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Don’t bother listing your accomplishments. Just wash that vagina.
In a world where women are still getting paid less than men for comparable jobs and are fed double standard after double standard, we ladies should be stepping up and asking for more money when we feel we’ve worked to … Continue reading
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Mathematical emotions
I made my first-ever B in calculus. This shocks some people, especially when they find out that I have a degree in math and when they find out just how much I like the subject. We can blame derivatives. Derivatives, … Continue reading
Write a novel in three days
If you know me, you almost definitely know about National Novel Writing Month, the quest to write a novel of at least 50,000 words in November. If you don’t, I promise you’ll find out about it very quickly. NaNo’s over … Continue reading
I wish I could put this in a cover letter
The cover letter is the hardest part of the job application process. How many people actually learned to write a good cover letter before applying? I didn’t know until actually applying for jobs that wanted cover letters, despite noticing a … Continue reading
Let’s take back posterity
Before I kept a blog, I kept a paper journal. I still keep a paper journal, partly because I happen to like writing on paper. In fact, I started an online journal because it was just like a paper journal, … Continue reading
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TV-B-Gone
You know those TV-B-Gone controllers that you can buy? They usually go for around twenty bucks, and I’ve always commented on their usefulness because I cannot stand watching TV. I think I’ve just found a solution. It definitely costs less … Continue reading
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A trip through my old Delicious bookmarks
Let’s hop in the time machine and go through some of my really old Delicious links. I started using Delicious in May 2007 and imported my Firefox bookmarks. Delicious assigned a date to these bookmarks–17 September 2006 for most of … Continue reading
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Buy J.D. Salinger’s toilet
The problem with being a celebrity is that if you throw something in the trash, there’s no guarantee that it stays there. Even leftover spaghetti can find its way to eBay and give its finder some extra cash when sold. … Continue reading
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Say goodbye to lying about your location
Facebook just launched a new feature called Places, which has been in the work for around eight months. TechCrunch discovered Places back in May, when everyone in the tech community was speculating about the possibility of a similar feature for … Continue reading
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Changing your name to avoid e-repercussions
I’ve gone by sushimustwrite since around 2002. Its origins are murky, but I do remember that I registered for NaNoWriMo under a sushimustwrite email address, and at Hotmail! I never really used that name until NaNo entered my life and … Continue reading
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