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Twenty years ago tonight....

nobody@vox.com(mcco12) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:47:24 -0500

I was 18 years old and walking home to my apartment on Franklin Avenue in Boise from work as a waiter at Plush Pippin on State Street. As I zipped along the street, Eric, who was Wendy Belcher's boyfriend (my first boyfriend Jerry and I lived with...

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Early winter weekend

nobody@vox.com(mcco12) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:25:08 -0500

Quiet days. Mildly depressed as I always seem to be every November what with a long cold winter ahead of us. It doesn't help that nearly everyone we know is traveling or making plans to: I&C are headed to France for two weeks, M just got back f...

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Today. Right now:

nobody@vox.com(mcco12) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:05:20 -0500

I want this life:

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making jack o'lanterns

nobody@vox.com(mcco12) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:25:39 -0400

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Update

nobody@vox.com(mcco12) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:58:05 -0400

M's immigration is done! We got a letter, zipped into the office and they gave him his little stamp of approval. Whew, what a relief. Nearly two years of waiting. It'll be mid-December before he can actually LEAVE the country (we have to have his ...

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A list...

nobody@vox.com(mcco12) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:52:47 -0400

of all the short stories that have been ruined by the YEARS of bad English comp papers I have read. "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner "Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Lottery" by Shi...

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Haha.

nobody@vox.com(mcco12) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:41:46 -0400

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Another movie post

nobody@vox.com(mcco12) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:21:44 -0400

I know all I do lately is write about movies, but I've been trying to see one nearly every day with the film festival going on (AND another one starting in two weeks!). Saw one this afternoon which I really loved. It was a Finnish movie (I've ne...

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Update

nobody@vox.com(mcco12) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:01:20 -0400

Happy Thanksgiving! We had a great dinner yesterday that was busy, exhausting but lots of fun and YUMMY. The last few years we've been doing both Canadian and American Thanksgiving but I think this year, we won't. Too exhausting doing one and if ...

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Festival du nouveau cinema

nobody@vox.com(mcco12) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:50:56 -0400

One of the best things about living in Montreal is the plethora of film festivals we have each year. Since none of them are huge, international events, they are not swamped with crowds or media, so it's easy to get tickets, the movies are often no...

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