sketches from the other side

SB asked me on Monday if he could go out to a boys' night for Wednesday. "Can I come along?" I asked. He was nervous until he realized that I was teasing, although I had a good time reminding him of my ladies' night that he tagged along...

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source: failblog.orgAlmost as awesome as reading about how the pope's brother once slapped the choir boys who came forward with sexual abuse allegations....

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Her name is Hilary Mantel. She is a Man Booker Prize-winning novelist. She wrote Wolf Hall, which is an intriguing (or at least filled with intrigue) historical novel about the earlier years of Thomas Cromwell as he was ascending to power. She seems to have a keen...

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For last night's bedtime story, SB asked me what I knew about "the rapture." I explained to him the idea held by various Christians including members of the the evangelical community that a period of time would occur when Christians would be brought to heaven at the end...

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I tried to watch HK Cable TV while attempting to work but no work was being completed so I forced myself to switch to just headphones. To my delight I chose a channel on radiotime.com that had my very favorite goalie of my lifetime, John "Beezer" Vanbiesbrouck as the...

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When I read this article my jaw dropped. To present the story briefly, a school in the United States issued free laptop computers to students for better collaboration among the students during projects. A fact unknown to the students or their parents was that the school administration was...

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Poor SB. I told him that he didn't need to do anything but he was suspicious. In years past I had expected something out of him so he was smart not to really believe me when I said no worries. In the past, V day was a...

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SB and I were having our usual bedtime chat and last night we were tackling racism- not the overt form but the more subtle racism that we possess and don't really have self awareness to identify. Like when during one class in undergrad, a black student told me that...

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Last night SB and I joined a group of our rugby mates after dinner for a few drinks. We joined a bit after the rest of them and they were firmly ensconced in a game of "I Never." In case you have never heard of it, the game...

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"If only women could understand that men, they're here to screw, their minds never leave screwing. Men have to do it with hookers because their wives wear curlers and won't tickle them with a turkey feather."-Phyllis Diller...

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EXCERPT FROM THE VELVETEEN RABBIT~ By Margery Williams ~"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?""Real isn't how...

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This holiday season has been quite exciting despite having only Christmas and New Year Day free from the office. My sister appeared and disappeared, SB and I began an active housing search, I roasted a 10 kilo turkey, and brought fire to someone's home.I will start with the sister....

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So I had this friend in uni who wasn't the nicest guy but somehow we got along fine. He was just an ogre and all the girls on my rugby team despised him for good reason. He even made a few of them cry at training when we...

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(source)Former Latina chief editor Sandra Guzman wrote about Justice Sonia Sotomayor in "Her Honor," which I recommend for reading. Using the many statements given by friends and family (Justice Sotomayor does not give interviews herself), Guzman presents a warm, humble, and charitable woman in addition to what I...

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While I feel that the hair pulling, punching, face kicking soccer player from New Mexico was evil and possibly psychotic (ask me from what school was the player who gave me the bite mark scar on my hand during West playoffs in university), I am rooting for number 7.Number 7,...

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As I was laying in bed beside SB I heard snip, snip. I opened my eyes to discover a horrible sight. "Are you trimming your nose in hair in bed!?" "Don't move," he said in lieu of explanation or embarrassment as he maneuvered his multi-tool around...

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OooohResearchers studying the Mid-Atlantic ridge have recently recorded 17,650 species living below 656 feet, where sunlight does not reach. These creatures are more fantastic than what I would conjure in my imagination (and according to SB I have quite the imagination).Enypniastes, source: Larry Madin / AP GrimpoteuthisThe creatures come...

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...only a bad one. I am going to rant about work. Just warning you.I had another long work week this week, made even longer by getting sick late in the week. I worked during the weekend and left the office well after midnight on Monday trying...

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SB informed me that he was going to a trade show in Paris for a little over a week. This was not a great shock, as I had been hearing bits and pieces of his plans as he was making them, even if he never quite got around to...

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According to a recent report by the World Health Organization, AIDS is the leading cause of death and disease in women aged 15 - 44 worldwide although maternal mortality is a close runner up, accounting for 15% of adult female deaths.And yet the Catholic church still won't let you use...

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One year and three brand changes later, I am still dissatisfied with my birth control options. I miss my old tricylen. I went from one brand causing me to put on almost 15 lbs in six months to another that reduced my sex drive to that of a...

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I found out some very sad news tonight. An architecture student has died "unexpectedly." He took a leave of absence two years ago, right before I finished my thesis. I was so busy at the time that I never spoke to him. Before Rio there was...

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Being the more verbose of the two of us, I was easily pulling ahead in our ongoing debate. I was happily mortaring up the latest brick in my growing wall of defense when he pulled out this response:"I am not saying that we should have children but if we...

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SB and I attended a remarkable wedding this weekend. It was quite the banquet, with three hours of cocktails, during which the bride and groom stood in the same place and took hundreds of photos, followed by a 13 course dinner and live band. I was exhausted and...

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