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I Am Back

By Erin | Published: August 3, 2011

Observations: 1. It was a lot easier to bounce back from red-eye flights when I was in college. 2. It’s freaking hot here. Ridiculously hot. Like, I feel like I’m in an oven. A very wet oven. All the time, even inside. 3. We might be getting a hurricane next week. Or we might not. [...]

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Walgreens, in Two Scenes

By Erin | Published: July 22, 2011

Scene One: Jesse has just gone back to Wilmington, and Erin feels as though she’s missing a limb or one of her vital organs. She also needs a Tupperware and some plastic baggies, so she decides to go to Walgreens. Then, four hours later, she finally works up the nerve to leave the apartment and [...]

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The Catch-Up Post

By Erin | Published: May 24, 2011

I figure the best way to get you up-to-speed is a bulleted list (who doesn’t love a good list?), so here goes: My semester is officially, definitely, without-a-doubt OVER. I had one last hurrah on Friday, when I participated in an information-gathering day of scoring student work according to a specific rubric. Now, let me [...]

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This Week, in Bullet Points

By Erin | Published: March 31, 2011

This week: Jesse and I put every Disney movie (the animated ones, not counting sequels) on our Netflix, in chronological order. We watched Snow White–can you believe that was released in the 1930s? I want to go back to school and write a dissertation about Disney movies and historical context. We celebrated the birthday of [...]

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Glass

By Erin | Published: December 10, 2010

The other day, I was putting away clean dishes from the dishwasher, when something completely unexpected happened. I had a glass in my right hand, and when I opened the cabinet I heard a scraping sound, which turned out to be a coffee mug flinging itself at me from the very top shelf. The mug [...]

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