
makes their tweets
less sweet.

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The Cordian Knot: What you will end up having to untangle in the morning when you try to plug in your phone headset and/or mp3 player headset, but  realized that you have failed to carefully fold your headset cord(s) and clip it/them with a little binder clip you’ve stolen from the office the night [...]

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Portal, please:  The practice of timing your entry into a revolving door correctly, by making eye contact with the person exiting the building/already in the revolving door, so that both persons are able to enter and exit without having to push too hard, and/or be pushed out too quickly by an overzealous push-er.
Dressing front:  The practice [...]

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