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By Rachel Leibrock - rleibrock@sacbee.com
Published 12:00 am PST Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Story appeared in SCENE section, Page E3
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Appetite for deconstruction: Robin is a New York-based food studies major who likes to eat. Really likes to eat. And blog about it, too, over at The Girl Who Ate Everything (www.roboppy.net/food/).
From run-ins with gelato and lamb chops to close encounters of the pancake kind, Robin details her meals and snacks with humorous, thoughtful insight.
But does she really eat everything? "Sometimes yes, sometimes no," she writes. "I have a problem with willpower; if you put food I like in front of me, I'll probably eat it despite whether my stomach has any more room."
Oh, is that a problem? Here that's known as "dinner."
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To the point: Can you sum up your life in just six words? In 2006, Smith magazine challenged writers to keep it short and simple. Those quick reads are collected in "Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure" (Harper Perennial, 240 pages, $12). Contributors writer Chuck Klosterman, cartoonist Keith Knight, Fountains of Wayne singer Adam Schlesinger and actress Amy Sedaris.
Oh heck, we'll give it the ol' college try, too:
Born. School. Work. Wrote this review.
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