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Today I was a total cliche: reading Proust at a French cafe.
The mushroom and cheese croissant was pretty darned tasty.
And the strawberry cake was just plain delicious. Moist cake, and berries churned into the whipped cream and not just folded into white whipped cream.
Also: okay, okay, I guess I have enough readers now that inside jokes don't translate over the internets. My girlfriends and I talk a lot about how sad it is that women often don't have a positive self image, no matter their size and shape. We admit we have a sometimes overly healthy sense of self-confidence, but it's all in jest. None of us actually walk around in real life saying how hot we are. It's just fun to share an outfit that makes us happy or update each other on our fitness achievements. And it's much easier to post on the blog since I know all ten of my friends will eventually read it and laugh their asses off. Notice the replies to my post weren't "Wow, gee, you really are fantastic." They were more like "Shut up, biatch, you look like you spilled food on yourself." Touche. Very funny, guys. I can take it as well as I dish it.

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I actually saw a blog post on Glamour.com (not sure how I ended up there)where the writer asked if there were any women out there who looked in the mirror and liked what they saw. It's sad that not liking yourself is the default option. I know I do not have a perfect figure, but think I look pretty damn good. I wouldn't change a thing about my body, although of course as a weightlifter I have various strength-related goals. If anyone thinks that means I'm conceited, well, it probably just seems that way because so many other women hate themselves.
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claire, At
8/11/2007 10:34:00 AM
dude, what idiots, in the previous batch of comments. *i* don't know you at all in real life, and yet i knew right away you were being tongue-in-cheek. nobody these days uses "hot" self-referentially in a serious way except for maybe paris hilton. and maybe even because of her, using "hot" now as a self-description is almost always meant to be taken sarcastically.
a fellow totally hot babe,
amy
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amy, At
8/12/2007 11:32:00 AM
Amy, you ARE totally hot. I can tell from your comments. Some people's spirits exude hotness.
And really, there are thousands of websites (ahem, myspace pages?) that are basically photo galleries of girls declaring to the world that they're hot (and available). I wonder, is "anonymous" going around chiding everyone on myspace for being full of themselves?
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Pei, At
8/12/2007 03:17:00 PM
wow. there's why i only read blogs and don't make one myself. there are too many idiots out there. and they type back. you're not only hot but you're sarcastic, too, which makes you the total package, and the douchebags that don't get what a sense of humor is are probably just ugly, unfunny, and jealous.
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karyn, At
8/13/2007 03:14:00 PM
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