I am a pretty lucky guy. It’s nice to get reminders of this, lest I begin to give in to consternation with any given personal quest or quandary at any given time. Though the below-announced “tour” is not a book-signing…
Category: A Day in the Life
Ghost of Christmas Past
Who would’ve thought that a day in, I’d be almost missing April? Since writing my last post, I have: Had a migraine, making April’s total fourteen. Developed some strange but persistent non-migrainous pain and possibly swelling in the soft tissue…
How Far We’ve Come
I keep a lot of old papers. A LOT. When our moving van rolled over in an accident outside Los Angeles last summer, some people speculated that I didn’t have enough possessions to make this matter that much. The answer…
Full Moon Fever
The moon was crazy full tonight, approaching the kind of round perfection we are taught is never quite achieved in our mortal understanding. It stood as a stalwart reminder of why the energy seemed a little strange, overcharged perhaps. Enough…
13 Migraines (or: A Pretty Bad Month)
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…
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…