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Monthly Archives: December 2007

yay, vacation?

Saturday, December 29, 2007

My mom had a vitrectomy (eye surgery) today to repair a macular hole. They suck out half your eyeball fluid and inject a gas bubble. She has to stay face down for 10-14 days so the gas bubble will stay at the back of her eye and push the macula back against the [...]

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merry christmas eve!

Monday, December 24, 2007

I’m off to see the fam in Kentucky for a week.

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yay!

Thursday, December 20, 2007

James is home from Korea which is great since I missed him a lot.
Also, the metallurgy lab sends us a nice Christmas basket full of delicious chocolate every year, which we received this morning. The two main perks of corporate bullshit are office lunches (2 hour lunch at a posh restaurant on someone else’s [...]

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headache

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Winter so far has been strange for Vancouver. Lots of cold, clear days. That means icy roads, and I bike to work every day. Today was my first ice-related crash, and now I have a bruised hip and elbow and a headache. I think I had a pretty good winning streak [...]

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get out of my head!

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

I had a dream about my ex last night. We were still dating, he came to visit me and was just getting ready to leave, so we were sitting in the car but he accidentally put it in neutral and it rolled down the hill into a frozen pond before I could grab the [...]

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