Category: Inciting Incidents
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The Thing About Culture Shock
Guys. I leave for Romania in less than a week. As I prepare for my trip to Romania to visit my sister, I’ve been reflecting a lot on past trips — I’ve been comparing the amounts of time it took me to prepare for my various previous travels, reminiscing about the experiences I had, etc.…
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Sam Posts In Her Blog! (And Other Delayed Tales)
Note: If you’re here to help me pick a Halloween costume, that part is at the end. Scroll along, bud. Life Updates! Sam has a lot of stuff going on at the moment. Sam also likes to speak in the third person. Sorry about that. Here are some things that I’ve decided could be cool…
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Green Means Go
Forgive me, for the following will probably read like an angsty teen diary. Except it’ll be about query letters. Guys! I’ve started sending query letters for The Fields! Let’s pretend that it’s not 12 days after the deadline I gave myself, okay? I’ve sent four today. Four tiny little queries. I’d say that’s a good…
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The Power of Makeup (vs. The Power of Women)
I don’t know if you’ve seen this going around, but there’s a new set of images on the Internet showing Disney princesses without makeup. A sort of bizarre realization struck me as I looked at the article. I started to think about the reactions that people might have for these pictures, and what some of…
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I dyed my hair! And then I met this tree. I found it on 2nd St, and I think it wanted to be in solidarity with me. So it dyed its hairs. Or are its hairs dying…? No matter. We both look fantastic. And there’s nothing like synchronizing with nature, in the most colorful of ways……
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Baby Teeth
There are some people that have baby teeth well into their adulthood. While it’s not the case for me, I do know people who are my age who still have some left over. It’s a weird thing to think about… or at least it was weird, until I realized that, metaphorically, that is my life.…
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Country/City Girl
Yesterday, I visited my friend on her farm. Yes, that’s right, a farm. I have friends who own farms now. God, I feel like an adult. I can’t even fathom owning a farm, let alone one that makes you feel like you’re at Green Gables. I have a hard enough time dealing with the fact…
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The A Rating
The world just keeps getting a little brighter. This week I made an interesting discovery: recently, four Swedish cinemas have announced that they will be using the “A rating” in addition to the typical film ratings. If a film gets an A rating, that means it’s passed the Bechdel Test — a quick evaluation derived from…
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Groceries and Ambitions (or: Why Dogs Have Got It Good)
My friend took me grocery shopping last night. He’s got a tiny little beat-up convertible that he had just gotten back from the shop, it having been out of commission for a couple of months due to repairs, and as we started driving, he said, “Should we put the top down? Let’s put the top…
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I’ve Been Challenged: Catalytic Reminiscence
The ever-lovely Hazelnut Pie has nominated me for the challenge of writing about my first blog post. Weirdly enough, I was scrolling through old posts to get to the beginning, and it dawned on me that I’ve come a lot further with this blog than I initially thought I would be able to pull off. I thought…