Welcome to NaNoWriMo! Pass out the coffee hopefully awash with plot bunnies.  I’m giving my word count to Portland this year to help beat Vancouver, who’ve challenged us! First, Vancouver; next, Seattle!  And then, the world… yes, you know how this is going to end.
It’s already started to be an interesting experience balancing NaNo and [...]

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I type this on my brand new white MacBook with it’s funky keyboard (the keys are too far away from each other!) at around 11:40 pm trying really hard to not wake up my roommate.  I think I might have failed earlier when I launched it and it played its weird-ass music. Oops.  Anyway, there [...]

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I leave Monday night for San Juan and depart Tuesday morning.
Holy cow, Batman!
I’m only half-packed and I still haven’t seen my friends or visited my high school teachers and if I don’t, I will rue the day.  I really don’t have awesome notes on the craptastic Iliad, but I can rewrite the whole thing as [...]

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I got my hair cut today.  You may think this isn’t a big thing but my hair has been rather dear to me, even if it is a tangled mess most of the time that refuses to help me out once in a while.  So now it’s cut into a layered V-shape and it’s very [...]

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Shona on August 12th, 2008

So I have had a busy week!
My good friend Jim, author of the blog How Good is That?, dedicated a post all for me!  It’s about my new Mac with lots of great tips.  I’m a Windows user and an almost total newb at Macs.  I used a Mac twice before, for the high school [...]

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Boxes overflow with things she doesn’t really need because they’re boxes that aren’t going anywhere except into that tiny dark corner in the back of her closet. Other boxes bask in the light, stacked high with books, accompanied by an open suitcase, still empty. There’s a piece of lined paper taped to the [...]

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Ever since I found out that was going to Reed - not that I was accepted, but that the paltry $9K scholarship had been upgraded to $15K and my parents decided we could afford it - I’ve been in a state of constant excitement. It is extremely easy to make me happy and I’m [...]

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