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plumtreeblossomAndy had to bail on An Inconvenient Truth today, but I'm thinking of going in the evening anyway. If anyone would like to join me, I'd love your company. Let me know, and I can Fandango some tickets purchase some tickets through Fandango. (Must squash this creeping noun-as-verb habit.)
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I'm still working on those freelance pieces, having a most unenjoyable time with it. For a fiction writer predisposed to pulling unbridled imagery and embellishments out of thin air, journalistic writing feels just like playing tennis with your arms tied to your sides. Today I'm writing about yerba mate. Just the facts, ma'am, and it's boring. I can't very well send my client a made-up short story about an aboriginal Argentine named Tolu who first discovers the invigorating beverage while using a yerba leaf as a washcloth in a hotspring, okay? But that's how it goes down in my mind. Facts, facts.... that's all I get to do with this. I have a steamy cup of yerba mate beside me for inspiration. The beverage is traditionally served in a hollow gourd and sipped through a straw, but I'm having it in a blue mug that says "DAVID'S BAR MITZVAH November 12, 1988" and has all of the guests names printed around the sides. My mother bought it for me at a yard sale last year. That and an olive dish wherein you must line the olives up single file.
*clocks self on head*
BACK TO WORK!
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I'm still working on those freelance pieces, having a most unenjoyable time with it. For a fiction writer predisposed to pulling unbridled imagery and embellishments out of thin air, journalistic writing feels just like playing tennis with your arms tied to your sides. Today I'm writing about yerba mate. Just the facts, ma'am, and it's boring. I can't very well send my client a made-up short story about an aboriginal Argentine named Tolu who first discovers the invigorating beverage while using a yerba leaf as a washcloth in a hotspring, okay? But that's how it goes down in my mind. Facts, facts.... that's all I get to do with this. I have a steamy cup of yerba mate beside me for inspiration. The beverage is traditionally served in a hollow gourd and sipped through a straw, but I'm having it in a blue mug that says "DAVID'S BAR MITZVAH November 12, 1988" and has all of the guests names printed around the sides. My mother bought it for me at a yard sale last year. That and an olive dish wherein you must line the olives up single file.
*clocks self on head*
BACK TO WORK!
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