Hope Springs Eternal

The Instructor gently takes my elbow and steers me into the corner of the dojang. "End of class . . . Dodgeball?"
For the past two weeks, my whole life has revolved around the kids' graduation ceremony. Last week I skipped Taekwondo class altogether. I don't know why–being here makes me forget I have a job. [...]

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Silence

"So I was supposed to tell him tonight. You know, that I like-him-like-him. Put the ball in his court. Because why should I have to hold a torch for him for another month while he's oblivious? I just wanted to get the whole thing off my chest."
T and I lean back in our booth in [...]

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Tramp

A tech-savvy friend recently suggested I sign up for an RSS feed. After more than three hours of painstaking research, I obliged.
The upside to having a news reader service is that you can check for updates on all of your chosen blogs on one page. I've just started adding my favorites to My Yahoo! and [...]

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Matronly

“Pia Teacher wants to be a writer. She wants to write books. What do you want to be when you grow up?” I asked a kindergarten class on one of those manic Mondays.
“I want to be a scientist. I want to make money.”
“I want to be a firefighter. I want to fight fires.”
“I want to [...]

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Resolutions

New blouse. New heels. New purse. New earrings. Manicure. Push-up bra. All for a guy who didn’t even show up.
Spent the night at a friend’s place—left shortly after he crawled into bed and tried to spoon me.
“All you need is one good fuck,” he murmured as I shut the door behind me.
I stood at the [...]

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Full Moon, Part One

The night before Lunar New Year’s Day, K rested his hand on my knee as we ate pancakes in the New Yorker’s apartment.
“What are you doing?” I snapped. I was never in the mood for his drunken come-ons. I slapped him away and he laughed mockingly.
“You’re so stiff all the time. Just relax,” he said, [...]

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A Thousand Words

Since this blog has been my only opportunity to write in the past few months, I’ve become rather obsessed about it. Does anyone else find themselves zoning out at work and class, thinking about your future entries and site counter? Trying to piece together a compelling first sentence, finding blog rings and comparing yours to [...]

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Hangover

I return from Seoul brokenhearted.
Why do I always fall hard for guys who won’t feel the same way?
We talked all night, tucked into the corner of that seedy bar, leaning towards one another, our faces only inches apart. We talked about the ethnicities of past partners, cross-country dreams, our small town backgrounds, my shamelessly bad [...]

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Rush

I love how I can leave work in tears, start my Taekwondo class 30 minutes late and strut home feeling like I have complete control of my life.

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Changes

As you can tell, I changed the template of the blog. I love the design, but I still have a ton of editing to do.

Tell me how you like it.

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