Tag: david rochester
member name: David Rochester
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November 14, 2006 07:59 PM EST --
Today I ran into two friends of mine while I was unloading a large real estate related mailing. They stopped to chat for a while. I made some offhand remark about a mutual friend of ours. . . .
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November 14, 2006 08:17 PM EST --
Today I was in the mood to have thin-crust wood-oven pizza for lunch at my favorite restaurant; I betook myself there, and was seated at a table facing a man sitting at an adjacent table. . . .
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November 16, 2006 12:13 PM EST --
The other day I showed a house to my very sweet client Brenna, who is one of my favorite people because she is a stay-at-home mom and can therefore see houses during the day, rather than continually dragging . . .
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November 24, 2006 11:41 AM EST --
Last night when I left home to meet my parents for Thanksgiving dinner, my middle child cat, Big Dumb Darling Daria P. Olka-Dot Pants, slithered into the front hall coat closet with the silent rapidity . . .
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December 02, 2006 05:15 PM EST --
Earlier this week I went to the doctor. I hate going to the doctor. One of the reasons I hate it is that ever since I was a teenager, I've suffered from an apparently undiagnosable form . . .
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December 04, 2006 01:35 AM EST --
This evening I was obliged to do a little holiday shopping, which I hate. I betook myself to a local mall, the Lloyd Center, where I always do disagreeable obligatory shopping -- I don't shop . . .
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December 19, 2006 01:10 AM EST --
Last night I made the mistake of purchasing a bottle of surly, juvenile wine to share with some friends. I was not aware of the character of this wine prior to opening it -- though . . .
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December 28, 2006 10:37 PM EST --
Here is another example of how Fate conspires against me.
About a year and a half ago, I acquired an editing client who subsequently became a very dear friend. She did me the great honor of . . .
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December 30, 2006 06:29 PM EST --
1) A number of thoughtful people on this site have come up with ways to improve Gather. Although I tend to be fairly uninvolved in such things, there's one very obvious upgrade that I'd like . . .
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January 18, 2007 01:18 AM EST --
When I came home for the summer after my freshman year at college, I did what a lot of seventeen-year-olds end up doing at some point: I had four impacted wisdom teeth extracted. They weren't . . .
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February 01, 2007 09:44 PM EST --
Today while driving on an expressway behind a metallic-silver SUV, I saw a metallic-silver Mylar helium balloon lurk out of one of the back windows and make its way to freedom. The balloon and . . .
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February 14, 2007 07:33 PM EST --
Per Jackie's request, which I cannot deny since she is my cyberfiancee, here is an even more pitiable Valentine's Day anecdote. Well, at least I think it's more pitiable.
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October 04, 2006 07:09 PM EDT --
She is alone now. Every night, she sits in the chair that was his for twenty years. The chair settled and formed around him, and it does not fit her. The upholstery smells of him . . . . .
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October 12, 2006 02:05 PM EDT --
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*This brief essay is for Wendy S., whose article referenced above made me think about my own Big Problem with Dating.*
Recently I have been thinking about . . .
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October 26, 2006 12:25 PM EDT --
He bowed deeply when she entered his domain, and showed her to the marble altar where she was to stand. He gave her a gold-embroidered silk gown to wear, and a diamond crown. Each day he knelt . . .
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October 26, 2006 10:26 PM EDT --
Today I purchased a handsome pumpkin, which I intend to eviscerate and carve for the upcoming Holiday of Fiendishness. I have not carved a pumpkin since I was twenty-six. The occasion . . .
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November 17, 2006 01:11 AM EST --
Today I changed the sheets on my bed, pulling them fresh and warm out of the dryer where they were tumbled with a little mesh bag full of dried lavender, so they smell wonderful. Changing the . . .
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November 28, 2006 05:55 PM EST --
Over the weekend, I attended the winter recital at an excellent local ballet school. The performance was of a whimsical traditional piece called La Boutique Fantasque, about a toy shop that comes . . .
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December 22, 2006 11:28 PM EST --
1) It's not a good idea to go Christmas shopping at 2 PM on a Friday before a holiday, because everyone gets off work early and then it takes three hours to run an hour-long errand.
2) Just because . . .
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December 31, 2006 01:31 AM EST --
I had lunch today at a restaurant of which I have been a long-term patron; for the past five or six years, I've observed a man there who often comes in at the same time I . . .
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