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Elevator exposition

I. Man: That girl — her biscuits ain’t fully baked.Other Man: Shake ‘n’ Bake!Man: But nobody helped. II. I stepped onto the empty elevator, going down, and it smelled like fresh fart. It wasn’t stifling, but it saturated the small space and didn’t seem to dissipate during the entire three-second journey. The whole ride down I just knew that as soon as I stepped off onto the first floor, someone would be there waiting —…

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I’m on board

It’s a new year and I need some sort of random rule structure to adhere to that has the added bonus of involving my newish love of craptastic picture-taking. So I’ll hop on to the Project 365 train too, which I found out about through NiT. Hopefully I won’t fall into a routine of just taking shots around the apartment (like I did today). An even bigger goal of mine: Own this before mid-year. In…

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The longest toilet belch ever

My weekend guests can attest to the annoying hilarity of my toilet’s newest personality quirk — a post-flush belch that rattles the entire building’s pipes and, no doubt, signals the impending doom of a plumbing disaster waiting to happen. This all got started Friday night when I got a voicemail from my maintenance dude telling me not to flush between 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. on Saturday morning because he and a plumber would be doing…

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In all sincerity

Here’s to… • cars that run • savory reds • houses • friends who visit • comfort • the neighborhood homeless, legless dude who told me I was fat/phat/fine (not sure) • music that makes me want to sing • being drunk enough to dance, just a little • good posture • shoulders on which to doze • exercise • the promise of change • self-acceptance • e-mail • scarves • good smells • Diner…

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Happy New Year: A blurry recap

The camera and the author remember New Year’s Eve equally as clearly. This weekend I gave the ol’ liver a round of grueling exams. It pulled through, wearing nothing but jogging pants and an exasperated grimace, but I can say I didn’t wake up with a headache even once, and I stayed drunk for something like three days. Kristin, Matt, Amanda, and Joey drove down from Nashville to ring in the new year. We spent…

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