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I was a cutter when I was younger. I used to feel unable to process all the input, all the stimuli from every day life, quickly enough. At the time it seemed to me like I was always picking up on so many things around …
ruining it for the rest of us.

the title of this entry is actually the exact same title of the This American Life broadcast from a few weeks ago. i finally got around to listening to it this afternoon on a long overdue leisurely glorious run out in t…
hey. there's a word for what i do.

okay, i know i promised to step this up. and then i didn't write at all last night. and now tonight i'm here thinking, well maybe i should begin the whole stepping things up thing on sunday. or monday. you know, new …
getting cereal.

i ran across a book today called Nobody Cares What You Had For Lunch, which is full of ideas for keeping your blog interesting. i think this is may be one of the best titles i've seen in a long time. i'm not going to …
don't believe the hype.

life lesson number 4208: learn to take compliments graciously, but understand, too, that they're just words. when i was in grad school, i played with a fun "thrash folk" band that we called Slack Jaw. we were not a pa…
oller-ray oaster-cay

today, two weeks after i was told to expect a response about a job i interviewed for on dec. 8th, i sent a second follow up email. it's a little humiliating - kind of like pestering someone who said they'd call after th…
my serenity prayer.

universe, grant me the strength to deal with my shizz, the serenity to accept other people's shizz, and the wisdom to know the difference. fo shizzle.
i have a good side.

i'm having blog-ja-vu. that's not a word, but it should be. it's the condition where you distinctly remember blogging about something before, but can't, for the life of you, find any record of it. --- a while ago i w…
i like little duckies.

about a year or so ago i bought a black t-shirt with the phrase, "i like little duckies" printed across the front in gray letters. i bought it at the zefrank website partly because i had found endless amusement from wat…
time check.

how is it possible that my college roommate from my freshman year is now the mother of a sixteen year old boy? i mean, i know how it's possible, but still, it blows my mind. carrying on with the theme from yesterday --…