Tag: warning: copious amounts of snark
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Beach day
There are several posts I mean to write this month. One of them is maybe a new “Learn a New Animal Day” entry, but I can’t quite decide which animal I want to do. I’m open to suggestions. Instead you get to hear about how I went to the beach today and how, despite my…
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The Story About the Beetles
Well, my Christmas tree is finally in its box, in the garage where it belongs. It went there on Saturday. Yes, I know it’s March. Yes, I know Christmas was 2 1/2 months ago. And I tried, I really and truly tried to put it away. December 30th I actually started pulling down all of…
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Bookshelf Shopping: Take 1
Actual Conversation I just had with Furniture Store Employee: I went into a few furniture stores today to look at bookshelves. I’ve reached the point where I can no longer squeeze all of my books onto the shelves that survived the move– two broke, and I gave away enough books at the time to be…
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Review of War of the Worlds, or…
…Little Girl Shrieks for Two Hours and Does Nothing Else. So tonight I saw War of the Worlds with some friends (it was DVRed) and while I appreciated the HG Wells source and his wonderful ideas about alien invasion, I didn’t quite get some of the character bits. For instance, the main characters in the…
Joanna Volavka 