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Frightening plans
Tonight, the longest Saturday night of the year (don’t forget to “fall back,” y’all), I shall arise from my nest of printouts from JSTOR and manuscript scraps. On my patio tabl… more →
Lucky Jane
Frightening plans
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Lucky Jane wrote 3 weeks ago: Tonight, the longest Saturday night of the year (don’t forget to “fall back,” y … more →
A consumer's report
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Lucky Jane wrote 3 months ago: There’s a commercial for a big-box office supply store that, to a soundtrack of “The Mos … more →
Guess what?
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Lucky Jane wrote 5 months ago: I’m debt free. This fact quite pleases me. Thought I’d let you know. Toodles! * * * Just … more →
On budgets
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Lucky Jane wrote 6 months ago: At JPU, Spring 2009 ends neatly with the cruelest month. Fearful symmetry, that. You know what else … more →
Because academics in the humanities are such experts on these things. . .
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Lucky Jane wrote 9 months ago: As if I didn’t have enough distractions, I half-heartedly follow a discussion board whose topi … more →
Hooked on demographics!
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Lucky Jane wrote 10 months ago: I hate American Express with the heat of a nova. Like apparently thousands, if not millions, of card … more →
The takft that keeps on taking
Lucky Jane wrote 1 year ago: I’ve done no research on the subject, but my impression is that many a pedant has weighed in o … more →
Bloodsuckers!
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Lucky Jane wrote 1 year ago: Home again, home again, with, oh, thirty souvenirs from Interesting City: thirty mosquito bites, mor … more →
This one goes to 11
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Lucky Jane wrote 1 year ago: The other day I posted about my hellacious recent journey to Weird City via Greyhound. When I booked … more →
Don't do it!
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Lucky Jane wrote 1 year ago: After months of ratcheting up fares to keep up with fuel costs, the airlines are now contritely resc … more →
Agora phobia
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Lucky Jane wrote 1 year ago: For the past thirty-six hours I have been dreading my Yahoo e-mail. It’s an account I opened t … more →
What I am doing with my Bush bucks
Lucky Jane wrote 1 year ago: Like many estadounidenses, I am awaiting a small windfall, a going-away fuck-all-y’all from th … more →
Nessun dorma
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Lucky Jane wrote 1 year ago: Svmer is icumen in, and I have gone cuccu. Again. It is almost 70°F in Funky City this fine night, a … more →
Ten pounds of copies!
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Lucky Jane wrote 1 year ago: I’m blogging from a world capital, at an exclusive, top-secret location whose name rhymes with … more →
Separation anxiety
Lucky Jane wrote 1 year ago: I am puffed up with domestic achievement as I write this post. See, I’ve just cleaned out my k … more →
If I keep doing this, I'll go blind, right?
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Lucky Jane wrote 1 year ago: Another chilly Saturday night alone. My laundry is churning and spinning itself to unscented, … more →
Das Passagen-Werk* lite
Lucky Jane wrote 1 year ago: To drag myself out of my post-grading funk yesterday, I went shopping. While I went to a lot of shop … more →
$19.99!
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Lucky Jane wrote 1 year ago: That’s how much my most recent free dinner with a job candidate will cost me. I am elated, sin … more →
Don't do it, d00d!
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Lucky Jane wrote 1 year ago: As I was picking up the latest book from Interlibrary Loan that I will probably not have time to loo … more →
