Being sick is like being in a time warp. Hours, days, even weeks are just taken from you while everyone else seems to go on living out their lives. One attempts to foggily submerge in a book or a handful…
Category: A Day in the Life
Sick But Happy
Just a quick line so that you all know I’m still around… the lack of any updates has mostly been the result of an ambiguous sickness I’ve contracted recently that I have tentatively diagnosed as potential walking pneumonia. It may…
(Less Than 2,000) Socialists of New Jersey Unite!
Today, I had the rather surreal experience of voting in a New Jersey voting booth. It was surreal because I felt like I was at John King’s touchscreen on CNN, pressing things on an oversized board to make them light…
Assessing October
October 2009 is one for the ages. It wasn’t the spookiest October, though one could easily argue that the moment I resigned myself to death made this the literally scariest October on record. Certainly one hopes that this much abject…
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I love how a bad day can be salvaged by a good session of writing. I love how I can transform from feeling utterly unproductive, a blob waiting around for nightfall and wondering why I’m squandering my time, into the…
Persisting
My head has hurt most of the day, I’ve been sore, and I’ve been trying to convince myself that the doctoral advice to rest was indeed on the mark. I’ve been reading and watching TV-on-Netflix and generally grumping about, worrying…
Sometimes I’m Happy Just to Be Alive
My day was spent differently than I originally envisioned it. It started with an afternoon trip to the pumpkin patch with friends, as expected. This was a prelude to tomorrow’s 4th Annual (1st on the East Coast) Pumpkin Carving Extravaganza.…
Words, Words, Words
So, there’s this thing called Wordle that I just discovered on Facebook, which allows you to analyze any piece of writing or webpage for commonly occurring words. Then it spits out something like this: Pretty neat stuff. My big complaint…
Good Tired
I woke up early today (really yesterday, but you know my schedule) because a friend of mine was coming over. Early these days is around ten or so in the morning. My friend (Ariel) and I met up with Em…
Debate and Nuclear War
The final part of an 8-part series regressing through the Stanford 2002 APDA tournament. Last week: Round 2 (re: chemical weapons) Today’s round takes us back to the beginning of the tournament, the first filmed round of my career since…