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Things that I hate doing, but love having done

2009-09-29T03:33:32Z

1. Cleaning my room 2. Writing 3. Filing my fingernails into perfect squares

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Found Poetry

2009-09-22T18:33:52Z

I sent this poem to someone like, four years ago, and I just found the email when digging through my old hotmail account. I still love it: Hinged to Forgetfulness Like a Door Richard Brautigan Hinged to forgetfulness like a door, she ...

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Love, Wayne

2009-09-08T05:39:06Z

In early August, I was at the beach for a week when I started reading my grandfather's letters to my grandmother. Late one night early in the week, my aunt and I went out to the shed with flashlights to find the small cedar chest full of letters...

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R.I.P. Sally

2009-05-08T03:59:36Z

Remember when I wrote this post nearly two years ago? Turns out I never revealed the story. I'm finally moved into my new place, and in honor of the old one, here's quite possibly the best story from the 249 years: Amanda's friend Andrea brought...

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Found Items

2009-04-17T04:03:31Z

Yeah, I knew I couldn't come up with 249 stories. Oh, well. Here are some weird things I found while cleaning out my "closet" (it's really just slanted shelves with a door attached): - Three posters from when Matt ran the New York marathon in 200...

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249 Stories about 249

2009-04-09T01:35:08Z

In a few weeks, I'll be moving to a new apartment. I've only lived in this apartment -- 249 -- since I moved to Brooklyn four and a half years ago, and I'm a bit sentimental about it. I thought maybe over the next few weeks, I'd try to come up wit...

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Age Balance, vol. 2

2009-03-24T00:39:52Z

More signs you're getting old: - There's this mix CD your old college boyfriend made you during the summer of 2002. First of all, 2002 was seven years ago, holy crap. Second of all, there's this lyric of one song on the mix that goes, "When July ...

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Age Balance

2009-03-23T01:25:33Z

Signs you're getting old: - You go to bed when you're tired. - You stop drinking when you start to feel drunk - You thought Bella's dad in the "Twilight" movie was way hotter than Edward Cullen Signs you're still on the youngish side of things: A...

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Do do do do doo...do do do do doo

2009-03-04T05:43:10Z

You know that song? The one that goes do do do do doo...do do do do doo...? No, you know it. Have you ever seen Say Anything? John Cusack is all excited because he's falling in love with Ione Skye (who wouldn't have in 1989?) and he's giddily tell...

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Little Drummer Person

2009-03-03T03:44:37Z

"She marches to the beat of an instrument that might not even be a drum."

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