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Archive for September 2009

getting good marks

BEAUTY MYTH 1. Someone needs to solve the mystery of why I sometimes get itchy redness on only one side of my face. It seems like hives or an allergy but how can that be? I use the same products all over my face, and when I go places I tend to bring my whole […]

echo chamber pot

EXERCISE FAIL I have a dedicated playlist for running on the treadmill, full of songs that make me feel like a tough girl. Recently I learned the perils of not using that playlist and just letting the iPod shuffle. Have you ever tried to execute the hardest, fastest part of your run while listening to […]

some rare delight in Manchester town

Where the hell have I been? I guess I’ve been sort of depressed. Not really crushingly depressed, no cause for alarm or intervention or medication, but more of a case of the The Glum, otherwise known as The Overwhelming Eh. I don’t really like feeling this way, not least because it causes me to ask […]