I'm beginning to go crazy. No, I lie. I am continuing to go crazy. It is one thing to be cooped up at home with some embarassing debilitating condition that seems to be able to improve without actually feeling like it's improving. It's quite another to do that in Idyllwild ( Read more... )

After lying in bed for hours this morning and afternoon, unable to return to the land of Nod because my mind was too busy reminiscing about the men in my past, I decided to embrace the nostalgia and read some of the oldest entries in my journal, which date back to January of 2003 ( Read more... )

Am I the only person not engulfed in the HD craze? It's conquered Dan Marino and numerous gawking kids, but not me! I really despise the commercial where a fat guy is getting a new HD system and he doesn't even recognize when he's on an HD channel...then he calls to his wife to come in and tells the salesman, "she loves HD." How can she love HD so ( Read more... )

It doesn't seem like I've been away for an entire season of USC football, but I have. It seems weird that this is actually the second season of football since I graduated, since my time in England seems like just a blip in my life history. A lot of my friends are still at USC, and I feel like I'm not that far gone. Some might say I need to move on ( Read more... )

Lauren is at the movies, and Kendall is hanging out in Hemet, and I'm lying on the couch hiccup-burping (lots of cranberry juice does that to you) and watching Law and Order reruns while my stomach growls. This sucks ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about this so-called project my father wants me to come up with to pass my convalescence and take my mind off of ouchies and discomfort. It would be fun and hopefully not too trite to attempt to write a story (saying "a novel" or "a book" seems midway between pretentious and naive). I daydream occasionally about possibilities for ( Read more... )

I usually listen to my father, but some advice he gave me today seems particularly potent as I sit here watching the Jeopardy teen tournament (second only to the Kids tournament in simplicity of answers...and boy are these kids zealous!), trying in vain to outwit my boredom. I decided to defer my dissertation until next year because of my health ( Read more... )

I just want to go on record that today has been, all things considered, a strangely good day. I slept solidly for most of the night, then after a bathroom trip I slept some, spent some time chilling in bed listening to classical music, and thought about the greatness this summer will bring. Then I got up, showered, and lay in bed for a while ( Read more... )

Ha. Now I am the first of the Salter brothers to post in this round. Of course I do have big news to discuss, so maybe it's cheating ( Read more... )

Earlier this month, Andrew pointed out that the Salter boys' semi-lengthy journal entries tend to follow each other quickly in threes. I didn't get the memo this time and I am consequently last, but I appreciate the impetus to write a bit ( Read more... )