April 2012
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“What you love can differ, but the love, once it comes, that feeling of waking up...”
– Robert Krulwich, in his 2011 commencement speech to the graduating class of Berkeley’s Journalism school. (via theatlantic)
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The Bucket List: Los Angeles Ed.
So, I’m leaving Los Angeles.
I don’t know if text-on-a-page can properly convey how terrifying that is. I was born in Anaheim, and raised in Monterey Park and then Laguna Niguel (right outside of Laguna Beach). Then, I moved out here to attend USC, and I’ve been an Angeleno for (oh my God) nearly 7 years. I live about 10 minutes from the Los Angeles house my mom immigrated to in...
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“Anyone who dedicates his life to reading books believes in rescuing things from...”
– Anna in the Tropics, Nilo Cruz
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Awesome/Not Awesome: Moving to Hawai'i Ed.
Not Less-than-Awesome (because most of this IS AWESOME)
I just realized Hawai’i does not have a baseball team. Or even a minor league team. Needless to say, I am very sadface about this. Time to start streaming Angels games?
As if you didn’t know I hated moving and that it leaves me “blorft”, I GET TO DO IT AGAIN AND ACROSS THE OCEAN OH OKAY NBD. -____- (Actually...
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I Am Moving to Hawaii in May. Seriously. No,...
Things like this don’t happen to people like me.
That was what I thought as I hung up the phone Thursday evening. On the other line had been a Teach For America staff member, offering me a position as the Operations Associate and Assistant to the Executive Director.
In Hawai’i.
Yes, folks, the “big news” I have been vaguely hinting about for the past month or so? The one...
March 2012
60 posts
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“I was a little excited but mostly…blorft. ‘Blorft’ is an adjective I just made...”
– Tina Fey, Bossypants
This is exactly how I have responded to moving! (she says as she wakes up from a stress-induced nap…and self-narrates…)
OHMYGOD MOVING. I CAN’T WITH YOU. AND WHY AM I COMPLETELY SOBER DURING THIS PROCESS?! UGHHH!$&@#$&!*
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“Ohana means family. Family means no one is left behind.”
– Lilo and Stitch
(Big news coming Sunday afternoon. Be excited)
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“And why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.”
– Batman Begins
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Three Little Words
Looking around the piles and chaos of my in-transit apartment (and life) three words came to mind:
1) shambles
2) ridiculous
3) exhilarating
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