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Temperature check

Three weeks without consistent heat will teach you things about yourself and your relationship that you didn’t know you needed to learn.

Elena
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Assembly line friendship

Carmen arrived at noon with three Target bags full of party supplies and announced we had exactly four hours to transform my living room ...

Elena Carmen
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The tiny house conspiracy

Started reading one article about space-efficient storage solutions this morning. Now it’s 4pm and I’m three library books deep into sust...

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Tissues and fictional trauma

Michelle stopped by after work with takeout and the brilliant idea to catch up on Grey’s Anatomy together. We’re three episodes behind an...

Elena Michelle Rodriguez
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Taco bar engineering

Alex volunteered to help set up a taco bar for Sarah’s promotion celebration tonight, which sounded great in theory. In practice, it mean...

Elena Alex Chen
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Midnight furniture shuffle

Jake went to bed an hour ago and I was supposed to follow, but then I looked at our living room and thought - what if the couch was over ...

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Budget reality check

Sarah showed up with a shoebox full of receipts and her calculator, claiming she needed to “figure out where all her money went this seme...

Elena Sarah Chen
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Paper towel politics

Carmen dragged me to Target this morning because she needed “a few things” and didn’t want to go alone. Three hours later we’re back at m...

Elena Carmen
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Namaste at home

Carmen showed up at 2pm with a yoga mat under her arm and way too much confidence. “How hard can it be?” she said. “We run five miles. Yo...

Elena Carmen
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Double duty reality check

Week one of officially working at the campus rec center while keeping up with anatomy and physiology is… a learning curve.

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