I was only on USF’s campus for a grand total of 20 minutes, but it was plenty of time to remind me of all those irritating things I absolutely do not miss from being the new kid at college:Parking. Parking. Parking.Crossing the same street three times before finally turning my hand drawn map the right way to point me in the proper direction of the building I am looking for.I forgot just how hot it gets walking around in Florida. …

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Last night I stayed up until 1am finishing the second book in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series. As one of my friends put it, being a tween is awesome. And the somewhat embarrassing part was that I wasn’t staying up to finish the book because I wanted to finally have it off my conscious and move on; I was up reading because I could not put the book down. Those were real tears streaming down my face when …

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I had a very extraordinary few hours yesterday tucked into an otherwise ordinary day. I immediately wrote 2 pages about what had happened, and to spare anyone with feeling like they have an obligation to read all that, I am only going to share a few excerpts here.
Not even getting called to questioning for jury selection seemed unusual. (At my prior call to this civic duty, I was actually chosen as a juror.)…What was different, and still is as the …

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If you are in a car with all the windows up, and you have two children young enough to be in carseats in the back seat, please tell yourself and your husband to QUIT SMOKING.

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I’m tired of apartment living. I really really am. In the last six years I have had a multitude of living spaces, all of which came without a garage, and many of which that required me to lug my 15 bags of groceries a half mile or up a flight of stairs to my front door.I have tolerated this current space at my maximum capacity, but yesterday I officially reached my breaking point. Some of the things that have been …

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If I had to write an essay about yesterday it would be titled “Being Even Mildly Domestic is Exhausting” or “It’s Astonishing What You Can Accomplish without a Three Hour Afternoon Nap.”
Seriously, in anyone else’s world, yesterday would have been a completely normal, productive day. But to me, who has gotten more than used to coming home from work and crashing on the couch with cereal and a throw blanket until about 9pm, it was brutal. As I sat waiting …

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