What would a girl’s life be without PMS a broken bicycle an awkward conversation with a boy about how he likes someone else being informed by a potential employer that they “have decided to move forward with other candidates who more closely match [their] qualifications.” It would be pretty dull, let me tell you.
Rowyn McDonald
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Yearly Archives 2007
V-Ball
46 Bobby Pins +10 friends at dinner + 5 hours of dancing + 4 tasty desserts + 3 tired couples on the bus home + 2 pairs of shoes + 1 pink dress + 1 excellent date ————————————————- = 1 wonderful Viennese Ball* *thanks to Carrie at Hair International for a lovely, secure hairdo; to [...]
Daddy’s Thoughts
I aspire to an open-hearted and effortless generosity. That is not easy, it is the work of one or more lifetimes. For example, recently, when you said you were coming back for the weekend, I made a sarcastic remark like “you could come by and pick me up and I could carry the credit card [...]
Anyone else heard of this?
I just read my second newspaper article in the past month on “alternate reality” games, which seem to have some similarity to LARPs, and the San Jose Mercury News described them as “adventure games that straddle the line between video games and real-world entertainment.” The article in the Mercury News was discussing the game ILoveBees. [...]
Update: 13 June 2008
I now have exactly 100 songs on my social dance playlist, which is 6.3 hours. I am very pleased with my collection, especially since it has grown by 8 new waltzes just since the beginning of the year. So far this year has been chock full of dancing; three dances just this month, and there [...]
Thanks for the support/sympathy/offers of help. Actually Prisma, I’d love to work at Google, and may take you up on that offer. I finally got it together to apply for a position at an investment management company** and wrote a cover letter. Proud of myself for finally getting something done, I sent it off to [...]
12 January 2007
One word: Jammix.
New Year
I am holding off on a proper list of new year’s resolutions until I can find ones that are at least somewhat realistic. The problem is, I always make the same resolutions and don’t keep them. What’s the trick? One of my potential resolutions would be to keep a (brief) journal. Meaning daily (jour = [...]