Used to be that I would get some pretty epic migraines. This was back in high school, before I started drinking coffee regularly, when I was out there in daily life with all the fluorescent lights and loud noise you…
Category: A Day in the Life
Emily’s Summer Plans!
I am proud to announce that Emily has secured an internship for the summer and will be spending early June through mid-August in Liberia. If you’ve forgotten which country that is, here’s a refresher: You’re Liberia! Free at last, free…
Transitions
It’s probably no mystery that debate has been my primary focus this month, at least during the time that I’m not feeling surreal and/or migrainous. Between driving 7 hours to a tournament the first weekend, hosting our tournament the second,…
Thursday Round-Up
From time to time, I feel the need to post a rambly cattle-call of happenings in my life and links around the web. I should start designating a day to do this and making it something like a regular feature,…
Perverse Incentives
In the past few years, Emily and I have never quite managed to get our taxes paid in full via check withholding. For a long time, the culprit was the division of her paycheck into two sources of income –…
Zimmy Wins First BP March Madness Challenge
Congratulations go to Adam “Zimmy” Zimmerman, the grand prize winner of this year’s first-ever Blue Pyramid University Quiz March Madness Challenge. Zimmy wins an Amazon gift certificate and the adulation of hoops bracketeers everywhere. Zim-Zim the Mayonnaise Man News of…
Things I Learned in Court Today
I got to court about a minute late today, the penalty for which was having to listen to every single other case in the room be heard before mine. While this initially struck me as quite a chore, I’m ultimately…
Kid in a Candy Store
Today is a little like Christmas, or my birthday before I got old, or going to Disneyland, or going to see a Mariners game. Today I get to tab a tournament. For those outside the debate world, “tabbing” is the…
Ten Years Gone
It’s recently come to my attention that dreams about losing teeth are extremely common and this reminded me that the very first Introspection post ever was about a dream about teeth. Predictably, of course, the dream was actually about gaining…
April Come She Will
New image up top. Refresh the page if you can’t see it. If you still can’t see it, well, here it is below: One of the subtler overall changes on the page, going with a relative simplicity that reflects my…