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- hello Lauren Bielski
- Username: Astoriagrrrl
- In response to: "What's the one thing you're never gonna give up?" Certain novels that I care about: stuff by AS Byatt, Jane Smiley, Charles Baxter, and Antonya Nelson.
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Astoriagrrrl's latest answers
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- I lost my nerve [for a minute] and I almost lost my heart
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Big Heart of Art - 1000 Visual Mashups
I lost my nerve, for a minute, when confronted by a remote-access snafu in a new workplace. What, pray tell, took the fizzle out of sassy? Well, I'll say this much to protect the not-so-innocent, it involved Google email app, which I found as intuitive as Rubik's cube in retrograde. Rather than engage in deep abdominal breathing and figure out the nesting methodology, I froze, then acted "just to get it done before the next meeting" and sent an email to the wrong guy. The job, well, it didn't work out—and email, not that one, but another, was the culprit. {"But Google," I was told, "is so affordable." To which I wanted to respond, "but you get what you pay for, you cheap bastard."} Too much aggravation for them and me. Losing my nerve, and my new job, has caused me to lose heart. And I want it back...
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- Reading Redux? It would have to be Iris...
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Anything by Iris Murdoch. Special favorites include The Sea, The Sea, and The Message To the Planet. She was a brilliant philosopher, thinker, and novelist. Sadly, she died of Alzheimer's in 1999.
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- When I get home, I put on yoga togs
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When headstanding, grasshopper, it helps to have mobility. Yes, all those matching outfits can scream pretension, but if you don't have a l…
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- I miss this
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This time of year? The smell of spring. It's about two months away and I'll feel those weeks of cold in every middle-aged bone. Winter can be lovely of course, but nothing feels as good as warmish air and french blue sky.
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- My first job: insurance
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My first job as a college grad was proofreading forms for a life insurance company. I have pale memories of squinting a lot at very small type,…
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