"Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover ( Read more... )

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This is a periodic account of my life from birth through age 14 (1998) written by my Grandmother Hartzell onto loose-leaf notebook paper. Bestowed to me by my parents last week.

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As I was walking up to the Howe Restaurant this afternoon for lunch, a middle-aged woman and an older lady passed me on the way to their car. The older lady took one look at me and immediately started shouting, "HEY! Have YOU ever had to MRMFRMPFHFMFM..." The younger woman, obviously her daughter, clamped her hand over her mother's mouth and smiled ( Read more... )

It's strange what kinds of vignettes you're exposed to just as a matter of working on someone's computer. "My dad and my uncle were having a fight and they fell on top of the laptop." The entire laptop is bent and the display is broken. All of the asset stickers are missing. Inside, all of the parts are covered with sticky drug residue. Great.

Ordered a BlenderBottle and 3 lbs. of Optimum Nutrition 100% Natural Oats and Whey in milk chocolate flavor. Oats for fiber (feeling of fullness), whey for protein (energy). Also ordered a fancy apple corer and looked at a few rice cookers. Fitness!

"The ideal is a beautiful thing but it lacks tangible force in our world. Money, family, physical space, commitments: These are the heavy bags we carry on our arduous journey toward the ideal. They weigh us down but we must carry them because the food is in there. The money is in there. Our shoes are in there ( Read more... )

1. Receive requests for new accounts.
2. Look up names in master database.
3. Realize names provided in account requests are all misspelled.
4. See names in master database are spelled correctly but the other information is wrong.
5. Correct everything.

Procrastination takes on a lot of forms. Sometimes it's work-related, but in my case it's personal. I put off sleep so I can read more, put off contacting people until I have interesting stories to share, put off exercise because I'm just too tired. I have been cooking, though, and it makes me happy that I'm learning about the artful deconstruction ( Read more... )

I'm glad most bands aren't as good as Radiohead or 12 Rods because I think I'd never leave home. I spent last night acquiring about 30 hours of music that I hadn't felt like listening to over the past few months. A lot of it is great and it's easy to sort out the bad stuff. By now, I've heard more music than most people will hear in a lifetime, so ( Read more... )