Habit, Ritual’s Less Superstitious Cousin

/ March 1, 2010

In last Tuesday’s comments, Robert asked if picking certain mugs for specific projects would be considered superstition or habit. My answer? Habit. Little Phantasma has problems with her narrative voice whenever it rains. One day, she discovered that if she plays Bjork whenever she suffers from this, she can push through her narrative without too much tweaking later on. Now,

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Week in Review

/ February 26, 2010

I just love this, don’t you? Just an inch past 30 days since my last week in review, we’re doing another one. Sad to say, I did have an awesome post lined up, but work being work exploded and made a very sticky, nasty mess all over my workspace. So without anymore bullshit… Alicia’s Week in Review  Work Hubby left

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The House of the Dead: Overkill

/ February 25, 2010

Zombie Thursdays is a weekly feature with guest blogger, Miranda. You can read more about her here. Video games, which are so often written off as mindless entertainment, can often serve a learning purpose. And no, I’m not talking about little kids’ educational games. For me, go-kart games help me to become a better driver, music games help me to

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Ritual: Why We’re All a Little OCD

/ February 24, 2010

Confession: After years of needing to lock the old school lock that secures my parents’ front door, I can’t leave my apartment with a sound mind unless I have my hand wrapped around my apartment keys. Sometimes, I even need to gaze upon them to leave the apartment perimeter. This is my constant indulgent OCD moment. Wikipedia goes into a

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Superstition, or When the Sane Go Crazy

/ February 23, 2010

6 1/2 years ago when Hubby only owned the ‘boyfriend’ label, the Boston Red Sox were having a very promising year. They made it to the post-season and, as always, the whole of Red Sox Nation said “World Series Baybee!!” Since now-Hubby is a die-hard Red Sox fan, he wasn’t the exception. Each game night of the ALDS, he would

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