Word: normally
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Your book readings aren't normal book readings. They're more like concerts or events. Why do you do all of this wacky stuff? About seven years ago I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk through the whole event and I needed to make it more interesting. I wanted to be running and jumping and do something so that the event would be so exciting. I had to trick myself into having fun every time. I don't remember the hotel rooms or the airports...
...about abstinence. It was more about parenthood: that it is hard, and exhausting, and bittersweet to hold your blessed child in your arms and wonder at him, while knowing that your friends are at the movies, and your term paper is due, and everything that was supposed to be normal right now is hovering just out of your reach. "I'm just here to tell teens this is a really hard job," Bristol told Matt Lauer. "It's not like an accessory on your hip. It's hard work...
...their jobs. Hank Paulson, a well-built former Dartmouth football player and former head of Goldman Sachs and mild-mannered Ben Bernanke have been accused of manipulating a major decision by a public company, Bank of America's (BAC) decision about whether it should by Merrill Lynch, overriding the normal and legal corporate governance system. Put more simply, they broke a law in the name of saving the national financial system...
Bernanke said that the economy should start to see improvement by the end of the year. He pointed to housing and inventories as signs that business and consumer activity are starting to quicken. Bernanke put in the normal caveat which is always that the government's stimulation and regulation are critical to the healing process. If the economy could have healed itself, it would have already. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
About half of the tweets I’ve seen are normal status updates: users can post “just got to the office” or “thesising in Widener,” for example. So far, this sounds a lot like Facebook, with its status updates and news feed, and I recall that Facebook encouraged these location- and action-type posts when status updates were first launched...