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Reading through Infinite Jest, again. It really does get better with each read. But it's really, really hard to read some chapters - the bits about depression and characters who commit or attempt suicide in particular. Here's somebody who says why better than I can (the rest of this piece is here, and it's well worth a read):

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So for once I'm home by myself all day while Colin goes off to work ( Read more... )

Because sometimes you get an idea and spend hours monkeying with it and it just comes out right. I've had my share of flops but this one I'm really proud of:


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I got laid off today.

Hopefully this will be a catalyst for major positive changes, and not a complete financial and emotional disaster.

With perhaps an unnecessary amount of tooth-gnashing and fretting about the cost, I signed up for a design class with MECA's Continuing Ed department. I gave up my Thursdays (my only free weeknight), but it's only for 7 weeks and only $350. And if were really serious about this graphic design thing, this is actually a pretty tiny and noncommittal ( Read more... )

The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote 'hopelessness' or any abstract conviction that life's assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a ( Read more... )

Not sure what to say here. David Foster Wallace killed himself on Friday. He's far and away my favorite author.

It's just unbelievably sad. There's lots of obits being written, here's a good one.

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Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually ( Read more... )

I Lolled.

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Might as well share these:
( Fat Chick on Skates )