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• My Fourth of July weekend was action-packed with all of my favorite things: eating hot dogs and playing Frisbee on the beach; going mountain biking (and kicking the ass of my male companion in the process); cooking dinner with friends; checking out a new bead shop in the area. I could go on, but those were the highlights. Bliss.
• Turns out that an action-packed weekend, as well as the stress of working two jobs, makes for a slight illness. Cough cough.
• Hadley Freeman is still awesome.
• So is this article about suicide from the NYT Magazine. A strange subject, perhaps, but a fascinating one - and the article upends the conventional thinking about suicide without the smug seriousness that Slate writers often bring to the table (no offense to Slate.)
• The blue Anthro bag I blogged in the previous post? It is mine. Oh so mine.