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“Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.” George F. Will

March 31, 2013by librocubicultarist Leave a comment

Happy Easter! I just made a dark chocolate cream pie that looks and smells so amazing that I may need to leave the house or else there may be none […]

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Baseball, Friends

“Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.” George Eliot

March 28, 2013by librocubicultarist Leave a comment

This happened. I was sitting in my office hard at work on a to-do list (which is my go-to exercise when I do not actually want to-do anything) when a […]

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Crybaby, Friends

“I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.” Leo Tolstoy

March 25, 2013by librocubicultarist Leave a comment

It turns out, I’m still dead inside. I thought I was a lot better, but this weekend I rented Anna Karenina on DVD and, wow. No. I just can’t. Apparently […]

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Movies

“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke

March 24, 2013by librocubicultarist Leave a comment

There are few things in the world that inspire more anxiety and dread to me than having to buy a car. I don’t understand all the stupid little complexities, and […]

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Friends, Random

“I want to make a jigsaw puzzle that has 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says ‘go outside’” Demitri Martin

March 23, 2013by librocubicultarist Leave a comment

I am finally home after a solid five days in the corporate office attending a team meeting. Five days later, here are the things I know for sure: 1. Five […]

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“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” Winston Churchill

March 19, 2013by librocubicultarist Leave a comment

Does anyone else stress out about trying to talk their hairdresser into cutting their hair differently? No? Just me, then? Yeah. I love her, she is great, and when you […]

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“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” Oscar Wilde

March 15, 2013by librocubicultarist Leave a comment

This week has been sucko, so here are some random Friday musings… The papal election spectacle has been quite something – and it really has been awhile since I’ve been […]

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Books, Movies, Random

“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” David Mamet

March 13, 2013by librocubicultarist Leave a comment

I just handed my IT guy my headset, in three pieces, and said “this broke.” He looked at it and said “did you throw it against the wall?” I said, […]

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Crybaby

“There are no miracles on Mondays.” Amy Neftzger

March 11, 2013by librocubicultarist Leave a comment

Updates for a Monday afternoon… 1. Yesterday I got almost ten minutes into a conversation about how Iron Man and Batman are really similar, except that Iron Man is happy […]

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Fifteen Assumptions That Might Be Useful To Make

March 10, 2013by librocubicultarist Leave a comment

Fifteen Assumptions That Might Be Useful To Make.

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