Category Archives: nuts and bolts

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Posted on November 6, 2008 by kate

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In which I admit there are things I am ashamed I do not know, and my attempts to rectify this situation

Posted on September 13, 2007 by kate

I first began thinking about the idea for this post while watching football yesterday. The Netherlands had just beaten Albania 1-0 in a Euro 08 qualifying match. Next, the commentator said, Holland would be playing Romania. Right then, O asked … Continue reading →

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il faut souffrir pour etre belle

Posted on July 9, 2007 by kate

Looking at the array of products in my bathroom the other day, it struck me how much stuff I use on my hair, face and body, just so that I can look… completely normal, and not really all that good … Continue reading →

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parking

Posted on July 12, 2004 by kate

recently we’ve been getting a lot of parking tickets on our street. it’s a permit street, but they didn’t start enforcing it till recently. there is always the same name written in the space for the issuer of the ticket: … Continue reading →

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adventures in hair dying

Posted on February 3, 2004 by kate

pretty much every girl has a story about her forays into the world of home hair color. and pretty much all those stories end badly. mine’s no different. my first attempt at DIY hair color was in college. my friend … Continue reading →

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my first movie

Posted on September 8, 2003 by kate

today i shall tell you about the first movie i ever worked on. it was the summer between my junior and senior years of college. i was twenty-one. it was shot in brooklyn and manhattan. i’m not going to tell … Continue reading →

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freakishness

Posted on August 31, 2003 by kate

these are the things i want in my life: community. friends and family close by. a fulfilling writing job that doesn’t take up my whole day. a house with a yard. more animals. babies. for O and i to have … Continue reading →

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thirteen

Posted on August 25, 2003 by kate

i want to see the movie thirteen because when i was thirteen, i used to be like that. i was at boarding school in england. high school starts a year earlier over there, so we were with 18-yr-olds. i went … Continue reading →

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i is a weird poopus.

Posted on July 19, 2003 by kate

you might have noticed that in the right-hand list of links, there’s one to a site named boobusandpoopus.com. That’s a Web journal I write. It’s from the point of view of a small woodland creature called a poopus. Poopuses live … Continue reading →

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greetings and salutations

Posted on July 14, 2003 by kate

all right, here we go, yet another weblog from yet another late-twenties girl who thinks she has something important to say to the world. actually, that’s not strictly true. i know i don’t have much to offer in the way … Continue reading →

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