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.…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Wired

As bad as I felt last night at this time is as good as I feel tonight. What a difference, as they say, a day makes. I have just rattled off over 3,000 words (~12 pages) tonight, in a remarkably…

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Frustration

Chapter 32 may be long remembered as the one that got away. After four nights and just shy of 5,000 words, I think I can finally put it behind me (for now), but it’s taken its toll. A lot of…

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Crime vs. Convention

Part 7 in an 8-part series regressing through the Stanford 2002 APDA tournament. Last week: Round 3 (re: Enron executives and their wallets) Today’s round features one of my favorite opp-choice cases from my senior-year case-writing binge. The case was…

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It All Makes Sense

This post is an antidote, a message in a bottle, a documentation of a sensation and a perception about the world that is here and irrevocable. It’s something that I may lose, but no one can take away from me.…

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Peace is Dead.

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” -Inigo Montoya, “The Princess Bride” (movie) At this rate, Inigo Montoya is the leading candidate to win the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Sure, he’s…

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