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With the exception of all manner of fuzzy, feathered, or fishy critters, there’s very little I won’t eat. I love food, all manner of tastes and textures. But there are certain foods that, though I enjoy them in certain dishes, completely gross me out on their own. Here they are:
1. Hard boiled eggs: Tasty on [...]

I went grocery shopping with my grandmother and her caregiver today. As we were unloading bags from the car, I was struck with this sudden memory, a full on flashback of the time Brian and I visited grandma back in 2003, when we first moved to the West Coast.
I guess grandma must have been about [...]

Hello! I’m afraid I’ve been neglecting things over here, along with everything else that’s not a paper on database systems or intellectual freedom. But the semester’s almost done, which makes this a great time to explore the hotses and notses of the week a la Loobylu.
Hot!
1. Backyard Astronomy: Or in our case, Duboce Park astronomy. [...]

I found my cellphone (it was in my bathrobe pocket).

I stayed up til a little past seven this morning, working on the final paper for one of my classes. I got up three hours later, and I swear all I must’ve done while I was sleeping was dream my way through the paper and wander some dreamscape paper cut-out of my house, because all [...]

Here it is again, the hotses and notses for the week, inspired, as always, by Loobylu:
Hot:
Library school: Like, sizzly hot. Like water sputtering across a hot pan hot. Like, too much work to even think about hot. Plus it’s time to select courses for next semester. How much can I realistically put on my plate? [...]

More from the Social and Cultural History database:
Letter from Lydia Maria Child to Anne Lynch Botta, 1839

Providence, R. I., 1839.
Dear Miss Lynch: I thank you for your kind invitation to visit you, with Mr. Furness. If I ever went anywhere, I certainly should have come. But for ten years past I have made no visits [...]

Sometime in July.