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March 20, 2010

Meat No More

I always considered my mom odd because she’s not a vegetarian, yet she doesn’t eat meat.  Doesn’t like the taste of it.  Would rather have her staple: bread and cheese.  I’d look at her strangely, spreading cream cheese onto a…

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March 19, 2010

6 Days, 4 Holidays

Break out the champagne.  There’s more celebrating to be done.  Make that four minor holidays over the course of six days. March 14 – Pi Day March 15 – Ides of March March 17 – St. Patrick’s Day March 19…

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March 18, 2010

No More Apologies

Eliot Spitzer, John Edwards, Tiger Woods, Jesse James.  Is society telling us to remain faithful, but it’s not in our human nature? I think cheating is pretty disgusting, but I’m also a conservative American.  Can you imagine living in France…

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March 17, 2010

Holidays, Leprechauns, and Other Oddities

I don’t think I ever realized that there were three minor holidays (Pi Day, Ides of March, and St. Patrick’s Day) over the course of four days.  Insanity, eh?  I was chatting with someone in line at the cafe today….

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March 16, 2010

Fatty

When we’re out of wine, I always head to the closest liquor store which is one block down on Sutter Street.  Because the Academy of Art students work, study, and live in our hood, they frequent the same store.  I…

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March 15, 2010

Beware the Ides of March

In high school, we also celebrated the Ides of March. Sadly, I don’t really understand why we were studying Roman history in Honors English.  Can someone enlighten me? I’m sorry.  It’s been decades! All hail!  Our very creative, unique invitations…

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March 14, 2010

Happy Pi Day

3.14159265358979….I can continue to the 50th digit. Random shit.  When I was in high school, my geometry teacher was obsessed with Pi.  So we celebrated Pi every March 14th.  We brought in pies.  He gave us extra credit for memorizing…

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March 13, 2010

Retirement, You Elude Me

Well the top of the house numbers did not work out as I had anticipated.  My CPA did not deliver the quintuple digit refund I was expecting.  After working so hard, I wonder when this will ever end.  I mean,…

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March 12, 2010

I’m a Numbers Girl in Disguise

If I were a numbers girl, I would’ve taken Math 1A, 1B (challenging math) at Berkeley versus 16A, 16B (basic math).  If I were a numbers girl, I wouldn’t have almost flunked out of Physics 8A.  College was so long…

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March 11, 2010

Bells Will Be Ringing

I had the pleasure of bumping into my ex-boyfriend Dave last night at District.  I was there with Dean and a bunch of my friends when we saw him and his girlfriend making their way through the crowd.  I forget…

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