Oddity #2

Fairfax county has this thing about “encouraging reading” by putting giant book sculptures in front of public buildings.  Sometimes, these locations make sense–the one I’m about to show you comes from a local library–but often, the reasoning behind the placement is kind of perplexing.  I once found one in front of the Fairfax County Conference [...]

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Food Fight

The Boyfriend and I have been packing on some pounds, which is not surprising. I mean, A.) it is winter in this hemisphere; and also B.) the Boyfriend is a self-described “simple Chinese man,” and there I went and introduced him to Italian food. And maybe that wouldn’t have been so bad in and of [...]

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Kryptonite. Delicious, Delicious Kryptonite.

My friend Brandy became lactose intolerant in her early twenties, which is just plain cruel.  I mean, it’s one thing to be born deaf, blind, or unable to digest milk products, but to grow up eating cheesecake and to know what you’re missing?  I imagine it’s something like how Beethoven must have felt after he [...]

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Oddity #1

I don’t have much time to write or review lately, because moving is hard and so is studying for the M.A.T.  I don’t do much actual reviewing, though–mostly I just take practice test after practice test, because I want to feel like I’m doing something, but the dogged acquisition of random trivia just seems…like a [...]

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