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    • Starbucks gift card, please.

      • The best presents that I have ever gotten are Starbucks gift cards, time and again.

        Once, for Christmas, my mom gave me a $200 string of pearls that I have been coveting for quite some times. Then, my brother handed me his gift--a $60 Starbucks gift card, and trust me, the look of bewilderment in my mom's eyes at how I howled, "OH MY GOD! THANK YOU!!!!!" at his gift in comparison to the relatively staid "Wow, thank you, these are beautiful!" I responded to the pearls with was hilarious.

        On a daily basis, I cannot open my eyeballs fully, nor function at full capacity without a coffee from Starbucks, so naturally, I welcome any giftcards that I can associate with that energizing feeling :D

      • answered by LoveMeDeux on 07/27/2009
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    • The Most Important Thing I've Learned Recently: Try To Manage Feelings of Fear & Panic.

      • I learned that the original panic/fear combination one-two punch that one may feel when entering a situation as a fish out of water is not so bad if you take it in one step at a time.

        I'm back in grad school after a 7-year hiatus from academia [I graduated from USC in 2002], and it's a culture shock, emotional shock, brain capacity shock, everything shock.

        Four weeks ago, at the beginning of the trimester, I felt ill after every quantitative analysis class, and even considered quitting the MBA program altogether. I thought it was a mistake that I got "let in". I confess, I actually looked at the paperwork to see if it was too late for me to drop the classes and get a full refund, but I pushed down the nausea, and now I'm 7 weeks in, at the mid-way point in the 14-week trimester, and doing better, emotionally.

        The panic/fear combination one-two punch is not 100% dissipated, but I'm feeling slightly better. The diploma is still two years and 5.5 trimesters away, but I have learned to worry about the mountain later, and work on crossing the molehill now.

        Plus some classmates and I got a math tutor, so we *all* feel better. :D

      • answered by LoveMeDeux on 06/14/2009
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    • Good Jury Duty Book? "Spreadsheet Modeling & Decision Analysis, 5e" by Cliff Ragsdale

      • It is one of the most boring books that I have ever, ever read in my life, and furthermore, since I haven't touched real math since senior year of high school, it is quite challenging, and regularly hurts my liberal arts feelings.

        However, I need to take this book with me because I will be forced to read it, locked down in the courtroom with no other alternatives. I've only done a third of the assigned reading.

        God, graduate-level math really sucks.

      • answered by LoveMeDeux on 06/12/2009
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    • Dream Car: A 1957 Chevy Bel Air Convertible

      • It's built like a tank. It's beautiful. It's red. The chrome is amazing. And I want the red and white leather--with the piping.


        Red 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air

        It's such an amazing, sexy car--and a total classic. How could you not want one? I'm not a bigtime car aficionado, but this is truly a dream car. I would play only Johnny Mathis or The Chordettes as I drive it around sunny So Cal...

      • answered by LoveMeDeux on 04/24/2009
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