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I don’t get star struck but having Natalie Portman sit behind me tonight (which kind of means I had better seats than.. Natalie Portman..) and Gaga thirty feet in front of me, well, Damn.  What’s a girl to say.

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You have to ask yourself, what is the radio good for? The radio is good for taking somebody else’s experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don’t see someone, but you hear them talking-and, uh, that is what radio is all about-it’s like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else’s world.  —Ira Glass.

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in Swahili, UMBA means to create.  n + i are creating today, just on opposite coasts !

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memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. you couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.

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Today I also visited the dentist. Five years ago, I had a root canal on a back molar. On Friday, I woke up with the most excruciating pain in that same, dead tooth. The root canal had cracked and there was an infection.  They extracted my tooth. Regardless if you’re numb, knowing that you basically have pliers in your mouth yanking your tooth is heinous. My poor tooth. My poor wallet. In 3 months, I’ll get an implant.   Where’s the tooth fairy showering me with money when I need it?

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Alfajores are a staple of deliciousness in Argentina and South America.  This was my first time making these. Three hours later, I’m covered in flour, my kitchen is a wreck, I smell like dulce de leche and lemon zest, but man, look at these puppies!  It’s the publisher’s birthday tomorrow at work, I hope she enjoys!

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