Today, I have my first dentist appointment since I was 16. When I was at TAMS, my parents kept putting it off. When I was at A&M, I was too poor to do it myself and my insurance was in flux. When I worked for the government, dental insurance was ridiculously expensive and I was already long out of the habit. Now that I'm a grad student, I was ( Read more... )

I'll be speaking at the next Junior Seminar on Monday, March 20. TAMS has asked me to talk to the juniors about my experiences at NASA, the CIA, and elsewhere. It should be fun to help corrupt... I mean, INSPIRE! ... a new generation of TAMSters. :)

Heh... I meant the 20th. I don't know why I posted "12" originally.

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In a little under ten months, it will be the fifth anniversary of my dad's death. It's strange to think that he's been gone this long already. There are still times when I think back and feel both the pain of his passing and the pain of his living almost as strongly as I did then ( Read more... )

Everyone else is doing it!

http://kevan.org/johari?name=colphalanx

A flash thunderstorm on Friday ruined my cell phone. I was on the phone with my mom and the rain just suddenly came in. The water even soaked through my pants and down to my boxers. I could accept calls, but the control panel was messed up... so I couldn't dial out ( Read more... )

I am certain that no one has and likely ever will love me as much as Jenn does. I know that she sees me as being the best of all things for her... which is what makes it so hard on the rare instances where we do fight or I do something stupid. It's weird for me to be the one on the pedestal sometimes ( Read more... )

Your Social Dysfunction:
Happy

You're a happy person - you have a good amount of self-esteem, and are socially healthy. While this isn't a social dysfunction per se, you're definitely not normal. Consider yourself lucky: you walk that fine line between 'normal' and being outright narcissistic. You're rare - which is something else to be happy ( Read more... )

Yesterday was not the best day I or Jester have ever had. After obtaining Jenn's Christmas gift, an Ipod car kit, I went home to install it in her car before she got home. I brought Jester out with me on his leash so he could lounge about on the concrete next to the car, as he likes to do when Jenn or I are doing something with our cars. As I ( Read more... )