January 5th, on Twitter: "Do you think the first song added to your music library each year sets the tone for your year? (If not, what does?)"  Follow-up, later that night: "May need to ruminate about my last tweet further tonight and tomorrow. I feel like it deserves some introspection and long-form writing ( Read more... )

I had a dream last night, and I think Occam's Razor will help understand it. ( Look behind the cut for more. )

1 month until I'm 1/2 through the American Planning Association conference in New Orleans.

2 months until I'm 1/2 done my master's degree.

5 months (actually, a little less) until I'm finished with my summer job (which is still TBA, though I'm playing phone tag for an interview and can go back to last summer's if the interview goes nowhere) and ( Read more... )

Much like my undergraduate education, my choice in graduate education may be made for me by the almighty dollar.  Unless someone has $80,000 or so they'd like to lend me.  Perhaps I should ask the government for a bailout ( Read more... )

I have a feeling that these next 7 days are going to be very important.  I wouldn't classify it as a particularly "good" feeling.  On a personal level, I get my first exam of the semester back, I take another, and (perhaps most important) go through my 4th annual spiritual restoration weekend.  I e-mailed a company my resume today for a summer ( Read more... )

• Damn, Michael Phelps is ridiculous.  It's almost hard to believe that no one in the world has ever swam as fast, and that everyone else in the pool are still among the TOP 8 IN THE WORLD.  He's up to 3 golds.  Wow.
• First thesis interview today with Principal Sparano - went well, save for some minor technical difficulties with Mr. I-Won't-Produce- ( Read more... )

• I'm back from the Shore.  Slightly tanner, somewhat more exercised, and that much closer to the onslaught of the fall semester.  This also reduces my turnaround time for e-mails and other communications from "double-digit hours" to "a couple of hours at worst".  Expect this statistic to reach "30 minutes or it's free" in two weeks.
• It's in the 50s ( Read more... )

Being 20 is pretty much the same as being 19.  Just another case of "odometer syndrome".  I expect being 21 will be largely like being 20...except possibly slightly less sober ( Read more... )

Have you ever had a week where nothing seems to go right for you, in pretty much every aspect of your life ( Read more... )

Ha. Well, the birthday has come and gone. And how many reflection posts did you see? That's right - zero. So far, at least. I guess in some ways that's good - it means I've either A) had enough work to do at my job or B) found different ways to distract myself. It's actually a little of both - the guy doing the same job as me is off at ( Read more... )