You're going to look back on all this and laugh. Or at least smile.

Not much has really happened these past three months. But I am 5/8's through grad school! So that is pretty swell. I also struck up a really nice conversation with a lovely young woman on Saturday(!), the most easy and natural first conversation I've had in a very long time (!!), which started about football (!!!) and... I forgot to get her number ( Read more... )

So the semester is - holy shit - approaching the halfway mark already. If I could describe it in one word it would be: disciplined. Monday: Class. Tuesday: Class. Wednesday: Gym. Thursday: Homework. Friday: Movie or non hangover-inducing social activity. Saturday: Gym and homework and maybe people if they are around (often as not these days). ( Read more... )

Autumn has always seemed like a more natural "New Year" time for me than January. I don't know if it's due to the changing leaves or that still-imprinted-on-my-brain "back to school" feeling, but it always seems like a better time to sit back and take stock of the previous year than January 1st, by which time everything sucks ( Read more... )

That my brief return to running has resulted in a not-insignificant injury to my left achilles tendon. I've been given some exercises to do, and instructed not to run again for at least a month (potentially longer) AND not if still experiencing any pain. My running/touch football/etc. career is pretty much over. And that's fine. I can still use an ( Read more... )

Having dinner with -, my muse, yesterday seems to have put me in a Livejournalin' mood for the first time in a while. Also, I do comb through this thing every once and a while and come across parts which make me think "I'm glad I wrote that down."

I am in the midst of a brief lull in my schedule. My third semester of part-time grad school is ( Read more... )

I think one of the big reconciliations one makes as one gets older is between the expansive (BIG things, BIG ideas, BIG emotions) and the mundane (going to work, responsible finances, eating enough fiber). Keep the right balance between those two things is tough. For most people the latter takes on greater significance as one gets older, but you ( Read more... )

I've gotten better at handling stress, but every one and a while I still have a day where I'm like I'M OUT. Yesterday was such a day. Not so much that this week has been particularly bad, but an accumulation of things that has never really let up since January. Haven't been sleeping well, and I got my travel shots on Thursday, and I think all of ( Read more... )

So I was having brunch with my girlfriend this past Sunday and I asked her, "Have you ever wanted to answer a question or a request with something completely inappropriate? Not like, offensive or rude, but literally making no sense? Like a single tone 'NNNNNNNNNAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH ( Read more... )

I gotta get my poop in a group this year.