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This past week was move-in time for the freshmen at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie-Mellon. If there was a resounding cry uttered from the lips of Pittsburghers it was “AVOID OAKLAND“, the neighborhood of both schools, which was a mad house of freshmen, their parents, and everything these 18-year-olds owned, including a few ponies [...]

In addition to my grey hair, another thing I’ve learned to make peace with is the fact that not everyone who meets me will like me. That may sound a little weird or not that big of a deal to you. Maybe one day the fact hit you and you just went back to whatever [...]

Saturday was my mother’s mother’s side’s annual family reunion. It’s the Italian part of me and they’ve been going to a local family amusement park since I was a small child. There are matching t-shirts, card games, and tons and tons of food, of course. It’s as dorky as it goes and I completely love [...]

This may be my new favorite MM, if only because I didn’t have to go anywhere, since I was already visiting with my family for Father’s Day. No sneaking around shelves, no trying to get photos when people aren’t watching, no nervousness. It was nice. Back story: My uncle is in real estate, and many [...]

So, I really suck at blogging everyday. Just to point out the obvious. Speaking of things that suck: these bangs that I still haven’t gotten trimmed. They’re only driving me completely fucking crazy. I might just trim them myself, though that’s liable to end in disaster. We shall see. One thing I know I won’t [...]

After an almost two month hiatus, Mining Monday is BACK. I missed it too. To celebrate, its return, I went to the Regent Square Community Yard Sale- it only comes once a year. All those little dots were potential gems. Weather-wise, it was a FANTASTIC day for a yard sale. And unlike most Mining Mondays, [...]

Memory fascinates me. Not the matching card game, I always found that boring. Brain memory, specifically what I can remember and what I can’t. I occasionally say that I have a bad memory, but this isn’t quite true. Some things I can recall so well, so vividly, but other information has to be drilled in [...]

It snowed. Again. Hold me. I can’t take much more. Okay, I’m good now. As I said a couple blog posts ago, I’m looking for a new apartment. This is my fourth move in five years: my parents moved to a new house when I was 19, I moved home from college at 21, moved [...]

While I’m stuck inside, I might as well admire the beauty. I was supposed to go to work yesterday but that wasn’t going to happen. I live on a hill, and my street was (and still mostly is) buried. I watched four-wheel-drive vehicles get stuck. Oh yes, and there was a state of emergency declared, [...]

I always thought as a kid that being an adult meant not being afraid of anything. That the little fears that gripped us- spiders, the dark, strangers, nightmares- melted away in age. I had never heard of any adults retelling dreams that woke them up in tears. Obviously, I found out the truth is the [...]