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Weekend ED Series: Keep Calm and Live On

November 17, 2012 eating disorders

“There is no right way to recovery, but you’ll know it when you’re there.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Every blogger will understand me when I say the fun in blog maintenance is looking at the search terms people used on Google to find your blog. It used to be that all the search terms people used [...]

Tagged as: eating disorders, recovery

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Two Wacky Asians

November 14, 2012 My story

Heeey! Don’t mind us, we’re just high on caffeine and lychee smoothie! Created with Gifboom I FREAKING LOVE THIS APP!!!

Tagged as: aiyooo!, dancing, wacky, WTF

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A Premature Eulogy

November 13, 2012 My story

Dear Mouse: You. You hairy, half-pound rodent with the popping bead-eyes and scraggly tail. You. I denied your existence for a long time, even though I sometimes heard weird scratching noises at night, and occasionally even glimpsed a streak of brown tearing across the kitchen under the oven. But I can no longer deny you [...]

Tagged as: die mouse die, eulogy, premeditated murder, Ratatouille LIES

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The new breed of Mexican American food

November 6, 2012 eating out

Before I moved to the United States, everything I knew about Mexicans and their culture were filtered through the media. You know the stereotypes—handsome mustaches, sombreros, and the nonsense screams of “Andale, andale, andale!” Of course, those are extremely warped images of Mexico. But even while living in a suburban neighborhood in northern Virginia for [...]

Tagged as: Armando De La Torre, Boyle Heights, chicharrones, East Los Angeles, Guisados, Jeffrey Pilcher, mexican, Planet Taco, taco, taqueria, tortilla

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Weekend ED: Five stories, and mine

November 2, 2012 eating disorders

Thank you for all the birthday wishes, belated and early. You rocketed me back to giddy happiness: I look like a puny, FOB-y, Trojan-happy freshman. But see that happy look on my face? It’s real. I’m slowly catching up on birthday dinners with different groups of friends, either making a racket next to soju-shooting old [...]

Tagged as: birthday, cake, eating disorders, urth caffe, WORLD

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25 Years Later…

October 26, 2012 God

Two days before my 25th birthday, I crouched next to my bed, holding onto a cup of steaming lavender earl grey tea, and crying my heart out. I cried for three hours straight. I felt my face swelling up from all the sodium liquid wetting my eyes and cheeks. I’m not sure why I was [...]

Tagged as: birthday, christ, thoughts

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