July 2012
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Travel Tips by Caila: Once You Are There
Travel Tips by Caila is a recurring feature with helpful travel tips from a frequent flier/non-moron.
Tip # 12: Before you take a cab from the airport, explore the other possibilities first. There is a pretty good chance you’ll get to the hotel and realize that it’s 50 steps away from a subway stop that would have been cheaper, faster, and easier than the near-death cab ride...
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Don't Give in to Writer's Block
Really - don’t let it win. Just start writing. Write anything. Here, let me demonstrate:
As I am writing this, I am currently beating writer’s block. Something brilliant is going to come to me at any moment. Any. Moment. If I just keep writing, it will just enter into my thoughts and onto the page. Which it’s going to do. Any time now. Really…any time.
Oh - some...
Travel Tips by Caila: On the Plane
Travel Tips by Caila is a recurring feature with helpful travel tips from a frequent flier/non-moron.
Tip #4: In rows with 3 seats (ugh, coach), the person in the middle seat has dibs on both armrests. That person needs to sit between two other grown humans…give them a break.
Tip #5: In rows with 2 seats, the person who gets his/her arm on the arm rest first has dibs. Hate if you...
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Don't get a tattoo
When I was 18, I got a tattoo. When you are 18, things of permenance seem like a good idea, because you only really have 10 years of life that you remember. You have no concept of how very, very long life is when you are trying to pass as a respectable grown up…with a shamrock tramp stamp.
Yes. There it is. I said it, and I own it. I have a tramp stamp.
In fairness, at the time I got...
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Always have an updated passport/ Introducing:...
Both legitimate advice and my excuse du jour as to why the blog has been silent for 2 weeks.
I received many, many, many messages while I was gone inquiring about the whereabouts of my blog (One. It was actually asking if I was dead or Taken because I hadn’t updated my Facebook status in weeks, but I just KNOW I have loyal followers out there who were wondering).
I am not dead. I was...
