Tag: life
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Forum Friday: What Banned Books Have You Read?
This Friday, my fellow readers, writers, and bloggers, let’s get our hands dirty. Let’s talk contraband. This week (September 30 to October 6) is Banned Books Week in the United States. For those of you unfamiliar with it, this is an annual event among the national book community that celebrates the ability to read freely […]
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If I am just a bag of meat, sitting on a rock in outer space…
I recently came across this quote on The Oatmeal in regards to religion: Does [your religion] help you cope with the fact that you are a bag of meat sitting on a rock in outer space and that someday you will DIE and you are completely powerless, helpless, and insignificant in the wake of this […]
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I signed up for a French class!
Good-bye, you namby-pamby, half-assed studies! Farewell, ye sporadic notes and vocab lists! Adieu, Monsieur All-I-Know-Is-Present-Tense, And-Even-Then-Only-Seven-Verbs! Hellooooooo structure, you beautiful fox, you. Thank you, thank you. Merci, if you will. So, I just signed up for my first ever French class. To most people, this is probably not the most exciting news. In fact, most […]