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...constantly thinking about what a reader two years down the road would find funny and interesting. I think the lag time works because what I'm trying to get across is that we get so drunk with excitement about the little trends and stories that flit through our lives, but if you look at them in retrospect even a month down the line - let alone two years - you see that they weren't that much to get excited about in the first place...
...Porter's apple pie). Besides providing Dunster residents an alternative to the grille (a great place for cheap eats—but if you live in C-entryway, be warned of the wandering fumes), the Porters will gladly be your dinner date. The couple is known to flit about the dining hall to sit down with every diner they see. If you're lucky enough, Mrs. Porter will have her glassy-eyed poodle in her arms...
Almonds are a huge business in California's Central Valley; the state's 660,000 nut-producing acres are responsible for some 90% of the world's crop. Every almond we eat is the result of multiple acts of pollination; without a massive number of bees to flit among the blossoms, growers say, almond trees would produce scarcely a tenth as many nuts. That's why, every February, more than a million beehives--with a total of some 20 billion bees--are shipped in on flatbed trucks from all over the country. (Video: TIME visits the buzzing almond orchards...
...interior of this handcrafted sleep mask feels like it's stitched out of the downiest fleece, while the satin exterior slips easily against surfaces so the Hibermate stays put if you toss and turn. The snug fit was a little too much for this bear, since my eyelids flit and flutter as I fall asleep, and I had some issues adjusting the mask at the bridge of my nose for total darkness. While the two ear "pillows" - both detachable and adjustable - are intended to block sound, I was glad the package came with real ear plugs. The fleece-covered foam...
...reflective and self-obsessed—who drift through various complicated love affairs over the course of a decade or so, beginning at about 1994 and ending in early 2008. The novel alternates between the three characters’ tales, which are obliquely connected by the secondary characters who flit through all their lives. The plotlines are simple. Keith goes to Harvard, works as a moving man in his summer, becomes a political blogger, and eventually publishes a book. Mark spends most of the novel in Syracuse writing his dissertation on a minor figure of the 1917 Russian Revolution...