Ancient Grains Archive
Olivia Pope & Associates’ Office Assistant
Ancient Grains, Television
Nov 21, 2013
September 1st
Start work tomorrow! E-mailed Olivia yesterday just to make sure everything was set.
Hi Olivia!
Hope your weekend is going good! Looking forward to joining the P & A team. Just wanted to confirm that my start date is tomorrow—I imagine you want me in by 9? And it’s business casual, right?
Thanks!!
No, 8.
-O
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Ten Really Good Books For Babies and Toddlers
Ancient Grains, Books
Nov 21, 2013
Look, here's the deal. Someone has already hooked your pregnant friend up with the usual suspects. Where the Wild Things Are? The Runaway Bunny? She's got one in every room of her house. Those are some solid books! But let's
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Scenes From The Book of Revelation I Look Forward To Seeing on Sleepy Hollow
Ancient Grains, Religion, Television
Nov 21, 2013
"There are a lot of characters that we are inspired by in The Bible. There are a lot of characters that play into coming in and out of the apocalypse — The Seven Signs, what's our version of that and who can we adapt that that's not
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Nuts Are Still Terrible; Science Is Useless
Ancient Grains, Food
Nov 21, 2013
Still not worth it:
People who regularly eat nuts appear to live longer, according to the largest study of its kind. The findings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggested the greatest benefit was in those munching on a daily portion.An alternate study has found ...Read More
Link Roundup!
Ancient Grains, The Internet
Nov 21, 2013
Doris Lessing, and not saying thank you:
For Lessing the problem was never the ideas behind feminism; it was the way the name pinned her in place, attached expectations of redemption and deliverance to her work that I think she was ...Read More
A Real-Life Version of The Descent Where Everyone Lives
Ancient Grains, science
Nov 20, 2013
Yes. Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes.
An all-woman team of spelunking scientists has retrieved hundreds of fossils from a 100-foot-deep (30-meter-deep) cave in South Africa — including the cranium from what appears to be a prehistoric humanlike creature.Yes. Yes. Of course that is what today ...Read More
Link Roundup!
Ancient Grains, The Internet
Nov 20, 2013
Too excited to trust that this will happen and be awesome, because MONTY PYTHON and all my emotions and desires. Also potentially reuniting: Outkast.
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During my days in the exciting, fast-paced world of quantitative hedge funding, an industry whose ...Read More
The Crowning of Adam Levine, The Sexiest Man Alive
Ancient Grains, Beauty
Nov 20, 2013
It was still dark out when he got the news. He was alone in his room, and then suddenly, he was not. A slender red-haired woman who had appeared at his side whispered the words, "It's you, Adam. People has chosen you," then quickly and gracefully
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