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Monthly Archives: September 2004

Baseball

Monday, September 13, 2004

This weekend I ended up at a baseball game with Samantha, Cat, and Cat’s friend Sameer. The Mariners lost to the Red Sox 8-0. Reagan was president the last time I went to a Mariners game. They lost that game too. Am I bad luck or what?

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Puddle

Wednesday, September 8, 2004

Oil leaks and antifreeze spills from months or years of parked cars burn a low spot into the middle of a parking space at the Washington Mutual parking lot, and a sparrow sips day-old rainwater from a shallow puddle that’s formed there.

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Register to Vote

Tuesday, September 7, 2004

The miniature replica of George W. Bush’s cowboy hat is in the mail, on its way to its new owner. The final bidder paid $26, and that was immediately donated to MoveOn.org…

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Data Entry

Tuesday, September 7, 2004

I’m cataloging the books that I picked up yesterday, working on a university press book about race and the justice system. It’s marked with a yellow “Used” sticker from a college bookstore. I flip through the pages and notice some highlighting — Damn, I wouldn’t have picked it up if I’d noticed that. A closer [...]

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Woodland Park Zoo

Saturday, September 4, 2004

We went to The Woodland Park Zoo on Friday. My earliest traceable memory is of a zoo, and since then I’ve been to the San Diego Wild Animal Park a couple of times. The last time was years and years ago. I felt sort of zoo illiterate. But the monkeys eased me into things and made me feel comfortable…

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