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Day 213 — Late Night

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Day 212 — The White Stripes

My review is online. It includes a comma splice that was inserted after it left my hands. As well as a cliché that I used in modified form that got turned back into the actual cliché. I’ll let you guess which sentence that is. Eh, I guess I’m happy with it for my first-ever real review. I’m pretty sure I didn’t focus enough on the actual music. But, you know, when the show is good…

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Hoo, boy!

I had a shitty, shitty night at work. It was almost like I was a n00b again. It was one of those nights when you don’t just fuck up one thing, you fuck up lots. All late in the night where it’s a crunch to fix your blatant, embarrassing errors. One minute you’re cruising, outputting pages, and the next minute your boss is having to call the press room to see if they can save…

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Day 94 — Jelly Beans

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Empowerful women and their empowerful publications

Working for a big corporate media behemoth has its perks: Decent pay, health insurance, air conditioning, cake when people get awards, etc. But there are drawbacks, too. [Disclaimer: I like my job and would like to keep it. I am only writing this here at my personal blog because these are points I would be happy to make to any of my superiors if consulted; I write better than I speak, so I am, in…

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Midnight madness*

I just took the first of the last three sips of this glass of Italian skunkwine (can someone translate my mixed terminology, please?) and I caught a glimpse of an avalanche of sediment tumbling from the little reservoir atop the glass’s stem. Ew. Today I spent the day looking at pictures of dead dogs. Believe it or not, it’s a project I’m working on at work. And it’s pretty sad. Pit bulls bred for meanness…

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