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The end is nigh
Somewhere on the southern California coast a 30 year old Caucasian male of above average intelligence hurtles toward the eschaton.
At least, that's what it feels like. Morgan and I have been trying our best to use this last couple months that I'm in the area to "see ___(insert friend here)___ one last time." Meanwhile, I'm trying to wrap up classes ( Read more... ) -
another casualty of the information super highway
There are days when I'm convinced that I'm a casualty of the information super highway. There was once a time when I could keep my Yahoo! Inbox down to a trim 25 messages. These days I'm doing good to stave off triple digits! I'm getting positively buried allegedly meaningful e-mail. Just you wait. One day thousands of years from now archeologists ( Read more... ) -
Last night's dream
Last night I had a dream that I could fly. This has been a re-occurring dream, now that I think of it. I don't know why this never occurred to me before ( Read more... ) -
Bagels from heaven
Two days ago bread fell from the sky and almost buried me while I was looking for a quick lunch at Goldstein's Bagels ( Read more... ) -
Reflections on Leadership and Advocacy Day
These last couple days have flooded me with nostalgia and a tinge of melancholy. For the fourth time, I'm in Sacramento meeting with other psychologists in the state, plotting our annual effort to lobby the capitol. Since my first year of grad school I've made the mini-pilgrimage up to "lobby day", but never the two-day build-up beforehand. This ( Read more... ) -
Of Rats and Men: The Ecclesiastical Billy Corgan
My first day as an ex-homeschooler riding the bus to high school was hell. To my horror and the subdued delight of my pagan classmates, the haggard smoker driving the bus aired an appalling range of musical offerings. Sitting in my cracked vinyl seat, I agonized about turning carnal by slow brainwashing to the likes of Metallica, the Cranberries ( Read more... ) -
An interview at Walter Reed
Finally, the dust has settled. I've got to say, when I reflect back on last week's trip to DC I am aware that every now and then it pays to be neurotic ( Read more... ) -
There a two kinds of "free" WiFi at coffee shops: the kind that works, and the kind that doesn't!
Five days after finals have ended, I am only now beginning to unwind mentally.
This quarter was particularly brutal. This time around, the coursework itself wasn't the problem. Rather it was the constant errand running and reference chasing that come with the process of applying to internship sites, combined with the emotional assault on the ego ( Read more... ) -
the shopping blues
Yeah...so what to get my folks for Christmas ( Read more... ) -
thar tis
Green-yellow spear-leaves radiate through the window screen,
pregnant with the hope that resurrects perennially after the completion of the ten page draft.
Sleepy neurons nourish each other once again
hours after the all-nighter. Already a more benign stream
of consciousness bathes me,
steamy and warm like wet terrycloth.
Face flushed ( Read more... )