Archive for the ‘There's No Place Like London’ Category

Swine Flu is in Dallas, my Home Town

Should I be frightened by that fact? I don’t know.
I’m currently about a 4 on an uneasiness scale of 1 to 10. A week ago, I would have been at a 1. However, the number of schools in the area I grew up in that have closed recently, combined with the fact that my mother, [...]

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A WebComic’s Evisceration of the Newspaper Industry

Least I Could Do, a rather strange but great fun comic I’ve read daily for a while, has recently gotten into an intriguing storyline regarding the main character Rayne’s desire to buy out a newspaper company and make it into a workable business scheme. It’s quite pointedly a topic the comic’s writer really believes in.
During [...]

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UWire 100, Babies, and EuroTrip09

Wow so this is going to be a catch up post. I hate doing these, but well, it’s my own fault for not blogging for like a week and a half.
I was named to UWire 100 2009! So apparently I’m now one of the top 100 collegiate journalists. Check it out- I have a really [...]

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A Conglomeration of Views on the Miss USA/OMG GAY MARRIAGE Controversy

(I would positively love to get more opinions on this- please keep them coming in the comments section or send me an e-mail at newsyharpgirl@gmail.com)
I freaking love controversy.
Maybe that’s like saying “I like watching train wrecks,” but it’s true. I absolutely love watching people get riled up and passionate about something they believe in. [...]

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Running Down the Controversy Over the UN Racism Conference

My flatmate Kate has been playing Oregon Trail, the BRILLIANT old-school computer game, online at this great website for the last hour or so. She put me and other people we know into the game, so occasionally hilarious things such as “Rachael, you have typhoid!”, “Stop bear, I need to shoot you!”, or “All these [...]

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You Too! Can Lose Weight/Look Great on the No-Effort London Diet

I refer sarcastically of course, to the insane amount of walking around I do in my average week. I mean- I haven’t ever really added it up, but I would imagine it amounts to over 20 miles weekly, when you add in walking to and from class, to and from Tube stops, to and from [...]

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Taking an Art History Class in London is like CANDY

I love how I don’t blog for a few days and then I suddenly forget everything I was talking about before. What was really cool is how I actually had a decent amount of visitors on Saturday without blogging at all, just because I’ve had enough of a buildup of posts on interesting topics that [...]

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Absinthe that’s Legal in the US and Absinthe Cupcakes

I know- Random post, right? It’s just I’ve gotten a little obsessed the last few days with this new blog I found- Cupcake Project- where this lady must like, take whatever comes into her head that day and makes them into glorious cupcakes which she then makes all her friends taste at fabulous parties.
I want [...]

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Big (Black) Taxi: Cab Drivers have Bigger Brains than We do

Creative-Commons copyrighted picture off of Flickr by Patrick Mayon
Well, at least larger hippocampuses.
I had my last dinner tonight with my parents- they’re flying back to the States tomorrow. Afterwards, I walked out of the hotel, noticed the drizzling rain and the lateness of the evening and decided I just really didn’t want to take [...]

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Easter Celebrations, Walk-In Cocktails and Cupcakes!

My parents have been visiting London the last week. Over the four day Easter weekend they managed to completely exhaust me with a thorough regimen of museums and sightseeing- I’ve done more touristy things this last weekend in London than I have the entire time I’ve been here, I think.
We did Tower of London, Victoria [...]

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