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mornings after.
so, this is 2011?
i woke up tired,
i;m suffering a cold, my throat rough and my sinuses uneasy,
my head tender after too much red wine, last night ..
.. still, i feel the urge to go running outside.
(how much sicker could i become, anyway?it's warm in pittsburgh, probably fleetingly so ( Read more... ) -
New Years' Principles 2010 (a work in "progress")
maybe i care too much about the colloquial meanings of words.
prin·ci·ple /ˈprɪnsəpəl/ -noun- an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.
- a fundamental, primary, or general law or truth from which others are derived: the principles of modern physics.
- a fundamental doctrine or tenet; a distinctive ruling ( Read more... )
- an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.
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time alone will make you strange.
tomorrow i leave for pittsburgh again, back to a solitary, bare-bones existence as a postdoc. occasionally i pause and reflect, think about what i'm doing with my life.
like it or not, i feel like i'm driven towards solitude.
i'm working .. maybe not especially well, maybe not particularly efficiently, but i'm working often ( Read more... ) -
coming and going
my life tends to extremes. either i live my normal, work-oriented life and forget to allow space for family and old friends from school, or i visit my old home and no work ever gets done.
there has to be a clever middle to all of this.i liken my life in new york to leaving a DVD to play in "slow-motion." when i come back to it, something has ( Read more... ) -
on why i like running, as meditation.
here is another article that i found, just now, on the internet:
Many, many people tell me “I’m having a lot of problems doing this [meditation] practice because I am so busy. I’m really busy. I have a full life. It’s busy and I run from morning ‘til night.” People actually say that ( Read more... ) -
since i have nothing interesting to say, let me suggest an article to read.
this blog is essentially dead, hanging by a thread. apart from mathematics and the occasional kitchen cooking project, sometimes i feel that i have nothing worthwhile to say ..
.. so i might as well point out the things that are (mildly) interesting to me, at least on the internet. here is one such:
My dad, who has driven to visit my brother in ( Read more... ) -
urge, urge: always the procreant urge of the world.
twice tonight my friends called bullshit on me.
evidently i'm not enough of a ladies' man;
so what if you're leaving pittsburgh in 6 months' time?
that's only the more reason to meet a girl, have a bit of fun.i think otherwise. period of interim, like this, only lead to heartbreak, and i've enough of that in the past days of my life that i'd like ( Read more... ) -
future travels, some foreboding.
i'm wincing slightly as i'm clicking my mouse.
you see, today is the day that i stop procrastinating and buy that trans-atlantic flight to attend a conference.
it's in two weeks, and yes ( Read more... ) -
el sueño de la razón produces monstruos; ademas, jacinto el corredor.
for some reason i was stressed during the last 3 days. it wasn't because i was at a research conference; i had been to dozens of them before [0] and i knew what to expect.
in particular, i couldn't get much sleep at all.
just earlier, i figured out why: i hadn't gone running in three days. today was day 4 and i went out for 4.172 miles [1] at a ( Read more... ) -
sometimes old dogs do learn a new trick.
at last count, i've attended 34 or so conferences since i've become an academic, 7 years ago. if there is one thing i've learned, it's that you cannot count on good coffee at a hotel.
having suffered through numerous half-awake conference mornings, i decided to do the paranoid thing this time:
while packing my carry-on ( Read more... )