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Monthly Archives: September 2011
A Real Girl
This week I finally got to apply for a Social Security number. They’re a very odd thing, Social Security numbers. All they’re really meant to be used for is paying your taxes: essentially they function as a sort of national … Continue reading
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Fair Go
I spent most of the last week Doing Battle with the Dark Forces of Large Corporations, which sounds vastly overdramatised but is a fairly accurate depiction of my levels of frustration. We’ve generally had pretty good consumer experiences here in … Continue reading
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Blanket Coverage
The Rugby World Cup is, in a funny way, making me feel more isolated from New Zealand than anything that has happened before it; this is mostly because pretty much the entire country, by which I mean the New Zealand … Continue reading
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After The Storm
Irene turned out to be something of a bust for large parts of the Pioneer Valley, and especially for us – we woke up last Sunday morning to heavy rain and occasionally gusty wind, but that was it. By the … Continue reading
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