Only just now discovering that Galena Hashhozheva when we were in grad school had started a FB group called Library Arsonists. (At the time, she did her writing in Pusey 3. That explains a lot.)

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(The Pusey Tunnel always sounded like some kind of major roadworks.)

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Vindicated twice in the same day, by scientific studies debunking ‘moring morality’ (being the idea that early risers have more moral fibre and owls like me are just lazybones) and the hypothesis that mumbling (something else I am much accused of) is not linguistic indifference or moral decay but a kind of strategic phonetic compression much in the way a computer compression algorithm works.

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Mihaela P points me to The Food Timeline.

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Have also watched all two seasons of the delightfully kooky ‘Pushing Daisies’. This sort of television ought to happen to one earlier in life, but when one watches very little television at all it takes foisting friends and a big dropbox account to get you going.

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For a second year our young historian arrives for the Tay Clan New Year lunch bearing chocolate-covered black beans from Japan. At the door on her departure: “See you guys again next year!” To which: “Isn’t that a bit presumptuous, given we haven’t invited you yet?” The parents chiming in diplomatically: “We’re inviting her.”

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Now in possession of a Muji compact aluminium fountain pen.

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pop-up multipurpose apartments in Spain, mm-hmm.