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A Well-Researched Adventure

My latest adventure was carefully planned, in advance, and vetted by experts who were board-certified in that sort of thing: I had two of my wisdom teeth removed. This was, without a doubt, my most heavily researched and well-planned endeavor. The only hitch was when the oral surgeon’s scheduling system cancelled me after my 24-hour [...]

Foods in New Brunswick

Let’s take a break to talk food. That week of work training we were staying in New Brunswick, so for my 6th year in the town I got to eat at the fancypants restaurants. So, here are some of my favorite places to eat in the city with links to their yelp pages. Note, I [...]

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Status Checking

Here’s the thing with making lists: they put things into perspective, set milestones, and then, when time keeps rolling on without you getting any closer to your destinations, you know exactly how far you’ve failed. That, for the record, is the ultimate doom and gloom perspective on to-do lists. And, as someone with 3 bouncing [...]

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Christmas in New York, 2011

Like they say, there’s nothing quite like it. Except, I’ve never really seen any other cities at Christmas, so perhaps it’s just hometown bias. Click any picture to see it larger.

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The Power of Food

There is something about food that brings people together. My personal theory is that it’s a social lubricant and awkwardness buffer far more effective than alcohol—for one thing, more people eat than drink so the odds of efficacy are STATISTICALLY higher. People say alcohol loosens you up and reduces inhibitions; food loosens your clothes, and [...]

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