Faux-Winter

January 27, 2012

Well, last night we got a little bit of snow. It’s covering the grass right now, but who can say what’ll happen later on? It’s supposed to be a high of 37 today. For the first time in a while I ran four days in a row this week, culminating in a three-miler yesterday in [...]

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Too Tired Not to Run

January 26, 2012

In the winter, it’s easy to get out of all those un-lazy habits. If you don’t have to, why should you wake up early to work out when it’s still dark out? Even if you have to wake up early, it’s still hard to want to do anything until the sun has at least risen. [...]

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Movie Reviews: Not Helpful

January 25, 2012

These days, the Internet is in a tizzy because Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close got nominated for an Oscar despite garnering a large amount of bad reviews. Well, whatever. The thing about movie reviews is that (and the same could be said of book reviews, although you’d better believe I’ll still be writing a few [...]

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Things That Sit Creepily in the Night

January 24, 2012

I am a person who is eminently capable of scaring myself nearly out of my wits when it gets dark. Recently, among other books, I began to read The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian. All the book reviewers were all “it’s horror, with a twist” so, because I liked Midwives and The Double Bind I [...]

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An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns [Book Review/s]

January 23, 2012

Last week after a (second) recommendation from one of my friends, I put some books by John Green on hold at the library and on Friday two of them came in: An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns. John Green writes for young adults but also people, and this combination led me to read An Abundance [...]

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Why Having Type 2 Diabetes and Being Famous Doesn’t Make You a Good Spokesperson

January 18, 2012

Don’t freak out; this is my last commentary on this issue, and then I’m not going to say anything else because I think what I have to say here is obvious to most people. So, Paula Deen, queen of fatty, fried comfort foods, has Type 2 diabetes. She announced it recently to a flurry of [...]

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