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so, for those of you who actually see me regularly, you may have noticed that i dyed my hair.
dark brown.
and yes, it has faded since.
but it’s still much browner.
(id post a picture, but i don’t feel like it).
anyway, in the spirit of dying my hair, and ending veganism, and moving to chicagoland, i’ve decided to [...]

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excuse me ma’m, but this little girl needs to use the computer now

so i think i need to get my very own laptop.
with a wireless card.
because blogging at random places sucks.
I’m currently blogging at the Byron Public Library and the countdown clock at the top of the screen is driving me crazy.
great writers should not be expected to work under these conditions.
seriously.  
did Hemingway have a “12-minutes-remaining” clock flash [...]

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dear readers, thanks for hitting refresh a lot.

hey there. hi there. hoe there.
sorry i’ve been away.
I was having an rockin’ good time at great america (more on that trip later).
but I’m back now. and I just want to say that I’m super-de-duperly excited that i ….
(wait for it).
HAVE HAD 10,000 HITS ON MY BLOG!
for those of you who don’t know, i kind of love [...]

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new design

So, I’m getting some complaints that the new text is hard to read. Is the bold better or worse?
This is bold.
This is regular.
UPDATE: So it seems I’ve figured out how to make the font look blacker without using bold (like i did with this sentence). so we all win!

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because i don’t think i was writing enough before

so i got another blog.
for work.
it’s about politics (i KNOW. bor.ing).
but you should read it anyway — because i can make bor.ing fun. swear.
it’s (soon to be) linked on my blogroll or you can just click here (hopefully) to see it. you should also be able to find it via www.thenorthwestern.com if you’re feeling like exploring my paper’s web site (newly [...]

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to the three of you who read this blog:

so sometimes i put a “more” link in my blog posts that takes you to, well, “more” of the post because i think they look really long on the home page. however, im getting some complaints that the link doesn’t work. or that it crashes computers.
and by “some complaints,” i mean, one guy told me [...]

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how long until i can attend the official vegan conferences?

I posted like five things over the last two days, so im not going to post anything exciting today.
but y’all should know that i still haven’t eaten ANY animal products since i finished this book two days ago (excluding, of course, the aforementioned egg whites in my soy chik’n and three grains of parmesan). not even [...]

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