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Entries from August 2009

stretch marks

August 17th, 2009 3 Comments

TweetYou know those moments of slow realization combined with a sinking feeling of dread, like when you read Youtube video comments and realize that some people just shouldn’t have Internet access? And that feeling sort of deepens even more when you masochistically keep reading said comments and someone [and it always has to be someone […]

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scorching hot surprises

August 14th, 2009 1 Comment

TweetEndless summer. It’s already August but I’m trying to keep it endless. Grasping on to the last hot, sticky days of summer; simultaenously hating the humidly drenching heat but addicted to the feel of the sun pushing its rays onto my bare shoulders. And just when the clear days are no longer being so coy, […]

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swatch it

August 13th, 2009 1 Comment

TweetAny weekend will end right when it starts off with an invitation to a movie viewing on a Billyburg rooftop, with a smoldering grill to roast marshmallows and assemble s’mores. Even better when that invitation is extended by bike friends, and the movie is “Tuff Turf,” starring an insanely young James Spader and Robert Downing, […]

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sans scenesters

August 10th, 2009 2 Comments

TweetI’m somehow still in NYC. And no, it wasn’t the Yankees win against the Sox after 15 innings [although that was a pretty intense game]. And despite all the trash talk that I might be doing that Boston sometimes needs to step it up, it’s not the bike scene that’s keeping me here either. Because […]

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kept

August 10th, 2009 4 Comments

TweetLike most women, in my laziest moments, I’ve considered it. The concept – at least in the abstract – doesn’t sound so bad, and as long as you perform your end of the bargain, there are clearly some tangible rewards to be gained. And it’s not like you’re chained, unwillingly, to something you never agreed […]

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