Random memories

1. I was four years old. I was being picked up from junior kindergarten by Mrs Schuler, whose son Matthew was one of my little friends. Even though my house was about a four minute drive from the school, I was convinced i was going to get thirsty on the way home. So [...]

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Still tired from yesterday

Note: I wrote this yesterday and totally clicked “publish”. Yet wordpress in its infinite wisdom saved it to “drafts”. Rat bastards.
Almost as if I were a normal person with a real job, I was out of the house for 12 hours yesterday. I had an extra lesson tacked onto the beginning of [...]

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Cashing in the cultural capital

My non-snarky Thanksgiving post.
I have been something of a downer lately, complaining about my stalled career, my legs, the American political system, you name it. So I’m making an effort now to be positive, to stop railing at fate and finding something good to say.
I was doing yoga this morning, trying to think positive [...]

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The symptoms of life

After another unsuccessful audition yesterday, I spent all of today doing nothing. Nooooooothing. Nothing.
Literally, this is what I did today.
9 – Got up, made coffee and muffins. Moped.
11 – Recorded and edited my podcast.
12 – Grocery shopping. Grocery store resembles a zoo. Why, if I don’t have a traditional day [...]

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Ow my legs, part 2

Unexpected side effect of taking the week off to lie on the couch recovering from flu that I totally should have expected: Muscle atrophy!
It’s like I just started the 14 kilometre bicycle commute all over again.  After two days of biking so far I am very, very sore.
OW MY LEGS.
(If you follow the link in [...]

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A very swinish influenza

OK, so I don’t know for a *fact* that I have swine flu. I do have something, either a bad cold or a flu of some type, so I’ve spent the past couple days off work, lying around and watching movies. It would be a lot of fun if I weren’t physically so [...]

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Celebrity

Someone has probably said this already.  In fact, I have vague memories of reading it somewhere before.  But nevertheless…
…I cannot find a source of it online, but if you’ve ever read I, Claudius, you might remember some of his descriptions of the religious rites of Roman-age British.  In one particularly fun festival, a beautiful young [...]

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Just so you know I’m alive

Just so you know I’m alive, that’s why I’m writing. From my Ipod, no less.
You know, when I was about 18 I joined a gym. (Bear with me, there is a point.). Like all 18-year-olds, I thought I needed to lose ~ 10 pounds, though in fact I was then ~ 10 pounds [...]

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Note to self: check for spam

Hello!
I actually had a blog-related nightmare last night.  I dreamt I was checking my stats, and I was down to the “five people a day” level of traffic.  Five people being the SPIKES.  I can’t say it was much of a nightmare, because my reaction was, “Huh.  Guess I should post more…” and here I [...]

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Update on recent events

I am waiting for a major piece of news which I should get before 8 PM. I’m not telling what it is, though those of you who are my Twitter or Facebook friends know already, but I still feel it would jinx things (yeah, I know) to write about it before it’s confirmed. [...]

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