archives for Friday 19 January 2007

and she wonders why she’s broke

Friday 19 January 2007 | I like a cookie

When people say education is expensive, here’s what they really mean: Hawaii = $50 Tucson = $50 Austin = $50 Houston = $50 Las Vegas = $60 San Diego = $55 Tempe = $50 subtotal = $365 Kinko’s = $5.94 USPS = $52.05 GRE = $275 BU transcripts = $24 Mount Holyoke = $33 Cambridge [...]

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morning at the brujo’s

Friday 19 January 2007 | I like a cookie

Fiona, the goggly sweet “developmentally foreclosed” black Lab, wants out. She thinks she can do what she does every morning, which is lie on her fetid old cushion in the sun, licking her paws and squinting out at the back garden (Apollo for dogs?). But the sky outside is an unforgiving steel-gray and well below [...]

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