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Monthly Archives: November 2007

Departures

10-Nov-07

Digging through an old directory of things I had written, I came across this. I don’t remember writing it. More importantly, I don’t remember what I was thinking when I wrote it.

What Giving Birth Must Feel Like

08-Nov-07

I’d continue my posts about cultural identity but I have to be up in 4 hours to go to Navy pier to set up a presentation I’ve worked on for almost 3 weeks now and I’m so nervous and wired my hands are shaking.
Technically, I’m a professional now (I’m getting paid for this, after all) [...]

Cultural Identity, pt. 2

07-Nov-07

My cultural identity is intimately and inextricably tied to my family life. Central Pinellas County was not and still isn’t a raving hotbed of cultural integration, and what with my parents’ desire that we go to good (that is, affluent, and as a consequence, mostly white) schools and our decade-long membership in a (again, mostly [...]

Cultural Identity, pt. 1

06-Nov-07

Enough with the trifles, on to something more serious.
After my grandparents returned home from their 4-day stay in Chicago, my mother secretly revealed to me that prior to departing Florida, they worried we’d have nothing to talk about, that communication would be such a problem we’d end up just doing nothing all weekend. They were [...]

One Week Later

05-Nov-07

So, some thoughts about the iPhone after one week of use: