Sure, Disneyland is fun when you’re 8, but it’s even more fun when you must battle rush hour traffic, squeeze your bony bottom onto the first available tram and then scour the entrance area for your friend who has the Almighty Disney Employee Pass. All for 2.5 hours of theme park bliss. Des, Alice, Carissa [...]

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This weekend, Matt and I went to the “Bay Area,” which, apparently, doesn’t always mean San Francisco. We arrived in a land called Union City, where Matt’s brother Mike lives. Union City is lovely and all (there’s a TGIF and Borders), but it’s not exactly cracka-lackin. Oh well. We had a nice time doing something [...]

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Wish you were there.
I’m back from Miami. I don’t know what to think about that city. Stroll through South Beach and you’ll find storefronts that ooze with tackiness (think tube tops adorned with rhinestone-encrusted pythons — shiver), nightclubs that rape your wallet ($20 cover charges and $15 drinks — on Tuesdays), throngs of Puerto [...]

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After a week of dodging globs of phlegm and shoving myself against bathroom stall doors to barricade all those who cannot grasp the very complex concept of the line (namely, old Chinese ladies with their pants down), to this I say: Good luck.

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UPDATE: Check out all our pics here.
I’m back from China. The trip was amazing — a whirlwind of ancient sights (Great Wall! Tiananmen Square! Never-ending pagodas!), food (drool), intense bargaining sessions (”How much is 300 yuen? QUICK!”), bus ride laughs, loogies everywhere (must now roll my suitcase in bleach), squatty potty mishaps (”Just keep walking. [...]

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I always imagined my first visit to China to be a Joy Luck Club-esque quest for my roots, a tearful awakening as I’d step foot on my ancestors’ soil.
Yeeeeeah, I don’t think that’s going to happen. But I AM going on an 8-day tour next week with Matt and an awesome group of friends. YAY! [...]

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