I'd like to claim I wasn't really in the mood for the High Holidays this year because they came so early, but whatever it was, I feel kinda guilty. Jon and I had agreed to check out synagogues in Brooklyn after last Yom Kippur, but we never got around to it and he didn't want to commit to a shul for all the services without having been there before ( Read more... )

I haven't felt like leaving my apt much lately. My best theory is between the chigger bites and the Rainier sunburn, I've trained my body to have an aversion to sun and fresh air. I don't even seem to want to leave to buy groceries, let alone go running ( Read more... )

Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice, David Galula: I balked at spending $71 for a 128 page book. Fortunately, TWH was happy to lend me her copy. It's very very good, with lots of information from someone who was in the field. Reading it, I believe the US was following everything he suggested in Iraq at least, so we should've won, right ( Read more... )

Unsurprisingly, I did not get more productive on Thursday and ended up punting on Here Lies Love and an after-party. I woke up Friday feeling rested enough to work, despite the drama in Cambridge, but then self-inflicted by reading Facebook and seeing a thoughtful, but still triggery race bib. oops. Missed the NYC Tech Startup fair as a result and ( Read more... )

I wish I could read the New Year's resolution post I'd've written a year ago today, if I'd actually written one last year, bc it would be hilarious. I never imagined how my life would change. I fulfilled a lifelong dream of climbing a technical peak in the Himalayas -- and discovered that it's not all it's cracked up to be. My girlfriend dumped me ( Read more... )

Sometimes I go back through old LJ entries and wonder why such-and-such event isn't mentioned. Turns out the problem is, I'm too busy experiencing/processing, I don't get around to writing about things until they are stale. The fortnight before Christmas was an incredibly productive? time for me, in which I figured out what I want, from a personal ( Read more... )

Hurricane Sandy has really messed up my sense of what day of the week it is, which was already endangered by being unemployed. Monday was always scheduled as a recovery day from the marathon. Tuesday was a particularly pleasant weekend day, as I played Monopoly, ate chicken, and watched Chopped with my Manhattan siblings. Weds was spent in the car ( Read more... )

I'm not sure how I was so busy on Friday -- and was still running 2hrs late, such that I missed having lunch with my mother. Instead Jon and I took Metro-North to Ct where my parents cheerfully lent us a car to drive to NH. For all that Labor Day traffic is legendarily bad, it took us <6hrs to drive to Plymouth. Unfortunately, the #1 rated lodging ( Read more... )

The emergent themes of the weekend were navigation failure and decision fatigue. Bc my roofdeck is closed and boats on the river were overpriced, our sole July Fourth activity was a barbecue at Lbro's place, hosted by Bbro for his friends, what with Lbro being in Switzerland and all. I'm glad we went bc not only does my brother not know how to work ( Read more... )

I'm eager to gain Fitocracy points be active: I stayed up until 2am last night calculating running training plans (the marathon is barely do-able after 2 months off, but I'm going to give it my best) and looking at river trips and climbing companies ( Read more... )