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Instagramed

Last Saturday I bought an iPhone, because a month of no service when sitting at my desk at work was, frankly ENOUGH. So now I join the Instagram crowd. Basically, my primary motivations for getting an iPhone, in order of importance went something like: It has a decent camera! I won’t have to carry my [...]

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Le Cirque

Two weeks ago I went to a fancy restaurant in NYC for dinner, and another for brunch. I don’t know if it would be considered a cop out to list this under “new places visited in 2012,” which doesn’t include NYC because I’ve lived by the city my whole life, BUT, I have not ever [...]

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Framed

Sometimes, you just gotta go for it. What might look silly now? Will be awesome later. (and somehow it’s March? Oi.)

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Ingredients for Salsa

Last Saturday night, I went salsa dancing. There also played bachata and merengue, and I step-step-step-not-step-step-step-step-not-stepped or side-hip-side-hipped a little to all the above. It was my second time salsa dancing, ever. The first time had been my friend M’s salsa group’s holiday fete in December. Saturday she was performing with her group that night [...]

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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 [...]