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Name: Viv
Country: United States
State: California
Metro: Los Angeles
Gender: Female
Interests: cupcake tasting, men's fashion (weird, I know), running, modernist chair design, perfume, bebop jazz, modern art, wiki, essays or short stories, faith and finding out where I can buy it, really cool metaphors
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AIM:  czarinaviv
Member Since:
11/10/2002
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| What I found best in helping me understand the economic crisis:
This American Life (two episodes, each one hour long)
Also, the NPR blog Planet Money is a really sharp supplement that keeps up with current developments.
Money issues finally moving out of the abstract for me... Here's news that Mother's Cookies (pink and white animal cookies with sprinkles) is going bankrupt.
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| AwwwwThis has been a super week (yes, recession-proof happiness!), so this is to celebrate the cutest kid on the planet. I know you're not supposed to say this, but not all kids are that cute. All babies are generically cute just because they can wear stuff from Crewcuts and Baby Gap, but only some are really cute. Like Suri Cruise. Or like this little girl. Alas, I'll never have a blonde kid...
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| Yay!
A lot of people went nuts when Gerolsteiner went from glass to plastic bottles last year, but during my daily jaunt at WF today, I saw something amazing... back to glass bottles, and newly designed, too! Also bought it in a plastic bottle for side-by-side comparison. Goodbye to bubbly water in green bottles.
Also, gratuitous photo of coming back after a weekend at the parents'. Yes, I steal TP from mom and dad roll by roll (kind of like an ant) to stash away for my own future use.
In the last bit of semi-good news today, looks like my bank has finally been rescued - sold in a hastily patched up affair. But for a student of economics, the events this month have really shaken things up, and professors are conducting special lectures to explain everything. Everything looks different.
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| BoooksSo I'm looking to get rid of them. Like ivy, they were starting to grow over my parents' house and then my own apartment. The top of a wall-sized closet and two bookshelves at my folks' were covered, and slowly the lone bookshelf at my apartment (after just a year) was starting to get crammed, too. Time to let the ones I'm never going to reread go!
I guess I was always that kid, the one who didn't want anything but books, or the one who was too boring to shop for but who could be depended upon to stay out of sight if given reading material. And I was also, independent of my interests, the kid who liked to hoard things.
Now, though, I'm ardently anti-junk. Thankfully I almost never buy books anymore, since there are so few I like enough to want to keep. After giving away a lot of old stuff and taking way too many trips to Goodwill, here are leftover books that I've either gotten as gifts, bought from the local library's overstock/ultra-cheap used collection, or mistakenly bought during painful, unexpected airport layovers.
Over 40 books
Sorry most of the titles appear fuzzy. A complete list of pictured books here. Or click photo to enlarge.
Anyway, I hope that someone who lives locally (91780, 91006/7, or 90024) will want them. Asking: $13, and if you come to my house you can poke around my shelves and I'll see if there's anything else you can take with you for free (there's much, much more). If you live really close, I can even deliver. If they're not gone within two weeks, I'll be donating them! But for anyone who doesn't really have a book collection and wants one for their dorm apartment, these are nice. Most of these were bestsellers, classics, or otherwise notable in the last five or ten years, and almost any two of these new would exceed thirteen bucks.
Please just take these off my hands! Questions okay, but if you want to come buy them, please hit "message me" at left or contact me however you can (not Facebook).
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| IndecisionIt takes me eons to come to a conclusion between two choices of which neither can possibly be incorrect or bad. Currently I'm debating whether we need a TV in the apartment. On the one hand, we have basic cable that comes with the Internet. On the other, our living room is now a minimalist's paradise, ambient noise has been reduced by half, and I like not having the option of watching Law and Order marathons. Plus, choosing against television smacks of enlightened bourgeois smugness, and I'd love to brag about it over dinner in the future.
But I also missed half the convention speeches last week, and two episodes each of my two favorite shows (one of which is on cable and therefore hard to recover). And I missed all of the Roger matches except for the last, since that was streamed online. *Jumps up and down like a maniac*
I am also unsure about whether I should take this particular graduate series next year. If I do, I'll be locked in and will feel guilty for sunk time costs if I should quit. If I don't, I'm going to have to wrap up my education here. There's the added pressure of not quite being ready for The Test in October and the fear/understanding that the graduate series is in a subject I really don't understand at all. As it turns out, I'll never really shine in advanced Economics because my math skills are shoddy enough so that the responsible thing would actually have been to take a graduate primer class in math. Hmm...
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