Annapocalypse: Archive

Dec 31st

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2011 RET·RO·SPEC·TIVE

I’ve sat down several times to write my wrap-up of this year, as I did last year and in 2009. I wasn’t exactly sure where to begin, so I read back through my two previous posts. In 2009, I remarked that 2008 was one of the worst years of my life because I was unemployed for close to seven months. Although I was gainfully employed for all of this year, thankfully, I would...

Dec 31st

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →

Wilco (17) LCD Soundsystem (13) Saves the Day (12) Eleanor Friedberger (10) Oxford Collapse (9) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

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Dec 25th

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Dec 24th

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Dec 24th

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Dec 22nd

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Dec 21st

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →

Eric & Magill (10) St. Vincent (10) Ryan Adams (7) Atlas Sound (5) Eleanor Friedberger (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 20th

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Dec 19th

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U.S. War in Iraq Declared Officially Over →

It’s pretty unbelievable to think that the war is now over. Well, technically over, anyway. I remember when it started in March 2003, I was less than three months away from graduating high school. I heard the announcement during my Newspaper/Journalism class, and we turned on the TV to CNN and just sat there in relative silence, watching the grainy live feed of air strikes hitting targets...

Dec 15th

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Apartment living in Chicago vs. Wilmington, NC:

Brittany: my apartment is enormous
 I do not have that problem
me: ugh
 and it's cheap too
 wtf unfair
Brittany: Did I tell you about my dining room?
me: no, what?
Brittany: It exists
me: HAHAHAHAHAH
 SO MUCH HATE RIGHT NOW

Dec 15th

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Dec 12th

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Dec 10th

In exactly one month from today, I begin my roughly four-month long student teaching experience in a CPS school. Since two people from UIC have yet to be placed in a school, the department has to withhold the placements for all 200+ of us until everyone has one. This adds to my already mounting anxiety a significant amount. I have a list of four potential schools, so it has be one of those, I...

Dec 9th

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