Tal Shachar
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Achievement Unlocked: earned enough to pay for the professional license on my natal chart software.
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Birthday wishes were deeply appreciated; thank you, all. I have a stack of books that arrived with unexpected efficiency and timeliness from Amazon, mirabile dictu. And if Camie Schaefer and Erin Rogers were the ones who sent me a shiny pretty from my wishlist then thank you so much! (If it was Clare Moss in a fugue state, she doesn't remember.) Saving the birthday wine for Friday.
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As you can see, that app is just an automated flattery machine. I know this because similar programs using real algorithms have already told me I look like Peter Sellers.
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Be thou my vision! Had a job interview at an optician's today. Cautiously optimistic, and I learned that apparently some people think it's okay to haggle over frames? Really? They asked what I would say if someone tried to do that and I had to not reply that I would say "Dude, no...no, that's not a thing." (I said something about competitive prices instead.) So like, if it ever occurred to you to say "I'll give you fifty" at an optician's shop, don't do that.
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at the Fuller Building downtown trying to time my entry for exactly fifteen minutes early.
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I can wait all night, pizza guy, you BRING ME THAT PEPSI I ORDERED OR I WILL DESTROY YOU.
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Bad news: jurisprudence test in a few minutes! Good news: it's open-book! Bad news: I forgot the book! #imanidiot
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pretending to write something important on my blackberry so that the Class Psycho (it's actually not me!) doesn't engage me in conversation, please disregard...
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Thanks for sitting down with me uninvited at the cafeteria and sharing your thoughts about who in the class is a "troublemaker", I definitely wasn't busy reading or eating or anything!
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Bros, Romans, countrymen, thank you for the birthday wishes. My 29th birthday (and the Feast of the Presentation of the Virgin) was spent browsing the bookstores and doing nothing in particular. I picked up the Penguin hardcover of Hound of the Baskervilles and Robertson Davies's book of pompous ghost stories.
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Best thing about this accounting assignment was the careful attention paid to a law clerk's billable hours on the timesheet. $65/hr, so get my ill-informed opinions and thankless Google scutwork while it's free, guys.
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This week I faced my greatest fear twice: I returned phone calls to people I don't know very well. (Okay I do have greater fears than those but THE PHONE the phone is a frightening thing.) And I was rewarded by the phone gods who blessed me by giving me voicemail both times. BALL'S IN YOUR COURT NOW, SUCKERS.
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Twitchy and nauseated from overcaffeination over the course of an all-nighter. It has made me unreasonably excited about property relationships in parking lots. I want to TELL THE WORLD.
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Phil Webster was right, I acknowledge it: Polish vodka is better than Russian. Eases the pain of being stuck at Baseline station for half an hour in the rain waiting for the bus.
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This claaaass please kill me. I think it's sucking knowledge OUT of my head rather than the reverse.
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Today in Algonquin malapropisms and mistakes: William the Lionheart conquered England in 1066, apparently.
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When did I start actually liking these crappy California rolls in the cafeteria? And why am I paying $5.99 for them? #fuguestate
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Friends, it is raining so hard that we need umbrellas INSIDE THE BUS SHELTER. The roof couldn't handle it. #wtfottawa
