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In Germany now
I'm in Magdeburg, Germany, now, with my brother and father ( Read more... ) -
Holiday time
I'll be leaving for the airport soon to catch a flight to Germany. My whole immediate family will be over there, and my brother, sister-in-law, and niece are moving there permanently (or at least for the next several years). My sister-in-law is from Germany, and we will be visiting her parents ( Read more... ) -
Long time no post
Huh, it's been almost a year since I've posted. At least it's shorter than the two year hiatus I had from 2004-2006.
My life's been mostly uneventful. A few [slightly] notable things:
- I like my job at the American Antiquarian Society - I only wish that I had more time to actually read a lot of the material that I work with!
- I became an uncle ( Read more... ) -
Update
Well, I will have a full-time job at the beginning of January, helping to catalog parts of the historical collection at the American Antiquarian Society. This is the same group that I have been working for part-time for over a year, but I will be working at the main location of the AAS in Worcester, which is only a 1/2 hour drive away from where I ( Read more... ) -
Gardening + vegetables + bad diet = vegetable surplus
Every fall for the past several years, I have the same problem - lots of vegetables that I don't know what to do with. This is due to an unfortunate combination of two of my personal idiosyncrasies:
1. I like gardening, both flowers and vegetables.
2. I really, really hate eating vegetables, much preferring highly processed junk food instead.
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So what the heck IS my name?
Most functional adults don't have a problem remembering their own name. I don't either, but I do have a lot of trouble remembering my exact name in a certain context.
The trouble started because as the oldest son, my parents gave me my father's first name, but called me by my middle name as I grew up. So, I have always gone by my middle name, Paul ( Read more... ) -
What a pain in the (lower back)
I spent most of last week with a serious pain in my lower back that periodically extended down my right leg, which left me walking with a funny gait while wincing in public. Thus, I looked even more pathetically awkward and clumsy than usual, which is no small accomplishment. According to the doctor, I probably have either a pinched sciatic nerve ( Read more... ) -
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In honor of the 4th of July, I was going to write a long and involved post about the positive and negative influence of the United States on the world, and what the world might have been like without the United States, but then I realized that this would be a lot of work and that I probably wouldn't know what I was talking about anyway. Therefore ( Read more... ) -
Half-informed, Half-baked political commentary from yours truly
My father, who I used to consider a staunch Republican, has become convinced that the Bush administration will go down as one of the worst in the history of this country. I'm not so sure of that myself - 30 years ago, most people would have said that about Nixon, but by the time Nixon died in 1994, commentators were already pointing out what many ( Read more... ) -
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It was almost exactly 1 year ago that Mom was admitted to the hospital for what turned out to be unsuccessful chemotherapy. Everyone hoped for a cure, but in fact she lived for only another four months. There was less than six months between when the first symptoms showed up and her passing ( Read more... )