cheapsophistry

I am Chicago-bound in about 12 hours for a conference. I have never been to Chicago.

I will take a cab from the airport directly to the building where I will be giving my talk. Hopefully I will make it on time. I have never been to the university.

I am flying out of an airport that I have never been to and don't really...
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Most days, I don't think about her. Whether it's in a healthy way or not, it just happens to be that she doesn't enter my mind all that often. But it's these nights, these nights when the streets are empty and I'm by myself, and I realize that the only person I've to share my thoughts with is myself, well, let's just say today was...
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One of my favorite books of all time is Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis. One of my favorite scenes is when the protagonist Jim Dixon meets love interest Christine Callaghan for the first time, and he is so overcome by her beauty that he wants to do nothing more than run and hide. And then the delightful lines:

"He'd read somewhere, or been told, that...
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Last night I found myself talking to a very cute Quebecois girl (with a boyfriend, obviously) about getting older and the dating issues that one starts to face. I had already noticed this a few years ago, when it was becoming less and less uncommon to be flirting with a girl only to find out that she was not just in a relationship, but actually...
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There is nothing like watching Coronation Street and drinking tea to get over a Hallowe'en hangover. I curse the person who first thought it was a good idea to distill the essence of juniper berries, put it in alcohol and thus create gin. Wikipedia tells me it was the ancient Greeks. Screw you, ancient Greeks.

I met the world's cutest Mad Hatter last night. She...
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