Archive for November, 2009

Throughout my latest endeavor I made myself a lot of promises.  I won’t get too involved, I’ll be careful, I’ll be smart, I’ll be realistic, I won’t take anything to seriously.  I’ll take everything one day at a time.
I have stuck with almost all of them.  Okay, mostly none of them.  Okay, some of them.
The truth [...]


I have been strongly encouraged to bring a date to my work holiday party in a few weeks.  When I said that I was pretty sure I’d be showing up solo to this function, our receptionist said encouragingly, well, you’ve got a few weeks.  Surely you could meet someone in that amount of time!
I had [...]


I have been processing through some things lately that I haven’t really been open to sharing with people.  As a result I have been severely sleep deprived.  Normally I am sleep deprived because I can’t think—rather I am thinking so much I just can’t rest.  It has been altogether different this time.  Something in my [...]


I can think of only a few coping mechanisms that I have used that don’t involve a damaging vice (alcohol, food, sabotage…you know the drill).  They do arguably damage the environment, but it depends on how you structure the argument.
I don’t bust these out very often (mostly because it is rare that I get really [...]


Last night I had a dream that my roommate was betrothed to none other than Barack Obama (yes of course, some poetic license is clearly at work here).  She brought me along to be her right hand woman while she married him in a lavish foreign ceremony.  We were staying in a Trump Tower-like fortress with golden [...]