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Or, A Musical Journey Through My Angst-Filled Teen Years
Ahem.
Okay, so I did Sarah’s High School CD swap, which has proved to be an interesting exercise for the following reasons:

I listened to a weird mix of music when I was in high school, and since I am OCD about making mix CDs, it was hard for […]

Well, I wrote another post about this, and then Wordpress had to go all Wordpress on me, so that post seems to be floating around in the vast internet ether, never to be seen again.  Whatever.  Anyway, yesterday marked the fourth anniversary of the day I started this blog.  Four years later, I still have […]

So, on the last Friday of each month, we have a potluck in our office building, since there are three organizations that share the space, it’s a way to encourage camaraderie or to eat too much on a Friday afternoon, or something.  Anyway, this morning, I carried the items I was taking to the potluck […]

the death of the flip flops
Originally uploaded by jamelah.

Okay, yes, I have been wearing these flip flops for three years. Sure, I can afford a new pair. I mean, it’s not like these were made by Prada, or anything. It’s just that I like to wear shoes until they can’t be worn anymore. I’m not […]

There are several reasons why I enjoy being a girl.  Shaving my legs, plucking my eyebrows, getting stabbed by wayward underwires, wearing tights.  No, really.  I love all those things.  But the thing I love most?  Cramps.  Definitely.  I know that it’s unfeminist of me to say negative things about the miraculous wonder that is […]

1. Soylent Green Chili. Served in a shoe. Can’t. Breathe.
2. Speaking of Caryn, which I was, in a roundabout way, she e-mailed me this picture today:

You know, because this is the kind of thing friends send to each other. Heh. But seriously, how is anybody supposed to believe he didn’t kill […]

Okay, so I know I haven’t been doing much here lately. Sorry. It’s just that my life has been kind of crazy lately. Of course, there are two kinds of crazy that people talk about when they say “my life has been kind of crazy lately.” The first kind is the interesting kind that is […]

It’s not a good sign when you ask your coworker to please stab you to death with the pen he’s holding and it’s not even 10 a.m.  It’s probably not a good sign if you’re asking your coworker to do that at any time in the day, but it has to be especially bad if […]

by Fraulein N! Right-o…
Six Weird Things About Me That I Think Haven’t Landed on The Blog Yet but I’m Too Lazy to Dig Through the Archives to Be Sure:
1. I often find myself wishing that there were movies about extras in movies. I mean, sometimes I’m watching a movie which may or may not […]

it’s hard to shoot a moving target

Originally uploaded by jamelah.

I think I was 9, but I could’ve been 8. Either way, I was under 10, and it was three weeks before Christmas. My mother came home from running some errands and told me […]