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The Killers singer Brandon Flowers revealed how the track “Rut” was inspired by his wife’s battle with a mental health condition. In an interview with NME, he said, “My wife has PTSD. She has a version called Complex PTSD. It’s when a person has had multiple traumatic experiences. Her whole life, she’s been covering it,…
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Watch “No Line at Boiling Crab!” on YouTube
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My first try at video. Looks like it was made by a 10 year old. I totally skipped on the actual crab part and the swimming. Definitely need more practice for documenting my travels.
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An Extra 30 Secs For My Birthday? Nope.
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There’s supposed to be an extra 30 seconds on my birthday and I still get ripped off. That’s what we get for having December birthdays.
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This Morning’s Dude, Where’s My Car? Moment
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Me: Took me forever to find my car this morning. I totally forgot where I parked my car Friday night. Almost had a heart attack this morning because I thought it was towed. Coworker: nice Jennifer Coworker: Glad you had a good time. -_- This is what I get for only using my car to…
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Bits of a Big Birthday
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Update (11:11pm): Forgot to add this earlier. Sometime I wonder about the same things as Sheldon, from the Big Bang Theory. Sheldon Cooper: The entire institution of gift giving make no sense. Let’s say that I go out, and I spend 50 dollars on you, it’s a laborious activity, because I have to imagine what you…
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On Choosing Bathroom Stalls
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If you have a choice, always choose the stall where the door opens towards you. #justsayin
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Sexy AND Smart
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Yay for upper-right quadrant! Thanks to fellow Gaucho Cindy via BuzzFeed.
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Rural Chinese Families and their stuff
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Huang Qingjun has spent nearly a decade traveling to remote parts of China to persuade people who have sometimes never been photographed to carry outside all their household possessions and pose for him. Huang says, “In lots of Chinese villages, the government has delivered roads and connected them with electricity. This has been a huge…
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Obligatory bathroom self-portrait
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Obligatory bathroom self-portrait from Instagram.
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Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption
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Get busy living or get busy dying.
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New Music: “May Day” by Blue Scholars
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After people were gunned down in Seattle neighborhoods, The Seattle Times asked Geo/Prometheus Brown, a member of the Blue Scholars hip-hop act, to write a guest column. So he wrote a rap and posted the lyrics (w/ video) in the online Sunday edition (June 10th). People asked for a studio version so he quickly recorded…
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Recommended: Unbroken
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For the last couple of months, I haven’t been able to stop telling people to read a book called Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. Of course, I have it listed on my sidebar as recommended reading. It’s one of the best books I’ve read recently. It’s a biography about…
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Movie Trailer: Shanghai Calling
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No word on release date. Maybe a little too similar to real life experiences? Via Chinabean.
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Lessons from Filing for Unemployment
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I heard that paperwork to collect unemployment insurance takes a while so I wanted to apply for unemployment during my last week of work– found out that you can’t apply until AFTER your last day of work. After applying online, they sent forms for me to fill out. I filled them out right away. Of…
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My Bed in Hunan
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Edit: the green bucket is also used for hand-washing my clothes too. Here’s my bed for these 2 weeks we’re here in Hunan, China. They’re bunk beds made out of wood, lined with a thin blanket and cardboard, topped with a bamboo mat that’s cooling in this hot, humid weather. No AC here, just the…
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End of Chapter
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There are a lot of changes going on in my life right now (wow, sounds like puberty all over again). One area that is ending is my work with the youth group/high schoolers after 9 or so years. Here’s a picture of Joshua and his purple tie at his graduation earlier this month. Here’s a…
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How it feels to be laid off
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Getting laid off kinda feels like this: My boss said I was spending too much time surfing the internet. When I reminded him that my work computer isn’t even networked, he said, “Oh, sorry, you’re the one who takes too many smoke breaks.” When I told him that I don’t even smoke, he said, “Just…
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Life Is Just A Series Of Events…
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Techno Tuesday High five to Laughing Squid.