‘personal’ Archives
Demotivator of the day
A couple of months ago, I went through the challenging ordeal of perusing papers from years ago, mostly of the academic variety. I don’t think I delved into quite how demoralizing this was. I wouldn’t have. I do still censor what I’ll put in here, whether [Read More]
Get busy living
Geez, I feel like a cross between Sandra Bullock in While You Were Sleeping and Morgan Freeman in The Shawshenk Redemption (watch Red cross the border). (Lucy wants to go to Europe to get her passport stamped. Red doesn’t have a passport. Red goes to Mexico, but [Read More]
Speaking of yearbooks…
In my piles of stuff, I have three Duke yearbooks. Three editions of The Chanticleer. Yearbooks from 1994, 1995, and 1997. Yearbooks are free every year to Duke undergrads. Who wouldn’t alumni want to keep these books, chock-full of memories from their college days? I [Read More]
“You’re going to be a great success”
Oh, shit… Now, I’ve done it. Generally, it would be a positive development to begin going through long-sacred clutter and getting rid of some of it. The problem is that much of it resonates far too deeply with me for it to be trashed. Specifically, I’m [Read More]
Raw reasons why I’m pissed off
1. Neighbor was playing drums at 12:30AM. 2. Duke Transplant is concerned that I have articulated a mistrust of their organization. Perhaps that has something to do with the various episodes of incompetency I experienced back in January after my nephrectomy. Without [Read More]
On Reading and Books and Lost Potential and Ambien
I am planning to donate some books for a book sale fundraiser. I figured I would have plenty of books that I could get rid of. It turns out that I do. It also turns out that I can’t. I have not actually read most of the books in my possession. I know there is [Read More]
V-day raw
February 14, 2004 No wonder I don’t seek out new friends nor do I get excited over the prospect of dating. Once someone gets to know me, they inevitably realize that they didn’t just catch me in a phase, that I’m always like how I’ve been, and they [Read More]
Undisclosed Location
While Anderson Cooper reports from an undisclosed location so that Egyptians don’t beat him up again, I blog from an undisclosed location because I needed to get away from home. It is difficult to explain why I couldn’t get sufficient rest at home. I suppose I [Read More]
