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Archives for July 2005

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Scorching Hot! Burning Man Ignites My Summers

When I first arrived in Chicago, I was bursting to tell people about my amazing summer adventures: trekking through the Amazon jungle, celebrating Bastille in Paris, living with a voodoo doctor in Belize, cruising through the Galapagos Islands. But more…

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Masai Tribe, Kenya 

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Multiple Offers

When I was out on a date, my date went to the bathroom. Now alone, someone approached and asked me out. I really liked the guy I was dating. But I said yes to the stranger. Why not? I like…

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The Galapagos, Ecuador 

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Airport

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Airport Angst

My flight back home was scheduled for 5:20pm. Before noon that day, my boss says, “I’m off to have lunch with a friend. We’ve pretty much wrapped up what we need to work on together so feel free to get…

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Golden Gate Bridge from Crissy Field 

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hot chocolate

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HOT Chocolate Girl

I don’t drink coffee. Coffee’s nasty. I take my caffeine in the form of cocoa. Who doesn’t love hot chocolate? I’ve tried them all: Peet’s Starbucks, Tully’s. There’s this bakery near my parents’ house that melts bars of chocolate. Pure…

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The Temple at Burning Man 

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Favorite Poetry

By Saul Williams to aim is to take oneself too seriously by focusing without instead of within re arrange and re member aim…i am the right letters are there it’s the wrong composition Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening…

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