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average price: 62.5¢

Went to the Miami Public Library Book Sale.  Amazing.  Here’s a list of the books I got, with their original prices (if known): PLAYS Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee $6.99 CLASSICS Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne $3.99 NOVELS [...]

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day

I realized that I rarely just write about what I do throughout the day.  Maybe that’s because it’s not that interesting. Let’s find out. I woke up at 6:45. Yes it is Sunday, and this is a ridiculous time to have to get up ANY day of the week, esp Sunday.  When I came into [...]

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sleepless night

Saturday night in Miami Beach was “Sleepless Night,” at arts festival that went from 6pm on Saturday to 7am on Sunday morning… oh shit.  It was a long night.  Here’s my sched (as far as I can remember… delirium started to set in eventually, especially as I had woken up at 6 something on Friday [...]

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what i’m learning

–it’s important to be surrounded by people you love –getting to eat whatever you want is a privledge, and having the time/resources to make delicious food all the time definitely makes eating more enjoyable –ultimate frisbee is something i can throw myself into and temporarily forget about whatever else is going on –sitting in a [...]

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eating like a grown-up

I realize that I talk an awful lot about food… but food is such a big part of my experience here.  It’s the first time I’ve ever had to fend for myself completely for 3 meals a day, no dining hall to go to, no other people to cook for me (except on a rare [...]

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praise for fruit

fruits i have been lucky enought to eat this week: -grapefruit -red grapes (crunchy) -raspberries (in my yogurt/granola) -bananas (from ecuador. more hexagonal than usual. saving 3 to make banana bread) -mango (from california… first time i’ve ever eaten a mango straight up. delicious) -kiwi (also ate straight up, with a spoon, at work) -mamoncillos [...]

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first day of fall

Today the low was 63 degrees and Miami shivered and turned around in its doorway.  At Paola’s house in the morning, she ran to Wal*Mart to buy turtlenecks and tights for her 4 year old twin nieces to wear under their new dresses.  An exchange student from Saudi Arabia shivered in two jackets, and mothers [...]

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awake

I think i had a week or so of crappiness.  But things are better now.  Apparently I don’t like writing when I’m feeling down, which would explain the lack of posts after my post-mania for a few days.  Probably the explanation is that I wrote in my journal during the last weeks, rather than online. [...]

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reasons today was great

in chronological order but not necessarily in ascending order of importance wearing a new shirt my grandma bought me for my bday.  its rare that i get new clothes and i really like this shirt AND its good for work grapefruit juice and cuban coffee for breakfast the van is finally fixed, so after a [...]

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walkin on, walkin on, broken glaaaaass

And by that I mean walking on sand, which is basically broken glass, right? And by that I mean going to the beach.  Which I did today for the first time.  Isn’t that ridiculous?  It took me two weeks in Miami to set foot on a beach.  After today, I’m not sure why it took [...]

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