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Category Archives: Recognition Day
Rural Transit Day
There’s a scene in Whit Stillman’s movie Metropolitan that I always found delightful: Person A: You never take cabs? Person B: No, I either walk or take public transportation. Person A: So you’re one of those public transportation snobs. You … Continue reading
Stamp Out Spiking Day
Back in high school, my BFF and I would occasionally get through a day by sharing a bottle of diet Minute Maid spiked with vodka. I feel like that’s the only acceptable form of spiking: when you do it to … Continue reading
Mac and Cheese Day
When I started blogging about Days, I said I was going to try to minimize the Food Days that I wrote about. I’m starting to think I should have gone the other way and blogged exclusively about food days. Anyway, … Continue reading
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Beef Tallow Day
Beef tallow is one of those things I thought about for maybe a half an hour as a little kid and then promptly forgot about—I learned from the Laura Ingalls books that tallow was used to make soap and candles. … Continue reading
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New Conversation Day
I’m not the flutteriest social butterfly. I smile, I try to make the right amount of eye contact to look friendly and sane, but I’m generally sort of awkward with new people and just struggle to fake it til I … Continue reading
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Swimming Pool Day
When I was little, the only way to swim was if my mom took me somewhere. In California, she took me to her childhood stomping grounds in Simi Valley for play swimming—the Tapo Country Club pool, which isn’t nearly as … Continue reading
Kitten Day
As with most of my dogs, most of the cats in my life arrived as adults. I’ve had two experiences with kittens. The first was when a stray that hung around our neighborhood out in the sticks when I was … Continue reading
Durian Day
Honestly, the only thing I know about durians is that my best friend from college, Duryan-with-a-y, had a photo of one on her dorm room door freshman year with a note: “This is NOT me!” Growing up with that name, … Continue reading
Video Game Day
My own video game history is pretty short—I started with Space Invaders and Pac Man like most people my age, but I was neither wealthy nor coordinated, so my exposure to video games usually came in 10-minute stints on a … Continue reading
Arwen Adams Bicknell 