Cole was out sick first of the week and didn’t catch the homework assignment posted on the day he went back, but did get for the two days he missed. Teacher gets a tude today when he turned in the make-up work but not yesterday’s assignment; wants to know how he thinks he’s going to [...]
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Six weeks into recovery and I’m now seeing a wound care specialist once a week in addition to my surgeon. Apparently a section of my skin was compromised during surgery, where there was no blood flow and the skin simply died. This left a rather large, nasty looking wound right next to the incision, for [...]
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It starts the same every time. She has a story she wants to share, and being her friend and loving her like I do, I’m there for her and more than happy to listen; though it’s the same worn out tale she’s been weaving for almost a year now and always ends in a river [...]
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She made the mistake of reading the list of Top Ten News Headlines. Reminded, yet again, of the insanity that surrounds us; the human beasts we are forced to co-exist with. A truth that at times, is almost too much to bear.
Lab worker held in Yale student’s slaying – Mom finds slain bodies of [...]
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Ever-faithful Starbucks lover and addict that I am; when my already exorbitant $5.20 drink skyrockets to a whopping $6.55, I know when to say enough is enough! And so even though I realize that my measly 3k a year contribution to the cause known simply as “Starbucks,” doesn’t amount to a drop in their corporate [...]
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Fold the paper in half. Pinch the tip. Open it back up. Write your name next to the pinch mark. Write the date underneath your name. Write your class period under the date. Student number in top right corner. Index cards folded on the left corner by height; exactly half an inch wide. Run your [...]
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My child was hungry last night. It was eight o’clock and he hadn’t eaten since his lunch break at school, which is at 10:30 in the morning. However, due to unforeseen circumstance that were beyond my control, I was unable to feed him at the time in which he has become accustomed. And I felt like shit because of it!
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It was one of those days; grueling, exhausting and quite frankly, unproductive. As if all I did the entire day, was shuffle stacks of papers from one end of the desk to the other and back. The end finally came, and with it the rains; nothing like rush hour traffic in a full blown storm [...]
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